Homer's fish food binge ended up happening in real-life. The name Krustylu is an homage to Desilu Productions, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's production company, which produced the 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy. While the entire Simpson family has shopped there, and Homer and Abe worked there, it is a terrible place to work, perhaps worse than the Power Plant, with low pay, 24 hours a day shifts, no bathroom breaks, and fake passports given to American citizens to get arrested, if ever caught escaping. Luigi takes customer service very seriously. [4] Episodes frequently make fun of the fact that Springfield's state is unidentifiable by adding further conflicting descriptions, obscuring onscreen map representations, and interrupting conversational references. The impetus being the maintenance of artificial school-wide averages and therefore basic levels of government support—a practice not unheard of in the United States and other systems where funding is tied to test results. [37], Springfield boasts an opera house, an outdoor amphitheater, an arboretum, and a vibrant jazz scene, and was previously regarded as the entertainment capital of its state. For Grampa Simpson, the Retirement Castle is a lonely place to be. Universal Studios Florida, includes a Moe's Tavern in the Springfield section of the park. The Subjects were all taught by computers in ways including Virtual Reality and Computer Coding. The store sells musical instruments and is the place where Lisa's saxophone was purchased. A recurring gag is the dirty and dilapidated state of the bar. Despite being told by Try-N-Save security Don Brodka to never return to the store because of shoplifting, Bart is forced to go back with his family for a photo portrait session. Many of the school faculty seem very bored with their jobs and do not try to help students, leaving them to unfulfilling futures. Up The Shard: Did Lisa's premonition foretell the London landmark. When Springfield outlaws sugar, Homer conspires with Garth to smuggle it to town. Expand your town to the Waterfront, grow its businesses with the glamourous shops of Springfield Heights, and enjoy its sights, all with only a few taps. But if you look at the clues, you can figure it out. [18][19] In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "of all the Springfields in America, [The Simpsons] is most popular in Springfields in Virginia, Minnesota and New Jersey, and least popular in Springfields in Louisiana, Arkansas and Georgia". In December 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson placed the UK into a tiered system, in which the nation was segregated into different segments, with some tiers ordered not to travel out of town. Comic Book Guy. Professor Frink is a college professor at the university, and it is where Apu Nahasapeemapetilon earned his doctorate from. The very first known appearance is the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" where Homer forgets Marge's birthday and after rushing out to purchase a gift, he ends up buying a bowling ball. Singer, 32, and her charity CEO husband Simon Konecki, 46,... Universal Credit childcare rules are declared unlawful as single mother, 49, who found herself £2,000 in... Elegance coach reveals the clothes that make you look 'common' and turn off 'classy' men - including... High Street retailers and luxury brands threaten to BURN products returned by EU internet shoppers rather... NHS urged to recognise 'Covid tongue' as sign of the disease as experts fear a fifth of cases are being... Sadiq Khan calls for Londoners to wear masks at all times OUTDOORS - but data shows Covid cases in capital... Britons who refuse the Covid vaccine won't be protected by their neighbours because UK won't get herd... How intention to take a Covid vaccine rises with age: 98% of over-70s would turn up for their appointment... More proof Britain's Covid crisis is past its peak? The episode "Homer and Apu" suggests that Apu is an employee of the Kwik-E-Mart and after losing his job there had to travel to India, where the Kwik-E-Mart head office is located, in the Himalayas. Fans clocked on to this over Christmas when the movie was aired on Film4. [6] Groening named Springfield after Springfield, Oregon, and also took inspiration from Springfield being the fictitious setting of the series Father Knows Best. And they do". The comic book store and its owner first appeared in the episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", when Bart sees a copy of the first issue of the Radioactive Man comic on sale for $100. Otto Mann is shown to be a user of illegal drugs, and in the episode "Weekend At Burnsie's", Lisa notices a smell of marijuana and remarks that "it smells like the art teacher's office". Experience Unique Simpsons Stories Catch exclusive animated scenes and new hilarious stories from the writers of The Simpsons. Because of the many contradictory statements regarding Springfield, it is impossible for the town to exist in a specific state. The season 25 episode "White Christmas Blues" reveals that competition from the Southpaw Superstore forced Flanders to downsize the business to a mall cart, the "Leftorium Express", which he splits with a cosmetic saleswoman. Homer got his wish and the Flanders family were forced to sell many of their possessions, much of which Homer purchased at a meager price of $75. Springfield Penitentiary is a penitentiary that is the main prison of the show. The Android's Dungeon is a comic book store owned by Jeff Albertson a.k.a. The Bowl-A-Rama is used in the episode "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" as