[The Simpsons] Homer Simpson is a vegetable in a coma, and has been for over 20 years.

[Ubiquitous]

by Hardtopickaname

October 1992: Homer The Heretic airs and ends with Homer talking to
God.

http://i.imgur.com/uwHdZLM.jpg

Homer: God, I gotta ask you something. What's the meaning of life?
God: Homer, I can't tell you that.
Homer: C'mon!
God: You'll find out when you die.
Homer: I can't wait that long!
God: You can't wait six months?
Homer: No, tell me now!
God: Well, ok. The meaning of life is…

April 1993 (SIX MONTHS LATER): So It’s Come To This: A Simpsons Clip
Show airs and involves Bart’s April Fools prank inadvertently
putting Homer into the hospital, where he is then crushed by a
vending machine and put in a coma.

Now the episode ends with Homer waking up (and giving us a hilarious
POV shot of him choking Bart), but it seems to be too convenient and
sudden.

http://i.imgur.com/9GYMplw.jpg

I propose that Homer didn’t actually wake up from his coma. He is
still in a vegetative state and every single Simpsons episode
afterwards is in Homer’s imagination.

This is why the characters don’t age. Homer remembers Bart, Lisa,
and Maggie as 10, 8, and 1 year old, so they will always appear that
way in his dreams. He is subconsciously aware of time passing, so
his mind will often “update” his memories so that the year they
occurred matches up with the age he thinks he is (eg. That 90’s Show
contradicting other flashback episodes).

While the characters’ ages don’t change, the events happening to the
Simpsons definitely did. The plots of episodes following the April
Fools show are far zanier than beforehand. Let’s compare, shall we?

Plot Examples Before April 1993
Bart cheats on an IQ test
Homer tries to give up drinking
Marge considers cheating on Homer
Lisa has a crush on her teacher

Yes, there were some wacky plots, but overall fairly mundane stuff.
Nothing out of the ordinary for most people.

Plot Examples After April 1993
Homer goes into outer space
Principal Skinner is revealed as an imposter
Mr. Burns captures the Loch Ness Monster
Homer works for a supervillain who takes over the eastern US
Bart and Homer buy a racehorse and discover the secret land of
jockeys
Also, celebrity after celebrity after celebrity

This is clearly Homer’s imagination running wild. With no real world
restrictions, Homer’s mind is able to dream up scenarios of him and
his family in fantasies involving him winning a Grammy, his father
fighting his boss for buried WW2 treasure, his wife getting breast
implants, his infant daughter saving him from drowning, etc.

The massive amounts of celebrity appearances are easily explained as
well. People in comas can sometime hear what people in the same room
are saying. While Homer wouldn’t physically react, his mind
processes that information and includes it in his dreams.

Maybe the nurse leaves the radio on and Homer hears a Lady Gaga
song. Suddenly:

http://i.imgur.com/4C0817Q.jpg

His family visits and talk with each other about the new Mel Gibson
movie they’re going to be seeing after leaving the hospital. Next
thing you know:

http://i.imgur.com/nzyS4my.gif

And so on.

There’s one last thing I want to leave you with. Going back to
Homer’s conversation with God, what is the meaning of life? Or at
least Homer’s life? Well life can have different meaning for
different people and a purpose or reason for one’s existence can be
as unique as their fingerprints. For Homer, his grand purpose is
obvious – he is here to entertain. His dreams, his imaginative
adventures, have provided billions with amusement and will continue
to do so for decades.

Not bad for a dumb overweight loudmouth.


--
Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.

[The 'Brightness' control still doesn't help]

That, or the show writers are completely out of ideas.

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 13:35:57 -0400, Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net>
wrote: