BUFFALO, N.Y. — It turns out the people behind the TV show "The Simpsons" don't have a favorable view of upstate New York or Buffalo.
Sunday's episode featured Homer Simpson singing a parody of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" by focusing on negative aspects of the "upstate" area.
The episode started with the Simpson family taking a trip to Niagara Falls, just one spot in our region that got roasted in the show.
Homer visited the anchor bar to eat chicken wings but he also roasted Rochester and the Kodak plant, a declining population counter in Utica -- and then homer went to a Buffalo Bills game in the wintertime -- that showed just one other fan.
The Great New York State Fair says they plan on inviting the writing staff of “The Simpsons” to attend the 2019 Fair as invited guests.The Fair says they will also send a basket of New York State food and beverage products provided by Taste NY.
“We want the show’s writers to see the very best of New York, and the Fair is the perfect place to highlight the diversity and vitality of one of the nation’s largest economies. We know it’s just a TV show, we can certainly take a joke and we love The Simpsons, but there’s so much that’s great about the region. We’re attracting high tech industries to Upstate, Utica is the home of the half moon cookie and tomato pie, the star pitcher Patrick Corbin attended Mohawk Valley Community College, and Buffalo has some of the best architecture of any major city in the northeast. We’ll show them a great time,” said Troy Waffner, Fair Director in a released statement.
