User:Scruffy/Scruffy's Mad-Awesome Working Page

Futurama was created by Matt Groening, and developed jointly with David X. Cohen. Though, Groening had previously created , 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.

(Image) : Indicates that it has a picture to the right.

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
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 
 * , the Three-Eyed Fish, from The Simpsons makes a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way Fry travels through.
 * Bart Simpson dolls appear on the garbage meteor.
 * Bart and Homer dolls are prizes near Coney Island Community College.

Season 2
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 

Season 3
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

Season 4
' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '
 * Among the parts of parade balloons, used in creating the hot air balloon that returns to the surface, is a balloon.

Films
' ' ' '
 * Disco Stu is seen in the crowd.

Comics

 * On the cover, is seen and Fry, Bender, Leela and Amy are on the couch, seen in the

Futurama Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis
' '

The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis II
' '

Futurama in The Simpsons
Futurama has appeared in The Simpsons on several occasions:

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


 * The robotic arms behind is very similar to the arms of Bender in form (even with three fingers) and colours.

' '
 * The city is built around the tooth Lisa keeps a suspicious 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.
 * A Robot Santa Claus (similar to Futurama's) appears in this episode.


 * 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.

' '
 * In the opening credits, David "Watch Futurama" Cohen appears as executive producer.
 * Bender is seen working for PBS.

' '
 * 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.
 * 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.

' '
 * Bart starts to hallucinate due to lack of sleep and sees Bender among other TV show characters.
 * A model of the Planet Express Ship is on 's shelf.

' ' ' '
 * Bender's name appears on a videotape fighting Killhammad Aieee.
 * 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.
 * There is a Futurama poster on one wall of the store videos.
 * The attempts suicide and, while jumping off a cliff, screams "Why did they cancel Futurama?"


 * 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.


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

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

' ' ' '  Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo The Simpsons Holiday Humdinger Simpsons Winter Wing Ding Free Comic Book Day
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * In #7, the Sea Monkeys are similar to those seen in "Monkey Sea, Monkey Doom!".
 * Dr Crab is similar to Zoidberg.
 * In #6, the Planet Express crew appear at the end of this comic.
 * 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.
 * There is a toy of Robot Santa Claus when Comic Book Guy is daydreaming of being Santa.
 * There is a toy of Robot Santa Claus in this comic.
 * 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

 * 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.