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The Simpsons’ world is wide and varied. With 30-plus years of continuity, backstory, and accumulated supporting characters to play with, the show has, as it’s slogged on, occasionally refocused on a lesser-explored corner of Springfield. Sometimes, the exercise is fruitful, promoting a side character to deserved prominence, if only for an episode. Sometimes, it comes off more like the flailing of writers unable to mine the show’s central family milieu for the endless possibilities.