Seasons 11-15

Bart to the Future (Season 11, Episode 17)
In “Bart to the Future”, Bart sneaks into a Native American casino and gets caught. The manager of the casino shows him a vision of his future if he keeps misbehaving. The episode aired in 2000, and takes place in 2030. Bart is 40 in the flash forward, which varies from the timeline in “Lisa’s Wedding”. If the timeline remained the same, Bart should have been 45 by 2030.  
Fashion is not very different in this portrayal of the future. The characters' attire is changed to reflect their status rather than the time period. For example, future Lisa is the president of the United States, and Bart is a failed rock star who works for a future Nelson, but only gets paid in Popcorn Shrimp













The Blunder Years (Season 13, Episode 5) and Three Gays of the Condo (Season 14, Episode 17)

“The Blunder Years” and “Three Gays of the Condo” are not flashback-centered episodes, but flashbacks do occur in them. In “The Blunder Years”, there is a flashback to twelve-year-old Homer discovering a corpse in a sewage pipe. The flashback is brief and only used as fuel to the story, so there are not a lot of clues as to what time period it is in. Twelve-year-old Carl does make a reference to the new “internet”, but it’s quickly revealed that he is talking about the netted lining of his swimming trunks.


In “Three Gays of the Condo”, the flashback is to the night before Marge learned she was pregnant with Bart. Moe’s Tavern had just opened and Marge was angry at Homer for drinking too much and getting alcohol poisoning. In this episode, Marge and Homer are dressed similarly to when they met in High School, as seen in “The Way We Was”. This episode also features a past Dr. Hibbert, with a different, trendy hair style. 



The Way We Weren't (Season 15, Episode 20)

Homer tells the story of his first kiss, with a girl at summer camp. Marge realizes the girl was her, which comes as a surprise to Homer. Marge had burnt her hair straightening it, and Homer injured his eye, giving him an eyepatch. Because of this, neither one recognized the other when they met again later in life. The episode aired in 2005, and the flashback takes place in the 1970s. We know this because past Marge states that she likes “Parliament” but not “Funkadelic”, which were two funk groups popular in the 1970s (Bush). The time period is interesting because it takes place during the same time as “The Way We Was”, from season 2. So, even though the timeline between episodes is different, and the characters were different ages, Homer and Marge still met in the
1970s.




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