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

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Movies

For about 3 seconds, Bart and Lisa laughing on a couch on the yellow robot can be seen.

Garfield flips the channel of the TV to "The Canine Mutiny".

The Extreme Sport Punks make fun of Kumar for being Indian, calling him "Apu" and asking him when the Kwik-E-Mart will be open.

A scene shows Sykes sleeping in front of a control panel, mirroring a TV in the background showing Homer Simpson sleeping at his workstation from Lisa's Pony.

A framed picture of Krusty the Clown, is seen on the wall. The picture shows a very depressed looking Krusty, driving a car, which is a screencap from "Homie the Clown".

A flashback is shown to Bianca's mother crying and being depressed over her divorce. She is sitting in the couch watching "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish". She is watching the scene where Homer is going through the five stages of grief, which inspires her to make her own motivational campaign, based off of the five stages of grief.

TV Shows

In space, Jimmy's evil clone makes a prank call to the U.N. Security Council asking for Ivanna Shakemabooty (Pun: I want to shake my booty). This is a reference to Bart's prank calls to Moe's Tavern.

In the episode "100 A.D.", Roger hosts the show, at first, believing that he's hosting the Who Shot Mr. Burns? special, until he realizes that he is on American Dad.

In the episode "Faking Bad", Bart Simpson appears, giving Steve a fake ID. The name on the fake ID is "Mike Rotch", which Steve makes the mistake of saying, in a similar way to how Moe says it in the Bart's prank calls gag. Bart then laughs at him and runs away.

In the episode "The Longest Distance Relationship", Sibad and Jeff traveled through a wormhole and changed through a bunch of depictions styles. One of which, depicted them the way they would be depicted in The Simpsons.

During the scene where Murray the Monster first shows up out of the limo in the episode, "Monsters Don't Dance", a boy that greatly resembles Bart can be seen in the crowd of people cheering while waving his lucky red hat.

Additionally, the various quotes the Gromble says during the opening credits before each episode are Gromble Gags, which are based on the couch gags from The Simpsons.

Bart makes a cameo appearance in the episode "Hooray For North Hollywood, Part 2", in the musical number "Shmooze", when Dot Warner sings "And for The Simpsons you suggested that they call the kid 'Bart'". Only Bart's hair was seen in the episode to avoid copyright claims of 20th Century Fox.

Toph says, "We're finally leaving Ba Sing Se, Worst City Ever!", which is a reference to Comic Book Guy's catchphrase.

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

"How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?"

In the episode "Super Duck vs Muscle Bread", during the battle, a family of ducks, similar to The Simpsons, is shown.

In "Fishing Trip", after losing all of his hair, Chad resembles Homer Simpson and also uses his famous catchphrase after Sumo steps on his toe.

In one episode, Numbuh 4 says "D'oh".

Comic Book Men

In one episode, the guys talk about valentines cards and Bryan tells Ming not to be the "Choo-Choo Choose me guy" reffering to Ralph's card to lisa.

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

In "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 Simpson. 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 Simpson.

A boy whose appearance is similar to that of Bart's is seen at the boarding school for gifted children from the episode "Ride the High School".

In It's the Thing of the Principal Duckman shouts "D'oh!" at the end.

In the halloween episode, "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'", Homer is shown at the end eating donuts. He was voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

In the first episode the Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis can be seen in the stash.





One episode's title is a parody of Bart's catchphrase, "Ay Carumba!"

See Family Guy for details.

In the episode "Year of the Rat", Mitch was seen putting olives on his fingers and ribbing them together, quoting Mr. Burns' catchphrase, "Excellent", until Louis told him, "No more Simpsons impressions", to which Mitch replies with a sad "D'oh".

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 eat my shiny metal ass.

In the episode "The Automated, Animated Cartoon", Garfield is briefly dressed as Bart

In "Starfire the Terrible ", after Robin's hair gel is destroyed, he attempts to get it back to normal. While attempting to fix his hair, Robin is briefly shown with the hair style of Bart, as well as the hair styles of Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise, and Sonic from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.

