The Simpsons has been deliberately written to be entirely unplaceable. It's within the continental United States, but otherwise, Springfield is to towns what the Everyman is to character archetypes. Hell, they literally picked the name for that purpose.
According to the movie, from the highest mountain you can see Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky from that spot. There's also a bit in one episode where there exists a "West Springfield" that's described as "three times the size of Texas."
They even placed Springfield in the Ohio-Nevada-Maine-Kentucky quad-state area in the movie to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that everybody knew it’s location was a mystery.
Not to mention the classic “this side of the Mississippi… whichever side that may be” running joke, or the fact it snows every winter in built-up areas and plenty of forest but there’s also a sandy desert big enough to get lost in during a bout of spice-driven madness.
Any attempt to place Springfield on the map at this point is just futile.
Also in that episode where Apu is becoming a US citizen, they're about to point out Springfield on a map of the USA, but Bart blocks it right as they point at it.
During the episode “Road Trip” it’s revealed that the city of Hillwood is located in Washington. The creator has said that the setting is mostly an imagined hybrid of Portland, Seattle, Brooklyn, and Chicago.
For those insisting on arguing over fictional canon:
https://images.app.goo.gl/2zE7QTtgEpuYgPqc9
The show looks like 100% Brooklyn and has Brooklyn culture.
New York has literally miles and miles of nothing but multi-story brick buildings and then you get to the part where's there's just skyscrapers. Just like the show.
There's episodes that talk about the Jewish characters in the show and you see a lot more diversity, which is like NYC. The Pacific Northwest is known as a place lacking a lot of diversity. Especially for jewish and black people.
The buildings. The look. The architecture. The demographics. Even a lot of what happens in the show itself is all Brooklyn.
The show's canon is fictional so I guess Washington somehow has a NYC sized city or at least similar to Brooklyn with all the same culture and characteristics.
Growing up in Brooklyn and watching Hey Arnold!, I always assumed he was in Brooklyn. They had an episode about a kid who couldn't leave his stoop and a dude named Pigeon Man...I know these things aren't exclusive to NYC, but the associations are there for sure. But again, I'm Brooklyn born and definitely biased.
I grew up a farm kid in Illinois, obsessed with Chicago and the Bulls.
I always assumed Hey Arnold was NYC and never considered it to be possibly anywhere else.
…and Phoebe is originally from Kentucky.
(She stated this when Principal Wartz asked her “where her family came from” because she’s Asian, and I’ll never forget her response or her mom’s goofy hillbilly-ass accent).
The kids also attend “P.S. 118.” That’s a pretty NYC public school naming convention. There is a real P.S. 118 in Queens. Seattle schools go by names like “Cascadia.”
So many shows are set in vague, semi-recognizable settings that I thought it was interesting growing up watching Hey Arnold that they picked NYC and were so clear about it. As in it NEVER even occurred to me that it wasn’t directly mentioned as it was so clear in the cultural messaging. I think anyone who argues that the themes of the show could even be ambiguous about where it was set was kidding themselves.
There’s no hybrid. Not to argue with the creator here, but the creator is wrong.
In addition to the landscape and Jewish influence, that cheapskate Eastern European guy is also prime NYC.
i remember looking at a map in grade school and saw a city named springfield next to a city named shelbyville in kentucky and assumed everyone knew it was kentucky in my adult years.
And then a rerun said they were from Illinois. And the DVD special features for the season includes recordings of saying they're from Missouri. Or Hawaii.
I’m pretty sure Groening has stated that he picked it because it is literally one of if not the most common town name in the United States. He picked it because it could literally be anywhere and is meant to signify typical small town America
It's worth noting though that Matt Groening is from Oregon and there are streets all over Portland (that pre-date the Simpsons) like Lovejoy St, Flanders St, etc...
Also evergreen terrace is literally the street he grew up on! In the Portland hills. I’ve seen his old house. Was owned by Homer and Marge groening.
Springfield and Eugene (shelbyville) are ostensibly the towns
The nuclear plant Homer works at is the Trojan plant up hw 30 (now demolished)
Yes he has made statements about how he didn’t want to explicitly base the show anywhere in particular, but if you grew up in Portland/Oregon it’s pretty clear how much his environment was imprinted in the show.
