# The Simpsons and The Fox News Antichrist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566 "2004-03-16T02:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chefIL11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chefIL11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefIL11)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/21 "2004-03-17T03:45:35Z")
Zagadka, i’d like to categorize you under “People the need anti-anxiety pills”. Why do you go to boards, not answer the question, act like you are better than everyone and then not even answer the question? Don’t you have porn to look up? Clearly the SDMB is not for you. Get a puppy, you can yell at him and at least get some respect back. ---
**Author:** ![Zagadka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zagadka/32/7272_2.png) [@Zagadka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zagadka)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/22 "2004-03-17T03:57:34Z")
Sensing some bitterness, Johnny. Maybe you need a vacation. I understand that trolling about BBSs and arguing pointless topics can be very stressful. May I suggest some pot? Or maybe just lay off the coffee. BTW, you forgot to insult the size of my penis and my mother somewhere in there. ---
**Author:** ![etgaw1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ed655f/32.png) [@etgaw1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etgaw1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/23 "2004-03-17T04:07:17Z")
> [@Johnnyt27](#): > > Zagadka, i’d like to categorize you under “People the need anti-anxiety pills”. Why do you go to boards, not answer the question, act like you are better than everyone and then not even answer the question? Don’t you have porn to look up? Clearly the SDMB is not for you. Get a puppy, you can yell at him and at least get some respect back. Well accually **Johnny27** there is no factual answer in the questions asked. They are both nonsense and **Zagadka** was just pointing that out in the standard SDMB scarcasm. This thread never would have been started so there is no need to directly attack the quality of someone who was saying that. ---
**Author:** ![chefIL11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chefIL11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chefIL11)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/24 "2004-03-17T04:07:33Z")
Zagadka… come on, I’d never make fun of your mother… If it wasn’t for her, I would not have even know to make fun of the size of your penis. She’s more disappointed than anyone that you’re small, but I’m sure she’s already mentioned it before. but really, she’s a great woman, I’ll be sure to have her home by 1. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/25 "2004-03-17T04:20:40Z")
> [@filmyak](#): > > And having lived in a Springfield (in Northern VA), I learned it was the most common town/city name in the U.S., at least in the early 90’s when I was there. Actually, and according to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, the most common town name in the U.S.A. is Fairview, followed by Midway and then Oakview. _Reference, National Geographic magazine, March 2002_ ---
**Author:** ![Vezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b38774/32.png) [@Vezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vezer)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/26 "2004-03-17T04:25:34Z")
If Rush Limbaugh is a horseman, one who is generally correct on determining values based on a distorted categorical imperative, does this mean Al Franken is the savior of mankind? I think your looking in a fun house mirror. ---
**Author:** ![netscape\_6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@netscape\_6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/netscape_6)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/27 "2004-03-17T04:58:00Z")
> [@Zagadka](#): > > Sensing some bitterness, Johnny. I think his beef was with people who go into threads and act like just because they don’t want to talk about it no else should. Annoying as heck. Now if you said this thread looks like a better fit for Cafe Society that would have both accurate and not annoying. > [@Zagadka](#): > > BTW, you forgot to insult the size of my penis and my mother somewhere in there. If I personally was going to do it. I would only insult one of you. I’d say “your dick is just like your mother’s”. You decided who or what I’m insulting.😉 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/28 "2004-03-17T05:10:36Z")
**johnnyt27** You will lay off the personal insults in this forum or you will be BANNED. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![tadc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f07891/32.png) [@tadc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tadc)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/29 "2004-03-18T07:06:36Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > You guys do know that Groening grew up in Springfield OR. right? Actually he grew up in Portland(about 2 hours north of Springfield), went to high school at Benson Polytechnic and went to college in Olympia (The Evergreen State College). My friend Jesse grew up in the same house as MG(but not at the same time, natch). It’s located just off of Vista Ave in Portland’s west hills. Groening has been quoted as saying that Springfield is based on Portland(several characters share names with Portland streets, including Lovejoy, Terwilliger and Flanders). In later years the “where is springfield” joke became so engrained in the series that they intentionally inserted false “clues” about the true Springfield. In reality, it’s everytown USA. There is a real Evergreen Terrace in Portland, and it’s in a bizzarely isolated area in the middle of Forest Park, not far from the aforementioned house. See: [http://snipurl.com/561k](http://snipurl.com/561k) BTW, “Burlington” is also a very common town name in the USA. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/30 "2004-03-18T07:20:10Z")
> [@tadc](#): > > Actually he grew up in Portland(about 2 hours north of Springfield), went to high school at Benson Polytechnic and went to college in Olympia (The Evergreen State College). My friend Jesse grew up in the same house as MG(but not at the same time, natch). It’s located just off of Vista Ave in Portland’s west hills. I was at the house for an “open house” when it was on sale. I didn’t realize whose house it was til I saw a plaque given to Homer Groening. Homer was his father’s name. It took all my will power not to swipe the plaque. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/31 "2004-03-18T14:14:17Z")
I don’t see the problem. Every one knows the Simpsons live in Springfield, Oh, hi Maude. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/32 "2004-03-18T14:29:56Z")
> [@Mausmagill](#): > > I don’t see the problem. Every one knows the Simpsons live in Springfield, Oh, hi Maude. You misspelled “Oh, hiya, Maude”. The other night Superintendant Chalmers was exclaiming about how “this used to be the best/worst (I can’t recall) school in Missouri”. The other people in the scene sort of goggle at him, and he continues, “so they tore it down and moved it HERE!”. I got quite a kick out of that… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2004, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566/33 "2004-03-18T17:25:03Z")
> [@Johnnyt27](#): > > Saluki, > > I beg to differ, brunk holds all the clues to indeed being the antichrist. If you read the bible and compare it to brunk, the similarities are uncanny. > > a professor at UCLA, Jordan Russel, teaches a class on ethics based on the simpson… he proved in a disertation that the simpsons indeed takes place in missouri, as hard as that is to believe. > > -Dewey Oxberger Well, your professor is wrong. Anybody who’s watched the series long enough knows the location of Springfield is a running gag. Just like Burns never remembering Homer’s name (except for once, IIRC) and Smither’s never-quite-outed homosexuality. Springfield is Anywhere, USA. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-and-the-fox-news-antichrist/234566.md?page=1)