Editing Springfield (The Simpsons) (section)

==Businesses ==
===Kwik-E-Mart===
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[[File:Kwik-e-mart-7-11.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A [[Seattle]] 7-Eleven store transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart]]
[[Kwik-E-Mart]] is a fictional convenience store run by [[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]]. The Kwik-E-Mart first appeared in the first-season episode "[[The Telltale Head]]" (although mentioned in "[[Bart the General]]" as the "Quick-e-Mart"). In "[[Stark Raving Dad]]", a street sign reading "Highland" is seen outside one of the front windows, in the same blue color as is used for signs for [[Highland Avenue (Los Angeles)|Highland Avenue]] in [[Los Angeles]]. Likewise, three buildings are visible that are similar to some of those that might be seen on that street: two low buildings with bars over the windows, and a third, also with barred windows, which has a mission-style roof and a sign reading "Smog Center".<ref>{{cite episode |title=Stark Raving Dad |episode-link=Stark Raving Dad |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |network=Fox |airdate=September 19, 1991 |season=03 |number=02 |credits=Jean, Al; Reiss, Mike}}</ref>

The episode "[[Homer and Apu]]" suggests that Apu is an employee of the Kwik-E-Mart and shows him travelling to the [[Himalayas]], where the Kwik-E-Mart head office is located, to ask for his job back after being fired. However, Apu mentions at a bachelor auction that he runs his own business in "[[The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]".

In July 2007, convenience store chain [[7-Eleven]] converted 11 of its stores in the United States and one in Canada into Kwik-E-Marts to promote the release of ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''.<ref name="E!">{{cite news |author=Josh Grossberg |date=July 2, 2007 |title=Cowabunga! 7-Elevens Get Kwik-E Makeover |url=http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4082c01a-a201-4b22-8c30-1f51e4a41a5a |access-date=February 24, 2008 |publisher=[[E! News]]}}</ref> The locations of the renovated Kwik-E-Marts were: [[Bladensburg, Maryland]]/Washington, D.C.; [[Burbank, California]]; [[Chicago]]; [[Dallas]]; [[Denver]]; [[Henderson, Nevada|Henderson]]/[[Las Vegas]]; [[Los Angeles]]; [[Mountain View, California|Mountain View]]/[[San Francisco]]; New York City; [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]]/[[Lake Buena Vista, Florida]]; [[Seattle]];<ref name="FOX">{{cite news |date=July 1, 2007 |title=7-Eleven Becomes Kwik-E-Mart for 'Simpsons Movie' Promotion |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/7-eleven-becomes-kwik-e-mart-for-simpsons-movie-promotion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704143203/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C287578%2C00.html |archive-date=July 4, 2007 |access-date=July 3, 2007 |publisher=[[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]}}</ref> and [[Vancouver]]/[[Coquitlam, British Columbia]], Canada.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 30, 2007 |title=Oh Canada, D'oh Homer |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/oh-canada-d-oh-homer-1.668588 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201080218/http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2007/07/04/kwick-e-mart.html |url-status=live |archive-date=December 1, 2007 |access-date=July 4, 2007 |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> These 12 locations, as well as the majority of other North American 7-Elevens, sold products found in ''The Simpsons'', such as "[[Products produced from The Simpsons#Buzz Cola|Buzz Cola]]", "[[Products produced from The Simpsons#Krusty-O's|Krusty-O's]]", "[[Products produced from The Simpsons#Squishee|Squishee]]s", pink frosted "Sprinklicious doughnuts", and other ''Simpsons''-themed merchandise. The Squishes were [[Slurpee]]s that are sold in special collector cups, and the Krusty-O's were made by [[MOM Brands|Malt-O-Meal]].<ref name="FOX" /> The promotion resulted in a 30% increase in profits for the changed 7-Eleven stores. This can be seen during the opening of ''The Simpsons Movie''.<ref name="tieins">{{cite news |author=Gail Schiller |date=July 6, 2007 |title=D'oh! 'Simpsons' limits tie-in partners |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i5cd11e0c6fc24e90a897224f6f3c214d |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708103103/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i5cd11e0c6fc24e90a897224f6f3c214d |archive-date=July 8, 2007 |access-date=July 6, 2007 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]}}</ref>

=== Moe's Tavern ===
[[File:MoesBarConcepcion2016.jpg|thumb|Moe's Bar in Concepción, Chile, based on images from ''The Simpsons'']]

Moe's Tavern, or often simply referred to as "Moe's", is a fictional bar operated and named after the owner, [[Moe Szyslak]]. Moe's Tavern first appeared in the first episode of the series "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]". [[Homer Simpson]], [[Lenny Leonard]], and [[Carl Carlson]] often visit the bar after a day of work at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Other frequent patrons of Moe's Tavern are [[Barney Gumble]], [[List of recurring The Simpsons characters|Sam]], and [[List of recurring Simpsons characters|Larry Dalrymple]].

===Springfield Nuclear Power Plant===
The Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is a fictional two-unit [[pressurized water reactor]] [[nuclear power plant]] in Springfield owned by [[Mr. Burns|Charles Montgomery Burns]]. Among the plant's employees are [[Homer Simpson]], [[Lenny and Carl#Lenny Leonard|Lenny Leonard]], and [[Lenny and Carl#Carl Carlson|Carl Carlson]], and Burns' assistant [[Waylon Smithers]]. The plant is shown to be the key supplier of the city of Springfield's energy, and the carelessness of Mr. Burns and the plant's employees often endangers the residents and natural environment of Springfield. [[List of recurring The Simpsons characters#Blinky|Mutated fish]] with more than two eyes are often shown in the lake behind the power plant, which has a large pipe pumping nuclear waste into it. There is a [[crow]] or [[raven]] shown living near the Power Plant, which caws whenever an [[establishing shot]] of the Power Plant is on screen. A running gag in earlier seasons was the poor security of the plant, with the outside security booth often going unmanned.