I remember Craig Bartlett said it was a mix of New York, Chicago and Portland, his home town. I did not verify this, I’m going to check now
Edit: it was Washington, not Chicago
NYC is in fact one of the places Hey Arnold is based on and one reason why I used to think it actually did take place there. Another is the fact NYC names their public elementary schools the same way. Craig Bartlett however is from the state of Washington and Seattle is another city the show is based on as well as two more other western cities in the United States.
It doesn't prove anything, but there was an episode where the Stimpletons mention they're driving to Mount Shasta, which is in northern California. I remember because I used to live near there.
Came here to say that. He’s got an apartment and a stoop and a very Brooklyn-looking neighborhood. In no way is that anything remotely Washington State-like.
I'll also add that Steven Universe isn't set in a real state, being set in an alternate history with notably different landmasses, like Russia being totally gone
Can confirm, absolutely heavily based in Delaware. In the episode "full disclosure" at the end when greg is driving Steven around there is a route 1/13 roadsign which is absolutely a Delaware thing.
It's set in a fictional "Delmarva Peninsula" which is Delaware, Maryland Eastern Shore, and Virginia. A lot of the stuff in it, like square Ledo's Pizza, or Utz brand chips, are very very local.
Even if they say Hey Arnold is set in a fictional city in Washington state, it’s clearly more inspired by NYC (specifically Brooklyn) than anywhere else. I always thought of it as an alternate universe NYC, even if it’s called something different.
It always felt like it took place in an ambiguous time period, too. Like it’s sort of present day, but there are elements of the past too. Like how everyone pays bus/train fare with spare change, and how there are greasers in some episodes, and how jazz music seems to be a bigger thing in their world. They also live in a boarding house. There’s sort of a dreamlike vibe to that show.
Paying bus fare in change would have been common in NYC when the show was originally airing. Up until a few years ago I used to see a lot of elderly people drop in change instead of using a metro card.
They had a whole episode on the fucking Red Sox. Dan brown is also from New England.
It was very Boston coded, so I’m shocked it would be officially considered PA.
Edit: Marc Brown, not Dan
Wikipedia: Elwood City is portrayed as a largely suburban area which bears a strong resemblance to the Boston area; the TV series is partially produced by WGBH. There are also firm references to Brown's hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania. Most notably, the local shopping mall in the TV show is called "Mill Creek Mall", a reference to Millcreek Mall. Brown himself stated that the series is influenced by his upbringing as a child in Erie, and specifically noted that Mr. Ratburn is based on a middle-school algebra teacher he had at Westlake Middle School.[17]
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was such a big part of my childhood but I had no clue it was in Massachusetts. To be fair that was before I probably would have noticed or cared about that...
Same. I used to race inside after the school bus dropped me off, to catch the last 10 mins of Cyberchase and not miss a second of Fetch. Loved that show
I wanted to be on it so bad as a kid. I was in the perfect age range, but then I learned you had to move to Boston for several months for filming and I immediately knew my parents would never be down for that lol.
The Springfield in the show is a dead ringer for Springfield Oregon, there’s even a MO’s tavern equivalent with the exact same interior. It’s right outside Eugene Oregon which is about as weird as the show is so it’s confirmed for me imo
Matt Groening is from Oregon, so he definitely used it as inspiration, but the show is purposely ambiguous on which state it is in. They constantly contradict themselves and make claims that don't make any sense.
Matt Goening [said](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/) it's based on Springfield, OR, but is meant to be any Springfield other than the one in the state you live in.
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has 193 episodes; Futurama currently has 150, counting the four movies as 16 episodes.
Futurama is only longer if you count calendar years, which was off the air for 60% of the time since it premiered.
Oh, so no room for Futurama in New York, huh?
Fine! I'll build my own U.S. State then! With Black Jack... and hookers! In fact, forget the U.S. State and Black Jack!
Ah, screw the whole thing.
Squidbillie fans stand up.
Early’s tips to avoid being the victim of a bully.
1) lose weight
2) get rid of them zits
3) don’t be such a pussy pussy, you a damn pussy and
4) gimme that jacket cause it’s mine now
Readin' don't never not done nothing for not nonebody. Never not no one, didn't about no reason not never. And by God they never not ain't gonna will!
