References in other media

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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 A secondary character owns a keyring with a Bart Simpson figurine attached to it. 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. The Lego Movie Milhouse makes a cameo appearance. 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. We're the Millers While David is sitting outside his apartment trying to devise a plan to smuggle marijuana out of Mexico, a man and his family drive up in a RV. The driver explains that he's lost and cheerfully asks David for directions, to which David responds with "Fuck off, real-life Flanders."

TV Shows

{{Table| ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|TV series ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Episode name ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Episode number ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Picture ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Reference |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|American Dad! | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"100 A.D." | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|97 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|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. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Faking Bad" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|159 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Steve is making fake IDs and then asks for "Mike Rotch" and then asks if anyone has seen "Mike Rotch", parodying one of Bart's prank calls. Bart then appears and laughs at Steve. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Animaniacs | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Hooray for North Hollywood Part 1" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|96 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart makes a cameo appearance when Dot Warner sings "And in The Simpsons they just had to name that kid "Bart". Only Bart's hair was seen in the episode to avoid copyright claims. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|The Big Bang Theory | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Grasshopper Experiment" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|8 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|After Howard imitates Raj's voice to set up a blind date for him, Howard tells Raj that he should thank him. Raj incredulously asks "For what? Making me sound like a Simpsons character?". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Griffin Equivalency" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|21 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Howard refers to Raj as "Dr. Apu from the Kwik-E-Mart". When Leonard objects that that's racist, Howard tells him that it can't be because he's a lovable character on The Simpsons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bob's Burgers | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Bad Tina" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|21 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In the episode "Bad Tina", one of the erotic fan fiction novels, written by Tina, seen on her shelf is titled "Sexy Simpsons". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|BrainRush | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Questions were asked that were related to The Simpsons such as: "How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?" |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|The Cleveland Show | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Ain't Nothin' But Mutton Bustin'" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|31 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Several Bart Simpson dolls are seen at a fair. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Hot Cocoa Bang Bang" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|43 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Comic Book Guy (voiced by Hank Azaria) criticizes Cleveland's comic book then says "Worst cameo ever". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Comedy Central Roast | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Roast of Charlie Sheen" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|11 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|After mentioning that he found inspiration from the Iliad during a dark period in his life, Mike Tyson tells Seth MacFarlane that he's not the only person who's "gotten by by taking ideas from Homer". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|Community | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Debate 109" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|9 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Simmons uses Apu as an example that people are good. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Modern Warfare" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|23 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Jeff refers to Disco Stu when talking about a student who is trying to bring disco back. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Corner Gas | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"World's Biggest Thing" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|6 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Brent put Marge Simpson on a list of who not to accept checks from in order to mess with Oscar. When Oscar came in he read the list and, not recognizing any of the names, got very angry and told Brent not to accept any checks from Marge Simpson. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Dan Vs. | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Barber" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|14 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|After setting up a date with a woman, Dan exits the cookie shop and says "Everything's coming up Dan!" in a sing-song voice. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Drawn Together | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"A Tale of Two Cows" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|17 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|250px250px | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|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. In the same episode, a house resembling the Simpsons' house is seen with Bart hanging out the window dead. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="4;"|Duckman | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"I, Duckman" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|1 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|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. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Ride the High School" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|6 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A boy whose appearance is similar to that of Bart's is seen at the boarding school for gifted children. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"It's the Thing of the Principal" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|9 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Duckman shouts "D'oh!" at the end. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|56 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Homer appeared at the end of the episode. 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. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Edge of Heaven | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|N/A | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|1 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Alfie said that Carly was the Marge to her Homer. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|The Fairly OddParents | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Channel Chasers" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|54-56 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When Timmy Turner, Adult Timmy Turner, Cosmo and Wanda go inside their TV, one TV show they travel into is a parody of The Simpsons, called "The Feldmans". It features a chalkboard gag parody, parodies of Krusty, Ned Flanders and Barney Gumble, Blinky (the parodied version of Barney Gumble gains a third eye, like Blinky, while swimming in radioactive water), the opening sequence (without the title screen), the theme song and a couch gag. Vicky is seen dressed like Bumblebee Man, writing "Vicky Was Here" on the "Wintergreen" Nuclear Power Plant. In the parodied opening sequence, shows a graffiti that says "El Vicko", a parody of El Barto. Moe's Tavern is also parodied as "Mike's Tavern". The town of "Wintergreen", is a parody of Springfield (the parody name is seen on the parodied version of the Elementary School). |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Fairly OddBaby" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|82-83 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When Cosmo was pregnant with Baby Poof, he vomits and thinks about naming his child "Barfolomew", a reference to Bart's full name. When Cosmo thinks about Barfolomew, the child he imagines is a parody of Bart Simpson. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="3;"|Farscape | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"What Was Lost: Part 2 - Resurrection" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|69 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|} | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|John Crichton refers to Braca as Smithers, referencing his habits of sucking up to his superior. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Mental as Anything" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|81 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|John Crichton says to a person who is teaching them "Not going to happen Miss Krabappel". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"We're So Screwed (Part 2): Hot to Katratzi" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|86 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|After Braca (who in a previous episode, John referred to as Smithers) shot and killed someone trying to kill Scorpius, John says to Scorpius "Feel the love, Mr. Burns". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Garfield and Friends | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Automated, Animated Adventure" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|73 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|While in the computer, Mr. Sprocket changes Garfield's image into Bart Simpson. