or Shelbyville is some Twilight Zone projection about everything Springfield hates about itself.

Makes me wonder: How often did the Simpsons leave Springfield in general, and which city did they visit the most often? And are there any other major fictional cities in the show (iE not New York or Tokyo etc)

ok my question is there a link between the 2headed goat in the simpsons to the 2 headed goat on futurama in the "eye phone episode"

a double ganger gag turned upside down

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS KEEP EM COMIN'! I credit TheRealJims with why I am able to appreciate and LOVE modern Simpsons

… oh my god, it all fits…

Kirk and Luann are canonically related. As a result, Milhouse has a lizard tongue. ...Yep.

The Shelbyvillians are all marrying their cousins (or half-siblings) because of Homer's sperm donations.

I believe since day 1 both of his parents are siblings

That's not a theory milhouse revealed a lizard tongue as as result of them being related

Imagine living in Shelbyville & watching this

Ohio too. Those guys have gone too far.

@@TheDarthbinky As someone from Ohio, this is how we feel about Michigan.

@@justinweber4977 oh do you wanna go again ohio? Your just jealous you stuck with the piece of shit Toledo strip and we got the upper peninsula

@@themangledwither I can't decide if you're right, or this is just another version of the "And a cheer went up from Shelbyville as they vanished the evil lemon tree, for you see... It was haunted."

Also considering springfield most of the time sucks it's interesting seeing how another city sees them as a big rival to beat

Also they tricked Springfield into taking the lemon tree. Because it was haunted.

I don't know why Springfield even bothered to show up. They barely even won!

This is something I don't think I ever noticed until it was highlighted in Patrick H Willems' episode.

I've always absolutely LOVED that joke. "nearly half the time" which means less than half. So they're bragging that they lose more than they win.

santas lil helper has loadssss of episodes about him (whether spotlights, b plots or other things revolving around him), more than a lot of the human denizens of springfield

I think an episode about all their pets (Snowball, the lobster, the pet hamster from Duffless....) would be interesting as well

@EXFrost which is interesting that snowball has only ever had like 1 spotlight, and it was mostly focused on her dying and getting replaced

@@KEATONSTOOS yea other than lil helper all the simpson pets get very lil representation as @NoMercyForMayhem said a video about all of the other pets would be really interesting

He did get a thorough spotlight episode at the end of Season 31.

Oh it was very funny for me because the suburb that I grew up in had a school district rivalry with the neighboring suburb, but thanks to the way that school district lines were drawn, I actually wasn't in the school district named for my hometown but rather the next-door one, and so that's what I had allegiance to. Any time I told someone where I lived I would say "yeah I live in x suburb but don't worry It's close to the border with y suburb so basically, I live there haha I'm not one of those rich snobs from x suburb".

Same here with neighbourhoods, if you lived beyond a line dividing them you could be either friend or foe no matter how you were, it only mattered where you lived

I met someone in college that tried to start a fight with someone who went to a rival high school and we had to explain that it’s crazy to start random fights in a mall over a high school rivalry

I mean theres literal murders committed over being born on certain blocks in the inner city.

Personally I find them hilarious. Here in the uk there’s a pretty tense rivalry between Manchester and Liverpool that goes back 150+ years 😂

yeah that'd actually be fun

Great idea!

That would be amazing.

Arguably the best screw the audience jokes after "I'm not tired, I'm not tired at all", IMO.

How it is around here lol I mean we all have to go to other towns for stuff or the city. I hate the city fr tho 😂 Traffic just sucks and itslike a maze

Sounds like an interesting and incredibly depressing episode. Marge seemed to have an active social life back in high school: did she lose all her friends by dating and marrying Homer? She tried to reconnect with her friend at the country club with poor results, got kicked out of the investorettes and once loudly proclaimed that Maggie will be her friend.

