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The popularity and impact of The Simpsons has led to the show being referenced in various other media.

Movies

Basic Instinct

A secondary character owns a keyring representing Bart Simpson. It is shown several times throughout the movie and becomes a key element to explain a murder.

Bulworth

A short clip showing Lionel Hutz is edited in the opening credits.

Flubber

For about three seconds, Bart and Lisa laughing on a couch on the yellow robot can be seen.

Garfield the Movie

Garfield flips the channel of the TV to the episode "Dog of Death".

Inspector Gadget

A scene shows Sykes sleeping in front of a control panel, mirroring a TV in the background showing Homer Simpson sleeping at his workstation.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

A cup with Bart Simpson on it can be seen.

TV Shows

American Dad!

In the episode 100 A.D., Roger tells the audience that "tonight [they] shall find out who killed Mr. Burns." He is then told that that happened 15 years ago, and the culprit was Maggie.

Bob's Burgers

In the episode "Bad Tina", one of the erotic fan fiction novels, written by Tina, seen on her shelf is titled "Sexy Simpsons".

BrainRush

Questions were asked that were related to The Simpsons such as:

"How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?"

The Cleveland Show

In the episode "Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'", several Bart Simpson dolls are seen at a fair.
In the episode "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang", Comic Book Guy (voiced by Hank Azaria) criticizes Cleveland's comic book then says "Worst cameo ever".

Community

In the episode "Debate 109", Simmons uses Apu as an example that people are good.
In the episode "Modern Warfare", Jeff refers to Disco Stu when talking about a student who is trying to bring disco back.

Corner Gas

In one episode, Brent put Marge Simpson on the list of who to not accept checks from.

Drawn Together

In the episode "A Tale of Two Cows" a reference to the floorboard gag is made when as the camera moves up between the floorboards two skeletons that resemble Bart and Lisa Simpson can be seen.

Duckman

The Simpsons' living room depicted in Duckman.

A boy resembling Bart, seen at school for gifted children.

Homer in Duckman

In the series first episode, "I, Duckman", Duckman watches a number of old home movies, one of them depicting the Simpsons living room. His eldest son, Ajax, is also seen, dressed like Bart. Duckman is listening to the TV, on which the announcer lists the winning lottery numbers. When he realizes he won the lottery, Duckman shouts "Woo-hoo!" His younger sons, being only babies, then crawl over and eat the lottery ticket, to which Duckman cries "D'oh!" His wife is also seen, dressed like Marge.
In the episode "Ride the High School", a boy whose appearance is similar to that of Bart's is seen at the boarding school for gifted children.
In the episode "It's the Thing of the Principal" Duckman shouts "D'oh!" at the end.
Homer appeared at the end of the episode called "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'". In the episode, Duckman and Cornfed try to recover a stolen jewel. They believe there is a ghost involved, who at the end happens to be Homer. While the credits roll, Homer fails several times trying to repeat his line

The Fairly OddParents

"Channel Chasers": When Timmy, Wanda and Cosmo go inside their TV, one TV show they travel into is a parody of The Simpsons. It features a chalkboard gag parody, parodies of Krusty, Ned Flanders, and Barney, and a couch gag.

Family Guy

Main article: Family Guy

Futurama

Main article: Futurama

Garfield and Friends

In "The Automated Animated Adventure", while in the computer, Mr. Sprocket changes Garfield's image into Bart Simpson.

Histeria

In an episode, the theme song is a parody of The Simpsons opening theme.

How I Met Your Mother

In one episode, Ted says "Let's teach Bart Simpsons how to drive!"

Keeping Up Appearances

Simpsons billboards at Pleasure Beach theme park.

In "Seaside Fun", Hyacinth and the Italian are riding bumper cars in a place where The Simpsons billboards are on the wall, signalling rules of not what to do in the bumper cars at the Pleasure Beach theme park in Great Yarmouth.

