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

Movies

Movie name Picture Reference
Basic Instinct Basic Instinct Bart Simpson keyring.jpg 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.
Catch That Kid A security guard is seen watching the episode "Homer's Night Out" on a television.
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".
Hop Carlos, a chick (voiced by Hank Azaria) says the line "Everything's coming up Carlos!", a reference to Milhouse's line "Everything's coming up Milhouse!" from "Mom and Pop Art".
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.
Serenity The "Fruity Oaty Bar" commercial within the film was partially inspired by the Mr. Sparkle commercial from the episode "In Marge We Trust".
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze A cup with Bart Simpson on it can be seen.

TV Shows

TV series Episode name Episode number Picture Reference
American Dad! "100 A.D." 97 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 "Bad Tina" 21 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:
The Cleveland Show "Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'" 31 Cleveland Show Simpsons.png Several Bart Simpson dolls are seen at a fair.
"Hot Cocoa Bang Bang" 43 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. Dan Castellaneta was the guest star voice for this episode.

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.

Herman's Head

  • In an episode is Louise (played by Yeardley Smith) angrily snaps "I do not!" into the phone, slams the receiver back into the cradle, and then asks Herman if she don't sounds like Lisa 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

South Park

Main article: South Park

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

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?

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

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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.