He grew up on a Mennonite farm in Kansas, speaking only German until he went to school. After the war, he was a surfer, filmmaker and ardent amateur basketball player. He perfected a basketball shot that he could shoot—without looking—over his head and consistently make from the top of the key. He made that shot for 30 years.
My father was very worried that I was going to starve in Hollywood. He loved the show. He was really pleased with it. The only thing he said was that Homer could never, ever be mean to Marge. He said that was a rule, which corresponds with the way he treated my mother.
He was very nice to her. I thought that was a good note. Early on your focus shifted from Bart to Homer. When and why? Did it have anything to do with your own aging? The way I wrote them were Homer being angry and Bart being clueless little jerk, just driven in some weird way to cause trouble. I knew from the moment we decided to turn the shorts into a TV show that Homer was going to be the star.
There are more consequences to him being an idiot. The writers on the show have been there for years. Whatever they want to write about, the animators can draw it. Has your son Homer ever created something with you as a character?
Would you be open to that? Of course, turnabout is fair play. That would be great. I very early on named a lot of characters after streets in Portland. I thought it would be amusing for people in Portland to be driving past the alphabetically laid-out streets.
My goal was to name every character after streets in Portland, but we were in a hurry so I dropped that idea. In another way, is the show a way for you to never leave home? So you make everyone else feel comfortable?
So does that make you the number-one fool? There are plenty of fools. I just admit it. How has it changed? I kind of miss that. What were those contradictions between TV life and life under your roof?
During the early s, Springfield started a holiday named "Whacking Day" with the intention of beating up Irish immigrants in Springfield, and eventually transformed into an event where Springfield's denizens beat several snakes to death.
In the midth century, the city reached perhaps the pinnacle of its success when it became the home of the Aquacar, a car which could be driven in the water like a boat. Springfield was declared one of America's fastest-growing cities. At this point, the city's streets were literally paved with gold. During Homer Simpson 's tenure as Springfield's Sanitation Commissioner, however, the whole town was relocated "five miles down the road" and reformed, as the previous location had become flooded with garbage and waste due to Homer's allowing other cities to dump their garbage into the mines that run under the town.
Mysteriously, the move was only mentioned once: when Lisa remarked with surprise that they even allowed the casino to come with them when they moved the town while watching its demolition. Bart Simpson once accidentally mooned the U. However, the show's host made it appear that Springfield hates America.
When the rest of the U. The town has split at least twice. The colonel placed the town under martial law after Homer went into hiding, and started rounding up people who were either fat, bald, or had ever laughed at the antics of Homer Simpson.
He eventually surrendered after Springfield managed to spike the town's reservoir with alcohol, which caused him and his unit to go into a drunken stupor and wake up the next morning with a horrible hangover, although under the condition that Homer finishes up his line of duty by becoming an Army Recruiter. At one point in the town's history, gambling was legalized due to an economic slump.
To attract more people into the town, Springfield legalized gay marriage. Lisa Simpson and Colin spearheaded an effort to clean Lake Springfield , which was heavily polluted. After a town-wide cleanup, the lake was polluted again single-handedly by Homer Simpson , who dumped a large silo of "pig crap" into the lake, polluting it to unsurpassed levels.
To keep the pollution from spreading to other towns, Russ Cargill , head of the EPA, convinced President Arnold Schwarzenegger to unknowingly seal Springfield inside a gigantic dome built by a company owned by Cargill. During that time, the town fell into ruin and was plagued by power shortages Mr.
Burns refused to give free power and lack of supplies. After ninety-three days the town rioted and Stampy made a small crack in the dome; Cargill tricked the President into blowing up Springfield. The dome was later destroyed by Homer and Bart Simpson when the bomb was thrown out of the dome and landing on the top of it.
Later, the town had its civilization rebuilt. This opening sequence is cutting this head of statue of Statue of Jebediah Springfield which Kearney and Jimbo cutting the head. Springfield eventually fell into a massive economic crisis that resulted in several large cutbacks, as well as forcing several of the citizens to move to Detroit to find better job opportunities.
There, they enter Springfield after their car was stolen by Hans Moleman and meet Homer Simpson and his family. After the car was found, the Griffins were taken to court for the infringement of Pawtucket Patriot Ale for imitating Duff Beer. After the Griffins lost, they pack up and leave Springfield and head back to Quahog. Before they leave, Homer apologizes to his former best-friend Peter Griffin , but it later ends up into a fight after Peter told him that Homer's family including him sucked.
