Simpsons Mysteries - 742 Evergreen Terrace
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The most confusing and mysterious house in all of Springfield.
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This specific video had been a long time coming. Had always wanted to do a video about the rumpus room and The Simpsons house. But I knew it was going to be kind of a nightmare to research and edit, so it sat on the back burner.
However, I would like to thank the Disney+ video player for displaying screencaps in the timeline bar as I scan through the episodes' runtimes. It made locating kitchen, basement, and bedroom scenes so much quicker, without having to watch all of the first 10 seasons over again. It was kinda fun re-watching all those scenes, though, completely ignoring the foreground and constantly staring on the stuff behind them. There's a lot of strange stuff just sitting around in those background shots.
(Also Season 9 is up next.)
Ohhhh the infamous season 9 is next. Also this video seems intresting I cant wait to watch it.
Yay season nine, fun!
Season 9 is gonna be mighty interesting, to say the least.
Great video as always Jim, and I am really anticipating the Season 9 retrospective. Quick question though, do you plan on doing these retrospectives and top 10s for every season, or are you probably going to stop after Season 15 or so when there aren't really enough good episodes to fill a top 10 best list?
How many episodes did you watch to get all this information?
Can we just appreciate how amazing the Simpson's house is? Four bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 3 living areas, kitchen, dining room, garage, attic, basement, and a good sized backyard?
where i live the simpsons front yard is better than any back yard
yeah I kinda get why Frank Grimes was so envious of their house now
And on a single middle/lower class income!
Hes a nuclear engineer
@@nathanbrady8529 hes a nuclear engineer Homer's upper class
Homer actually sleeps under a shower curtain, which he believes gives him sexual powers.
That's a half truth!
It was an oxygen tent
🤣🤣🤣 oh that man is sick! But groundskeeper willie saved you homer! But listen to the music he's evil 🤣
@@mattjcwig You mean, Rowdy Roddy Peeper
“Sexual powers” *ggGRRRR*
I'm now deeply creeped out by The Simpsons' house and how I never noticed most of these magic rooms and hallways. It's like their house is The Overlook Hotel.
Or the Winchester House
Literally. I vaguely noticed the bedrooms changing, but when he mentioned the basement door moving from episode to episode, it felt really weird.
Somehow I never realised the intro tv couch and the one you can see from the front door were two different couches
Why are you creeped out? It's a cartoon world
@@Giovfunny I think it's because I grew up in the Simpsons' house. Some of my earliest memories are of this show, and I know their house better than some I actually lived in as a kid. But I didn't know it. I didn't know it because it's actually unknowable, and I had only the illusion of knowledge, the comfort from assuming I had the full picture when that picture actually can't even exist. I had been tricked countless times and every time thought it was really me who understood, but it never ever was.
Never realized as a kid but the Simpsons' house is actually really nice
Young families could afford a house that nice in the 80s.
That's why Grimy visiting only intensified his hate.
@@vontosmagicmurderbag2611 Might have been 1979. Simpsons first aired on on Tracey Ulman in 87 when bart was 10 so Bart was born in 1977
Frank grimes was right
Bart is 43 years old
"So, Mr. Simpson, are you thinking of buying this house?"
"Wow, it's so cheap. What's the catch?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Though, it's technically on a fault of reality."
"Does it have a rumpus room?"
"...Maybe."
"Deal."
As if it was taken from an episode
@C C That's bad.
Fun fact: I looked up this exact scene for a joke at work earlier today.
"Does it have a rumpus room?"
"sometimes"
@@rezkat6 That's good
@@ianfinrir8724 The joke contains potassium benzoate.
I actually really love the headcanon idea of their house being anomalous and space warping in certain areas and the family is just used to it by now, and thats why homer can afford the house
That feels like a Treehouse of Horror bit.
The house is an SCP?
@@BlackCover95 that would be really cool
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong object class: safe
@@PelinalDidNothingWrong I want to use SCP-742 but it's taken up by a stupid virus
“That’s right, it was actually the Rumpus Room that shot Mr. Burns.”
- TheRealJims, probably
Hahahaha!!
No, it was clearly the downstairs bathroom.
It all fits, Simpson DNA, a plausible excuses, you know being attached to the rest of a building across town. Since everyone was near the town hall no one would have noticed the missing section of the house. Maybe, the Rumpus Room leaves quite frequently, to be an unseen actor in the plots of these episodes, putting the pieces into place.
It was the drinking bird that shot Mr. Burns, from the rumpus room, obviously...
@Dante2014 *whole town including me
Great video! I remember watching the writer's commentary on Futurama episodes and one time they commented about how people were always confused about the Simpson's house layout, so for Futurama, they changed the ship's layout practically every episode, on purpose, to mess with the viewers.
lol
It's totally believable that Farnsworth just changes the layout constantly for no reason.
@@AltName7 good news every one, I've added a dining hall
@@AltName7 well, it makes more sense in the futurama world
Wait, how did I never notice the ship’s layout changed?
Honestly, the lack of appearance of the Rumpus Room makes sense. It was clearly designed for Bart and Lisa as a playroom when they were a much earlier age (2-5 years old). The fact its got a bunch of childish oversized toys, and a cheap TV kinda enforces this. In the 32 years that The Simpsons have been on air, Bart and Lisa have simply been too old to get value out of the Rumpus Room (preferring the TV room or their own bedrooms for recreation), and Maggie is just too young (needing constant supervision or a cot). It's simply a disused room, not showing up often because there's rarely a good reason for the family (or the plot) to use it.
This makes a lot of sense. Hope it shows up In a flashback episode or something.
@@CreepyboomGamer plus the rumpus room feels like that room that on floor plans is noted as .
