The Simpsons - State?

[LIP]

I was curious, the simpsons make sure to NEVER give away the state springfeild is meant to be based in - anyone know? Anyone got any ideas? I'm pretty sure it's a southern state, and i've been thinking texas - anyone got any ideas?

[cannabis campbell]

Yeah I know what you mean, I think its in oregon just a guess, lets wait for one of these yanks to reply :p

[OLDE ENGLISH '800]

i think its Ohio or Illinois but the writers wont say

[beachguy in thongs]

They had it between two states, but, I think it's Missouri.

[king of the world]

im pretty sure it was vermont that was chosen. north east state not a southern one.

[cannabis campbell]

Or kentucky I heard haha who knows.

[higher4hockey]

its kind of like the noodle incident in calving and hobbes, or the briefcase in pulp fiction.......things like that i think are better left a mystery....also like the '33' on rolling rock.

[cannabis campbell]

What happened with the briefcase in pulp fiction!!?? I haven't seen that movie for yearssss

[higher4hockey]

the briefcase was kind of what the story revolved around...but you never got see what was in it.

[Cooter McDoogle]

Series creator Matt Groening once responded to that query by citing an episode in which the Simpsons family stands in the ''five corners'', a fictional place where 5 US states meet in a perfect star. He added that the Simpsons obviously exist in a fictional America, and that the town name Springfield is used to be as generic as possible, seeing as a large number of states have a city named Springfield.

Joe America.... average person....... Anywhere, USA.


As for the contest they just had not too long ago, I found it interesting why people would say their Springfield is also the one from the show. I think the nuclear power plant is most convincing, but the city that said its mayor talks sort-of like Mayor Quimby was really dumb. 'Oh the show has to be your town because you elected a similar guy after the show had been on 15 years.'
Anyways glad to see people enjoying the Simpsons.


:stoned:

[Purple Banana]

In "Behind The Laughter," it's northern Kentucky. In the behind-the-scenes portion of season 6 DVD, Matt says's it's mostly derived from Oregon.

It's not supposed to be in one state, they're multi-dimensional :)

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

In "Behind The Laughter," it's northern Kentucky. In the behind-the-scenes portion of season 6 DVD, Matt says's it's mostly derived from Oregon.

It's not supposed to be in one state, they're multi-dimensional :)

now thats just weird :wtf:

[Gennaro]

In "Behind The Laughter," it's northern Kentucky. In the behind-the-scenes portion of season 6 DVD, Matt says's it's mostly derived from Oregon.

It's not supposed to be in one state, they're multi-dimensional :)

no clue ,

[rebgirl420]

I love the simpsons. Ive watched them since I was a little kid. I went to see the movie a month ago. It cracked me up. I watch it every day at 7 and again at 8

[OLDE ENGLISH '800]

the simpsons movie TV Links (http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/4/6485)

[steme]

Its def Kentucky.

[Blitzed]

There is a road in Springfield, IL, called evergreen terrace.. blah to lazy to type it out



One of the couch gags (which cannot be considered canon) zoomed out and showed the Simpsons' house in Springfield, Illinois. While Springfield, Illinois has a Shelbyville 50 miles to the southeast, and a nuclear power plant 40 miles to the northeast, there has not been any indication that it is 'the' Springfield, and could be coincidental. However, The Simpsons does make an indirect reference to the Illinois city; in the episode where 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). In the episode "G.I. D'oh", the Squeaky-voiced Teen quits his job to go work at "Jolly Tamale" which is a small but somewhat popular Mexican restaurant in Springfield, Illinois. The Simpsons' street, Evergreen Terrace, is a notoriously poor section of Springfield, Illinois.

The couch gag sequence of The Simpsons episode entitled "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" again left the location of Springfield something of a mystery. The sequence featured a "zooming out" from the Simpson household to a satellite view, then a solar system view, and so on in a parody of the 1977 documentary short Powers of Ten. The sequence contained plenty of cloud cover, but put Springfield somewhere in the Midwest, probably near the Mississippi River (Iowa, or maybe Missouri). The latter location is also suggested in the episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger" in which Lisa tries to protect the oldest tree in Springfield. To do so, she climbs a giant sequoia tree to prevent a team from cutting it down. When looking down on Springfield she sees a structure resembling the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri (but also the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington). A large river can also be seen.

In the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail", monorail salesman Lyle Lanley proclaims "I've sold monorail systems to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook! And, boy, it put them on the map!" He then holds up a map of the U.S. where Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook are the only cities shown. Marge then later drives to nearby North Haverbrook (where everybody resents there being a monorail there, despite the sign at the city limits saying "Where the Monorail is KING!"). The map shows North Haverbrook in the Midwest, approximately in Iowa.

In the episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", the Simpsons go to the Ogdenville outlet mall to get a new television. The sign in Springfield indicates that it is only '90 miles' to Ogdenville. When Lyle Lanley holds up the map, Ogdenville is in New Mexico (by the way, Brockway appears to be in South Carolina).

In the episode "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington", when it is Lisa's turn to speak, it shows a map where Springfield is in "Illinois".

In the episode "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; so, for that episode, Springfield was presumably somewhere in the Midwest.

Homer suggests that Springfield is within a state bordering the Great Lakes. He said:

[Reefer Rogue]

Best show ever, i wanna live there.

