An age old question...what state do the Simpsons live in?

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Honestly! Has anyone tried to figure it out?

I'm guessing it's somewhere around Illinois, Indiana, or Ohio...
 
They deliberatly left it unspecified. The question is unanswerable simply because the creators of the show never came up with an answer. The continuity of the series makes it impossible for it to really be any of the real states, because the evidence changes so drastically from one episode to another. If you watched every episode and wrote down every bit of evidence, you would find that there is not a single state that fits all of it.

But there's no need to go to the trouble. Other people already have, and there is an extensive discussion of it at http://www.snpp.com/guides/springfield.list.html

A fascinating read for long-time Simpsons fans like myself, and as far as I am concerned, the final nail in the coffin of the idea that Springfield is supposed to be a real place.
 
the live in no state. But if you had to guess, it'd be somewhere on the west coast, they went to a ghost town a hundred or so miles away from their home in one episode, and in another they house sat Mister Burn's house and took his yatch into international waters, aswell as there is a lighthouse, so it is on the coast and near a desert but outside of it.

The advantage of not letting anyone know where they live is that you dont need to have any continuity, something the show is known for lacking.

Mind you that is the best series ever, I love that show.
 
And yes, it is in the States of course. If you remember the episode when the real Seymore came back from the POW camp, he tried to make bart say the pledge of alegence, and bart said America, your so fine, your so fine you blow my mind. Therefor the evidence is overwhelming that they need to be in the states, Pfffftttt the simpsons not in the States, I dont think so, so take all that talk of the Simpsons not being in the states elsewhere, We have no need for websites that say otherwise here. :D

But again, I iriterate, the city does not exist.
 
It take's place in Missouri but they take liberties with it, to say the least.

~Matthew
 
I know it was just a joke but in the episode "Behind the laughter" (when they do a spoof of behind the music) they say: ...this North Kentucky family... :lol:

I love the way they use this to make jokes like when Marge was on the phone telling her adress to someone and Maude Flanders walked in when she was saying the state..."OhioMaude!" :lol:

Or when an animator comes to the elementary school for Speech Day and a kid asks him what state his character is from and he quickly answers "Michigan"!

What an awesome show! I just bought the second season on DVD. I highly recommend it! :goodjob:
 
I would say it was somewhere in the central US, but Springfield has a harbor (on the ocean, as the map that comes up when Homer ends up in command of a nuclear submarine shows Springfield harbor as the submarine's destination. Until Homer gives the wrong directions, anyway....) I think no real city works.
 
I Know there is a episode when the simpson point out on a map of the USA where their town is. They are ofcourse blocking our view so we can't see exactly where they are pointing, but it should give a hint of an area in the USA.
 
They're always so careful to be ambiguous it's funnier not to know - I especially liked the "OhioMarge" quote above :lol:

A bit OT I know but does anyone have any suggestions as to why there is ALWAYS a crow or something making a "caawww" sound when they cut to an exterior shot of the nuclear powerplant? :confused:
 
Homer was born on June 10, 1955, in North Carolina (!?...) All I know is that Springfield isn't in Mississippi (obscure Simpsons reference...)

Not that I care, because now the show royally sucks (but when it was good, it was the best show on television.)
 
Loaf Warden told you all in the third post of this thread yet you persist in speculating. There are loads of towns across the US called Springfield and they're never ever going to tell you where this entirely fictional one is supposed to be. It has made for a clever running joke, whereby whenever one of the characters is going to say then their words are drowned out, or if they will show you on a map a shadow will cover it or whatever. The Simpsons don't live in your America so don't worry about it!
Shall I start a thread worrying about the people of Baltimore because I saw the film Minority Report and the city was bombed?
 
Although Springfield is obviously a fictional town, how do we know that the revelation in "Behind the Laughter" is a joke? Is there any evidence that Springfield is NOT in Kentucky?
 
Originally posted by duke o' york
Loaf Warden told you all in the third post of this thread yet you persist in speculating. There are loads of towns across the US called Springfield and they're never ever going to tell you where this entirely fictional one is supposed to be. It has made for a clever running joke, whereby whenever one of the characters is going to say then their words are drowned out, or if they will show you on a map a shadow will cover it or whatever. The Simpsons don't live in your America so don't worry about it!
Shall I start a thread worrying about the people of Baltimore because I saw the film Minority Report and the city was bombed?
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Baltimore was bombed in "Minority Report?" I thought that was in "The Sum of all Fears?"
 
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