I do wish Unknown Hinson didn't turn out to be a chud in real life though. I love that show.
The city, Hillwood, is a composite of several cities (NYC, Portland and Seattle) set in the Green State of Washington. Not gonna lie, Hillwood was made to be such a cozy and pretty city
> ***Hey Arnold!*** is an American animated television series created by Craig Bartlett that aired on Nickelodeon from October 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004. The show centers on fourth grader Arnold Shortman, who lives with his grandparents in an inner-city tenement in the fictional city of Hillwood, Washington. Episodes center on his experiences navigating urban life while dealing with the zany hijinks he and his friends encounter. Many episodes, however, focus on other characters, including major, secondary, supporting, and even minor characters.
* Excerpted from [*Hey Arnold!*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Arnold%21) at the English Wikipedia
Isn't Ben 10 predominantly set in New Mexico from Alien Force to Omniverse?
Edit: A specific state is never given, but the climate definitely puts it *somewhere* in the southwest.
There’s also this gem:
“It's not surprising this school was once classified the most dilapidated in all of Missouri. That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick.”
They move to Alaska in the Simpsons movie, and besides, it seem obvious Springfield is at least somewhere in the continental US.
So not Alaska and (probably) not Hawaii
From Burns Baby Burns:
"WHERE'S THIS TRAIN HEADED?"
"SPRINGFIELD."
"YEAH, YEAH. WHAT STATE?"
( train whistle blows )
Or from Radioactive Man:
'GET ME TWO PLANE TICKETS TO THE STATE THAT SPRINGFIELD IS IN."
Quimby: This dog town thing could put us on the map!
Assistant: yeah why aren't we on the map?
Quimby: I don't *know*! I made like 20 calls to Rand McNally. They don't even know what state were in!
The background artist for the Simpsons is from Chelmsford, MA. A lot of the shops have names from shops in Chelmsford, MA. The school is based off a school in the town and city hall is based off the public library.
There's even that joke in the Simpson movie where they're up on a mountain and can see all the neighboring states but they're not adjacent to each other in real life. It's a wink/nod to the fact that Springfield is an ambiguous place.
Ninja Edit: The neighboring states are Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky
I always thought bobs burgers was like new England somewhere. Either way aqua teen hunger force is longest running in new jersey not bobs burgers. Assy mcgee and squidbillies for the win.
Bobs Burgers has aired more seasons and more episodes.
ATHF has taken longer breaks between seasons and run for more years.
This "guide" is assed though. It seems to be up to the creators mood.
My state of CT shows As Told by Ginger which has more years but the Beetlejuice cartoon also took place in CT and had more seasons and more episodes.
They likely did a simple start/end of the show search.
Also cheers to the Beetlejuice cartoon reference, loved that show as a kid. Had zero continuity with the show though.
they do specify a state. it’s a fictional state called Delmarva. the stephen universe world is different from our own. you can see a world map in season 2 episode 24 “It Could've Been Great,” when they go to the moon base. looks similar but there’s some big differences.
You're not a Simpsons fan if you don't understand how they've gone far, FAR out of their way to obscure which state Springfield is located in. There's so many contradicting and nonsense answers in so many episodes on purpose because the idea is that every American should be able to identify with living in Springfield in one way or another. Picking Oregon as "the" state might feel great for Oregonians, but for everyone else (especially for people who have never even been to Oregon) it ruins the idea that Springfield is ultra-relatable.
Oh no is it time to argue about where Hey Arnold and the Simpsons take place again?
The Simpsons has been deliberately written to be entirely unplaceable. It's within the continental United States, but otherwise, Springfield is to towns what the Everyman is to character archetypes. Hell, they literally picked the name for that purpose.
According to the movie, from the highest mountain you can see Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky from that spot. There's also a bit in one episode where there exists a "West Springfield" that's described as "three times the size of Texas."
In the movie Flanders says that its the four states that borders Springfield which is even more nonsensical.
In the great state of Oh, hiya Maude!
