The Simpsons house makes no sense...

[Thespeckledkiwi]

So one Sunday night, my friend and I after watching the Simpsons, wondered what the inside of their house looked like. The downstairs isn't as bad as the upstairs. There is a room or two missing downstairs a lot of times (see the episode where Martin, Milhouse, and Bart get Radioactive Man Number 1 and watch where Homer is sitting when they are fighting) and we don't know where the hell the basement door is. But the upstairs? Forget about it! There is no, absolutely no, explaination on how they order it. No big deal but it was funny. Also in the Movie, they added an extra window to Marge and Homer's room.

 

[Tulin]

I still wanna know how they got that big giant head down the stairs.

 

[The Squire of Gothos]

There is no, absolutely no, explaination on how they order it

I thought it was an in-joke, something like the (IIRC) Radioactive man episode where Bart looks for Millhouse in the treehouse and looks through five corners instead of four for him

However, someone has put a lot of thought into a plan of the house.

 

[Hermiod]

There was another episode where Homer pays for a new kitchen. The new kitchen is absolutely gigantic yet seems to somehow occupy the same space as the previous one.

 

[Kegek]

Hell, the street they're on makes no sense. For one episode the house across from theirs looks like the White House; they have two houses of neighbours on either side except in the episode where just a barbed wire seperates their house from the nuclear power plant.

Simspons geography - internal and external - is elastic. All that matters is it fits the plot or the joke of the moment.

 

[Hermiod]

They are consistent about one thing - the Simpsons are actually very, very rich but Homer just manages his money badly.

Homer owns the Denver Broncos (given to him by Hank Scorpio as a gift), he is a former member of a hugely successful multiple Grammy award winning band,
he also wrote a chart topping song about how much he hates Flanders etc etc etc.

On the other hand, he owes so much money to his multiple creditors and he's having part of his salary taken by his Vegas wife that it cancels it all out. He also appears to have lost numerous legal cases.

He could, for instance, afford the $200,000 the new kitchen apparently cost.

This also explains how he can afford a four bedroom house with a garage and a spacious basemen, two cars etc, much to Frank Grimes' chagrin, despite being bone idle and repeatedly fired.

 

[shivkala]

Time Lord technology. Bigger on the inside.

Or, there's also the fact that several episodes have shown their house to be in poor condition, with numerous holes in the ceilings, walls, etc. I just figure every time they remodel, they change the floor plan.

Or there's the fact that they share a reset button with Voyager, conveniently resetting everything back after every episode.

 

[Dar70]

Its just a cartoon. They have joked about resets, time not passing and continuity. The house has always been in a state of flux. Whatever fits the current story.

 

[Small White Car]

When the built that real Simpson's house a few years back, they ran into this problem. They had to make alterations to the plans in order to build it since it's physically impossible to build it exactly like it is in the cartoon.

For example check out the garage and the size of the bay windows. In order to make the rooms inside right (which was the priority) the outside of the house had to be misshapen.

Cartoon version for comparison.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I still wanna know how they got that big giant head down the stairs.

Same way they got it and the crate it came in through the door.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I still wanna know how they got that big giant head down the stairs.

Same way they got it and the crate it came in through the door.

But how did Batman get the dinosour in?