List of locations in The Simpsons

This list of recurring fictional locations in The Simpsons includes towns, cities, business states, and other locations created for the television series The Simpsons. This list only includes places that exist solely in the Simpsons universe, not real-life locations that have appeared on the show.

Towns

Springfield

Main article: Springfield (The Simpsons)

Springfield is the setting of the series and the home of the Simpson family. It is located near Shelbyville and Capital City in a fictional state of the United States whose name is never mentioned in the series. Founded in 1796 by Jebediah Springfield, Springfield is a small city with a nuclear power plant, several schools, a variety of wealthy and impoverished neighborhoods, Moe's Tavern and Barney's Bowl-A-Rama. It is also the location of the worldwide headquarters of the Motherloving Sugar Corporation.

Shelbyville

Main article: Shelbyville (The Simpsons)

Shelbyville is Springfield's neighbor and rival city. It was founded in 1796 by Shelbyville Manhattan, who advocated cousin marriage among his followers, causing a split between himself and Jebediah Springfield. An intense rivalry between the two cities continues today, especially in the sixth-season episode "Lemon of Troy", in which Shelbyville residents steal a prized lemon tree from Springfield. In several episodes, "Lemon of Troy" in particular, it is suggested that Shelbyville is somewhat an alternate universe from Springfield.

Capital City

Capital City, often spelled Capitol City, is the capital and largest city in Springfield's state. It is a major urban center, hosting major sports events, conventions, and United Nations conferences. Its nickname is The Windy Apple, derived from New York City's "The Big Apple" and Chicago's "The Windy City". Landmarks include the main Duff brewery, the "cross-town" suspension bridge, the Capital City Stadium, the Capital City Amphitheatre, and the intersection of 4th and D streets.

Brockway and Ogdenville

Two towns mentioned by Lyle Lanley (voiced by Phil Hartman) as towns to which he's sold monorail systems (episode Marge vs. the Monorail). Ogdenville has also been mentioned in other episodes. In "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", Ogdenville is the home of the Ogdenville Outlet Mall which the Simpsons visit once, although the driving trip apparently takes several hundred miles over nearly impassable desert roads.

North Haverbrook

North Haverbrook was first mentioned by Lyle Lanley in Marge vs. the Monorail. Marge arrives in North Haverbrook and finds a desolate ghost town, as the faulty monorail derailed, causing a disaster and scaring away investors. North Haverbrook locals have since denied the monorail's existence, as Marge is met by a woman who orders Marge to "Go away, there is no monorail and never was!" Lanley is later attacked by the citizens of the town after his plane makes an unscheduled stop there.

North Haverbrook also appeared in "Little Big Girl". After Bart is awarded a driver's license, he gets sick of countless errands and goes for a drive and eventually finds North Haverbrook, and falls in love with a girl named Darcy. In this episode, the town appears to have recovered well from the monorail disaster, as it is now changed from a ghost town to a thriving community with multiple businesses Bart enjoys. All signs of the monorail have also disappeared.

Unnamed state

Main article: Springfield's State

Many locations, including Springfield, are located in a state within the USA which, as a running gag, the location has never been revealed. Simpsons director David Silverman has said that the state is called North Takoma and there have been uses of the abbreviation 'NT' and 'TA' in episodes.

Businesses

Aztec Theater

Aztec Theater is the downtown movie theater in Springfield. The first known appearance was in The Telltale Head where Bart and the school bullies Jimbo, Kearney and Dolph all sneak into the theater through the Fire Escape to watch Space Mutants IV. The theater was used to screen the premiere of the Itchy and Scratchy Movie in the episode titled as "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".

Bowl-A-Rama

Bowl-A-Rama (also known as Barney's Bowl-A-Rama) is the bowling alley in Springfield. The Bowl-A-Rama has had several appearances in Simpsons episodes. The very first known appearance is the episode Life on the Fast Lane where Homer forgets Marge's birthday so after rushing out to purchase a gift he ends up buying a bowling ball. Marge is insulted at the fact her gift from Homer was something obviously intended for his own personal use given the fact the ball had Homer's name engraved on it. So Marge decides she will keep the gift for her own use and goes bowling for the first time.

In the episode "And Maggie Makes Three" Homer tells the family the story of Maggie's birth. In this story Homer tells how he quit his job at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to work at the Bowl-A-Rama, which was Homer's dream job. This episode reveals where the bowling pins go after they are knocked over, the pins are shown ending up in a heap and new pins are manufactured instantly to replace those knocked over.

The Bowl-A-Rama is used in the episode "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment" as a way of smuggling beer into Moe's Tavern. In this episode alcohol is banned in Springfield and as a result Homer begins bootlegging beer he uncovered from the city dump. The beer is poured into bowling balls and Homer then bowls the ball into the gutter at the Bowl-A-Rama, the ball then falls into a pipe leading to Moe's Tavern where Moe charges and outrageous price.

