References in other media

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

All Your Base Are Belong To Us

 * A popular series of photoshopped images for its use of a badly translated line from the imported European release of the Japanese video game Zero Wing, and exploded into use by the Newgrounds flash animation music videos of Invasion of the Gabber Robots by the defunct techno band Laziest Men On Mars, one edit consists of a take of the popular Chalkboard gag, with Bart writing the famous line down as punishment.

Flubber

 * For about 3 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 Simpsons 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.

Animaniacs

 * 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.

King of the Hill
Bobby Hill has a Bart Simpson doll in his bedroom.

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

"How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

 * In "Lover's Walk", Willow Rosenberg calls herself Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokek.

Corner Gas

 * In one episode, Brent put Marge on the list of who to not accept checks from.

Drawn Together

 * In "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.

The Fairly OddParents

 * In "Channel Chasers": When Timmy, Adult Timmy, Wanda and Cosmo go inside their TV, one TV show they travel into is a parody of The Simpsons called The Feldmans. It features a opening sequence parody (without the title screen), a theme song parody, a chalkboard gag parody, parodies of Krusty, Ned Flanders, Barney Gumble, Bumblebee Man (Vicky is dressed as him), Springfield Elementary School (entitled "Wintergreen Elementary School"), El Barto (entitled "El Vicko"), Nuclear Power Plant, Moe's Tavern (entitled "Mike's Tavern"), Blinky (Barney transforms to Blinky, while swimming under radioactive sea), 742 Evergreen Terrace and a couch gag. The town of "Wintergreen", is a parody of Springfield.
 * In "Fairly OddBaby": When Cosmo was Pregnant are with a Baby Poof vomit think a 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.

Duckman

 * In episode halloween Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers is Homer Simpson ghost is credits Dan Castellaneta more that

The Critic

 * In "Dial M for Mother," Homer and Bart made a brief appearance in "Dial M for Mother". During an interview with Geraldo Rivera, Jay is asked about talking over the heads of his audience and does just that in his answer. An annoyed family watching changes the channel to The Simpsons, where Homer—after stepping on a rake—exclaims, "D'oh!" and Bart replies, "Ay caramba!" The family's father comments, "Now, this I understand."
 * In Dukerella', Jay and Alice go to a costume ball dresses up as Homer and Marge to meet Duke, Alice's sister crush.

Garfield and Friends

 * In episode Autosaved Animated is garfield is Bart Simpson

The Powerpuff Girls

 * In episode Supper Villian/Collect Her is Lenny Baxter, Comic Book Guy based on

The Office

 * In one episode, Michael lists off famous people from India; he mentions Apu.

Family Guy

 * See Family Guy for details.

Futurama

 * In one episode, when Fry, Leela and Bender land on a giant ball of trash that's heading towards a collision course on Earth, Fry spots a pile of Bart Simpson dolls. Bender pulls a string behind one of them, which causes the doll to utter Bart's catchphrase "Eat my shorts", which Bender promptly follows (also uttering "Mmmmm...shorts.")

The Grim Adventures of Billy &amp; Mandy

 * In "Billy Idiot / Home of the Ancients", the bride of Frankenstein have the hair similar to Marge Simpson.

Histeria

 * Theme song of parody of The Itchy & Scratchy Show theme song

How I Met Your Mother

 * In one episode, Ted says "Let's teach Bart Simpsons how to drive!"
 * Homer tells the kids how he met Marge.

Mad TV

 * Avaturd / CSI Carly Bart Simpson appears wearing glasses
 * 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.
 * Ko-Bee Movie / Law and Ogre Homer Simpson appeared in a picture at the Wolfgang Bucks store.
 * ArThor / The Big Fang Theory Bart Simpson appeared writing on the chalkboard
 * Dances With Wolverine / Tater Tots & Tiaras Dr. Hibbert appears as a judge in a segment titled "America's Next Top Surgeon

Saturday Night Live

 * A Britney Spears imitator says that her sister's 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: In The Dark, 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 "SpongeBob's Last Stand", Cletus Spuckler is mentioned by Patrick Star as his great-uncle.

Tiny Toon Adventures

 * In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, Elmyra Duff gives a lion a Bart Simpson type haircut.
 * In the episode "Pledge Week", Babs Bunny does impressions of Marge, Bart and Maggie.
 * In "Toon TV", Babs mentions Bart in the song segment "Toon Out, Toon In".
 * In "Weekday Afternoon Live" their is a spoof character of Bart named Blard Simpleton.

TMNT

 * In one episode, The Simpsons appear on a TV screen.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes

 * In the mission "Hankagai", a poster with 2 Mr. Sparkle's fishes, can be seen.

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 Rainier Wolfcastle in the episode Radioactive Man (which is also 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."

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online

 * The Spectacular Spider-Ham will reference the Spider-Pig song by shouting out "Doin' whatever a Spider-Ham does" whenever he climbs a wall.

Fairy Tales of Nadia

 * In "Give Nadia a Break," Homer was seen on TV eating chips with sauce, the artwork was redrawn from the Simpsons episode "Dial "N" for Nerder" in a different artwork. Homer was also added another finger in each hand with nails, unlike the regular character in The Simpsons.

Dilbert

 * In Dilbert drawing bart ride bicycle is clever

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

 * In 15 Twilight attempts to blast a bookworm with magic, exclaiming "D'oh" when she misses
 * Micro Series One of the gremlins shouts "the goggles, they do nothing

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