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‘The Simpsons’ Just Referenced the Show’s Creepiest ‘Deleted’ Scene

The Simpsons returned this week with “Abe League of Their Moe,” an episode satirizing the gambling app frenzy that’s swept professional sports, and in particular, Major League Baseball. After a baseball superstar decides to play for Springfield, Isotope Stadium is soon cluttered with garish ads for betting apps such as “Bookiemonster,” “Carrot Top’s Prop Bets,” and perhaps most cleverly, “Vig Notaro.”

Instead of hot dogs, the newly-popular, increasingly yuppie-fied stadium now sells Crème Brûlée, and the vendor is none other than Raphael, aka the “Sarcastic Clerk.” This character has held a truly staggering number of jobs over the years, he’s worked at the pet store, the gun shop and the high-tech gadget place in the mall, just to name a few. 

‘The Simpsons’ New Timeline Nullifies Grampa’s Classic Origin Story

Time moves a little differently in Springfield. While technology and pop-culture references in The Simpsons have evolved along with the real world since the show premiered in 1989, the characters’ ages have remained mostly locked in place, as this season’s meta premiere so memorably illustrated.

It’s usually easy to overlook this temporal abnormality (especially if you’re a believer in the Springfield time loop theory), but it does get a little weird when specific dates are cited. Like how Marge, formerly a teenager in the 1970s, was now an adolescent when Tim Meadows left Saturday Night Live in 2000?

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