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Panic at the Silo
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Tapped Out Quest Information
Level: 5
Update: Red Alert
Required characters: Normal Springfielders, Lisa, Homer, The General
Optional characters: Milhouse, Quimby, Herman, Stacy Lovell, Joe, See Currency-earning jobs
Internal name(s): PanicAtTheSilo
ID(s): 252001 - 252005
Previous quest(s): Duck and Wonder
Next quest(s): The Day After...Nothing Happened


Panic at the Silo is an event-exclusive questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the Red Alert content update.

Dialogue[edit]

Pt. 1[edit]

After completing Duck and Wonder
Bart So are we supposed to evacuate?
Quimby No, please shelter in place! We need to keep the roads clear so I can deploy my mobile command center and monitor the explosion from as far away as possible.
Marge So there's no one here who will actually help us?
The General Have no fear, the military is always here! As long as those sweet appropriations bills keep rolling in.
Task: "Collect Air Raid Sirens" (x155).
Task: "Make Springfielders Be Impressed by The General" (x5). The jobs take place at the Town Hall or Simpson House and take 60 minutes.
If Milhouse is owned: Task: "Make Milhouse Bugle Reveille to Welcome The General". The job takes place at the Town Hall or Simpson House and takes 3 hours.
If Quimby is owned: Task: "Make Quimby Break Speeding Laws Driving Out of Town". The job takes place at the Town Hall or Simpson House and takes 4 hours.
The General - Happy Hello Springfielders! I am The General, and I've been sent to oversee the military response to the missile.
Carl - Happy Oh cool! You're gonna shoot down the missile with that trillion-dollar anti-missile system I always read about in the papers, but we never actually see!
The General - Annoyed Sorry, not going to see it this time either.
Professor Frink - Sad Because the missile was fired from a location the anti-missile system doesn't cover?
The General - Sad More like because we never built any anti-missile system.
Professor Frink - Surprised What?!
Carl - Surprised So where'd the money go?
The General - Embarrassed Can I interest any of you in a free commemorative 24 karat gold Leon Panetta bobblehead?
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
The General

Pt. 2[edit]

After completing Pt. 1
Herman - Angry Like I've been telling you for years: the government's not gonna protect you, you gotta protect yourself!
Skinner - Stern We're safe. Mother made me line our basement with tin foil.
Herman - Grin I'm talking about the incoming missile! Do you want to survive to live out your days in a post-apocalyptic wasteland? Then you need...the Withstandinator.
Homer Wow, that's a pretty sweet bomb shelter! How much?
Herman - Sly Priced to sell — only slightly more than a Richard Mille watch.
Homer - Guilty I think we're gonna have to look for an alternative means of survival.
Lisa - Eyes Closed Lord help me. I'm logging onto the InfoWars store.
Task: "Collect Air Raid Sirens" (x155).
Task: "Make Lisa Block Pop-up Ads for Male Supplements". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 2 hours.
If Herman is owned: Task: "Make Herman Pitch the Withstandinator to Springfielders". The job takes place at Herman's Military Antiques, the Town Hall, or Simpson House and takes 4 hours.
Smithers - Sad As much as I hated to, I just sold my Richard Mille watch. So I'll take the Withstandinator, please.
Herman - Grin Sorry, just sold it.
Smithers - Annoyed To whom?
Mr. Burns I forgot to ask when purchasing, but do you have a rewards card?
Smithers - Surprised Mr. Burns? I would've thought you already had a bomb shelter!
Mr. Burns - Annoyed I do. But I'd rather not trust my life to a product sold by the InfoWars store.
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
The Withstandinator

Pt. 3[edit]

