Simpsons continuity errors

veryangryman

Sort of related to thread below...

Few off the top of my head


1. Family never ages. Maggie the most noticeable example.

2. homer has 2 different lifelong dreams

3. Springfield is small enough to have 1 elementary school, yet large enough to have an international airport

Angron

None of those are continuity errors. Characters not ageing is not new to the Simpsons, that's the beauty of a cartoon. The characters don't have to age if you don't want them to.

Nowhere does it say a person has to be limited to one life-long dream. Besides, Homer's new "lifelong dream" is usually just a thing he's been offered.

There's more than one elementary schools, the one the kids go to, and then the West Springfield Elementary that Lisa accidentally wound up at in the Trilogy of Error episode, and the Catholic one from the episode with Liam Neeson playing a priest. Quite probably more that I can't think of.

endacl

The entire population of Springfield is jaundiced. Including the two doctors, although Dr Nick may not yet have read up as far as 'J' in his Bumper Book of Bluff Your Way in Medicine.

Can't believe that hasn't been addressed yet.

antodeco

Also, Shelbyville doesn't have an airport as far as I know, so it could easily be used for the larger areas.

Get Real

The Simpsons live in 742 Evergreen Terrace, but in earlier episodes it was 93 and 723 Evergreen Terrace.

In an episode from 1992, "Homer's Triple Bypass" Snake hid out in 742 Evergreen Terrace, but this was not the same house as the Simpsons'.

B.A._Baracus

One annoying thing about the simpsons and continuity is that most of the time everything reverts back to normal at the end of the episode.

Sure Maude died. Apu got married and had kids etc. A few things carry over but most reverts.

Green Giant

Saw an episode lately where Grampa was one a 1950s wrestler (IIRC) and Mr Burns was an adoring fan.

Yet, in series 7, it was shown that they served alongside each other in World War II and, in the modern day, sought to kill one another to claim ownership of the paintings that were seized during the war.

Also, Milhouse frequently gets the bus to school, yet it seems that in the episode where he plays Fallout Boy, he lives so close to the school that he is within running distance of home after fleeing adoring girls from outside the school.

One which really annoyed me was the episode "That 90s Show" where Homer and Marge apparently met in college in the 90s rather than the mid 70s.

Green Giant

Karsini wrote: »

One which really annoyed me was the episode "That 90s Show" where Homer and Marge apparently met in college in the 90s rather than the mid 70s.

yeah that one is a real movable feast alright

gimmick

Does a cartoon like the Simpsons need actual "continuity"?

Like look at the various things their home is close to? Sometimes its a cemetery, some times a prison, another time the Nuclear plant and a few times next to a rolling forest.

Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1nD4o3zTfo

Go Harvey Go

gimmick wrote: »

Does a cartoon like the Simpsons need actual "continuity"?

Like look at the various things their home is close to? Sometimes its a cemetery, some times a prison, another time the Nuclear plant and a few times next to a rolling forest.

Cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1nD4o3zTfo

And if they were 100% realistic, then Maggie wouldn't have shot Mr Burns.

Burky126

Green Giant wrote: »

Also, Milhouse frequently gets the bus to school, yet it seems that in the episode where he plays Fallout Boy, he lives so close to the school that he is within running distance of home after fleeing adoring girls from outside the school.

If you're trying to bring up the lack of geographical continuity in The Simpsons,you can forget about it. The writers never cared about that and didn't map out Springfield in order to be free to make the occassional gag or convenience in scene transistion in plot.

764dak

Burky126 wrote: »

If you're trying to bring up the lack of geographical continuity in The Simpsons,you can forget about it. The writers never cared about that and didn't map out Springfield in order to be free to make the occassional gag or convenience in scene transistion in plot.

This is very true.

The episode when Homer lost his driver's license it was shown that Moe's bar was walking distance away (on the same street).

764dak

For the OP's #1 these explain it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_timeline
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotAllowedToGrowUp

764dak

For the OP's #1 these explain it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_timeline
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NotAllowedToGrowUp

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Krusty's alleged illiteracy.

In the first series, when he gets framed for the armed robbery of the Kwik-E Mart, Lisa exposes him as being not able to read.

Some time later, in a flashback episode, he's offering free Krusty burgers for every time here's an American win in the 1984 Olympics. They rig it so that only events the Russians are likely to win will be on the cards, but then he's clearly seen reading a news memo about the Soviet Bloc boycott...

Rabbo

This thread kinda reminds me of this :pac:

Doug: Hi, question for Ms. Bellamy. In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we, to believe that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

June Bellamy: Uh, well, uh...

Homer: I'll field this one. Let me ask you a question. Why would a man whose shirt says "Genius at Work" spend all of his time watching a children's cartoon show?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Rabbo wrote: »

This thread kinda reminds me of this :pac:

A wizard did it.

Captain Chaos

Homer driving to work as always. Yet in the Stone cutters episode he drives to work through the secret tunnel and ends up in the powerplant car park that shares a fence with the rear of his house as he talks to Bart.

Yet any time you see a street view they live no where near the plant.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Homer driving to work as always. Yet in the Stone cutters episode he drives to work through the secret tunnel and ends up in the powerplant car park that shares a fence with the rear of his house as he talks to Bart.

Yet any time you see a street view they live no where near the plant.

Speaking of which...

Wiggum: "Don't call 911 any more - here's the REAL number..." (912)

In an episode where the police are watchign the lottery draw and the phone rings:
Wiggum: "No, you got the wrong number - this is.... 912"

aphex™

Smithers was originally animated as black in his very first appearance on the series.