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[–] potterpockets 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Homer definitely fucked with multiple timeline branches in one of the earlier Treehouse of Horror episodes when he has the time machine toaster. The ecological impact of wiping out the dinosaurs in one alone alone is pretty significant.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We can't count tree house of horrors episodes.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean, they have numbers in the episode title

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s understood that the events of Halloween episodes aren’t canon. They’re like Futurama What If episodes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It's a joke about counting stuff with numbers in the episode name

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is no singular canon, only what is convenient for the episode. You're right about Treehouse episodes being "less canon" than most others, but there very few things that are permanent in the show that haven't been changed or couldn't be changed in a future episode. So it's a sliding scale of "canonism"