D’oh! The Simpsons is nearly 35 years old — but it feels like only yesterday that we met the cartoon family.The Fox show debuted on December 17, 1989 and has aired over 700 episodes since.
The Simpsons became the longest running prime-time animated series in 1997, surpassing The Flintstones.It wasn’t until nearly 25 years into their run, however, that creator Matt Groening put one mystery about the Simpson family to bed: where they live.“Springfield was named after Springfield, Oregon,” Groening, 65, told Smithsonian magazine in 2012.
Over the years Groening, who grew up in Portland, Oregon, kept the show’s location a secret because he didn’t “want to ruin it for people” who thought it might be in Ohio, or Massachusetts.“The only reason is
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