{"id":63886,"date":"2025-04-30T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63886\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T20:57:12","slug":"the-simpsons-confirms-one-of-its-wildest-character-theories-in-new-episode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/63886\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons Confirms One Of Its Wildest Character Theories in New Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Simpsons has been making some big shifts with its characters in the latest few seasons, and the newest episode of the series has done that one more by confirming one of the wildest character theories fans have had brewing for years. The Simpsons Season 36 has been airing new episodes this Spring, and each one has come with a rather fun reveal about each of the characters. This included not only members of the Simpson family themselves<\/a>, but there are also many Springfield citizens that have been further fleshed out as well. Even going as far as referencing jokes fans have made about the series this entire time.<\/p>\n

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Ever since the can of worms was opened with \u201cLisa the Boy Scout\u201d back in Season 34, The Simpsons has been openly addressing many of the theories or jokes fans have had about the series. This season alone had already seen the series directly referencing the fact that Eddie looked like Ralph Wiggum\u2019s real father<\/a> after mentioning it in that Season 34 episode, and now it\u2019s gone even further with the reveal that there are indeed multiple Wise Guys who exist throughout Springfield with three appearing on screen at the same time. <\/p>\n

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There Really Are Multiple Raphaels in Springfield<\/p>\n

Raphael, otherwise known by fans as the \u201cStore Clerk\u201d or \u201cWise Guy,\u201d is often seen working the many service jobs around town and dishing out some sort of sarcastic jab at whoever he\u2019s talking to. It\u2019s become an inside joke among fans that there\u2019s no way that a single person could be working at all these places all at once, and it\u2019s clear that those behind the scenes at The Simpsons feel the same way. While it\u2019s been addressed in that aforementioned \u201cLisa the Boy Scout\u201d episode before, that wasn\u2019t technically within the canon of the series itself. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not the case for the Season 36 episode, \u201cAbe League of Their Moe,\u201d however<\/a>. As when Grampa and Bart Simpson attend a Springfield Isotopes game, they see three different Raphaels selling various snacks at the game. It\u2019s all fancy snacks due to the nature of how big the Isotopes have become in the episode, but the real gag is that even Grampa and Bart notice how odd it is to see the Raphaels working at the same time. So now it\u2019s been confirmed that there indeed are more that one of the wise guys. <\/p>\n

RELATED: 10 Simpsons Characters Who Deserve More Attention in the Show<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why \u201cLisa the Boy Scout\u201d Is So Important<\/p>\n

For those who haven\u2019t seen the Season 34 episode itself, \u201cLisa the Boy Scout\u201d was a special event episode that saw \u201chackers\u201d dig into The Simpsons files to showcase a slate of \u201cdeleted\u201d scenes and stories that never made to air. This was an excuse to showcase some wild new ideas that poked fun at long running character theories like Ralph\u2019s real father, and one that saw an insect queen like Wise Guy giving birth to multiple clones of himself in an alien fashion. <\/p>\n

It was a joke that wasn\u2019t a part of the official The Simpsons timeline<\/a> at the time, but now it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been fully incorporated for real. It\u2019s not to say that these multiple Wise Guys are insect like aliens as seen in that episode, but it\u2019s now been confirmed that there really are many versions of Raphael working basically all the jobs in Springfield. It\u2019s just another hilarious way to showcase how much The Simpsons has been changing over the years, and another reason why long time fans have to start paying attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Simpsons has been making some big shifts with its characters in the latest few seasons, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[4002,77,968,4003,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-63886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-animation-genre","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-regular-news","11":"tag-the-simpsons-tv-show","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114428922026461973","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}