In "Dial M for Mother", Homer and Bart made a brief appearance. 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.

In the episode "Supper Villain/Collect Her", Lenny Baxter, a recurring character, looks almost identical to Comic Book Guy.

The Office

There is a stuffed plushie doll of Homer Simpson that's seen in the office in several episodes.

In the episode Diwali, Michael lists the famous people from India; one of which is Apu.

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

One opening is a spoof of the show's intro.

In one episode, Ted says "Let's teach Bart Simpson how to drive!"

Homer tells the kids how he met Marge.

In episode Bottomless Pit Dipper says, "How you diddly-doing, Soos?" which is a reference to Ned Flanders

Several questions (or sometimes even certain categories) asked on the show have been Simpsons related.

Bobby Hill has a Bart Simpson doll in his bedroom.

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

In "Avaturd / CSI Carly", Bart Simpson appears wearing glasses.

In "Pirates of the Neverland: At Wit's End / Batman Family Feud", once the pirate saw Neverland, the Simpsons opening is parodied with the same music, and the factory to the top left.

In "Ko-Bee Movie / Law and Ogre", Homer Simpson appeared in a picture at the Wolfgang Bucks store.

In "ArThor / The Big Fang Theory", Bart Simpson appeared writing on the chalkboard.

In "Dances With Wolverine / Tater Tots & Tiaras", Dr. Hibbert appears as a judge in a segment titled "America's Next Top Surgeon".

In the episode "Mr. Empty Pants", Peggy Bundy mentions Homer Simpson.

The entire show is a rip-off of The Simpsons.

Britney Spears imitator says that her sister's show Zoey 101 is better than animated shows like The Simpsons.

In an episode, they make a reference to Apu.

Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie make an appearance singing near the end of the song, "Monster in the Mirror".

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.

In "SpongeBob's Last Stand", Cletus Spuckler is mentioned by Patrick Star as his great-uncle.

In Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation , Elmyra Duff gives a lion a Bart Simpson type haircut.

, 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.

In "Tiny Toon Spring Break", Bart Simpson makes a cameo locked in a cage along with the other animal characters Elmyra has kidnapped.

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

In the episode "Uncle Grandpa Land", the cast does a couch gag with Uncle Grandpa dressed as Bart.



In the episode "The Hair Badge", one of Duggee's hairstyles resembles Homer Simpson's hair, even saying "D'oh!" while in this style.

Flip is similar to Apu.

The Loud House Looks A Little Like The Simpsons House.

The episode "Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "Ruby's Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "Franklin Has The Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

The episode "The Fox's Hiccups" has a similar plot to "Bart's Hiccups".

Video Games

The Multiplayer map "Meltdown" takes place on a nuclear power plant. Inside a room near the Militia spawn, a box of pink donuts can be found on a control panel, a reference to Homer's workplace.

Club Penguin

In the SWF for the new Clothes Shop (2012 - present), Marge Simpson is seen in a cameo. To avoid lawsuits of 20th Century Fox, they changed the color of her hair to purple and put bows in her hair.

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

In Disco Stew ability is a reference Disco Stu.

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

Minecraft XBOX Edition

A Simpsons Skin Pack DLC was released in late Febuary 2015.

StarCraft

The pilot for the Terran Science Vessel has a voice similar to to Mr. Burns. In addition, the pilot will say "Excellent!" if the player clicks it enough times.

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."

Web Shows

This is Bob

In this Russian Flash animated series in Season 3 episode 16 Bob in Circus, before the announcement of Bob, who was chosen to be an acrobate The Itchy & Scratchy Show jingle can be heard as well as heads of Krusty the Clown, Itchy and Scratchy were shown during the introduction.

Comics & Books

On April 8th, 2018, Curtis invited notorious trouble makers from other media to his party. One of these troublemakers was Bart Simpson.

