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[[WMG:The secret to ''The Simpsons''' longevity involves Matt Groening selling his soul and Al Jean and Mike Scully sabotaging their own show and the competition]]
After season four, Matt Groening was facing a crisis: his best writers were leaving due to exhaustion, the show was at the height of its popularity, and there was a line of DuelingShows waiting to replace ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as the edgy sitcom that dares to reflect life's foibles with loving satire. Rather than call it quits and cancel the show like a sane person, Groening took a page from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and decided to make it better with new writers, not accounting for the fact that this practice doesn't always garner great results. Distraught over how cartoony and surreal the show was turning out, Groening planned to end the show and attempt suicide after completion of the season five finale "Secrets to a Successful Marriage" (the episode where Homer gets thrown out of the house for telling Marge's secrets during a "How to Fix Your Marriage" class at the local Learning Annex), but stopped when Mike Scully and Al Jean offered to help Matt fix the show -- [[DealWithTheDevil for a price]]. This led to episodes featuring plots normally found in wacky Saturday morning cartoons or sappy, traditional sitcoms -- the only things making them Simpson-esque are the pop culture references and the characters. Groening was too whacked out on antidepressants to care, which is why he never intervened. He did protest over that CrossOver episode with Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', but he was force-fed more antidepressants and blacked out before any action could be taken.
By the time season eight rolled around, Mike Scully and Al Jean were having too much fun warping ''The Simpsons'' and hired Bill Oakley and Josh Weinsten to create the episode "The Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie Show" as a "Screw You" to fans who loved the show's early years (even though seasons one and two were wretched--in both [[StylisticSuck animation]] and writing, so the fans * really* need to take off the [[NostalgiaFilter rose-colored glasses]] when waxing nostalgic about ''The Simpsons'''s early years). Matt Groening confronted Jean and Scully about the episode, but Jean and Scully took care of the upcoming conflict by [[DistractedByTheLuxury giving Matt loads and loads of money]] and decided, "What the hell? Plenty more fans where that come from."
This was not to last, though. Following the creation and airing of "The Principal and the Pauper" (the episode where [[spoiler: Principal Skinner turns out to be an impostor named Armin Tamzarian and the real Seymour Skinner was a POW who was thought to have died during the Vietnam War]]), Groening realized that he had sold his soul and left the show in disgrace (his final wish was to have his names in the Executive Producer so no one would know that he had left). After a year of trying to find himself, Groening teamed up with David X. Cohen (who was also screwed over by Jean and Scully for suggesting to revert ''The Simpsons'' back to the way it was in season 3 -- somewhat like a sappy family sitcom, but with enough sarcasm to keep the treacle from sticking and poke fun at how cornball family sitcom conventions can be) and together, the two went to work on creating ''Futurama''.
Angry that Groening reneged on their deal (and took a fellow writer with him), Jean and Scully decided to sabotage the show so Matt Groening can get blamed for the show's sorry state. Things got worse when Phil Hartman (the man who voiced crooked lawyer Lionel Hutz and washed-up, alcoholic, [[spoiler: fish-humping]] B-movie actor Troy [=McClure=]) died at the hands of his wife -- now Jean and Scully had no hook to get the more jaded viewers to watch the show. To make matters worse, Jean and Scully hired old college friends, drinking buddies, and their own family members as writers, who may be fans of the show, but wouldn't know how to write an episode if someone held them at gunpoint and forced them, so in a desperate bid to keep ''The Simpsons'' on the air (especially around the time that a batch of DuelingShows were airing on network TV and cable), Jean and Scully pulled every trick in the book to get people to watch the show -- celebrity guests that added nothing to the plot, wackier stories, a VerySpecialEpisode where someone important dies [[spoiler: but it turns out to be the least important character in the cast]].
When that served only to drive more viewers away (leaving behind only but the truly braindead/heavily medicated/rabid fans who couldn't tell a good episode from a bad one), Jean and Scully called upon the studio janitor (who practices voodoo in his spare time) to create dolls symbolizing all the shows that threatened to take the place of ''The Simpsons'' and regularly stuck needles in them whenever Jean and/or Scully read a scathing review about this week's episode of ''The Simpsons'' being a steaming pile and declaring that an hour of The Weather Channel would make for better, smarter viewing. A lot of the DuelingShows, like ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'', ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', and ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'' were easily defeated, but the ones like ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Creator/CartoonNetwork's Creator/AdultSwim line-up, and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' proved to be harder to defeat and sticking needles in them only got the shows temporarily canceled (cf. ''Futurama'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'') or gave them temporary-to-severe SeasonalRot (cf. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', some of the shows on Adult Swim that weren't cancelled after one or two seasons).
