History CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer / TheSimpsons

* An issue of Weekend magazine said that, in the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X]]", Maggie was the daughter of [[BrotherSisterIncest Kang and Kodos]] rather than Kang and Marge. A double-offender, considering not only did they get the information wrong, but the title of the episode, too. It was ''IX'', not ''X''.
* A book about the show was full of little mistakes that most fans would have known better than to print:

* Sky's listing for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E4AHunkaHunkaBurnsInLove A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love]]" (paraphrased) - "Mr. Burns hires Homer as a fortune cookie writer to prove a point." That's all wrong - while [[HalfwayPlotSwitch the first act]] was about Homer in that position, it's [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse completely forgotten about after a while]] to make way for the title plot. Also, it's a Chinese restaurant that hires Homer to write fortune cookies, not Mr. Burns - later in the episode, however, Burns hires Homer as his "wingman" to go out on dates with him and Gloria. There's no "proving a point", either.
* Sky One's synopsis for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E16BartVsAustralia Bart vs. Australia]]" (as well as every British TV guide published for the next 10 years or so) was simply "Bart gets his hand stuck down a toilet". There IS a scene with Bart sticking his hands in a toilet, but it's simply to set up a gag and lasts less than 5 seconds. They weren't stuck either!
* [[https://twitter.com/EverySimpsons/status/505563451314294784 An official Twitter account]] stated the quote "Yes, eat all of our shirts!" was said by Seymour Skinner, when it was said by Ned Flanders.

* One could practically write a book on the various ways that writers have gotten the Simpsons wrong, usually in trying to talk about why it should be cancelled or [[MoralGuardians why it's a horrible show that no family should watch]]. Focus on the Family (of course) decried "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", an episode in which Bart prays for the family meal with "Dear God, we pay for all this stuff ourselves, so thanks for nothing" as an example of how morally bankrupt the series was. The context was that the family was hosting Mr. Burns (who was running for governor) with a gaggle of TV reporters in tow, and Bart, being Bart, embarrassed the family. The episode was decidedly not praising Bart's mock prayer, and in fact has frequently shown belief in God to be a good thing.

* Practically every content aggregation website would inevitably have a "Perfectly Timed Freeze Frames From ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''" article, and among the images, more than likely, you'd find the following two images: [[http://ap-images-test-uc.s3.amazonaws.com/uc-up/dc2b7461-921f-479e-8375-aadd85b77f50/dc2b7461-921f-479e-8375-aadd85b77f50.inline_yes Homer weirdly smiling with crazy eyes]], and [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/956/472/f6c.jpg Lisa with Mr. Burns's face]]. These are not real ''Simpsons'' screenshots, obviously. The former is edited from [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S06E06/727292.jpg this screenshot]] of Homer's forced smile from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]", with the hooks removed and Homer's pupils moved around in an attempt to make the image look more ridiculous than it already was. The latter is a composite of [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E07/812544.jpg this screenshot]] of Lisa commenting on Nelson's version of "Joy to the World" from "Lisa's Date with Density" and [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S08E04/450699.jpg this screenshot]] of Mr. Burns in his flashback to how he met his son's mother from "Burns, Baby, Burns".
* [=IndieWire=], in [[http://www.indiewire.com/2017/08/solar-eclipse-tv-simpsons-mad-men-1201867889/ an article on solar eclipse storylines on TV shows]], primarily described the events of the episode "Gone Maggie Gone", adding, "This wasn't the first eclipse on ''The Simpsons''. In the landmark 1993 episode 'Marge vs. the Monorail', it takes a solar eclipse to finally stop the runaway train." And it did indeed stop it... for about ten seconds, after which the monorail takes off again, with nobody able to get off in time.
* The fifth issue of Australian magazine ''Krash'' featured an article about the criminal activities of Homer, Bart, and Sideshow Bob, though it got two of Homer's cases wrong. First, it claimed that the inflammatory song Homer wrote about Ned Flanders was called "Flanders is a Jerk", when it's actually called "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders". Also, the article noted that Homer claimed he was handicapped in order to get a helper monkey, but he never actually did (he even said he's not handicapped when asked). The truth is that he got his father a helper monkey, then promptly stole it from him.
* The [[http://www.denofgeek.com/ Den of Geek]] article about [[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-simpsons/270116/the-simpsons-many-potential-future-timelines the show's various alternate future time periods]] wrote that in Creator/DonHertzfeldt's CouchGag, "'The Sampsans' is a surreal and seemingly mindless screensaver that still boils down to Marge loving Homer, while dishing out subliminal messages like 'All Hail The Dark Lord Of The Twin Moons' or 'Beam Epasode Now Into Exo-Skulls And Vigorously Touch Flippers.'" The point of "The Sampsans" is that Marge is no longer capable of expressing love for Homer, being a shell of her former self who does nothing but spout things like "All animals can scream!"
* Here's the common description of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E2122ShortFilmsAboutSpringfield 22 Short Films About Springfield]]" in TV listings: "Homer mistakenly locks Maggie in a newspaper box; Apu shuts down the Kwik-E-Mart to romp at a wild party." It made it seem like the episode revolves entirely around those two events. Nothing about [[VignetteEpisode the Bumblebee Man's home life, Lisa getting gum stuck in her hair, Milhouse's eagerness to use the bathroom, Dr. Nick trying to redeem himself in the eyes of the malpractice committee, Principal Skinner serving "steamed hams" to Superintendent Chalmers, etc.]]