After completing Pt. 2
Stacy Lovell - Surprised Joe! What are you doing here?
Joe I know we haven't spoken since the divorce, but with the missile approaching, I was thinking maybe we could spend our final moments doing something fun!
Comic Book Guy - Annoyed Why are we stopping if snacks aren't involved?
Joe - Happy Come with us, baby! I've got the honeymoon suite reserved at the Mountaintop Command Post. It'll be fun...
Stacy Lovell - Annoyed Get in line. You're the third of my five ex-husbands to contact me about "spending our final moments doing something fun" in the last ten minutes.
Dr. Colossus - Happy Hey Stacy! I know we haven't spoken since the divorce, but with the nuclear missile approaching, I was thinking maybe we could spend our final moments doing something fun!
Dr. Colossus - Happy You know, like test-firing the "Colossal Ray Gun"?
Stacy Lovell - Annoyed I need to be more selective about who I marry.
Task: "Collect Air Raid Sirens" (x115).
Task: "Make Springfielders Become Too Exhausted to Follow Joe" (x5). The jobs take place at Homerlayas, Springfield Sign, Springfield Heights Entrance, Springfield Heights Tunnel, or a Visitable Home and take 60 minutes.
If Stacy Lovell is owned: Task: "Make Stacy Lovell Update Her Match.com Profile". The job takes place at Malibu Stacy Headquarters, Homerlayas, Springfield Sign, Springfield Heights Entrance, ot the Springfield Heights Tunnel and takes 6 hours.
If Joe is owned: Task: "Make Joe Cancel The Honeymoon Suite". The job takes place at Sergeant Thug's Mountaintop Command Post, Homerlayas, Springfield Sign, Springfield Heights Entrance, ot the Springfield Heights Tunnel and takes 6 hours.
Comic Book Guy - Exhausted *gasp* Too...much...walk!
Barney - Sad *wheeze* Can't...make it. Mountain...too tall.
Joe - Annoyed But we're not even to the mountain yet!
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
Springfield Sculpture Garden

Pt. 4[edit]

After completing Pt. 3
Marge - Scared The missile's getting closer!
Lisa - Alarmed What are we gonna do?
Homer - Proud Don't worry, I've built us a missile shelter! Who says the patriarchy is dead?
Bart - Bored Uh, Dad, that shelter is a cardboard refrigerator box.
Homer - Annoyed Apparently SOMEONE is unfamiliar with the property tax ordinance that any backyard structure made of concrete counts as a "livable space" and adds to your taxable square footage.
Lisa - Grossed Out This shelter doesn't even have a toilet.
Homer - Annoyed "Livable space".
Marge - Annoyed Or an air supply.
Homer - Annoyed "Livable space".
Bart - Bored Or an entrance.
Homer - D'oh D'oh!
Task: "Collect Air Raid Sirens" (x115).
Task: "Make Homer Cut Out an Entrance for the Shelter". The job takes place at the Simpson House and takes 2 hours.
Wiggum - Confused So you're saying a man stole your new refrigerator?
Ned - Angry No, he stole the BOX!
Wiggum - Serious So you have your new refrigerator?
Ned - Suspicious Not so "new" without the box!
Wiggum - Annoyed Look, there's a nuclear missile coming, I really don't have time for this.
Ned - Angry Easy for you to say. YOU don't have to shoot this week's video for "Ned's Appliance Unboxings" channel with a boxless refrigerator!
Quest reward: Cash100 and XP10
Homer's Bomb Shelter

Pt. 5[edit]

After completing Pt. 4
The General Springfield residents, form a single file line and follow me!
Marge - Happy Finally, someone's going to save us!
The General - Happy Not save you, but the next best thing: let you watch your enemies get annihilated after they've annihilated you! I present to you the previously classified Springfield missile silo.
Bart - Bored Why's it empty?
The General - Surprised What the—?!? Lemme check the missile logs...well, this is embarrassing. Apparently we rented out the missile to Richard Branson this morning so he could fly higher than Jeff Bezos.
Professor Frink - Surprised So we're not in danger after all? The missile headed for Springfield is just Richard Branson returning it?
The General No, Richard Branson appears to have changed the course of the missile to splash down in the Thames.
Task: "Collect Air Raid Sirens" (x200).
Task: "Make The General Cuss Up a Storm". The job takes place at the Town Hall, Rigel 7 Military Base, or Simpson House and takes 2 hours.
Task: "Make Springfielders Celebrate Being Alive" (x5). The jobs take place at the Town Hall, Rigel 7 Military Base, or Simpson House and take 4 hours.
The General - Happy Good news, everyone! We were able to remotely deactivate the missile via the Find My Missile app. The threat is now over.
Marge - Relieved Phew! For a moment there I was really worried Springfield would be wiped out again!
Homer - Happy Would've been great.
Marge - Surprised Great? Why?
Homer - Annoyed So we could film a new opening cut scene that doesn't make me look like a moron!
Homer - Sad "Don't worry about the opening cut scene," they said. "The game won't last longer than a few months," they said.
Homer - Angry "Barely anyone will even see the scene," they said. That was 2012. 2012!
Quest reward: Cash200 and XP20
Missile Bunker

Currency-earning jobs[edit]

Task Character(s) Time Location(s) Reward
Repair Air Raid Sirens Homer, Quimby, Professor Frink, Herman, Lenny, Carl, Mr. Burns, Smithers 4h Town Hall or Shops Air Raid Siren5, XP45
Polish Air Raid Sirens Joe Air Raid Siren8, XP70

Behind the Laughter[edit]

The quest name is a reference to the band Panic! at the Disco.