Talk:Springfield Isotopes
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What does "multiple continuities" mean? I see it on a few pages and under different characters, can someone clarify? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.198.131 (talk) 14:07, August 5, 2026
- Simpsons has a rather loose canon, made even more confusing by the floating timeline. The section on this page says "The team plays at the Double-A level and is often shown as drastically underfunded and struggling in competition. However, the team has also been shown to play in the Major League." It's been shown to play in two different leagues in two different episodes, therefore two different continuities. Another example is Grampa, who at one point has been a soldier in WWII, but has now been seen as a child in the 1940s due to the floating timeline. Solar Dragon (T • E) 14:23, August 5, 2026 (EDT)
It's not continuity though if it just happens once and doesn't continue, that's what "continuity" means. That's exactly why the industry terms "canonical" and "non canonical" are used, to separate a change in a pattern of continuity. So it doesn't really make sense, especially if these things happen once, or maybe twice, but no more then that before going back to what's been consistent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.198.131 (talk) 20:47, August 18, 2026
- I already explained the reasoning behind it. The Simpsons plays loose with canon, and sometimes changes are made like this and they can even flip between them. If we start labeling episodes as non-canon because of changes like this, we'd me making every single episode where Grampa has ever been mentioned to be in the war non-canon because he's now a kid in the 1940s, not an adult soldier. Or we'd be labeling every single modern episode as non-canon instead. We're not going to do that, so this is a compromise. We mention that different things have happened in different episodes. Matt Selman and some of the other producers don't really take continuity into account when writing episodes, so we need to start taking that approach too. Solar Dragon (T • E) 21:00, August 18, 2026 (EDT)
I actually meant to say retcon. I know Matt Selman said everything and nothing is canon, but without any form of consistency, the episodes hold no weight. If we’re being real here, his logic doesn’t make sense, and I don’t even think he can answer for his own logic either. I wouldn’t really take what he thinks something is literally, as it seems he’s trying to change the logic of the show to whatever he thinks something is, but it doesn’t align with what Groening or Brooks think and say, or even any other showrunner/producer. I spent some time looking at other pages with the category labeled, and when looking at character pages specifically, they all talk about events that are still either one or two times compared to what’s been consistent before. No question these are retcons, so I think it’s better to label them as retcons. They also talk mainly about events involving the characters, not characters and their characterizations, however one that is entirely different is the one on Wiggum’s wife’s page, that was a retcon to her character and voice, so a completely different situation compared to the other pages. I would even say since that one was such a radical alteration that only lasted once and was plot dependent only, that episode logically isn't canonical. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.203.36.156 (talk) 16:50, September 5, 2026
- Thanks for confirming that you are indeed Duderocks. Solar Dragon (T • E) 17:54, September 5, 2026 (EDT)
