List of Other Media References in The Simpsons

Cartoon Cameos are the appearances of other TV show characters on The Simpsons.

Alf
ALF appears in the episode "The Springfield Files", and is mentioned by Milhouse in the episode "Bart Sells His Soul". He also appears on the episode Behind the Laughter, a send-up of Behind the Music.

Barney
Barney the Dinosaur appears in two episodes. In "Rosebud", Homer watches the Barney show and Barney drones, "Two plus two is four, two plus two is four." Homer proceeds to say, "I can see why this is so popular." In "The Joy of Sect", Barney sings to infants in order to brainwash them into loving "the leader".

Bender
Bender from Futurama appears in Missionary Impossible, Bart vs. Lisa vs. Third Grade, My Big Fat Geek Wedding, and Future-Drama. In Missionary Impossible he is seen as a telephone operator at the end. In Bart vs. Lisa vs. Third Grade when the Simpsons get a satillite TV Bart goes to school and hallucinates Richard being Bender. In My Big Fat Geek Wedding Milhouse wants Matt Groening to sign his Bender action figure. Matt Groening made Futurama as well. In Future-Drama he makes a brief speaking appearance (voiced by John DiMaggio) when Future Bart and Homer go through a wormhole tunnel they accidentally pick up Bender making him say "alright you guys are my new best friends" and Homer replies "you wish loser!" and dismantles Bender and laughs evily.

Big Bird
Big Bird appears in the episode "Missionary: Impossible", in which Homer defrauds a PBS member station during pledge week. He flies down from the sky and squawks at Homer, making him run in the other direction.

Care Bears
In "The Fat and the Furriest", Homer sees a violent Care Bear wielding an iron bar, a product of his fear of bears. When Homer asks if the animal is a Care Bear, he corrects him, claiming that he's an "Intensive-Care Bear."

Chewbacca
Chewbacca from Star Wars appears in The Springfield Files and Mayored to the Mob. In the Springfield Files he appears in the FBI alien line-up and appears in the chorus line at the end. He appears at the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi convention in Mayored to the Mob.

Elmo
Elmo has appeared in four episodes of The Simpsons. Elmo briefly appeared as a vengeful cartoon character in "Missionary: Impossible". He reminded Homer, who didn't want to pay for a pledge he made to a PBS phone-a-thon, that "Elmo knows where you live." In "Bart-Mangled Banner", a parody of post-9/11 America, Elmo appeared in a political prison after supporting opponents of George W. Bush; he said, "Elmo go to wrong fundraiser." Afterward, Homer said, "I don't wanna end up like Elmo, hanging himself in prison." In another episode of The Simpsons, a Tickle Me Elmo doll appears in Maggie's nursery. When Moe tickles him, Elmo slaps him and says "'No' means 'No' for Elmo!" The doll can be briefly seen in the episode "Trash of the Titans".

Gort
Gort was seen in the line up of aliens in The Springfield Files.

Hank Hill
Hank Hill and the rest of his family were at Bart's game in Bart Star. In Missionary Impossible he was one of the telephone operators.

Marvin the Martian
Marvin appeared in the line up of aliens in The Springfield Files.

Peter Griffin
Peter Griffin was one of Homer's clones in Treehouse of Horror XIII's segment Send in the Clones. This is an international jab to Family Guy being a clone of The Simpsons.

Pikachu
Bart imagined one of his classmates as Pikachu in Bart vs. Lisa vs. Third Grade. In the couch gag for Tis' the Fifteenth Season and Fraudcast News Maggie was Pikachu.

The Robot
The Robot from Lost in Space appeared in Fear of Flying in Marge's dream as Lisa. He really appeared in Mayored to the Mob at a Sci-Fi convention and was in The Collector's collection in Treehouse of Horror X. He has made various other apperances.

Spongebob Squarepants
Spongebob was one of the three gods in She Used to Be My Girl. He was also featured as an exhibit in The Wife Aquatic.

Teletubbies
Teletubbies appeared in Missionary Impossible along with other PBS characters. In one couh gag The Simpsons except for Maggie were Teletubbies.