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Moe's Tavern
Moe&#039;s Tavern Tapped Out
Town Springfield
Owner Moe Szyslak
The Moe imposter
Homer Simpson
Marge Simpson (former)
Employees Moe Szyslak
Colette (Waitress)
Homer Simpson (Part-time)
Marge Simpson (former)
The Moe imposter
Mr. Burns
First Appearance Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

Moe's Tavern, or simply called Moe's, 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. It’s also hinted that it was only kept in business because Moe frequently bribes Mayor Quimby whenever he pays an inspection visit.

About the TavernEdit

Homer Simpson 2006

Moe's Taverns Regular customer Homer Simpson.

Barney Gumble - shading

Moe's best customer, Barney Gumble.

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 other background characters and 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 career 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 raccoons. The bar itself has supposedly never been cleaned; this was confirmed in the episode Mayored to the Mob when Homer and Mayor Quimby were in the bar and some cockroaches nearly walked away with Mayor Quimby's "change" (with Moe claiming that they were "taking care of the roach problem, although Mayor Quimby simply stated that Moe "should have seen the hospital", implying that the hospital's health hazards were even worse.). The tavern also includes a safe room which Moe uses when held up by Snake and once a whale. The Tavern originally didn't have a designated driver policy, but Moe ended up implementing one after its drunken patrons managed to cause an increase in car crashes.[1] (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.)[2] It is also open every day of the week except Wednesday, because it is on this day that Moe Szyslak goes to the local homeless shelter to read to the children. The tavern is often robbed by Snake Jailbird. Moe also possesses a pump shotgun behind the counter.

Prank CallsEdit

The tavern has been the ongoing victim of Barts prank calls in the earlier seasons to which he calls Moe for gag names that gets him laughed at by the patrons and ends with Moe threatening bodily harm to whoever prank called him. One prank call backfired on Bart, Hugh Jazz, for there was a patron of the same name Flaming Moe's

Some of the names include: I.P. Freely(I pee freely) Jacques Strap(Jock Strap) Al Coholic(Alcoholic) Oliver Clothesoff(All of her clothes off) Seymour Butz(see more butts) Homer Sexual(homosexual)

Banned patronsEdit

Homer had been banned from the tavern at least twice. The first time was for an incident where he played a prank where he dumped salt into beer and caused it to overflow for the bar's annual prank day (although he somehow managed to get back into the bar after the episode)[3]. The second time was for an undisclosed incident where Homer had been late for his tab payment, requiring that he either pay the tab or at least clean up a mess in the bathroom that Homer somehow caused, although this particular ban was overlooked when Homer became a bodyguard for Mayor Quimby and accompanied him to the tavern.[4]


Common PatronsEdit

Other VersionsEdit

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", a parody of the club 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 Weasel
  • Wisky a Moe-Moe (A dream Moe painted) Parody of Whisky a go-go in LA
  • Tokyo Roe's Sushi Bar[5]
  • M (restaurant inspired by college professor.)
  • Moe's Pet Shop (front for bootlegging operations)
  • Eski-Moe's (Alaska, The Simpsons Movie)
  • Moe's ice cream carnival


Trivia Edit

  • In "Homer the Smithers", Mr. Burns attempting to reach Smithers, accidentally dials the telephone number for Moe's Tavern. The number is revealed as [tel:7648-4377 7648-4377] which spells out (S-M-I-T-H-E-R-S).
  • Moe often tricks famous bands into performing at the tavern.
  • It was implied that when it was opened, it was originally called Meaux's Tavern. This was shown in the episode Three Gays of the Condo


Appearances Edit

Citations Edit

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