I thought he was executed with guillotine. "Isn't it customary to have a trial?"
"Three wars back we called saurkraut Liberty Cabbage, and we called Liberty Cabbage Super Slaw! Back then a suitcase was known as a Swedish Luchbox... Anyway; long story short, is a phrase whose origin is complicated and rambling." Abraham Simpson
When you think of how "The Simpsons" universe works, think "Sliding Doors" but much cleverer and considerably less annoying, or perhaps Isaac Asimov's novel "The End of Eternity". Each episode is not necessarily a continuation of some single previous time line; rather, each episode is another "what if" timeline that has branched off from the "main"/"real" timeline at some point. So if in one episode, Lisa gets a medal for Successful Completion of Second Grade, and in the next, she's back in 2d grade, it's not a "continuity error": it just means that she's moved back to a timeline where she never went to military school. And if Apu's children are infants in one episode and toddlers in another while no one else seems to have aged, that's because the latter episode is set in a Reality in which the children were born earlier.
And so on.
----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening
Yeah I mean we could argue that Bart has been has been 10 for almost 13 years or where springfield is. The truth is that they dont exist so the writers can ignore anything they want to a certain degree. Its cool when stuff continues through the episodes like Barney's recovery over alchaholism but not neccesary.
"the key to any tv show is, at the end of the episode, everything is back to normal" fry, futurama
Writers do anything they want anyway. In Star Trek Nemesis we're supposed to ignore the fact that we've already seen Picard as a kid on the show and that he didn't look like the guy in the movie.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me" - Abraham Simpson
Ever see a Klingon on the original series? They're humans with goatees. One of the longest Trek-nerd debates is about how they can account for this.
"I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was. Now, what I'm with isn't it, and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me" - Abraham Simpson
I'm a fan "knowing the Simpsons Universe you can assume he got out of it through some ridiculous and comedic situation". Afterall do you assume that everything we don't see on screen happens in a perfectly normal fashion? (Not that I'm positing that the Simpsons Universe continues while not on-air... or am I..)
----- Richard Schultz [email] Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University ----- If you can keep your expectations tiny You'll go through life without being so whiny. -- Matt Groening