When the residents of Springfield gathered to discuss how to spend the $3 million Mr. Burns was forced to pay the city for dumping nuclear waste into a local park, Marge Simpson suggested it go toward ...

This is FRESH AIR. The familiar theme song to the long-running animated TV series "The Simpsons" was written by Danny Elfman. But for the next 27 seasons from the show's launch in 1990 until 2017, all ...

There is a connection between the characters' physical appearances in The Simpsonsand the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in their fictional town of Springfield, and it has everything to do with a ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield that exists in the mind of Matt Groening is a kind of American everything — hick pit stop, rosy-cheeked Rockwellian font of family values, cesspool of corruption, ethnic ...