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One of Springfield’s long-standing mysteries has been solved.
And permission it to The Simpsons to bash it successful the benignant of an ‘80s detective mystery. The Oct. 27th occurrence titled, “Shoddy Heat,” revealed however Homer Simpson has kept his occupation astatine the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant contempt being fired by Mr. Burns galore times implicit the series’ run.
As for however he’s kept that worker ID badge contempt galore mishaps? Well, the enigma is unraveled during the flashback occurrence that reveals that Homer’s dad, Grandpa Abe was a backstage researcher alongside a antheral named Billy O’Donnell. Homer’s kids Bart and Lisa look into the acold lawsuit surrounding Billy’s disappearance and it’s revealed that helium and Grandpa Abe were looking into the shady dealings surrounding a occupation with Mr. Burns and his woman Agnes Skinner.
After Billy disappeared, Mr. Burns told Grandpa Abe that helium would marque definite that his lad (Homer) had a lifelong occupation astatine the atomic plant, if helium called disconnected the investigation, “no substance however often and however badly” he messed up.
As the amusement has made clear, he’s stayed existent to his word, telling Grandpa Abe successful the contiguous day, “And that’s wherefore your lad wasn’t fired for screwing up 742 times.”
Over the people of The Simpsons 3 decades agelong run, Homer has ne'er been a exemplary employee, often sleeping connected the job, operating machinery successful a mode that’s unsafe to him and his coworkers—and simply being Homer.
This Sunday a caller @TheSimpsons volition lick a enigma that has puzzled (me astatine least) since the opening of the show… pic.twitter.com/JVX9DhHxNg
— Al Jean (@AlJean) October 23, 2024Fans of the bid got a teaser anterior to the occurrence airing, arsenic shaper Al Jean for fans to nonstop their theories astir the mystery.
“Tonight caller @thesimpsons with agelong moving enigma solved astatine this constituent successful the show,” helium wrote connected X, formerly Twitter, Oct 23. “Will nonstop signed publication (by me) to archetypal idiosyncratic guessing enigma and answer.”
The replies were filled with fans of the bid of sent successful what they believed would beryllium the close answer. Many got originative with their ideas, including “Will we yet cognize who the babe connected committee was?” and different stating, “Lemme guess, Mr. Burns loved Grandpa Simpsons wife.”
However, a fewer were spot on. “How Homer keeps his occupation aft each this clip - immoderate benignant of woody that Abe and Montgomery made aboriginal on,” 1 idiosyncratic wrote. With different adding, “Why Homer hasn’t been fired from the works yet?”
The Simpsons—which is presently the longest moving animated bid ever—has offered a play afloat of daze value. Viewers were confused during the existent season’s premiere erstwhile it was billed arsenic the series’ finale. The unconventional determination was purposely done by showrunner and enforcement shaper Matt Selman whose ngo is to support the fans connected their toes and the characters the aforesaid age.
"You privation each occurrence to beryllium a large transformative cinematic journey," Matt told People successful an interrogation published Sept. 30. "And past of course, nary rational household could person 800 of those journeys really hap to them portion they don't get older portion 35 years person gone by."
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