Hobby room or study room (been next to the garadge does knock it down a step as a study room) note a study room of old was the only room whit a computer (if there was a computer in the houes at all) and a lot of books. today it would be more like a home office room.
I love that interpretation. If Maggie didn't exist, the room would've probably been repurposed after Lisa grew out of it but since she does, it's just waiting there, mostly unused until Maggie is old enough.
Damn, too much sense for RUclips lol.. but great observation.
Then why did Marge say it was a rec room?
You're mistaken: Herman never enters the garage, he enters the carhole.
Isn't it carhold?
No it's a vroom vroom pit@@morkusmorkus6040
@@genetopotato457 Source? 😋
@@morkusmorkus6040 the paint eaters dictionary
"Oooh hey fellas, the 'garage'! La-dii-da!"
"I'm going to bed at a decent hour tonight"
Me at 3:26 AM: Non-euclidean Simpsons house
This is literally me. The time is even 03:36 am...
2:05 am rn
Same
Haha literally 3:33am here as I decide I must see all of these 18 minutes
I really like the idea that the Simpsons' house is so cheap because the rooms keep moving around/disappearing. Like imagine being Bart, coming home from school and going upstairs to your room, and basically having to guess which door it's behind today.
the house is an SCP with the anomaly being shifting and disapearing rooms, the simpsons just have grown accostumed to the anomaly at this point
@@carso1500 honestly that's a pretty cool idea. i think i've seen others mention that and i totally agree with them. wonder if the house is somewhat sentient too
@@stupideronjupiter the house can withstand nuclear Armageddon.
@@carso1500 I have no doubt that marge has a list somewhere she keeps updated too have a better idea of what's gone that day lol
@@cornblaster7003 an extension of that, it would be really weird to be their neighbors right?
I think that we don’t get to see the rumpus room that often because whenever maggie’s off screen she’s sleeping in there and they don’t want to disturb her
Oooh I like that theory
Why wouldn’t she be in her room though?
@@Ellie_b0_belly during the day it’s better to have the baby downstairs so Marge can hear her from the kitchen and get to her quickly.
@@Ellie_b0_belly Sometimes babies fall asleep while they're playing, and it's better to just leave them where they're at for the 15 minutes or so that they need to nap.
That's a reasonable and cute theory
If I were making a cartoon that takes place in a house, I would be absolutely anal about the layout, and never stray from it. What makes the Simpsons so brilliant is that it has a consistent layout that we all recognize (unlike, say, the Flintstones), yet they also switch things around from time to time, and no one ever notices.
I’m currently developing my own self-published comic, and the main family’s house is based on that which I grew up in, which is one way to keep the layout consistent.
Nah, the beauty of cartoons is that you’re allowed to do shit like this. Rewatch the last minute and a half of this video and it’ll explain why there’s so much creative license permitted by using an animated medium in this context
The reason for the house tilting over wasn't the faulty washers.
It's because the rumpus room keeps phasing out, and the opposite side of the house gets heavier.
Frank Grimes was right! That place is a mansion! The downstairs is absolutely enormous!
He preferred Grimey
How is old Grimey?
well, they did buy in the mid 80s
"Im sorry is that-"
"Yep that's me alright. And beside me is former president Gerald Ford"
A freaking palace
The Mysterious Rumpus Room is finally getting its dues.
That mystery hallway really is like a phantom zone, isn't it? A place where everything is but simultaneously isn't.
Schrödinger's hallway.
or that hallway from Matrix Reloaded
As a little kid, I've always thought that the "Treehouse of Horror VI" segment "Homer3" was a dig at the rumpus room... as a grownup, I'm disappointed to find out the dark truth.
There should be a joke where homer tries to walk in the unused hallway & hurts himself because its painted on the wall.
I think because the design of the rooms themselves are so well defined the viewer tends to not question the layout of the house itself.
Like ask anyone to draw the Simpsons living room, they'd probably be able to make a solid effort.
Can we get a Simpsons Mysteries/History about Kearny? He's an interesting case with his age and all that.
YES
DENTAL PLAN
@@fitnesswithsteve LISA NEEDS BRACES!!!!!
@@anelbre0904 DENTAL PLAN!
@@iScorpio1031 LISA NEEDS BRACES!!!!!
I like to think that the house itself is a non-euclidean, sentient being that morphs itself to push people into specific locations for plot reasons.
I was going to say the house is living. Makes sense to me.
the house is haunted like in "bad dream house" in the first treehouse of horror ep
@@Kahrytes "Make the walls bleed again!"
You won me over with your omission of the phrase "head-canon."
Take my like 👍
Its all treehouse of horror? ... Always has been
I actually respect this video even more after the Simpsons revealed the "secret room" in the house, and actually managed to pick a spot that perfectly made sense and didn't mess with anything.
A sort of attic type space in the garage, which explains the window at the top.
I know right, that window has been there for literally decades, and never seen from inside (if you watch any scene of the garage, the ceiling is always flat, which doesn't corelate with the exterior of the house, and we just noticed it now)
Homer uses the room behind that window in a flashback Christmas special episode
@@EGOwaffleboy that is literally what I was referring to
@@Savariable Are you talking about the rumpus room?
what episode was this secret garage room revealed in?
The mystery hallway is an anomaly that resets the day once entered. They start the same day over and over, always in a different setting. That's why they never age and have so many adventures.
