# Simpsons from Northern Kentucky? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 22, 2000, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148 "2000-05-22T00:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/21 "2000-05-22T17:46:01Z")
I mentioned the Kentucky theory in another thread once. Kentucky is the only state which has a Springfield and a Shelbyville in reasonably close geographic proximity. The writers probably noticed this, too, and were just having a little fun with it. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/22 "2000-05-22T18:00:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > It was only a teaser. BTW, that was the worst Simpson’s episode I’ve ever seen.\*\* Come on! “Rappin’ Jimmy Carter?” (“Got a brother named Billy, my teeth look silly!”) ??? Even my HUSBAND was rolling at that one! You didn’t notice they were all wearing Partrige Family outfits at the fair? Oh, man. That is rich. (I personally almost lost it when they showed that “clip” of the _beautiful, BEAUTIFUL_ plastic bag, a la _American Beauty_.) ---
**Author:** ![RonaldBarnhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@RonaldBarnhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonaldBarnhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/23 "2000-05-22T19:39:30Z")
Yes, I will concede that it had it’s funny moments. Every episode is brilliantly written. That show has to be the best written program in television history. But I thought last nights show demonstrated that the writer’s are starting to run out of material. So shot me. ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/24 "2000-05-22T19:54:02Z")
Running out of material? Nahh… not after Lenny and Carl’s “interracial homoeroticism”. Haha. ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/25 "2000-05-22T21:00:34Z")
And right down the road from Shelbyville, Kentucky is…_wait for it_… **SIMPSONVILLE!!!** ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/26 "2000-05-22T21:06:14Z")
Ronnie - Did I ever tell you where your name actually came from? E-mail me for details. [homer@micoks.net](mailto:homer@micoks.net) –Tim ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/27 "2000-05-22T21:19:07Z")
High-five to everything **DoctorJ** said. I’m from Danville. ---
**Author:** ![RonaldBarnhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bc79bd/32.png) [@RonaldBarnhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonaldBarnhardt)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/28 "2000-05-22T21:49:24Z")
[hijack] Homer: You used the name once in a thread you started about someone using your identity. You said a cop that pulled you over said some guy named Ronald Barnhardt was the culprit. Prior to that, you started a thread in The Pit and you went on a rant that was full of racist remarks. I (Therealbubba) and several others called you on it. We exchanged terms of endearment several times. It was classic Pit. I changed my ISP and puter, and was unable to retrieve my password. I had to create a new screen name, I was angry with you, and Ronald Barnhardt was the name I picked. That was six months ago. You’re really not a bad kid at all, and your posts are fun to read. If my handle is bothering you, and the admin’s will allow it, I’d be happy to change it. If you’d rather go on slinging mud at each other, that’s OK too. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/29 "2000-05-25T04:22:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Final bit about the studio? I must have missed that. What was it? > > –Tim > \*\* Homer was watching an animator working on an “upcoming” episode, and says to the animator something like, “Don’t worry. This will be the last season,” implying that the animator was sick of drawing badly written cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2000, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/30 "2000-07-13T09:00:09Z")
When the season-ending Simpsons episode was rerun on July 12th, the closing line about “this northern Kentucky family” was changed to “this \southern Missouri\ family”. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/31 "2000-07-14T02:13:38Z")
Perhaps they have a bit about all 50 states, to be used randomly and interchangably during reruns. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Chief\_Crunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@Chief\_Crunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Crunch)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/32 "2000-07-14T03:14:23Z")
If you watch the credits for that show, there a producer named “Weernot F. Romkyormo” = “We’re not from KY or MO.” Kentucky or Missouri, that is. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/33 "2000-07-14T03:47:13Z")
You people have _way_ too much of an affinity for _The Simpsons_. Then again, so do I. Anyway, I lived in SEMO (Southeast Missouri) for seven years, so I’d be somewhat pleased if the little yellow freaks were from Southern Missouri. It would actually explain a lot. Not much chance of that, thanks to good old Weernot. BTW, has anyone else seen a cartoon so self-depreciating and self-conscious when making references to itself or cartoons in general? _The Itchy and Scratchy Show_ is a long-running gag aimed straight at where _The Simpsons_ got its start, on some defunct variety show. And whenever they are self-referential, they make some interesting gags that show off just how stupid the idea of a cartoon being self-referential actually is. At least that’s my impression. ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2000, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148/34 "2000-07-14T08:20:09Z")
No way they are from Kentucky. They are from middle America. They’re not Southerners, they’re not New Englanders, NY’ers, Californians, Texans, from the Rockies, Scandinavians from MN, from ND, SD, MT any of those places, not from Florida, NB, NM. That leaves middle America, where they are supposed to be from. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-from-northern-kentucky/20148.md?page=1)