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Same as Australia, if you’re a millennial/genx. Only 4 tv channels and one of them was showing endless simpsons repeats in the after school time slot. Almost everyone knows s1-11 references.

Kids these days with their on demand streaming don’t understand the monoculture :)

Absolutely! Australian Millennial year. Grew up watching S2-8 every night over dinner on Channel 10 (IIRC), and I sometimes think I could communicate exclusively in Simpsons quotes from that era.

The span of Simpsons meme literacy is identical to the span of western civilization.

Span? Yes. Density? Not as much. I only say it as I've been surprised on several occasions by American friends living here voicing the same thing. I think it may have been in part due to some fortuitous scheduling making it so that literally every Irish person above a certain age has seen a heap of episodes. That and possibly that there wasn't much else on.

TIL i'm part Irish