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* This troper been meaning to ask this but why do characters contradict themselves and forget events from previous episodes and in turn create lots of series continuity errors? Such examples are when Marge thought Grandpa was gay just to brag to Helen Lovejoy, why doesn't she remember that her sister Patty is a lesbian, also in "Fear of Flying" Marge had a fear of flying the whole time yet she flew to Washington in "Mr. Lisa goes to Washington" without throwing that fit. Or why was Sideshow Bob watching "That 30's Show" on TV yet in his previous appearance he almost nuked Springfield unless they get rid of all television. Plus there's the whole issue of Cosmic Wars existing in the Simpsons verse even though Star Wars has existed the whole time and was parodied and mentioned by name hundreds of times. Why do they allow Continuity errors to happen? Aren't the writers afraid of being fired of making a continuity error so bad that it might confuse a viewer and die hard fan? The only time someone pointed out a continuity error is when Comic Book Guy pointed out that The Simpsons did have a horse and Marge did have a gambling addiction.

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* This troper I've been meaning to ask this but why do characters contradict themselves and forget events from previous episodes and in turn create lots of series continuity errors? Such examples are when Marge thought Grandpa was gay just to brag to Helen Lovejoy, why doesn't she remember that her sister Patty is a lesbian, also in "Fear of Flying" Marge had a fear of flying the whole time yet she flew to Washington in "Mr. Lisa goes to Washington" without throwing that fit. Or why was Sideshow Bob watching "That 30's Show" on TV yet in his previous appearance he almost nuked Springfield unless they get rid of all television. Plus there's the whole issue of Cosmic Wars existing in the Simpsons verse even though Star Wars has existed the whole time and was parodied and mentioned by name hundreds of times. Why do they allow Continuity errors to happen? Aren't the writers afraid of being fired of making a continuity error so bad that it might confuse a viewer and die hard fan? The only time someone pointed out a continuity error is when Comic Book Guy pointed out that The Simpsons did have a horse and Marge did have a gambling addiction.


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**** Read the tropes. Lisa is practically a poster child for all three.
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* The character Karl in "Simpson and Delilah" really baffles me; I mean, he basically shows up out of nowhere, throws his entire life under the bus for Homer, a man he's only just met, and then disappears forever. One could say it's RuleOfFunny, except his character, by ''Simpsons'' standards, is played pretty seriously. Seriously, does anyone have ANY ideas about the logic behind his actions?
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** Would you want to date a guy whose kinda-ex creepily stalked you through the woods? I'd blame him and say he was still in love with her just so I didn't end up buried in somebody's basement.
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** Because she's 8?
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*** I don't think it was on purpose. I swear there's a trope for that... also other characters on the show have blue hair, like Milhouse and his parents. And a lot of children who are blonde as kids end up with brown hair as adults.
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**** 1400 people. At least 4 churches, maybe more.
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** He might have been right, but he went ''completely insane''. I mean, he steals a ''tank'' for God's sake, I'd take him off the drugs too.

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** He might have been right, but he went ''completely insane''. I mean, he steals a ''tank'' *tank* for God's sake, I'd take him off the drugs too.
** Even in the real world, drugs can have good effects but be unsuitable for a person. Birth control can regulate hormones and make periods less severe and painful but can worsen depression, OCD medication can reduce destructive thoughts but cause a person to have migraines, mood stabilizers for Tourette's syndrome can cause kidney damage. Sometimes the risks outweigh the benefits.
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*** Can you be more specific please?
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** Because if they were blue and white, they'd be Smurfs.
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** RuleofFunny, RuleofFunny, RuleofFunny, annnnd RuleofFunny.

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** RuleofFunny, RuleofFunny, RuleofFunny, RuleOfFunny, RuleOfFunny, RuleOfFunny, annnnd RuleofFunny.RuleOfFunny.
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** HyporiciticalHumor, SoapboxSadie, and KnowNothingKnowItAll. We might as well combine all three and call it The Lisa.

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** HyporiciticalHumor, HypocriticalHumor, SoapboxSadie, and KnowNothingKnowItAll. We might as well combine all three and call it The Lisa.
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** HyporiciticalHumor, SoapboxSadie, and KnowNothingKnowItAll. We might as well combine all three and call it The Lisa.

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* Is there a way that [[KarmaHoudini Homer]] manage to keep his job most of the time, even after he got fired several times, such as in ''Ice Cream Of Margie With The Light Blue Hair'' and ''Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes''(besides the answers of NegativeContinuity or StatusQuoIsGod)?

