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Author Topic: May 1, 2007: Are you ready for the ball that starts it all, baby?  (Read 4747 times)

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Re: May 1, 2007: Are you ready for the ball that starts it all, baby?
« Reply #30 on: May 03, 2007, 01:28:49 am »
Quote from: Teatime on May 02, 2007, 11:40:09 pm
I'm not so sure about this. If the Simpsons go to hell or something, it won't have happened by the next episode. Considering Beef has memories of going to heaven and hell, I'm pretty sure that these are just dudes who are totally nonplussed by the stuff that is actually happening to them.

I'm backing up the glasses of Ramses theory.

But what about the early strips where they couldn't leave the house, and Mr. Bear wasn't aware of tequila? There's a definite selective continuity here. Not that I'm complaining because it works here and it works on the Simpsons.
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Re: May 1, 2007: Are you ready for the ball that starts it all, baby?
« Reply #31 on: May 03, 2007, 08:17:29 pm »
1972: Ramses Luther Smuckles meets a 25-year-old Gianni Versace starting out in fashion design in Milan. R.L.S. performs a favor that leaves Versace indebted to him (perhaps lifesaving?) and receives sunglasses for his trouble.
1973: Ramses Luther Smuckles, once again in United States, wins Great Outdoor Fight and is photographed with these sunglasses. After winning Great Outdoor Fight, he proposes to Sondra Culpepper.
Sometime Later: Ray Smuckles is born. Ramses remains with his child for a time (at least long enough to be photographed) but leaves before Ray begins forming significant memories.
Sometime Before Ray's Known Childhood: Ray receives Ramses' glasses frames as an inheritance.
Sometime After That But Before Now: Ramses Luther Smuckles acquires identical replacement frames by unknown means.


There. Conflicting explanations resolved, and all it took was a little splash of near-fanfiction. The only tricky part is resolving the timeframe such that he is able to receive Versace sunglasses (Versace didn't work in fashion design until he was 25) and still get back to America in time to woo Sondra and win the GOF.
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Re: May 1, 2007: Are you ready for the ball that starts it all, baby?
« Reply #32 on: May 03, 2007, 11:30:16 pm »
If a man is going to make you a pair of custom frames for saving his life, it would be de rigueur for him to provide a pair and a spare.  Likely the spare was left behind when dad hastily packed and left in the night.
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