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The Godfather is an epic gangster film trilogy consisting of three films, "The Godfather" (1972), "The Godfather II" (1974) and "The Godfather III" (1990), all directed by Francis-Ford Coppola.

References to The Godfather in The Simpsons

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
1	8	"The Telltale Head"	Bart waking up next to the decapitated head of Jebediah Springfield's statue spoofs the famous "horse head in the bed" scene from The Godfather.
3	43	"Lisa's Pony"	When Lisa discovers a pony in her bed poofs the famous "horse head in the bed" scene from The Godfather.
4	68	"Mr. Plow"	The scene where Bart is mowed down by snow balls thrown by his school friends is a reference to the death of Sonny in The Godfather.
76	"Last Exit to Springfield"	When Homer imagines a life in organized crime, he looks just like Don Fanucci in The Godfather II.
6	118	"Homie the Clown"	When Homer and Krusty try to do the bicycle trick in front of the mafiosi Homer's head bumps against a series of wine glasses. The melody that plays as a result is a musical quote of the "Love Theme" from The Godfather.
7	147	"A Fish Called Selma"	When Fat Tony sees Troy McClure walking around alive and well he asks "Legs" that he told him McClure was dead? Legs answers: "No what I said was: "He sleeps with the fishes." This is a reference to the death of Luca Brasi in "The Godfather" who is thrown in the canal. Later his killers sent a dead fish to Sonny Corleone with the message: "He sleeps with the fishes."
11	229	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner"	A mafiosi claims he put a horse head in Homer's bed to prevent him from being a food critic ever again. It turns out that Homer simply ate the head and wrote a negative review about it.
12	259	"Worst Episode Ever"	One of the movies in Comic Book Guy's stash of illegal videos is "Godfather III - good version".
14	300	"Moe Baby Blues"	Moe tells Maggie the plot of the three Godfather films to entertain her. Moe imitates Don Corleone with an cut-up orange in his mouth, in reference to a similar scene in The Godfather. He later imagines the exact scene from the film when he goes searching for Maggie. Moe seems to know the film by heart, but mistakes Diane Keaton's character Kay Adams with her character Annie Hall from Woody Allen's film Annie Hall. At the end of the episode Fat Tony is emotional about Maggie and says: "I didn't cry so much, since I paid to see Godfather III.
313	"The Strong Arms of the Ma"	Marge beating up someone with a garbage can is a parody of the scene in The Godfather where Sonny beats up his sister's husband on the streets.
18	379	"The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"	Fat Tony's son, Michael D'Amico is a reference to Michael Corleone from all three Godfather films. In the same episode mob goons try to assassinate Fat Tony through a window while flying in a helicopter, in reference to a similar scene in The Godfather III. The final scene where Michael, Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney close the door before Lisa references the final scenes of The Godfather.
22	473	"Donnie Fatso"	When Homer was struggling to pronounce the word "consigliere", he states that he is Fat Tony's Robert Duvall, the actor who played Tom Hagen the Consigliere in The Godfather. Also, Fat Tony says "That's why I keep my friends close". When Homer asks him, "and your enemies closer?" he is referring to the phrase from The Godfather Part II ("Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer").

Comics

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	Bart Simpson #72	Wedgie Issue	Milhouse has a fantasy where in the future he has become a successful businessman a. la. Bill Gates. When Lisa compliments him on employing so many of their schoolmates, Milhouse cites Michael Corleone's catchphrase, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."

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