When that failed, Jean and Scully simply bribed people to praise the show and favor it over other superior shows such as ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' and ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' and created ''The Simpsons Movie'' in a feeble attempt at staying culturally relevant. Sadly, it worked well enough for ''The Simpsons'' to stay on the air longer. To this day, Jean and Scully continue to curse good animated shows and use their janitor's magic to keep the Simpsons on the air as a FranchiseZombie, but with the tepid reviews from season 21's "Judge Me Tender," the magic may be fading.
** This is freaking brilliant.
After season four, Matt Groening was facing a crisis: his best writers were leaving due to exhaustion, the show was at the height of its popularity, and there was a line of DuelingShows waiting to replace ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' as the edgy sitcom that dares to reflect life's foibles with loving satire. Rather than call it quits and cancel the show like a sane person, Groening took a page from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and decided to make it better with new writers, not accounting for the fact that this practice doesn't always garner great results. Distraught over how cartoony and surreal the show was turning out, Groening planned to end the show and attempt suicide after completion of the season five finale "Secrets to a Successful Marriage" (the episode where Homer gets thrown out of the house for telling Marge's secrets during a "How to Fix Your Marriage" class at the local Learning Annex), but stopped when Mike Scully and Al Jean offered to help Matt fix the show -- [[DealWithTheDevil for a price]]. This led to episodes featuring plots normally found in wacky Saturday morning cartoons or sappy, traditional sitcoms -- the only things making them Simpson-esque are the pop culture references and the characters. Groening was too whacked out on antidepressants to care, which is why he never intervened. He did protest over that CrossOver episode with Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', but he was force-fed more antidepressants and blacked out before any action could be taken.
By the time season eight rolled around, Mike Scully and Al Jean were having too much fun warping ''The Simpsons'' and hired Bill Oakley and Josh Weinsten to create the episode "The Itchy, Scratchy, and Poochie Show" as a "Screw You" to fans who loved the show's early years (even though seasons one and two were wretched--in both [[StylisticSuck animation]] and writing, so the fans * really* need to take off the [[NostalgiaFilter rose-colored glasses]] when waxing nostalgic about ''The Simpsons'''s early years). Matt Groening confronted Jean and Scully about the episode, but Jean and Scully took care of the upcoming conflict by [[DistractedByTheLuxury giving Matt loads and loads of money]] and decided, "What the hell? Plenty more fans where that come from."
This was not to last, though. Following the creation and airing of "The Principal and the Pauper" (the episode where [[spoiler: Principal Skinner turns out to be an impostor named Armin Tamzarian and the real Seymour Skinner was a POW who was thought to have died during the Vietnam War]]), Groening realized that he had sold his soul and left the show in disgrace (his final wish was to have his names in the Executive Producer so no one would know that he had left). After a year of trying to find himself, Groening teamed up with David X. Cohen (who was also screwed over by Jean and Scully for suggesting to revert ''The Simpsons'' back to the way it was in season 3 -- somewhat like a sappy family sitcom, but with enough sarcasm to keep the treacle from sticking and poke fun at how cornball family sitcom conventions can be) and together, the two went to work on creating ''Futurama''.
Angry that Groening reneged on their deal (and took a fellow writer with him), Jean and Scully decided to sabotage the show so Matt Groening can get blamed for the show's sorry state. Things got worse when Phil Hartman (the man who voiced crooked lawyer Lionel Hutz and washed-up, alcoholic, [[spoiler: fish-humping]] B-movie actor Troy [=McClure=]) died at the hands of his wife -- now Jean and Scully had no hook to get the more jaded viewers to watch the show. To make matters worse, Jean and Scully hired old college friends, drinking buddies, and their own family members as writers, who may be fans of the show, but wouldn't know how to write an episode if someone held them at gunpoint and forced them, so in a desperate bid to keep ''The Simpsons'' on the air (especially around the time that a batch of DuelingShows were airing on network TV and cable), Jean and Scully pulled every trick in the book to get people to watch the show -- celebrity guests that added nothing to the plot, wackier stories, a VerySpecialEpisode where someone important dies [[spoiler: but it turns out to be the least important character in the cast]].
