References in other media

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The popularity and impact of The Simpsons has led to the show being references 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

BrainRush

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

• "How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?"

The Cleveland Show

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".

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

• Homer appeared at the end of the episode called "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'". In the episode, Duckman and Cornfeed 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.

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.

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.

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

• 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.

Supernatural

• In the episode "Something Wicked", Sam mentions Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway, which are cities where Lyle Lanley had sold monorails.

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.

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

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.