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“I feel like story and character should come first, and the cinematic universe rules of a show that has none should come in a distant second,” Matt Selman says.
- The Simpsons season 37 premiere suggests that Marge was a young teen in the '90s, making her and Homer millennials.
- Co-showrunner Matt Selman is unconcerned with moving the characters’ backstories forward in history: “I am not worried about messing with the timeline.”
- Selman also says that he believes that “the number of people that are bothered by that is very small.”
Kind of reminds me of of the Meeseeks episode, like this show has existed so long it’s starting to feel weird.
“If it brings you pleasure as a fan to pick apart the timeline of a 40-year-old show where the characters do not age, please pick it away,” he says. “Pick, pick, pick. Have fun, pick at it, go crazy, pick it away. Everyone’s favorite joke from season 4 is ‘Cartoons don’t have to be 100 percent realistic.’ And then another Homer walks by the window.”
Man, sounds like the co-showrunner is pissed at all the comic book guys of the world.
Yeah, it’s an almost 40 year old show with characters that don’t age. They could have tried a bit harder to make certain ‘eras’ for the characters so that they could still be them but have grown up in different eras. Like say a certain person gets elected president and the science guy invents a portal to another dimension where they all were born a bit later and have slightly different backstories. Could just do that for one episode and never mention it again, and then have fun making more stories with a more modern family. It’s just a bit sad that the Matt Selman’s attitude is:
“My creative process is: I don’t give an eff”
Ironic how I don’t mind that, but am deeply offended when they use modern costumes in old operas, instead of costumes from the era they are supposed to take place in. Matter of taste, I guess.
No longer boomers
Ultimately, Selman thinks that if the majority of Simpsons fans genuinely cared about plot holes or canonical consistency, the show wouldn’t have made it this far.
“It’s a f—ing paradox. People suck it up anyway,” he says. “Our show is still very popular in both America and internationally. I am not worried about messing with the timeline. I feel like story and character should come first, and the cinematic universe rules of a show that has none should come in a distant second.”
Ngl he sounds like a dick. I feel like he should be working on a different show.
“The options are: we don’t do flashback shows ever and we don’t mention the past ever, which creatively handcuffs us, or we are playful and silly, which is the DNA of the show, and we have fun with whatever generation the show is airing in.”
Whatever generation the show is airing in??
