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Published 11:35 10 May 2016 BST
Updated 11:38 11 Jul 2016 BST
Homer Simpson - 36 in the show, 60 in 2016
As we spotted earlier this week, Homer's driving license was revealed in an episode giving him a birthday of May 12th 1956, which would make him 60 this year.
Waaay back in season four episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen", Homer plays a "Guess your Age" game at a carnival and tells the man running the stall that he's 36 years old. The carnie guesses he's 53. Oops.
Marge Simpson - 34 in the show, 58 in 2016
Marge's age is slightly trickier to figure out. In most flashbacks to when she and Homer met they're often in the same class. Back in season two episode "The Way We Was", Marge is shown as a high school senior with Homer, making her 18 years old in 1974. Doing the maths we'd assume she'd be the same age as Homer, but in season one's "Some Enchanted Evening" Marge calls in Dr. Marvin Monroe's radio show where he calls her 34 years old, which would make her 58 years old now.
Marge has also had her birthday moved: originally she said in season 18 episode "Marge Gamer" she had the same birthday as Randy Quaid - October 1, but in season 23 ep "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart", Lisa finds a calendar saying her birthday was March 19.
Maybe she got pushed forward a year at school. Maybe Marge lies about her age. Maybe our heads hurt from guessing so we'll move onto Bart.
In season three episode "", Marge falls pregnant with Bart after she and Homer watch in the cinema (Homer ruins the plot twist for people queuing, naturally).
Episode V got released in May 1980, which would now put Bart at age 36. Let's just forget all the future episodes where he ends up an underachiever and hope he straightens himself out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02U2T2BpcQ
Lisa Simpson turned 8 in the now classic season three episode "", which had Michael Jackson make a guest appearance to sing "Happy birthday Lisa". At two years younger than Bart she would now be 34 years old.
Now here's things get really cool/terrifying. In flash forward episode "Bart to the Future" in season 17, Lisa remarks that she gained the Presidency from Donald Trump (she also remarks she was the first straight female President, which makes us have questions about Hilary Clinton). According to US law, you have to be 35 years of age to run for Presidency, which would put her at 38 years of age when she won.
Not only did joke predict Donald Trump would be President, they predicted when, that he'd only serve one term . As well as run the nation into debt, and bring about a rise in super criminals.
In Season 5's "Lady Bouvier's Lover," the entire Simpsons clan gathers to celebrate Maggie's first birthday. In flash forward episodes, we find out that Maggie becomes an award-winning musician. Which is kind of fitting considering her dad back in the '80s (sorry, Dexy's Midnight Runners).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxsrutuVIPI
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