Pokémon

Pikachu from Pokémon along with Bender from Futurama

Pokémon is a game and TV series by Nintendo. It has been referenced to in The Simpsons.

References to Pokémon in The Simpsons

Picture	Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
250px	10	226	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"	Bart is watching a show called Battling Seizure Robots which is a Japanese show that gives viewers seizures. This is yet a reference to the Pokémon episode "Computer Soldier Porygon" which gave more than 635 of Japanese children seizures on December 16, 1997.
	12	258	"Pokey Mom"	The episode title is a reference to Pokémon.
	12	268	"Children Of a Lesser Clod"	Homer, Rod, and Todd watch an imitation Kids Say the Darnedest Things on television, and Bill Cosby asks a kid, "What do you like to play?" The kid replies, "Pokémon!" to which Cosby replies, "Pokémon?! Pokémon with the Poké and the Mon and the guy with the thing who comes out and he's like..." and rambles on.
250px	14	294	"Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"	While Bart is taking a test his mind is focused on satellite television and he has a vision everyone in his class is a television character and one classmate is turned into Pikachu.

"'Tis the Fifteenth Season" and "Fraudcast News" - during the couch gag every Simpson family member is a Japanese television show character and Maggie is Pikachu. In Germany Pikachu's current voice actor is the same one who voices Maggie in the German version of "The Simpsons" along with Lisa who is Sailor Moon in the couch gag and Sailor also appears to be voiced by the same voice of Lisa, Maggie, and Pikachu.
"Postcards from the Wedge" - Bart is seen watching an imitation Pokémon anime on television, and he asks himself, "How does this show stay so fresh?"
"Chief of Hearts" - When Bart asks kids at Dylan's birthday party about "Battle Ball", he says, "It makes Digimon look like Pokémon!"
"The Simpsons Movie" - The swallows that fly into the dome while retuning to Springfield look the Pokémon Swellow.