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Australia is a country in the Pacific Ocean, part of Oceania. It has a total area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world and the largest in Oceania. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent.
History[]
Patty and Selma mention that this one of the places where they went on vacation.[1]
The Simpsons visit Australia when Bart makes a prank call asking a boy what direction the water goes when he flushes the toilet. Bart then leaves the phone off the hook, raking up a huge phone bill for them as he made a reverse call. The guy sues him and Bart has to travel to a court in Australia. He unwittingly sets his bullfrog Bart Junior free, and this results in an invasive species devastating the Australian ecosphere.[2] This is a reference to cane toads, which are a poisonous species of toad introduced to Australia, which are now a pest found in New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory, considered a pest.
Database represented Australia in the Model U.N. Club.[3]
Bart ended up calling an Australian bar using Denis Leary's stolen cell phone to play a prank call. Specifically, he called a pub called Crocodile Drunkee's requesting for a "Drew P. Wiener" causing the barman to call out for the person and stating, "I have in my hand a ‘Drew P. Wiener’." The patrons laugh at him and tell him that he'd "better put it down, mate!", to the barman's frustration.[4]
According to Abe, the Simpson forbears were once kicked out of Australia.[5]
When the Simpsons fly to Montana for a relative's wedding the flight gets slightly delayed because a prison breakout in the state of New South Wales.[6]
New Zealand is mentioned to be the Milhouse of Australia.[7]
Sydney appears during a Youtube and Facebook video Graphic Festival at the Sydney Opera House, in which creator, Matt Groening, attended.[8]
Punishment[]
In "Bart vs. Australia", they used corporal punishment, the most popular method of which is "the boot", which is so popular it features on the national flag. This is of course, fictitious, and neither the flag nor the punishment appear in real-life.
Appearances[]
Australia has been mentioned a total of 68 times in The Simpsons.[9]
Episode – "Principal Charming" - Episode – "Rosebud"
Episode – "Bart vs. Australia" - Episode – "Das Bus" (Mentioned)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" (Mentioned)
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch" (Mentioned)
- Episode – "Pray Anything"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "The Color Yellow" (Mentioned)
- Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" (New South Wales mentioned)
- Episode – "Homer Simpson vs. Sydney Opera House" (Sydney mentioned)
- Episode – "Blazed and Confused" (seen on subtitle)
- Episode – "To Courier with Love" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Bart's Not Dead" (mentioned)
- Episode – "The Girl on the Bus" (name seen)