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80's children: Simpsons' Springfield Location Revealed
?Simpsons? fans got the answer to a long-debated question about the 22-year-old animated TV show starring Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie: Where the heck is Springfield? The ?Anytown, USA? city could be in almost any state of the union, from Maine, to Ohio, to Vermont, to Virginia.
But it turns out, the show?s town is named for (drum roll) Springfield, Oregon. Oregon! The creator of the cartoon, Matt Groening, revealed the location in an interview with Smithsonian magazine.
Immediately, the Web exploded, and Matt Groening became a trending topic on Twitter, withcomments flying. Eli Braden tweeted, ?No wonder we never see them pumping their own gas.? Ubersocial crowed, ?Eat my shorts, Illinois!? The Oregonian piled on: ?Better luck next time Ohio, Mass., Illinois, Missouri, etc.?
In the interview, the 58-year-old recounted that he had named the town after the TV show ?Father Knows Best,? which took place in a town called Springfield. Groening figured it was near where he grew up in Portland, Oregon (which, now that we think about it, was a huge hint).
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The "Life in Hell" creator told the magazine, ?When I grew up, I realized it was just a fictitious name. I also figured out that Springfield was one of the most common names for a city in the U.S. In anticipation of the success of the show, I thought, ?This will be cool; everyone will think it?s their Springfield.? And they do.? Or, they did.
When asked why he never spoke of the real town before, he explained, ?I don?t want to ruin it for people, you know? Whenever people say it?s Springfield, Ohio, or Springfield, Massachusetts, or Springfield, wherever, I always go, ?Yup, that?s right.?" But now we know, it?s not.
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-simpsons--springfield-location-revealed.html/
Edited: to fix link
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
Re: 80's children: Simpsons' Springfield Location Revealed
no, you didn't. who won that?
Children of the 80s nothing. That show is still on. I've been watching it every week for almost my whole life.
I figured it wasn't something so obvious as Illinois.
I think I remember something about that, too, copz, but I might be making it up, as well.
I will admit to being a bit sad that it's not Ohio - we used to go to Springfield all the time when I was a kid.
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
Pshaw - that show has been going downhill for years, and you know it! And I say that as a loyal Simpsons fan - until the middle of the last decade or so, at least.
Fun fact? When it first came on, I wasn't allowed to stay up late enough to watch it (I was the oldest, and my parents made us all go to bed at the same time). So for the first year or so it was on, my parents recorded it for us (on VHS, no less) and we'd watch it the next day.
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/simpsons-contest.htm
it was to host the simpson's movie premiere
Clearly not loyal enough.
I sing this to my daughter to help her sleep:
(I also sing the Gilligan's Island and Brady Bunch themes. I need to learn childrens songs.)
I've been watching since the Tracy Ulman days and I don't know what I'm gonna do when they call it quits. It will be like Buffy and X-Files ending at the same time while my favorite cafe closes.
You watch for the gems. They're still there.
Agree. I'm going to cry when it goes off air.
Also, I'm disappointed they revealed the location.
Is there a link to this story? I want to send it to H (the link in the OP is to the teacher/Trayvon Martin story.)
I love the Simpsons, even now. Like Mesh said, you watch for the gems. There will be some stupid boring episode but then one scene is just to die for.
And the whole Jack Bauer episode gets me every time.
Oops, sorry about that. Here it is:
http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-simpsons--springfield-location-revealed.html
"You don't get to be all puke-face about your kid shooting your undead baby daddy when all you had to do was KEEP HIM IN THE FLUCKING HOUSE, LORI!" - doctorwho
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