4 Insane Simpsons Fan Theories (That Might Be True) - After Hours 

I miss the After Hours gang. These four were absolutely terrific together, and now, just gone forever.

Homer didn't get drunk at the chili cook off! He ate an insanity pepper, and tripped bals, there's a difference!

Maggie's violent behaviour is attention seeking. Homer and the kids frequently forget her existence and Marge treats her more like a doll than anything else. All the intelligent stuff she does, it's always ignored by the adults. Even when she shoots Mr Burns or attacks Homer with mallet, within a few minutes she's back to being ignored. Most likely, as she gets older, she's going to try harder and harder to get attention. Just like Bart (who acts out because punishment is a form of attention) and Lisa (who hopes that she'll be noticed if she becomes famous). Of course the roles of 'the smart one' and 'the fun one' are already filled- so if Maggie wants attention she's going to have to find another way to get it and, judging by how she's going so far, violence might be it. I wouldn't be too surprised if, in a few years, Maggie buys a gun of her own, deciding that if her family won't love her, perhaps they'll fear her instead. When you look at it, Marge and Homer are awful parents.

I like how Soren, Katie and Dan have normal food but Michael has a giant pink donut.

Isn't Itchy and Scratchy a satirical representation of overly violent cartoons? Like Tom and Jerry had some pretty rough physical gags so Itchy and Scratchy is an extreme version of that.

Bart: Hyperactive kid with talent in practical skills Lisa: Depressed musical and academic genius Maggie:Sociopathic arts genius

I'm surprised they didn't go a step further with the Id, Ego, Super Ego theory and state that Bart, Lisa, Marge, and Maggie aren't real and are, instead, mental representations of Homer's mind. Bart is his Id and represents Homer himself as a child being raced by Abe. Lisa is his Ego and his everything Homer could have been had his mother never left and kept a firm hand on him. Marge is the Super Ego, the desire Homer has to just fit in but knowing he never can. And Maggie is his inner child, representing his potential.

while I do find 99% of this video to be plausible, insightful and funny as hell, I have to point out one of the first things mentioned. In the "Space Coyote" episode, Homer promises not to drink. You guys say that he does, but after watching the episode dozens of times over the years, its clear that he upholds his promise to Marge. He almost has some beer while trying to wash down the pepper, but nope. He DOES NOT DRINK in that episode. Shame on you, calling yourself Simpsons fans and getting trivial details wrong. SHAME!

2:06 Personally, I would be more concerned about why Nelson Muntz, cannonically a 15 yo teenager, is interested in dating Lisa, officially a 8 yo child. He doubles her age.

About the VanHoutens, in one episode Milhouse actually flat out states that they're first cousins, so that's why they look the same. Incredibly messed up, but not clones.

I thought in S08E09 Homer didn't get drunk? I thought that was part of the misunderstanding, he wasn't drinking to get drunk. He needed something to get rid of the Peppers spice..? & in the end he doesn't even end up having any alcohol. It's a pitcher of water he's sitting with at the table after.

Just to recap, the theories are: • When Steamboat Itchy was made, it changed media to be hyper violent going forward • Springfield is a bunch of clones • The Simpsons themselves are Freudian • Uhhh.... All the kids are geniuses but the parents are terrible?

You know what my Theory is? While Homer is an idiot in almost every category . . he is a musical genius. think about it. He won a Grammy while in his band the B-Sharps, which he WROTE songs for, He wrote that song about hating Ned Flanders which was on top of the charts for awhile and had several spinoffs (the least of which being William Shatners cover of it), And when Lisa auditioned for sort of a child American Idol singing contest Homer acted as her agent and wrote a song for her to sing in her first act in less then a minute, and continued to write songs for her which took her to the finals. Homer could have easily settled for a career as a Musician and left his Power Plant job, but since the premise of "Idiot in the most dangerous job possible" is comedic gold of course it never happened.

2024 checking in

I enjoy these a lot. Thanks for making them all.

5:00 Homer doesn't get drunk on the space coyote episode. He goes on a Guatemalan chili pepper trip. Homer kept his word.

6:06 "I'M LOSING MY PERSPICACITY!" thank you for this

I prefer the Marxist interpretation of the Simpson family to the Freudian one; Homer and Marge represent the reproduction of bourgeois ideology among the proletariat, (in Homer's case alcoholism and apathy, in Marge's case moral puritanism and social conservatism) Bart and Lisa represent a proletarian class-consciousness that is still teathered within the confines of the bourgeois socio-political order (Bart's anarchism, Lisa's liberalism) and Maggie represents the latent revolutionary potential of the proletariat. (Hence why she shot Mr. Burns, Springfield's embodiment of the bourgeoisie)

you forgot about fat tony and how he got replaced with buff tony there could be a skinny tony and a tall tony and a black tony ect

but Homer didn't drink in the space coyote episode.

