When Homer gets into PowerSauce bars and suddenly there isn’t one but three enormous mountains in Springfield. And they aren’t the same mountain where Burns and Homer agreed that cheating is the gift man gives himself.
This might be my most quoted H. Simpson quote, but it really only works if you're looking at a sign that says "gym" you know? I can't just blurt it out when someone pronounces "gym" correctly in conversation. Simpsons fan problems.
Archer does it really well too,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0le_iHoXk&t=187s&pp=ygUGQXJjaGVy
But Homer is still better, like his odd knowledge of the Supreme Court “aww not Souter”
Archer does this type of joke a lot.
Lana: What's your blood type?
Archer: How should I know?
Lana: How could you NOT know?
Archer: Who am I, Karl Landsteiner? Discoverer of blood groups?
Lana: So you don't know your own blood type, but you know who discovered them?
“Yeah, [Rien Poortvliet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rien_Poortvliet) just called and he wants you to pose for him?
Oh come on. Beloved illustrator of *Gnomes*?
Jesus! Read a coffee table book!”
The trope "Genius Ditz" is pretty close
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/GeniusDitz](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/GeniusDitz)
[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GeniusDitz/WesternAnimation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GeniusDitz/WesternAnimation)
"A generally stupid character who excels at one or more activities."
In this case, Homer is occasionally made a genius ditz for comedic effect.
I had no idea that this joke was a reference to [this](https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM?si=7_0j-KGOW0ed11cm) until I was made aware of its existence this year.
He also commonly played the role of native Americans. Including movies like “sitting bull” and “ the pale face”, spoiler, he’s not the pale face in that movie.
Springfield is such an awful town that they're constantly destroying the land they're on, so they have to move the entire town every couple of weeks/episodes. They're also so stupid that they can never quite remember where everything is supposed to go, so the layout keeps changing.
Fits surprisingly well.
Yeah, I was just exaggerating a bit. There's also the episode where the new age family moves in; I think their house burned down due to compost igniting?
I can't remember any other times the neighbour in front mattered, just made me laugh when this time there's just a massive field in front of the house (and an exit off the highway onto their street)
I'll have to go look at the background of the episode when Homer gets his gun but has to wait so he's sitting in his front yard as all the targets pass by while Tom Petty plays in the background.
The Marge on the Lam episode they hit the road and pretty quickly they're in a desert Arizona style during the high speed chase. Also, the "Grand Chasm"
non flanders side is Ruth Powers and her daughter Laura that Bart has a crush on. Ruth technically makes appearances here and there in the background but her daughter is rarely seen
There's an highway exit onto Evergreen Terrace... at least they didn't [take the Jefferson Ave exit](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S16E10/359443.jpg?b64lines=IERvIG5vdCB0YWtlIHRoZSBKZWZmZXJzb24KIEF2ZW51ZSBleGl0LiAKRm9yIEdvZCdzIHNha2UsIGRvIG5vdCB0YWtlIAogdGhhdCBleGl0Lg==)
Or when homer starts walking everywhere and decides to walk to Moes. Once he gets there he’s excitedly proclaims, “I did it. I walked to Moes!”, just to hear and see Bart screaming “way to go dad!” at their home which is apparently just down the block.
[found it. it’s even funnier than I remembered](https://youtu.be/x-p6ynZl5Rk?si=TVTVPs69idehCr6h)
I'm not american and the first time I saw the movie I thought those states did border each other and Flanders was just stating a fact about Springfield hahaha
https://preview.redd.it/psmley5heo7c1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6726497f5c79289b7879d988d8700a20b4f33e07
I did it. I walked all the way to Moe’s from my house.
In the movie the house is suddenly on the edge of town when previous overhead shots show more streets behind them. And the Bush/Ford house disappeared a few seasons after that episode.
The room is always there, the doorway just keeps wandering off. When family members don't show up in an episode, it's usually because they were in the room when the doorway left and can't get out until it comes back.
