Friday 13 February 2015

This fan's theory about The Simpsons will change the way you watch the show forever

The Simpsons has been going strong for over two decades and is easily up there in our favourite cartoon series ever.
But as we’re watching Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie go about their satirical middle class lives, who knew The Simpsons may or may not have an underlying secret that us viewers haven’t managed to break?
The Simpsons(2000 Fox TV for Sky One/PA)
One fan has concocted this insane theory that suggest Homer’s actually been in a coma for the past 22 years and everything since 1992 is a figment of his imagination.
Before you rule it out all together, hear them out.
It all starts with an October 1992 episode, Homer the Heretic, ending with Homer talking to God.
Homer: God, I gotta ask you something. What’s the meaning of life?
God: Homer, I can’t tell you that.
Homer: C’mon!
God: You’ll find out when you die.
Homer: I can’t wait that long!
God: You can’t wait six months?
Homer: No, tell me now!
God: Well, ok. The meaning of life is…
Then jump to six months later, an April 1993 episode So It’s Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show airs.
Bart’s April Fools prank inadvertently puts Homer in hospital, where he is then crushed by a vending machine and put in a coma.
The episode ends with Homer waking up suddenly (and giving viewers a POV shot of him choking Bart, as per usual).
The Simpsons
(Topham Picturepoint/PA)
Now we’ll let the fan with a plan do the talking…
“I propose that Homer didn’t actually wake up from his coma. He is still in a vegetative state and every single Simpsons episode afterwards is in Homer’s imagination,” Reddit user Hardtopickaname wrote on the site.
“This is why the characters don’t age. Homer remembers Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as 10, 8, and 1 year old, so they will always appear that way in his dreams.
“He is subconsciously aware of time passing, so his mind will often ‘update’ his memories so that the year they occurred matches up with the age he thinks he is (eg.That 90’s Show contradicting other flashback episodes).
“While the characters’ ages don’t change, the events happening to the Simpsons definitely did.
“The plots of episodes following the April Fools show are far zanier than beforehand. Let’s compare, shall we?”
We shall indeed.
The Simpsons
(Twentieth Century Fox Film Corpo/PA)
The Simpsons fan backed up his theory listing a number of mundane plots before the April 1993 episode that saw Homer fall into a coma.
These included Bart cheating on an IQ test, Homer trying to abstain from alcohol, Marge considering cheating on her hubby and Lisa harbouring an infatuation with her teacher at school.
They then followed this list up with a wackier plots in the episodes after the April 1993 one, including Homer going in to outer space, Mr Burns capturing the Loch Ness Monster, Homer working for a supervillain who takes over the eastern US and Bart and Homer buying a racehorse and discovering the secret land of jockeys.
“This is clearly Homer’s imagination running wild. With no real world restrictions,” explained Hardtopickaname.
“Homer’s mind is able to dream up scenarios of him and his family in fantasies involving him winning a Grammy, his father fighting his boss for buried WW2 treasure, his wife getting breast implants, his infant daughter saving him from drowning.
“The massive amounts of celebrity appearances are easily explained as well. People in comas can sometimes hear what people in the same room are saying. While Homer wouldn’t physically react, his mind processes that information and includes it in his dreams.
“There’s one last thing I want to leave you with. Going back to Homer’s conversation with God, what is the meaning of life? Or at least Homer’s life?
“Well life can have different meaning for different people and a purpose or reason for one’s existence can be as unique as their fingerprints. For Homer, his grand purpose is obvious – he is here to entertain. His dreams, his imaginative adventures, have provided billions with amusement and will continue to do so for decades.”
And breathe.
Original Post - https://uk.tv.yahoo.com/fans-theory-simpsons-change-way-173413403.html

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