King Toots

King Toots is a music store located next door to Moe's Tavern. The store sells musical instruments and is the place where Lisa's saxophone was purchased. The most notable appearance of King Toots Music Store was in "Lisa's Pony" where Lisa asks Homer to pick up a new reed for her saxophone for her recital. Homer heads to the store after work and realizes Moe's is next door and since the store wasn't to close for 5 minutes Homer decides to have a quick beer first. Homer finishes his beer with 15 seconds to spare but only to find the store owner has closed early. Homer goes back to Moe's fortunately to find the owner of the store and after much convincing from Homer and Moe the owner opens up to sell Homer a reed, unfortunately Homer is too late for Lisa's recital. Another appearance was in "Lisa's Sax" where after Lisa's Saxophone was run over by a truck, as a result of a fight between Bart and Lisa, Homer tells the story of how Lisa first got her Sax as she can always remember having it.

Krusty Burger

Krusty Burger is a fast food chain owned by Krusty the Clown as one of the many products and services owned by Krusty. Krusty Burger is seen as a parody of a typical fast food chain such as McDonalds or Burger King, a typical store features a Drive-Thru with a speaker box and most of the employees are young teenage workers. In the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" the Springfield police are comparing the differences between Krusty Burger and McDonalds, this is a parallel of the Royale With Cheese dicussion seen on Pulp Fiction.

It appears that Krusty Burger is located across the entire United States, in the episode "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood" after Homer looses the map he tells the group that luckily he has brought a map along which happens to be a map of the entire United States with locations of Krusty Burger restaurants. There is actually a Krusty Burger located on an off shore Oil Rig, this was seen after Homer, Bart, Ned Flanders and Rod Flanders had been lost at sea several days and were saved after finding an a Krusty Burger on the Oil Rig. In the episode "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" it was also revealed that Krusty Burger operates in different markets across the USA when Krusty Burger start a new burger called the Ribwich. After the Ribwich stopped selling in Springfield Homer and group of Ribwich fans known as the "RibHeads" followed the "Ribwich tour" as the Ribwich was tested in various markets.

Kwik-E-Mart

Main article: Kwik-E-Mart

A Seattle 7-Eleven store transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart.

Kwik-E-Mart is a convenience store located in Springfield and run by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. The Kwik-E-Mart first appeared in the first season episode "The Telltale Head" and is still featured in current episodes. The episode "Homer and Apu" it is suggested that Apu is an employee of the Kwik-E-Mart and after losing his job there had to travel to India where the Kwik-E-Mart head office is located, in the Himalayas. The episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" suggests different where Apu mentions at a bachelor auction that he runs his own business.

As well as selling food, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes and other items offered at a typical convenience store gasoline is also sold. In the episode "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", Bart is visiting Principal Skinner at the Fort Springfield where a missile is fired in the wrong direction, the scene is then cut to Apu standing in front of the Kwik-E-Mart bragging about his 8 new pumps just as a shadow from the missile appears, the scene cuts back to Fort Springfield where a 'K' from the Kwik-E-Mart lands in smoke. The episode "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" also shows the Kwik-E-Mart selling gasoline where Apu refuses to go out and serve a customer on the forecourt.

In July 2007, convenience store chain 7-Eleven converted 11 of its stores in the United States and one in Canada into Kwik-E-Marts to celebrate the release of The Simpsons Movie. The locations of the renovated Kwik-E-Marts were: Bladensburg, Maryland/Washington DC; Burbank, California; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Henderson/Las Vegas, Nevada; Los Angeles, California; Mountain View/San Francisco, California; New York, New York; Orlando/Lake Buena Vista, Florida; Seattle, Washington and Vancouver/Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. 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. The Squishees were Slurpees that are sold in special collector cups and the Krusty-O's were made by Malt-O-Meal. The promotion resulted in a 30% increase in profits for the changed 7-Eleven stores.

Lard Lad Donuts

A donut store. It seems to be famous in policemen terms, very often you see police chief Wiggum eating some. It's generally an estimated 3 metre tall donut store with an estimated 8 metre tall mascot of a young boy proudly holding a donut. In one comic he had to find missing holes from donuts for a lard lad donut store. In 'The Simpsons Hit And Run' if you see him in level 7 he will have red eyes. In 'The Simpsons Game' he is a boss to fight. Lard Lad Donuts was shut down by a health inspector in The Simpsons Movie, and the Lard Lad was painted in different colors. The former was disproved in E Pluribus Wiggum when an explosion blows the correctly colered Lard Lad's head off.

