That '90s Show

Yes, the "older" fans or long-time fans hate it because the episode itself doesn't necessarily hold on to the past seasons.

But I think they're missing the point of this episode and episodes like it. The Simpsons was never meant to be a show with a linear timeline or even an overall plot.

It was made to display individual stories. Like a modern equivalent of the newspapers comic strip - using set characters to try to make a joke or story come across to the audience made to leave any and all consequences behind.

I wonder if those that detest this episode were meant to take it seriously. I really didn't take it seriously, we know Bart is 10 in 1989 and is 10 in 2008. The entire city of Springfield has been stuck in a rift in the Matrix, where the space-time continuum is stuck in a loop.

This episode is merely a throwback to the 90s, I can't see how anyone that has watched more than a dozen episodes would assume this is part of the history of Simpsons. Every season has an episode or two that have no relevance on the history, ie, Simpson Bible Stories, and Tales from the Public Domain.

Relax people, the episode was far from great, though it had moments, but it hardly caused the series to "jump the shark."

This episode is about Marge and Homer telling the kids about their life back in the 1990's, it also uses culture pop references for example Sonic The Hedgehog with Amy Rose which didn't debut until 1998, Marge in this episode was very unlikable because of her snobbish attitude towards Homer Simpson, it also tries to hard to make a homage to the 90's and of course the Tracey Ullman show, Marge's professor is even more worse than her because she encourages Marge to cheat on with Homer and not only that, it even destroyed the continuity from their movie and the 19th season from 2007-2008, it even uses the sign of jumping the shark, but at least Weird Al Yankovic's cameo was decent even though he also voiced Milo (Milo Murphy's Law) which i find him a better version Milo (Mars Needs Moms) aka the worst Disney movie from 2011 that killed Imagemovers Digital's sign with Disney after they were planning to make the Yellow Submarine Remake and of course the Roger Rabbit sequel, but no this episode is poorly written, lame, lousy and very cliché.

I admit this episode contradicted the Simpsons history, but come on, the show is set in a floating timeline, you don't seriously believe that Bart would still be 10 years old, when the show started in 1989?

OK, maybe the writers should have scrapped this idea, but in my opinion, the episode turned out pretty well. Their was some hilarious references and parodies (such as Homer's parody of 'Nirvana - Rape Me', with a song called 'Shave Me', which Weird Al parodied in the episode), the Back To The Future reference with Marvin Cobain, a parody of Marvin Berry.

This was criticized an awful lot by fans and critics alike, I am a passionate fan of The Simpsons, I have watched nearly every episode, and I can honestly say I enjoyed this episode, it wasn't great, but it was a lot of fun.

8/10.

This episode was cute and funny for a satirical period piece but becomes the first in many a string of obnoxious canon disrupting timelines of the simpsons history so carefully curated over nearly 20 years. In my personal experience, I'm fine overlooking continuity errors such as the use of new technology despite no aging of the characters; but when flashbacks happen with Homer and Marge specifically, it's so frustrating for newer episodes to completely change what we know about their history rather than supplementing it with storylines that fit what we know and accept.

Still I love Homer and Marge love story episodes, but this is one I like to pretend doesn't exist canonically speaking