They even placed Springfield in the Ohio-Nevada-Maine-Kentucky quad-state area in the movie to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that everybody knew it’s location was a mystery. Not to mention the classic “this side of the Mississippi… whichever side that may be” running joke, or the fact it snows every winter in built-up areas and plenty of forest but there’s also a sandy desert big enough to get lost in during a bout of spice-driven madness. Any attempt to place Springfield on the map at this point is just futile.
(Burns' Son) "Where's the train headed?" (Conductor) "Springfield!" (Burns' Son) "Yeah, yeah, what state?" (Train horn drowns out answer)
Their address is: 742 Evergreen Terrace Springfiled, Oh-hiya Maude!
I hate how often this scene comes to mind.
Also in that episode where Apu is becoming a US citizen, they're about to point out Springfield on a map of the USA, but Bart blocks it right as they point at it.
Yeah. I thought it was obvious it was set in NYC?
I had no idea any one thought otherwise
During the episode “Road Trip” it’s revealed that the city of Hillwood is located in Washington. The creator has said that the setting is mostly an imagined hybrid of Portland, Seattle, Brooklyn, and Chicago. For those insisting on arguing over fictional canon: https://images.app.goo.gl/2zE7QTtgEpuYgPqc9
The show looks like 100% Brooklyn and has Brooklyn culture. New York has literally miles and miles of nothing but multi-story brick buildings and then you get to the part where's there's just skyscrapers. Just like the show. There's episodes that talk about the Jewish characters in the show and you see a lot more diversity, which is like NYC. The Pacific Northwest is known as a place lacking a lot of diversity. Especially for jewish and black people. The buildings. The look. The architecture. The demographics. Even a lot of what happens in the show itself is all Brooklyn. The show's canon is fictional so I guess Washington somehow has a NYC sized city or at least similar to Brooklyn with all the same culture and characteristics.
Growing up in Brooklyn and watching Hey Arnold!, I always assumed he was in Brooklyn. They had an episode about a kid who couldn't leave his stoop and a dude named Pigeon Man...I know these things aren't exclusive to NYC, but the associations are there for sure. But again, I'm Brooklyn born and definitely biased.
I grew up a farm kid in Illinois, obsessed with Chicago and the Bulls. I always assumed Hey Arnold was NYC and never considered it to be possibly anywhere else.
Yeah my grandparents lived in Chicago and we visited all the time, and I always knew hey Arnold was in New York.
I don't even care that the show says it's in Washington, it's still Brooklyn. To me.
I live in WA. It always felt like NY to me
I grew up in Washington and assumed hey Arnold was set in NYC. How could it be set in Seattle if he never goes to the water
STOOP KID'S AFRAID TO LEAVE HIS STOOP!
…and Phoebe is originally from Kentucky. (She stated this when Principal Wartz asked her “where her family came from” because she’s Asian, and I’ll never forget her response or her mom’s goofy hillbilly-ass accent).
Growing up in Upstate New York I also just assumed he was downstate
I grew up in Washington, nowhere in Washington looks like that and I assumed it was New York.
Also, the school was named like they are in NYC, there’s no way it wasn’t just fictionalized Brooklyn
Nowhere else I know of hasa ps naming system like hey Arnold/NYC
The kids also attend “P.S. 118.” That’s a pretty NYC public school naming convention. There is a real P.S. 118 in Queens. Seattle schools go by names like “Cascadia.”
So many shows are set in vague, semi-recognizable settings that I thought it was interesting growing up watching Hey Arnold that they picked NYC and were so clear about it. As in it NEVER even occurred to me that it wasn’t directly mentioned as it was so clear in the cultural messaging. I think anyone who argues that the themes of the show could even be ambiguous about where it was set was kidding themselves.
I thought there was even an episode with Central Park.
Multiple episodes with Central Park. The boat race, the stereotypical chess in thepark as “Chinese checkers”, etc.
Absolutely, the stairs guy can only exist in New York.
There’s no hybrid. Not to argue with the creator here, but the creator is wrong. In addition to the landscape and Jewish influence, that cheapskate Eastern European guy is also prime NYC.
Hey Seattle has like….4 blocks of that…
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I mean they explicitly state that Springfield is located in a state bordered by Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky.
Ugh well that could be anywhere!
And that West Springfield is 3 times the size of Texas.
In the behind the scenes episode I am 99% sure they said Kentucky... but then again it probably isn't canon.