After seven minutes of their fight, they apologize to each other and agree to stay a half-hour apart. When the Griffins returned home, Lois Griffin tells Peter that the company wasn't enforced yet. Springfield's geography includes big mountains, maybe part of Rocky Mountains, and a lot of hills, gorges , giant redwood trees, a desert, a forest, lakes, rivers and a volcano.
It is located on the coast of a large body of water, possibly an ocean. It has also been stated that "West Springfield" is three times the size of Texas, and looks exactly like Texas in shape. The Zip code belongs to Barney, ND. This is geographically impossible as only Ohio and Kentucky share borders and Nevada being on the other side of the country from the other three. However, in other episodes, Springfield is shown to be within driving distance from Washington, D.
Matt Groening said in an interview that Springfield is based on Springfield, Oregon , a town next to Portland, Oregon , which is the city he grew up on. Springfield is located in an area that receives rain and snow. Most of the time the skies are blue and mostly sunny. Springfield is also subject to a number of natural disasters including avalanches, earthquakes, acid rain, floods, hurricanes, lightning strikes, tornadoes, and volcanic eruptions.
Being situated in a valley, Springfield likely boasts a humid-subtropical climate, due to panic during snow storms as suggested in the Season 4 episode Mr. All of Springfield is panicking, suggesting that hurricanes are rare in the city. In " Brawl in the Family ", there is an acid rainstorm in Springfield, caused by The Evil Republican Party, attempting to make caring for the environment illegal. Visitors from elsewhere are advised to constantly wear radiation suits and carry Geiger counters, since the city is perhaps the most radioactive in the U.
This is because the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant was built during an incredibly lax period for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in which the plant's nuclear core was surrounded not by several layers of protective concrete and graphite but by ordinary plaster with a horseshoe hanging from a nail.
Also, management apparently gives employees benefits for storing nuclear waste in buildings; in some episodes, barrels of waste have been seen in the Simpsons' basement.
Also perhaps due to this, the book reports that international law forbids shipping produce from Springfield; those who do venture into a local supermarket or farmer's market may find that it gives off a barely audible hum. Springfield is also "proudly" home to the state's largest tire fire, which has been continuously burning for approximately 42 years, which does nothing to improve the air quality. Springfieldians have a very uncaring attitude towards the environment.
The Springfield Shopper is proud of the fact that they use absolutely no recycled material in their paper. Even the mention of the word can cause one of the town residents to pass out from boredom, or at least slam the door in the face of plucky little girls concerned about the state of their town without a second thought, or even throw anything they can get their hands on at the Green Day raft just for saying that they wanted to talk about it.
In fact, the only time they even seemed to care is literally when they drink it. There have also been instances of accidental pollution, such as when Captain Horatio McCallister once crashed an oil tanker around the Springfield coast in a drunken stupor. McCallister also, while still drunk, seemed to think there was no way out of the predicament until he suggested to a newscaster to take the blame for him in the middle of a live broadcast.
For a brief period, Springfield divided itself into two cities, Olde Springfield and New Springfield, on the basis of an area code division. The cities were later reunited through a concert by The Who. The city's Main Street is in a pitiful state of disrepair, owing to citizens driving along it while carrying excessively heavy weights and leaving snow chains on their tires after the snow has melted. Some of the potholes have become so wide that entire cars and trucks can and have fallen into them.
The geographic location of Springfield is unknown and possibly unknowable, but Springfield is generally considered to depict, in a lampooning manner, "bread-and-butter" Middle America, culturally somewhere between a suburb and a small town.
Springfieldians are not, for the most part, cosmopolitan, and most are of lower-middle to middle income. The "small-town nastiness" of Springfield is made evident by a benighted tradition of "snake-whacking" whereby, annually, Springfieldians bludgeon snakes to death.
Lisa Simpson, disgusted by this activity, encourages the people of Springfield to quit the tradition with the aid of soul singer Barry White , as well as Bart Simpson, the latter of whom exposed that the holiday actually started as an excuse to beat up the Irish.
Springfieldians have a very bad reputation. Simpsons creator Matt Groening was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He commented that the fictional Springfield is based on Springfield, Oregon, located south of Portland. Like the Simpson family, the Groenings lived on Evergreen Terrace. While Portland does not border neither an ocean nor a desert, the Pacific and the Oregon High Desert are relatively close by. Oregon is the birthplace of Hunter Murphy.