But still some people die and keep being dead
SCP-8411: The Forbidden Hall
Object class: -Safe- Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: -SCP-8411 is fairly mundane in its properties. It is always in the same location and has no effects beyond its location. The inhabitants are only partially aware of its existence, and are typically unwilling to speak of it. The inhabitants have been instructed not to allow visitors inside SCP-8411 and seem to be keen to comply. As such, very little containment is required.-
Regular visitors are to be lead away from the town of Springfield, [REDACTED] by means of detour, road closure, and other mundane redirection methods. Springfield, [REDACTED] and its location is to be removed from all maps and databases across the world. If visitors are to stay, then they must not do so for an extended period of time, lest they fall under the effects of SCP-8411. Celebrities may visit Springfield, [REDACTED] as they please, as they appear to be immune to SCP-8411's effects. No Foundation personnel are to visit Springfield or inform its inhabitants of the nature of SCP-8411.
Description: SCP-8411 is a pink hallway located within the house on 742 Evergreen Terrace in Springfield, [REDACTED] in the United States.
The hallway regularly alters its structure, housing various rooms that appear and disappear often. These rooms are tied to three doors, although one will also disappear.
The inhabitants of 742 Evergreen Terrace are aware of this property of SCP-8411, and often avoid entering the hallway if they can. However, they find themselves frequently forgetting this fact or being unable to speak on it.
As they are in no danger of exposing the existence of SCP-8411 or its anomalous properties, the inhabitants of 742 Evergreen Terrace shall be allowed to continue their lives as normal.
Addendum 8411-1: Foundation staff sent to Springfield, [REDACTED] have found themselves unable to recall anything about the town. Upon sending a new team to investigate, the town had not changed whatsoever, despite three years passing since the initial investigation. All of the children, for example, were the exact same age and in the exact same grade in school, with their date of birth having moved forward by three years. Dr. Xyank will be dispatched to investigate the nature of this temporal anomaly.
Addendum 8411-2: As with the previous investigation, the staff sent to investigate the amnestic properties of SCP-8411 have in turn forgotten everything about the town, including its location and even the state that it is in. Dr. Xyank has come to the conclusion that SCP-8411 does indeed have and additional anomalous property. It appears to warp timespace around itself, which is most likely the cause of 742 Evergreen Terrace's shifting architecture.
Dr. Xyank has already experienced several bouts of retrograde amnesia in relation to his time in Springfield, and was swiftly recalled following this so as to avoid becoming trapped by the anomaly.
Addendum 8411-3: Dr. Clef was sent with Dr. Xyank to continue research. It was hoped that his resistance to reality shifts would allow him to keep the research team in Springfield, [REDACTED] on-task. These efforts proved successful, and the team was able to discover the nature of SCP-8411.
The warping effect pf SCP-8411 causes time to progress, but the people and places in Springfield remain unaffected by the passage of time. After each major event in proximity to SCP-8411, time seems to "reset", wiping the memories of all those present in the town and undoing major effects on its surroundings.
Occasionally, some events occur that SCP-8411 cannot reset. For example, the death of one Maude █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ has never been "corrected" or wiped from the memories of those that knew her prior to her passing. However, memories involving Maude █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ take place in a time frame consistent with the current year so that she would have died at the same time relative to the current year.
There appears to be only one inhabitant of Springfield, [REDACTED] that is unaffected by these resets, known as "Just Stamp the Ticket Man". This man has continued to age, and seems to be a sort of reality anchor used by SCP-8411 to maintain its existence. It is possible that should "Just Stamp the Ticket Man" perish, that SCP-8411 would collapse and Springfield, [REDACTED] would abruptly change to match the timeline as it should properly exist.
As this would result in countless abrupt deaths, and the people of Springfield are happy to live their current lives, "Just Stamp the Ticket Man" has been placed under a protection program designed to keep him in health and prevent his death by other means in order to prolong the existence of SCP-8411.
@@demi-femme4821 haha love it
@@demi-femme4821 this is surprising well written! good job!
@@demi-femme4821 Man, that was a great read!
Simplest solution: they have a room of requirement. Sometimes it's a basement with all the stuff they've received in past continuity, sometimes it's a rumpus room, and when someone needs to pee it's a downstairs bathroom.
Came here to say this haha. Straight up Hogwarts style.
They have a lever to flip it
The Room of Requirement is exactly what I was thinking.
In the Tracey Ullman show, and extensively the first season, Matt Groening said he wanted the Simpsons house to be a "maze" of sorts. That's why the house in Season 1 has such a non-Euclidean feel to it.
What an odd thing to say.
@@juhokotila5416no this is
And to think I thought Patrick Star’s rock was the most confusing home in TV history.
Patrick's rock. Sometimes he sleeps at the bottom of the rock, sometimes its flat underneath, and sometimes he has several rooms and furniture in there all made out of sand. Personally I prefer number 3 and you see it in most episodes.
But we see Patrick effortlesly changes the layout of the sand in his house all the time so it's ok.
It's been shown multiple times that all of Patrick's furniture is made of sand, and in the episode where his parents were coming to visit, it even shows him making furniture from sand.
He can freely change the layout of his Rock whenever he wants.
@@driveasandwich6734 poop yo pants
I feel it was a kind of a progression. In the first times, it was just a rock and Patrick just sleep under it. Then it got a hole with a seat and a TV. And finaly, it was full of rooms and sand furniture.
There’s an episode Flanders is about to knock on the door and Homer throws some garbage directly on him. Homer is on a centre window on the second floor that never existed.
Trash of the Titans. In the scene Homer and Bart are in the bathroom.
@@discoron77 That room gets *everywhere*.
I like the idea that their house is supernatural and they are at the mercy of a mysterious force that allows them access/memory occasionally if the plot needs it
this "mysterious force" is the simpsons writers
Imagine having a room that sometimes has a door and sometimes doesn’t. The reason they don’t have many scenes in that room is because they don’t want to be sealed in á la cask of amontillado.
A malady which mimics death!?!
And they didn't even talk about the attic! Sometimes the hang door is there, sometimes it's not. There's a window I think sometimes?
