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== A second movie will be made after the show finally ends to give the series one, big, final sendoff. ==
And it will be the only thing that could possibly make sense: Sideshow Bob joins with and/or tricks Mr. Burns in aiding him in [[Legion of Doom|assembling a group of people who the Simpson Family has made enemies of.]]
* Frank Grimes Jr.! [[The Simpsons Movie|Russ Cargill!]] The unibrow baby! And, in the final act, Kang and Kodos!
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== The Simpsons and the town of Springfield are sentient, computer-created simulations involved in a "Dark City" experiment ==
The Simpsons and their fellow Springfieldians think they are regular people living in a regular town, but in reality they are computer simulations being run by a bored group of aliens in a [[Dark City]] type of simulation. The reason why Status Quo is God is because they usually set back events, memories, and the progression of time at the end of each "arc" (represented as episodes). Just for kicks, though, they'll often leave some hint or memory of what came before, enough for that memory to have an effect on the personality of the character, but not enough for them to put two-and-two together. That's why their personalities tend towards Flanderization over time - the repeated simulations are reinforcing certain traits, until
** Lisa the smart schoolgirl becomes a tree-hugging, vegetarian liberal,
** Bart the troublemaker and slow kid becomes a prankster of legendary and ludicrous capabilities,
** Homer the slightly stupid but generally sympathetic working-class protagonist becomes incredibly childish and awful,
among others.
== Nelson Muntz is a Powerful Psychic ==
Or at least a powerful telepath. His influence covers the entire town. This is how he's able to laugh at the misfortune of other people he can't even see, and call them on the phone so they can hear him laugh. One episode even has him Astral Projecting! The only things holding him back from making good use of his power are his crippling [[Parental Abandonment]] Issues and his being a card-carrying bully.
** He can even dominate the minds of others over long distances to judging by "Homerpalooza"
** He also once beat up a ghost. While the commentary talks about the power of Nelson
== The episode "Time and Punishment" is canon ==
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* The [[Flanderization]] is Maggie recognizing patterns in behavior.
* While Maggie is a smart child, her near-superhuman portrayal of her as a genius is... well, [[Unreliable Narrator|not very modest]].
** She has a little sister's hero-worship of her sister; when she was declared more intelligent than Lisa, she almost immediately [[Retcon|retconned]] it.
* Every important event focuses round the Simpson family. Because it should.
* [[Word of God|Matt Groening]] has said that Marge's hair represents a small child's perspective of a normal hairstyle.
* The art gets more refined every year because her eyesight is improving as the months go by.
** It would be an [[Ugly Cute]], funny, exaggerated version of the world anyway.
* The Halloween episodes are when she's having nightmares.
== Bart and Lisa are at the centre of a [[Status Quo Is God]] effect ==
Okay, this takes a fair bit of explaining.
Bart and Lisa are at the centre of a [[Status Quo Is God]] phenomenon, which explains why [[Status Quo Is God]] in this show. The rest of the cast is affected to a degree directly proportionate to how often they interact with Bart or Lisa, with twice the effect for any incident if it's with both at the same time.
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* Bart and Lisa are [[Eldritch Abomination|cosmic horrors]] warping reality to get a status quo effect.
* Maggie is still a baby when Apu's children are fighting to go to toddler preschool and she's tecknically younger than them..
== The Simpsons is a [[Future Imperfect]] or otherwise [[Unreliable Narrator|unreliable retelling]] of [[Family Guy]] ==
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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 [[Dueling Shows]] waiting to replace ''[[The Simpsons]]'' 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 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' 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 -- [[Deal with the Devil|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 ''[[The Critic]]'', 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 [[So Bad
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''.
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== "Behind The Laughter" provides an in-universe explanation for everything ==
The show declining in quality over the years? That's Homer's [[Executive Meddling]]. Flanders becoming increasingly unlikable? Homer doesn't like the real guy who he's based on, so he made him less sympathetic. The characters never aging? Gary Coleman syndrome: they're a lot older than they appear.
* "How could I get all three required drops of [anti-growth hormone] into her cereal?" Answer: he wouldn't; he spiked the water supply.
== Bart practices [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] ==
Whenever he's tasked with something other than school work, he tends to show intelligence and aptitude. But the minute he's in a school setting, he's shown to be a straight F student, dumber than a sack of hammers. Bart just hates school, and it's easier for him to get away with his behaviour if everyone thinks he's stupid, when in fact he simply can't be bothered with it.
* Canon: there's a difference between "stupid" and "underachiever". Hmmm...wasn't it the line "Underachiever and Proud of It" which provoked [[George
** Lisa "proved" Bart is less intelligent than a hamster. Does it matter, though, whether this happened before or after the show [[Jumped the Shark]]?
