The family house architecture/blueprint makes no sense
I would love to have a complete, faultless blueprint or 3D rendering or some kind of scan of The Simpsons family house.
Watching the Tracy Ullman shorts, the house is VERY different from what we see in the 'actual show', even though there are familiar elements. However, the show itself was, as I recall, done with 'whatever fits the joke/story'-kind of city planning and probably also house planning (or architecture) rather than what would be realistic. What's shown in one episode, does not exist in another and so on.
Still, I would love to see the 'closest to realistic' version of this house in some way that lets me browse the house at my leisure, to see where everything is supposed to be.
I think in the early seasons, these things fluctuate so much, you can't possibly even make sense out of it - rooms change place, where TV is supposed to be changes place and so on. Heck, look at the kitchen in 'the shorts' (I wonder if this is what Bart means when he tells people to eat the shorts..? Maybe he's embarrassed as to how bad they are compared to the show itself) - there's NOTHING familiar about it when you have seen the show!
It's possible The Simpsons(tm) lived somewhere else in the 'shorts', and only moved to that fancy house later on, but even so, it looks more like 'tekitou' (a great japanese word to describe this kind of thing) than 'planned'.
I don't think many cartoons have a 'stable house' - heck, you can even watch the meticulously hand-drawn and -shaded beauty cartoon 'The Snowman' (with most beautiful song about walking in the air, and no, nightwish or any other cover version is NOT even close to being good, and I decapitalized that stupid name on purpose) gives us 'impossible views' to the snowman when the kid is preparing for bed.
When you try to do a 3D rendering (even in just your mind) about where everything is, for the kid to be able to see the snowman from EVERY window at those angles, the snowman would have to have moved and scaled considerably inbetween shots... somehow. Just try it, that house makes no sense, either.
It's interesting how stable the house became later on - it always looks the same from the outside after a certain point, the livingroom is always on the left (although the TV was supposed to be on the right, I think), the closet straight ahead, the stairs that go up are immediately accessible, slightly to the right, when you enter the building, Lisa's room is in the upstairs middle, Bart's room... hmm.. I forgot the exact order, but you get the idea.
Of course I am not sure how well these things hold up when you consider the scenes where Bart gets out of his window or when the toilet window is considered, but it would be interesting to be able to 'walk in the house' in some way, like in a game.
Someone once did make a point about the 'secret room' that's to the left from the kitchen, that leads to.. was it a basement or an unused room or something? I forgot.
In any case, The Simpsons(tm) house sure has interesting mysteries about it. I guess that kind of makes sense, though..