![]() ![]() Sadly, it was only seen on the original airing, and has been switched out in streaming versions and later broadcasts.įans have long debated where the Simpsons' home town of Springfield is supposedly located (see my book Atlas of Imagined Places for one intriguing theory). The clip was re-used as the "couch gag" in the Ricky Gervais-penned episode Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife (2006). What started out as a Sky One advert also found its way into official Simpsons canon. Bart and Lisa's school, which seems to be Rooks Heath in South Harrow In conclusion, then, the Simpsons live in Orpington, south-east London, but have daily commutes to Didcot near Oxford (Homer), and Ruislip/Eastcote in north-west London (Bart and Lisa). The handsome, if generic school building is a little hard to place, but is a dead ringer for the older buildings of Rooks Heath, just down the road from South Ruislip. The other chief setting is Bart and Lisa's school. Bart Simpson skateboards through South Ruislip The old car wash and tyres signs seen in the video are still in place. The only street in London beginning with those letters is The Runway in Ruislip, and Street View confirms this as the location. The telltale clue here is the side road, whose street name can just about be read as "The Run-.". ![]() Meanwhile, the row of shops past which Bart skateboards are also a long way from Orpington. Didcot Power Station, model for Springfield Power Plant Didcot runs on natural gas, rather than the nuclear rods of the cartoon. A reverse image search reveals that Homer has quite a commute each day, given that he apparently works in Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire. Other locations in the sequence require a bit of detective work. The scene where Homer gets out of his car to be almost mowed down by Marge was filmed on Lansdowne Avenue, an otherwise unremarkable residential street on the edge of Crofton Woods. The first couch gag was featured on January 14th, 1990 at the beginning of The Simpsons Season One Episode Two Bart the Genius, in which Bart Simpson is. The gag generally changes from episode to episode, and usually features the. In this version of "reality" the Simpson family live in Orpington, south-east London (or Kent if you stubbornly adhere to the old ways). The couch gag is a running visual joke near the end of the opening credits. The near-perfect homage was shot at the end of 2005 as a clever promotional skit for Sky One, masterminded by London advertising agency Devilfish. That's because this was an entirely British production. ![]() Meanwhile, the stand-in for Chief Wiggum is wearing a British police uniform. Marge drives a right-hand-drive car (a Lada, no less, once common in these parts). The recreation has some tellingly British touches. ![]()
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