History Headscratchers / TheSimpsons

[[folder: How Would the Law Punish Springfield?]]
* If SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs in the episode Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer, how exactly would the LAW punish the ENTIRE town of Springfield for the crime of harassing and bullying Bart to the brink of suicide... and continue this treatment once he survived the suicide attempt. Besides Chief Wiggum being fired and blacklisted from Law Enforcement due to you know... BEING A F**KIN' COP AND CONTRIBUTING TO BART'S SUICIDE ATTEMPT, How exactly would actual competent law enforcement penalize an entire town for this heinous crime?
** One thing for sure is that Springfield would be permanently blacklisted in sports, with all of its teams being forced to disband, and anyone originating from the town banned from joining other teams. Wiggum would be fired, indeed, and probably charged with attempted murder. Tourism would be hit very badly, as people would ''not'' want to visit a town full of people who are willing to hurt children, mentally or physically, for petty reasons. And the Simpsons would be placed into Witness Protection for Bart's safety, maybe even forced to change their names.
*** And then there's Joe [=LaBoot=]. He's cited as an example of someone who made a similar mistake as Bart but still became famous. But when Bart goes to meet him, and [=LaBoot=] finds out who he's speaking with, [[MoralEventHorizon he]] [[KickTheDog joins]] [[EvilAllAlong in]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk on]] [[WouldHurtAChild the]] [[NiceCharacterMeanActor bullying]], driving Bart towards the DespairEventHorizon, and telling Lisa off when she calls him out on his hypocrisy. End result: [=LaBoot=] is disgraced. He'll be hated by everyone, stripped of all of his titles, become an {{Unperson}} and fair game for mockery, and will most likely have criminal charges laid against him, especially if he attacked other children. He'll become baseball's Creator/JimmySavile.
** The town as an institution probably wouldn't be punished by law enforcement, but state politicians could do everything from "conveniently forgetting" to provide for Springfield in state budgets to discouraging businesses from investing there to publicly condemning the town's actions. And while law enforcement couldn't punish the town itself, they could make the townspeople's lives miserable by nailing as many individual citizens as possible to the wall with as many charges as will stick. Those citizens could be tied up in court for years, ruining everything from their finances to their public reputations.
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* I and my friend were debating this... if SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs in the episode Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E18TheBoysOfBummer, how exactly would the LAW punish the ENTIRE town of Springfield for the crime of harassing and bullying Bart to the brink of suicide... and continue this treatment once he survived the suicide attempt. Besides Chief Wiggum being fired and blacklisted from Law Enforcement due to you know... BEING A F**KIN' COP AND CONTRIBUTING TO BART'S SUICIDE ATTEMPT, How exactly would actual competent law enforcement penalize an entire town for this heinous crime?

* How would not!Skinner have been able to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E19SweetSeymourSkinnersBaadasssssSong re-enlist under that name]] without being arrested for desertion and identity theft?
** Presumably everyone at the Springfield military base were people who were too young or new to work with not!Skinner in Vietnam, so they would have no idea. Or were too dumb/apathetic to notice.

[[folder:"The Joy of Sect"]]
* How'd they get away with this episode? Nancy Cartwright is a Scientologist!
** Evidently, she's the only Scientologist with a sense of humor.
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[[folder: Baby Elephant Walk Pants Usage]]
* Why didn't "Blue Pants" use the original [[Music/{{HenryMancini}} Mancini]] recording. Was it so Fox wouldn't get a copyright. They have used a ton of licensed songs.
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** RuleOfFunny in the first case and ComicBookTime in the latter.

* Isn't Jamshed [[WesternAnimation/{{PhineasAndFerb}} too young to be manning the Kwik-E-Mart while Apu is on volunteer firefighting duty?]] Then again, he is probably [[YoungerThanTheyLook Younger Than He Looks]] and eventually is fixed to his actual age.

** Questions 3 is supposed to be a [[{{ShoutOut}} Shout Out]] to [[Film/{{MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail}} Monty Python And The Holy Grail]].

*** The question is not their actions but why they don't recognize who at least Maggie is. There are probably a lot of cats that look like Homer's within Springfield.

*** Debunked! Tonight's new episode ends with The Simpsons seeing the re-released 3D version of "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie" at a Drive-In and Bart was there and wearing 3D glasses too!