a way of smuggling beer into Moe's Tavern. It is a very large building with a domed roof and is thought to be at or near the center of Springfield, although it is not explicitly mentioned as being so. They also take full advantage of any-and-all time off that they have. The Simpsons are a typical family who live in a fictional Middle American town of Springfield. After the Ribwich stopped selling in Springfield, Homer and a group of Ribwich fans known as the "Ribheads" followed the "Ribwich tour" as the Ribwich was tested in various markets. It's also been claimed that The Simpsons Movie predicted actor Tom Hanks would be struck with the virus. In a strikingly similar situation, Channel 4 newsreader Krishnan Guru-Murthy had to present from home last week as he went into self-isolation. Springfield is a fictional town in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, which serves as its main setting. A running gag in earlier seasons was the poor security of the plant, with the outside security booth often going unmanned, but this has changed in recent episodes, with the entrance to the plant being heavily guarded. Homer once stayed there to cheat on his diet behind Marge's back, though he was caught on camera by the producers of Sneakers. This is seen destroyed in The Simpsons Movie. In The Simpsons Movie, the government lowers a dome onto Springfield, trapping the residents of the town inside it, forbidden to leave. The bank repossessed the Flanders' home and the Leftorium was to be the next asset repossessed. As a result, he and Rita had to go into isolation. The latest prophecy: The Simpsons Movie features a huge glass dome lowered over the famous family's home town of Springfield, Sealed in: The government lowers a dome onto Springfield, trapping the residents of the town inside it, forbidden to leave. The restaurant also offers karaoke. Season 20 Episode 7 "MyPods and Boomsticks" A spoof of an Apple store, where Lisa almost bought a MyPod. [citation needed], The town is divided into many neighborhoods, including Rats Nest, Bum Town, Chinatown, Crackton, East Springfield, Greek Town, Russian Town, Junkyville, Little Bangkok, Little Ethiopia, Little Italy, Little Newark, Little Stockholm, Little Seattle, Little Ukraine, Ethnictown, the Jewish Lower East Side, Kelly Terrace, Pressboard Estates, Recluse Ranch Estates, Skid Row, Springfield Harbor, Springfield Heights, Hyperion Drive, Springshire, Tibet Town, Waverly Hills, the borough of Sprooklyn,[36] the Lincoln Park Village Housing Project, the Flammable District, a gay district and a fast-food district. Opened in 1974, the plant is the key supplier of the city of Springfield's energy supply, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant's employees (like Homer, who is employed at Sector 7G) often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield. He adopted the same name for his show's setting in the hope that "everyone will think it's their Springfield". First seen in "The Cartridge Family", this is a run-down motel where everything is coin-operated, including the Bible. For a few episodes the school also had a tower with a winding staircase within which led to an observation area. Among the more alarming safety violations are emergency exits that are just painted on the wall, cracks in the cooling towers held together by tape, massive amounts of poorly stored toxic waste and dangerously unqualified personnel (mainly Simpson), some of which are not even human, such as a chicken that briefly substituted for Homer, and a duck that was used to pull a cart of toxic waste around. The building itself is deteriorating and prostitutes hang outside the lobby. The Singing Sirloin is a restaurant where all the waiters sing everything they say. [45] The locations of the renovated Kwik-E-Marts were: Bladensburg, Maryland/Washington, D.C.; Burbank, California; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Henderson/Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Mountain View/San Francisco; New York City; Orlando/Lake Buena Vista, Florida; Seattle;[46] and Vancouver/Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. It is one of the oldest location shown in the series, as it originally appeared in the Tracy Ullman short "Bart's Haircut" (where it was called Snipper Cuts). ... while the town is aflame and people fight each other. Among the restaurant's menu offerings are all kinds of sushi, including fugu, which can be fatally poisonous if not properly prepared. This policy was rescinded after the uniforms turned out not to be waterproof and washed out into psychedelic colors when it rained. In "Covercraft" King Toot is revealed to be a sleazy, overweight middle-aged man with a mustache who torments Moe by dumping all of his junk into Moe's alley dumpster without paying him, and ends up having a huge fight with Moe that ends with them both getting arrested and the music store being closed for repairs. Mystic Marge... Maggie, Homer, Lisa and Bart: The iconic animated TV show has been known to foresee major world events, PREDICTED IN: Treehouse of Horror XIX - 2008. When Homer is awarded $2,000 in compensation for being exposed to nuclear radiation, making him infertile, his long-lost half-brother Herb shows up, looking for investment in an invention that translates 'baby babble' - using Maggie as a guinea pig. The Springfield Shopper is a town newspaper, although it mainly prints tabloid-like newspapers and thus, in the episode "Three Gays of the Condo", it is stated that the headlines are "all a joke" and that most other people read the New York Times. 