This is FRESH AIR. The familiar theme song to the long-running animated TV series "The Simpsons" was written by Danny Elfman. But for the next 27 seasons from the show's launch in 1990 until 2017, all ...

When the residents of Springfield gathered to discuss how to spend the $3 million Mr. Burns was forced to pay the city for dumping nuclear waste into a local park, Marge Simpson suggested it go toward ...

There is a connection between the characters' physical appearances in The Simpsonsand the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in their fictional town of Springfield, and it has everything to do with a ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Springfield that exists in the mind of Matt Groening is a kind of American everything — hick pit stop, rosy-cheeked Rockwellian font of family values, cesspool of corruption, ethnic ...