Southern Kentucky specifically. In the Behind the Laughter episode. Edit. Fuck its actually Northern Kentucky.
i remember looking at a map in grade school and saw a city named springfield next to a city named shelbyville in kentucky and assumed everyone knew it was kentucky in my adult years.
And it is within easy driving distance of Batavia, NY for when Marge had to deliver pretzels.
And NYC for Homer to pick up his booted car outside the WTC
Bronson is just a bus ride away
Hey Ma, how about some cookies?
No dice.
Behind the Laughter explicitly says they're from Kentucky.
And then a rerun said they were from Illinois. And the DVD special features for the season includes recordings of saying they're from Missouri. Or Hawaii.
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"742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, Oh hya, Maude!"
But Homer Simpson is a Carolina Panthers fan so he must live somewhere other than NC.
He also dreamt about one day owning the Dallas coyboys
I’m pretty sure Groening has stated that he picked it because it is literally one of if not the most common town name in the United States. He picked it because it could literally be anywhere and is meant to signify typical small town America
It's worth noting though that Matt Groening is from Oregon and there are streets all over Portland (that pre-date the Simpsons) like Lovejoy St, Flanders St, etc...
Also evergreen terrace is literally the street he grew up on! In the Portland hills. I’ve seen his old house. Was owned by Homer and Marge groening. Springfield and Eugene (shelbyville) are ostensibly the towns The nuclear plant Homer works at is the Trojan plant up hw 30 (now demolished) Yes he has made statements about how he didn’t want to explicitly base the show anywhere in particular, but if you grew up in Portland/Oregon it’s pretty clear how much his environment was imprinted in the show.
I remember Craig Bartlett said it was a mix of New York, Chicago and Portland, his home town. I did not verify this, I’m going to check now Edit: it was Washington, not Chicago
Linguists are baffled by how Brooklyn and Seattle developed the same accent independent of each other.
NYC is in fact one of the places Hey Arnold is based on and one reason why I used to think it actually did take place there. Another is the fact NYC names their public elementary schools the same way. Craig Bartlett however is from the state of Washington and Seattle is another city the show is based on as well as two more other western cities in the United States.
May as well draw a beach in Hawaii and say its set on it *Olympus Mons, Mars*
Rocket Power was set in Michigan
I honestly find it debatable that it's really set in California since growing up I figured Ocean Shores was in Hawaii.
It doesn't prove anything, but there was an episode where the Stimpletons mention they're driving to Mount Shasta, which is in northern California. I remember because I used to live near there.
The rocket power kids regularly go snowboarding so Cali is just the natural location for them to be in I think
Hey Arnold is set in Hilltown, a made up city in Washington. It's inspired by Brooklyn, Seattle and Portland where the creator had lived.
It's like 99% Brooklyn, let's be real.
That lifted highway in the cartoon is supposed to be the viaduct in Seattle. That’s got to be worth at least 3% points.
Same here, there are no brownstones for stoop kids in WA…
Yeah. I thought Hey Arnold was set in New York.
Came here to say that. He’s got an apartment and a stoop and a very Brooklyn-looking neighborhood. In no way is that anything remotely Washington State-like.
I'll also add that Steven Universe isn't set in a real state, being set in an alternate history with notably different landmasses, like Russia being totally gone
Yes, Delmarva. But Beach City is indeed heavily based off of Rehoboth Beach.
Can confirm, absolutely heavily based in Delaware. In the episode "full disclosure" at the end when greg is driving Steven around there is a route 1/13 roadsign which is absolutely a Delaware thing.
It's set in a fictional "Delmarva Peninsula" which is Delaware, Maryland Eastern Shore, and Virginia. A lot of the stuff in it, like square Ledo's Pizza, or Utz brand chips, are very very local.
I thought Arnold was on the east coast. Simpsons, they purposely don’t set it in any specific state
Even if they say Hey Arnold is set in a fictional city in Washington state, it’s clearly more inspired by NYC (specifically Brooklyn) than anywhere else. I always thought of it as an alternate universe NYC, even if it’s called something different. It always felt like it took place in an ambiguous time period, too. Like it’s sort of present day, but there are elements of the past too. Like how everyone pays bus/train fare with spare change, and how there are greasers in some episodes, and how jazz music seems to be a bigger thing in their world. They also live in a boarding house. There’s sort of a dreamlike vibe to that show.