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Each season is its own timeline, excepting Seasons 6 and 7, which are directly connected by a two-part episode and so are only one timeline. Any time an episode references events from an earlier season, they acknowledge those events as happening in [[Broad Strokes]]. When Homer asks, "Marge, what were your gambling debts last year?" he is referencing a gambling problem that Marge had; but in the reality of ''that'' episode, it might have been dealt with differently, and the characters would have been one year younger.
* A larger theory of this would be the first ten seasons are a different Springfield, sort of like Earths 1 and 2.
* Alternatively, each time an episode contradicts a previous episode we start viewing a new Springfield that doesn't have the contradicted episode in its continuity.
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** Jossed, Mr. Muntz made an appearance in last season.
*** Maybe that wasn't the real Mr. Muntz. It could have just been a drunk hobo who was extremely suggestible. There's no proof that their related except for his backstory that could have easily been fabricated.
**** Barney was shown to be a sperm donor in an early episode, with several women having kids resembling him.
== "Eddie" and "Lou" are titles, not names ==
I got the idea from this quote:
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'''Eddie''': Nice. And, uh, who's gonna be Eddie?
'''Wiggum''': We don't need an Eddie. }}
== Superdude the gerbil ''really'' shot Mr. Burns. ==
Don't believe me? [
* Or, Superdude set the wheels of motion of Mr. Burns being shot by being a ''[[Magnificent Bastard]]'
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== An [[Eldritch Abomination]] has taken root in Springfield. ==
This thing also has reality warping abilities that prevent time from moving forward as part of its goals. Only time is moving forward at the same time it isn't. This is what allows Springfielders to acknowledge past events despite never aging. The mass Flanderization is a side effect of people reliving existence continuously while moving forward. The one thing it has problems dealing with is death, thus why dead characters tend to remain dead.
== Lisa is actually Al Gore ==
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== Kirk and Luanne Van Houten (Milhouse's parents) are first cousins about a dozen generations removed. ==
Anyone can see that they look almost identical, even without eyeglasses. Plus, it's been established that Luanne was born in Shelbyville, and Shelbyville was established by a settler partner of Jebediah Springfield's who wanted to legalize incest. The Van Houtens are one of the original Shelbyville settler families who later repudiated incest; they consciously split the family up in about 1890, with different relatives relocating to different communities, so they wouldn't be tempted to "experiment" anymore. Kirk's great-grandparents moved to Springfield and renamed themselves "Van Houten"; they never told any of their descendants about their shameful past, which is why Kirk believes that he and his wife have roots in separate towns. The fact that Luanne looks so much like him never made him suspicious because Kirk is mildly mentally retarded and as a child was told by his mother that "every boy wants a girl who reminds him of his mother" - and Kirk took it literally.
** In a new episode someone taunts Bart and Lisa for bickering like they are together, and both of them act appropriatly disgusted, in Lisa's words [[Squick|"He's my brother!"]]. But Milhouse then says "But I thought my parents were siblings?". Bart once asked them if they were related but they denied it.
*** I don't think that Shelbyville was founded by a guy who was ACTUALLY an incest advocate, just that Grandpa was telling the story, and he was biased towards Springfield. If you watch the episode, a lot of things he said about Shelbyville were very odd, ever for The Simpsons Universe. That said, I agree with you that Milhouse's parents actually are closely related.
== Abe and Mona Simpson were already related before marriage. ==
Similar to the previous WMG. This is the only way to fit 'The Color Yellow' into the (admittedly feeble) continuity. Abe was descended from Virgil and Mabel, while Mona was descended from Eliza's part of the family after Hiram remarried.
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* ''[[Sesame Street]]'' would have to be canceled first; they've been going for over 40 seasons.
* As would Doctor Who. Including both the old and the new series they've done 31 seasons, and they're about to start the 32nd.
* If we're including all genres and all timeslots, we'd have to get rid of [[The Tonight Show]] too, and then [[The Simpsons]] would have to last another 35 years, which is still over twice how long it's been on now. Good luck.
== Moleman is Kenny McCormick's grandfather of Kenny in about 60/70 years ==
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== The show's seemingly never-ending run is really [[Springtime for Hitler]] by Matt Groening. ==
Think about it: by the time Season 9 was coming to a close, Groening decided he had enough. He felt the show had a nice run and that it was time to move on. Unfortunately, the show was still a [[Cash Cow Franchise|cash cow]] and Groening knew damn well that the cash-mongering executives at [[
* Not unprecedented; ''[[The Producers|Springtime For Hitler]]'' was a hit.
== Randall from [[Recess]] is Moe Syzslak as a child. ==
His status carried on through his childhood and he eventually decided to open a bar.
== A future Treehouse of Horror episode will feature a [[Soul Eater]] parody. ==
Okay, the likelyhood is very low, but how kickass would that be?
