History Fridge / THESIMPSONS

* [[WordOfGod Matt Groening]] has confirmed that Springfield really is a CrapsackWorld, and the only person with any hope of escaping it is [[CreatorsPet Lisa]]. That comes across as a ''massive'' KickTheDog to all the genuinely good Springfieldians we've met.

** [[http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cdn.pimpmyspace.org/media/pms/c/ir/rd/dp/ritos.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pimpmyspace.org/comments/code/1230611/&usg=__T7evuXbDUTxDdYh_Fva9c66tK_k=&h=316&w=490&sz=30&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=W3kNDhXRbk4s6M:&tbnh=134&tbnw=193&ei=xsobToD-M_SrsALshKjVCA&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dfrito%2Btoenails%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D603%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=177&vpy=38&dur=334&hovh=180&hovw=280&tx=99&ty=135&page=1&ndsp=17&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0 Marge telling Homer "Cut your toenails, they look like Fritos"]]
* "Simpsons Animal Stories" in Simpsons Comics issue #160 has a particularly horrible implication. Lisa, who will become the grandmother of one of the Abes, ends up in prison after the end of "Lisa's Web". This implies Lisa, who probably spent most of her teenage years in prison, was ''raped'' by a male inmate!!

** She also ''never has the same job''.

* Homer calling Lisa "Big Maggie" in ''Wild Barts Can't Be Broken". Lisa and Maggie both have similar faces and hairstyles, so Lisa could be seen as a bigger Maggie.

* I forget which episode, but Lisa is being given a peptalk [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by some numbers inside her head]]. There was for exaple, eight, ninety-three, and 2006 who made her feel better. But last of all came came 27! When I watched it first of all, I just thought it was a stupid joke, but then I realised that 27! means 27 factorised. Which would be a massive number (1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8...)showing how good Lisa is at maths.
* In ''TheSimpsons'', Krusty says he owns a racehorse with Bette Midler called Krudler. For a long time I just thought the joke was that it was a horrible-sounding amalgam of the names "Krusty" and "Midler", and that was funny enough. Only later did I realize that if they'd taken the ''other'' part of each name, the horse would have been called Misty. - @/WhogusTheWhatsler
* We used to think Flanders was Homer's age until he revealed he 60 in a season 10 episode. That made him OlderThanTheyLook. A couple classic era episodes show that he grew up in the 50s with beatnik parents. It's the 2010s now so that makes this instance of ComicBookTime more believable and HilariousInHindsight. This also throws some NegativeContinuity and SeriesContinuityError out the window.

* In Krusty Gets Brusted from the first season, Kent Brockman plays a clip of Krusty's on the air heart attack, where he's cooking ham and bacon on a grill. A couple seasons later we learn Krusty is Jewish. God obviously exists in the show's universe, and he was punishing Krusty for eating non-kosher foods.
** Or, you know, EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.
** Krusty is clearly not an observant Jew, and has always assumed he was a self-hating one. Also, it's not *that* obvious that God exists, since Homer developed a proof of his nonexistence that even convinces Flanders.

* Many people say that Homer has become dumber and dumber over the years. A slow descent at first, but eventually reaching the point where the only rule was 'Homer cannot forget his own name.' The brilliance is that in season 4 Homer received a coronary bypass graft. 51% of patients who have a bypass graft suffer severe brain damage as the years pass. The cure we all saw him get... is the cure that made him so very, very dumb. - @/Crusader1089
** Later that season he ends up in a coma and is even told he suffered some brain damage.

* In another Simpsons episode, "Treehouse of Horror XIII", in the second part, one of the zombies is the "most evil German": Kaiser Wilhelm. The joke is, of course, they don't say Hitler. But then I realised that ''Hitler was actually Austrian.''
** That and Hitler's shown to be alive in the episode where Bart calls Australia

* In the episode where Homer is escaping the plant and he's attacked by a GiantSpider, he's told that the spider will be defeated if he says a Bible verse. Of course, he can't remember any, so he simply kills the spider by throwing a rock at it. The FridgeBrilliance comes in when you realize that [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Homer just killed a gigantic enemy by throwing a small rock and hitting it between the eyes]].
** David... Goliath... Holy Shit! It all makes sense!
* Between a rock... and a hard place....

