A new episode of The Simpsons has claimed that Marge was still in high school in 2000, and even appeared in a school play about the Millennium Bug. The show’s 33rd season will begin in September in the US, with a flashback episode in which Marge is seen as an 18-year-old high school student in 2000.
Marge’s shifting age follows a similar controversy in March, in which a season 32 episode depicted Homer in high school in the Nineties.
The plot appears to further contradict the show’s history, which always depicted Marge and husband Homer as high schoolers in the Seventies.
“Marge has amazing memories of being the stage manager of her high school musical, Y2K: The Millennium Bug, and decides to restage it with everyone 20 years later for one last show,” executive producer Matt Selman told Entertainment Weekly.