It's the Room of Requirement.
Wouldn't they just be able to escape through the window though? That part never disappears.
@@AndSoImTylenol But that's where Bart's twin brother lives.
"We treated the locations of rooms as totally changeable, depending on the requirements of the scene." And that about sums this up.
I've spent more hours of my life watching the Simpsons than anything else I'm sure, but I never realized the rumpus room was a thing -- I always thought that was Maggie's room XD
Lisa: "That would have made a lot more sense..."
The Simpsons house is the ultimate liminal space.
*House of Leaves*
A fair competitor to multiplayer lobbies when you're the only one in the server.
non-euclidian space. liminal spaces are those off feeling places like the backrooms, non-euclidian spaces are the ones that change depending on how you enter or exit or observe them like the puzzles in Antichamber
@@GooseMcBruce Quit with that "UUUM A-CH-UALLY" crap. no one actually cares about the difference. its like people who mistake literally for figuratively
@@AnAverageGoblin there's a difference between correcting a spelling mistake and correcting someone when they say something that just isn't true. Liminal spaces and non-euclidian spaces are not only not the same thing, but they don't even have anything to do with each other, whatsoever. It's like getting mad when someone corrects you when you call a banana a battery.
The literally/figuratively thing is annoying too and people who confuse them should be publically shamed.
In S20, final episode ”coming to homerica”, we actually see the downstairs bathroom in the ”forbidden hallway”. Homer gets up from the living room sofa, and runs thru the entire hallway, which shows the hat racket, but neither the garage door or the rumpus room door. At the end of the hallway, Homer opens a door which seems to be the door to the garage but turns out to be a bathroom. Cursed stuff
Looking at the scene, it appears as though what he runs through is actually another room, and NOT the hallway. This room appears to be a much larger version of their dining room which contains a sofa. He then enters the kitchen, turns into the hallway and immediately opens the door we normally see in the hallway which is right by the kitchen. We don't get an in-hallway scene except for the shot of the toilet door opening, and you can only see a bit of the wall in that shot.
Definitely a reality bending scene though. That room should NOT be that big. Also in that scene we see the en suite, which isn't mentioned in this video.
@@TheLobsterCopter5000 My interpretation is that they for some reason has moved the dining table out of the dining room and put a sofa in on which Homer was sleeping. Homer then ran a ridiculously convoluted route through the foyer, then the sitting room where the piano is - meaning before reaching the kitchen he must’ve gone through the main ‘couch gag’ sitting room. When he entered the kitchen through this room he would’ve been facing the fridge and side of the room with the forbidden corridor on. He ran down it and opened the garage door which turned out to be an occupied toilet.
N.B. The video did mention the en-suite at one point when it was said that this was the only upstairs room to face the Flanders’ house. I think generally the scene is consistent with the layout from this video if you exclude the sofa in the dining room and bathroom in the garage!
That feels like an intentional mindfuck from the animators
Also, the existence of a mysterious corner of the house we rarely get to see adds to the vibe of the show. EVERY suburban home has one of those.
There is definitely at least two bathrooms in the Simpsons house. In Bart Vs. Australia, Bart repeatedly flushes a toilet in a desperate attempt to get the water to drain clockwise. At the same time, we see Homer is taking a shower, where he alternately gets sprayed with hot and cold water.
pretty sure it's implied that Homer and Marge have their own ensuite, while Bart, Lisa, Maggie share a bathroom.
When everyone got food poisoning from Krusty's barley burgers, they showed all three bathrooms in quick succession. Downstairs, upstairs and the en-suite.
Wasn't there an episode where everyone got sick and everyone was vomiting. We can see that there were actually 3 separate bathrooms
@@ellyjoe1503 That's the one I was talking about, "Coming to Homerica".
I also remember an episode where all of the simpsons have to go to the bathroom at once really badly because of some new item at krusty burgers and homer goes to 4 bathrooms where everyone else in the family is in meaning there would be 4 bathrooms inside of the house wich would be really strange my guess is they attended on there only being one but they just decide to add more for plot reasons depending on what is happening like a lot of other things
This brings back my frustration of trying to recreate houses in the sims that I've seen elsewhere. They never make sense.
I was generally confused when Grampa had to sleep in Bart's room. He could easily get a foldable guest bed in the rumpus room, in one of the two living rooms or maybe even in Maggy's room.
In Europe, it’s normal to let grandparents take a comfy real bed, then make the kid sleep on a sofa, camp bed, share with sibling etc
I know in the US it’s different. You guys put your family in nursing homes and only see each other once every 6 months. But in Europe family is so important and it’s generally accepted that the younger people have to sleep in the worse conditions out of respect etc etc
@@brin1034 Well, I am from Europe, Germany exactly. Granted, I never had elderly relations at home as half of them were dead before I was born, the other half before I was in elementary school. But I get the idea that the grandfather gets the bed while the child gets the Sofa or foldable bed or whatever. But there's no reason in the Simpsons household to sleep in the same room as it is big enough for Bart to get out of the way. Would also add up to the luxury of privacy for Grampa.