Fan theory: "After Hours" takes place post-earth, in space, in the same diner that's featured in Space Balls, in the year 2407... Because he says The Simpsons has had 418 seasons at 0:56 ... So clearly it's like almost 400 years in the future in the "After Hours" timeline.

Oh man... An after hours review of all the Simpsons eps from S1-S9?! Can you guys just change this whole show to specifically talk about this forever?!

Gotta say I hate episodes of After Hours in which the group is self aware of what they are doing. By that I mean picking a topic and, usually, whining about it. The appeal this series had before was that it was a group of friends just shooting the shit and some crazy thing would just become the topic... Now its like "what dumb bullshit are we going to pull out of our collective asses today? SIMPSONS?! Finally!"

"Famously predicted tiger maulings" Carol Baskins husband

THIS is my life now. Re-watching old After Hours vids

"Psychologists consider Freud bullshit" Sure, except for all the stuff that is just considered "psychology" and isn't associated with Freud in most people's minds, that he nonetheless invented. Coping mechanisms? Psychological defenses? The subconscious? Not bullshit, all Freud.

Homer didn't get drunk in the lighthouse exsample. He ate an insanity pepper.

I always thought the reason everyone acts and sometimes looks the same is because Bart not only missed his dad, but imagines how he would have reacted to today's world. Way back in season 4 " Homer's triple bypass", Homer has a series of heart attacks and they went to Dr. Nick for the operation where he dies on the table. Bart becomes so upset with the loss that he creates a world were the smartest person he knows could have done a better job. This is why here after, Lisa is allowed to do incredible feats such as to perform the operation and save there dad. First Dr. Nick appears to tell the family Homer died, but in Bart's mind Lisa comes from behind to say it was a success. This could be like the ending of Rosanne where she is writing a book about her family where Dan didn't die. The entire show could be Bart's memoirs about his family for a book he writes while he is a Supreme Court judge. This why the Simpsons keep predicting the future because for Bart... it all has already happened.

Something to support "Bart is actually smart" is an episode (i can't remember which) where it's learned that all MALE Simpsons and male Simpsons only, go through a kind of neural degradation as they age. Before Lisa learns that it only affects male Simpsons, she begins to worry that she's going through that process. she rifles through some of Bart's homework of when he was younger and learns that he was a straight "A" student until he was affected by whatever it is that causes Simpsons men to decrease in intelligence around the age of 8

Who else noticed Swaim had a giant pink donut? I didn't see that until my second watch-through.

My favourite running gag in After Hours was Michael thinking the topic was gonna be impossibly niche - fantastic

LOOK AT THAT GIANT PINK DONUT

Has anyone else realised that Homer doesn't strangle Bart anymore in the newer Simpsons episodes?!??

After Hours has clickbait, that actually deliveries what it promises and more

I'm surprised no one mentioned how intelligent Homer can be if he removed the crayon from his nose.

In the episode where Homer housesits for Mr. Burns, one room in his mansion clearly has some cloned fetuses of both himself and Smithers.

Donald Trump becomes president: Simpsons did it.

All these points actually make sense if you consider the Simpson's coma theory. It's the one that suggests that everything from the episode "So It's Come to This" has been taking place inside Homer's head, as he's in a coma. The episode's a clip show, which I assume is why they didn't mention it - however, it does explain a lot of things. Springfield is so violent because Homer himself loves violence (we've seen how much he laughs at itchy and scratchy), marge always forgives him because in his mind he doesn't understand that he's done anything truly wrong. And Bart, Lisa and Marge become the id, ego, and superego of his own subconscious. It also explains why no-one really ages, or why most characters can't seem to die

Rewatching all the after hours clips atm, I forgot how good and well researched they are. Looks like it's going to be another late night!!

Please do after hours involving how I met your mother

Holy shit, Dans wearing a Hamilton shirt!

Like Katie said: It's a 0-0-0-0 tie. Daniel: 21 Soren: 16 Katie: 17 Michael: 21

Itchy and Scratchy definitely is aimed at children because it's aired on Krusty's show.

The subtle homage to Quentin Tarantino's film-making style right as Michael mentions the director at the 8 minute mark was very cool.

Damn I wish I could close my eyes and watch any episode of The Simpsons, I wanted... When I do that all I see is porn.