Montgomery Burns' name is derived from Portland's Montgomery Park. Groening was a student at Lincoln High School at the time of its construction. However, Groening substituted Bart for his own name. Groening also confirmed recently that Springfield was in fact based on Springfield, Oregon.
In " Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em ", Bart is in an arcade with old games, one of which is Polybius, which is said to have only appeared in arcades in the Portland, Oregon area. In " Stop or My Dog will Shoot! In effort to get out, Homer repeatedly throws Lisa into the air to try and find an exit. The state of Washington is north of the Oregon boarder, so it could mean that the family lives in the Washington state. Oregon is absolutely nowhere near the "heartland", which usually describes the Midwest.
At least on one occasion, this was brought into doubt, as seen in " We're on the Road to D'oh-where ", where Homer says "I have to drive to Oregon". Halfway through said episode, Congressman Bob Arnold is seen offered and accepting a bribe from a logging company which wants to clear-cut the Springfield National Forest , much to Lisa's dismay.
Congressman Bob Arnold also poses for a photo shoot with Lisa Simpson it is presumed that he takes part in the photo shoot to boost his popularity in his district, and that the only reason he is seeing Lisa is because she is from this very same district.
In response, Barney says, "If I ever vote, it will be for him. The 'proof' that the Simpsons are from Springfield, South Dakota comes toward the end of the same episode. Just so there is no confusion, there is an amusing picture showing what this might look like.
On the other hand, it would seemingly make sense to be bribing the congressman that actually represents the district which includes Mount Rushmore, thereby placing Springfield in South Dakota. However, South Dakota can also be ruled out since congressman Bob Arnold could be on a natural resources committee in congress and simply knows the lay of the land, but this still doesn't change the fact that the Simpsons are in Congressman Arnold's district.
In "Kill the Alligator and Run", when the family are looking at the map, they decide to visit North Dakota, which Bart says that he always wanted to see Mount Rushmore, but is then told by Lisa that it is in South Dakota. However, it can clearly be seen from the map that the family are banned from the state. Springfield, South Dakota has a population of In " Coming to Homerica ", Milhouse states that they are in Tennessee Titans territory, as he and Bart walk past the Ogdenvillians that have moved to Springfield while wearing Minnesota Vikings jerseys.
There is a road sign at the Springfield city limit that lists a distance of miles to Mexico City. Another reference is in " The Bob Next Door ", where it took the Simpson family only a few minutes to get to Mexico, and since Texas borders the ocean and Mexico, it could be considered the place.
However, this can be dismissed, because Texas does not border five different states on one side. Also, in " Radioactive Man ", when the group making the film is looking for a location to film in, there is an ad for Texas and also sees an ad for Springfield, further ruling out this Texas. In Who Shot Mr. Part Two , Chief Wiggum says "No jury's gonna convict a baby. Uh, maybe Texas", making it even less likely that they are in Texas.
The fact that he says the name of the state and not just the city further implies that Springfield is not in Texas. It, too, is a Southern state, so the comment about Springfield being in a Northern state provides more evidence. In "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington ", during the reading of the competition essays, a map of the United States is shown, and pans to different locations to show other competitors speaking.
Just before Lisa is shown, the map shows the state Springfield is located in signified by Blinky on the map. The state is the north-western-most state of four states whose boundaries intersect at a single point. There is only one point in the United States where this occurs, and the northwestern of the four states is Utah. In " Radioactive Man ", the cast and crew of the Radioactive Man movie are looking for a place to film it in.
In a listing, Springfield is listed under "Film Utah". Springfield, Virginia has an Army base named Fort Myers, which is twelve miles away. It also has a nuclear power plant that is eighty miles away and has two albeit extinct volcanoes.
Springfield has the Washington Dulles International Airport, which is 27 miles away, and Richmond the state capital also has an airport, named the Richmond International Airport. Virginia did not allow gay marriages at the time; it has been previously stated that the Simpsons' state does not allow gay marriages.
Possible suggestions lead to the affirmation that Springfield is in Virginia. If you use this as a basis, Interstate 95 cuts right through present-day Springfield, Virginia, Tennessee is in the southwest border of Virginia, and Springfield is on the water of Potamic River, at Ft.