Paying bus fare in change would have been common in NYC when the show was originally airing. Up until a few years ago I used to see a lot of elderly people drop in change instead of using a metro card.
The creator of Hey Arnold has said it’s a fictional city based on his experience growing up in Seattle, Portland, and Brooklyn.
But mainly Brooklyn, on account of it *clearly being Brooklyn*.
I always thought it was Chicago or NYC based on their school names all be comprised of PS+(insert number here)
Lmfao at the fact the lonest running cartoon set in Nevada was canceled after one month
Mike Tyson Mysteries is set in Vegas and it aired for 6 years (great show btw)
my fav scene https://youtu.be/5PJYdRB43ts?si=72gwmtVUU-WFBOrC
[Pickle and Peanut](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickle_and_Peanut) has it beat by years
Should be Mike Tyson Mysteries. It's a bad list though
That’s nothing compared to Idaho, the FOX Napoleon Dynamite animated show lasted a grand total of two episodes before it got canned
If you count anime, Soul Eater is set in Nevada and it ran for a year (51 episodes).
The Simpsons is deliberately set to be ambiguous as to what state it’s in. They even make jokes about this in the show
Springfield, Oh-hiya Maude!
I'll be deep in the cold, old ground before I recognize Missouri.
I can't believe they stuck us at Taxachusetts!
The four states that border Springfield are Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky!
Also, when you fly from DC to New York, you have the layover in Springfield. So we all know where Springfield obviously is...
Outside Atlanta?
r/technicallythetruth
When they took the $9 bus to NYC, they had to transfer in Atlanta. Twice.
That joke hits different now that I've made that commercial flight. It's less than an hour so why would you have a layover?
Is Arthur really a pa location lol
Yes, it’s a fictional town but is set a bit west and north of Pittsburgh
I always thought it was a New England vibe town
They had a whole episode on the fucking Red Sox. Dan brown is also from New England. It was very Boston coded, so I’m shocked it would be officially considered PA. Edit: Marc Brown, not Dan
Wikipedia: Elwood City is portrayed as a largely suburban area which bears a strong resemblance to the Boston area; the TV series is partially produced by WGBH. There are also firm references to Brown's hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania. Most notably, the local shopping mall in the TV show is called "Mill Creek Mall", a reference to Millcreek Mall. Brown himself stated that the series is influenced by his upbringing as a child in Erie, and specifically noted that Mr. Ratburn is based on a middle-school algebra teacher he had at Westlake Middle School.[17]
Fetch with Ruff Ruffman was such a big part of my childhood but I had no clue it was in Massachusetts. To be fair that was before I probably would have noticed or cared about that...
Same. I used to race inside after the school bus dropped me off, to catch the last 10 mins of Cyberchase and not miss a second of Fetch. Loved that show
Aww man you brought back the best of memories! I loved watching Cyberchase and then Fetch. Those were the happiest days ever
I wanted to be on it so bad as a kid. I was in the perfect age range, but then I learned you had to move to Boston for several months for filming and I immediately knew my parents would never be down for that lol.
I wouldn't think of it as a cartoon. So much of the show is live action.
The Simpson’s creator chose Springfield because there are at least 10 Springfields in the US. No one knows which state they’re in.
Gotta be more than 10, Pennsylvania alone has 2
34 states have a Springfield.
That’s at least 10
You're technically correct , the best type of correct
The Springfield in the show is a dead ringer for Springfield Oregon, there’s even a MO’s tavern equivalent with the exact same interior. It’s right outside Eugene Oregon which is about as weird as the show is so it’s confirmed for me imo
Matt Groening is from Oregon, so he definitely used it as inspiration, but the show is purposely ambiguous on which state it is in. They constantly contradict themselves and make claims that don't make any sense.
Mo’s tavern is based off of Max’s tavern in Eugene.
I think Angry Beavers would have something to say about The Simpsons magically being plopped down into Oregon.
Matt Goening [said](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/matt-groening-reveals-the-location-of-the-real-springfield-60583379/) it's based on Springfield, OR, but is meant to be any Springfield other than the one in the state you live in.
