Poll of the Day > So in the current Simpsons continuity, did Homer go to HS in the 2000s or what?

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How does that work? I know they did an episode about the 90s that everyone hated like ten years ago but that was after I stopped watching, so I don't know if it was about Homer in high school.

It's weird to think that in a few years Homer will have graduated HS the same year as me, depending on how you look at it, though the Simpsons continuity has always been full of inconsistencies

I remember that 90s episode. I thought Bart's line "The 90s? Never heard of it" was pretty clever.

I don't remember anything else from it, though. And I'm not really sure The Simpson's has any meaningful continuity.
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faramir77 posted...

I remember that 90s episode. I thought Bart's line "The 90s? Never heard of it" was pretty clever.

I don't remember anything else from it, though. And I'm not really sure The Simpson's has any meaningful continuity.

The episode takes place when Marge is in college, and Homer starts a Grunge band with Lenny, Carl, and Lou. Its not a terrible episode, but has been criticized cause of how it messes with the Simpsons timeline

Simpsons take place on something called a floating timeline. Those kind of things are annoying for wanting to make a proper timeline of events.
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Like in the Facebook/Tron episode of "South Park", when Stan's birth year is listed as 2003, even though the boys were clearly around when 9/11 happened.
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Chewster posted...

It's weird to think that in a few years Homer will have graduated HS the same year as me

it's the same thing with Batman for me. They keep updating Batman to always be in his mid 30's. currently I am about Batman's age. but eventually I will be older than him. cause he will stay the same. around 5 years ago or so, they had an issue of one of the Batman comics where he talked to an old friend from either highschool or college, I forget. a girl. and they talked about how she used to be obsessed with anime and tried to get Bruce Wayne into it. Bruce Wayne grew up now, in the age of the anime explosion in america. someone once joked in some topic that someday they might make it canon that Bruce Wayne's parents were shot after the family went to see a showing of "Pokemon The FIrst Movie" instead of Mark of Zorro

You should watch these. A YouTuber did an excellent 3-part series on how the timeline in Simpsons could theoretically work. Its almost an hour total, but interesting to listen to.

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Zikten posted...

it's the same thing with Batman for me. They keep updating Batman to always be in his mid 30's.

With DC, they at least have the excuse (even if it's a terrible excuse) that they keep rebooting the universe over and over, so the Superman who revealed himself to the world in the 1930s isn't the same one who didn't show up until the 60s, who is also different from the one in the 1980s, who is different from the one who showed up in 2011.

Marvel's sliding timeline is a lot worse, because they're all the exact same characters they were in 1960s. So when they retcon The Punisher's backstory from being a Vietnam vet to having fought in Iraq, or when you realize that it used to be part of Reed Richard's backstory that he fought in WWII (which would make him 90+ years old now), there's no real legitimate metaphysical reason for the change (though some people actually have hypothesized that Franklin Richards somehow warps time and reality subconsciously, which is also why he's currently around 8 years old in spite of having been born in 1968).


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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Marvel's sliding timeline is a lot worse, because they're all the exact same characters they were in 1960s. So when they retcon The Punisher's backstory from being a Vietnam vet to having fought in Iraq, or when you realize that it used to be part of Reed Richard's backstory that he fought in WWII (which would make him 90+ years old now), there's no real legitimate metaphysical reason for the change (though some people actually have hypothesized that Franklin Richards somehow warps time and reality subconsciously, which is also why he's currently around 8 years old in spite of having been born in 1968).

Came in here to talk about the Punisher, tbh.
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I really don't like how they spat in the face of the show's history in that episode.
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