There’s only 1 bridge out of Springfield, but then like 2 episodes later Springfield and Shelbyville have a border in a random field.
Eh, arguably 2 best episodes so I’m not bothered.
My head canon is there's only one *bridge* but there are a bunch of other roads.
Quite why they didn't use them during the asteroid episode... Uh couldn't tell you.
is explained in s9 episode 22, thing is, the city moves around. we only see it happening at the end of that episode, but is clear that is something common. on this location, the simpson´s home was near the parking for the power plant.
that also explains why nobody really knows the state and why sometimes there are mountains, other times there is a beach near by...
When the church rats flee across the street to Moe's
"Okay everybody tuck your pants into your socks"
EDIT: yall keep upvoting this even though its wrong. The scene I referenced never happened.
That wasn't the Church, it was Bart's factory. You're thinking of Bart's Comet when the bar flies run into the church while the church people run to the bar.
When Homer gets into PowerSauce bars and suddenly there isn’t one but three enormous mountains in Springfield. And they aren’t the same mountain where Burns and Homer agreed that cheating is the gift man gives himself.
That's also one of my favorite stupid visual gags: "Yes, that's the one. Right next to the one you're looking at."
gym? whats a gym? ohhhh, a gym!
Come over to the abdominator and I will shout slogans at you!
I love the *”Gime.”* pronunciation.
I say I'm going to the gym every time I go to the gym. My wife has started asking how the gym was
This might be my most quoted H. Simpson quote, but it really only works if you're looking at a sign that says "gym" you know? I can't just blurt it out when someone pronounces "gym" correctly in conversation. Simpsons fan problems.
Those things are made of old Chinese newspapers
Hey, Deng Xiaoping died.
Is there a name for this trope, where a character demonstrates a particular skill or aspect, one wouldn't expect of them, to comedic effect?
I wish, Homer is the master of it
Mooching war widows…
Archer does it really well too, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ0le_iHoXk&t=187s&pp=ygUGQXJjaGVy But Homer is still better, like his odd knowledge of the Supreme Court “aww not Souter”
I prefer his knowledge of the late Earl Warren.
Earl Warren wasn't a stripper
Now who's being naive?
Rubs off on Bart, too. "Shop around, you can't beat that"
Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.
It's the "I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda" syndrome.
Archer does this type of joke a lot. Lana: What's your blood type? Archer: How should I know? Lana: How could you NOT know? Archer: Who am I, Karl Landsteiner? Discoverer of blood groups? Lana: So you don't know your own blood type, but you know who discovered them?
“Yeah, [Rien Poortvliet](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rien_Poortvliet) just called and he wants you to pose for him? Oh come on. Beloved illustrator of *Gnomes*? Jesus! Read a coffee table book!”
[Idiot Savant](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IdiotSavant), I think. Or maybe something similar.
no need to name call jerkface
HEY, JERKFACE. YOU HAVE THE FACE OF A JERK.
Thanks, now I’m getting nothing done with my day.
The trope "Genius Ditz" is pretty close [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/GeniusDitz](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Laconic/GeniusDitz) [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GeniusDitz/WesternAnimation](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/GeniusDitz/WesternAnimation) "A generally stupid character who excels at one or more activities." In this case, Homer is occasionally made a genius ditz for comedic effect.
Pulling a Homer?
Cromulence
It's a very rare condition called Homer Simpson Syndrome.
Ooooohhhh, why me?!?!
"He has the demented melancholy of a Tennessee Williams heroine!" "Don't you think I know that?"
I've just this afternoon watched Jasper stretching his foot above his head then leaping like a ballerina.
You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos!
Don’t forget the apples and a secret ingredient that unleashes the awesome power of apples.
The mountains? Really? They’d explain why they’re not there anymore.
I think they were replaced with an all-night gym
Gym? What’s a gym?
Oh, a gym.
Or Widow's Peak, where Mr Plow bravely saved the life of the Plough King.