When that served only to drive more viewers away (leaving behind only but the truly braindead/heavily medicated/rabid fans who couldn't tell a good episode from a bad one), Jean and Scully called upon the studio janitor (who practices voodoo in his spare time) to create dolls symbolizing all the shows that threatened to take the place of ''The Simpsons'' and regularly stuck needles in them whenever Jean and/or Scully read a scathing review about this week's episode of ''The Simpsons'' being a steaming pile and declaring that an hour of The Weather Channel would make for better, smarter viewing. A lot of the DuelingShows, like ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'', ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'', ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', and ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'' were easily defeated, but the ones like ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Creator/CartoonNetwork's Creator/AdultSwim line-up, and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' proved to be harder to defeat and sticking needles in them only got the shows temporarily canceled (cf. ''Futurama'' and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'') or gave them temporary-to-severe SeasonalRot (cf. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', some of the shows on Adult Swim that weren't cancelled after one or two seasons).
When that failed, Jean and Scully simply bribed people to praise the show and favor it over other superior shows such as ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' and ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' and created ''The Simpsons Movie'' in a feeble attempt at staying culturally relevant. Sadly, it worked well enough for ''The Simpsons'' to stay on the air longer. To this day, Jean and Scully continue to curse good animated shows and use their janitor's magic to keep the Simpsons on the air as a FranchiseZombie, but with the tepid reviews from season 21's "Judge Me Tender," the magic may be fading.
** This is freaking brilliant.
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[[WMG: Harry Shearer can criticize ''The Simpsons'' because he is too invaluable to replace.]]
He's the only one on the crew to admit that the show has JumpedTheShark long ago. (Remember, even if people disagree on when, most people think it has.) But because he plays virtually half the male supporting cast, it would not be worth it for Fox and Gracie Films to replace him. They would have to hire at least a dozen more people to replace the voices of all the characters he voices. And they simply cannot [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies kill off]] [[PutOnABus or otherwise get rid of]] all of them, or even half of them.
He's the only one on the crew to admit that the show has JumpedTheShark long ago. (Remember, even if people disagree on when, most people think it has.) But because he plays virtually half the male supporting cast, it would not be worth it for Fox and Gracie Films to replace him. They would have to hire at least a dozen more people to replace the voices of all the characters he voices. And they simply cannot [[ActorLeavesCharacterDies kill off]] [[PutOnABus or otherwise get rid of]] all of them, or even half of them.
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Several times now Homer has been drawn in by the looks of other men, gushing over them and engaging in romantic and perverted activities with them. He's been MistakenForGay hundreds of times, and he's even been able to engage in relationships with other men such as Chief Wiggum, Fat Tony and Barney Gumble that border on(And have been portrayed as/joked about) being romantic and sexual in nature. When he questions if Marge is truly his soul mate, he suspects Barney right out the gate of being his true soul mate. Although Homer's come to terms with his homophobia when it comes to other people, he's still afraid of being gay himself, which causes him to become absolutely frightened and run away when his homoerotic interactions are brought to his attention. When he's allowed to develop a homosexual relationship on his own terms without anyone pointing it out to him however, he falls into the role quite easily without any protest. It's his love for and marriage to Marge that keeps him from fully acting on his desires and even then he has a hard time coming back around to her sometimes.
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He can't be gay because he's clearly attracted to Marge and he thought that Mindy woman was hot. But then again, he also called Ned Flanders [[StupidSexyFlanders sexy]], so if he really is attracted to both men and women, he's bisexual. Several times now Homer has been drawn in by the looks of other men, gushing over them and engaging in romantic and perverted activities with them. He's been MistakenForGay hundreds of times, and he's even been able to engage in relationships with other men such as Chief Wiggum, Fat Tony and Barney Gumble that border on(And have been portrayed as/joked about) being romantic and sexual in nature. When he questions if Marge is truly his soul mate, he suspects Barney right out the gate of being his true soul mate. Although Homer's come to terms with his homophobia when it comes to other people, he's still afraid of being gay himself, which causes him to become absolutely frightened and run away when his homoerotic interactions are brought to his attention. When he's allowed to develop a homosexual relationship on his own terms without anyone pointing it out to him however, he falls into the role quite easily without any protest. It's his love for and marriage to Marge that keeps him from fully acting on his desires and even then he has a hard time coming back around to her sometimes.
