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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Where is The Simpsons’ Springfield
Once you accept this constraint:
The Simpsons Movie has Ned Flanders showing Bart the four states which border Springfield: Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky. It would be difficult to pick four states further apart from one another, which makes the entire thing an obvious joke. On the other hand, since Ned is not a particularly unreliable narrator, it is vaguely conceivable that this is actually TRUE, which, combined with the evidence for [8F01] Mr. Lisa Goes To Washington and [5F21] The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace (both listed above), leads to the unavoidable conclusion that the layout of US states in the Simpsons universe is different from our own.
So, you need to proceed as if the names of the states and its possessions are accurate (i.e., there is a Kansas), but just not where our universe says it should be. All you have to do is cross out the states that they can’t be in, like here:
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two) Chief Wiggum remarks, “No jury in the world’s going to convict a baby. Mmm...maybe Texas.” Springfield can’t be in Texas.
You can figure out which state it is. Unless of course this deductive reasoning crosses out all the states and possessions.
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