10 TV Shows Which Insult Your Intelligence

10. Modern Simpsons

When the first full-length Simpsons episode aired in 1989, nobody could have predicted America’s favourite yellow folks would still be going three-and-a-half decades later.

The show has been on for so long that the Simpson kids, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, would all now be older than their parents, Homer and Marge, in real time. The writers have tried to combat this issue with a floating timeline, which most fans have just accepted as the norm. 

Sometimes though, things go too far.

In 2008, as part of their 19th season, The Simpsons put out an episode called That 90s Show, which depicted a teenage Homer and Marge going through a rough patch in the mid-to-late 90s - even though there are dozens of episodes from this exact period where the couple are married with children. 

That 90s Show was the most blatant abuse of the show’s fragile continuity to date and many long-term fans were not happy. What was the point of investing in these characters if the writers were just going to mess with the fundamental facts about them?

In the words of the main man himself - D’oh!