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[[WMG: Homer is bisexual.]]
He can't be gay because he's clearly attracted to Marge and he thought that Mindy woman was hot. But then again, he also called Ned Flanders [[StupidSexyFlanders sexy]], so if he really is attracted to both men and women, he's bisexual.
He can't be gay because he's clearly attracted to Marge and he thought that Mindy woman was hot. But then again, he also called Ned Flanders [[StupidSexyFlanders sexy]], so if he really is attracted to both men and women, he's bisexual.
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[[WMG: The writers of the new episodes have never seen the old ones]]
Jossed for at least a few of them, such as Michael Price, who clearly must have seen all of those episodes where Homer was injured (the clips were reshown in an episode from Season 20 written by him) and Joel H. Cohen, who must have seen the episode "A Milhouse Divided" because events from that episode were brought up again in an episode in Season 20 written by him.
[[WMG: Matt Groening and/or the writers have PerverseSexualLust for Lisa]]
Explains a lot.
** [[{{Squick}} This WMG is so wrong on so many levels.]]
*** Is that why she wears a [[AgeInappropriateDress strapless dress]]?
** Older fans too.
Jossed for at least a few of them, such as Michael Price, who clearly must have seen all of those episodes where Homer was injured (the clips were reshown in an episode from Season 20 written by him) and Joel H. Cohen, who must have seen the episode "A Milhouse Divided" because events from that episode were brought up again in an episode in Season 20 written by him.
[[WMG: Matt Groening and/or the writers have PerverseSexualLust for Lisa]]
Explains a lot.
** [[{{Squick}} This WMG is so wrong on so many levels.]]
*** Is that why she wears a [[AgeInappropriateDress strapless dress]]?
** Older fans too.
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Jossed for at least a few of them, such as Michael Price, who clearly must have seen all of those episodes where Homer was injured (the clips were reshown in an episode from Season 20 written by him) and Joel H. Cohen, who must have seen the episode "A Milhouse Divided" because events from that episode were brought up again in an episode in Season 20 written by him.
[[WMG: Matt Groening and/or the writers have PerverseSexualLust for Lisa]]
Explains a lot.
** [[{{Squick}} This WMG is so wrong on so many levels.]]
*** Is that why she wears a [[AgeInappropriateDress strapless dress]]?
** Older fans too.
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** Supporting this is that Lisa has been shown to date both women and men in the future, it is possible she inherited her sexuality from her dad. To show this wasn't a one episode joke, there was a storyline that introduced a young girl, Taffy, that started dating Milhouse only to brake up with him once she sees that Lisa has been stacking them, Lisa when asked about her behaviour by Milhouse, said she didn't know then kisses him.
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He can't be gay because he's clearly attracted to Marge and he thought that Mindy woman was hot. But then again, he also called Ned Flanders sexy, so if he really is attracted to both men and women, he's bisexual.
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He can't be gay because he's clearly attracted to Marge and he thought that Mindy woman was hot. But then again, he also called Ned Flanders sexy, [[StupidSexyFlanders sexy]], so if he really is attracted to both men and women, he's bisexual.
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[[WMG: Bart had a crush on Mrs Krabappel.]]
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[[WMG: Bart had a crush on Mrs Mrs. Krabappel.]]
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- Patty and Selma are just like in the show but actually the reason why they were single is that they happened to never have found true love until they were middle-aged. Patty was either aroace or lesbian and never married, while Selma got married as an elder and adopted Ling-Ling, who was closer in age to Zia than to Lisa.
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- Patty and Selma are just like in the show but actually the reason why they were single is that they happened to never have found true love until they were middle-aged. Patty was either aroace or lesbian and never married, while Selma got married as an elder and adopted Ling-Ling, Ling, who was closer in age to Zia than to Lisa.
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- Season 1 is loosely based on real events. The rest are the fruit of Lisa's imagination. They did accidentally get a dog as a Christmas present, Bart did cheat by copying a classmate, Homer did get fired and return to then have a new promotion, they did go to a picnic at Homer's boss' place, Bart did rally his classmates - including the one he did copy from - against a bully, Lisa did get inspired to play sax by Bleeding Gums Murphy (but never met him in person), they did go camping on a RV, Bart did try to steal the statue of the town founder, Homer did buy Marge a bowling ball as a birthday gift, Bart did buy a camera and snap pictures of strip clubs, Bart and Lisa were sent to France as an exchange program, Bob Terwiliger did actually steal stuff pretending to be Hercschel Krustowski and it went as a famous parodied celebrity event but nobody Lisa knew was there and it happened in another town, and Marge did call a radio terapist for her marriage to Homer and have Bart and Lisa babysat by someone.