== Homer really did die in the episode Mother Simpson ==
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Why, because Homer walked into a bar that had the cast of Cheers in it. The rest were in crossovers with Cheers.
* Except that Sideshow Bob is voiced by Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), Cecil Terwilliger is voiced by David Hyde Pierce (Niles) and the Terwilliger father is voiced by John Mahoney (Martin Crane).
** I don't think that would matter in a world populated by dozens of characters using the same ten or so actors over and over again.
== Milhouse is in love with Bart. ==
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== Selma Bouvier only marries characters voiced by recurring guest stars ==
That's why she married Sideshow Bob (voiced by Kelsey Grammer), Lionel Hutz (voiced by Phil Hartman), Troy
** Actually, I just found out that Selma recently married Abraham Simpson (voiced by regular Dan Castellaneta), but since that episode (and the one where she married Disco Stu) took place after the series jumped the shark, those two marriages are non-canon.
** Whoa! You're right! She does marry Fat Tony in the next episode!
== In the episode where Sideshow Bob tries to kill Selma, Homer was in on the plan ==
The reason for this is because he hated Selma. Who's idea was it to go for a walk when Selma is watching
== Regarding Krusty is only illiterate when it comes to English ==
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== Every Three Seasons of the Simpsons represent one year in Springfield, and all of the characters are actually slightly older than the perspective of the show admits ==
In Season Three, Bart and Lisa turned 10 and 8 respectively. At that point the show was in its third season. Since there have been 22 seasons, if the show operated on a three season per year timetable, and Bart and Lisa started out as 9 and 7 respectively than at the current time Bart would be 16 and Lisa would be 14. There have been complaints that Lisa's activism and persona don't work if she's still 8, but if she's really 14 her persona may make more sense. As to why there still in a public school run by "Seymour Skinner" Springfield is a terrible town that Houses it's entire public school program within the confines of what was once simply Springfield Elementary back when the Simpson family first welcomed Santa's Little Helper into their midst. All of the direct mentions of age are part of some kind of skewed perspective, exactly who's skewed perspective it is that makes us think Bart is still ten in universe is open to interpretation. But it might be the parents in the family, unwilling to admit their children are growing up. The main problem with this theory is of course Maggie, though of course, the skewed perspective might be at work there too. Perhaps Maggie is actually seven, and Homer and Marge continue to see her as a baby because they won't accept their children gradually growing up. Given Maggie's demonstrated intelligence, I can't think of another explanation for her behavior according to this theory. I'll admit this is a entirely unlikely theory, but if the show may actually be a matter of alternate universes or Truman Show shenanigans, is a show with the false perspective impossible?
== Ned and Edna won't stay together. ==
Seriously, [[Status Quo Is God]]. They'll either sabotage the vote or break them up two seasons later.
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== There is a subconcius [[Reality Warper]] in the simpson family but it's Marge not Homer ==
I noticed that Marge has a trouble accepting her kids growing up as well as change in general so would subconciously create a world were kids never age and [[Status Quo Is God]] and I think the reasons for there being a reality warper in the core family have been stated above.
== Marge is a robot ==
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== Kang and Kodos control Springfield ==
Kang and Kodos have actually been killing all of the citizens of Springfield and replacing them with clones each year. This explains both why they never age and why they've all turned into shadows of their former selves. The cloning process damages the brain and removes basic personality traits.
Also, each citizen in Springfield is given a false memory (based on the current year and their current age) of their past. That's why ten years ago Homer was in a Barbershop Quartet in the early 80's, but now he was in a grunge band in the 90's.
It was all a social experiment done by a couple of aliens to see how much any one person could grow and develop in a single year. You know that phrase, "If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing."? They were looking to prove if that were true or not.
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== Bart secretly has a crush on Krabappel ==
He passed the fourth grade, despite that he still stays in school. She always turns to him whenever she has an emotional problem and he is happy to help her out. She even remarked in one episode that Bart is the closest thing to a man in her life. Last but not least in one of the fortune telling episodes where Bart is a teen she tries unsuccessfully to seduce him while being Homer's wingman.
** I can't remember what episode this was in, but in one when Bart was daydreaming about getting high grades, ''he smacks her butt'' to thank her for giving him a good grade.
== Matt Groening and/or the writers have [[Perverse Sexual Lust]] for Lisa ==
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Think about it: not only has he gotten over injuries that would maim or kill an average human being, but he has actually "died" on rare occasion(for example, his heart stopping in "Homer's Triple Bypass", causing his spirit to leave his body but later to return to it for cake). Despite a horrendous diet, he's only overweight. He even was punished by eating ''toxic nuclear waste'' and it didn't seem to affect him at all. My guess is that Homer Simpson somehow gained immortality, or at least an enormous [[Healing Factor]] from all the radioactivity he deals with. Hey, it mutated Lego land, so mutating Homer isn't too much of a stress.
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