One of my fav series on RU-vid! I get so excited whenever this is uploaded

He was given a Supreme Court position by Lisa who's the President

At 5:00 inaccuracy. Homer did not drink, it appeared to Marge that he did but it was the “InsaneOAsylum Pepper” that caused Homer to hallucinate and go on his Johnny Cash infused mystic journey.

DId Homer really get drunk in that soulmate-chili episode with the Spanish title? The way I remember it he tried to drink, got spotted, drank wax with Ralph and then ate insanity peppers. I mean yeah, he drinks something from red cups but we don't know that it was alcohol. And he never seems drunk, if I recall correctly. Just tripping balls because of the aforementioned chili pepper.

0:45 Michael assumes the conversation is to be about the previous specific case rather than the broader topic. After Hours did it! Episode 29!

I honestly believe you guys are better, more insightful and more intelligent pop culture commentators than just about anyone. You do a really good job of pointing out thought provoking elements while also being highly amusing. Also, you somehow manage to bring up issues pertaining to (gasp!) social justice without incurring the wrath of all those people who seem to think that suggesting the world isn't always an entirely fair place all the time is tantamount to calling for the death penalty for everyone who has testicles or relatively low melanin levels. Wow, that sentence kind of dragged on, sorry. Anyway! Some of your points are more flippant than others, obviously, but that's cool, you don't want to start taking yourselves too seriously. Keep up the good work!

Wait a moment, his catching the General was an accident, he was pulled into the boat when trying to alert someone else. And in the pepper episode, he never got drunk, he attempted to because of extreme circumstances....

Wrooooong. Homer doesn't get drunk at the Chilli festival. He hallucinates because of the peppers.

Homer didn't get drunk in the soulmate episode. He ate way too strong chili and it made him halucinogenic due to the pain of probably burning his esophagus and is accused of being drunk by everyone but he never actually got drunk

is dan wearing a hamilton shirt

Wait, did Soren say he had a kid? I didn't know that. Interesting.

HOLD THE FUCK ON IS DAN WEARING A HAMILTON SHIRT? MY LORD

half way through I found myself distracted by what they were eating. was Michael eating a giant frosted donut?

Lisa: Don't worry, Bart. It seems like every week something odd happens to the Simpsons. My advice is to ride it out, make the occasional smart-alec quip, and by next week we'll be back to where we started from, ready for another wacky adventure. Bart: Ay, caramba! Lisa: That's the spirit.

Homer didn't get drunk that time. It was the Wiggum's chilli!

*1)*: Episode from last night: Lisa saving a raccoon and says it was her first true kiss. Nelson is present and played for laughs as either an insignificant mistake in Lisa's past or secretly pining for her (which would make him on par with Milhouse). *2)*: Bart learns Spanish during a flight to Brazil. This is impressive in itself, but when Lisa points out that in Brazil they speak Portuguese, he bashes his head and says "all gone". What kind of superpowers does he have to turn on and off his intellect? Almost like he can adjust it to allow only for relevant data to work at full capacity. *3)*: The episode "Bart The Genius" sort of pissed me off. Bart switches the test with Martin and Bart gets send to a school for gifted children. Yet when it's revealed he's not a genius Martin is not only not sent instead to the same school, but he's kept in the same class as Bart. He doesn't even get to skip a class or something. *4)*: Freud isn't considered bullshit by today's psychiatrists/psychologists. In fact some years ago I spoke to a psychology student regarding the curriculum and I've been told that Freud is the basis of modern psychology, while C.G. Jung is practically not taught at all. This was in Sweden, but I think the curriculum is similar throughout the Western World and if you want to become a Jungian psychoanalyst you have to go through a different program.

In the coyote episode he didn't get drunk, he ate a magic pepper from the chili cook off.

Homer wasn't actually Mr. Burns' assistant in season 2, he just got promoted and Monty took a liking to him

Actually, in the Space Coyote episode, homer ate a hallucinogenic pepper at a chili eating contest.

Two things I caught: 1) one of the patches Bart sewed onto his Boy Scout uniform (Junior Camper uniform, technically) was for Patch Forgery, so I think it's safe to say he didn't earn ALL of them, and 2) that bit about Homer drinking after promising not to left out the part about being goaded into eating a dangerously hot pepper and searching desperately for any liquid to cool his tongue with. And hell, he still didn't actually drink any of that beer because Marge distracted him and he didn't even get any in his mouth. Also, even though Marge was mad at him for that, that episode was actually about Homer thinking about leaving HER because he started to feel like she didn't understand him, so her proving herself to him at the end isn't as backwards as they said. Not to say Marge isn't an enabler, though, because wow is she an enabler.