* Why do Tom Gamill and Max Pross keep getting listed together in the opening credits?



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future (''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future (''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.mostly.
*** Probably also because [[NotAllowedToGrowUp the characters never age.]]
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future (''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future (''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

to:

* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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* In "Homer's Triple Bypass'', if Dr. Nick's operation cost $129.95, and the Simpsons only had $70, then where did they get the other $59.95?



* A very big SeriesContinuityError: Bart's hair is revealed to be naturally red but sun bleached yellow to avoid being called [[EmbarrassingNickname Rusty]], but in ''I Married Marge'', he was shown to be born with yellow hair and not red.
** It might have just been a one-time thing, but I'm not actually sure.



* In ''Lisa Goes Gaga'', many descriptions of the episode talk about Lisa trying to reverse her status as the least popular girl in school. Was she still the least popular at the end?
** I don't have the episode on DVD, but I think her performance with Lady Gaga would have reversed her status.
* Okay. Thanks for the help.



* The season 25 premiere. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* The season 25 premiere.premiere, ''The Man Who Came To Be Dinner''. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?



*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.

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*** Yes, but I heard that that episode is also considered non-canon. Maybe this episode will also be! Both of these are pretty much just going to be a whole half-hour TreehouseOfHorror episode with just one story like a regular episode, not split up into three parts.be!



* In Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.

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***** Actually, ''The Springfield Files'' is also non-canon, so the only alien known to exist in canon episodes so far is the one from ''Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming''.
* In the Season 16 episode Future-Drama, Apu and Manjula's son Anoop talks to Bart. Why does a child born and raised in the United States speak English in an Indian accent? It's highly unusual for second generation Americans not to have American accents. Unless he's spent his entire life in a room with only his parents speaking English to him, he would develop an American accent at school and from public and media. I say this as a second-generation Australian. I have a general Aussie accent. My parents don't.



**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".

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**** So they would remember the things they did in the past and it would make sense. It's like the only time Continuity is canon is if a character died and they stay dead... yet Dr. Marvin Munroe Monroe and Dr. Nick Riviera somehow survive their "deaths".



** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.

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** ZeeRust, mostly. Remember, one episode's future future(''Lisa's Wedding'') takes place three years ago.
* Are there any other episodes besides TreehouseOfHorror epsiodes that are non-canon? Sure, there's also the futures, Gump Roast, 24 Minutes and the Season 24 finale, but are there any others? I know that Simpsons Bible Stories, Lisa The Simpson, and That 90's Show are others that certainly have to be.
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** Maine and Florida? They're both on the longitudinal extremes of the Eastern Seabord, so a smell that can be smelled elsewhere might not be smelled there.
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*** A better question is why is continuity important?
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* The season 24 finale. What are Kang and Kodos doing in a canon episode? Have the show makers forgotten their own rules?

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* If ''The Boys of Bummer'' where Bart is treated horribly and tries to commit suicide is without a doubt the absolute lowest point in the series, then what is the highest point?
** ''Last Exit to Springfield'' is often called the shows best episode. If that is not enough, how about the ''entire first ten years''?
** Yeah, but what's so good about it?
*** It's well written, uses intelligent themes, references, and excellent satire. [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,417748~3~0~25bestand1,00.html "The Family Dynamic", Entertainment Weekly, 2003]]. Due to {{Flanderization}} and SeasonalRot, it has gone downhill since season ten, and Last Exit to Springfield was made while the show was at its height.

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* If ''The Boys of Bummer'' where Bart is treated horribly and tries to commit suicide is without a doubt the absolute lowest point in the series, then what is the highest point?
** ''Last Exit to Springfield'' is often called the shows best episode. If that is not enough, how about the ''entire first ten years''?
** Yeah, but what's so good about it?
*** It's well written, uses intelligent themes, references, and excellent satire. [[http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,417748~3~0~25bestand1,00.html "The Family Dynamic", Entertainment Weekly, 2003]]. Due to {{Flanderization}} and SeasonalRot, it has gone downhill since season ten, and Last Exit to Springfield was made while the show was at its height.



* In Bart's Comet, the airport may have been on the other side of the only bridge out of town (which of course begs the question of how would they drive to outside places on the other side of town. Yeah, yeah, flexible geography but that still bugs me) but clearly there is at least one working helicopter that Arnie Pye was flying, so wouldn't that be a way to airlift some people out of town? They could have just as easily had him saying something like "And as I own the only helicopter in town, I'm outta here!" I know, I know, [[WallBanger the town ''had'' to be doomed]] and [[IdiotBall they were probably too stupid(or maybe too panicky) to think of any other means of escape]], but... it bugs me!