Belvoir now a museum. Census Bureau with a population of 30, as of the census. Moe has mentioned that American rock singer Dave Grohl was once mugged in Springfield. In " That '90s Show ", the rock music genre Grunge was shown to have been invented in Springfield by Homer's band Sadgasm. In real life, Grunge originated in Washington state in the mids.
Therefore, it is plausible that Springfield is located in Washington. Geographically speaking, the Springfield area shares numerous similarities to Washington. For example, the Springfield area is known to have at least one active volcano, Mt. Washington state similarly has several active volcanoes, including the well-known Mount St. This could mean that Springfield is either in, or at least close to, the Washington state. Springfield also has an implied proximity to Canada and in real life, Washington state shares its northern border with this country.
Springfield has a district called Little Seattle , which has many similar qualities to Washington's largest city.
However, this could have been fake, as she was on the run from the police. In the Powers of 10 couch gag, while the camera zooms out into the universe, it reveals that the Simpson house is located in Springfield, Illinois.
While Springfield, Illinois has a Shelbyville fifty miles to the southeast and a nuclear power plant forty miles to the northeast, there has not been any indication that it is the Springfield, and could be coincidental. However, the show does make an indirect reference to the Illinois city; when Homer is in a graveyard at night digging a plot, discarded dirt covers up the grave of Adlai Stevenson a prominent Illinois politician and two-time US presidential candidate, buried in Bloomington, Illinois, 50 miles to the northeast.
Annoyed Grunt ", Jeremy Freedman quits his job to go work at " Jolly Tamale ", which is a small but somewhat popular Mexican restaurant in Springfield, Illinois. The Simpson family's street, Evergreen Terrace, is a notoriously poor section of Springfield, Illinois. The Powers of 10 couch gag again left the location of Springfield something of a mystery.
While the camera zooms out into the universe, it is seen that Springfield is placed somewhere in the Midwest, probably near the Mississippi River Iowa, or maybe Missouri. The latter location is also suggested in "Lisa the Tree Hugger" in which Lisa tries to protect Springfield's oldest redwood tree by climbing up and living in it in order to prevent a team from cutting it down.
When looking down on Springfield, she sees a structure resembling the Gateway Arch in St. It should be noted that the Eiffel Tower appears to be closer than the Statue of Liberty, which is impossible. Similarly, Mother Simpson at one point during Homer's reunion with his mother had an American White Pelican landing on Homer and dropping a fish down his pants, implying that Springfield was located near the Mississippi River valley.
In " Marge vs. And by gum, it put them on the map! The map shows North Haverbrook in the Midwest, approximately in Iowa. However, the same map shows Brockway in South Carolina and Ogdenville in the southwest around the California-Arizona border or maybe in New Mexico , despite " Coming to Homerica " showing that Ogdenville is Springfield's neighbor.
It should be noted that since the Springfield Monorail seller was a fraud, the map may not be accurate and made to make sure all three cities fit on the map. In " Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield ", the Simpsons go to the Ogdenville outlet mall in order to get a new television. The sign in Springfield indicates that it is only 90 miles to Ogdenville. Lisa Goes to Washington", when it is Lisa's turn to say her essay, it shows a map where Springfield is in "Illinois".
In "The Springfield Files", Mulder tells Scully that there has been "another unsubstantiated UFO sighting in the heartland of America", referring to Homer's close encounter with an alien who later turns out to be Mr.
Burns under longevity treatment , so Springfield was presumably somewhere in the Midwest. In " My Big Fat Geek Wedding ", Homer suggests that Springfield is within a state bordering the Great Lakes; after Skinner tells Homer if he could just speak to Edna for a moment and Homer tells Skinner that he didn't tell him to say that, Skinner asks Homer why is he taking Homer's advice, and Homer says its because he's successfully married.
Skinner then notices that there is no ring on Homer's finger, so Homer says, "Oh, why did I take it off? Oh, right. To see if I could skip it across Lake Michigan. All radio and television station call signs west of the Mississippi River, except for few grandfathered stations, begin with the letter K while stations east of the Mississippi River begin with the letter W. Also, in " Simpsons Tall Tales ", when the Simpsons arrive on a train to Delaware, they pass the Mississippi River, meaning that they live somewhere west of it.