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Gravity Falls | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Bottomless Pit!" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|14 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Dipper says, "How you diddly-doing, Soos?" which is a reference to Ned Flanders. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The hair of the bride of Frankenstein, looks similar to Marge Simpson. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Herman's Head | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|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 sounds like Lisa Simpson. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Histeria | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The theme song is a parody of The Itchy & Scratchy Show theme song. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|House | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|117 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|"Known Unknowns" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Dr. Gregory House goes to see Dr. Lisa Cuddy with a medical reason, which he says was a ruse to just check up on her boobs, which House refers to as Patty and Selma. When Cuddy questions why House named her boobs after "someone's aunts", House says that it is a "compliment as they are always smokin'". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|As Dr. House and Dr. Cuddy are dancing at an '80s dance, a woman dressed as Marge Simpson is seen in the background. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|How I Met Your Mother | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In one episode, Ted says "Let's teach Bart Simpsons how to drive!" |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Stinsons | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|79 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The title is a reference to the Simpsons |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Keeping Up Appearances | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Seaside Fun" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|34 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Hyacinth and the Italian are riding bumper cars in a place where The Simpsons billboards are on the wall, signaling rules of not what to do in the bumper cars at the Pleasure Beach theme park in Great Yarmouth. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="5;"|Mad | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Avaturd / CSI Carly" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|1 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart Simpson appears wearing glasses. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|6 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Once the pirate saw Neverland, the Simpson's opening is parodied with the same music, and the factory to the top left. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Ko-Bee Movie / Law and Ogre" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|20 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Homer Simpson appeared in a picture at the Wolfgang Bucks store. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"ArThor / The Big Fang Theory" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|24 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart Simpson appeared writing on the chalkboard. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Dances With Wolverine / Tater Tots & Tiaras" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|36 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Dr. Hibbert appears as a judge in a segment titled "America's Next Top Surgeon". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Middle | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Halloween" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|30 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Brick Heck goes trick-or-treating dressed as Sgt. MacKenzie, and one of the neighbors thinks he is dressed as Groundskeeper Willie. When he goes to the door of another neighbor, he mentions that he's not dressed as him, and some other characters neighbors thought he was dressed as. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|NCIS | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Trojan Horse" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|93 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|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, causing Tony to stop. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Shell Shock (Part II)" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|217 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|NCIS were looking for a woman with blue hair. Anthony DiNozzo got a statement from a convenience store manager and found out that "Marge Simpson was a regular". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Outnumbered | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Night Out" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|11 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Karen says she woke up and had four fingers like the Simpsons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Paddy's Show and Telly | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Paddy's 2012 Show and Telly" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|2 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Simpsons was one of the programs in Paddy's Planner. Denise van Outen and Nicky Byrne took part in Paddy's Planner, and in their round they chose The Simpsons as one of the programs they would receive a question related to. The question was "What is Bart and Lisa's baby sister called?" Nicky Byrne said "Lisa"; the correct answer is "Maggie". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|The Powerpuff Girls | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Collect Her / Supper Villain" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|15 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The villain Lenny Baxter, was based in the Comic Book Guy. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Birthday Bash / Too Pooped to Puff" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|16 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|250px | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When Mojo Jojo's plan fails, the Princess Morbucks laughs like Nelson Muntz. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Real Ghostbusters | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Guess What's Coming To Dinner" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|7 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A monster family that resembles the Simpsons, moves to live at the Ghostbusters Headquarters. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Saturday Night Live | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A Britney Spears imitator says that her sisters show Zoey 101 is better than animated shows like The Simpsons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Scrubs | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Unknown | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|They make a reference to Apu. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Shear Genius | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"In the Dark" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The contestants tried to make hair cuts that resemble cartoon characters, and two tried making Marge's hair do. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Supernatural | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Something Wicked" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|18 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Sam Winchester mentions the cities of Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway, as being locations of past Shtriga activity. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="4;"|Tiny Toon Adventures | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="2;"|Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Elmyra Duff cuts a lions hair making him look like Bart. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"It's All Relatives" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|66 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Babs Bunny does impressions of Marge, Bart, and Maggie. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Toon TV" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|90 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Babs mentions Bart in the music video "Toon Out, Toon In". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Weekday Afternoon Live" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|95 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|There is a spoof character of Bart named Blard Simpleton. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Two and a Half Men | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Avoid the Chinese Mustard" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|208 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Walden Schmidt tells the person he is paying to be his girlfriend that they will not have sex and lists a place where they will not have sex, including the windmill in the mini golf course, a reference to "Natural Born Kissers" where Marge and Homer had sex in the windmill at Sir Putt-A-Lot's Merrie Olde Fun Centre. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="3;"|The X-Files | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Revelations" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|60 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Fox Mulder remarked that Owen Lee Jarvis looked like Homer Simpson's evil twin. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The End" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|117 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Gibson Praise watched a scene from The Simpsons involving Homer from "The Cartridge Family". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Beginning" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|118 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The character of Homer is loosely based on Homer Simpson. He is lazy and works at a nuclear power plant.