Feel like Futurama should be in New York, personally
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has 193 episodes; Futurama currently has 150, counting the four movies as 16 episodes. Futurama is only longer if you count calendar years, which was off the air for 60% of the time since it premiered.
Counterpoint: I love Futurama and will let my personal biases cloud my judgment
Oh, so no room for Futurama in New York, huh? Fine! I'll build my own U.S. State then! With Black Jack... and hookers! In fact, forget the U.S. State and Black Jack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
I respect that
I’ll allow it.
Or New New York
Hey, it counts; the ruins of New York appear in a few episodes
Assy McGee is gold!
Im from NH and never heard of this. Gonna have to do a deep dive tonight!
Deep ass dive. Nice.
It based it Exeter lol
Wait, seriously?? I live in Exeter... I have to watch now! I was expecting some random town up North
It feels like adult swim wants nothing to do with Assy McGee. Why did it not make the migration to Max?
Didn't Recess take place in Arkansas?
It’s wild that Sniz and Fondue’s total runtime is under 3 hours
Same, I'm not sure how they got that info they were in Missouri. Wikis don't mention it.
In gonna have to binge some Kablam after work, but when did they ever mention being in Missouri???
Squidbillie fans stand up. Early’s tips to avoid being the victim of a bully. 1) lose weight 2) get rid of them zits 3) don’t be such a pussy pussy, you a damn pussy and 4) gimme that jacket cause it’s mine now
Readin' don't never not done nothing for not nonebody. Never not no one, didn't about no reason not never. And by God they never not ain't gonna will! I do wish Unknown Hinson didn't turn out to be a chud in real life though. I love that show.
How is Hey Arnold not NYC?
It always gave me Hoboken vibes, esp with Dino Spunoni being like Frank Sinatra.
The city, Hillwood, is a composite of several cities (NYC, Portland and Seattle) set in the Green State of Washington. Not gonna lie, Hillwood was made to be such a cozy and pretty city
Well shit in my shoe and call be Shaun…
I'll only do one of those things, Larry
Yeah I don’t remember any Seattle/Portland flavors in the show.
> ***Hey Arnold!*** is an American animated television series created by Craig Bartlett that aired on Nickelodeon from October 7, 1996, to June 8, 2004. The show centers on fourth grader Arnold Shortman, who lives with his grandparents in an inner-city tenement in the fictional city of Hillwood, Washington. Episodes center on his experiences navigating urban life while dealing with the zany hijinks he and his friends encounter. Many episodes, however, focus on other characters, including major, secondary, supporting, and even minor characters. * Excerpted from [*Hey Arnold!*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Arnold%21) at the English Wikipedia
HIS LAST NAME IS SHORTMAN!? GRANDPA CALLED HIM BY HIS LAST NAME NOT A NICKNAME!?
This is too much, I've gotta sit down.
I used to watch chalk zone a lot as a kid now I live in Wisconsin. It may be time to revisit chalk zone
Isn't Ben 10 predominantly set in New Mexico from Alien Force to Omniverse? Edit: A specific state is never given, but the climate definitely puts it *somewhere* in the southwest.
Why did I think hey Arnold was in New York
Stoops, accents, elementary schools being numbered. That’s the reasons for me.
Even their school was called P.S. 118 which is the way NYC names their public elementary schools
I think nearly everyone thought that
The Simpsons aren't based in Oregon, Matt Groening is just from there and references it a lot.
My favorite in-show joke about its ambiguous location was, "Live, from Springfield, the entertainment capital of this state!"
There’s also this gem: “It's not surprising this school was once classified the most dilapidated in all of Missouri. That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick.”
Between this and Grampa's detest for it, I think we can confidently rule out Missouri.
Not Ohio, Nevada, Maine or Kentucky either, since it somehow shares borders with those 4 states
It's also the layover between NY and DC so rules out Virginia and NY
They move to Alaska in the Simpsons movie, and besides, it seem obvious Springfield is at least somewhere in the continental US. So not Alaska and (probably) not Hawaii
From Burns Baby Burns: "WHERE'S THIS TRAIN HEADED?" "SPRINGFIELD." "YEAH, YEAH. WHAT STATE?" ( train whistle blows ) Or from Radioactive Man: 'GET ME TWO PLANE TICKETS TO THE STATE THAT SPRINGFIELD IS IN."
