'The Simpsons' co-showrunner Matt Selman is defending making Homer and Marge millennials in recent seasons of the show: '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,” 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.”
  • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
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    25 days ago

    “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”