The staff of the home have little to no respect for the residents, doing things like vacuuming their hair during "nap time", or switching their IV bags with their catheter bags when the former is empty and the latter is full. During the MENSA tenure, Mayor Quimby is confronted by Lisa Simpson after a group of drunks steal their Gazebo for a Shakespeare play. [2] The geography of the town and its surroundings are flexible, changing to address whatever an episode's plot calls for.[3]. It has also been confirmed in 500 Keys that there is a hidden classroom, but only for the use of dummies so the school can get publicity. [18][19] In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "of all the Springfields in America, [The Simpsons] is most popular in Springfields in Virginia, Minnesota and New Jersey, and least popular in Springfields in Louisiana, Arkansas and Georgia". It was damaged in The Simpsons Movie, like most of the rest of the town, with Comic Book Guy living out of the ruins, considering that all-in-all, his life collecting comics had been "well spent". Luigi's is a Springfield Italian restaurant owned by Luigi Risotto, who is a parody of the "Italian pasta/pizza chef" stereotype but seems to be aware of his status as a stock character. Opened in 1974, the plant is the key supplier of the city of Springfield's energy supply, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant's employees (like Homer, who is employed at Sector 7G) often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield. [4][10] The city's unknown and unknowable geography is a recurring joke in the series; the Dayton Daily News called it the "riddle wrapped in an enigma that is Springfield's location",[11] but Lisa Simpson states that "it's a bit of a mystery, yes.

It is a parody of Disneyland, complete with a similar park layout and similar attractions, and the fact that its European counterpart ("Euro Itchy & Scratchy Land") fails to attract the expected number of customers. Five Corners is "the only geographic location in the US where five states meet". It has been stated many times that the school is filled with asbestos. Universal Studios Florida includes a Krusty Burger in the Springfield section of the park. In the Season 25 episode "Homerland", he comments that the air conditioning system has never worked properly. Among the restaurant's menu offerings are all kinds of sushi, including fugu, which can be fatally poisonous if not properly prepared. Coolsville only appeared once, on the Season 19 episode 7 episode of "Husbands and Knives".

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Please check back frequently to our website for additional information! The school library was frequently used by the students, although adults who weren't faculty members frequently used the library as well, a notable example being Homer Simpson, who had to use the student library due to the public big people's library in downtown Springfield banning him from the premises due to unpleasantness, and used it to research Thomas Edison to inspire himself to invent new objects.