Springfield, Massachusetts is referenced by the "Springfield Memorial Bridge", which separates Springfield from West Springfield in the show and in Massachusetts. Another Massachusetts reference is that Mayor Quimby and his political machine have similarities to the powerful Kennedy family, including the mayor and his family's thick Boston accent, even though Springfield, Massachusetts natives DO NOT have the famous New England accent.
As for Simpsons writers and producers, more of them attended college in Massachusetts than any other state. This, however, could simply mean nothing. The bridge could be a coincidence, and Quimby may not have grown up in Springfield. In "Mother Simpson", Homer discovers that the tombstone he always thought belonged to his mother actually belongs to Walt Whitman causing Homer to pummel said tombstone and curse " Leaves of Grass , my ass!
Afterwards, a fax is made to Washington D. The first three places are all in the UTC-5 time zone when the Northern Hemisphere is in winter also when the episode was first aired. Also, assuming the sequence of events is meant to show how quickly the authority reacts to tax evasion, that would put Springfield in the North American Eastern Time Zone.
In "Lisa the Iconoclast", it is revealed that settlers founded Springfield in , which was before the Louisiana Purchase. Therefore, Springfield must be east of the Mississippi River. In "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", Fat Tony and the mafia drives into downtown Springfield past a highway identification sign that very closely resembles United States Interstate signs, and bears the route number The real I is a major north-south route along the east coast of the United States.
It should be noted, however, that this was a parody of The Sopranos , which takes place in New Jersey, through which I runs. There is a Springfield in Virginia through which I runs; while there is no Mechanicsburg in Virginia, there are four communities named Mechanicsville. In " Bart's Comet ", when a comet is threatening to strike Springfield, Professor Frink devises a plan in which a rocket is fired at the comet. The rocket is shown being launched from the Springfield Armory , which was established in Springfield, Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War, and still exists as a historical museum.
In "New Kids on the Blecch", L. Smash is able to drive an aircraft carrier to New York City. In "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood", on the map of Krusty Burger locations, Homer points to the one off the east coast, implying that they live on the east coast. There is a strong case for the non-existent state being west of the Mississippi River, particularly somewhere on the west coast. This is supported by the facts that:. It is also possible that if the town was located next to the Mississippi River, they could also receive "W" stations on their radio.
They are rescued by floating towards an unmanned oil rig which nevertheless features the Krusty Burger Oil Rig. Offshore oil rigs in the United States are found off the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and California. Earlier, when they were still on the river, the Krusty Burger map shows two locations at two oil rigs, one off of each coast. However, when the stranded group discovered the nearby restaurant, Homer points at the east coast oil rig.
However, the skyline is similar to New York City and there is a reference to destroying the Mad Magazine headquarters. Springfield is also served by the Union Pacific Railroad, which runs in the west coast of the United States. Springfield is near a junction of five states in real life, no such junction exists which means it could be a fictional state , yet it borders the ocean but via river ; it has a canyon, a desert, and mountains, including the tallest mountain in the United States.
Plus, the city has a vulnerability to every sort of natural disaster, which no one area would have. Sometimes it snows in Springfield, the town once experienced a hurricane, its ocean coast has an oil platform close offshore, and Springfield's western side which is three times the size of Texas is a vast oil field. In " King of the Hill ", Bart claims that the Murderhorn is more than four miles higher than Springfield's elevation.
Actually, the tallest mountain in the United States, Mount McKinley in Alaska, rises less than four miles above sea level. Also, Cypress Creek the community where the Simpsons move, which is said to be upstate is seen with mountains, so Springfield has to be in one of the mountain states. The revelation that Springfield was once entirely in the telephone area code and that chaos erupted when half the town was switched to the new area code does not clarify the situation; area code is in Missouri, while is in Puerto Rico area code was not in effect when the episode " A Tale of Two Springfields " originally aired in In " Lisa Gets an "A" ", Superintendent Chalmers refers to Springfield Elementary School as "the most dilapidated in all of Missouri", and shocks everyone viewers and characters alike by this disclosure, before continuing with "That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick.
There is also evidence that the Simpsons live in Louisiana. In "Treehouse of Horror IX", during "Starship Poopers", when Kang initiates telepathic contact with Maggie, Maggie responds by transmitting a signal with her pacifier sucking. As the camera pans away from earth, the concentric radio signals are shown to be emanating from Louisiana.
However, this is considered non-canon.
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