Mad

Episode 1 "Avaturd / CSI Carly": Bart Simpson appears wearing glasses.
Episode 6 "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud": Once the pirate saw Neverland, the Simpson's opening is parodied with the same music, and the factory to the top left.
Episode 20 "Ko-Bee Movie / Law and Ogre": Homer Simpson appeared in a picture at the Wolfgang Bucks store.
Episode 24 "ArThor / The Big Fang Theory": Bart Simpson appeared writing on the chalkboard.
Episode 28 "Super 80's / Captain America's Got Talent": Captain America was riding the Ball of Death which is similar to The Simpsons Movie.
Episode 36 "Dances With Wolverine / Tater Tots & Tiaras": Dr. Hibbert appears as a judge in a segment titled "America's Next Top Surgeon".

NCIS

In the episode "Trojan Horse", Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo was talking to a person over the phone, asking if he knew some people. The guy over the phone misheard him and thought he said Adam West, which then led to them discussing Burt Ward and his appearance on The Simpsons. Tony asked which episode he appeared in before his boss, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, walked into the room.

Outnumbered

In the episode "The Night Out", Karen says she woke up and had four fingers like the Simpsons.

Saturday Night Live

A Britney Spears imitator says that her sisters show Zoey 101 is better than animated shows like The Simpsons.

Scrubs

In an episode, they make a reference to Apu.

Shear Genius

In Season 2, Episode 1: "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow", the contestants tried to make hair cuts that resemble cartoon characters, and two tried making Marge's hair do.

South Park

Main article: South Park

See "Simpsons Already Did It"
"Cartoon Wars II": Bart writes "I Hate Family Guy"

SpongeBob SquarePants

In the episode "Hocus Pocus", SpongeBob SquarePants says "turn a dadly didly back to squadly!". This could be a reference to Ned Flanders. In the same episode Spongebob also says "Okely Dokely".
In the episode "Krabby Land", Mr. Krabs says "here's Krabby the Klown!". This could be a reference to Krusty the Klown.
In The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, there is a scene in which Spongebob and Patrick eat sundaes in an ice cream bar. After eating a large amount of ice cream, both act drunk and burp exactly like Barney Gumble. This could be a reference to Barney.

Stargate

Main article: Stargate

Supernatural

In the episode "Something Wicked", Sam Winchester mentions the cities of Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway, as being locations of past Shtriga activity.

Tiny Toon Adventures

In "Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation", Elmyra Duff cuts a lions hair making him look like Bart.
In the episode "It's All Relatives", Babs Bunny does impressions of Marge, Bart, and Maggie.
In the episode "Weekday Afternoon Live" there is a spoof character of Bart named Blard Simpleton.
In the episode "Toon TV" Babs mentions Bart in the music video "Toon Out, Toon In".

TMNT

In one episode, The Simpsons appears on a TV screen.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Main article: Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Video Games

Team Fortress 2

In the game, a hat is available to the Medic called "Ze Goggles" with the description stating that it does "nothing", a reference to a line from Ranier Wolfcastle in the episode "Radioactive Man", which has become a popular internet meme.
In a blog post on the TF2 website explaining the development of the class "Demoman" (a black Scottish cyclops), the developers mentioned that they made the character black because at the time it looked too much like a "Groundskeeper in Springfield".

Duke Nukem 3D

In the level "Stadium", the zeppelin hovering overhead reads "Duf Beer".
In the level "Going Postal", in the bathroom there is wrote something backwards in the wall. Looking in the mirror it reads "Pick Up Bart". This is a reference to the episode "Brother from the Same Planet", in which Milhouse wrote that on the wall written (which itself is a reference to The Shining).
In the level "Critical Mass", there is a secret place which has wrote on the wall "Sector 7-G" and a large computer with a lot of donuts in it.

Books

CHERUB

In the book Class A, two female agents, Kerry Chang and Gabrielle, were watching an episode of The Simpsons in Spanish.
In the book The Sleepwalker, James Adams compares the situation of Kerry Chang breaking the rules frequently to The Simpsons episode "Smoke on the Daughter" where Lisa goes bad, starts smoking and tells Miss Hoover to "shove it".

The Power of Five - Nightrise

Jamie, Alicia and Danny accidentally barged into a family. The father was wearing a Homer Simpson T-Shirt.

The Saga of Darren Shan - Tunnels of Blood

Darren and Evra decided to get a television when they got back to the Cirque du Freak, if only for reruns of The Simpsons.