Futurama
- This article is about the real-world TV series. For other uses, see Futurama (disambiguation).
Futurama is an animated science-fiction comedy show, that was also created by Matt Groening. Numerous references have been made to the show throughout the run of The Simpsons as well as Futurama making references to The Simpsons. Many people have compared the Futurama main characters with The Simpsons main characters such as Bender is Futurama's Homer.
A running joke is that on The Simpsons, Futurama is a fictional cartoon show on Futurama, however, it is The Simpsons that is a fictional cartoon show.
Futurama in The Simpsons
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The Simpsons in Futurama
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|1
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Space Pilot 3000"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When Fry passes through an underwater tube, Blinky briefly appears in the water below him. Also, in an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching The Simpsons.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|7
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"My Three Suns"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|One of Bender's badges at the bottom of his sash has a profile of Homer.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|8
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"A Big Piece of Garbage"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|On the trash asteroid, a pile of Bart Simpson dolls can be seen. Bender picks up one and hears Bart say his catchprase, "Eat my shorts". Bender complies and eat them and mimics Homer in saying "Mmm... shorts". Nancy Cartwright voiced the Bart Simpson doll.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Hell Is Other Robots"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When Fry and Leela open the door to the Robot Hell, a heart with an arrow through reads "H.S. 4 M.B.". This means "Homer Simpson for Marge Bouvier" (later Simpson).
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|11
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Mars University"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Homer and Bart toys appear as prizes at the "Coney Island College".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|13
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Fry and the Slurm Factory"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart, Lisa, and Maggie appear in the opening sequence on the TV screen in one the Tracey Ullman short, "Making Faces".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|2
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|18
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The opening subtitle is "From the network that brought you 'The Simpsons'."
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|3
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|36
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Luck of the Fryrish"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart's head appears on the shelf.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|50
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Anthology of Interest II"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender's human alter-ego bears a striking resemblance to Homer.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|4
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|56
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Leela's Homeworld"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart is a part of the hot air balloon the main characters use to escape the sewers.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|61
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Jurassic Bark"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The hole of the miniature windmill is closed until further notice due to someone being inconsiderate and creating an unsanitary condition. This this is a reference to "Natural Born Kissers" in which Homer and Marge have sex at a mini golf windmill.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Bender's Big Score
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Apu and Manjula's heads appear in the head museum.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|The Beast with a Billion Backs
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The end credits show the actor's name, together with an array of pictures of the characters they voiced. This is similar to The Simpsons Movie.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|90
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender mentions that a censor chip canceled shows like "The Pimpsons".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|99
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bender asks Matt Groening's head when the second Simpsons Movie is coming out, and after being shot, he shouts "D'oh!".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Tip of the Zoidberg"
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Fry develops a condition called "Simpsons jaundice", which turns his skin yellow. He then says "Ay carumba!".
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Futurama Conquers The Universe
| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In Leela & Amy in Hostile Makeover, the wig Amy puts on Leela about halfway through the comic is the same style as Marge's.
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| style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In reference to the longevity of the show, it was stated that in the year 3000 The Simpsons are still on the air and keep producing original episodes even over one thousand seasons.
External links
- Official website
Futurama at the Internet Movie Database
Futurama at Wikipedia
Futurama at the Infosphere
