A showrunner on The Simpsons has shut down any fans who might be annoyed about a recent plot hole.

Last week the long-running animated sitcom returned to screens with its 37th season, however a detail might have left some long-time viewers somewhat confused.

The premiere episode Thrifty Ways to Thieve Your Mother followed Lisa as she joined the Fashion Club at school after becoming popular for wearing her mum Marge’s old clothes.

One sequence showed the matriarch recalling her youth, which appeared to have been in the 1990s as she remembered being a teenager watching a drama that parodied Dawson’s Creek.

This timeline then suggests that Marge – and therefore her husband Homer – is a millennial despite the fact that all of the adult characters on the show have remained the same age sinc

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