Moe's Tavern

Moe's Tavern is the local tavern in Springfield. The bar is named after its owner: Moe Szyslak. It is the only known tavern in Springfield, though there is a Joe's Tavern in Shelbyville. Moe's is located right next to King Toot's Music Store, however, it will vary occasionally, and has been featured opposite both Bart's factory, It Blows (the downtown air conditioner store) and a celebrity club. Its also hinted that it was only kept in business because Moe frequently bribes Mayor Quimby whenever he pays an inspection visit.

About the Tavern
Moe's is said to be one of the places where "everyone knows your name." You can often find Homer Simpson, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson and Barney Gumble here, as well as the owner Moe Szyslak. The tavern is notable in many ways. It has the owner's office in the female toilet, which is what Moe used as an office where he managed Homer's boxing carrer in "The Homer They Fall." The backroom often trades in endangered species and harbors fugitives, as well as being taken over by a pack of ratcoons. the bar itself has supposedly never been cleaned, which was confirmed in the episode mayored to the mob when Homer and Mayor Quimby were in the bar and some rodents walked away with Mayor Quimby's change. The tavern also includes a safe room which Moe uses when held up by Snake and once a whale. The store originally didn't contain a designated driving policy, but it eventually ended up implementing it after its drunken patrons managed to cause an increase in various car crashes. (On St. Patrick's Day, Moe often tells the designated drivers to beat it due to not wanting any cheapskates on the biggest drinking day of the year.) It is also open every day of the week except Wednesday, because it is during this time that Moe Szyslak goes to the local homeless shelter to read to the children. The tavern is often robbed by Snake Jailbird.

Common Patrons

 * Homer Simpson
 * Barney Gumble
 * Carl Carlson
 * Lenny Leonard
 * Sam
 * Larry

Other Versions
Moe's has been turned into many different businesses in an attempt to gain more money, such as a hip club, the bar "Mo's", a family restaurant, as well as a gay nightclub, and in Homer's Barbershop Quartet its name is Moe's cavern which is a parody of the nightclub where the Beatles played the Cavern Club. Here is a list:
 * MO'S (Gay Bar version)
 * Flaming Moe's
 * Uncle Moe's Family Feed-Bag
 * The Nag and the Weasel
 * Wisky a Moe-Moe (A dream Moe painted) Parody of Whisky a go-go in LA
 * Sushi Resturant
 * M (restaurant inspired by college professor.)



Trivia

 * In "Moe Letter Blues" Moe mentions moving to Springfield because its zip code on a calculator spells "boobs". This means the zip code for Moe's Tavern is 58008, also in an episode Homer walks to Moe's Tavern and his proud of himself only to find Bart waving at him from their house just up the road, suggesting that Moe's is on Evergreen Terrace and that the Simpson's House Zip ends in 8008.
 * In "Homer the Smithers", Mr. Burns, attempting to reach Smithers, accidentally dials the telephone number for Moe's Tavern. The number is revealed as 7648-4377 which spells out (S-M-I-T-H-E-R-S).