@@brin1034 non protestant europe
@@brin1034thats not all Americans. Europeans forget that there's a whole lot of America that isnt on TV or in LA or NY. Hell I would never ask a guest to sleep on the sofa period let alone my elderly parent. Many of us are like that some of us (theres like 400 million of us remember) have more... lets say self interested values but you'll see that in any population this big and from as diverse a background. The nursing home thing... well thats a huge problem with a litany of reasons, the least of which is not caring. We dont get free in home nursing care, we dont have free nurse visits, free childcare, months of vacation a year, workers rights where we can take time off for caregiving obligations without fear of reprisals, we dont have social safety nets where a primary caregiver can take years off to care for an elder and not have the whole house end up starving and homeless. For many they may love mom but they cannot meet their obligations like providing food, medical insurance, housing, clothes, safe schools, and quality childcare to their minor children and work a full time job while simultaneously caring for a fragile elder who requires round the clock care. Caregivers aren't machines you can shame until they just outpour free caregiving so no one else has to chip in. Small family sizes and our very sick elderly who just hang on for decades is another part as well. Woman are only human, we can't do it alone and for free
@brin1034 Yep, family’s so important that you let them get assaulted by migrants repeatedly. 😆
Rewatching the series i noticed the house had several addresses. "742 Evergreen Terrace" was even a random house where Snake was holding a family hostage in the episode where homer got heart surgery.
Yup! The number associated with the Simpson house used to change back in the day.
its also been 723 and 1094 evergreen terrace
There’s an episode where there’s a graveyard built behind they’re house and Lisa is terrified of it and complains that her room is the only has windows that face the graveyard
its also just down the road from moe's and backs onto the carpark of the plant.
Another one where the nuclear plant is just behind them
Assuming she means only bedroom window. Which as stated are often interchangeable, all we know for certain is that the master bedroom faces the front of the house.
I always wondered how JUST her window could face it. One of the other 3 bedrooms must be on the same side of the house.
@@5hiftyL1v3a 😂
As a civil engineering student, I had a one-year assignment to design a house. I picked this house to replicate. I had no idea what I was getting myself into.
Really considering their money problems, the Simpsons have a glorious house.
There is a good reason why Frank Grimes calls it a 'mansion'.
Thank Abe for that he bought it for them
@@krisblunden1642 How long until Homer put him in the old folks home?
@@fromeztheoriginal Yeah but all those layers of lead paint have made it sturdier over the years.
I have a close friend who said the same about my parents'(the family) house, but honestly it's cookie cutter from that time period and they do use every room and always did.
We were not a rich family when the first payments were made or actually ever, yet we had a very similar house to the Simpsons. At the beginning, when my parents bought it, we were so poor that we couldn't afford orange juice and could only drink Tang as an alternative.
My mom was so happy coming home with that first carton of orange juice as things became more stable. Unfortunately all the children were dissapointed that there was no Tang. We honestly didn't know it was a financial thing. Tang was great.
If old Grimes really knew how big the house really was...
He preferred Grimey
“I don’t need to know where the rumpus room is because I’m Homer Simpson!”
@Me-mb1ex 🤣
In the 90s there was a big competition (I can't remember who ran it) where you could "Win the Simpson's house", they gave away a real house modelled exactly on the tv show. I wonder what the floor plan was..?
Also I've seen a lot of comments where people are surprised Homer could afford the house. Remember he technically bought the house in the early to mid 80s and they live in a small town, so it would have been pretty damn cheap by today's standards. Homer has a fairly high level job at the nuclear power plant so he'd be making good money too.
The house was repainted because HOA + winner didn't like it. Winner was only in for the money.
Yes the winner took 75k cash instead.
I'm in Vegas and it's here
712 Red Bark Lane
Henderson, Nevada, 89011
people also like to ignore the fact that Abe sold his house in order to help pay for homer's. The whole scene was how Homer could not afford that house until his dad gave him the money.
Would be cool if they did a Tree House of Horror episode over the weirdness of the house's layout. Make it some kind of non-Euclidean space where rooms start switching places, doors/windows in odd places, impossible hallway layouts, etc. It would get to the point where other sections of the town (like KwikiMart/Moe's Tavern) show up connected to a door in the house. It's apparent some of it's audience is aware of some inconsistent with the house's layout. Would be be a cool gag to tease it in a non cannon tree house episode. :D
House of Leaves!
This would be amazing lol
Maybe it starts with a flashback to Homer's past when Homer and Marge started living in the house, they would note some weird stuff happening mostly on the hallway, and etc. then back into the present, we're told that those anomalities have gotten worse over time, Making it so more impossible layouts have started to occur, eventually, one day, The simpsons finds out that the entire town has odd layouts, something which wasnt noticeable back then. The anomalies have gotten worse and worse to the point where nothing makes any logical sense at all.
@@dylanzlol7293 The designers could get really creative with these intricate optical illusions that look like exaggerated paintings.
Like at first it starts out a bit weird with rooms suddenly changing but by the end it's a bunch of optical illusions that are hard to make sense of on the eyes.
I thought this video was gonna address the changing location of the house/street, like in one episode It was next to the Power Plant's parking slots, and the background houses change too. But this was way more interesting, taking a look inside the house's inner workings. I didn't even KNOW about the Rumpus room, and hearing about It just blew my mind.
Easily excited much?
@@DavidEFarner easily douchey much?
@@DavidEFarner Yes.
@@DavidEFarner The little things form the bigger picture in life
The whole joke about the parking spot in that episode was that it was miles away from the power plant.
I don't know why but something about the Rhumpus Room and mystery corridor fills me with an insurmountable fear and anxiety
Turns out the poltergeist from Treehouse of Horror 1 didn't destroy itself, it just moved to 742 Evergreen Terrace...
it can't die till it kills the simpsons,
It must be failing at its job then.
I'd love to see one of those perfect 3D recreations of the Simpsons house turned into a escape room type game where you don't know where any of the doors will take you lol
Wherever the basement entrance is, I just want to know how they fit that giant Olmec head down there...
Ikr? How did Burns even get it into the living room in the first place.
Through the outside basement entrance that's sometimes there in the back of the house..
He did it, the mad lad did it the rumpus room mysteries episode, I can't believe this I'm shaking and crying
What are you gay?
