A user on the wiki recently corrected the episode "The Marines" as "Season 5, Episode 8" which confused me. I realized before reverting the edit that this was done because "Boston" is sometimes unofficially considered "Season 5, Episode 0" which would make "Robots Everywhere" Season 5 Episode 1, "Sirens" Season 5 Episode 2, etc.
I was actually wondering if anyone had any strong arguments for how to approach this problem. I would like to issue a proposal to make "Boston" Season 5, Episode 0 with the later Season 5 episodes being adjusted in episode number (both on the infobox and in the summary of the article before the first heading). This is a policy change for the entire wiki, but I will not be banning users for mistakenly issuing changes to the episode numbers after this proposal passes or fails. I do not enjoy banning users.
This proposal will NOT renumber "Boston" as anything other than Episode 69. I'm sure there's some fans who don't appreciate the "LOL Sixty-Nine" joke, but I'm not prepared to to start a massive fan war over it. The episode count of the show stays the way it is. This only affects the numbering within Season 5.
As usual, this will not be solved by counting votes because we don't have enough consistent contributors, but if a lot of people bring up valid arguments for "Boston" to be numbered "Season 5, Episode 1," and "Bible Fruit" to be labeled "Season 5, Episode 10," I will try to listen.
Also, I'm aware the crew refers to this season as "Season 8." I don't understand why. This has been called Season 5 for years, and Max (formerly HBO Max) agrees that this is Season 5. (Don't bring up the DVD or iTunes releases because those are volumes, not season box sets, aside from AUPS1.) Even though I would like to respect the crew who made the show, I am not interested in renumbering the season pages.
I will also be sharing this on the ATHF Wiki's Twitter page aquateenwiki
With that out of the way, let's start the discussion.