See also

• The Chase
• The Critic
• CSI
• Doctor Who
• Family Guy
• The Flintstones
• Futurama
• The Jetsons
• King of the Hill
• Late Show with David Letterman
• Looney Tunes
• Marvel
• Matlock
• The Muppets
• Pokémon
• Scooby-Doo
• Sesame Street
• South Park
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Stargate
• Star Trek
• Teletubbies
• Transformers
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Video Games

Game Level Picture Reference Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes "Hankagai" A poster with 2 Mr. Sparkle's fishes, can be seen. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies The "Disco Stew" ability is a reference to Disco Stu. Duke Nukem 3D "Stadium" The zeppelin hovering overhead reads "Duf Beer". "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). "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. Fable III "Missing Play" After The Ham Sandwich is performed, one of the audience says "Worst play ever", Comic Book Guy's catchphrase. "The Game" After completing the game, one of the people who set it up stated "Worst game ever", again a reference to Comic Book Guy's catchphrase. Icomania 200px One of the icons is the Simpsons couch. The answer is Simpsons. Team Fortress 2 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".

Books

Series Book Reference CHERUB Class A Two female agents, Kerry Chang and Gabrielle, were watching an episode of The Simpsons in Spanish. 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 History of the World According to Facebook One of the "posts" in the book, on page 143, reads "Dick Cheney is now friends with Darth Sidious and Mr. Burns". The Onion Our Dumb World One of the images on the back cover shows a guy walking from a 7-Eleven with a "super big gulp" cup. In the background there is a banner running above the store's front door advertising Squishees and donuts. Homer also appears on the banner. This same image appears on page 10 of the book. 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.

