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As for today’s list, we are doing a deep dive on one of the most famous animation TV
series: the Simpsons.
People love to watch the show but they also enjoy pointing out all the mistakes that ly
within it.
I’m here to expose some of these mistakes with today’s list of: Top 10 Worst Simpsons
Mistakes You Won't Believe You Missed.
10) Starting off the list at number 10 is the Opening Song.
What better way to open this list with a mistake that appears in the opening sequence on every
Simpsons episode.
We all love that the opening credits sequence has a different couch gag in every episode,
but the rest has stayed pretty much the same for the majority of our earlier seasons.
Yet somehow we missed a mistake that appeared over and over again every time we watched
an episode.
At the part when Homer gets out of his car in the driveway, you can clearly see a rake
and some other items on the right side of the garage door.
However, when Homer is being chased into the garage with Marge’s car, you can see that
the rake is gone and is replaced by two brown boxes that appear out of nowhere.
ON TOP OF THIS, there is another little mix up when Marge is going through the grocery
store checkout.
Her shopping cart is grey with a red handle but in the next shot the entire cart is turquoise
with no red handle.
So if you’re a fan who has seen every episode, you might be feeling a little dumb right now
if you didn’t catch onto these.
9) In at number 9 is Dr. Nick comes back to life.
It’s hard to forget the lovable character Dr. Nick.
I think it’s fair to say he’s pretty much useless when it comes to medicine and actually
being a doctor, but his adorable personality and his positive attitude just makes him so
charming in a weird way.
That’s probably why fans were sad when he died in the Simpsons Movie; he was gone too
soon.
But only a year later his tragic death was forgotten about.
But not in the way where they just haven’t thought about it in a while, they literally
forgot that they killed him off the series.
After his death, he showed up a year later in Season 20 Episode 2 called Lost Verizon.
Either they forgot that he perished, or they wanted to bring him back so badly and they
hoped that no one would think anything of it.
8) Swiping the number 8 spot on our list: Is Bart allergic to Shellfish or not?
Bart has several food allergies that we learn about throughout the series, like peanut shrimp
and butterscotch.
But for some reason, the Simpson creators have ignored his allergies in some episodes
and acknowledged it in other ones.
During Season 18, Episode 3, we learn that Bart is severely allergic to shrimp.
He ends up in the hospital with a swollen face after having contact with Peanut Shrimp.
But it makes us wonder how true this is because earlier on in Season 13, Episode 21, Bart
says that he ate a ton of free shrimp in the green room while the family was competing
on a reality show.
On top of that, in season 2 we see that Bart is also allergic to Butterscotch, which is
weird, because Marge offers to cook him a butterscotch chicken dinner as a reward in
Season 8.
Did we just forget he had allergies?
Did he outgrow them?
I don’t know what's going on with that.
7) Next up at number 7 is the nose is gone.
Where did the nose go?
How does one lose a nose?
This mistake is a hard one to catch but somehow a passionate Simpsons fan was able to bring
it to light for us.
Many of the mistakes found in the series can be found hidden in the background work.
It can be something as simple as a misplaced object or a coloured item.
But then there are times when it’s a bigger one like a missing body part in this case.
During the episode called Lisa On Ice, there are a few frames where we see an audience
cheering and watching a hockey game.
For a quick moment, one of the watchers ends up randomly losing her nose in the scene.
It’s gone.
It’s there, and then it’s gone.
Someone explain to me how that happens.
6) At number 6 is the very impressive insurance plan.
The majority of us have had to deal with the stress of filing an insurance claim.
And if you haven’t, good on you.
Insurance claims take a while to go through which makes it frustrating if you’re trying
to replace an expensive item such as a car.
But apparently the Simpsons have the world’s fastest insurance company and I want them
to sign me up.
In season 6, episode 9, an angry mob shows up the their home along with police helicopters.
The strong winds from the choppers flip over Homer’s car, completely destroying it.
