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New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is a country in Oceania 386 miles (621 km) from Australia.
New Zealand in The Simpsons[]
Kurt Hardwick and Ethan Ballantyne, the counselors of the Arts Camp, are from Wellington. They speak with New Zealand accents and have their country's flag hanging in their apartment in Sprooklyn.
Tag Tuckerbag, host of The Amazing Place', has a thick New Zealand accent and voiced by New Zealander Rhys Darby.
Taika Waititi (voiced by the real Taika Waititi) is onboard the Pacific Princess Leia cruise around Lake Springfield as part of secret scheme to steal Comic Book Guy's rare Radioactive Man action figure. When Taika Waititi is caught, he cites how he has powerful friends in New Zealand and listing off names of famous New Zealanders.
Marge injures her back and gets physical therapy and kitesurfing lessons from Nigel who just moved to Springfield from his native New Zealand except Nigel is just a cover for Russian spy Dimitri Nigelovonovitch. His mission fails in large part because Homer can't understand his phony New Zealand accent.
New Zealander director Peter Jackson (voiced by the real Peter Jackson) introduces even more unused footage from his own documentary The Beatles: Get Back.
Students at Springfield Elementary are using ChatHippo, an ad supported free chat website, for online classes during lockdown. Principal Skinner has to read out ads including one for OddsMonster.Crypto which Bart checks out for team stats on New Zealand Rules Rugby. The clock shows Bart has been on the site from 8:33 to 2:54 when says to himself in exasperation, "Whatever rugby is Wellington sucks at it."
In "Bart 'N' Frink", the Simpsons and Professor Frink travel there for a college reunion at the mansion of his classmate Peter Linz. Due to an NDA, the country's name (and Lisa's souvenir) are censored; however, Frink did not sign the NDA and he says "New Zealand" uncensored. As their plane takes off, the country becomes visible from above.
Non-canon[]
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New Zealander Lucy Lawless (voiced by the real Lucy Lawless) is kidnapped by the Collector (Comic Book Guy's supervillain alter ego) . She constantly has to correct others after they call her Xena that she is Lucy Lawless and not her TV character Xena the Warrior Princess.
In Simpsons Comics #68: "Merchants of Vengeance!" Homer, after a bender, ends up as Prime Minister of New Zealand. Later a newspaper in Springfield has the headline "Australia Declares War on New Zealand" on the front page.
Behind the Laughter[]
Molloy, the Springfield Cat Burglar, is not specified as being from anywhere specific, but his voice was New Zealander Sam Neill.