PORTLAND - Another city of Springfield is saying it is the model for the same-named town in the animated series "The Simpsons."
Folks in Springfield, Ore., have long thought they inspired Simpsons creator Matt Groening, who an Oregon native.
The people of Springfield, Vermont are now saying their city inspired the animated series. They say it has a bowling alley, a pub, a prison and a nuclear power plant down the road.
Springfield, Illinois says a Shelbyville is nearby and if that isn't enough, the man who runs their nuclear plant looks a lot like Homer Simpson's boss, Montgomery Burns.
At least a dozen Springfields are trying to prove they are the home town of the Simpsons with a three-to-five minute video. The public will choose the winner in a U.S.A Today online poll.
The winner of the contest will host the big-screen premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" July 26.
The people of Springfield are fucking retards.
I thought it was pretty common knowledge that Springfield was a miniature version of Portland...which, oddly enough has a bowling alley(or two, or three...some of which are open 24 hours), a pub(or two...or three...or more per capita than anywhere in the country), a couplefew jails, and had a nuke plant right up the road(until they blew it up recently). Matter of fact, lots of cities have these same features.
Again, I thought this was common knowledge among Simpson fans...except maybe the retarded ones.
Springfield Elementary School is an exact replica of Ainsworth Elementary in the downtown area...where, oddly enough, Matt Groening went to school. It's not too far from Montgomery and Burnside streets. Lovejoy is the next street south of Montgomery. Not too far off Flanders. Not far from Quimby. But it is a little ways from Van Houton, which is on the East Side. Terwilliger is just south of dowtown, and is also the name of a curvy portion of Interstate 5 on the south end of town.
Probably over 90% of all names used on the show are streets in Portland. There's dozens and dozens of examples over the years.
And you'll never guess which area split into two different area codes shortly before the same thing happened in Springfield?
And so on, amd so on, and so on...
Nevermind that bit with the Gorge being adjacent to town.
The name Springfield was chosen because there's so damn many of them, and it's such a generic city name.
Groening claims he's always been a Portlander -- he's just been on "work assignment" in SoCal for about 30 years. Says the day the last episode is in the can, the moving truck will be rolling into town.
But...let some hodunk Springfield have its day in the sun.