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- Season 1 is loosely based on real events. The rest are the fruit of Lisa's imagination. They did accidentally get a dog as a Christmas present, Bart did cheat by copying a classmate, Homer did get fired and return to then have a new promotion, they did go to a picnic at Homer's boss' place, Bart did rally his classmates - including the one he did copy from - against a bully, Lisa did get inspired to play sax by Bleeding Gums Murphy (but never met him in person), they did go camping on a RV, Bart did try to steal the statue of the town founder, Homer did buy Marge a bowling ball as a birthday gift, Bart did buy a camera and snap pictures of strip clubs, Bart and Lisa were sent to France as an exchange program, Bob Terwiliger did actually steal stuff pretending to be Hercschel Herschel Krustowski and it went as a famous parodied celebrity event but nobody Lisa knew was there and it happened in another town, and Marge did call a radio terapist for her marriage to Homer and have Bart and Lisa babysat by someone.
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[[WMG: Jebediah Springfield is NOT Hans Sprungfeld]]
In the episode ''Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E16LisaTheIconoclast'', Lisa discovers that Jebediah Springfield, founder of the town, was really Hans Sprungfeld, notorious pirate. She finds out from a confession found in a fife in an old Springfield Museum, that was made from part of the famous George Washington painting, then clinches it by discovering Hans Sprungfeld's silver tongue... That was also found in the old Springfield Museum. Isn't it interesting how everything pointing out that Springfield was Sprungfeld is found in the Museum with no evidence outside of it? Oh sure, the curator said he stole the tongue off of Springfield's corpse before anyone else saw it, but if you watch the episode it would be impossible for him to snatch it with no one knowing. Come to think of it, the curator may be the only one working at the Museum but surely he's handled and examined that fife countless times, he should've seen the confession well before Lisa did. And wait, he's the one that leaves the exhibit open that allows Lisa a chance to look and mess with it in the first place. And the confession, if it did come from the legitimate George Washington painting, would not have been able to fit perfectly into the recreation painting on the wall (as it would've been full and probably smaller then the actual painting). Lastly, its weird how he would hide the tongue in plain sight in his museum instead of hiding it somewhere more conspicuously...
What am I getting at? Not only is Jebediah Springfield ''not'' Hans Sprungfeld, but that the Museum Curator faked everything. Why? He was bored at his lonely, low-level job, stuck in a (then) backwater town with some no-name nobody revolutionary that only that town cares about. What better way to gain fame, notoriety and a way to improve his standing in the historic research community then to turn this nobody into one of the worst Pirates that ever plagued America? He couldn't come out with it directly because it would look too weird for him to have found this evidence, so he was waiting for someone else to discover everything in his museum so he could capitalize off of it after, and that someone just so happened to be Lisa... Until she got cold feet and decided not to come forward with 'the truth'. Now he's just biding his time for the next weird person to come along, see either the confession or the silver tongue he's hidden back in plain sight in his museum, and then when they come forward he'll be on the front and center of this new 'truth' that will make him rich and famous (at least in his mind).
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[[WMG: "The Principal And The Pauper" was a mass hallucination experienced by the people of Springfield.]]
It's established that Shelbyville has spiked Springfield's water supply to the point where Springfielders hallucinate from it. Enough of the toxins may have accumulated for pretty much everybody in Springfield to have a shared hallucination that Principal Skinner's real name was "Armin Tamzarian" and that another person was the "real" Seymour Skinner, although that second Skinner never truly existed. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_hysteria_cases Incidents like these have occurred in recorded history,]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness this hallucination is just another example.]] It explains why the real Principal Skinner was able to still have all those flashbacks to Vietnam and his previous time in the army, since they all really happened. It also explains why the U.S. Army never flagged him as "Armin Tamzarian" when he re-enlisted in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badass Song", since he was the real Skinner all along and he matched everything the Army had in his personnel file.