In Dilbert drawing bart ride bicycle is clever

Luann

Homer was seen requesting an autograph from Tiffany (who was currently dressed up as Zeye from a homemade computer game "Eyes of Zeye"), although Luann, her rival, got the last laugh by giving an autograph on Darth Vader's lightsaber at the latter's request.

Big Nate

In an early strip, Nate says that he will wait to study until after watching The Simpsons.

In another strip, Nate suggests his father dress as Homer Simpson for Halloween.

Nickelodeon Magazine

On the cover for the April 2001 (Kids Choice Awards 2001 editon) issue, Bart makes a cameo.

Doctor Who Magazine

An alien resembling Bart Simpson briefly appears in the comic story "Space Invaders!"

On The Fastrack

The May 23, 2015 comic by Bill Holbrook includes Rose Trellis being drawn in several cartoon character styles, include with Marge's hair. The punchline is that because she is one of the richest people in the world, she objected that the cartoonists didn't pay her for the privilege of drawing her that way.

Dork Diaries

In the book "Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever After:, Brianna mentioned that she tried to call Princess Sugar Plum, but instead called Moe and he told her if he called her again, he will sent her to jail. This references when Bart do prank calls on Moe on several episodes of The Simpsons.

Music

Trey Songz

In Trey Songz' song "Say Aah", it features the line "Tryna' get you home or would you be Marge Simpson?", which is a play on Homer's name and a reference to his wife Marge Simpson.

Internet Memes

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. This was the first meme used in The Simpsons.

Bart Testing Megaphones

Originating from the episode "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson", Bart gets a hold of several megaphones and lines them up in front of each other, aiming them outside a window. Bart regularly says "testing" into the first megaphone, and the sound is amplified with every megaphone it passes through. Once it gets to the last one, it blasts out an ear-drum shattering shockwave, throughout Spingfield, making the entire town go temporarily deaf, as well as leaving behind an everlasting stream of feedback.

This has been incorporated into a meme, wherein people will replace Bart's quote with other funny phrases or audio clips, giving it the same treatment.

Dead Bart

Dead Bart is a creepypasta, based on The Simpsons, which details a "lost" episode from the first season, wherein, like the title suggests, Bart Simpson dies. The creepypasta was also accompanied by an edited picture of Homer's face melting off, taken from the episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home". Despite this being Homer, it's intended to resemble Bart. The popularity of this creepypasta has turned it into an internet meme.

Homer Backs Into Things

Originating from the episode "Homer Loves Flanders", Homer inquires The Flanders Family if they want to spend time with him. They decline his offer and Homer says "Oh, okay." before backing into a hedge with a blank expression. This has been reused as a reaction clip on the internet.

Krumping Marge

Originating from the episode "Little Orphan Millie", a scene featured Marge teaching Bart how to do a dance, known as "krumping". While Marge krumped, one of the in-between frames depicted an awkwardly positioned Marge Simpson, with her head going down her neck, while she was in a funny position. This single frame of Marge had then become wildly popularized on the internet.

Simpsonwave

Simpsonwave is a sub-genre of memetic music, wherein vaporwave music is played over clips from The Simpsons, along with the scenes being filtered with psychedelic visuals, to fully commit to the "vaporwave" style of the art.

Steamed Hams

Originating from the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", a scene featuring Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers having dinner together, has become popular on YouTube, especially, where people edit the scene and do all sorts of funny remixes with it.

That's the Joke!

Originating from the episode "A Star is Burns", Rainier Wolfcastle gets his own stand-up comedy special, where he tells a bland joke that nobody gets, returning to him a resounding silence from the audience. After a beat of this awkward silence, Wolfcastle bluntly says into the microphone "That's the joke!"

This has been used as a reaction clip on the internet, in response to anyone who fails to understand the irony in an humorous statement, and explains the nonsense of the statement, believing it to be serious.