* In ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', when the titular family is walking into church and Homer is venting his usual complaints, one of the things he says is "Oh, Marge, please, it's not like these people have better things to do with their lives than praying to their phony-baloney God." At first, it might seem like a standard jab at the usual [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target,]] but, in "HOMR", after undergoing a procedure to remove a [[ItMakesSenseInContext crayon from his brain, which then greatly increased his mental capacity,]] the man was writing a flat tax proposal that accidentally [[AchievementsInIgnorance proved that God did not exist.]] Since it disturbed Ned greatly due to the fact that the data was airtight (he immediately burned his copy), and that Homer was placing the results of his findings on every single windshield in his neighborhood, we could assume that no one bothered to read what was on the report, or that Ned managed to burn every single sheet of paper. So it would make sense that Homer would have to remind someone of one of the greatest achievements that
he reached during his short span of being intelligent.

* In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", Homer and his friends wreck up the school on a joyride and the damages are blamed on rowdy kids, thus causing a curfiew to be places. This was all gone in the next episode. This may have been NegativeContinuity, but the 500th episode had Mayor Quimby illustrate Springfield's hatred of the family by showing [{CallBack a photo of Homer and his friends wrecking the school]]. So they must have found out the real cause and lifted the curfiew.

* Probably unintentional ActorAllusion: JeffGoldblum's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song '[=MacArthur=] Park', which was parodied by Music/WeirdAlYankovic as 'Jurassic Park', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred JeffGoldblum!

* Another Simpsons example: I must have seen the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge" a couple of dozen times, before I realized that the totalitarian daycare that the family enrolled Maggie into is named "''AynRand's School For Tiny Tots''". Oh how I laughed - @/TheRealCJ

** Not just any monster. Judging by the music, it is implied they were attacked by [[Film/{{Friday the 13th}} Jason]]

* I forget which episode, but Lisa is being given a peptalk [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by some numbers inside her head]]. There was for exaple, eight, ninety-three, and 2006 who made her feel better. But last of all came came 27! When I watched it first of all, I just thought it was a stupid joke, but then I realised that 27! means 27 factorised. Which would be a massive number (1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8...)showing how good Lisa is at maths.

* Mr. Burns used to forgot Homer's name in the early seasons and he finally got it in the Who Shot Mr. Burns episodes. Homer was a suspect in the shooting. Since then because of these circumstances and how crazy the situation was, Mr. Burns knows Homer's name no problem.

* Between a rock... and a hard place....

* In a Christmas episode about the Nativity, ''Jesus'' is potrayed by Bart. It may seem offensive at first, but think about it: Jesus was seen as a trouble maker by the Jews and the Romans, and they thought that his messages might start riots.

* Probably unintentional ActorAllusion: JeffGoldblum's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song '[=MacArthur=] Park', which was parodied by WeirdAlYankovic as 'Jurassic Park', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred JeffGoldblum!

*** But we see what appears to be his skull in a recent episode...

* Lindsay Naegle said she's a sexual predator and that's why she keeps changing jobs. Think about that for a good long moment.

** And what if [[MamaBear Marge]] ''didn't'' stop the madness before it got any worse?

* Barney the town drunk never appears in any future episode and no explanation is made. He probably died from years of alcoholism.
** He sometimes appears in backgrounds if you look closely.

* In ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', when the titular family is walking into church and Homer is venting his usual complaints, one of the things he says is "Oh, Marge, please, it's not like these people have better things to do with their lives than praying to their phony-baloney God." At first, it might seem like a standard jab at the usual [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target,]] but, in "HOMR", after undergoing a procedure to remove a [[ItMakesSenseInContext crayon from his brain, which then greatly increased his mental capacity,]] the man was writing a flat tax proposal that accidentally [[AchievementsInIgnorance proved that God did not exist.]] Since it disturbed Ned greatly due to the fact that the data was airtight (he immediately burned his copy), and that Homer was placing the results of his findings on every single windshield in his neighborhood, we could assume that no one bothered to read what was on the report, or that Ned managed to burn every single sheet of paper. So it would make sense that Homer would have to remind someone of one of the greatest achievements that he reached during his short span of being intelligent.

