this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2024
31 points (94.3% liked)

The Simpsons

1509 readers
41 users here now

Everything related to The Simpsons!

Discussion

Related communities

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
JaReD@lemmy.world
MimicJar@lemmy.world
LinguoBot@lemmy.world
31
Guess the Episode [Medium] (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by MimicJar@lemmy.world to c/thesimpsons@lemmy.world
7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

1 point for the episode/main plot.

1 point for the joke/scene.

Guess goes in, points come out.

Guess goes in, points come out.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How was Lisa never vaccinated against the Mumps? That has always bothered me.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

It looks like the widely available/popular MMR vaccine was widespread by the late 70s, and given Lisa's age she would have been born in the early 80s.

So she likely would have gotten it.

However I suspect the writers for the show just reflected on their own childhood when people getting mumps was a thing.

[–] dragonfly@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Currently, mmr is about 86% effective against mumps. It may have been less so in the 80s. Also, she may have only had one round of shots. Could be she was just unlucky, and her immune response wasn't strong enough. It's not unheard of.