In "Lisa Gets an "A"", Superintendent Chalmers refers to Springfield Elementary School as "the most dilapidated in all of Missouri", and shocks everyone (viewers and characters alike) by this disclosure, before continuing with "That's why it was shut down and moved here, brick by brick."...
Whether it be artists, or the very nature of the characters being musical, it connects the viewer to them in a very human way because even though it’s all make-believe, it has real things that we all understand." Anderson adds that what makes "The Simpsons" so relevant 30 years later...