Season 19 Promo Cards

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[Leif]

Especially if they don't make it a flash-forward and set it during the "now."

Hi, hi.
Bart: 32, and with children of his own. Now he understands why Homer was always strangling him.
Lisa: Divided between pursuing a career in science or music.
Maggie: Getting ready to become a police officer. She is already proficient with small firearms, and has a deep rooted sense of justice.
Marge: With the children out of the house, she pursues he life long ambition of painting.
Homer: Still sleeping at the safety console.

[Stretch Dude]

Especially if they don't make it a flash-forward and set it during the "now."

Hi, hi.
Bart: 32, and with children of his own. Now he understands why Homer was always strangling him.
Lisa: Divided between pursuing a career in science or music.
Maggie: Getting ready to become a police officer. She is already proficient with small firearms, and has a deep rooted sense of justice.
Marge: With the children out of the house, she pursues he life long ambition of painting.
Homer: Still sleeping at the safety console.

Bart'd be about 27, actually. Born in '81 and all.

[A Spy in Mancunia]

Actually, since the first Tracy Ullman short was aired in 1987, and I assume Bart was already ten years old at the time, I think Leif's correct.

[Leif]

Actually, since the first Tracy Ullman short was aired in 1987, and I assume Bart was already ten years old at the time, I think Leif's correct.

That is how i counted it. But newer mind.

[Crimson Light Blue Heat]

Seems there is no definitive answer as to when their birth is.  Not only are there multiple show explanations, but there's a dispute as to whether the Ullmans or the half-hour episodes constitute the series' beginning.  For all we know, those were Lester and Eliza playing Bart and Lisa in the one-minutes. (That's a joke, folks.) One answer is to take your favorite episode--or the one in which your favorite character(s) had their life altered in the most radical way--and simply mark that year as the one in which Bart and Lisa were 10 and 8 respectively.  Homer and Marge--you're probably on your own.

[Stretch Dude]

I just go with the dates from the earlier flashback episodes. It just seems more logical to me.

[A Spy in Mancunia]

I just go with the dates from the earlier flashback episodes. It just seems more logical to me.

Isn't that falling into the trap that we're accusing the writers of falling into? I mean, there's no binding reason why the dates given in, say, "I Married Marge" should be any more canonical than the dates given in "Marge Gives Up Her Unwomanly Obsession with Education When Homer Starts a Grunge Band With an Unfunny Pun for a Name". Other than the fact that the former may be the superior episode, and that canon ends after Season 9.

OK kids, the above is why I shouldn't post when I need to sleep. Also, "Sadgasm"? Really? How is that even funny?

[Stretch Dude]

I just go with the dates from the earlier flashback episodes. It just seems more logical to me.

Isn't that falling into the trap that we're accusing the writers of falling into? I mean, there's no binding reason why the dates given in, say, "I Married Marge" should be any more canonical than the dates given in "Marge Gives Up Her Unwomanly Obsession with Education When Homer Starts a Grunge Band With an Unfunny Pun for a Name". Other than the fact that the former may be the superior episode, and that canon ends after Season 9.

OK kids, the above is why I shouldn't post when I need to sleep. Also, "Sadgasm"? Really? How is that even funny?

Well, just for the sake of this hypothetical "everybody's the age they're supposed to be even though it's still the present" episode we were talking about.

(You have a point about "Sadgasm," though. Seems more in line with modern day emo-rock than grunge...)

[A Spy in Mancunia]

Fair enough, but I still don't see why 1981 would be a more canonical birth-date for Bart than 1977. By the time "I Married Marge" came along, Bart had already been ten for a couple of years...

Oh, this is one of those things we could argue about for ages.

(You have a point about "Sadgasm," though. Seems more in line with modern day emo-rock than grunge...)

Maybe the writers don't know anything about the 1990s?

Yes, I know, but remember what writers we are talking about here...

[Stretch Dude]

Fair enough, but I still don't see why 1981 would be a more canonical birth-date for Bart than 1977. By the time "I Married Marge" came along, Bart had already been ten for a couple of years...

Oh, this is one of those things we could argue about for ages.

True, but look at the parents' ages. Before his age was bumped up a couple of years, Homer was 36. Which means Homer and Marge had Bart in their mid-20s. Hardly three years after high school, there...

[Andreas]

In "Lisa's First Word", we learned that Lisa was born during the 1984 Summer Olympics - since the episode was aired in late 1992, this obviously makes her eight years old in that episode. Even considering that the first Simpsons episode (not counting the Ullman shorts) was broadcasted about three years ago, and Lisa turning eight in "Stark Raving Dad" (aired in early 1992), her date of birth seems more or less accurate. Other than the various music styles and whatnot I think that said Summer Olympics are probably the strongest date reference they ever used in the show's flashback episodes, so I'd consider it as "most canonical". IIRC, the last true flashback episoded was "The Way We Weren't", and in that one, no exact date was given, which is good - and that's the way they should deal with today's flashback episodes as well...

[Stretch Dude]

"Love, Springfieldian Style," this year's trilogy episode:



This should be...interesting.

[Leif]

This could bee good. This could bee bad. Or booth. Looks like several characters is drawn in a very unusual way. This could bee interesting. Apparently they are ripping off some classic stories. I think that might bee good for many laughs.

[A Spy in Mancunia]

My thoughts:

It's a very pretty promo card indeed.

I'm getting sick of three-story episodes. It's not as if it's even a tradition. Barring the THoHs, Seasons 1-10 had about one or two three-story episodes.

You'd think they'd age Lisa and Nelson for the Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen tragedy. Sigh...

[D.B.]

I really really like that promo pic. Dunno what gaspode is doing there though.