“Can you say David Hasselhoff?” – Bart Simpson “David Hassahof.” – Lisa Simpson “Can you say Daddy?” – Homer Simpson “Homer.” – Lisa Simpson The Simpsons did its first flashback episode way (way) back in Season 2. “The Way We Was” introduced us to Homer and Marge as high school kids who had never even met; and along the way answered one of the fundamental questions of the show: why, exactly, is Marge with Homer? Over the next four seasons they flashed back three more times, each time showing the birth of one of the Simpson kids. “I Married Marge”…
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Behind Us Forever: The Kids Are All Fight
“It all began about two years ago before Maggie was even born. Bart, you were Lisa’s age, and Lisa, you were the age Bart was several years ago.” – Homer Simpson As it has doddered along these last few years, Zombie Simpsons has started to turn to flash forward episodes a bit more often where Bart and Lisa are adults with kids of their own. For “The Kids Are All Fight”, they went the other way, going backwards to some indeterminate time a few years ago when Bart was four and Lisa was two. The story, which was even more…
Sunday Preview: The Kids Are All Fight
The family takes a trip down memory lane to see the origins of how Bart and Lisa first started fighting with each other. Flashback episode eh? I watched the promos for this episode earlier, and as per usual, I was less than unimpressed. In one of the promos Homer seems to hire Grandma Flanders as a babysitter, and she is remarkably more with it than when we were first graced with her presence during “Lisa’s First Word”. I am now going to go watch that episode to wash the promos out of my eyes.