The Simpsons Sheldon Skinner Plot Hole Explained (& Solved)

The Simpsons Sheldon Skinner Plot Hole Explained (& Solved)

The Simpsons’ Sheldon Skinner looks just like his son Seymour, but if Seymour is really Armin Tamzarian, what’s the secret reason for the resemblance?

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The Simpsons Sheldon Skinner Plot Hole Explained (& Solved)

Grampa’s flashback on The Simpsons shows a glimpse of one Sheldon Skinner who looks identical to Seymour Skinner — but why is this the case, when Seymour Skinner is really Armin Tamzarian, and therefore not related to Sheldon? Like most long-running television shows, The Simpsons struggles with canon from time to time. The anarchic animated sitcom never set out to be an entirely cohesive show with perfectly maintained, consistent lore, so it makes sense that confusing continuity is The Simpsons’ biggest problem.

However, on occasion, the show creates plot holes that savvy viewers can fill in thanks to their knowledge of The Simpsons and how its world works. Take, for example, the mystery of why Sheldon Skinner looks so much like Armin Tamzarian. This plot hole appears between seasons 7 and 8 of The Simpsons, but can be solved by canny viewers paying close attention to the rules of the series.

When Grampa Simpson describes his wartime experience in “Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in ‘The Curse of the Flying Hellfish,” (season 7, episode 22), Sheldon Skinner puts in an appearance during a flashback. Grampa regales Bart with a story about him serving in the army, in charge of a young Mr. Burns, Barney’s father, and Sheldon Skinner among others. In the flashback, Sheldon is the spitting image of his son Seymour — except that’s not really his son. Season 8’s infamous episode “The Principal and the Pauper” revealed that the man Springfield knew as Seymour Skinner was an impostor named Armin Tamzarian. So, why does Sheldon look and act so much like when a man he is not canonically related to?

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The real-life answer is that the creators had likely not yet come up with the Armin Tanzarian plot when working on “Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in ‘The Curse of the Flying Hellfish”. However, there is a reasonable canon explanation, too. As this is Grampa’s recollection of events and not necessarily an accurate retelling, the similarities between figures like Skinner’s father and Barney’s father (who also, according to the flashback, bears a striking resemblance to his future son) and their offspring may be caused by Grampa filling in the blanks and remembering them as carbon copies of their respective sons.

Although The Simpsons occasionally makes mistakes with its continuity and canon, Grampa’s long history of giving rambling speeches about exaggerated or imagined events means his flashbacks are bound to be peppered with self-serving misremembering. If he didn’t remember Sheldon Skinner and Barney Gumble’s father as well as he might remember Burns (who is still alive and a prominent public figure in Springfield), then it’s perfectly in character for Grampa to simply assume they were the same as their sons. Thus, Grampa’s recollection of Sheldon Skinner is as a starched collared pencil pusher who resembles the younger Skinner. This particular plot hole fills itself in as The Simpsons proves that sometimes, Grampa’s imperfect memory works in the show’s favor.

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