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47 unusual facts about The Simpsons


Archer John Porter Martin

Martin was mentioned in the animated television series The Simpsons in the episode titled "Flaming Moe's" (Season 3, Episode 10).

Barbara Niedernhuber

In The Simpsons episode "The Bart of War", Milhouse mentions he feels "like luge silver medalist Barbara Niedernhuber" while riding Flanders' video cart.

Bruce Karatz

Working with Fox Broadcasting, which was celebrating the tenth anniversary of The Simpsons, KB Home constructed a real-life replica of the Simpsons' home in one of KB Home's Nevada subdivisions, which helped turn Las Vegas into KB Home's top market.

C.C. Lemon

The Simpsons have appeared in numerous commercials for C.C. Lemon.

Cardston, Alberta

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.

Carry On Breathing

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.

Chevolution

Commercialization of the image has expanded to pictures, swimming suits, beer, wallets, socks, shirts, cigarettes, even in cartoons such as South Park and The Simpsons.

Drew McCreadie

He is a member of Urban Improv improvisation troupe and Canadian Content sketch troupe, whose members have/do include The Simpsons comic book writer Ian Boothby, Comedy Inc. star Roman Danylo and Air Farce actress Penelope Corrin.

Frank Mills

"Music Box Dancer" has been heard on an episode of The Simpsons and in the Kill Bill movies.

Gazpacho

"Lisa the Vegetarian", an episode of The Simpsons in which Lisa offers gazpacho as an alternative to meat at the neighborhood barbecue.

Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific

The product's unusually long name was satirized on The Simpsons.

Grim Natwick Film Festival

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.

Hedge maze

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.

Hip flask

It also appears rarely in The Simpsons, when Homer drinks from it on occasion, and even allows Bart to take a drink during particularly intolerable occasions.

If You Had Wings

The ride was parodied in The Simpsons episode "Special Edna" in which monstrous robotic Eastern airliners were depicted enslaving the human race.

Into Thin Air

When making the related episode "King of the Hill" of The Simpsons, the show's producers called the movie producers about finding actors fluent in Nepalese.

Jagdish Bhagwati

Jagdish Bhagwati was the fictional winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in The Simpsons episode Elementary School Musical (The Simpsons).

Jim Reardon

The Simpsons (1990–2004) – director, supervising director, storyboard consultant

Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo

In another parallel to The Simpsons, Kochikames immense popularity has led to guest appearances in the strip by Japanese celebrities such as Tetsuya Komuro.

Matthew Faughnan

Matthew Faughnan is an animation director with The Simpsons and has directed five episodes.

Michael Marcantel

Michael Marcantel is an animation director on The Simpsons.

Mosi Tatupu

In The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror III" Mosi Tatupu's name is used during the "King Homer" segment.

National Association of Actors

In 2005, the ANDA had a conflict with Grabaciones y Doblajes Internacionales, which is in charge of the Spanish language-dubbing of the show The Simpsons.

Nina Matsumoto

Matsumoto first came to the attention of the comic industry through her widely distributed artwork Simpsonzu, a manga stylized parody artwork of The Simpsons cast.

Pacific Electric

In The Simpsons episode titled "Postcards from the Wedge" that aired March 14, 2010 on Fox, the film shown at the beginning of the episode is based on GM's promo films from the 1950s; in addition, the cars from the abandoned Springfield Subway are modeled after the PE cars.

Pedro Álvarez Castelló

Much of his work utilized a juxtaposition of pop culture references, such as clippings from The Simpsons comic books, against traditional Cuban images, such as 19th century peasants and troubadours.

Peter Shin

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.

Pinmonkey

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.

Reid Harrison

He was also a story editor for The Simpsons and wrote the season eight episode "The Springfield Files" and, most recently, the season nineteen episode "Papa Don't Leech".

Rex Morgan, M.D.

In The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled", Homer Simpson is reading the funny pages and comments, "Ah, Rex Morgan, M.D., you have the prescription for the daily blues."

Shaolin Kung Fu

In 2000's, Shaolin gets pop-culture recognition by appearing on The Simpsons (TV series), where they visit the Shaolin Temple in the episode Goo Goo Gai Pan, which first aired in 2006.

Six pack rings

In The Simpsons episode "The Old Man and the Lisa", Montgomery Burns attaches millions of "recycled" six-pack holders together into a net, which he uses to catch tons of sea life and make "Li'l Lisa Slurry".

SNPP

The Simpsons Archive, a Simpsons fansite frequently referred to as the abbreviation SNPP

Spanish euro coins

In Avilés, Asturias, a Spanish one-euro coin was discovered with the image of Homer Simpson, a cartoon character from the show The Simpsons, in place of King Juan Carlos I.

The Halloween That Almost Wasn't

In The Simpsons episode "Skinner's Sense of Snow", Seymour Skinner shows a film called The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, But Was.

The Magic Door

Trivia: Actor Dan Castellaneta (the voice of Homer and other characters on the The Simpsons television series) was a semi-regular performer on The Magic Door during the mid 1970s.

The Scottish Play

The cleansing rituals have been parodied numerous times in popular culture, including in Blackadder, Slings and Arrows, and The Simpsons.

The Simpsons Arcade Game

The Simpsons Arcade Game is an arcade beat 'em up developed by Konami released in 1991, and the first video game based on The Simpsons franchise.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Juggernauts

For example, there is one challenge in which Bart has to run an obstacle course in Apu's Kwik-E-Mart store.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World

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.

The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness

Developed by Distinctive Software, it is based on the Simpsons franchise and features many aspects from the series.

