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Cultural references

• After building a road, Lisa says she feels "like Robert Moses in that giant book that took me two years to read." She is probably referring to The Power Broker, which has 1,336 pages.
• When talking about planting trees to deal with their carbon footprint, Lisa says "the Inconvenient Truth is this place looks dull", a reference to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.
• When you level up to level 5, Barney says "It's always level 5 somewhere". This is a reference to the Alan Jackson song "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere".

Trivia

• In the game, characters refer to the game, e.g. Homer says to Lisa: "Thank God you're here to guide me through this tutorial".
• Homer suggest he and Lisa move to Miami instead of rebuilding Springfield.
• There are three cutscenes in the video game, that were uploaded to YouTube on March 11, 2012. The second cutscene is shown once the player has bought Bart's treehouse.

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• You can steal a lemon tree from one of your friend's Springfield, and if you plant it in your town within 24 hours, it will start to generate XP and cash. But when your friend visits your Springfield, they can steal it back. Recently, EA disabled this functionality from the game.
• You start off the game with $750.
• If you make Principal Skinner be a crossing guard and your Springfield Elementary School isn't near a road, he will stand outside the school anyway.
• Sometimes, characters may walk over water to get where they are going if there is no other way there.
• As of a Facebook photo on November 2, 2012 at 6:59pm (GMT):
  • 1.97 billion donuts spent in-game
  • 7.36 million Kwik-E-Marts placed
  • 6.93 million played the Treehouse of Horror update
  • 3.43 million Krusty Burgers placed
  • 2.25 million Jack-o-Lanterns placed (47% of players)

Errors

Goofs

• In the trailer, the Simpson's house only shows Homer inside and the space around him would be too small to fit their whole house in.
• In the opening intro, the tire fire isn't on fire. However, the fire could have been put out.
• Lisa mentions that she and Milhouse are both eight-years-old. Milhouse is in fact ten-years-old.

Glitches

There are more glitches in the game than there are in this list. If a glitch is not frequent enough, it will NOT be added to this list.

• Houses and buildings in the game are somehow placed 'outside the land', and when you click to buy a land expansion, the land in which the buildings are on show up with a price.
• On March 1, 2012, the response to Tapped Out was so overwhelming that it created some connection issues. On March 3, 2012, EA were still working to fix the issues. On the evening of March 3, the game was removed from the App Store, although players who downloaded Tapped Out before March 3 could still play the game. On March 8, it was announced that most connectivity problems had been fixed, but are working on a solution to player's characters or buildings that have disappeared.^[1][2] Since March 9, no updates have been made on the game's Facebook page, no updates from EA, apart from a post on the EA Game forums in April which showed an email reply from EA, saying that the company was STILL trying to fix the bugs.

The town in this picture has pavements and roads in wrong places.

• On March 11, 2012, reports began of an error with player's Origin accounts. The error somehow made multiple Springfield's on the user account, and in some cases, supposedly made the game wipe all the player's progress, and when they log in again afterwards, goes back to the player's former Springfield which progress was supposedly wiped.^[3]
• Since the launch of the Tapped Out forum, users have been reporting problems which appear to be the "DC while loading friends city bug".
• Not technically a glitch, but since EA have released different versions of Tapped Out in different countries, if players add a friend who is playing on a different version of Tapped Out, they cannot visit them. EA said that once they re-release the app, they will standardize versions across countries so people on different versions to each other can visit each others towns.
• A common error in the game is that after visiting a friend's town, they find that their town has been messed up. Then, when they attempt to log in the next time, the game crashes.

Sometimes, after 12 days, you may get a quest for Hank Scorpio to "kill innocents". This takes 4 hours and will find one if your characters being "killed", deleting their existence from you're game and you will have to rebuild the building they were associated with.

Exploits

• If the player runs the game on his/hers jailbroken iPhone/iPad with backgrounder setting and changes the date, the game will move forward, enabling them to keep on moving time to get the mystery box.

Continuity

• Homer's quote "One time our house was next to a prison so I could make a joke about how we lived next to a prison." references how in "Pokey Mom", Marge looks out the window in one scene and sees the Waterville Prison a few fields away from 742 Evergreen Terrace.
• One of Moe's jobs is to smuggle endangered species. He then runs to his tavern with a panda on his back, a reference to "Cape Feare".
• The "Death by Squishee" quest is probably a reference to "Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood" where Bart and Milhouse take an all-syrup Squishee.
• In "Illegitimate Concern Pt. 1" there are references to the teachers strike from the episode "The PTA Disbands" with Bart saying that Skinner will "fold faster than Superman on laundry day."

References