* TV Listings commonly give "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E6TreehouseOfHorrorVI Treehouse of Horror VI]]" the following description: "Advertising statues attack Springfield; the school janitor terrorizes children in their sleep; Homer creates a black hole." While the first two are accurate descriptions, the third description failed to note that the episode is actually about Homer getting lost in the third dimension.
* The description of "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" on Sling TV claims that Lisa, Bart and Milhouse got superpowers. Note that while the former and latter ''did'' get superpowers, Bart did not.
* One popular image depicts Skinner with a serious expression, captioned "Pathetic." This is a screenshot from "Bart the Genius," and in the context of the episode, he's looking down at a can of spray paint Bart hastily threw in the trash can. He doesn't speak during the scene, either.
** It's a meme based on ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' when [[https://twitter.com/true_johno/status/1073356570778587138?s=20&t=KIJ3dGjH2X0Fb5L8GcMeAg Asuka calls Shinji 'Pathetic'.]] The meme most likely came about because of the very similar angle and expression that were used.

* Our friends at ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' once again end up here with [[http://www.cracked.com/article_28019_chief-wiggum-legit-most-realistic-portrayal-modern-policing.html Dan Duddy's article drawing parallels between modern policing and Chief Wiggum's antics]]. In general, it isn't too bad, but at one point Duddy says, "In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X7q-onvnqw this video]], a police officer tasers someone who is inside of their own car. There is no chance of escape, and if you watch the video, you'll see there is no reason to think they are dangerous. They are completely at the mercy of the police officer, but they are tased anyway because today's police are hardwired to respond to confusion with cruelty. It'd be like if you tasered someone who was stuck on their roof. Wait, where have we seen that before?" The video that follows is... a ''WebVideo/DarkSimpsons'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWWB4KaA1w minisode where Wiggum torments Homer]]. Note that ''Dark Simpsons'' itself is a fan-produced series of videos editing and recontexualizing ''Simpsons'' clips to tell original stories. In the paragraph that follows the video, Duddy says, "Our officers know that Chief Wiggum isn't supposed to be a role model, right? Our reality is a cartoon, except when we wake up from getting tasered by the police, we don't have scorch marks on our clothes, but instead years of psychological trauma to deal with." Duddy is referring to the sequeince in the ''Dark Simpsons'' video where Wiggum pulls over Homer's car and breaks one of his tail lights ("I Love Lisa"), then orders his men to get their taser ("'Round Springfield", during an ImagineSpot where Bart thinks about what he'd do if he reincarnates as a butterfly), then Snake appears dressed as a policeman ("Bart Gets an Elephant"), and Homer gets zapped and later found by the other Simpsons smoldering in the bushes ("Blame It on Lisa", with the original context being that Homer was trying to restore the house's phone service after the company shut it off when the Simpsons refused to pay $400 for a call to Brazil). Given that the point of the article is to show what Wiggum actually did in the show, the use of a fan edit to show something he never truly did is glaring. Even more bafflingly, Duddy later cites the exact same ''Dark Simpsons'' video for a scene where Wiggum demands Homer's license and registration in response to his gloating over nuclear plant's softball victory over the police. This in itself is a genuine ''Simpsons'' moment, and would be simple to find a video of the moment on its own rather than a fan-produced remix episode. Finally, Duddy ends the article with the tail light scene again, this time completely unaltered ("They are? Oh, no. Have they set a date?") instead of the ''Dark Simpsons'' edit ("He's crazy, boys. Get the taser."). All in all, a mess of half an article attempting to cite an incident on the show that never exactly happened with an edited clip.%%Has Wiggum actually used a taser on anybody in the show?
* In 2004, thesimpsons.com published some [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050622033010if_/http://www.thesimpsons.com/characters/home.htm character bios]] (made in Adobe Flash). One bio reworded Ralph's quote "It's recess everywhere but in his heart" to first person and attributed it to Milhouse. Others featured quotes that weren't even from the show, such as "If aquarium gravel is so bad for you, how come it tastes so good?" for Ralph. That quote actually originated from the 1994 Skybox Simpsons trading cards.
* A [[https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1316798525145899013 radio spot]] for "Bart's Inner Child" made it sound as though the entire episode was about Homer looking through classified ads, even though it's only a small part of the first act. While it does mention that Homer finds "a bargain that makes him the most popular dad in Springfield", it neglects the entire main plot of a motivational speaker named Brad Goodman convincing Springfield to act as impulsive as Bart.
* A [[https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1320461378923188229 radio spot]] for the first Treehouse of Horror episode only describes "Bad Dream House" and doesn't mention it as either just a story, a Halloween episode, or an anthology.
* Similarly, the [[https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1321910718711635971 radio spot]] for the second Treehouse of Horror primarily describes Homer's dream, questioning if Homer will ever recover his brain from Mr. Burns. Thankfully, by the third episode, they'd start describing all three plots.

