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A Complete Map To Springfield
neelm writes "If you even needed to know the names of the roads Homer Simpson takes to work, you can find out at
Guide to Springfield, USA. On the site you'll find a complete map and guide to all springfield location. The map was put together mostly by watching (and rewatching) Simpson's episodes. The map is even listed in Harvard Map Collection!"
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I love this place! "Donner's Party Supplies" We had one here, but the owner ate all the profits!
There was a cdrom years ago called "virtual springfield" in which you could wander the streets and see the sites.
Simpson's Hit'n'Run has a pretty realistic layout of the town as well, from Squidport to Moes, in fact this map looks like it was lifted more from that game than from 'watching episodes'.
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This looks a lot like the MIT Campus.
everyone knows that west springfield is 3 times the size of texas!
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I love the Simpsons (of course), but the whole Simpsons marketing industry makes Krusty the Clown look sensible. You can buy dozens of 'guides' to the Simpsons, every kind of toy, about a million computer games, and now a map of the damn town. There are hundreds of episodes of the Simpsons. Isn't that enough?
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That's just begging for a comment...
then i doubt the entire town is going to be layed out the same in every episode.
Isn't the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant parking lot next door neighbours to The Simpson House?
What state is it in?
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It's quite an embarassment, especially as they're a northern state.
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The detail of that map is just frightening. I wouldn't be surprised if the shows animators use it as a reference now. Then again, maybe they have their own map, in which case, the dudes that reverse engineered it really wasted their friggin time.
Anybody know about any WiFi hotspot in springfield
Personally, I can't wait for someone to make the first GTA mission expansion using this map! :-)
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This is definitely cool, but I thought that one of the running jokes of the series was that the town always seems to suddenly have new major geological features that don't fit with ones they've shown before. It seems like making a map of the place kinda misses the point.
But, then again, someone must have made a map of it for The Simpsons Hit & Run, right? Speaking of which, does this map match the one used in that game? Hmm...
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it's in the second quadrant, just below the sign "pressboard estates"
While this is fun, if they did watch all the episodes multiple times they had to have noticed that something as common as the simpon's home address has had 6 different values, although they have mostly been on Evergreen Terrace.
Still a fun diversion on a rainy thursday
Look around the area called "Springfield Harbor and Waterfront".
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I also found this link the other day.
Somebody has actually built a full scale replica of The Simpsons' house.
Very detailed, but I don't see "The only bridge out of town" (recall the meteor episode)
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Ahhh... Highlighted in bold red letters (like warnings, etc.) so that any geek who looked for it would, naturally, completely disregard it as insignificant
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...actually admitted that they gave up on the idea of a map years ago - it's on one of the DVD commentarys, when they talk about how at the start of the show they used to be really picky about the layout of the house and Springfield, but realised if they just gave up on that idea they could have some much funnier jokes (I believe Homer's house is at one point right next to the Nuclear Power Plant carpack, at another its just next to Moes etc. etc.).
So are there many instances of inconsistency?
When I first read this, I figured they musta used cartoon versions of the Vans from yesterday's Slashdot story.
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I would love this as a poster in my home office/cube at work. Anyone know any resources for printing out the digital version WELL? I use Ofoto.com for most of my digital camera pics, but they only go up to 20x30...I'd really like full blown poster size. I've sent an email to Jerry asking permission, assuming he says "Go for it", does anyone know a good place online to go?
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THere is a console game from EA (xbox, ps2) that lets you drive the entire Springfield. The game goals is identical to Crazy Taxi. Gameplay is so-so, The value of the game is in the creative details around town that a fan of the show can appreciate.
I don't see it. Wasn't it across the street from Moe's?
The rats didn't seem to have to to travel very far to get there...
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Sadly, still no answer to the unanswerable question: what state is Springfield in? Because Northern Kentucky sure doesn't have a coastline.
Where are the GPS cooridinates?
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Of some of the old classic threads in alt.tv.simpsons, like "Where is Springfield?" and "What's the layout of the Simpson house?"
In those two cases, it turns out that when you take in all the data from all shows, Springfield can literally be nowhere in the US, and the Simpson's house defies the laws of physics. This map is cool and all, but I suspect that a true map of Springfield is impossible to draw. Heck, off the top of my head I can mention the "Meteorite coming to crush Springfield) episode, where it's mentioned that Springfield has only one bridge going out of town.
