Traveling in The Simpsons
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Travel is a common recurring theme in the television show The Simpsons. Many of the episodes feature trips to various real life cities or countries, and several episode plots revolve around this.
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[edit] Europe
[edit] England
- In "The Regina Monologues", the entire family, plus Grampa, travels to England after Bart earns 3,000 dollars and decides to take Marge on a nice trip.
[edit] France
- In "The Crepes of Wrath", Bart is sent to France as part of the student exchange program.
- In "Bart-Mangled Banner", the entire family is forced to flee the United States and in the end moves to France.
[edit] Italy
- In "The Italian Bob", Homer is sent to Italy to buy Mr. Burns a new Lamborgotti Fasterossa car and the rest of the family tags along.
[edit] Scotland
- In "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", Homer travels to Scotland with Mr. Burns to capture the Loch Ness Monster.
[edit] Asia
[edit] China
- In "Goo Goo Gai Pan", Selma travels to China to adopt a baby and is accompanied by the Simpson Family.
[edit] India
- In "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", Homer is sent to India to train new employees. The rest of the Simpson family, lead by Mr. Burns, later checks up on him.
- In "Homer and Apu", Homer and Apu travel to India in an effort to get Apu his job back at the Kwik-E-Mart.
[edit] Japan
- In "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo", the Simpson Family travels to Tokyo after winning mega-saver tickets at the airport.
[edit] Russia
- In "Simpson Tide", a mistaken Homer directs the Navy submarine he is captaining to Russian waters.
[edit] Hong Kong
- In Bart on the Road, Principal Skinner travels to Hong Kong to get "custom made suits at slave labor prices." [1]
- In Bart on the Road, Bart, while in the employ of a courier service, travels to Hong Kong to deliver eyes and is spotted by Skinner. [2]
[edit] Africa
[edit] Morocco
- in "Treehouse of Horror II" the Simpsons holiday in Morocco, where Homer purchases a magic monkey's paw as a souvenir.
[edit] Tanzania (or: Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar)
- In "Simpson Safari", the Simpsons are awarded an African Safari vacation by a food company seeking to avoid a lawsuit.
[edit] Oceania
[edit] Australia
- In "Bart vs. Australia", the Simpson family travels to Australia (to either Sydney or Canberra, not fully stated) at the behest of the U.S. State Department so Bart can deliver an official apology to the people of Australia, this was the first international location The Simpsons visited.
[edit] Micronesia
- In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer is sent to Micronesia after failing to donate a promised $10,000 to PBS.
[edit] South America
[edit] Brazil
- In "Blame It on Lisa", the Simpson family (minus Maggie) go to Rio de Janeiro in search of a missing Brazilian orphan boy that Lisa has been secretly sponsoring.
[edit] North America
[edit] Canada
- In "The Bart Wants What it Wants", the entire family goes to Toronto after Bart follows Rainier Wolfcastle's daughter Greta there.
- In "Midnight RX", Homer and Grampa go to Winnipeg on drug smuggling trips. Mr. Burns, Flanders and Apu also tag along.
[edit] Cuba
- In "The Trouble with Trillions", Homer, Waylon Smithers, and Mr Burns flee to Cuba after absconding from the United States with a trillion-dollar bill.
[edit] Mexico
- In "Kamp Krusty", Krusty takes children attending his failed summer camp to Tijuana, Mexico.
[edit] Domestic
[edit] Las Vegas
- In "Viva Ned Flanders", Homer and Ned Flanders travel together to Las Vegas in an effort for Homer to help Ned live a more spontaneous and less-predictable life.
- In "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere", Homer is in a Nevada state prison at the end of the episode after getting into a fight with a pit boss.
[edit] Los Angeles
- In "Beyond Blunderdome", Mel Gibson takes the Simpson family to Hollywood so that Homer can help edit one of Gibson's movies.
[edit] Culver City, California
- In "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace", Marge competes on Jeopardy!. While it is not mentioned, Jeopardy! is taped in Culver City.
[edit] Miami
- In "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" a multitude of Springfield residents travel on a chartered tour bus to Miami, Florida to watch the Super Bowl.
- In "Catch 'Em If You Can" Homer and Marge go to Miami, only to be followed by Grandpa, Bart and Lisa.
[edit] New York City
- In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", the Simpson family travels to New York City so Homer can retrieve his car, which Barney Gumble had parked and abandoned at the World Trade Center plaza.
[edit] Branson, Missouri
- In Bart on the Road, Bart, Milhouse Van Houten, Martin Prince, and Nelson Muntz stop in Branson to attend an Andy Williams concert en route to Knoxville, Tennessee.
- In the The Old Man and the Key, Grampa steals Marge's car and goes with Bart to Branson looking for his girlfriend, and the family chases after them.
[edit] Knoxville, Tennessee
- In Bart on the Road, Bart, Milhouse, Martin, and Nelson travel to Knoxville on spring break.
[edit] Florida
- In "Kill the Alligator and Run", the Simpson family travels to Florida to allow Homer time to relax after finding out his death is imminent.
[edit] Oregon
- In "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere", Homer drives Bart to an Upward Bound Camp. Oregon is also mentioned as the "spoiled forest birthplace of Matt Groening."
[edit] Utah
- In "Little Big Girl", Bart and Darcy go there to get married quickly.
[edit] Fictional
The following fiction places were in the USA.
[edit] Cypress Creek
- In "You Only Move Twice", Homer is hired by the Globex Corporation and the Simpson family moves to the company town.
[edit] Terror Lake
- In "Cape Feare", the Simpson family move to Terror Lake after joining the witness protection program.
[edit] Capital City
- In "The Last Temptation of Homer", Homer and Mindy Simmons represent the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant at the National Energy Convention in Capital City.
- In "Dancin' Homer", Homer becomes the mascot of a baseball team of Capital City and all the family goes with him.
- In "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Bart visits Milhouse in Capitol City after the latter has moved there.
[edit] Shelbyville
- In "Lemon of Troy", the citizens of Springfield battle their counterparts in Shelbyville for a lemontree.
- In "The Seven-Beer Snitch", the Simpson family visits Shelbyville on a day of sightseeing and shopping.
[edit] North Haverbrook
- In "Little Big Girl", Bart, after gaining a driver's license, flees to North Haverbrook to escape Homer's constant need of favors.
[edit] Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport
- In "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", the Simpson family go on summer vacation in Ned Flanders beach-house in Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport.
[edit] Other
[edit] International Waters
- In "The Mansion Family", Homer and a multitude of characters sail to international waters so Moe can sell alcohol legally.
[edit] Space
- In "Deep Space Homer", Homer goes into outer space as part of a NASA space mission concocted to improve viewer ratings.