[texas grass]

not texas
dont think south
i think the mid west

if you saw the movie they were located in one of the 4 corner states if that helps

i dont know which states are part of the 4 forners

[beachguy in thongs]

Here's a list of power reactors in the U.S. ( List of nuclear reactors - encyclopedia article about List of nuclear reactors. (http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/List+of+nuclear+reactors) )

NRC Region One (Northeast)

* Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania
* Calvert Cliffs, Maryland
* Connecticut Yankee, Connecticut (Decommissioned)
* FitzPatrick, New York
* Ginna, New York
* Hope Creek, New Jersey
* Indian Point, New York
* Limerick, Pennsylvania
* Maine Yankee, Maine (Decommissioned)
* Millstone, Connecticut
* Nine Mile Point, New York
* Oyster Creek, New Jersey
* Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania
* Pilgrim, Massachusetts
* Salem, New Jersey
* Saxton, Pennsylvania (Decommissioned)
* Seabrook, New Hampshire
* Shippingport, Pennsylvania (Decommissioned)
* Shoreham, New York (Decommissioned)
* Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
* Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
* Vermont Yankee, Vermont
* Yankee Rowe, Massachusetts (Decommissioned)

NRC Region Two (South)

* Bellefonte, Alabama (Unfinished)
* Browns Ferry, Alabama
* Brunswick, North Carolina
* Carolinas-Virginia Tube Reactor, South Carolina (decommissioned)
* Catawba, South Carolina
* Crystal River 3, Florida
* Farley (Joseph M. Farley), Alabama
* Hatch (Edwin I. Hatch), Georgia
* McGuire, North Carolina
* North Anna, Virginia
* Oconee, South Carolina
* H.B. Robinson, South Carolina
* Sequoyah, Tennessee
* Shearon Harris, North Carolina
* St. Lucie, Florida
* Surry, Virginia
* Turkey Point, Florida (hit by Hurricane Andrew)
* Virgil C. Summer (Summer), South Carolina
* Vogtle, Georgia
* Watts Bar, Tennessee

NRC Region Three (Midwest)

* Big Rock Point, Michigan (Decommissioned)
* Braidwood, Illinois
* Byron, Illinois
* Clinton, Illinois
* Davis-Besse, Ohio
* Donald C. Cook, Michigan
* Dresden, Illinois
* Duane Arnold, Iowa
* Elk River, Minnesota (Decommissioned)
* Enrico Fermi, Michigan
* Kewaunee, Wisconsin
* La Crosse, Wisconsin (Decommissioned)
* LaSalle County, Illinois
* Monticello, Minnesota
* Palisades, Michigan
* Perry, Ohio
* Piqua, Ohio (Decommissioned)
* Point Beach, Wisconsin
* Prairie Island, Minnesota
* Quad Cities, Illinois
* Zion, Illinois (Decommissioned)

NRC Region Four (West)

* Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas
* Callaway, Missouri
* Columbia, Washington - formerly WNP-2
* Comanche Peak, Texas
* Cooper, Nebraska
* Diablo Canyon, California
* Fort Calhoun, Nebraska
* Fort Saint Vrain, Colorado (Decommissioned)
* Grand Gulf, Mississippi
* Hallam, Nebraska (Decommissioned)
* Hanford N Reactor, Washington (Retired - see Plutonium Production Reactors below)
* Humboldt Bay, California (Decommissioned)
* Palo Verde, Arizona
* Pathfinder, South Dakota (Decommissioned)
* Rancho Seco, California (Decommissioned)
* River Bend, Louisiana
* San Onofre, California
* South Texas, Texas
* Trojan, Rainier, Oregon (Decommissioned)
* Vallecitos, California (idle research center)
* Waterford, Louisiana
* Wolf Creek, Kansas

[Purple Banana]

The episode "You Only Move Twice" shows the uprising of Silicon Valley dream communites- i.e. Cypress Creek- usually located in northern California and Oregon. It's only a small drive from Springfield.

Springfield has an ocean right near it- in "Weekend at Burnsies," they go on Burns' yacht to International Waters for an illegal monkey fight, cattle marriage, pirates, and of course, drinking before noon on a Sunday.

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

i thought it was in massachussets lol.

[Cooter McDoogle]

I'll say it again, it's supposed to be generic and no state in particular. Better put: It's every STATE. The 'four corners' in the movie were not the four corners, Homer takes Bart to the top of a hill and says you can see all the states that border Springfield, then names a State from each region of the country. This is necessary to accomplish the purpose of the show, to take a humorous look into the American culture.

Being from Illinois, I wish I could tout our Springfield as the Simpsons' Springfield, but there's just no way. SF, Illinois doesn't look anything like the show, no place does because it is fictional. It was thought up in somebody's head as a sattire of our lifestyle back in the 1980's, even though the show has held up well through changing times. Three-eyed fish??? Remember the disaster at three mile island penn? It's literary commentary. If the town was called "americaville" the show would retain the point. Choosing the most popular town name in the US does not all of a sudden pinpoint the location.

[PaRanOiD81]

Yeah I think its Illinois too :)

[wholapola]

Illinois for some reason.

[beachguy in thongs]

It really could exist in upstate New York, with Shelbyville neighboring Springfield and the landscape. I've only been down I-90E across Massachusetts, and, once up from Connecticut to Boston, so I don't know the state, through and through.

[suhl]

it isnt any particular state. if you think otherwise, you are wrong, it is a fictional town with a common name for us cities. if you think otherwise, you are wrong.

[IanCurtisWishlist]

The creater of the simpsons is from Portland Oregon

[SMOKIN A WHILE]

There's a Springfield in every state!