Discussion Main / ItsAlwaysSpring

On another topic, I'm not sure where this should go (somewhere in the trope description?) or if it should go anywhere at all, but I was adding to the Peanuts entry and it occured to me that I think newspaper strips in general mostly avert the trope, probably because they are more closely tied to a specific time than any other medium short of live television. Comic books are reread long after their publication date, and webcomics have archives to binge, but if a newspaper comic is published on 10th December then, except for the top-tier comics that get collections published, the vast majority of the audience is going to be reading it on 10th December. So it might as well feel like it's 10th December.

Not entirely sure about this one:

• A throwaway line in "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" suggests that the first half of the episode took place in late winter (the two-week anniversary of Homer using his "weight loss" tapes is said to be on the very first day of spring, although since the tapes were actually vocabulary builders, he instead calls it the vernal equinox), but there was no snow, all of the trees were green, and nobody was seen wearing jackets.

While the vernal equinox is officially the first day of spring, it's also pretty late in March (the 20th). I know March weather is highly variable, but would it be expected to still be cold and snowy on 6th March wherever Springfield is?