In the episode where Marge paints a portrait of Mr Burns, she sends a painting and letter to Ringo Starr. However when he replies, how does he know what house to send it to? (We see them move house in 'Lisa's first word}
Katherine, what they are saying is that Marge painted the portrait when she was a teenager, that was way before she and Homer were married, so she still lived at home with her mother and two sister. So the letter should have went to Marge's OLD house.
Yeah, Katherine, that's pretty much what it is. They even say that she sent the picture along with some questions when she was in art class in high school.
They don't care about connecting episodes? So, they wouldn't care if say, The Simpsons suddenly moved to Antarctica for an episode without a reason, or say, the street outside the house is mysteriously replaced with a ton of carpet cleaning solution. The whole point of a series is that the episodes refer to each other, otherwise it's just a load of one-off half hour cartoons.
What I meant to say was that, well it's a cartoon series. The one rule of cartoon series is that everything, no matter how many episodes contradict it, will stay the same. Homer will always hate Flanders, and all mail to a member of the family, no matter where they've lived, will go to their current house without any question.
they are all right lots of episodes are unconnected, does anyone remember the lord of the flies type episode where all the kids are stranded on the island - the closing lines are something like
"and the kids where rescued by ohh lets say, Moe"
First I'd like to say that of course Marge had to get the letter from Ringo because it inspired to keep trying to pain the portrait of Mr Burns. So they didn't care if it didnt match up with her old life and all that.
And yes episodes usually dont connect a whole lot because in the end it's all like how it was at the start of the episode. Actually they mention that once (i'm not going to expalin when)
Aanndd...... Ringo's real name is Richard Starkey! (a note to Jesyka)
There are two things to keep in mind for this. The first is that, as already mentioned repeatedly, it is not a difficult thing to forward mail. In fact, you can do that very easily at the Post Office...
Secondly, in case anyone has forgotten, Marge has had more communication with Ringo than one simple letter. In later episodes (the one where Marge goes crazy) she emphasizes to the board that Ringo reciprocated. It is likely that she would have written more than one letter to Ringo.
Isn't Mrs. Bouvier in a seniors' home, similar to Abe Simpson? I don't believe she lives at home anymore. Remember the episode where Abe and Mrs. B were dating, and Abe picked up some other tall-haired old lady from a home?
THEY DON'T CARE. Remember the episode where Homer becomes the Garbage minister or something like that, they moved the whole TOWN!!!! And it's a hilarious non serious show, so who cares?
Did everyone miss the fact that the envelope said:
Marge Bouvier
Springfield
Not much of an address, right?
I think everyone just has a general delivery address in Springfield.
I think this is a very good slipup. Even with forwarding addresses, the post office refuses to deliver mail to the new address after a couple years, and Marge's address changed at least eight years prior to Ringo's response letter. Kudos.
Didn't the poster read the conditions? The rules of this site are that any inconsistency between episodes or sequels doesn't count as a 'slip-up'!! It's already been established in many entries in this site that the Simpsons makes little or no effort to have a clean timeline between episodes. If it's funny, it's in. Long may it continue.
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