Posted on 07/02/2007 10:36:39 AM PDT by Maceman
Dear Maceman,
I'm writing today to ask for your vote -- and this time it's to bring the premiere of "The Simpsons Movie" to Springfield, Massachusetts! The famous TV series is set in a city called Springfield, and celebrated its 400th episode this year.
The creators of "The Simpsons" are releasing a major movie version on July 27th, and they're holding a nationwide vote on the USA Today website to see which of our nation's Springfields will win the honor of hosting the premiere. Voting begins today and runs through July 9th, and the winner will be announced soon after that.
I know the answer -- it's undoubtedly Springfield, MA! We'd love to welcome Marge, Homer, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Abe and all the residents of TV's Springfield to our great city.
As part of the campaign, each Springfield has prepared its own video. I'm part of our Springfield's video, and I can tell you it's fun and a real home run!
You can see it on the USA Today website, and cast your vote there at the same time:
http://www.thesimpsons.usatoday.com
Our entire community is involved, and it's a wonderful campaign. I hope you'll join us today by voting for our Springfield, and by asking as many of your friends and family as possible to help us too.
http://www.democraticmajority.com/simpsons
As you so well know, every vote counts, and we're in it to win. We'd greatly appreciate your support! With your help, as the great Ralph Wiggum would say, it's "unpossible" for us to lose.
Thanks for your support and happy Fourth of July!
Any relation to Roberta?
An e-mail from Fatboy to you?
Lucky you*snicker*
As Bax and O’Brian think it won’t happen.
Springfield, Louisiana
The only place it can be is in KY.
That is because there is a Springfield, KY, AND...
A Shelbyville, KY.
The Simpsons is not the first Cartoon to feature the Swimmer.
In his later years Al Capp, the creator of L’il Abner, who was liberal in his youth, turned more conservative. For example during the riotous 60’s he featured a radical group “Students Wildly Indignant (about) Nearly Everything [S.W.I.N.E.]. He also featured a Northern liberal senator, O. Noble McGesture, of Hyideelsport, Massachusetts. The Senator looked exactly like the Swimmer. No attempt was made to disguise him.
Unfortunately today the L’il Abner cartoon is mostly forgotten.
A good reason to have the opening in Springfield Mass is that another famous cartoonist, Dr. Seuss, is from there. I’m surprised the article does not mention it.
Springfield, Illinois.
Honestly, this season it’s recaptured some of its former glory. (I didn’t think it possible.) Either they’ve hired new writers, or Matt Groening is paying attention to it again - but at any rate, the episode I saw two weeks ago had me laughing like crazy.
Give it a shot once more for old times’ sake.
Springfield, Nebraska
One of the background artists is from Massachusetts. A lot of the buildings exist in Chelmsford, MA.
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I think it’s going to Shelbyville along with the monorail!
The monorail episode is my favorite! Phil Hartman was always exceptional - what a loss.
Yeah, bad idea to marry a coke fiend.
Hartman was awesome!
I’ve always felt the Simpsons is based somewhere in the northeast, if not Massachusetts proper, because the state has revolutionary war battlefields and historical monuments , and the city has an ocean harbor (and it has to be the Atlantic, because the other details preclude the west coast or the gulf of Mexico). Plus, whenever the Simpsons go into the ‘back country’ around the city, the locals have stereotypical New England accents, not southern.
Yep.
I guess the Simpson’s Springfield is Everywhere, USA. I used to figure it was in the Pacific Northwest based on geography; they are very close to huge mountains, vast forests, the ocean, and desert-like terrain (plus Matt Groening is from Portland, OR). But of course, Revolutionary War battlefields rule that out. The Massachusetts feel could come from Conan O’Brien’s stint as the head writer.
Yep. I used to love the Simpsons, but that show became unwatchable about 5 years ago or so.
MA does have the Pilgrim 1 reactor, but it is accrocc the state from Springfield. KY has no reactors. IL has several.
“accrocc” = across. Sheesh, what accrocc!
I heard it was close enough to Vermont Yankee, that people living "in between" them had two evacuation plans, just in case.
Probably three, if both plants had problems at the same time.
can watch a cartoon series, much less a cartoon movie. I'm with you, Bender... 
Folks need to watch real life.
Watching cartoons... 
does seem a waste of time.
I'm with you, Hank... 
You da man!
A mature civilization... 
must only view reality!
Fire up the Wayback, Sherman... 
We must go back and stop people from watching The Simpson Movie.
I tell ya, Porky... 
there'd be less crime if people stopped watching cartoons.
Take it from a trained psychiatrist... 
Mentally unstable folks watch cartoons.
There!!! You Simpson fans, get a life... 
and drink more beer!
BTW, Happy 4th ya'll... 
I'm going fishing!
In addition to an ocean, Springfield also has a desert. Part of the joke is that it seems to have everything that can be found in America.
BTW, Springfield, MA is pretty far inland, and is DEFINITELY not a seafaring town.
“This is not my wife, but I am sleeping with her.”
Springfield, NJ gets my vote.
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