Milhouse Guidry of the mWo 2 May 2005 02:58:39 [ permanent link ]
Don Del Grande wrote:> Ron Mexico wrote:>
Will you watch?>
The real Simpsons 350 was two weeks ago. Either that, or the 100th> and 168th episodes should have been called the 99th and 167th.
People keep saying this without bothering to explain.
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The real Simpsons 350 was two weeks ago. Either that, or the 100th>> and 168th episodes should have been called the 99th and 167th.
People keep saying this without bothering to explain.
Then allow me to explain.
The episodes Fox promoted as the 100th, 168th, and 200th episodes were the 100th, 168th, and 200th to air, if you count the Christmas Special as episode #1. However, doing it this way, the episode Fox claimed was #300 was actually #302. (In the episode, Marge is counting how many times Homer has done something stupid, and her counter is at 300, but Lisa thinks it is actually 302.) The best excuse I have heard for it: Fox wanted to air it on the day they aired the 2003 Daytona 500. Fox used some creative accounting to say that "this episode is the 300th produced in the series, but the first Christmas Special aired before the series premiered so it's not counted" (and they were right about that - the only problem was, another new episode aired right after it and it has a "301st Episode" label in the opening credits, even though it isn't the 301st episode using either counting method).
Similarly, they wanted to save the 350th episode for the day they aired new episodes of "Family Guy" and "American Dad!", but in order to do this, they had to do more creative accounting - and things got worse when they pulled "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star" after Pope John Paul II's death (it will air 5/15) and didn't replace it with another new episode. In fact, the episode with the vending machines was the one Fox had planned to be number 350, because it was "the 50th episode after number 300", but after they switched it from 8:00 to 8:30, they decided to advertise the Ray Romano episode as #350 (the 350th episode to air after the Christmas Special, I guess). In terms of episodes aired, the 350th episode was actually number 351 (the episode with Bart and Lisa in high school is the "real" 350).