Magazines

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Image Magazine Date published Reference Mad Kids May, 2006 On page 12 Bart, Homer, Marge and Maggie can be seen, with Bart yelling "Eat my shorts!" at his parents. On page 52, in the top cartoon, the boy has a lamp in his bedroom shaped like Bart's head. Also on page 52, in the bottom cartoon a street vendor has a sign on his cart that says "Kakalosh", a reference to Khlav Kalash. Both Barney and Uter are among the faces in the collage on pages 60 and 61, and can be seen again in the answer key on page 64. August 2007 On page 18, during the interview with Emma Roberts, the interviewer asks her "which Ned is the coolest", with one of the options being Ned Flanders. TV Guide March 1990 for March 17-23, 1990 The cover features a drawing of the Simpsons on the couch and above, the text "TV: The good, the bad and the ugly By The Simpsons,TV's hot new prime-time family". There presumably was a review of the show on Page 4. September 1990 for September 22-28, 1990 The cover features Bill Cosby and Bart sitting on his shoulder, with the text "Bart Simpson and Bill Cosby face off on Thursdays" below. 1991 Bart is featured on the cover of the 2000th issue; in the issue there is also a "Where's Bart?" section on page 62 asking readers to try to find Bart in a quilt of TV Guide covers. November 1992 for November 28, 1992-December 4, 1992 The cover features a section saying "MAGGIE SPEAKS! We Ask Famous Fans What She'll Say". January 1998 Four different covers were released; each side by side would form a couch scene with Bart, Homer, Grandpa, Selma, Patty, Marge, Maggie, Santa's Little Helper, and Snowball II. October 1998 for October 17-23, 1998 The cover shows the family in costumes next to information about what will be included in that issue's Halloween preview, one of the series covered being The Simpsons. October 2000 for October 21-27, 2004 There were twenty-four special covers, each showing the face of a different character, part of the "The 24 Secret Stars of The Simpsons" series. The characters were Mr. Burns, Captain McAllister, Krusty, Apu, Milhouse, Chief Wiggum, Sideshow Bob, Ned, Abe. December 2004 for December 12-18, 2004 Four different covers were released, each containing a special-effects ornament. December 2009 December 7-20, 2009 Six different covers were released; one shows an image of Homer wearing his Mr. Plow jacket, other shows an image of "Hulk Homer" and other shows an image of "Colonel Homer", all with the bolded text "D'oh! The Simpsons Turns 20". October 2011 October 24-November 6, 2011 The cover shows a promotional image of that year's "Treehouse of Horror" episode. April 4, 2013 for April 8-21, 2013 The cover is one of six special 60th anniversary cover for TV Guide. The image on the cover is a collage put together to show Homer saying "D'oh!" in the Simpsons' backyard.

Comic Books

Series Image Issue Page Reference My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 15 3 Twilight attempts to blast a bookworm with magic, exclaiming "D'oh" when she misses. Micro Series - 2 ? One of the gremlins shouts "the goggles, they do nothing".

Music

Band/Singer Album Song Reference The Bloodhound Gang Hefty Fine "Ralph Wiggum" The entire song is comprised of quotes from The Simpsons, mainly from Ralph Wiggum. Dan Castellaneta I Am Not Homer "So Dumb (Homer's Lament)" While not specifically The Simpsons media, "So Dumb (Homer's Lament)" is a song by Dan Castellaneta featuring the voices of many of his more popular The Simpsons characters from an otherwise The Simpsons-free album. "Weird Al" Yankovic Bad Hair Day "Phony Calls" The song contains the entirety of Bart's prank call to Moe, asking for "Mike Rotch", from the episode "Blood Feud".

Comic Strips

Strip Date Image The Argyle Sweater December 2, 2012 January 26, 2014 Bizarro December 11, 2011 Dilbert March 30, 1991 December 17, 2010 The Family Circus July 19, 2009

Miscellaneous

Name Image Reference Fall Out Boy The name of the band is a reference to Fallout Boy, the sidekick of Radioactive Man.

Cultural references

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