“The Simpsons” is likely the most referenced show in Warming Glow history (Google search results for “simpsons warming glow,” 550,000; “archer warming glow,” 40,000), but we never addressed Matt Groening’s “controversial” comments last week on the REAL location of Springfield, O-Hiya, Maude.
Because who cares? Spending even a minute trying to figure out which state Springfield resides in, and how it’s able to have a gorge, glacier, ocean, mountain, and wetland, is missing the point of the joke entirely. And during last night’s new episode, “The Simpsons” used the chalkboard gag to make fun of the state sleuths trying to solve an unsolvable riddle. Bart wrote, “The true location of Springfield is in any state but yours.”
PHEW. Now that that’s been settled, we can get back to figuring out what really matters: who shot Mr. Burns. Wait. It was the baby? Oh, I’ve wasted my life.
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Springfield is located in some foreign than that will not extradite Al Jean for the murder of a once proud television show.
Feel free to insert any of the jokes you used for “The Simpsons Movie” a few years ago. I.E., “Hold that story on Iraq invading Kuwait Mark, everyone is going to want to hear the news regarding their favorite show.”
Seriously? There are so many hits for “simpsons warming glow” because, I dunno, the site’s name comes from a line on the Simpsons and 90% of those hits are just referencing the line and have nothing to do with this site?
/slips on nerd glasses
//takes puff from inhaler
Considering that Jebediah Springfield led his expedition to Springfield not long after his alter ego Hans Sprungfeld attacked George Washington, they probably didn’t leave much later than 1800, which means it is unlikely they got any further west than Missouri or Kansas.
According to the Simpsons episode “Behind the Laughter,” Springfield is located in Northern Kentucky. Though, for that explanation to make sense, you’d have to ignore the evidence of Washington’s assertion that cowards that refused to fight in the Revolution were called “Kentuckians.”
And that would just be ridiculous.
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For the longest time I thought that Springfield was in Missouri, they had dropped subtle ints about it within the jabs at the State (none that spring to mind right now), but then I stopped caring around season 12.
But now I think that Springfield is located in the middle of Matt Groenings Island made up of money and fanboy apathy.
“I’ll be deep in the cold,cold groundbeforeI recognize Missourah.” – Grandpa Simpson
Umm, maybe throw a “spoiler alert” in there for the who shot Mr. Burns reveal? Christ.
But which baby? Gerald?
Amen and goddammit.
Groening didn’t say the show *takes place* in Springfield, OR, he said the town was *named after* Springfield, OR. It’s one of the many core Simpsons details he made up on the spot while waiting to meet with James Brooks. It’s in Revelations, people!
For years I made a good case that it was Springfield, Ohio:
1) Springfield, Ohio, is about 1 hour away from the capital (Columbus), which so happens to be referred to in local jargon as “Capital City” (there’s even a very good restaurant in Columbus called the “Cap City Diner”)
2) Though not close to Springfield, Ohio, about an hour away from Columbus is a city called Shelby.
3) a bunch of stuff I’ve forgotten