@@rickvon809 IM CRYING
The rumpus room is there to remind us that in 1989, a clerical worker with a high school education could raise three kids in a house with four separate reception rooms on a single income.
Clerical worker? Homer has always been working at thr power plant. I dont think he was always in charge of safety but he always sat behind a console full of buttons. That isnt clerical work
@@TheLastApostle 99% of the time, plant workers do nothing as well, so Homer's job depiction is very accurate.
Source: power plant worker
My friend has the same job as Homer and he makes good money. I don't know if he could afford a house like this these days, but he could afford a nice one
@josephwilliams3977: Homer and Marge bought the house in 1982 when Marge was pregnant with Lisa.
@@Bagofnowt A House like the Simpson's here in the UK, depending on where it is would cost between £400,000 to £500,000 today. In 1982 when they supposedly bought it a house like it would have cost around £25,000 to £30,000.
This is basically The Shining
I mean The Shinning, dont wanna get sued
11:47 "the overlook"
As a kid I obsessed about The Simpsons house so much that I have a mental layout of how the house should look like in my head. It's always changing in the show though.
I remember reading an interview with one of the people who lived in that notorious Simpsons "prize house" and the fact it had "no downstairs bathroom" was one of her complaints.
It's actually kinda creepy how the house works in a interchangeable reality from the outside world
Even creepier when marge references it
It’s actually kinda a cartoon
The whole town is actually like that
I think the Some Enchanted Evening basement door is the best place for the basement to go, since it would make the most sense architecturally, and it would explain why the ceiling is in the shape of stairs in several episodes. I think that basement door should’ve stuck around.
Not bad for the Season 1 house, which seems to have endless corridors most of the time.
I would say architecturally the best place for the basement door would be in the kitchen, where that cutout in the wall is, kind of like how they did it in Caillou's house in the kitchen.
I actually like how the Simpsons house doesn't really have a set layout, cause it's like when you try to remember what your childhood home was like and you have vague memories of rooms that may or may not have been there.
Like you remember the main rooms, but occasionally remember the weird side rooms that you rarely entered, like the attic or the basement. For me, it was this old rundown shed that was in my grandmother's backyard that I was told to stay away from because a bunch of Raccoons lived in it.
no wonder Frank Grimes was so upset, Homer owns a TARDIS with mass displacement and shifting geometry
Damn block transfer equations, always messing up the fabric of reality.
"Oh I see you've been renovating the house...I don't like it"
"Let's face it, we are all here to hear about the rumpus room"
I feel personally attacked
Verlisify in the rumpus room with the candlestick
Of course you do.
friggin furry
I always find stuff like this very fascinating, especially certain details, like there being coat hangers in the small hallway.
When you think about it, it makes sense, that's where anybody parking the car in the garage would enter the house (even though I think both Homer and Marge park outside most of the time). Realistically, that hallway would be one of the most used spots, if you lived there you'd see it every day and have it well burned in your mind, same for the rumpus room, since that's where Maggie would spend most of her time, supervised by Marge.... but because no *story* ever happens in these locations we as spectators rarely see them.
I first realized how weird the basement is when I tried to recreate the house in The Sims. I spent 4 hours trying to figure out where it should be (I only had a few VHS's at the time to reference) and gave up. Least favorite room.
This house is a creature of chaos. It may take many incarnations.
Ah, the good old Sims. Hope you called your family living there the "Simsons".
@@f.c.laukhard3623 I was like, 13-ish at the time, and not a very clever 13 at that. So no. No I didn't.
edit: got the year mixed around.
@@tehberral What would a childhood/youth be without missed opportunities? I guess not naming a Sims family scores rather low on that list. :D
Was that a Castlevania reference? Did you just compare the Simpsons house with Castlevania?
@@GloriousGandalf yes
I had no idea the Rumpus Room even existed lol, it looks pretty chill!
My most memorable one is in the movie, we know the parents bedroom only has one window seen inside, but in one moment they see to the front to see the angry crowd, a bout a minute later they somehow have a window facing Flanders to crawl across a board
There's something so weirdly comforting and nostalgic about Springfield and all it's various locations and I have no idea why I feel that way.
The show’s comforting to watch.
Fun fact: the Simpsons house wasn’t always 742 Evergreen Terrace, in many older episodes you hear the number being referenced for other Springfield households
and in one episode the house was 723 i think
In "New Kid on the Block", Bart tells Moe that his address is 1094 Evergreen Terrace.
@@Totema1 I don't think it was set in stone yet
Wow I accurately built the Simpsons house on the sims 2 when I was a teenager long ago. This felt so good to re-explore as when building the house at the time I tried to watch every episode I could with different shot of the upstairs. It’s actually quite easy to follow
you forgot the backyard that changes sizes quite dramatically. in the episode with the trampoline, theres a shot where the backyard goes on forever, like a battle field.
and it also happens to be a backyard that fit half the town to celebrate Marge.
yet in other episodes like when Homers trying to get a glimpse into flanders yard, and the reverse shot shows the outlines of him passing out on the yard, its clearly a normal size yard.
in different episodes, the back of their house is next to: the power plant's carpark, the graveyard, a park, etc.
The scene in the trampoline episode is an example of what the show's creators call "rubber-band reality", where there is a quick exaggeration for dramatic effect. Even in normal scenes though, the size can change quite substantially.
I’m surprised you never mention how the Simpson’s address changes somewhere around season 4. For the first 4 or so seasons their address is consistently 1094 evergreen terrace. In the episode ‘Homer’s Triple Bypass’ 742 evergreen terrace is actually snakes house. It would’ve been cool to see when exactly the change happens and if there’s any reason for it.
Snake must've switched the numbers to throw off the cops one time, and nobody bothered to switch them back. (And then they moved the whole town because of Homer mismanaging the garbage when he took over from Steve Martin's character.)
