Forum:Chronological assumptions

Fat_Tony presently says:
 * After his death, his cousin Fit Tony takes over the Springfield Mafia and Homer teaches him a lesson into becoming the new Fat Tony. Meaning that all of Fat Tony's appearances after this episode are as Fit Tony.

I take some issue with this assumption here... what evidence do we have that all of the Simpsons episodes happen in chronological order? Has this been officially stated anywhere? Unless there are clear indications (references to past events, glaring absence of Maude Flanders, Bleeding Gums Murphy's grave, Apu or Comic Book Guy's wife being present, Nelson pining over Lisa, etc) about one episode taking place after another episode, a lot of stories could possibly take place in the past.

It would be interesting to do a breakdown of chrono-indicators like this to see which episodes have them and what ties can be established like that. IE for all the episodes which aired after Fat Tony's death, what evidence exists within that episode to support this being Fit Tony based on what we observe rather than when it aired? talk2ty 15:48, March 20, 2018 (UTC)