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* In Bart's Comet, the airport may have been on the other side of the only bridge out of town (which of course begs the question of how would they drive to outside places on the other side of town. Yeah, yeah, flexible geography but that still bugs me) but clearly there is at least one working helicopter that Arnie Pye was flying, so wouldn't that be a way to airlift some people out of town? They could have just as easily had him saying something like "And as I own the only helicopter in town, I'm outta here!" I know, I know, [[WallBanger the town ''had'' to be doomed]] and [[IdiotBall they were probably too stupid(or maybe too panicky) to think of any other means of escape]], but... it bugs me!



* What is the point of Edna Krabappel-Flanders' character now that she's lost her only defining traits; being bitter and lonely and being the town bicycle?
** She helps Ned be less uptight, she's still Bart's teacher, and she's snarky. We've seen before that she has a sweet side, and now we get to see her show that side more. (As seen in the episode where Marge plans their wedding party.)

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* What is the point of Edna Krabappel-Flanders' character now that she's lost her only defining traits; being bitter and lonely and being the town bicycle?
** She helps Ned be less uptight, she's still Bart's teacher, and she's snarky. We've seen before that she has a sweet side, and now we get to see her show that side more. (As seen in the episode where Marge plans their wedding party.)



* What is with the repeated showing of Marge’s bad parenting in recent episodes? Marge is not a good mother but depictions of this have been stretched out throughout the series and because of Homer they’re easy to miss. But nearly every episode in season 24 gives an example. She admitted that she wants another child to replace Maggie and subsequently that is what all her children want. Feeing your child baby formula is not bad parenting feeding them the cheapest formula you can find is. Plus they spent that whole episode who beneficial and connecting breast feeding is then said that the only child she did that for is Lisa doing it for Bart and Maggie seems to disgusted her. Recently she gave her children away to perfect strangers. Are they making up for lost time.
* Why do people keep referring to Lisa as a Soapbox Sadie
** Her original and current characterization isn't much of one, but for a period of time (mostly right around the Bush reelection), she did spend a disproportionate amount of time on a soapbox. It was only really for about a season or two, but it was annoying enough to some people that it stuck with them. If you mostly watch the current ones, or the early ones, you probably just missed it.
** But that’s the thing I watched all of those episodes mentioned in the trope I even download the seasons people mention when describing her like this but I just don’t see it. Lisa is a narcissist through and through all of these over the top reactions or activity’s are not to better others or protect the environment but to get attention and make herself look better infront of others. In Bart star when she didn’t get the reaction she wanted she ran away crying and anytime someone proves better then her even her own family she sabatoges them. Basically narcissism is the only thing I see in Lisa.

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* What is with the repeated showing of Marge’s bad parenting in recent episodes? Marge is not a good mother but depictions of this have been stretched out throughout the series and because of Homer they’re easy to miss. But nearly every episode in season 24 gives an example. She admitted that she wants another child to replace Maggie and subsequently that is what all her children want. Feeing your child baby formula is not bad parenting feeding them the cheapest formula you can find is. Plus they spent that whole episode who beneficial and connecting breast feeding is then said that the only child she did that for is Lisa doing it for Bart and Maggie seems to disgusted her. Recently she gave her children away to perfect strangers. Are they making up for lost time.
* Why do people keep referring to Lisa as a Soapbox Sadie
** Her original and current characterization isn't much of one, but for a period of time (mostly right around the Bush reelection), she did spend a disproportionate amount of time on a soapbox. It was only really for about a season or two, but it was annoying enough to some people that it stuck with them. If you mostly watch the current ones, or the early ones, you probably just missed it.
** But that’s the thing I watched all of those episodes mentioned in the trope I even download the seasons people mention when describing her like this but I just don’t see it. Lisa is a narcissist through and through all of these over the top reactions or activity’s are not to better others or protect the environment but to get attention and make herself look better infront of others. In Bart star when she didn’t get the reaction she wanted she ran away crying and anytime someone proves better then her even her own family she sabatoges them. Basically narcissism is the only thing I see in Lisa.

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* In "Marge Be Not Proud", when Bart is thinking about stealing the Bonestorm video game, why are Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Sonic, [[WhatTheHellHero the good guys]], persuading him to steal?

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* In "Marge Be Not Proud", when Bart is thinking about stealing the Bonestorm video game, why are Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Sonic, [[WhatTheHellHero the good guys]], guys, persuading him to steal? steal?
** Because the point wasn't that they're good guys, but that they're video game characters.
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