The design of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant is often rumored to be based on the troubled [[Trojan Nuclear Power Plant]] (closed in 1993 due to defects) near [[Matt Groening]]'s hometown of [[Portland, Oregon]], or the [[Hanford Site]] in southeastern [[Washington (state)|Washington]]. However, Antonia Coffman, Groening's publicist, has said that the Springfield plant's design is generic and that "the Springfield Nuclear Power plant was not based on the Trojan Plant or any other power plant in the country."<ref>{{cite news |last=LaBoe |first=Barbara |url=http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/05/14/area_news/news07.txt |title='Simpsons' keeps Trojan tower legacy alive... or does it? |publisher=[[The Daily News (Longview)|The Daily News]] |page=A1 |date=May 14, 2006 |access-date=May 28, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.seattlepi.com/local/271084_trojan22.html |title=Tower of Oregon's only nuclear plant goes down }} {{Dead link |date=January 2012 |bot=RjwilmsiBot}}</ref>

===The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop===
[[File:Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop (Universal Studios Hollywood).jpg|thumb|The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop, as seen in the [[Springfield (Universal Studios Hollywood)|Springfield section]] of [[Universal Studios Hollywood]]]]
The Android's Dungeon is a fictional comic book store owned by [[Comic Book Guy]]. The comic book store and its owner first appeared in the episode "[[Three Men and a Comic Book]]" when Bart sees a copy of the first issue of the [[List of recurring The Simpsons characters#Radioactive Man|Radioactive Man]] comic on sale for $100.

In the episode "[[Worst Episode Ever]]", Bart and [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]] are given the job of running the comic book store after Comic Book Guy suffers from a stress-induced heart attack and is instructed to try and gain a social life. During their brief tenure at the store, Bart and Milhouse discover a secret room filled with bootleg videotapes of extremely rare or illegal subjects. These tapes are later confiscated during a police raid on the store.

===Barney's Bowl-A-Rama===
Barney's Bowl-A-Rama is a fictional [[bowling|bowling alley]] in Springfield. It is owned by [[Barney Gumble]]'s Uncle Al. In the episode "[[And Maggie Makes Three]]", Homer tells the family the story of [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]]'s birth. In this story, [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] explains how he quit his job at [[#Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] to work at the Bowl-A-Rama, which was Homer's dream job, before returning to the plant when Maggie was born so that he could afford to care for her.

===The Leftorium===
The Leftorium is a fictional store in the Springfield Mall specializing in products for [[Handedness#Types|left-handed]] people. The store is owned by [[Ned Flanders]], who first started the Leftorium in the episode "[[When Flanders Failed]]".<ref name="JeanWFF">{{cite video |people=Jean, Al |date=2003 |title=The Simpsons season 3 DVD commentary for the episode "When Flanders Failed" |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> Although business at the store initially went very poorly, it became significantly more successful when Homer recommended it to many of his left-handed friends.

The Leftorium had challenges in subsequent years, with Flanders discussing the business in several episodes. In the season 10 episode "[[Thirty Minutes over Tokyo]]", Ned mentions the competitor business "Leftopolis" next door. In the episode "[[Home Away from Homer]]", in a parody of [[Wal-Mart]], Ned mentions the new megastore "Left-Mart" is threatening his business. The season 25 episode "[[White Christmas Blues]]" reveals that competition from the Southpaw Superstore forced Flanders to downsize to a mall cart, the "Leftorium Express", which he splits with a cosmetic saleswoman. In the season 29 episode "[[Left Behind (The Simpsons)|Left Behind]]", the Leftorium closes for good, leaving Flanders unemployed until he finds a new job as [[Bart Simpson]]'s new teacher.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/flanders-loses-his-faith-and-an-inconsequential-simpson-1825814494|title=Flanders loses his faith and an inconsequential Simpsons tests ours|first=Dennis|last=Perkins|website=[[The A.V. Club]] |date=May 7, 2018 }}</ref><ref name="denofgeek.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/the-simpsons/273252/the-simpsons-season-29-episode-19-review-left-behind|title=The Simpsons Season 29 Episode 19 Review: Left Behind|date=May 7, 2018}}</ref>

The writers had wanted to have Flanders own a failing business and the idea for the store was suggested by [[George Meyer]].<ref name="ReissWFF">{{cite video |people=Reiss, Mike |date=2003 |title=The Simpsons season 3 DVD commentary for the episode "When Flanders Failed" |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> He got the idea from a friend whose family had owned a left-handed specialty store which had failed.<ref name="VittiWFF">{{cite video |people=Vitti, Jon |date=2003 |title=The Simpsons season 3 DVD commentary for the episode "When Flanders Failed" |medium=DVD |publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref>

===Springfield Mall===
The Springfield Mall is a fictional shopping mall that features comical fictional stores and pastiches, such as the Happy Market, Cost-Mo, Girdles N' Such, Eye Caramba, The Ear Piercery, Happy Sailor Tattoo Parlor, Love Your Computer, Gum4Less, Popular Books, the [[#The Leftorium|Leftorium]], Nick's Bowling Shop, Stoner's Pot Palace, Bookacchino's, Moe's Express (a mini version of [[#Moe's Tavern|Moe's Tavern]]), a Mapple Store (a parody of the [[Apple Store]]), numerous knockoff [[Starbucks]] coffee shops, and several Krusty Burgers.