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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!
"In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women..." -H. Simpson
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?
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
That's a great answer to a stupid question.
Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart) visited my university a while back and someone asked about the state... her answer was something to the effect of, "Springfield is supposed to be a city that could be in any state in the country. If you look at the episodes, and track the cluest, you will see that they've pretty much all been ruled out. There is no secret answer." </paraphrase>
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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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
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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...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.).
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Springfield is suposed to be Portland Oregon.
http://www.portlandtribune.com/simpsons/
While there is a Springfield Oregon, down the road a 100 miles by Eugene, Simpson's Springfield is Portland, Shelbyville could be Gresham or Vancouver.
I find Morningwood Penitentiary funnier. Sadly, it took me a few viewings of that episode to catch that joke.
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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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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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.
It looks like the place is slashdotted. Here's a mirror? copy I found on Google's image search.
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Were the writers of The Simpsons always consistant?
Considering that the entire town has been lifted and relocated, it could've had multiple completely different layouts at times.
And considering that even TIME isn't consistent there (Bart has been 13 for 15 straight years)... you couldn't expect geography to make sense either.
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!
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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While The Simpson's try to make the show as friendly to the whole country as possible (and they enjoy keeping people guessing...) Matt Groening got his start writing Life is hell for the Oregonian newspaper. He went to The evergreen State College in Olympia. A bunch of the Streets in Northwest Portland's Alphabet district share names with Characters (Lovejoy, Flanders etc), The founder of Eugene (shares the freeway with Springfield) is named Eugene Skinner, There's a power plant Just north of the Oregon Border...There's a super Cheesy Theme park in between Springfield and Salem. None of these things really come up in the comparisons I read, mostly because those trying to find Springfield are too busy studying physical geography instead of the mental imagery floating around in the creator's head. Granted, to say that the Northwest is the soul influence not only carries that type of Statehood Narcissism that is usually reserved for SEC football college towns, it'd be downright stupid. He got inspirations all over the place. But to tell me that Groening didn't get the lion share of his ideas from the Northwest would be looking over what I think is the obvious. Springfield sits in Oregon.
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 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?