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Encyclopedia > 742 Evergreen Terrace

742 Evergreen Terrace is the fictional street address of the home for the fictional Simpson family in the animated television series, The Simpsons. FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... An address is a code and abstract concept expressing the fixed location of a home, business or other building on the earths surface. ... The Simpson Family The Simpson family is the family featured in the United States animated sitcom The Simpsons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ...


The house to the left of the Simpsons' house is the Flanders family's house, at 744 Evergreen Terrace.[1][2] The house on the right belongs to Ruth and Laura Powers. The following is a list of characters featured in the American animated television series The Simpsons. ... The following are a list of fictional recurring characters in the animated television show, The Simpsons. ...

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Design

The house is a pink-orange two-story house with an attached garage, basement, and loft. On the ground floor, the front door (with an elephant doorknocker) leads straight into the hallway, with one arch in the wall to the left, leading to the living room, one to the right which leads into the dining room, a small cupboard and the stairs to the second floor. The sitting room and the dining room have bay windows. At the back of the house is the family room and the kitchen, with stairs that lead to the basement. Although rarely seen, there is also a hallway leading to a "Rumpus room" and possibly a small bathroom from the kitchen. Homer was seen relaxing in the Rumpus Room during the episodes "Three Men and a Comic Book" and "Brother from the Same Planet", where he could see the boys fighting in the treehouse. A sitting room in the UK. A living room, also known as sitting room (especially in the UK), lounge room or lounge (in the United Kingdom and Australia), is a room for entertaining guests, reading, watching TV or other activities. ... The dining room at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England A dining room is a room for consuming food. ... A kitchen is a room used for food preparation and sometimes entertainment. ... A recreation room (also known as a rec room or rumpus room) is a room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use. ... “Three Men and a Comic Book” is the 21st episode of the second season of The Simpsons. ... Brother from the Same Planet is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons from the fourth season. ...


The second story of the house has Marge and Homer's bedroom (with an ensuite bathroom), Bart's bedroom, Lisa's bedroom, Maggie's bedroom, a bathroom and some 'empty' rooms, often shown in inconsistent places in different episodes. On the landing, there is a hatch which leads to the attic. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ... The term en-suite (in room), from the French, is usually used to refer to a bathroom which is connected to a bedroom. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... For the singer-songwriter, see Maggie Simpson (musician). ...


The back garden of the house is surrounded by a wooden picket fence and a low box hedge, and features a patio and the treehouse from which the Simpsons' annual Halloween specials take their name. Occasionally there is a hammock shown tied to two trees near the fence that borders Ned Flanders backyard. Bart introducing a segment of Treehouse of Horror IV in the manner of Rod Serlings Night Gallery. ... Garden hammock A couple in a hammock on the beach The hammock is a fabric sling used for sleeping or resting. ...


An episode set in the future shows a wooden add-on to the second floor, built (rather poorly) by Homer. It functions as a guest bedroom, but Homer warns Lisa and her fiancé that "if the building inspector asks, it's not a room. It's a window box". This following is a list, by episode, of one-time fictional characters from the American animated television comedy series The Simpsons. ...


Features and furniture

The basement always includes a washing machine and a clothes dryer and a large Olmec statue of a head, which was a present from Mr. Burns after Bart donated blood to him in a second-season episode. However, the appearance of other features such as a furnace, ping-pong table, air hockey set and water softener vary from episode to episode. The basement is often used as a "secret lair", where Homer has brewed alcohol to beat prohibition and hidden his superhero operation as Pie Man, and where Marge hid during a spell of agoraphobia. The house has two identical red sofas: one in the sitting room which is not seen very often and a well-known one in front of the TV - the current sofa is a replacement of the old one which was destroyed (and had a fold-out bed the new one does not have). A simple painting of a boat hangs on the wall above this couch. A tank full of fish is sometimes seen in the sitting room, but it only seems to appear in episodes where it is prominent. Front-loading washing machine. ... An electric clothes dryer A clothes dryer or tumble dryer is a household appliance that is used to remove the residual moisture from a load of clothing and other textiles, generally shortly after they are cleaned in a washing machine. ... Monument 1, one of the four Olmec colossal heads at La Venta. ... Mr. ... Blood Feud is the last episode of the second season of The Simpsons. ... Regional competition level table tennis, showing table, net, and player getting ready to return the ball with a winning backhand topspin stroke. ... Current World #7 Rank, Danny Hynes Air hockey is a game for two competing players trying to score points in the opposing players goal. ... A water softener reduces calcium or magnesium concentration in hard water. ... A typical cartoon villain. ... The term Prohibition, also known as A Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ... Simple Simpson is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder precipitated by the fear of having a symptom attack or panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. ...


In the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror VI" episode, there is a portal behind the bookcase in the sitting room that leads to the Third Dimension. This is a reference to the Twilight Zone episode, "Little Girl Lost". However, Treehouse of Horror episodes are not canonical. In Treehouse of Horror IV, the famous Dogs Playing Poker painting appears above the sofa. Treehouse of Horror VI is the sixth episode of The Simpsons seventh season, as well as the sixth Halloween episode. ... 2-dimensional renderings (ie. ... Note, this page is about the television series and its two revivals. ... “Little Girl Lost” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone. ... Canonical is an adjective derived from canon. ... Treehouse of Horror IV is the fifth episode of The Simpsons fifth season, first aired on October 28, 1993. ... His Station and Four Aces by C. M. Coolidge, 1903. ...