1987 Calendars!!! The school's poor funding is made worse by the town's refusal to accept any tax increases, no matter how minor, and even basic services are sometimes refused by the PTA, including a free service of refilling the fire extinguishers. In the 30 years of hilarity that followed, the holiday season has served … In the third episode of the season, the Simpsons take a hate-cation to Boston. Blinky, the three-eyed fish from The Simpsons first appeared in the second season of the show, when Bart caught it while fishing in the river by Springfield's nuclear power plant. It was created by Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan (with the link to their website sadly no longer working) and states it was last revised on May 26th 2004. 'Film 4 putting the Simpsons Movie on the same day Tier 4 gets announced,' someone else posted on Boxing Day, when several regions shifted up one - and in some cases two - tiers. Owned by Mr. Costington, the store has employed many Springfieldians, including Homer (as their parade Santa and as a mattress salesman), Gil and The Yes Guy. The Squeaky Voiced Teen has said that the school has an air hockey table. Here we go again: Fans of The Simpsons have pointed out that the iconic cartoon has seemingly predicted yet another world event. During the segment, he says: 'This is Kent Brockman reporting from my own home in accordance with the new curfew for anyone under 70. In "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly", the Try-N-Save brand comes up when Seymour Skinner leads Superintendent Chalmers to believe that his shoes are genuine Hush Puppies when they are Try-N-Save Shush Mutts. Costington's sponsors the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade (an identical move to Macy's) and holds a "Love Day" celebration. Homer takes the family on a "hate-cation" to Boston when he catches Bart rooting for a rival … By March 2020 it was declared a global pandemic. Mary Bailey (D) is the governor of Springfield's state. Hanks makes a cameo appearance, and says - 'This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please, leave me be', Another day, another prediction: While the theory is somewhat of a stretch, hardcore fans of the show are happily adding this to the ever-growing list of Simpsons predictions. It has been stated several times that the school is filled with asbestos, and the underfunding of the school has resulted in a variety of troubling scenarios for students and staff. However, they, along with the Kwik-E-Mart, are destroyed due to Bart accidentally interrupting a live mortar exercise at Fort Springfield when visiting the re-enlisted Skinner, forcing the soldiers to redirect the mortar fire into the town, destroying the store and pumps off screen. A real-life case took place at the Golden Corral in 2017, when a man ate 50lbs of food, getting kicked out. Akira works as a waiter and translates on occasion for the Simpson family. David Silverman, who directed the movie and various episodes of the series, joked that Springfield is located in the fictional state of "North Takoma". In Marge In Chains, a virus called Osaka Flu spreads through Springfield after residents order juicers from Japan. In addition, it is turned into an English pub named Nag and Weasel in the episode "Mommie Beerest". This suggests the map is only accurate up to the end of season 15 (the show is currently on season 27). The Springfield Mall is a shopping mall in Springfield. Taken from Season 4 Episode 12Episode Name: Marge Vs. Unlike Comic Book Guy, Milo treats the kids like royalty and lets them read comics at leisure, rather than hoarding them until the time is ripe. It is owned and operated by Jake the Barber. In the episode "Flaming Moe's", Moe's beer payments were delinquent so his beer distributor stopped delivering to him. Sub-standard facilities abound; including a cinder block having replaced the school's tetherball, cafeteria food made from circus animals and in several decades-old cans, shredded newspaper, and old gym mats, among others (only the teachers eat French fries made from potatoes), and "malk" having replaced milk. In "Three Gays of the Condo", it is revealed that when it first opened, it was originally called "Meaux's Tavern". Fans of the show took to Twitter to discuss the similarities - despite the fact the virus on The Simpsons came from Japan while the COVID-19 outbreak originated in Wuhan in China. Rigged? KBBL Broadcasting is a media company which runs all KBBL TV and radio stations, which is used to parody the media. Universal Studios Florida, includes a Frying Dutchman in the Springfield section of the park. Scenes show the juicers being packed into boxes as sick workers cough all over them - sending the virus to America, Close to home: Principal Skinner opens the juicer delivery from Japan and catches the disease in the episode, One person Tweeted: 'The Simpsons are from the future. One person on Twitter even edited 'Osaka flu' to 'Coronavirus' in Kent Brockman's news report from the episode, Not again! The Gilded Truffle is an elegant, upscale restaurant in Springfield. Marge became outraged by the violence in Bart and Lisa's favourite cartoon, The Itchy & Scratchy Show - and penned a letter of concern to the broadcasting network. Homer heads to the store after work and realizes Moe's is next door; since the store wasn't to close for 5 minutes, Homer decides to have a quick beer first. Locked down: Fans likened the dome placed over Springfield by the government to the tiered restrictions Boris Johnson imposed upon the UK in 2020, PREDICTED IN: Wild Barts Can't Be Broken - 1999. 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