It's a bit strange that the Simpsons ladies are generally depicted as not really having friends. Like even Maggie doesn't really have a friend in most episodes

@@usermcskull4713 maggie at least is a baby so that's her excuse, marge already have a long life Even some scenes she prefers to be with her family rather than having social life, as if one option would oppose the other Looks like she never understood what "balance in your life" is

Oh yeah, that would be great, I actually just wanted to write a similar comment as yours and suggest a "Marge - The Friend Count" video similar to Bart’s and Lisa’s. It’s actually really pretty sad how Marge doesn’t have (or had?) much of a stable social circle in her life outside her family, despite being such a kind, helpful, creative and all around great person (I remember her saying "I haven’t had a friend in years" in Days of Wine and D'oh'ses, and thinking that’s pretty sad, but also kinda meta like "oh, we haven’t had a 'Marge gets a friend' episode in years"). Maybe that’s what makes episode like "Marge on the Lam" (We need more Ruth Powers!) or "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield" feel even more poignant, relatable and bittersweet. But I think a video as such would have a lot to explore: In later seasons Marge fortunately seems to pretty good friends with the others moms like Luann, Sarah, Bernice aso. (e.g. Watching "Tunnelton" together, getting drunk and having fun… definitely a pretty different dynamic than she had with the Investorettes); her and Helen certainly have an interesting relationship going on, sometimes being enemies/kinda friends/frenemies? I like how she befriended Smithers in "The Last Traction Hero" and judging by other interactions of them like in "The Girl Code" or "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire" these two get along very well. Would Marge call some of Homer’s friends also her friends? How does she feel about Moe/Lenny/Carl/Barney? And Ned and her certainly had their special moments throughout the years… there’s really a lot you could talk about re:Marge & friends! P.S.: Maybe a Marge/Homer Friend Count comparison as Bart/Lisa had wouldn’t be as beneficial, but it would certainly be interesting to see how Marge’s relationship to and marriage with Homer robbed her of chances of having friends or being accepted in friend groups (a lot of what he see in e.g. "Marge on the Lam" or "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"), but then we also have them throwing parties together for other couples as in e.g. "A Milhouse Divided" and Homer behaving as good as he could - would she and the Flanderseseses/van Houtens/Hibberts/Lovejoys call each other friends? The thing is that Marge often naturally gets along great with other people and feels a connection (whether it’s the other female inmates in "Marge in Chains" or I recently quite liked "Marge the Lumberjill" and her relationship with Paula), but similar to Lisa, the show doesn’t often let her keep friends.)

@@jaywinner328isn’t she friends with Maude Flanders before she dies, Helen lovejoy,

Also their age is very ambiguous. They always seemed like teenagers but apparently are only in grade 6? They attend Elementary school still despite Kearney having a son (though we can assume he’s been held back a few years)

Didn't they switch voices early on, too?

@@AllG98 I don't know if its the case for Springfield Elementary, but there are some places where there is no middle school, so 7th and 8th grade are still in elementary school.

@@KasumiKenshirou I think only jimbo did

I actually think Kearney would be a good candidate for Simpsons Mysteries. Kid is divorced, has a teenaged son, is on the church council, originally went to school with Otto, but is a teenager himself and is still somehow in Elementary School. He may actually have the most messed up timeline on the show, even including Mr Burns.

There have been a few Cletus centric episodes too. I think almost all of them are from the HD seasons.

Cletus is really interesting, because he comes off as a bit gimmicky, but actually has a surprising amount of depth to his character.

🎵Some folk'll never eat a skunk, then again some folk'll. Like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel.🎵

The spucklers are an interesting group of characters, I like any story with them

@@hobobohemian Especially the ones with Cletus' daughter Mary, voiced by Zooey Deschanel.

My headcanon is that one is from the highlands and the other from lowlands thus making it forbidden

But he’s dating Inga the Swedish Bikini Model

Tute on, son! Tute on!

It also weirdly has come back into the spotlight since they added the new King Toot.

Springfield's geography has never been consistent (remember when the power plant was right next door to the Simpsons house for one joke?) and yet King Toot's is so consistently next to Moe's.

@@bigredjanie I think Moe's once was like the next house after the Flanders'. I was a joke about Homer struggling to walk there.

​@nousukas and on the season 18 dvd menus they put the kwik e mart next to Moe's instead of the music store. I never understood that.

Agreed. I would love an episode on all the awesomely named stores, for example bloodbath and beyond and the air conditioner store "it blows".

That's funny to hear, because I always embraced the logic growing up that their rivals are this weird other-world version of themselves.

I always find "mirror" versions of known characters interesting

And you can't even tell them apart lol.

@@danielshaffer-green5684 The further you go, the more you'll know the difference.

Main difference: in the event of a nuclear war, the Springfield Elementary bunker has a place reserved for Sherri, but not Terri.