Their slogan is "Over A Century Without A Slogan". For a few episodes the school also had a tower with a winding staircase within which led to an observation area. 1987 Calendars!!! The comic book store and its owner first appeared in the episode "Three Men and a Comic Book", when Bart sees a copy of the first issue of the Radioactive Man comic on sale for $100. then wipes the screen with a cloth). 1691 Springfield Parkway, Fort Mill, SC 29715. In the episode "And Maggie Makes Three", Homer tells the family the story of Maggie's birth. For mindless chatter, we're your station!". List some advertising or highlight a staff member’s accomplishments. Hutz usually has an incentive for visiting, such as smoking monkeys. Jake's Unisex Hairplace is a salon/barber in Springfield. In the Simpsons app, it is called Jake's Unisex Hair Palace. A typical store features a drive-thru with a speaker box and most of the employees are young teenage workers. He was inspired by growing up in Portland, but it's really an every town". The basement includes a steam tunnel. According to Principal Skinner in. Click on Springfield Galley to see photos. "[53] It also made its first canon appearance in the episode "Bart The Lover". In the episode "Homer's Barbershop Quartet" Moe's Tavern is named Moe's Cavern as a reference to the world-famous Cavern Club in Liverpool, where The Beatles played. They serve, indeed, 5600 flavors, with their premier item being "The Ark", a gigantic sundae featuring all the store's flavors, 26 sauces, toppings and nuts. Springfield Preparatory School was a private school in Springfield. In the opening credits the school is featured with Bart writing lines on a blackboard, which is one of the infamous show gags. The town is home to the Springfield Isotopes, an AA minor league baseball team which plays its home games at Duff Stadium;[38] the Springfield Atoms football team at Springfield Stadium;[39] the NBA's Springfield Excitement (formerly the Austin Celtics);[40] and the Springfield Ice-O-Topes hockey team at the Springfield Arena. In The Simpsons Game, the Lard Lad mascot is a boss. Comics sold there are well-loved by Bart and Milhouse's Radioactive Man, Manboy, Radiation Dude, Batboy, Mr. Luigi takes customer service very seriously. The Happy Sumo is a Japanese restaurant. In the episode "Old Money," Grandpa inherits $106,000 from his girlfriend Beatrice "Bea" Simmons. In "Hungry, Hungry Homer", they refused to honor her coupon for discount hair streaks, as their thin profit margins would ruin them, but Homer (in an unusual exhibition of helpfulness) assisted the owner with finding ways of decreasing their spending, and they honored the coupon in return. Springfield Community College is a community college. Blackboard Web Community Manager Privacy Policy (Updated), providing differentiated learning experiences to meet the needs of all of our students, encouraging parents to be an active participate/partner in their child's education. [8] When Springfield underwent an economic crisis, Springfield Elementary, as a result of the cutbacks from the slump, significantly shortened the school day to no school at all. The principal is Seymour Skinner and its superintendent is Gary Chalmers, who often visits the school, usually for not a good reason. Skinner took the pool out when he spent an entire weekend inside it, among lots of worms, which made him what he is today. King Toot's is a music store located next door to Moe's Tavern. The tavern had to be briefly shut down as shown in "Who Shot Mr. Among the more alarming safety violations are emergency exits that are just painted on the wall, cracks in the cooling towers held together by tape, massive amounts of poorly stored toxic waste and dangerously unqualified personnel (mainly Simpson), some of which are not even human, such as a chicken that briefly substituted for Homer, and a duck that was used to pull a cart of toxic waste around. [6] Groening named Springfield after Springfield, Oregon, and also took inspiration from Springfield being the fictitious setting of the series Father Knows Best. Use it for a mission / vision statement or add a tagline. As the name implies, it serves both men and women. The first appearance was in the short "The Krusty The Clown Show". Costington's is a high-end department store located in downtown Springfield.

With almost constant reductions in the budget the school has been forced to use rather bizarre methods to make up for the lack of funding, such as being turned into a half-prison, half-school for the duration of one episode. It was revealed that Springfield Elementary was at one time voted The Most Dilapidated School in Missouri and was then moved, brick-by-brick, to Springfield. a very unsavory (and catchy, as Wiggum noted) song about him, List of Springfield Elementary Faculty Members, List of Springfield Elementary School Students, The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer, The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star, Miss Tillingham's School for Snotty Girls and Mama's Boys, Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children, Saint Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls, Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Springfield_Elementary_School?oldid=919496, Apparently, the school has a policy against faculty members interacting with students. In At Long Last Leave, it is mentioned that the school sneaks the kids answers to state tests, yet they still fail. [7][8] Groening did not intend to place the fictional Springfield in Oregon, contrary to a 2012 report in Smithsonian magazine. Springfield is a fictional town in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, which serves as its main setting. Other short period additions include a phony disabled ramp access system built by the local Mafia and other constructions. [46] These 12 locations, as well as the majority of other North American 7-Elevens, sold products found in The Simpsons, such as "Buzz Cola", "Krusty-O's", "Squishees", pink frosted "Sprinklicious doughnuts", and other Simpsons-themed merchandise. However, it has been subject to many natural disasters, including heat waves, blizzards, avalanches, earthquakes, acid rain, floods, hurricanes, lightning strikes, tornadoes, and volcanic eruptions. Many of the school faculty seem very bored with their jobs and do not try to help students, leaving them to unfulfilling futures. The name stood, and the school opened in August 1994. The Leftorium was a store in the Springfield Mall that specialized in products for left-handed people. Another episode reveals that the bar's liquor license is expired, is only valid in Rhode Island and is just signed by Moe himself. The name and the statue of the eponymous boy are likely references to Big Boy Restaurants. They get trapped in the car and attacked by a lion.

Springfield hosted our annual Family Literacy Night Tuesday March 29 ! Homer got his wish and the Flanders family were forced to sell many of their possessions, much of which Homer purchased at a meager price of $75. It was believed that Skinner was the one who shot him, supported by his going to the bathroom.