It’s one of our main goals is give each episode a big idea, a big visual thing, a big emotion, a big character thing.” “You want each show to have a unique identity.
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“If you’re doing episodes that don’t feel at least a little bit new, or like you’re trying something different, it’s boring,” Selman continued. He went on to note that the show’s writers continue to challenge themselves with new twists to keep the show fresh. “They’ve been teens in every decade, and everyone’s angry that we’ve rewritten it.” “I hope this episode makes the fans who canonized Homer and Marge being in their teens in the ’90s angry, the way like generation before that, that people that were angry that Homer and Marge were teens in the ’80s,” he said. ‘The Simpsons’ still from ‘Star of the Backstage’. Speaking to Variety, executive producer Matt Selman expressed hope that the episode makes fans “angry”, noting the fact that this isn’t the first time the show has been somewhat loose with timelines. Last night’s (September 26) musical season 33 premiere Star Of The Backstage saw Marge recreate her high school play Y2K: The Millennium Bug, before she realises she was treated as a bit of an outcast at the time. The long-running animated series, which began in 1989, has been known to alter its timeline canon, with an episode earlier this year showing Homer as a teenager in the ’90s – despite previously suggesting he was that age in the ’70s.
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The Simpsons‘ executive producer has opened up about the show’s latest episode, which reframes Homer and Marge as teenagers around the year 2000.