The final stage of each area pits Bart against a boss — all of which are members of the Burns clan: third cousin Fu Manchu Burns, second cousin's grand-nephew The Abominable Snow Burns, maternal grand-uncle Ramses Burns and unspecified relation Eric von Burns.
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However, the contest has been rigged by Mr. Burns' assistant, Smithers, in order for Burns to rid himself of the Simpson family for all the trouble they have caused him over the years.
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In 2010, The Simpsons made their own version of the story, in an episode called "Moe Letter Blues".
The judges (brought in from many companies in related fields to the categories of the contest such as Cartoon Network, High Voltage, Digital Domain, The Simpsons etc.) select winners and a handful of honorable mentions to be displayed at the festival.
In The Simpsons episode "The Bart of War", Milhouse mentions he feels "like luge silver medalist Barbara Niedernhuber" while riding Flanders' video cart.
In the 2008 The Simpsons episode "The Burns and the Bees", Lisa Simpson wears a beard of bees to help the local population of bees to flourish.
The concept of the video, as well as the battle sequences depicted in the video, is a direct reference to the "battle of the bands" segment from the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.
This fossil appears on TV show 'The Simpsons', chapter: 'Lisa, the sceptic', behind the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (Wonderful Life's author).
In addition to his music, Patrick returned to occasional film and television work, including making cameo appearances as "Himself" on episodes of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons and the 2003 comedy film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, as well as appearing as a grown-up Eddie Munster in a Little Caesars Pizza commercial.
In The Simpsons episode Day of the Jackanapes, Sideshow Bob is in prison watching television when a guard states "lights out." Sideshow Bob states that, "At Chino, they get to stay up 'til nine".
On April 9, 2006, the museum was briefly mentioned on TV in Canada as a destination of Patty and Selma's vacation during the Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore episode of The Simpsons.
It contains the usual mix of samples from a variety of sources, including EastEnders, Doctor Who, American Dad, The Simpsons, and many other samples taken from British Television and radio broadcasts.
The game begins in rural Paris and ends on a beach in Dakar, Senegal, with 11 stages in between, including tracks in the Sahara Desert and Atlas Mountains.
In The Simpsons episode "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday", Springfield Elementary School visits their local Post Office and are treated to a piece of undeliverable mail from the dead letter office as a souvenir.
Herschbach has also lent his voice to the animated television show The Simpsons for the episode "Treehouse of Horror XIV" where he is seen presenting the Nobel Prize in Physics to Professor Frink.
In the interlude to the Chap of the Manor segment, Stewie jokingly says that Family Guy is based on The Simpsons, another animated comedy series, but later claims it is based on a British television show, like the TV series The Office.
The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory.
"Music Box Dancer" has been heard on an episode of The Simpsons and in the Kill Bill movies.
The show became the highest rated British produced TV show on Sky One - beaten only by The Simpsons and WWF Wrestling.
The product's unusually long name was satirized on The Simpsons.
Guest for the 2012 Festival held 22 to 24 June included Tim Decker, lecturer in animation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and former layout artist and animator of The Simpsons, John Roberts, director of Cannes Film Festival shown Mary's Friend and The Wheel, together with returning guests Mahoney, Simms, and Strenger.
In The Shinning, a parody of The Shining from The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror V, Bart cuts a new path through the hedge maze, rather than complete it fairly.
For example, Honest Ed's was featured in the film The Long Kiss Goodnight and can be seen in several background scenes in the film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World when Scott and his friends are dining at Pizza Pizza across the street from the store.
In the first episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons, "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet.
In The Simpsons episode "Bart Gets an Elephant", Homer pours a bottle of "Mr. Cleanser" into a puddle in the basement and begins scrubbing, ignoring the warning to only use the product in a well-ventilated area.
As a television writer, Scovell wrote the season two episode of The Simpsons, "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish".
The students of Springfield Elementary go on a field trip to the Springfield Glacier which has nearly melted completely into a pond, and is just a lump of slush.
Because of the abrupt pulling of the series, American Idol aired for 90 minutes that night, with a repeat showing of the "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" episode of The Simpsons following at 9:30 PM.
Panzerballett plays both original compositions by guitarist Zehrfeld and his creative arrangements of popular songs from rock ("Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple), to pop ("Ein Bisschen Frieden" by Nicole), to jazz ("Birdland" by Weather Report) to soundtrack (as the title theme The Simpsons).
Peter Shin is an animator who served as supervising director of Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, the director of Big Bug Man, the director of Family Guy episodes "Death Has a Shadow", "Emission Impossible", "North by North Quahog", and "It's a Trap!", and was a character layout artist The Simpsons for several episodes between 1990 and 1995.
The four musicians soon began to perform together under the name Pinmonkey, which they derived from "And Maggie Makes Three", an episode of the U.S. cartoon The Simpsons.
For example, Homer Groening, the father of Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), spoke Plautdietsch as a child in Saskatchewan in the 1920s, but his son Matt never learned the language.
In The Simpsons episode "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", Abraham Simpson asks Homer whether pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is what's wrong with Marge.
Raymond S. Persi is a director for episodes of The Simpsons.
As a film and television actor, her credits include appearances in the television series Puppets Who Kill, 1-800-MISSING, At the Hotel, Bigfoot Presents: Meteor and the Mighty Monster Trucks, History Bites, Regenesis, The Line, InSecurity and Saving Hope, and the films Blur, Jack and Jill vs. the World and The Lady of Names.
Common themes for showbags include confectionery brands, trademarked toys such as Barbie, The Simpsons, G.I. Joe and Batman, broad areas of children's play interest such as "cowboy" or "pirate", and sporting teams.
Starship Regulars was an animated Macromedia Flash cartoon series created by Simpsons producer Rob LaZebnik for Icebox in 1999.
Steve Pepoon is a television writer who has written for The Simpsons (his only writing credit for the series was the season two episode Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment), ALF, and Get a Life.
The American Monomyth posits a level of cultural belief in American society that helps to explain the desire in American government to "save" the world.
The third segment of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror XI, called Night of the Dolphin, is a comical homage to this film.
In The Simpsons episode "Duffless", Bart dreams of a "Go-Go Ray" with the ability to force teachers and administrators to perform various fad dances, including the Mashed Potato, the Jerk, and the Freddie.
The Kustomonsters is an animated web series and TV show created by, Craig Clark, an art rock, darkwave musician (Chorus of Souls on Fluxus Records), animator (Forrest Gump and The Simpsons).
The Simpsons Road Rage is based on the animated television series The Simpsons.
In the Simpsons episode "Mom and Pop Art" Homer dreams of waking up in the artwork with the lion licking his head.
Former editor Ned Goldreyer has produced and written a number of television shows, including an episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa the Simpson".
"The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene" was first broadcast on December 9, 2012, as part of Fox's Animation Domination programming block, and was preceded by the premiere of the The Simpsons episode "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" and was followed by the premiere of the Family Guy episode "Friends Without Benefits."
The structure and style of the The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" (first aired April 14, 1996), is inspired by this film.
His brother Bill Oakley was executive producer and writer on several series of The Simpsons.