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The Simpsons utilizes a floating timeline to explain how the world of the show advances in time while the characters remain the same age. From Wikipedia: A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why characters age little or not at all over a period of time ...

The 11th season finale Behind the Laughter, Lisa reveals the sick, sad truth: To prolong the run of the series, I was secretly given anti-growth hormones.

Funny or Die pieced all the clips together and can be seen here and they do make one long clip. From FoD McBain from the Simpsons is actually a full length film when you put them all together.

I believe the episode you're looking for is The Old Man and the 'C' Student Original Airdate on FOX: 25-Apr-1999 Source: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/AABF16 The International Olympic Committee has gathered to decide the site of the next Olympiad. Representatives from each country lobby the chairman to choose their homeland. The French ...

I have found no definitive reason why this is the case, only a series of possible answers to this. It would be great to find an interview with Matt Groening with an answer to this. First of all, early pictures of the Simpsons family from the days of the Tracey Ullman Show do sometimes have Bart in a blue shirt. (Low resolution picture from Wikipedia - ...

The following Wikia link says - The aging of characters in The Simpsons has been a subject of common fan debate. The passage of time is clear, but characters only show minor, if any, signs of aging, despite openly saying that years have passed. The children also remain in the same grades at school. The writers and character designs seem to ...

Most of the animals appear to be from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs whereas the action of the animals interacting with clothing comes from Sleeping Beauty. Some animated shows give reference to Disney movies, for example in Shrek with Fiona singing. It was very much intentional mostly likely as light-hearted humor. The scene is to point out the ...

The episode was aired on the same day as Super Bowl XXXIII and the writers want to episode to seem current. They had already animated the scene and it would have been very awkward to re-animate the whole scene just to put the team names in. So they just held up a glass over the mouth so they wouldn't have to animate their mouths to match the sound. They ...

Wikipedia has a nice section about that It basically make the same assumptions as in the comments Simpsons becoming a shallow parody of itself Shift from plot driven to gag driven episodes Critics' reviews of early Simpsons episodes praised the show for its wit, realism, and intelligence. In the late 1990s, around the airing of season ten, the ...

According to mainstay Simpsons fansite, The Simpsons Archive, the film bears similarities to Laurel and Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers: The film that Skinner shows the class is similar to the Laurel and Hardy film, the March of the Wooden Soldiers. Based on the tale Babes in Toyland, the film features the duo as Stanley Dumb and ...