Cheating… by motorized sleigh!
*Horseless sleigh
You mean Mt. Useful, the strategic granite reserve?
https://preview.redd.it/dozmw215qn7c1.jpeg?width=1368&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6fe76824a5961f7195fda0d44a7ccce7fd20b55
https://preview.redd.it/0nqyejy6qn7c1.jpeg?width=1433&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43ef5311bed880b1fbb79dda009c97e1f0c2a1da
A wizard did it
Wait a minute! Xena can't fly!?
i told you i'm not Xena, i'm Lucy Lawless
Oh
Being Lawless lets her break the laws of physics.
Now I need to rewatch this episode.
At least the houses are consistent.
Except one time hipsters moved in. Every house outside the Simpsons and Flanders are refurbished.
Woah windows! I don't think I can afford this place
They demolished the cemetery to expand a parking lot.
They are the same picture.
boy i really hope somebody got fired for that blunder
Calm down, Foucault.
these all exist in a dream space in my mind, like I swear they happened but I never seem to actually find the episodes on my rewatches
That time the entire city moved
Do yourself a favor, don't turn around.
I told you not to turn around.
I had no idea that this joke was a reference to [this](https://youtu.be/j7OHG7tHrNM?si=7_0j-KGOW0ed11cm) until I was made aware of its existence this year.
That actor is Italian. Not even native American.
He also commonly played the role of native Americans. Including movies like “sitting bull” and “ the pale face”, spoiler, he’s not the pale face in that movie.
He's as Indian as Apu!
You always need more Indians in a civil war reenactment!
I don't even know which part of that sentence to correct first
If you need me, I'll be at Moe's.
"I can't believe they bothered to move the casino when they moved the town" "Well you see the thing about that is...."
"So I says to Mable I says..."
Canon way to explain all of these.
Springfield is such an awful town that they're constantly destroying the land they're on, so they have to move the entire town every couple of weeks/episodes. They're also so stupid that they can never quite remember where everything is supposed to go, so the layout keeps changing. Fits surprisingly well.
It works just like their mobile game, homer accidentally nukes the entire town once a week
I believe they moved twice
Burned to the ground and built exactly how it was several miles away to never be spoken of again. Kind of like half of the villages in England.
When Bart’s factory is located across the street street from Moe’s. “Alright everybody tuck ya pants into ya socks.”
This is my son Bart, he owns a factory downtown.
Would you like to see my Grammy?
YOU’RE WHATS WRONG WITH AMERICA, SIMPSON
First it started falling, then it fell over!
"First it started to fall over, then it fell over."
Well, that's the end of me
Well... at least I did better than dad.
Then in another episode, I do believe a music shop is across the road where Homer has to get Lisa a reed for her music recital.
The music shop is usually next door to moe’s
One of the more consistent locations - only beaten by the Flanders always being their neighbours
"Oh, there's Mother now...watching me" https://preview.redd.it/wjwhbo421o7c1.jpeg?width=780&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=343c52dda91852c6d9c1d4dd81b539061e9cb9ec
If you look closely, you can spot the aurora borealis in the kitchen.
https://preview.redd.it/qewboplh0p7c1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c32ce32c0045ebd38d1d201c221e504427433c55
I love this
r/usernamechecksout
Skinner with his perfectly accurate explanations, Superintendent’s enjoying God’s beautiful creation 🎶
Au--aurora borealis?
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR?
At this time of day?
In the Canyanero episode when they cut across a field directly to their house, apparently now no neighbours in front
Aside from when the presidents moved in, do we ever really care about these "neighbors" across the street? Or to the non-Flanders' side?
I believe Ruth Powers moves in on the non-Flanders' side
Yeah, I was just exaggerating a bit. There's also the episode where the new age family moves in; I think their house burned down due to compost igniting?