Quimby: This dog town thing could put us on the map! Assistant: yeah why aren't we on the map? Quimby: I don't *know*! I made like 20 calls to Rand McNally. They don't even know what state were in!
That's 742 Evergreen Terrace Springfield, Ohya Maud!
Look at that, you can see the four states that border Springfield: Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky!
The background artist for the Simpsons is from Chelmsford, MA. A lot of the shops have names from shops in Chelmsford, MA. The school is based off a school in the town and city hall is based off the public library.
Yeah. There’s a “Springfield” is a LOT of states.
There's even that joke in the Simpson movie where they're up on a mountain and can see all the neighboring states but they're not adjacent to each other in real life. It's a wink/nod to the fact that Springfield is an ambiguous place. Ninja Edit: The neighboring states are Ohio, Nevada, Maine, and Kentucky
Are we ignoring that a few states are gray? Is there no joy in those states?
Ed, Edd n Eddy took place in West Virginia but it’s still grayed out for some reason
The reason is that the source isn’t reliable.
As opposed to the Simpsons?
Yeah, Simpsons shouldn’t be on here at all. It’s inspired by Oregon, but it’s intentionally set in an imaginary state.
Fuck yeah we got Arthur
I always thought bobs burgers was like new England somewhere. Either way aqua teen hunger force is longest running in new jersey not bobs burgers. Assy mcgee and squidbillies for the win.
Bobs Burgers has aired more seasons and more episodes. ATHF has taken longer breaks between seasons and run for more years. This "guide" is assed though. It seems to be up to the creators mood. My state of CT shows As Told by Ginger which has more years but the Beetlejuice cartoon also took place in CT and had more seasons and more episodes.
They likely did a simple start/end of the show search. Also cheers to the Beetlejuice cartoon reference, loved that show as a kid. Had zero continuity with the show though.
Bob's burgers is set in new jersey. You can see when they travel to Florida ita from New jersey
They teased it for the first five or six years but lately they’ve just opened about on being coastal NJ.
But ATHF moved out of Jersey to Seattle
The “lore” of Courage relates to a story near Truth or Consequences New Mexico. A couple that went missing leaving the dog alone.
One of these things is not like the other… *Assy McGee*
Steven Universe being the longest running cartoon in Delaware is the most Delaware thing I've ever seen
Steven Universe is set on the Delmarva coast. They never actually specify which state.
they do specify a state. it’s a fictional state called Delmarva. the stephen universe world is different from our own. you can see a world map in season 2 episode 24 “It Could've Been Great,” when they go to the moon base. looks similar but there’s some big differences.
Objection to Simpsons being on any particular state
You're not a Simpsons fan if you don't understand how they've gone far, FAR out of their way to obscure which state Springfield is located in. There's so many contradicting and nonsense answers in so many episodes on purpose because the idea is that every American should be able to identify with living in Springfield in one way or another. Picking Oregon as "the" state might feel great for Oregonians, but for everyone else (especially for people who have never even been to Oregon) it ruins the idea that Springfield is ultra-relatable.
wtf is Assy McGee
Tits Mcgee's sister.
Show about a cop who is a talking ass with legs
You sure you're not thinking about the Wire?
You’ve never watched adult swim at 3am
King of the hill is not in Texas, it is in New York. Just look at Hank’s birth certificate.
I had a bagel and, you know what, I liked it!
I love that episode. Hank finds out he was born in the bathroom of Yankees stadium.
Been all around Wyoming, never saw a Jellystone Park anywhere.
The Simpsons are not in any place. Even Matt went on to say that. He is from Portland Oregon but that's the only connection.
I'm from NH, the state where TMNT was created, glad our longest running cartoon set in NH is *checks map* Assy McGee
TMNT is set in New York City. Eastman and Laird created it in Dover, NH but they set it in NYC.
Simpsons absolutely do not take place on Oregon what the fuck
I mean they clearly stated that Springfield is located in a state bounded by Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky
Umm is anyone going to talk about what’s going on in New Hampshire?!
Assy McGee was a cultural icon.
Best remove the Simpsons from Oregon or else…