That topic could be a video in and of itself
I think the best solution for some of the issues (other than the cases where rooms are clearly swapped for the purpose of a specific joke) is that there many simply be more doors in that back hallway than we tend to see. (basement, garage and rumpus room)
Homer once said on his invention of the toilet couch, that he would need to walk up the stairs to use the regular toilet so I operate on that in defence of no down stairs toilet.
Maybe the current downstairs toilet used to be a closet and Homer had it converted into a bathroom so he didn't have to go upstairs?
That could also explain a toilet randomly appearing under the stairs or other unusual places.
The windows in the kitchen and rumpus room change from four panes, two panes horizontally and two panes vertically.
The house from early episodes feels so lived in and it feels like you there with them
Same in every episode, it’s a good show.
In one episode when the town all gets food poisoning we see the downstairs bathroom when Homer is looking for somewhere to throw up. He tries 3 bathrooms before having to settle on Lisa's Saxophone. And in another episode we see Homer and Marge's bedroom at the other end of the upstairs hallway. In the Treehouse of Horror episode with Hugo we also see they have an upstairs closet too. There's also sometimes a door that leads from the TV room to the kitchen or even a closet in the TV room.
In one episode their house isn't even 742 Evergreen Terrace, it's Snake's house.
There might be an explanation: since this was an episode of "Cops in Springfield", they might've changed the real address for privacy reasons.
@@Bierbuxe That makes sense. But would they use a real address. Maybe the writers just liked how it sounded.
Homer took off the numbers so the creditors couldn't find him. Then he took off the numbers next to it so they couldn't find the house with no numbers but then he had to take the numbers off snakes house so they couldn't look for the house with no numbers next to the house with no numbers. But then when he put the numbers all back on he accidentally put 742 on snakes house. Case closed. I mean I rest my case.
How do you know that's Snake's house? He just drives out of it in a car. Could be that he was holding the Simpsons hostage and they called the cops on him. Course that brings up the question as to why Revenant Lovejoy is opening the door in Flanders' house.
it was also once 1094 evergreen terrace in one episode. an older one i think
this just taught me that common house construction planning and interior layouts are built for comedy, you always have at least 2 places for someone to enter or exit from and nearly everywhere you could face in any room frames an entry perfectly
0:39 I remember on this shot a producer on the audio commentary for this episode saying "Where the hell IS that room? What room is he in?"
I'll never forget the tiny window that suddenly appeared above the front door in Trash of the Titans. Which also implies there would be a floor there for Homer and Bart to stand on.
My theory about the basement is this:
It IS at the end of the mysterious hall, but not where you'd think it is.
My theory will assume that an erroneous shot was given when you see the hall turning on the left, and that it actually was supposed to turn right(animation error like that are fairly common, especially back then) and that once you turned, you'd face the wall almost immediately. So basically shaping the mysterious Hallway in a L, just not oriented the way we saw.
Second, let's just take a minute to remember about those stairs that led nowhere in the garage; My theory needs them, and honestly I have no problems seeing what happened to them based on Real-Life Experiences. Do you know it's just as common to "camouflage" things inside of houses than actually removing them? Especially big pieces that most likely play vital role in the structural stability of the place.
So basically, I say the stairs are STILL THERE, just inside the wall separating Garrage from Mysterious Hallway. Seems lazy enough to have been imagined by Homer himself, yet realistic enough to be done by a professional.
So, to RECAP, in this L-Shaped Mysterious Hallway, you turn right at the end of the hall, then face your right again to come face to face with the door that proceed to the basement, and BOOM you have stairs that goes down WITH another staircase above it.
It's also important to mention that walls can be prtty thick, the are not made of paper sheets, you'd be surprised just how many peoples comes to discover rooms or missing space when they stop to really look and wonder.
For some reason it's infuriating their house doesn't actually exist.
Didn't they have a contest where the prize was a real-life version of the Simpsons' house like, a decade ago?
@@benjaminoechsli1941 Yes I think they did, but that's not really the house, you know, it still isn't real.
@@Ethan265Stapley Hence why he said "a real life version of the house"... and not "the actual house"... to avoid confusion, but clearly he underestimated you.
@@benjaminoechsli1941 Yeah they built it in Henderson, NV! I drove to look at it a couple years ago, it doesn’t look much like the Simpsons house anymore as it had been repainted.
I believe if you won the contest, you could choose between a cash prize and the "Simpsons house" and the person that won the contest picked the cash.
I would actually like to see more of these: trying to make sense of the spatial lay out of different kinds of buildings and stores within the Simpsons universe and how they have changed over the years! Great job on this one!
10:35 I'm pretty sure Hutz is going to the bathroom upstairs, so him walking toward the front door might have been intended as him walking toward the stairs. Most importantly though the bathroom window seems to show the upper part of the tree outside, so I think regardless of continuity they're suggesting this scene takes place upstairs.
I've spent my whole life until this point convinced that the rumpus room was upstairs...
ditto....then it occurred to me, as I watched this, in "3 Men and a Comic Book" Homer looks UP at the treehouse.
@@popecorkyI I think I assumed that the tree was taller than the house, so he was looking up from upstairs?
Wrong, dumbasses. The rumpus room door is to the left of the hallway to the right of the kitchen, just behind the garage door that is on the right of the hallway.
@@MrParkerman6 bruh
@@MrParkerman6 my... we're edgy.
THE RUMPUS ROOM! My favourite obscure Simpsons trivia
Omg! I finally realized the song is from Ty the Tasmanian Tiger in the bog level! My god that's a deep cut use of video game music for your background! I can't say I've heard anyone else do that so I really need to give Kudos! It's a great low key song and I doubt many people would recognize it! It's been naming at the back of my head, myself! I even played the Switch digital re-release last year but I guess I wasn't thing of your vid at the time and made the connection.