However, only a few moments later when they are watching TV, we catch a glimpse of his
car looking brand spanking new, totally fine, parked on the side of the road.
That’s some good insurance, it’s almost unrealistic.
5) Half way through our list at number 5 is disappearing snow.
This one is just a classic continuity error.
Everything has to remain in sequence in order to make sense but somehow a very obvious mix
up found its way into the final cut of the episode.
In season 4 episode 9 there was an episode called Mr. Plow.
Homer plows a path for a school bus being the good human that he is.
We see a shot from the school doorway, which shows that their pathway is covered in snow,
with the exception of some footprints.
However, when the scene goes to a different frame of Skinner and Bart near the bus, the
snow is magically gone.
And not gone like Homer plowed it, there’s literally no snow.
The worst part is, the snow comes back in the next frame when Bart is hit with snowballs
and falls down on a very SNOW FILLED PATHWAY.
So what season is it??
I live in Canada and I know snow doesn’t come and go that quickly.
4) Here we are at number 4 with Mr. Burns Age.
This man is iconic in the Simpsons universe, known to be the oldest and most evil person
living in Springfield.
But it’s been made clear if you follow the series that no one actually knows how old
he is.
Mr. Burns himself probably doesn’t even know.
In the episode titled: Simpson and Delilah, Burns tells Homer that he is 81 years old
after Homer guesses that he is 102.
Okay, so he’s 81.
But then in an episode titled: Who Shot Mr. Burns, he is described as 104 years old.
Then again, in ANOTHER episode called: Fraudcast News, he claims he was born in 1881.
So the math is just all over the place.
But what is most surprising is that during one episode we see him giving children a hard
time in a 19th century wood cut scene, but he still appears as the old man we know him
as.
Is he immortal?
What’s going on?
3) In 3rd place on our list is Sideshow Bob escaped from prison.
We know the crazy man as being a strange children’s entertainer who is constantly trying to get
revenge on Bart after he got him put in jail.
Although he’s weird, he’s a fan favourite character that always makes a return in episodes,
one way or another.
Throughout the series, we’ve seen Bob find some pretty creative ways to get out of prison
in order to make another attempt at getting back at Bart.
But there’s an episode early on in the series that shows Bob is out of prison, with no explanation
for it.
In season 2, episode 1, you can spot Sideshow Bob singing with townspeople during an outdoor
winter scene.
His first release from prison wasn’t until season 3 episode called Black Widower, so
this isn;t really possible.
He’s sneaky, but he’s not that sneaky.
2) In spot number 2 is Mr. Smithers skin tone.
If you go back and watch early episodes you’ll notice something really strange: Mr.Smithers
is actually black in his first appearance.
Now, i’m not pointing this out in some kind of racist way, it’s only strange because
obviously we would expect to see him with yellow skin like every other character on
the show.
Everything else about his appearance matched the typical Simpson look, he even had the
bright blue hair going on.
Apparently the skin tone was a mistake that was blamed on the animation team, and the
production staff couldn’t afford to have it fixed which is why it made it into the
final edit.
They covered up their mistake by waiting until his second appearance, where they gave him
yellow skin to match the rest of the cast.
1)Taking the number 1 spot on our list is Maggie already exists.
This one is ridiculous.
It’s the most famous error in Simpsons history so if you haven’t heard about it, ya might
be living under a rock.
In the episode titled: And Maggie Makes Three, we see Homer find out the news that Marge
is pregnant with their 3rd child.
Homer is pretty distraught at first which is funny to watch, but there is something
very wrong in this scene.
When Marge tells Homer about the news, they are in the living room sitting on their couch.
Behind them there is a picture on the wall, and it’s a picture of Maggie.
Who hasn’t even been born yet.
The best part about this mistake is that it was first spotted by the Simpsons producer,
Matt Selman.
It’s okay Matt, we all make mistakes.
Alright you guys, that is our list for today.
Let me know in the comments if you’ve spotted these mistakes while watching the show, you
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