He travels around town, and eventually heads to an amusement park where he has to save Krusty the Clown from his archenemy Sideshow Bob.

The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man

Developed by Imagineering, the side-scrolling game features Bart Simpson on a comic book quest to rescue his kidnapped idol, superhero Radioactive Man.

The Sleeping Gypsy

In the Simpsons episode "Mom and Pop Art" Homer dreams of waking up in the artwork with the lion licking his head.

Vern Oakley

His brother Bill Oakley was executive producer and writer on several series of The Simpsons.

Wes Archer

The Simpsons (1990–1996) (director, sheet director, storyboard, storyboard artist)

Written Cantonese

Although most foreign movies and TV shows are subtitled in Standard Chinese, some, such as The Simpsons, are subtitled using written Cantonese.


A Letter to Three Wives

In 2010, The Simpsons made their own version of the story, in an episode called "Moe Letter Blues".

Alan Smart

Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is an animator and an animation director best known for his work for SpongeBob SquarePants and as an, assistant director and layout artist with The Simpsons (he also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's").

Bee bearding

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.

Billy Beer

The hit television show The Simpsons featured Homer drinking a can of Billy Beer in the 1997 episode "Lisa the Skeptic"; after Bart tells him that the skeleton he is trying to hide is probably old enough already, he counters Bart's remark by introducing his Billy Beer stating that people said the same thing about the beer.

Bob Kushell

He has written for network television comedies including The Simpsons, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Malcolm in the Middle, American Dad, Samantha Who?, Suburgatory and Anger Management.

Branchiocaris

This fossil appears on TV show 'The Simpsons', chapter: 'Lisa, the sceptic', behind the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (Wonderful Life's author).

Butch Patrick

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.

Christian Roman

Before Disney, he was a storyboard artist and storyboard supervisor on The Simpsons, during which time he wrote 'How to Storyboard The Simpsons Way'.

Dead letter office

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.

Dudley R. Herschbach

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.

Electric football

In The Simpsons episode "Bart Star", while coaching his son's peewee football team, Homer Simpson uses an electric football table, even instructing one player to "spin around in a circle".

Faraday constant

The Simpsons episode "Dark Knight Court" (RABF10) has Mr. Burns asking Comic Book Guy how much he wants for his entire comic book inventory.

Games World

The show became the highest rated British produced TV show on Sky One - beaten only by The Simpsons and WWF Wrestling.

If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'

In June 2003, Igor Smykov sued the Russian television channel REN TV on claims that Family Guy, along with The Simpsons, were "morally degenerate and promoted drugs, violence, and homosexuality."

Inverted Jenny

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.

Joey Kramer

He made a guest appearance in the 22nd season of The Simpsons, in the episode "The Ned-Liest Catch", as a former partner of Bart's teacher Mrs. Krabappel, as told in the 3rd season episode Flaming Moe's, which featured the whole of Aerosmith, the first band to guest star on the show.

KMCI-TV

Syndicated programming on this station includes The Simpsons, That '70s Show, The King of Queens, Family Guy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and How I Met Your Mother.

M.U.G.E.N

Often authors will port popular characters from 2D fighting engines such as the Street Fighter series, or from TV and book series such as The Simpsons and Sailor Moon.

Mr. Clean

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.

Nell Scovell

As a television writer, Scovell wrote the season two episode of The Simpsons, "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish".

No soap radio

Over the years the joke has become widely known and entered popular culture in other forms, including a shower radio labeled "No Soap-Radio!" on a The Simpsons episode ("Homer the Heretic"), a popular podcast named after the joke, and a band with the name appearing at the Crazy Horse on a The Sopranos episode ("Pie-O-My").

Plautdietsch language

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.

Prell

In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer takes pride in voting for Prell to return to its glass bottle.

Quagmire's Baby

The episode was the second most watched episode of the night, following the The Simpsons episode "The Devil Wears Nada", despite airing simultaneously with Sunday Night Football on NBC, Desperate Housewives on ABC and Three Rivers on CBS.

Raymond S. Persi

Raymond S. Persi is a director for episodes of The Simpsons.

Showbag

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.

Teddy Grahams

At times Teddy Grahams have enjoyed a place in the spotlight, being used as a prop on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, were referenced on The Simpsons, and were referred to in a Strong Bad email.

Television comedy

A few prime-time animated comedies, notably The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Family Guy, successfully mixed attributes of traditional cartoons and sitcoms.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

"Marge Gets a Job" - An episode of The Simpsons episode which includes this story as a plot element.

The Day of the Dolphin

The third segment of The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror XI, called Night of the Dolphin, is a comical homage to this film.

The Freddie

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

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

The Simpsons Road Rage is based on the animated television series The Simpsons.

The Stony Brook Press

Former editor Ned Goldreyer has produced and written a number of television shows, including an episode of The Simpsons called "Lisa the Simpson".

Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould

The structure and style of the The Simpsons episode "22 Short Films About Springfield" (first aired April 14, 1996), is inspired by this film.

Travis Powers

‘’’Travis Powers’’’ is a Sound Designer/Supervising sound effects editor and Composer who has worked on several animated television series, including The Simpsons, Futurama, Dilbert, The PJs, The Critic, The Tracey Ullman Show, Mission Hill and King of the Hill.

Wes Archer

He was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on The Simpsons', Tracey Ullman shorts, and subsequently directed a number of The Simpsons episodes (many of which had John Swartzwelder as an episode writer) before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill.

WTVW

Syndicated programming on WTVW includes Family Feud, The Simpsons, The Big Bang Theory, Steve Harvey and Judge Judy.