* [[FridgeBrilliance Almost Fridge Brilliance]]: The backstory to Skinner/Tamzarian in "The Principle and the Pauper" is almost completely consistent with his background in "The Simpsons Spinoff Showcase", except for the switch of his home city, New Orleans vs. Capital City.

In ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', when the titular family is walking into church and Homer is venting his usual complaints, one of the things he says is "Oh, Marge, please, it's not like these people have better things to do with their lives than praying to their phony-baloney God." At first, it might seem like a standard jab at the usual [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target,]] but, in "HOMR", after undergoing a procedure to remove a [[ItMakesSenseInContext crayon from his brain, which then greatly increased his mental capacity,]] the man was writing a flat tax proposal that accidentally [[AchievementsInIgnorance proved that God did not exist.]] Since it disturbed Ned greatly due to the fact that the data was airtight (he immediately burned his copy), and that Homer was placing the results of his findings on every single windshield in his neighborhood, we could assume that no one bothered to read what was on the report, or that Ned managed to burn every single sheet of paper. So it would make sense that Homer would have to remind someone of one of the greatest achievements that he reached during his short span of being intelligent.

* In ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', when the titular family is walking into church and Homer is venting his usual complaints, one of the things he says is "Oh, Marge, please, it's not like these people have better things to do with their lives than praying to their phony-baloney God." At first, it might seem like a standard jab at the usual [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target,]] but, in "HOMR", after undergoing a procedure to remove a [[ItMakesSenseInContext crayon from his brain, which then greatly increased his mental capacity,]] the man was writing a flat tax proposal that accidentally [[AchievementsInIgnorance proved that God did not exist.]] Since it disturbed Ned greatly due to the fact that the data was airtight (he immediately burned his copy), and that Homer was placing the results of his findings on every single windshield in his neighborhood, we could assume that no one bothered to read what was on the report, or that Ned managed to burn every single sheet of paper. So it would make sense that Homer would have to remind someone of one of the greatest achievements that he reached during his short span of being intelligent.

* Nelson's talked about Huckleberry picking in a couple episodes. When the boys were in Branson, Nelson wanted to see Andy Williams and was excited to hear Moon River. This song contains a line involving two friends picking huckleberries in their youth.

* Probably unintentional ActorAllusion: Jeff Goldblum's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song '[=MacArthur=] Park', which was parodied by WeirdAlYankovic as 'Jurassic Park', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred Jeff Goldblum!

* Probably unintentional ActorAllusion: Jeff Goldbloom's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song '[=MacArthur=] Park', which was parodied by WeirdAlYankovic as 'Jurassic Park', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred Jeff Goldbloom!

* Unintentional ActorAllusion: Jeff Goldbloom's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song '[=MacArthur=] Park', which was parodied by WeirdAlYankovic as 'Jurassic Park', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred Jeff Goldbloom!

* Unintentional ActorAllusion: Jeff Goldbloom's character in "A Fish Called Selma" is named "[=MacArthur=] Parker", after the song ''[=MacArthur=] Park'', which was parodied by WeirdAlYankovic as ''Jurassic Park'', which was about the movie JurassicPark, which co-starred Jeff Goldbloom!

** Or, you know, EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.

* It took me a while to realize why ''TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'' has that name. Then, while sitting around doing something completely unrelated to TheSimpsons, I realized the reason. It's a GrandTheftAuto clone, so they named it after a different vehicular crime.

* Nelsons talks about Huckleberry picking in a couple episodes. When the boys were in Branson, Nelson wanted to see Andy Williams and was excited to hear Moon River. This song contains a line involving two friends picking huckleberries in their youth.

* We used to think Flanders was Homer's age until he revealed he 60 in a season 10 episode. That made him OlderThanTheyLook. A couple classic era episodes show that he grew up in the 50s with beatnik parents. It's the 2010s now so that makes this instance of ComicBookTime more believable and HilariousInHindsight.