References in other media

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

Internet Memes

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.

Movies

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.

TV Shows

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 are 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.
In A boy whose appearance is similar to that of Bart's is seen at the boarding school for gifted children. episode Ride the High School
In It's the Thing of the Principal Duckman shouts "D'oh!" at the end.
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 & 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.

Gravity Falls

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

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, Lisa Homer 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.

Video Games

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."

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

In Disco Stew ability is a refrence Disco Stu

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.

Comics & books

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

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