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Futurama was created by Matt Groening, and developed jointly with David X. Cohen. Though, Groening had previously created The Simpsons, the most popular and long running animated sitcom ever. Thus, it is only natural that Futurama would include references to The Simpsons occasionally within the show (not to mention, owning the copyright means not having to license material). The Simpsons, too, has referenced Futurama many times. Following is a complete list of connections between Futurama and The Simpsons.

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Crew

There have been a number of people who work on both The Simpsons and Futurama:

Voices

• Dan Castellaneta, who plays Homer Simpson (among others) on the Simpsons, played the Robot Devil on Futurama
• Nancy Cartwright was credited for a soundbyte of Bart Simpson's line "Eat my shorts!" which was said by a doll on the garbage meteor in A Big Piece of Garbage
• Stephen Hawking has appeared on both shows, playing himself.
• Frank Welker, who plays Nibbler and many other animals on Futurama, has also played many animals on the Simpsons, including Santa's Little Helper.
• Tress MacNeille who voices characters such as Hattie McDoogal and Ndnd also plays Agnes Skinner and Jimbo Jones on the Simpsons.
• Hank Azaria who voices characters such as Chief Wiggum and Moe Szyslak also voiced the character of Harold Zoid.

The Simpsons in Futurama

The Simpsons has appeared in Futurama on many occasions:

Season 1

"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)

• Blinky, the Three-Eyed Fish, from The Simpsons makes a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way Fry travels through.

"The Series Has Landed" (1ACV02)

"I, Roommate" (1ACV03)

"Love's Labours Lost in Space" (1ACV04)

"Fear of a Bot Planet" (1ACV05)

"A Fishful of Dollars" (1ACV06)

"My Three Suns" (1ACV07)

"A Big Piece of Garbage" (1ACV08)

• Bart Simpson dolls appear on the garbage meteor.

"Hell Is Other Robots" (1ACV09)

"A Flight to Remember" (1ACV10)

"Mars University" (1ACV11)

• Bart and Homer dolls are prizes near Coney Island Community College.

"When Aliens Attack" (1ACV12)

"Fry and the Slurm Factory" (1ACV13)

Season 2

"I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01)

"Brannigan, Begin Again" (2ACV02)

"A Head in the Polls" (2ACV03)

"Xmas Story" (2ACV04)

"Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?" (2ACV05)

"The Lesser of Two Evils" (2ACV06)

"Put Your Head on My Shoulder" (2ACV07)

"Raging Bender" (2ACV08)

"A Bicyclops Built for Two" (2ACV09)

"A Clone of My Own" (2ACV10)

"How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back" (2ACV11)

"The Deep South" (2ACV12)

"Bender Gets Made" (2ACV13)

"Mother's Day" (2ACV14)

"The Problem with Popplers" (2ACV15)

"Anthology of Interest I" (2ACV16)

"War Is the H-Word" (2ACV17)

"The Honking" (2ACV18)

"The Cryonic Woman" (2ACV19)

Season 3

"Amazon Women in the Mood" (3ACV01)

"Parasites Lost" (3ACV02)

"A Tale of Two Santas" (3ACV03)

"The Luck of the Fryrish" (3ACV04)

"The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz" (3ACV05)

"Bendless Love" (3ACV06)

"The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" (3ACV07)

"That's Lobstertainment!" (3ACV08)

"The Cyber House Rules" (3ACV09)

"Where the Buggalo Roam" (3ACV10)

"Insane in the Mainframe" (3ACV11)

"The Route of All Evil" (3ACV12)

"Bendin' in the Wind" (3ACV13)

"Time Keeps on Slippin'" (3ACV14)

"I Dated a Robot" (3ACV15)

"A Leela of Her Own" (3ACV16)

"A Pharaoh to Remember" (3ACV17)

"Anthology of Interest II" (3ACV18)

"Roswell that Ends Well" (3ACV19)

"Godfellas" (3ACV20)

"Future Stock" (3ACV21)

"The 30% Iron Chef" (3ACV22)

Season 4

"Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" (4ACV01)

"Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)

• Among the parts of parade balloons, used in creating the hot air balloon that returns to the surface, is a Bart Simpson balloon.

"Love and Rocket" (4ACV03)

"Less than Hero" (4ACV04)

"A Taste of Freedom" (4ACV05)

"Bender Should Not Be Allowed on Television" (4ACV06)

"Jurassic Bark" (4ACV07)

"Crimes of the Hot" (4ACV08)

"Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" (4ACV09)

"The Why of Fry" (4ACV10)

"Where No Fan Has Gone Before" (4ACV11)

"The Sting" (4ACV12)

"Bend Her" (4ACV13)

"Obsoletely Fabulous" (4ACV14)

"The Farnsworth Parabox" (4ACV15)

"Three Hundred Big Boys" (4ACV16)

"Spanish Fry" (4ACV17)

"The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" (4ACV18)

Films

Bender's Big Score

The Beast with a Billion Backs

Bender's Game

Into the Wild Green Yonder

• Disco Stu is seen in the crowd.

Video Game

Futurama (video game)

Comics

"Who's Dying to Be a Gazillionaire?" (US#005)

• On the cover, Milhouse Van Houten is seen and Fry, Bender, Leela and Amy are on the couch, seen in the couch gags

Futurama Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis

"Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!" (US#X01)

"Liquid Diamond Is Forever!" (US#X02)

The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis II

"Slaves of New New York!" (US#X03)

"The Read Menace!" (US#X04)

Futurama in The Simpsons

Futurama has appeared in The Simpsons on several occasions:

Season 5

Rosebud (1F01)

• In Burns's dream about the future, he appears as a head in a jar (with robotic body). This episode premiered 5 years and a half before Futurama started.