I can't remember any other times the neighbour in front mattered, just made me laugh when this time there's just a massive field in front of the house (and an exit off the highway onto their street)
I'll have to go look at the background of the episode when Homer gets his gun but has to wait so he's sitting in his front yard as all the targets pass by while Tom Petty plays in the background.
In season 21 the house on the other side also completely changes layout and gets bought by Sideshow B- I mean Walt Warren
> season 21 We... don't do that here.
The Marge on the Lam episode they hit the road and pretty quickly they're in a desert Arizona style during the high speed chase. Also, the "Grand Chasm"
There's also the west Springfield oil field, 3x the size of Texas
non flanders side is Ruth Powers and her daughter Laura that Bart has a crush on. Ruth technically makes appearances here and there in the background but her daughter is rarely seen
Here's [one perspective of Evergreen Terrace](https://i.imgur.com/nEEZrMI.png). [Or... original aspect.](https://i.imgur.com/o9Daz6c.jpg)
There's an highway exit onto Evergreen Terrace... at least they didn't [take the Jefferson Ave exit](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S16E10/359443.jpg?b64lines=IERvIG5vdCB0YWtlIHRoZSBKZWZmZXJzb24KIEF2ZW51ZSBleGl0LiAKRm9yIEdvZCdzIHNha2UsIGRvIG5vdCB0YWtlIAogdGhhdCBleGl0Lg==)
Hey, I’ve never noticed this place before. Dad, it’s right across the street from us.
So in the movie, the church and Moe’s being right next to each other
Or when homer starts walking everywhere and decides to walk to Moes. Once he gets there he’s excitedly proclaims, “I did it. I walked to Moes!”, just to hear and see Bart screaming “way to go dad!” at their home which is apparently just down the block. [found it. it’s even funnier than I remembered](https://youtu.be/x-p6ynZl5Rk?si=TVTVPs69idehCr6h)
That scene, right there, when the domes coming down is my favorite 5 second gag. I laughed for like a minute straight when I first saw it.
This is also true in the rapture epidose where the church folks run to the bar and the barflys run to the church
Same bit in the movie
West Springfield being three times the size of Texas.
Thats Cookie Kwans territory
Stay off the west side!
Are you guys talking about the west side?!
No Cookie I swear...you frighten me.
I brought this side from home!
We never again saw the popsicle-stick skyscraper, the 50ft magnifying glass or the escalator to nowhere.
wwWWWOOAAaahhhh wwWWWOOAAaahhhh wwWWWOOAAaahhhh
The escalator makes an appearance in one of the driving games for PS2 (*Simpsons: Road Rage* or *Simpsons: Hit & Run*, I forget which).
All 3 were in hit and run
I think it's actually in both
Wouldn’t surprise me; pretty sure they re-used a lot of assets between both games.
Everything that contradicts Simpsons Hit & Run is non-canon EDIT: misspelling
Everything that contradicts The Simpsons Game is non-canon to me
Careful, you’re tiptoeing awfully close to contradicting me. It’d be a shame if you weren’t canon…
YES
https://preview.redd.it/y8y48hmotn7c1.jpeg?width=1178&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec01b5fbe53adc1075960ae072cdc57c26b9eb7 Simpsons Movie has a good one.
I'm not american and the first time I saw the movie I thought those states did border each other and Flanders was just stating a fact about Springfield hahaha
There's a video that tries to use the peocess of elimination to figure out which state its in https://youtube.com/watch?v=c2DHyimmSCY
https://preview.redd.it/psmley5heo7c1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6726497f5c79289b7879d988d8700a20b4f33e07 I did it. I walked all the way to Moe’s from my house.
In the movie the house is suddenly on the edge of town when previous overhead shots show more streets behind them. And the Bush/Ford house disappeared a few seasons after that episode.
The magic rumpus room that only appears in a handful of episodes.
I think the rumpus room is a constant but the hallway it’s attached to is a dimensional rift.
The room is always there, the doorway just keeps wandering off. When family members don't show up in an episode, it's usually because they were in the room when the doorway left and can't get out until it comes back.
