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Though some refer to the state as North kentucky, this is a misconception.
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Nathan Lamm and Marc Pasquin
by Josh Fruhlinger, 24 Oct 1996
This is the flag of the US state that Springfield, the setting of the
animated show The Simpsons is in. One of the show’s running gags
is that you never know precisely what state Springfield is in — often
characters will be about to say the name when, say, a passing train obscures
their words. In one episode, evil nuclear power plant owner Monty Burns runs
for governor, and in one of his campaign commercials we see the state flag.
This is it. Except for the motto in the bottom stripe, I’d actually
prefer this design to many seal-on-a-monocolored-background designs of actual
US state flags.
Josh Fruhlinger, 24 Oct 1996
The flag of Springfield, MO could very well be
a major inspiration for this flag, by the way.
Ole Andersen, 2 Apr 2004
by Eugene Ipavec, 11 Dec 2007
In The Simpsons third-season.episode “Bart the Murderer”, a flag appears on the other side of a judges’ podium from the S&S — horizontal white-red-white, with a yellow star in the central stripe.
This could have been an early concept for a flag of Springfield, an unplanned improvisation, or possibly the storyboards called for a flag of the unnamed state the series is set in - the design is identical) but left out the specified colors, leaving the animation studio to pick ones at random. (Either way, simple, one-off flags are quite commonly employed by the series in official settings.
Eugene Ipavec, 11 Dec 2007
Well, from over here, it does look like the logical place to show a state
flag. If this was a mistake — some very good stories have come from
accepting a mistake into a story line’s universe and writing an
explanation for it.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg , 13 Dec 2007
Well, the show could use some consistency in this department; every time a
non-national flag is called for to stand in a corner in an official setting, a
simple new ad-hoc design is thrown together. (There must be half a dozen
nominal flags of Springfield alone.)
Eugene Ipavec, 13 Dec 2007
And no indication this is intended as a running gag? Well, maybe you could
turn it into one, by offering the next few designs to be used? Suggest they
have a flag design competition? Then again, maybe some
people in that universe are deliberately swapping the
Springfield or State flag, to
steal them in a way people won’t notice as quickly — «as
no-one ever looks at a state flag anyway». Of course, that must mean
there’s something stealworthy about the original flags. Maybe it’s
just the oldest flags, made at the time Springfield became a city —
off we go into the treasure puzzle story line with meaningful variations in
what appeared to be badly made flags. I expect they find out in the end that
those really are badly made flags and that the rumour of the treasure was
spread by the manufacturer to make people buy them anyway.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg , 15 Dec 2007
(star possibly present)
image by António Martins, 05 Aug 2010
A variant of the green-white-red “unnamed state”
flag is shown in episode #15 of season #18, “Rome-old and
Juli-eh” (see
English Wikipedia
article), hoisted limp on and indoors pole at the meeting room of
Springfield D.M.V. in a scene when Selma is presenting lame proposals due to
her troubles at home:
It is an inequal horizontal triband of red, green, and white, the green
stripe noticeably more narrow, about half the other two. The hoisting position
prevents to discern if the star is shown on the flag’s middle,
but the motto seems to be absent.
António Martins, 05 Aug 2010
by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 13 Sep 2006
In one episode, the Confederate imagery on the state flag (it looks like a
Second Confederate Naval Jack sinking into the
ocean) is declared to be a disgrace «especially as we’re
a Northern State». This sparks a state flag contest among
the kids.
Nathan Lamm, 17 Nov 2002
The design looked like Arizona’s flag with
the CBF in place of the star. I guess Springfield is in southern Arizona??
Al Kirsch, 17 Nov 2002
I found the way the Confederate jack was presented — a sunset-lit
beauty shot, for (presumably) maximum objectionability — particularly
amusing.
Eugene Ipavec, 13 Mar 2005
image by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 2005
In the same episode where we see the second state flag,
the controversy encourages the governor to suggest the children of the
visiting Springfield Elementary design a new flag. Lisa comes up with one,
depicting people, and a rainbow (I think).
Andrew Cheatle, 1 Jul 2004
image by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán, 2005
But Bart messes it up so that it shows a “stink
line” instead. Apparently it ends up being accepted as the new flag, for
Homer remarks later that his state is “the stinky state” as if
that were the official state motto, much as California is “the golden
state”.