Their house does have the 3rd Dimension in it so that could explain a lot.
treehouse of horrer
yeah we are in third dimension too??? what do you mean
Enough of your borax, Poindexter! We need action!
@@ianfinrir8724 mans life is at stake!
The realm of the Frinkahedron
Obviously the Simpsons house exists amongst a higher dimension and has no such limitation on layout
It could be a residual effect of the toaster time machine.
@Dan Vs Fanbase geometry on earth is Euclidean geometry
The Third Dimension.
You ever think this house is like that board game labyrinth where it just moves around constantly and they have to just get used to that every time it shifts
I can't believe I've watched this video like 5 times already. There's something really uncanny and enthralling about the Simpsons' shifting house, even though Jim doesn't present it as a creepy thing, and isn't to be intended this way. It also reminds me of an X-Mickey comic book about a house that kept growing new rooms, pretty cool to read about, especially as a kid
When I picture the upstairs, I tend to give Maggie the front-facing room and have the bathroom at the end of the hall. It all comes down to those windows over the garage: They make sense for a bathroom, since you want privacy, not so much for a room meant for an infant, who you want to shower with brightness and joy.
For me: the upstairs has Maggie’s room down the right end of the hall, whilst Homer and Marges room is on the left.
Been binging the Simpsons recently, so I’m really happy to have found this video! Your attention to detail helped confirm a few questions I had, as well as point out things I didn’t notice.
I’m now gonna binge all of your videos while I’m at it haha 😂
Great stuff!
"Wake up babe, new Simpsons Mysteries video"
I am genuinely impressed at the amount of research this must have required.
Theres something particularly appealing to me about this specific episode in this series, i like the idea of this illusion of a house being revealed to be a temperamental and noneuclidean alternate dimension and living being(governed by the demands of comedy). That and that the simpsons can really have a strong atmosphere, especially when you actually pay attention to the environments. Makes me wonder if other locations are similar, like how consistent is the school or homers work for instance.
In the 30+ years of shows, the kitchen seemed to pull off all of the gags that a ground level window to the backyard was meant to do. I never even thought of the "rumpus room" as its own room until you pointed it out in another video. When I watched that episode in the 90s, it didn't dawn on me that Homer was watching tv *not* in the living room when Bart was in the treehouse. It is basically the size of a large closet and couldn't comfortably fit all of the Simpsons unlike the kitchen.
Whenever I see that picture online, I keep thinking Homer’s watching TV upstairs in one of the kids’ bedrooms. That should tell you how little the rumpus room is used.
A Simpsons mysteries of the neighbor of the Simpsons, or at least the layout of Evergreen Street...we know where Flanders is, but around, what is stable and how did it changes over time ? Is the presidential house still there ? Would be interresting !
I got reminded of something and wanted to share.
I can´t find the original quote, but Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragon Ball) said something along the lines of "I never made a layout when drawing scenes inside houses or interior spaces. Must been a pain for the artists and animators. I´m sorry."
I've never noticed the rumpus room, or that the rooms switch so often. It's sort of creepy to think that the house randomly hides rooms or entrances but the window is always there.
One thing to keep in mind is that there was a time when television directors would have never thought that anyone would look that closely, and a house (even in a live-action half-hour comedy) might have the tendency to occasionally morph depending on what the writers felt like doing. A minor example off the top of my head is the portrait of Barnabas Collins just sort of becoming prominent at one point in _Dark Shadows_. "Was that always there?" the housewife might have asked herself, but in the 1960s there would have been no way to know for sure ...
I watch this video a lot to relax with/fall asleep to. It's soothing. So I am deeply familiarized with its description and visuals of the house and my *biggest* issues are, primarily:
1) In the episode Marge vs. Itchy and Scratchy, when Maggie hits Homer over the head with a mallet, they had to add a very awkward non-sensical stairway to nowhere in the corner of the garage to make the sequence work. Why didn't they just set the scene in the basement, which stores enough similar items and where Homer does plenty of his experiments and projects so that they could have had the exact same result from the exact same action, etc. without having to force a non-sensical alteration to the house.
2) I understand why they're inconsistent about the upstairs layout. A lot of stories work better if the rooms are facing the front, or the back, etc. and so they change location in a shot or a scene for that purpose. That's fine. I think the same goes for the treehouse- I could swear they've had episodes where the tree house is located in a side yard on the garage side of the house. Then of course you have episodes where they force a particular Simpsons bedroom to suddenly have a window directly facing the Flanders'- so suddenly Bart or Homer can look out their bedroom window and look directly into the Flanders' windows, sometimes at Flanders in his bedroom, sometimes at Rod or Todd in their bed rooms, even though only the master bedroom of Homer and Marge actually faces the Flanders and they don't have windows on the side of the house facing the Flanders' property.
I used to think that was the basement in "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge" and it was the hallway which Maggie exits into that was confusing me. The stairway could maybe lead to one of the doors in the upstairs hallway. I believe the *only* other episode to feature a stairway in the garage was the following season's "Saturdays of Thunder". Jim Reardon, who directed both episodes, presumably remembered its appearance in I&S&M, especially since both episodes use the garage as a "woodwork project" room (and the later episode even includes a callback to the spice rack from the earlier episode).
I want to play a C.o.D. Zombies map with an 'accurate-as-possible' rendition of the Simpsons house. Or maybe a Gmod map
There's a TTT map of The Simpson's house
the simpsons house in The Simsons Game is uncannily accurate, to the point where the side with the rumpus room is always off screen because the camera doesnt move from the angle shown in the show