Moe's Tavern

Main article: Moe's Tavern

Moe's Tavern is the local bar in Springfield run by owner Moe Szyslak. Moe's Tavern first appeared in the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" and is still featured in current episodes. In the first season of The Simpsons the entrance appeared to be a saloon style door. The bar sells mostly Duff Beer although other beverages are served. In the episode Flaming Moe's Moe got behind on his beer payments and the distributor cut off his supply of beer as a result Moe started selling a drink Homer invented which Moe claimed title to and branded as the Flaming Moe. The Flaming Moe was an extremly popular drink until Homer revealed the secret ingredient allowing other businesses to create a similar product, The Flaming Moe has never appeared in any later episode.

Moe's Tavern has seen several other makeovers in various episodes of The Simpsons but the tavern always reverts back to it's former state before the show has ended. Most notable are in the episode Bart Sells His Soul where Moe turns his tavern into a family restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feed Bag and in Homer the Moe Moe turns his tavern into a yuppie bar called m.

Noiseland Video Arcade

Noiseland Video Arcade is the video arcade in downtown Springfield a popular place for the youth of Springfield. The video arcade has had several appearances in The Simpsons however mostly in the earlier seasons. The earliest known appearance was in Moaning Lisa where Bart challenges Homer to a boxing game on their home TV game system and while Bart is continuosly undefeated Homer decides to fight back by going to the video arcade to learn from the young children how to win in the same boxing game. Homer almost beats Bart but Marge switches off the game at the crucial moment. Was seen destroyed briefly in The Simpsons Movie.

Sprawl Mart

Sprawl Mart is a department store in Springfield and an obvious parody of Wal-Mart. First seen in The Fat and the Furriest. Homer worked there in On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister. Homer was required to work overtime in the store for no extra pay and workers were locked in the store. The workers used this as an opportunity to steal whatever wasn't bolted down from the store.

The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop

The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop is a comic book store owned by Jeff Albertson a.k.a. Comic Book Guy. The comic book store and it's owner first appeared in the episode Three Men and a Comic Book when Bart sees the store is selling the very first edition of Radioactive Man for $100.

In the episode known as "Worst Episode Ever" (which is a remark often used by Comic Book Guy) Bart and Milhouse are given the job of running the comic book store after Comic Book Guy suffers from a heart attack and is told to take a rest from the store and go out and make some friends. Was damaged in The Simpsons Movie, where CBG stated that spending his entire life collecting comics was a "life well spent."

The Leftorium

The Leftorium is a store in the Springfield Mall that specializes in products for left-handed people. The store is owned by Ned Flanders who first started The Leftorium in the season 3 episode "When Flanders Failed". At first business at the store was going very poorly, Homer wished that Flanders store would go out of business after receiving the larger half of a wishbone. Homer got his wish and the Flanders family were forced to sell many of their possessions much of which Homer purchased at a very low price, the bank reposessed the Flanders home and the store was to be next. Homer then regrets making this wish and the fact he never told any of his friends, who were in need of left handed items, about The Leftorium and as a result manages to get everyone he knows in town to shop at Ned's store saving the store.

The Leftorium has continued to trade profitably since this however there has been episode where Flanders has mentioned the store doesn't do that well such as in the season ten episode "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo" Ned mentions that most of his possessions he purchased cheaply. Also in the episode Home Away from Homer Ned mentions how a mega left hand store, recently opened, called Left-Mart (A parody of Wal-Mart.) is threatening his business.

The writers had wanted to have Flanders own a failing business and the idea for the store was suggested by George Meyer. He got the idea from a friend whose family had owned a left handed specialty store which had failed.

Schools

Springfield Elementary School

Main article: Springfield Elementary School
See also: Springfield Elementary School Students

Springfield Elementary School is the school that Bart and Lisa attend. It was revealed to once be the most dilapidated school in Missouri and was moved to Springfield brick by brick. Springfield has long been an underfunded school with a computer-less computer lab, a less than enthusiastic staff and a group of very uneducated students. On many occasions it has been said that Lisa is the only one keeping the school going. There are several subjects that have been cut, such as Geography (which was proving to be an embarrassment), math, and music, gym and art (due to a lack of funding). The majority of Springfield's adults attended Springfield Elementary in "The President Wore Pearls". The school is horribly underfunded. For instance, there is a cinder block in place of a tether ball, and it has several grossly incompetent teachers.

Springfield University

Springfield University is a large and prestigious college which Homer attended in the episode "Homer Goes to College", the third episode of the fifth season. It teaches several different courses, including nuclear physics, arts management and the meaning of cartoons.

Springfield High School

Springfield High School is rarely seen because there are very few teenage characters in The Simpsons, Springfield High School is most often seen in flashbacks, notably in The Way We Was when Homer and Marge tell the story of how they met. Springfield High School is seen in the present time in "The Front" when Marge and Homer have their High School reunion there.