Bart Gets Famous (1F11)

• There is a head in a jar in a dream about the future from Bart.

Season 6

Itchy & Scratchy Land (2F01)

• The robotic arms behind Professor Frink are very similar to the arms of Bender in form (even with three fingers) and colours.

Season 8

Treehouse of Horror VII (4F02)

• The city is built around the tooth Lisa keeps a resemblance to the city of New New York, especially the Tube Transport System.
• Some of the ships leaving the miniature city is also suspiciously similar to the Planet Express ship.

Homer's Phobia (4F11)

• A Robot Santa Claus (similar to Futurama's) appears in this episode.

Season 10

Mayored to the Mob (AABF05)

• Üter Zörker is seen wearing a Futurama T-Shirt at the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con. "Space Pilot 3000" was first broadcast just over three months later.

Season 11

Treehouse of Horror X (BABF01)

• In the opening credits, David "Watch Futurama" Cohen appears as executive producer.

Missionary: Impossible (BABF11)

• Bender is seen working for PBS.

Season 12

HOMR (BABF22)

• The couch gag shows the family enter through tubes with Bart replaced by Fry, only for Fry to be sucked up and replaced by Bart.

Trilogy of Error (CABF14)

• Lingua bears a slight resemblance to Bender. For example in the shape of the head and antenna. Moreover, Homer gets Lingua to drink beer which again may be a reference to Bender.

Season 14

Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade (DABF20)

• Bart starts to hallucinate due to lack of sleep and sees Bender among other TV show characters.

Helter Shelter (DABF21)

• A model of the Planet Express Ship is on Comic Book Guy's shelf.

Season 15

I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot (FABF04)

• Bender's name appears on a videotape fighting Killhammad Aieee.

My Big Fat Geek Wedding (FABF12)

• Matt Groening appears in this episode as the creator of Futurama, signing Bender dolls at Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con Springfield. He also has an original sketch of Fry.

Catch 'Em If You Can (FABF14)

• There is a Futurama poster on one wall of the store videos.

Fraudcast News (FABF18)

• The Squeaky-Voiced Teen attempts suicide and, while jumping off a cliff, screams "Why did they cancel Futurama?"

Season 16

Bender making a cameo on the Simpsons

Future-Drama (GABF12)

• Bender appears in the hover-car Homer and Bart after crossing a "quantum tunnel".
• There are references to heads preserved in jars and cities similar to the Futurama.
• The title, "Future-Drama", is an obvious reference to the title of Futurama itself.

Season 19

That 90's Show (KABF04)

• Homer mentions that Matt Groening was working hard to release Futurama, during the 1990s.

Video Games

The Simpsons Wrestling

• At the scene of the spaceship of Kang and Kodos, Leela and Bender are among the public.

The Simpsons Game

• Bender and Dr. Zoidberg are characters at the end of Level 15 - "In Search Of an Author."
• Fry appears in a painting from Matt Groening.

Comics

Simpsons Comics

• In #11, there is an album that looks a lot like Kif.
• In #46, the dialogue between Dolph and Nelson is clearly allusive to Futurama. Nelson says "I just wanted to draw robots and an alien girl from one eye as I saw on TV the other night".
• In #50, there is a cameo appearance by Fry at the wall.
• In #84, on the cover the hair of Leela and Fry can be seen.
• In #85, there is a cameo appearance by Bender on the cover of the "Corporate Annual Reports" of Bongo.
• In #95, Homer (nearly) exclaims "Bite my shiny metal ass", Bender's phrase.
• In #99, there is a cameo appearance by Bender.
• In #100, there is a cameo appearance by Bender and "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!'s" cover appears in a pile of comic books.
• In #128, Bender appears on one of the TV channels.
• In #145, there is a comic book entitled "Anthology of Interest" with a a Bender-like robot on the cover.

Bart Simpson

• In #14, Space Boy in Outer Space and "Fry Me to the Moon" appear on the front cover on the back cover of the comic that Homer is reading.
• In #25, someone wants to sell Bart a Futurama comic in bad condition.
• In #31, there is a cameo appearance by Bender at the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con.

Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror

• In #5, there is a head inside a jar and Mr Burns is holding a head similar to that of Bender.
• In #7, Fry is seen in the crowd of people on the last panel.

Radioactive Man

• In #7, the Sea Monkeys are similar to those seen in "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!".
• Dr Crab is similar to Zoidberg.

Simpsons Super Spectacular

• In #6, the Planet Express crew appear at the end of this comic.

Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo

• Kang and Kodos are in the office of Matt Groening, surrounded by all kinds of articles from The Simpsons, along with a poster of Bender and the Planet Express ship hanging from the ceiling.

The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger

• There is a toy of Robot Santa Claus when Comic Book Guy is daydreaming of being Santa.

Simpsons Winter Wing Ding

• There is a toy of Robot Santa Claus in this comic.

Free Comic Book Day

• Both promotional images can be seen with a Futurama comic. These are "The Owner of Mars Attacks!" and "The Time Bender Trilogy: Part 3".

Other

The Simpsons Library of Wisdom

• In "Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture", "Bite my shiny metal ass" appears in his personal greatest quotes of all time and a "Bender blender" appears in his best apartment ever.

Gallery

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  Burns in the future

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  Head in a jar?

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  Bender's Arms!

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  Tooth city similar to New New York

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  Ships that look like the Planet Express Ship

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  Robot Santa Claus in "Homers Phobia"

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  Üter with a Futurama shirt

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  David "Watch Futurama" Cohen

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  Bender in "Missionary Impossible"

See also

• In popular culture for connections to Futurama other than The Simpsons.
  • Star Wars for connections to Futurama and Star Wars.
  • Star Trek for connections to Futurama and Star Trek.