Except homer didn't get drunk in the episode with the lighthouse... He almost drank it because of the hot pepper, but no alcohol touched his tongue. He had a bad trip from the pepper. Bad example. Homer through the catfish back to proove that marge is more important. it was late, but it was still the overall choice.

But Homer DIDN'T drink. He ate a really hot pepper that messed him up..!

I need more of this after hours episodes. So good!

Amazing video. Had fun watching it. Older Simpsons are the best show ever. loved season 1 to 8th. No other show can compare.

He's wearing a Hamilton shirt I am screaming

YEAH!! Daniel rocking a Hamilton shirt!!!

You have to take into account that a lot of the writers of the show are graduates of college ranging from Bachelors to Masters (i think PhDs as well) of various backgrounds.

06:55 I swear, those random arkward looks they throw in there are my favourite part of these.

Back at it! DAMN RIGHT CRACKED!!! YOU FOUR ARE GOING TO DO THIS FOREVER!! JUST FOR ME!!! Dance puppets dance!

Man I love this series. Total Daniel fangirl but still the content makes me giggle.

Marvin Monroe Is not dead, he comes back on the episode where Marge writes her book. And he tells that he just was very sick.

Oh no, I'm back to the after hours vortex

am i the only one thinking "Bite the donuts!" It looks fucking good man

I spent this whole video looking at that supersize Simpsons donut.

In the space coyote episode i recall Homer actually kept his promise not to drink, but after eating the hottest pepper in the world he needed a way to cool his mouth off and desperately grabbed beer mugs without thinking.

Dan's shirt is from the musical Hamilton. It's amazing!

I love the clone theory they go for broke at the end of this vid

i want that giant doughnut

Was Daniel's Hamilton shirt distracting anybody else during this?

You said you'd cut off at Principle and the Pauper, you lied you lied You brought up Maude and Krabapple, they died they died

7:45 Obviously they haven't read "The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" by Simon Singh

In the "space coyote" episode, Homer didn't drink the beer. He wanted to, but it just splashed all over him, as the video shows. The super-hot insanity pepper chili burned his mouth, and he was nowhere near water, but he did keep his promise to not drink that night.

Just saw this video 1. Bart is the ID: the focused self 2. Lisa is the intellect: the exestential and learned self 3. Marge is the Super Ego: the self concerned with itself 5. Homer is blissful ignorance: not conncered with itself or given outcome 6. Maggie is creativity: her portrayal as a problem solving, intuitive and artistic capabilitiy she is the intuitive/creative self 7. Itchy and Scratchy are violence: self explanatory 8. Canon deaths represent forgiveness: recurring tropes to preserve the living 9. Sringfield is the chaos: wild things occur frequently 10. Peace only happens when the selves cooperate against outside forces (2 to 6 suffice dependant on sitation/chaos element)

In the episode "A streetcar named Marge" Homer redeems himself in the end from being a terrible husband by showing he genuinely cared about the play and Marge's performance in it. The episode where Homer meets a super hot chick who he has everything in common with, he overcomes his lust and chooses Marge over her. I could list off other examples, but point being, Homer's a better husband then you would initially believe.

When the simpsons where good, they where REALLY good. They where able to use every character to their full advantage. In later seasons the writers seem clueless about how to write Lisa and Marge.

Homer didn't drink at the chili cook off though

Homer didn't get drunk! He ate chilli that made him have pretty much an acid trip Not drunk. He got the beer to sooth the chilli and didn't drink it when Margie caught him. No drunk, just bad timing

The audience laughing as Crusty has a heart attack is a reference to Tommy Cooper, who died on stage, and the crowd laughed for 2 minutes before the alarms were sounded. The children ward dedicated to things copied from tv would be a reference to the 1000s of injuries that occurred from kids copying the ninja turtles in the 80s.

If you said Bleeding Gums Murphy and Dr. Marvin Monroe, you're wrong. They were never popular

Daniel in that tight shirt though....... we need more shirtless Daniel

he was totally eyeing that doughnut the whole time.

my eyes were riveted on that giant doughnut

The “mono” reference. Monorail episode with an awards winning song. ❤️❤️❤️

To be fair, the time homer drank when he wasn't supposed to was mostly because his mouth was severely burned and he was desperate to cool himself off. Marge never even asks why he's doing it, she just immediately goes into judgmental mode. She was basically nothing but an antagonist nagdoll the entire episode.

Lisa is literally the embodiment of Tumblr.