Also what their skincolour means.

@@Ribulose15diphosphat Do you think they're supposed to be albino?

I take it you didnt make it to the sperm bank segment... or maybe you did?

What side story are you talking about?

Sometimes even in other cartoons. In Family Guy, it's revealed he has a twin brother living in Quahog called Jerry.

@@ElementalArcher Yup, Police Superintendent Jerry Chalmers.

It was a good idea for exploiting the multiverse trend without actually using that resource

All of Bart's girlfriends in order: Laura Powers Jessica Lovejoy Greta Wolfcastle Gina Darcy Mary Spuckler Jenny Nikki McKenna Melody Juniper Shauna Chalmers

pog its been made! And he didnt thank you for the suggestion :(

I had to Google who that was. Didn't even know he had a name

He's kinda like the male Helen Lovejoy.

all I remember about him is him screaming "and for the record, THIS IS NOT A DREAM", assuming I'm not mixing up characters also notable for being like the only school character to appear in the opening credits, at least for a long while.

@@sarafontanini7051 Ironic, given that he's way less prominent than Principal Skinner, Ms. Krabappel, Ms. Hoover, Otto, Superintendent Chalmers, Groundskeeper Willie, etc.

Mr. Largo seems to be to only gay character in Springfield who is still in the closet at least in his own mind ( Everyone else seems to realise, and not even care).

“We just want closure!”

Carl and Lenny in a different timeline

Adult Wendall and Lewis

I think Jim's been reluctant to cover Apu given he'd have to take a stand on the contentious "is he racist?" debate

@@bigredjanie is it really a debate? Even the VA has said the character is racist.

Circumstances are anything but unfortunate, though

@@smrtfasizmu7242 He basically got bullied into thinking it was racist.

@@georgeliquor1236 citation needed

But how much electricity does the city need to have two independent nuclear power plants?

which was the style at the time

That Eddie is Ralph's biological father, of course. :P

Up until I read this comment, I never realized how prominent they are.

I suspect it might be down to the state of television in the early 90's where the idea of your white, or in this case, yellow kid not having a black friend was asking for trouble, and hence we got both Janey and Lewis.

Tbh I always assumed that Janey was a 'mean' girl of some kind. Like one of those kids who'll be really close friends with you one day, and the next day be conspicuously hanging out with your worst enemy and giggling at you behind your back for no obvious reason, and the next day be suddenly best friends again and pretending like yesterday never happened. There was a girl at school like that when I was Lisa's age. I wasn't friends with her personally, but several of my friends were and I always ended up having to manage the rows that would spring up whenever she changed the object of her affections. Some kids just like the drama.

@@Cheeseanonioncrisps I think some bios for Janey even describe her like that. There was at least one sticker album that described her as Lisa's 'fair weathered friend'. This is admitedly true with MOST friends in the show (including the Simpsons themselves at times) just Janey didn't really gain any other personality traits outside being a two faced brat.

“Best to not open yet” He’s been doing this for ten years how much longer do we have to wait💀

Chalmers shows up way too much in the show. When you were a kid did you ever meet your superintendent outside of like maybe graduation or something, let alone know his name

The Tamzarian episode is underrated

Chalmers is interesting because he's a mirror Frank Grimes. They're relatively normal people but while the former was broken by Springfield's absurdity the latter rolls with it

@@redjirachi1 He could also be seen as a mirror Dr. Hibbert for similar reasons, but in that case, CHALMERS is the one who gets worked up more.

Southeast Indiana

Next to Springfield

42 miles West of Springfield.

Is there really a mystery though? Homer owns a oversized 73 Plymouth Valiant, (Like Fullsize Fury big) Marge owns a 73 Chevy Chevelle wagon, and Homer did own a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner when he was younger (He seem to have a thing for Plymouth)

Which season turned Lenny and Carl into regulars at Moe's, and how sudden was the change? They're not there in the very early episodes.

Sam and Larry are kinda like the adult versions of Lewis and Richard.

He's still a fairly prominent minor character.

neat

What about Patty?

Yeah, he makes Moe and even Kirk look like winners lol.

@@danielshaffer-green5684 Maybe that is the reason he was created in the first place.

@@Nonjola Yeah, he's what's known in TV Tropes as a "straw loser."

What secret side are you talking about?