Current state

The house is now five miles away from where it was first built due to "Plan B", where, to avoid pollution and landfill, the entire city was moved down the road, as seen in "Trash of the Titans". This is believed by some fans to explain some inconsistencies such as the layout of the basement. Look up landfill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Trash of the Titans is the Emmy Award-winning twenty-second episode of The Simpsons ninth season and the 200th overall. ...


The house itself is often shown as dilapidated; the walls are painted with lead paint, the roof leaks and in one episode, the kitchen was so badly damaged that it needed to be rebuilt. A running gag is that whenever the camera pans between floors or rooms, the interior of the walls are shown to be filled with dangerous and unusual items such as asbestos, toxic waste, hidden treasure, recording devices, baby dinosaurs and dancing mice. Even the family cat, Snowball II, is seen in between the walls from time to time. However, the lived-in spaces are usually kept neat by homemaker Marge. In one episode, it was described as a palace by Frank Grimes. In another episode, Moe Szyslak observed that it contained no silverfish. Lead paint is paint containing lead, a heavy metal, that is used as pigment, with Lead(II) chromate (PbCrO4, chrome yellow) and lead(II) carbonate(PbCO3, white lead) being the most common. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The running gag is a popular hallmark of comic and serious forms of entertainment. ... For other uses, see Asbestos (disambiguation). ... Toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. ... Orders Saurischia    Sauropodomorpha    Theropoda Ornithischia Dinosaurs are giant reptiles that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for most of their 165-million year existence. ... Marge is a female name, often a shortened form of Margaret. ... Frank Grimey Grimes, Sr. ... Morris Moe Szyslak (pronounced //) is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 For other uses, see Silverfish (disambiguation). ...


The phone number is inconsistent between episodes, though always starting with 555. According to "A Tale of Two Springfields," the area code was 636 before the events of that episode and 939 thereafter. In North America, telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious phone numbers in television shows, films and other types of fictional media. ... A Tale of Two Springfields is an episode from season twelve of the animated TV series The Simpsons. ...


Damage and Destruction

The house frequently suffers major damage due to attacks, accidents and negligence, including:

  • Abraham Simpson crashing through the sitting room window in a car.
  • All furnishings being stolen by an angry mob.
  • At several times, being set ablaze by Homer including while burning his high school diploma and while skipping church.
  • The house's interior trashed by the Hell's Satans motorcycle gang, in the episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze."
  • A taxiing airliner crashing down the living room wall.
  • Frequently being in a ridiculously untidy and disorganized state (alligator stuck in the toilet, footprints on the ceiling, etc...).
  • Serious foundation failure due to leaking plumbing, slanting the house significantly. ("Marge Gets a Job")

In The Simpsons Movie, the house is completely devoured and destroyed with all possessions lost by a sink hole in Maggie's sandpit, which expands after the Police shoot bullets into it. The house is later rebuilt with help of the townsfolk and the family themselves at the end of the film. (It is unknown if anything was salvaged from the sinkhole.) Abraham J. Simpson also known as Grampa Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Take My Wife, Sleaze is the eighth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. ... An Airbus A340 airliner operated by Air Jamaica An airliner is a large fixed-wing aircraft with the primary function of transporting paying passengers. ... For other uses, see Alligator (disambiguation). ... Marge Gets a Job is the 7th episode of The Simpsons fourth season. ... The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons, directed by David Silverman, and scheduled to be released worldwide by July 27, 2007. ...


Real-life version

A real life approximation to the home depicted on the show was built in 1997 by Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation in a promotion sponsored by FOX and Pepsi. The house was painted and furnished with items to match the television show, although the scale of the house was smaller than the house on the series. The house was given away in a contest; the winner, Barbara Howard, was a retired factory worker from Richmond, Kentucky. The house was built at 712 Red Bark Lane in Henderson, Nevada; it has since been repainted.[3] For the band, see 1997 (band). ... KB Home is a housing construction company based in the United States, founded in 1957. ... FOX redirects here. ... Pepsi Cola is a non-alcoholic carbonated beverage produced and manufactured by PepsiCo. ... Richmond is the 6th largest city in Kentucky and the county seat of Madison County. ... A view of Black Mountain above Henderson, Nevada. ...


Address

The house's address was inconsistent in earlier seasons, being 94 Evergreen Terrace, 1094 Evergreen Terrace, 723 Evergreen Terrace, and 430 Spalding Way. In "Homer's Triple Bypass", 742 Evergreen Terrace is a completely different house where Snake hides from the police and Rev. Lovejoy lives next door. Homers Triple Bypass is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons fourth season, which originally aired on December 17, 1992. ... Snake Jailbird, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a fictional character from the animated TV series The Simpsons. ... The Reverend Timothy Tim Lovejoy (more commonly known as Reverend Lovejoy) is a fictional character and the local Reverend in the long-running animated TV show The Simpsons and is voiced by Harry Shearer. ...


References

  1. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season9/page9.shtml
  2. ^ (2006). The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season DVD commentary for the episode "Realty Bites" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
  3. ^ Art Nadler (1997-12-10). The Simpsons House. Las Vegas Sun. Retrieved on 2006-08-19.

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