* Another [[https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1318961009781055488 radio spot]] for "Rosebud" describes the episode's plot as Homer getting a job as a comedian for Mr. Burns. While he does perform comedy for Mr. Burns as a joke in the first act, the majority of the episode is focused on Mr. Burns searching for his long-lost teddy bear.

* A [[https://twitter.com/dailysimpsons/status/1349930080663953410 TV promo]] for "Two Bad Neighbors" promoted [[NeverTrustATrailer Ford as the ex-president who moves in next to Homer, instead of Bush]]. While Ford ''does'' move into the house, it's not until the end of the episode when Bush moves out.
* The Disney+ short description for "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" is "Homer encourages athletes to develop taunts and Ned Flanders is so outraged, he makes his own movie." Flanders' decision to make movies has nothing to do with Homer's activities, and Marge is the only person mad about it.
* Official summaries for "Dangerous Curves" include the sentence "Bart and Lisa also reflect on happier times from their early childhood." Bart and Lisa don't have a major role in the episode (only featured as little kids twice in Homer and Marge's flashbacks), and while they get a minor subplot, it never gets its own reflection like other parts of the episode.

* The Disney+ description for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E1BartGetsAnF Bart Gets an 'F']]" is "Bart gives the class brain antigeek lessons, but regrets it when the brain becomes too Bart-like." While such a thing ''does'' happen, it isn't the main focus of the episode by any stretch.
* While "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture Bart To The Future]]" did "predict" a Trump Presidency, many images online pointing this out often use a screencap of this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhlqXx5FFrk youtube short.]] Not only is the short made in widescreen with digital colouring while "Bart to the Future" aired in 2000, before those changes, but was made AFTER Trump had announced his candidacy. Which the short even uses audio from. Even some News Nations have gotten this wrong when reporting on it.
* Some French newspapers claimed Canal+ was going to air thr show on October 17, 1992, but it never did. The show was replaced with ''[[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 Les Razmoket]]'' that week.
* Sky's EPG description for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow I Am Furious (Yellow)]]" mentions that after the Angry Dad comic becomes a success, Homer vows to give up getting angry for Lent. Whilst he ''does'' vow to give up getting angry again, Lent is never once brought up, nor does anything ever relating to Lent happen in the episode.
* Sky's EPG description for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E12Diggs Diggs]]" reads as follows - "Bart makes an eccentric new friend called Diggs (guest star Daniel Radcliffe), and Marge tries to teach abstinence to hormonal teens.". Whilst the A plot about the episode's titular character is correct, the B plot of Marge teaching abstinence is from the ''following'' episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E13TheManWhoGrewTooMuch The Man Who Grew Too Much]]".

* The show once got the facts wrong pertaining to ''itself.'' In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E14AngryDadTheMovie "Angry Dad: The Movie,"]] it is stated that Bart originally created Angry Dad in the 90s... except the episode in question ([[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow "I Am Furious (Yellow)"]]) was actually from 2002.