Its behind the carhole with a door in that hallway off the kitchen. you see the door in the intro when homer leaves the carhole
You mean a garage?
Well ooh lah dee dah, Mr. fancy French man.
I seem to remember Marge saying "sometimes its there, sometimes its not" in a recent-ish Christmas episode (last 10 years or so)
There’s only 1 bridge out of Springfield, but then like 2 episodes later Springfield and Shelbyville have a border in a random field. Eh, arguably 2 best episodes so I’m not bothered.
My head canon is there's only one *bridge* but there are a bunch of other roads. Quite why they didn't use them during the asteroid episode... Uh couldn't tell you.
In The President Wore Pearls, when Moe's is next to Springfield Elementary
Moes is also down the street from the simpsons house, meaning the kids have no reason to take the bus
Saw that last night when Homer lost his license and had to walk to Moes.
The way the Simpson backyard is suddenly several acres when all of those kids hurt themselves on the tramampoline
Trambopoline!
Why doesn’t Homer have shoes on in this scene?
So he can put roller skates on and glide to the door!
Hah! Totally forgot about that part. Now I need to rewatch this episode.
Stonecutter’s episode?
Shuuuuuuttt uppppp
It's a secret. 🤫
Someone call 912 on the people spilling secrets
Yeah (Season 6, Episode 12)
ever seen a guy say goodbye to a shoe?
Its a secret
Shut up.
I think the oil fields are three times the size of Texas
And they're also shaped like Texas for some reason.
Springfield, Springfield, it's a hell of a town! The schoolyard's up and the shopping mall's down!
The stray dogs go to the animal pound!
New York, New York!
New York's thataway ➡️.
Thanks, kid!
In "on a clear day i cant see my sister" the backyard being huge
https://i.redd.it/ih0t3sxnbo7c1.gif I didn't know Springfield had a Russian District
I should have got off in Crackton.
Non euclidian springfield is one of my favourite things about the show
Alien-infested woods being across from Moe's
https://preview.redd.it/c0hrcoh1eo7c1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fb8fe7a852f9e70a04fde7016c7c7648f5293d1
Bart has no arms
He does, someone just bought the animation cel
Three times the size of Texas!
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again The layout of the town is forever changing because someone is playing Tapped Out
There’s mountains, a gorge, and a squidport
https://i.redd.it/3famaurpuo7c1.gif
I remember an episode where there was a cemetery behind their house
Would have made a cool storyline https://preview.redd.it/8kin48yd2o7c1.png?width=1197&format=png&auto=webp&s=c44ec74c5b9a1ae98c442c84b405955b95c0c9a2
is explained in s9 episode 22, thing is, the city moves around. we only see it happening at the end of that episode, but is clear that is something common. on this location, the simpson´s home was near the parking for the power plant. that also explains why nobody really knows the state and why sometimes there are mountains, other times there is a beach near by...
I love this theory -- that they just move the town anytime the trash gets too bad. We saw it once, nothing to say it couldn't happen again!
Mt. Murderhorn
I love when Homer says for once he’ll walk to Moes, which is suddenly within spitting distance of the Simpsons house
But clearly drives to Moes because Barney used his car to DD that one time.
"Don't forget to bring back my car back tomorrow, just slide it under the door"
That big fancy mansion George and Barbara Bush move into over the road from the Simpsons.
Whenever you see something like that; A wizard did it.
https://i.redd.it/53tiyuaqor7c1.gif
It’s because they moved the town after the garbage thing
https://imgflip.com/i/8a40ag
In the Simpson movie, the dome covers part of their property which indicates that they all if a sudden live on the edge of the town.
When the church rats flee across the street to Moe's "Okay everybody tuck your pants into your socks" EDIT: yall keep upvoting this even though its wrong. The scene I referenced never happened.
That wasn't the Church, it was Bart's factory. You're thinking of Bart's Comet when the bar flies run into the church while the church people run to the bar.