History Fridge / THESIMPSONS

* In "Bart's Girlfriend", Jessica is unimpressed with Bart's initial "good guy" act. This seemingly foreshadows Jessica's "bad girl" attitude. But in reality, she saw Bart was behaving in an obsequious and desperate manner, something most girls wouldn't like or appreciate.

* "Smoke On The Daughter" sees Homer averting AdultsAreUseless and getting on Lisa's case about smoking, even confiscating the cigarettes of the other ballerinas. But Homer has a couple of good reasons for keeping Lisa and the other girls away from cigarettes.

** Homer struggles with alcohol addiction and so he would want to save Lisa and the other ballerinas from going down the road of substance dependency.

* In "Smoke on the Daughter," Homer and Lisa wait eagerly in line for the midnight release of the final "[[Literature/HarryPotter Angelica Button]]" book. In what seems like an uncharacteristic move, Lisa, despite being her usual bookworm self and basing her costume on the books rather than the films, ends up flipping through the new installment long enough to catch all the spoilers and throwing it out when she's done. This makes more sense when you remember how the series was introduced in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": a major character Lisa loved was killed off and Homer, who was reading the book aloud to her, made up a happy ending to spare her feelings. She realized what he'd done but decided she preferred his ending to the real version. For her, the series really stopped at his BetterThanCanon conclusion and she's less invested in where the rest of it goes.

* It took me years to get the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' ending in "Tales from the Public Domain." It seems like a CopOutEnding or a BigLippedAlligatorMoment but the reason Homer said Theatre/{{Hamlet}} says based on Ghostbusters was because in the version Homer told King Claudius left a trail of slime behind like Slimer.

* The Treehouse of Horror XX segment ''Don't Have a Cow, Mankind''; before Dr. Hibbert is devoured alive by the munchers, he tells the Simpson family that if they see his wife, tell her that he loved her. But Simpsons never encounter Bernice and she is nowhere to be seen...

* The house to the left of the Simpsons has seen a laundry list of tenants, some of whom [[NoodleIncident disappeared without explanation]], such as Ruth Powers and her daughter (who seem to still be in the neighborhood) and Ned Flanders' cousin Ted and his family. This makes perfect sense: Ned is the only one who's enough of a {{Determinator}} to handle living next door to the Simpsons, meaning that (despite at least one attempted move that didn't go so well) [[StatusQuoIsGod he always remains where he is]] while the house on the other side can't seem to keep an occupant.

** Lisa is dressed as Athena, a goddess of wisdom. Both are known as the smartest and wisest of their family.

* In "A Streetcar Named Marge" there are parallels between Marge and Blanche DuBois, since Marge feels underappreciated since Homer's indifferent like Stanley. Both of them have French last names (Marge's is Bouvier) adding a layer to the similarities.

* The house to the left of the Simpsons has seen a laundry list of tenants, some of whom [[NoodleIncident disappeared without explanation]], such as Ruth Powers and her daughter (who seem to still be in the neighborhood) and Ned Flanders' cousin Ted and his family. This makes perfect sense: Ned Flanders is the only one who's enough of a {{Determinator}} to handle living next door to the Simpsons, meaning that (despite at least one attempted move that didn't go so well) [[StatusQuoIsGod he always remains where he is]] while the house on the other side can't seem to keep an occupant.

* The house to the left of the Simpsons has seen a laundry list of tenants, some of whom [[NoodleIncident disappeared without explanation]], such as Ruth Powers and her daughter and Ned Flanders' cousin Ted and his family. This makes perfect sense: Ned Flanders is the only one who's enough of a {{Determinator}} to handle living next door to the Simpsons, meaning that (despite at least one attempted move that didn't go so well) [[StatusQuoIsGod he always remains where he is]] while the house on the other side can't seem to keep an occupant.

* The house to the left of the Simpsons has seen a laundry list of occupants, some of whom [[NoodleIncident disappeared without explanation]], such as Ruth Powers and her daughter and Ned Flanders' cousin Ted and his family. This makes perfect sense: Ned Flanders is the only one who's enough of a {{Determinator}} to handle living next door to the Simpsons, meaning that (despite at least one attempted move that didn't go so well) [[StatusQuoIsGod he always remains where he is]] while the house on the other side can't seem to keep an occupant.

* In "The Ned-Liest Catch," Ned Flanders meets Edna Krabappel when he [[FallingIntoHisArms comes between her and the pavement as she's falling from a three-story drop]]. His first wife, Maude, died when she fell off the top of a set of bleachers into a parking lot, and Edna, who he saves from a similar death, becomes his SecondLove.

* In "Smoke on the Daughter," Homer and Lisa wait eagerly in line for the midnight release of the final "Literature/HarryPotter Angelica Button]]" book. In what seems like an uncharacteristic move, Lisa, despite being her usual bookworm self and basing her costume on the books rather than the films, ends up flipping through the new installment long enough to catch all the spoilers and throwing it out when she's done. This makes more sense when you remember how the series was introduced in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": a major character Lisa loved was killed off and Homer, who was reading the book aloud to her, made up a happy ending to spare her feelings. She realized what he'd done but decided she preferred his ending to the real version. For her, the series really stopped at his BetterThanCanon conclusion and she's less invested in where the rest of it goes.

* In "Funeral For a Fiend," Sideshow Bob's initial plot, which is easily foiled, turns out to have been a deliberate failure meant to lead in to the larger plot, which takes up most of the episode. Lisa figures this out by recalling an OutOfCharacterMoment, but another way she might have guessed would have been by noticing that the first "plot" targeted the entire Simpson family. Historically, Bob has only cared about killing Bart, who's the only target in his real plan.