Springfield mapmaker, you forgot something

When I first saw this map of Springfield (some time ago), I thought, “how creative!” If this was an assignment, and I a teacher, I would have given it an A.

I e-mailed it to a friend. The very next day he returned with a 3 word reply, “where’s Moe’s Tavern?”

I have searched and searched, but can not find it. I am impressed with the detail of various places that have been in Simpson’s episodes, even split-second backdrop places are listed. But no Moe’s Tavern, so I give you a 70. A grade of C-.

Because you forgot Moe’s Tavern, you are here in the Pit. Unless, of course, it is hiding somewhere with Waldo.

I assure you it is there. Fourth square to the right of the Springfield bridge. Now I grant you it could be bigger, but it is there.

The real question is, where’s West Springfield?

Pretty cool.

How could I have missed it! Across the street from Springfield Junior High School.

Yup. Right next to King Toots, where it belongs.

Left side of the mountains.

Shouldn’t there only be one bridge out of town though, as per the comet episode?

What is “the Escalator to Nowhere?” :stuck_out_tongue:

Kniz: corner of Second and Euclid, right by Springfield Civic Auditorium.

Oh: what is it. Serves me right for not knowing how to read.

In “Marge vs. the Monorail:”

Pah. Bart’s factory is miles away in the lower right corner. But when it collapsed, all the rats migrated to Moe’s, right across the street.

Wow…

Thanks for the new desktop picture.

Of course, since I live in Darkest Japan, nobody at work is gonna get it. Hmmm…I think I should highlight the Happy Sumo…

Continuity never seemed to be a big concern for them. The Simpsons have had something like 12 addresses. In one episode, we see that Moe’s Tavern is actually about 4 doors down from their house!

And in another, the nuke power plant’s parking lot is next to the house!

"Continuity never seemed to be a big concern for them…" etc.

Stop trying to blunt the force of my pedantic nickpicking!

Someone has clearly gone to a huge amount of trouble and effort to put that map together. It’s well researched, with loving attention to detail, and a much better job than I could have done.

But since this is the Pit, I can’t find the Stonecutters’ carpeted tunnel either! Which obviously means it isn’t there, since I never make mistakes and I looked for almost a minute.

I think it’s amazing that anyone can piece anything together from the deliberate hash the Simpson’s writers make out of continuity. I think the moment they learned of the following the show has, they decided to fuck with our heads as often and as vigorously as possible.

In other words, it isn’t possible to connect the episodes to each other in any but the most cursory ways, and it’s impossible to connect the series to the outside world, because the writers make it so. I applaud the effort but distinctly recognize its futility.

Hell, in one episode they packed up the entire town and moved it down the road a couple of miles.

While I love the fact that two people have taken the time to map out Springfield for us I can’t help but think of one of my favorite scenes from Comic Book Guy.

Paraphrasing here:

(CBG reading comic) “But Aquaman, you can’t marry her. You come from two different worlds. She lives on land and you the sea”

[Bomb from France about to blow up Springfield. Comic Book Guy looks up and sees bomb]

“I’ve wasted my life”

It took less than 30 seconds to find Moe’s- you just had to remember that for “inventing” the Flaming Moe, he was dubbed the “Wizard of Walnut Street”.

Here’s the website this map came from. Not only can you get the big map, but see it in easy-to-download bite-sized chunks. (Mmm…bite-sized chunks…)