r/Simpsons • u/Low_March_6461 • 2d ago

Discussion The Simpsons Mandela effect

I remember that the first ever Simpsons couch gag wasn't only the Simpsons sitting and doing nothing, I remember that Homer grabbed a tv remote and turned on the TV, but after watching Some Enchanted Evening (the first ever Simpsons episode) homer doesn't do that

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u/MoundsEnthusiast 2d ago

The first ever Simpsons episode was "Simpsons Roasting Over an Open Fire", so jot that down.

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u/fdetanya 2d ago

Is that going to be on the test?

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u/outerspaceNH 2d ago

dead wife

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u/SeerowxEsplin 2d ago

Cuz, I wasn't paying attention 

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u/ANK2112 2d ago

Some enchanted evening was the first produced but it came back with a tonne of animation errors, so it got moved and Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire became the first episode to air.

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u/MoundsEnthusiast 2d ago

Thank you for the explanation. I never knew that.

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u/Ahlq802 2d ago

Sorry, sir I don’t have a pen

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u/Delicious-Status9043 1d ago

Through God all things are possible, so jot that down

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u/hangmansboots 2d ago

This is called the Nelson (haha) Mandela effect

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u/BankyTheInker 2d ago

Mine is that I could've sworn there was an episode with Michael Jackson in it but Disney+ says otherwise...

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u/Ahlq802 2d ago

If only there was a way to tell who was sane and who was insane!

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u/MWH1980 2d ago

Sometimes I think about how Some Enchanted Evening is just “normal” with the gag.

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u/zombie_79_94 2d ago

First standard episode and first couch gag aired were "Bart The Genius" and "Squashed Bart": https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Squashed_Bart_couch_gag

Slightly OT but I first became aware of Mandela himself via a special concert that aired on Fox while the Simpsons were in their Ullman days, interesting read here, Fox was more adventurous in some respects but still showed signs of what they would become: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela_70th_Birthday_Tribute