Editing The Simpsons House

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'''742 Evergreen Terrace''' is the [[fictional]] [[street address]] of the home for the fictional [[Simpson family]] in the animated [[television]] series, ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

The house to the left of the Simpsons' house is the [[Flanders family]]'s house, at 744 Evergreen Terrace.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season9/page9.shtml</ref><ref name=RealtyBitesDVD>{{cite video | year=2006|title=The Simpsons The Complete Ninth Season DVD commentary for the episode "Realty Bites"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> The house on the right belongs to [[List of recurring characters from The Simpsons#Ruth Powers|Ruth]] and Laura Powers.

==Design==
The house is a pink-orange two-story detached house with an attached garage, basement, and loft. On the ground floor, the front door (with an elephant doorknocker) leads straight into the hallway, with one arch in the wall to the left, leading to the [[sitting room]], one to the right which leads into the [[dining room]], a small cupboard and the stairs to the second floor. The sitting room and the dining room have bay windows. At the back of the house is the [[living room]] and the [[kitchen]], with stairs that lead to the basement. Although rarely seen, there is also a hallway leading to a "[[Rumpus room]]" and possibly a small bathroom from the kitchen. Homer was seen relaxing in the Rumpus Room during the episodes "[[Three Men and a Comic Book]]" and "[[Brother from the Same Planet]]", where he could see the boys fighting in the treehouse.

The second story of the house has [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and [[Homer Simpson|Homer's]] bedroom (with an [[ensuite bathroom]]), [[Bart Simpson|Bart's]] bedroom, [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa's]] bedroom, [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie's]] bedroom, a bathroom and some 'empty' rooms, often shown in inconsistent places in different episodes. On the landing, there is a hatch which leads to the attic.

The back garden of the house is surrounded by a wooden picket fence and a low box hedge, and features a patio and the treehouse from which the Simpsons' [[Treehouse of Horror (series)|annual Halloween specials]] take their name. Occasionally there is a [[hammock]] shown tied to two trees near the fence that borders Ned Flanders backyard.

An episode set in [[2010]] shows a wooden add-on to the second floor, built (rather poorly) by Homer. It functions as a guest bedroom, but Homer warns Lisa and her [[List of one-time characters from The Simpsons#Season 6|fiancé]] that "If the building inspector asks, it's not a room. It's a window box".

==Features and furniture==
The basement always includes a [[washing machine]] and a [[clothes dryer]] and a large [[Olmec]] statue of a head, which was a present from [[Mr. Burns]] after Bart donated blood to him in a [[Blood Feud|second-season episode]]. However, the appearance of other features such as a furnace, [[ping-pong]] table, [[air hockey]] set and [[water softener]] vary from episode to episode. The basement is often used as a "[[secret lair]]", where Homer has brewed alcohol to beat [[prohibition]] and hidden his superhero operation as [[Simple Simpson|Pie Man]], and where Marge hid during a spell of [[agoraphobia]]. The house has two identical red sofas: One in the sitting room which is not seen very often in many episodes and a well-known one in front of the TV in the living room - the current sofa is a replacement of the old one which was destroyed (and had a fold-out bed the new one does not have). A simple painting of a boat hangs on the wall above this couch. A tank full of fish is sometimes seen in the dining room, but it only seems to appear in episodes where it is prominent.

In the Simpsons "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]" episode, there is a portal behind the bookcase in the sitting room that leads to the Third [[Dimension]]. This is a reference to the ''[[Twilight Zone]]'' episode, "[[Little Girl Lost (The Twilight Zone)|Little Girl Lost]]". However, Treehouse of Horror episodes are not [[canonical]]. In ''[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]'', the famous ''[[Dogs Playing Poker]]'' painting appears above the sofa.

==Current state==
The house is now five miles away from where it was first built due to "Plan B", where, to avoid pollution and [[landfill]], the entire city was moved down the road, as seen in "[[Trash of the Titans]]". This is believed by some fans to explain some inconsistencies such as the layout of the basement. 

The house itself is often shown as dilapidated; the walls are painted with [[lead paint]], the roof leaks and in [[All's Fair in Oven War|one episode]], the kitchen was so badly damaged that it needed to be rebuilt. A [[running gag]] is that whenever the camera pans between floors or rooms, the interior of the walls are shown to be filled with dangerous and unusual items such as [[asbestos]], [[toxic waste]], hidden treasure, recording devices, baby [[dinosaurs]] and dancing mice. Even the family cat, Snowball II, is seen in between the walls from time to time. However, the lived-in spaces are usually kept neat by homemaker [[Marge]]. In one episode, it was described as a palace by [[Frank Grimes]]. In another episode, [[Moe Szyslak]] observed that it contained no [[silverfish]].

The phone number is inconsistent between episodes, though always starting with [[555 telephone number|555]]. According to "[[A Tale of Two Springfields]]," the area code was 636 before the events of that episode and 939 thereafter.

==Damage and Destruction==
The house frequently suffers major damage due to attacks, accidents and negligence, including:

* [[Abraham Simpson]] crashing through the sitting room window in a [[car]].
* All furnishings being stolen by an angry mob.
* At several times, being set ablaze by Homer including while burning his high school diploma and while skipping church.
* The house's interior trashed by the Hell's Satans motorcycle gang, in the episode "[[Take My Wife, Sleaze]]."
* A taxiing [[airliner]] crashing down the living room wall.
* Frequently being in a ridiculously untidy and disorganized state ([[alligator]] stuck in the toilet, footprints on the ceiling, etc...).
*Serious foundation failure due to leaking plumbing, slanting the house significantly. ("[[Marge Gets a Job]]")

In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', the house is completely devoured and destroyed with all possessions lost by a sink hole in Maggie's sandpit, which expands after the Police shoot bullets into it. The house is later rebuilt with help of the townsfolk and the family themselves at the end of the film. (It is unknown if anything was salvaged from the sinkhole.)

==Real-life version==
A real life approximation to the home depicted on the show was built in [[1997]] by [[KB Home|Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation]] in a promotion sponsored by [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] and [[Pepsi]].  The house was painted and furnished with items to match the television show, although the scale of the house was smaller than the house on the series.  The house was given away in a contest; the winner, Barbara Howard, was a retired factory worker from [[Richmond, Kentucky]]. The house was built at 712 Red Bark Lane in [[Henderson, Nevada]]; it has since been repainted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/misc/simpsons/|title=The Simpsons House|accessdate=2006-08-19|author=Art Nadler|date=[[1997-12-10]]|publisher=Las Vegas Sun}}</ref>

==Address==
The house's address was inconsistent in earlier seasons, being [[94 Evergreen Terrace]], [[1094 Evergreen Terrace]], [[723 Evergreen Terrace]], and [[430 Spalding Way]]. In "[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]", 742 Evergreen Terrace is a completely different house where [[Snake Jailbird|Snake]] hides from the police and [[Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Rev. Lovejoy]] lives next door

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