* In WebVideo/TheRealJims' "Season Retrospective" for season 16, he erroneously said that Goose Gladwell in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E5FatManAndLittleBoy Fat Man And Little Boy]]" was played by Creator/EricIdle. In actuality, he was played by series regular Creator/HankAzaria.

* On [=IMDb=], the cover image for ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' short "Family Therapy" is actually taken from [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E4TheresNoDisgraceLikeHome "There's No Disgrace Like Home"]].

* The show once got the facts wrong pertaining to ''itself.'' In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS22E14AngryDadTheMovie "Angry Dad: The Movie,"]] it is stated that Bart originally created Angry Dad in the 90s... except the episode in question ([[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow "I Am Furious (Yellow)"]]) was actually from 2002.

* The BBFC rated the episode "Pygmoelian" 12 for "bleeped strong language and moderate sex references". However, the word that the BBFC thought was an F-bomb is actually "fudge", with the "u" sound CensoredForComedy.

* The NRA [[http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/06/03/simpsons_gun_episode_the_cartridge_family_was_kind_to_the_nra_but_they_didn.html condemned]] the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode "The Cartridge Family" as anti-gun, [[EveryoneHasStandards even though it depicts the NRA members in the show as such strong advocates of responsible gun usage that they kick Homer out]] when [[RecklessGunUsage he shoots the cap off his beer bottle]] at a meeting. The staff wondered if they had even watched the show. That being said, most of "The Cartridge Family" was entirely anti-gun -- it depicted the NRA as a bunch of bloodthirsty maniacs and delivered an aesop via Lisa about the second amendment having no relevance in modern times. The pro-gun parts were all in the final minutes. The writers of ''The Simpsons'' writers were themselves divided on the issue of gun rights, which is why the show's message is so confused, with Groening saying that the only definite message in the episode is that irresponsible idiots like Homer should be forbidden from owning guns.

* The Virgin Media description of the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]" only refers to the opening plot of Homer holding a chicken pox party, instead of the main plot about Milhouse’s parents getting back together.

** The book claims Maggie killed a man. Maggie [[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns shot a man]], but that man is still alive.

* A Virgin Media description of the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E3MilhouseOfSandAndFog Milhouse of Sand and Fog]]" only refers to the opening plot of Homer holding a chicken pox party, instead of the main plot about Milhouse’s parents getting back together.

* Disney+ refers to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E3HomerTheMoe "Homer the Moe"]] as "Homer ''to'' the Moe." It's possible that they confused it with [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E13HomerToTheMax "Homer to the Max."]]

* According to CBR's [[http://www.cbr.com/fan-improved-famous-tv-scenes/ 10 Times Fans Improved Famous TV Scenes]], "After Bart [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E1BartGetsAnF received a failing grade in school]], fans rallied behind the character and sent in numerous letters of support. The show's creators were so touched by the outpouring of support that they decided to give Bart a second chance, leading to the creation of the heartwarming '[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E2BartTheGenius Bart the Genius]]' episode." The problem with this statement is that "Bart the Genius" was never produced in response to fan reaction to "Bart Gets an F". In fact, it was the second episode ever produced for the show -- "Bart Gets an F" didn't come about until a second season was commissioned.

* Sky's EPG description for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E12Diggs Diggs]]" reads as follows - "Bart makes an eccentric new friend called Diggs (guest star Daniel Radcliffe), and Marge tries to teach abstinence to hormonal teens.". Whilst the A plot about the episode's titular character is correct, the B plot of Marge teaching abstinence is from the ''following'' episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E13TheManWhoGrewTooMuch The Man Who Grew Too Much]]".

* Sky's EPG description for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow]]" mentions that after the Angry Dad comic becomes a success, Homer vows to give up getting angry for Lent. Whilst he ''does'' vow to give up getting angry again, Lent is never once brought up, nor does anything ever relating to Lent happen in the episode.
* Sky's EPG description for the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E12Diggs]]" reads as follows - "Bart makes an eccentric new friend called Diggs (guest star Daniel Radcliffe), and Marge tries to teach abstinence to hormonal teens.". Whilst the A plot about the episode's titular character is correct, the B plot of Marge teaching abstinence is from the ''following'' episode, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS25E13TheManWhoGrewTooMuch]]".