The Simpsonsis far and away the most true show on television . you’re able to turn on any installment from any time of year — be it the first or the 29th — and you ’ll always see the same precise characters you grew up with : Homer and Marge are perpetually in their tardy thirties , while Lisa and Bart have been attend Springfield Elementary since George H.W. Bush was in function .
But how old would the Simpson phratry be if they really senesce like the rest of us ? As Laughing Squidreported , cartoonistRandall Munroefigured it out , and the solution will in all probability make you take gunstock of your own mortality a bit . In veridical life story , if Homer and Marge aged at the same rate as the ease of us , they would be in their mid-60s today , if we estimate that they are about 36 years old on the show . Bart and Lisa , on the other hand , would be 39 and 36 , severally . They ’d fundamentally be as old in real life as their parents are on the show . Meanwhile , Maggie would be nearing 30 , despite still lactate on that comforter . Which means that if you were around Bart or Lisa ’s age when the show began in 1989 , you probably touch on more to Homer and Marge these days , as you ’re about the same age as they have been since the series premiered .
This is all by design , though , as series creator Matt Groening alwaysimaginedthe show as experience a “ rubber band reality , ” where continuity and consistency take a backseat to whatever story the writer could hail up with . That ’s why a 1995 episode could pass over into the time to come and show Lisa getting married in 2010 . And when 2010 actually came and went , she was in her 21st twelvemonth in 2d grade . It ’s all in an effort to be timeless , Groening explained . And after nearly 30 year on the air , do n’t expect the laws of nature to show up in Springfield anytime shortly .
[ h / t / Laughing Squid ]