Andrew Cheatle, 1 Jul 2004
The “official” flag of Springfield has never been shown
again.
Eugene Ipavec, 11 Dec 2007
by Eugene Ipavec, 14 Sep 2006
In Springfield was a revolution of babys, so Kabul rejected the city
partnership with Springfield. In this screen
capture, the representative of Kabul tear up the flag of Springfield. It is
a typical American city flag, blue with the coat of arms and the words
"CITY OF SPRINGFIELD". I do not know much about the symbolism,
except of the lemon. There is a lemon tree, where the children of Springfield
take the fruits to make lemonade for generations.
J. Patrick Fischer, 07 Nov 2004
The lemon tree also play a part in the city’s history.
Nathan Lamm, 07 Nov 2004
What looks like three smaller stars in the fourth quarter is actually a
radiation symbol (☢).
Eugene Ipavec, 14 Sep 2006
(There must be half a dozen nominal flags of Springfield alone; this is but
one of them.)
Eugene Ipavec, 13 Dec 2007
by Eugene Ipavec, 05 Sep 2006
Here is the flag of the fictional Florida town
of Palm Corners, from season 11 of the TV series The Simpsons (episode
“Kill the Alligator and run”). The town was meant to be a parody of
Fort Lauderdale during Spring Break (something many might consider a
redundancy).
Eugene Ipavec, 5 Sep 2006
The joke in the episode was that Palm Corners’ flag was designed by
(or sewn by, I forget which) the town’s mascot, “Cactus Jack”
(the titular alligator). Hence the reason it looks like it was put together
by an alligator.
David Kendall, 5 Sep 2006
by Eugene Ipavec, 01 May 2006
This flag is seen in episode 1 of season 4 entitled “Kamp Krusty”.
In it, Bart and Lisa are sent to a summer camp licensed by their hero, Krusty
the Clown. The camp turns out to be a run-down hellhole where the campers are
forced to subsist on gruel and stitch wallets for export.
(Screenshot)
Eugene Ipavec, 01 May 2006
by Eugene Ipavec, 01 May 2006
After enduring Kamp Krusty’s hardship for a while, Bart leads a
sucessful revolt, expels the counselors and renames the camp after himself.
There is a scene of the old camp flag being lowered, and a
new one being raised.
(Screenshot)
Eugene Ipavec, 01 May 2006
by Sean McKinniss, 02 Apr 2004
The episode in which this flag was seen involved Bart being sent to
Australia to apologise for a long distance phone bill
— or he’ll be given the boot! (The episode was a parody
of the Michael Fay incident, in which an American was caned for a crime in
Singapore.) It contains a Union Jack in the canton, a
constellation, and a boot kicking a bare bottom. In the episode, it flew over
the Australian Parliament.
Sean McKinniss, 02 Apr 2004
by Vincent Morley and Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,
14 Sep 2005
In one episode, Marge Simpson tells her children the story of Henry VIII of
England. Henry VIII looks very much like Homer Simpson in this joke version of
history, and the flags flying over his castle looks like the
English flag but with other colours — they
are blue with a white cross.
Elias Granqvist, 02 Nov 2004
by Edward Mooney, Jr. and Eugene Ipavec, 29 Jun 2009
“Lisa the Iconoclast” is the 16th episode of The Simpsons’ 7th season, originally airing on February 18, 1996: as Springfield’s bicentennial approaches, Lisa finds a secret confession written by town founder Jebediah Springfield, revealing that he had actually been a murderous pirate in hiding. Relevant quote (from a flashback to 1796):
Betsy Ross: (enters room, plaintively) I got the white stars you wanted, but I couldn’t find any red hearts, yellow moons, or green clovers.The reference is to the jingle for the “Lucky Charms” brand of leprechaun-themed children’s cereal, describing the differently-shaped marshmallows it contains.
George Washington: (annoyed) …I’ll take it. But I’m not paying for it!
by Željko Heimer, 15 Jan 2003
In an episode a few seasons ago, the flag of Sierra
Leone was inexplicably present in the offices of the Teacher Of The Year
Commitee.
Eugene Ipavec, 11 Dec 2007
by Eugene Ipavec, 27 May 2006
Yet another state or city flag
appears, alongside a US flag, behind mayor Quimby in the episode “Lisa
the Iconoclast”. It is a red-white-blue tricolor, with thin gold stripes
in between.
Eugene Ipavec, 27 May 2006
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