C & C The Simpsons " The 90's Show " ( 1/27/08)

I'm really not sure how I should feel about this episode. If you ignore continuity errors, its actually not a bad episode but if you also consider the episodes that happened years before then it sounds so confusing and stupid.

Other than that, I really liked Marge's hairstyle and the Lord of the Rings joke.
 
I'm offended that STP is rated lower than Hole on the poll. :p

So far, so good. But I don't think it's that easy to parody the 90s, the 80s was a much easier a target.
 
Well I actually enjoyed this episode but I couldn't help but feel it was crapping all over the classic simpsons, I hate the fact that now Marge and Homer were young in the 90s. I know it was probably a tongue in cheek joke for people who always ask why they don't age, and I'm fine with them not aging but not to errata stuff a la comic books...the parody was alright even though the simpsons didn't really need to reference the 90s since the older simpsons episodes already represent everything about that made the "90s", "the 90s".

One thing I was thinking as I watched the episode was maybe this is a new timeline were all the post-classic Simpsons seasons take place in with young homer/marge int he 90s while the older simpsons seasons can live in their own timeline with 40 year old homer/marge. ;)
 
So now presumably Marge & Homer were born in the early '70s, instead of being in high school in the early '70s. The backstory is beyond saving at this point; they should've just made "Lisa's Sax" the very last flashback story so we wouldn't have these timeline problems.

Anyway, that aside, I haven't laughed much so far. About the only thing I liked was the college prof saying "How many bought the required textbooks for this class? Good. Now THROW THEM AWAY!" With how expensive college books are these days, I'm surprised all the students were so happy to just toss them on the floor.

EDIT: The couch gag was good, too. Simple and to the point.
 
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You know, a while back when he was promoting The Simpsons Movie, Matt Groening appeared on The Daily Show, and Jon Stewart spent several minutes going on about, if Homer's 39 and got Marge pregnant right out of high school, how Bart could be ten years old. Since then that question has plagued me as well, but I never thought they'd actually answer it.
 
This took place in the 90s. We get it. Enough.

This whole "the adult characters were college age barely 10-15 years ago" nonsense is messing with my head. "Closing time" came out when? 1998? But there's a reference about Curt Kobain being alive. My head hurts.

Why do I still watch this show?
 
Best episode of the decade. I've often wondered about how Homer and Marge would no longer be Baby Boomers any more and if they'd ever reference that fact, and sure enough they did it the funniest way possible. The Simpsons is truly better than it's ever been right now. No other show in existence could adapt itself this well across generations to the changing world. If this honestly ruins Homerpalooza or The Way We Was for you, you should have stopped watching the show 8 years ago. In fact if you're honestly that worried about the timeline you probably should have stopped watching a lot earlier than that, because there's been plenty of contradictions loooong before this episode, going all the way back to what some of you would consider the best seasons.

I loved the references and the only problem I had at first was the lazy Kurt Cobain/Back to the Future joke. But the more I think about it, it might have actually been a really subtle direct jab at the recent Family Guy joke. The lines, vocal inflection, the way it was delivered, and even the guy on the phone's name (Marvin) was exactly the same as it was in Family Guy. Most likely they were making fun of Family Guy for being lazy themselves (and everyone else who's done this joke).
 
Thanks for that; I was about to ask for a screencap.

Redesigned Amy or not, it's still a rare example of The Simpsons actually doing its homework when it comes to something from our generation. From what I've grown to expect, I thought they'd make up another nonexistent female hedgehog to put there.

Of course, it's Amy that's interested in Sonic, not the other way around, but I'll take what I can get.

By the way, I agree with everyone else that this ep blew donuts. You can't really make fun of the 90's as well as the 80's, since it doesn't look as bizarre. I think they had to make some things up. WHAT the heck was Homer wearing in that scene where he read Madison County? Nobody alive dressed like that!
 
The only good thing from this episode, I know that this 90s flashback is due to the sliding time scale, but, for an show that was on for the entirely the decade of the flashback episode and actually does it, what were the writers thinking?
 
Amy was introduced in the US in November of 1993 in Sonic CD. However, she didn't get the character redesign until Sonic Adventure in 1999, when People started to notice her in the US. She'd only appeared (to my knowlege) again in America before SA in the Game Gear game Sonic Drift in 1994, and in Sonic the Fighters (Sonic Championship in the US and Europe) in 1996. So, yeah, she was around in America prior to 1999, just mostly overlooked and ignored.
 
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