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Posted: Jan 28 2008 06:47 am

So many continuity issues....

Brain exploding.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 08:33 am

YES! This is the first episode i have ever watched that really made me feel that the series should be over soon. It didn't make any sense. Remember springfieldpalooza? The whole thing just felt like a some weird social commentary.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 08:52 am

A lot of things pissed me off about the episode but what really irked me was the fact they said Bart was ten and yet the episode ended with the 90s ending and Marge wasn't even pregnant. Since it's only 2008, that would make Bart only 7 years old and change.

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I didn't even know about this. Hopefully, this can be the thing to put the show out of its misery already. They ran out of ideas ten years ago, damnit. They are just mocking my childhood at this point.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 12:26 pm

Your cousin, Marvin Cobain!

Posted: Jan 28 2008 05:42 pm

This episode just looked like a rip off of the B flats. The other band homer was in. I remember one episode where Bart tries to impress people with the Bartman and they comment that it is totally 90's.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 07:23 pm

What happened? I totally didn't see it, but it sounds like an episode I'd get pissed off at.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 07:43 pm

Pretty much it states that Homer was in the first grunge band of the 90s without any of the kids being born. He stays in this band for the entire 90's

Posted: Jan 28 2008 07:47 pm

They've been doing these continuity issues for years now. Sorta like when Homer (or Marge) told a story of how they met at a summer camp, instead of meeting in high school.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 07:54 pm

SSNintendo wrote:

They've been doing these continuity issues for years now. Sorta like when Homer (or Marge) told a story of how they met at a summer camp, instead of meeting in high school.

Not only breaking continuity, but doing it crapily with that case in point.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 08:26 pm

The only thing that really made me laugh last night was the SONIC THE HEDGEHOG SAYS WAIT UNTIL MARRIAGE billboard, which was only funny because it featured Amy.

The use of Weird Al was nice too, but Homer's fake versions of "Glycerin" and "Rape Me" were pretty painful to listen to.

Posted: Jan 28 2008 08:36 pm

SSNintendo wrote:

They've been doing these continuity issues for years now. Sorta like when Homer (or Marge) told a story of how they met at a summer camp, instead of meeting in high school.

That episode wasn't bad. Remember Marge wore her hair differently and she never told Homer her name. It was at the end of that episode that they learned they met previously.
Last nights episode completely disregards the first 10 seasons altogether.

Posted: Jan 29 2008 03:21 pm

Damn, how long have the Simpsons been around? Like twenty years or something? I've seen quite a bit of the show in my day, and I would have to say that the show is getting stale. Hell, even the Tracy Ullman simpsons are looking better to me every time I try to watch new episodes of the simpsons, which isn't all too often these days..
Shit, it took them how long to release the movie? No offense to anyone who liked the movie, but I thought it was crap. Sure, it had some laughs and some fun, but I didn't really like the fact that it was like watching a two hour long episode of The Simpsons. In my opinion, an hour long special would have been more than adequate.
I agree, the continuity issues in this show have pissed me off as well. There was always some episode where I would notice something and say "Wait, I thought that earlier this had happened and now they're saying this?"
In conclusion, the simpsons need to evolve or die. That is all.

Posted: Jan 29 2008 03:28 pm

I always like to point out that Homer and Abe burn down their old family farm house in the episode where they sell miracle tonic together but the house is magically rebuilt in the tomacco episode. Some of the earlier continuity issues around probably season 11 and 12 are small enough to be ignored, but at this point, you should probably treat Simpsons continuity the same way you treat Aqua Teens continuity in that each episode is completely unrelated unless one specifically mentions another (and even then, ignore the bugs.)

Posted: Jan 29 2008 03:50 pm

Why do you people still watch this terrible show? Why does anyone?

Posted: Jan 29 2008 07:29 pm

I have to agree w/Black Zarak on the continuity issues. The only thing they do keep active is the people who have died, stay dead.

Posted: Jan 29 2008 07:34 pm

Except Dr. Marvin Monroe

Posted: Sep 02 2008 07:59 pm

So tonight I was watching the episode "Lisa's First Word" which flashes back to 1984 when Bart was 2, and Marge was about to give birth to Lisa. Then in "That 90's Show", Marge and Homer aren't even married by the time 1990 rolls around.

I know this is an old thread, I just want to reiterate how much I hated the "That 90's Show" episode.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 08:15 pm

my brother loves that 90's episode

Posted: Sep 02 2008 11:26 pm

This entire last season was shit. I dunno if anyone remembers, but the Android Dungeon is closed, Jack Black owns a comic book store in Springfield, Marge owns a chain of gyms, and they're billionaires. Before you say that it was all a hallucination, the hallucination occurred when Homer went in for surgery, which only happened AFTER Marge made billions and he felt inadequate. I hope they hired some fan-fucking-tastic writers for the 20th season so they can have one last good season and never put out another episode or movie.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Sep 03 2008 01:04 am

There is no real continuity in The Simpsons. The past only exists to mine jokes and in-jokes.

That said...the episode in question indeed sucks.

Posted: Sep 03 2008 11:14 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

There is no real continuity in The Simpsons. The past only exists to mine jokes and in-jokes.

I have no problem with continuity issues for the most part, seeing as it's a comedy show, not a drama. But at the same time, this is a show that also thrives on continuity to some degree. They keep bringing back Sideshow Bob and Artie Ziff, and last season they even brought back Lurlene Lumpkin, the country singer that Colonel Homer managed.

It's par for the course that Homer's employment situation and the family's finances are highly inconsistent from episode to episode, but the retcon in question was so blatant and so ridiculously in conflict with in so many past episodes, that it was insulting.

Posted: Sep 03 2008 11:54 am

Does anyone have a solid opinion about what the last great season was. My friend and I have talked about it countless times over the last 6 or 7 years, and the best I can come up with was 4-6 was the golden years and 10 was the beginning of the end. There were a couple of gem episodes in the 11, 12, even 13th season, but after season 9 the show turned into family-guy style cheap humor and name-dropping.

Posted: Sep 03 2008 12:11 pm

I generally cite 3-10 as the golden age.

Posted: Sep 03 2008 12:39 pm

I agree, 3-10 are the best years, and 8 is probably the best season.