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[[WMG:The raffle Mr. Burns won in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson wasn't rigged]]
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[[WMG:The raffle Mr. Burns won in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson Simpson" wasn't rigged]]
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[[WMG:The raffle Mr. Burns won in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson wasn't rigged]]
Mr. Burns bought that car himself, and wanted to show it off to all of Springfield [[ItsAllAboutMe out of selfish glee]] by paying the stadium to pretend he won it off a raffle. Since he has a ZeroPercentApprovalRating, nobody was fooled. [[KickTheDog Poor Marge fell prey to one of Mr. Burns' selfish acts once again]].
[[WMG:Roy died on the way to his new apartment.]]
It would explain why he never appeared again...
[[WMG: Maggie will be Homer and Marge's kid in "Not It".]]
Maggie was absent from the episode (as she have nobody to swap her personality with). Still, Marge is widowed at the end of the episode and the misunderstanding about the author of the love poem was cleared. She and Homer are consequently seen holding hands in the end. It can be supposed that Marge will remarry Homer, and Maggie will be their only child, with Bert and Lizzie as her half siblings.
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[[WMG: The "Crepes of Wrath" episode happened in the events of "Homer's Night Out]]
Bart orders a spy camera that takes about 6 months to arrive. In the "Crepes of Wrath," Bart is in France for 3 months. The scene in which the mail carrier finally arrives with Bart's camera takes place after Bart's visit to France.
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[[WMG: The Simpson Gene isn't stupidity, it's ego.]]
One consistency even with the smarter members of the Simpson family is that they are very flawed individuals who struggle to accept their shortcomings. Herb lost his company with bad decisions and blamed Homer. Lisa makes multiple bad decisions throughout the show, but blames her family and surroundings. Even Homer's brief recovery of intellect led him to make a big oversight that cost most of the plant their jobs, leading him to favour turning dumb again so he could remain oblivious to his failings. All of them are one-track focused and stubborn, convinced they have good ideas and ignoring long-term details, and then refusing to accept their mistakes when things go wrong. It's questionable whether the gene even exists and wasn't simply mental gymnastics from one of family members having a bad day like Lisa had. It's the ultimate excuse, [[NeverMyFault that circumstances are out of their control]], a consistent outlook for nearly every Simpson.
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We have seen from both Homer and Bart occasional flashes of brilliance through rapid acquisition of skills and displays of talent that run contrary their claimed stupidity. Also we see that Abraham Simpson had been a small unit commander who was successful in leading his unit through some of the hardest fighting of the European theater in [=WW2=] without any recored case of fatalities in his unit and in his post war civillian life he had been president of the Gay Lesbian Alliance for some reason. The real fault of the Simpson Y chromosome is not because it causes the Simpson males to became stupid but rather it causes them to become extremely impulsive resulting them prone in making bad decisions without forethinking
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We have seen from both Homer and Bart occasional flashes of brilliance through the rapid acquisition of skills and displays of talent that run contrary to their claimed stupidity. Also Also, we see that Abraham Simpson had been a small unit commander who was successful in leading his unit through some of the hardest fighting of the European theater in [=WW2=] without any recored case recorded cases of fatalities in his unit and in his post war civillian post-war civilian life he had been president of the Gay Lesbian Alliance for some reason. The real fault of the Simpson Y chromosome is not because it causes the Simpson males to became become stupid but rather it causes them to become extremely impulsive resulting in them prone in making bad decisions without forethinking
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With some adjustments this could explain why there's so little change in the town and why all the characters become more and more extremely caricatured with time - the idea behind quantum suicide is applied not just to death but also to major negative consequences to all actions for most of the town's inhabitants most of the time. Because none of the town's natives ever suffer any real negative reinforcement due to their actions, they never learn to temper their behaviour to make themselves more acceptable to the world at large.
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Hows that for LaserGuidedKarma?
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[[WMG: Sideshow Bob's family.]]
Since it was a bit jarring how Bob's wife and son were never brought up again, and the episode "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" had him hooking up with a woman who lives next door to him, there's actually a very logical explanation for that: after the events of "Funeral for a Fiend", he and Francesca were forced by the courts to divorce and then she and Gino were deported back to Italy.
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* ''Series/MeetThePress'' is the longest-running TV show in broadcasting history. It began airing in 1947. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' will never beat it.
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* ''Series/MeetThePress'' is the longest-running TV show in broadcasting history. It began airing premiered in 1947. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' will never beat it.