Is this map before or after the entire town was moved (after Homer's untimely stint as town Sanitation Manager)?
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From someone who's driven I10 coast to coast too many times, west texas through new mexico is the *worst* part of the drive. Miles of beautiful desert, but it just gets to be the same after the first couple of hours. Sunset/sunrise is kind of nice, tho.
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Actually Matt Groening is from Portland, Oregon. He's stated quite a few times (most recently on the DVD comentary) that Portland is the inspiration for Springfield and that the name was chosen as a generic.
That was in the eipsode where Homer and Marge were spicing up their love life by getting it on in public places. Through some turn of circumstances, they wound up naked in the basket of a hot air baloon in a used-car lot manned by Gil. They took off in the baloon and somehow Homer ended up hanging naked from a rope. They came up on the Crystal Cathedrial (yes, there really is one - one of those TV preacher types built it) and as everyone was looking up, Homer hit the side, making his bare butt squeak accross the glass.
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The episode where Homer and Marge end up streaking through town and naked at the football game. During the chase through town, there's a bit on a hot air balloon.
"Now, let us thank the Lord for this magnificent crystal cathedral, which allows us to look out upon His wonderous creation."
(Homer's hits the window and his ass starts squealing against the glass)
"Now quickly! Gaze down at God's fabulous parquet floor."
(still squealing)
"Eyes on the floor... still on the floor... always on God's floor."
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It looks like the place is slashdotted. Here's a mirror? copy I found on Google's image search.
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But with anything Springfield, there are too many insconsistencies to make a definitive map. For example, in one episode Homer walks home from Moes and is exhausted, then the "Camera" pulls back and we see that Moes is just a few doors down from his house. So, Moes should be on Evergreen Terrace, but on the map it isn't. Same for the long-running joke over which State Springfield is located in (if you took all the facts from eposide together, the result is an impossiblity). Still, it looks like they did a great job with what they had to work with!
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The Maison Derriere is just east of the south end of the river.
Alternatively, go one block west of the Simpson house and then straight south.
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I see they remembered Shøp (the chain of Danish super stores). That one got lots of laughs, at least when you're from Denmark as I am.
But besides from that, it seems that a lot of those places are just a wild guess, and it have to be. I mean, even the creators have often forgotten to place the music shop close to Moe's.
And then there are the relocations that are done just for fun. like placing the power plants parking next to the Simpsons house.
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You absolute bastard. I'll never be able to read Harry Potter again without thinking of this. Damn web page warped my fragile little mind. And my friends will never speak to me again once I subject them to it. Not that that will stop me. Shared pain is lessened pain and all that.
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I find Morningwood Penitentiary funnier. Sadly, it took me a few viewings of that episode to catch that joke.
In 'Office Space' the protagonist lived in 'Morningwood Apartments'. I wondered if that sign had been built just for the movie or it was actually the name of the complex (possibly a joke by some suburban planner).
You are also aware that Apu went to Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, right?
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People should know that the real Springfield is in Oregon, the kind of run-down suburb of Eugene. I call it a suburb, even though it's really just anothe town.
The name of Eugene is the same as the Bart's principal, whose last name is Skinner, just like a certain Butte in Eugene, Oregon. Groening did go to the University of Oregon in Eugene after all. There's also a statute on the university campus that's really all too similar to that of the pioneer Springfield in the cartoon.
There are a lot of other similarities as well, but I don't have time to go into them.
I for one welcome our new cartographer overlords.
I'm still looking for the Escalator to Nowhere, the 50 ft. Magnifying Glass, and the burned ruins of the Popsicle Stick Skyscraper.
Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?
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....you insensitive clod!! :-)
Since you found that, have you found the KFP?
That was the Kentucky Fried Panda that was "Finger Ling-Ling good!"
Maybe it wouldn't be on the map since it got crushed by the log that used to be Springfield's oldest living tree?
Or maybe even finding the Angel Hills Mall. The one that was built after the scam of finding what looked to be angel fossils...
Hmm... what was that other mall built by the billionaire that bragged about climbing up Niagara Falls and knocking out a boxer? Where would it be located?
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Atlanta would be infinitely easier to navigate if you guys were a little more creative with your street names. How many variations of "Peachtree" do you really need?
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Doug: (embarrassed pause) I withdraw my question.
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And it's two blocks south of Pressboard Estates.
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