* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

* In a segment of The Simpsons episode " Margical History Tour ", Salieri is represented by Lisa Simpson, to Bart's Mozart.

* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

Another example is an episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer at the Bat " which takes its title from the poem.

* " Homer's Enemy ", an episode of The Simpsons

He also voiced himself on a 2005 episode of The Simpsons, narrating an informational video about restraining orders.

* The Simpsons ( On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister, season 16, episode 11 ) ( 2005 ) ( as himself )

* A fictional name for Jesus originally used by Homer Simpson in the Simpsons episode " Missionary: Impossible "

He has provided the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy Award for his work in the episode " The Italian Bob ", his fifth Emmy win.

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The Lindy Hop was performed by Homer Simpson while dressed up as a panda in The Simpsons episode " Homer vs.

Albert also appeared as a special guest on The Simpsons ' Season 20 episode The Burns and the Bees in 2008.

It is also revealed on a Simpsons DVD commentary that he was to appear in the episode " Bart Star " but, due to the scandal, was replaced by Roy Firestone.

In 1995 he guest starred in The Simpsons in the episode " Lisa's Wedding " as Hugh Parkfield, Lisa's future English groom.

* In the Simpsons episode Bart the Murderer, Bart Simpson makes Manhattans for Springfield's mobsters.

This is often the subject of parody, for example in the Simpsons episode " Radioactive Man " where the onomatopoeic words are replaced with snuh !, newt!

As a testament to his national visibility during this time, Smith appeared in a 1992 episode of The Simpsons titled " Homer at the Bat ".

( This scene was later parodied in The Simpsons episode " Marge Gets a Job ".

In a 2005 episode of The Simpsons, Mr. Burns brags that he once outraced Nurmi in his antique motorcar.

Perhaps best known was his appearance in the season three episode of The Simpsons (" Homer at the Bat ") where he is hypnotized into thinking he is a chicken ( he did his own clucking ).

The series has also been parodied on The Simpsons and notably in the Futurama episode " Where No Fan Has Gone Before ", which was described by Wired magazine as a " touchstone " for fans.

*" MoneyBART ", the third episode of The Simpsons ' 22nd season, in which Lisa utilizes sabermetrics to coach Bart's Little League Baseball team.

Super Bowl XXVI was featured in the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lisa the Greek ", which aired three days prior to the game and correctly predicted that Washington would win.

After the game, Fox aired The Simpsons episode " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday ", followed by the pilot episode of Family Guy, " Death Has a Shadow ".

The Simpsons pay a pop culture reference to this film, as King Wrong ( Homer Simpson ) battles Bridezilla ( Marge Simpson ).

Marjorie " Marge " Simpson ( née Bouvier ) is a fictional main character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family.

" Marge also plays a role in The Simpsons Ride, launched in 2008 at Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood.

The cover and a three-page picture spread, as well as a story inside entitled The Devil in Marge Simpson, is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, but is also part of a plan to appeal to younger readers.

* The Simpsons, TV series, Season 4 Episode 7 (" Marge Gets a Job ") ( 1992 )

The Simpsons episode " Catch ' Em If You Can ", aired 25 April 2004, alluded to the snob appeal of The Economist in an exchange between Homer and Marge Simpson while they are travelling first-class aboard an airplane:

As pointed out on The Simpsons Archive episode capsule for Sweets and Sour Marge, " When the people-ball is rolling toward Hans Moleman and Agnes Skinner, you can see another Moleman in the ball if you watch in slo-mo ( upper left corner of the screen, I believe ).

Lionel Hutz is an inept ambulance chaser and, according to Lisa Simpson, a " shyster " whom the Simpsons nonetheless repeatedly hire as their lawyer ( a fact remarked on by Marge Simpson in a typically self-aware aside ).

* The Simpsons episode " Marge vs. the Monorail " showed the poorly built monorail system starting to decay by showing the decal that says " Springfield Monorail " come undone, revealing that the original decal reads " 1964 World's Fair Model ".

Additionally, in one scene of The Simpsons Movie, when the family moves to Alaska, Marge knits a doormat that reads " Nome Sweet Nome ", revealing their exact location.

In the 1999 episode of The Simpsons, " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who, is on first.

:* Similarly, on The Simpsons, in the 1999 episode " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who is on first.

Noted for her role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, she also voices other characters for the show, including Jacqueline Bouvier, and Patty and Selma Bouvier.

For her work as Marge, Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992 and an Annie Award nomination for her performance as the character in The Simpsons Movie.

Kavner became most famous for her role as Marge Simpson on the animated television show The Simpsons, a show that continues to the present.

* Mrs. Van Houten mentions Mechanicsburg in The Simpsons episode " Marge Be Not Proud "

Homer's bedroom rant to Marge in The Simpsons episode " Secrets of a Successful Marriage " is a parody mishmash of four popular films: ... And Justice for All, A Few Good Men, Patton and Chinatown.

" Then He Kissed Me " was the opening song to which Elisabeth Shue danced around her bedroom in Adventures in Babysitting ( 1987 ); it was the song in which Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco enter the Copacabana on their first real date in the movie Goodfellas ( 1990 ); and it was featured during the episode ' Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play ' on The Simpsons ( 2006 ).

" Sunshine, Lollipops, and Rainbows " was also used in the Simpsons episode Marge on the Lam, for the Butlins Company TV advertisements in 2008 and for the Target Australia homewares TV advertisement in 2010.

The series is referenced in episodes of The Simpsons, primarily detailing Marge Simpson's sisters Patty and Selma's obsession with the show and their crush on the MacGyver character.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, note: " It's very strange to see Homer pawning the TV set in an attempt to save the family ; if this episode had come later Marge would surely have taken this stance.

* The Simpsons also satirized the training sequence in " The Springfield Connection " with Marge having trouble climbing over the wall just as Casey Seegar did.

Batavia was referenced in The Simpsons Season 8 episode The Twisted World of Marge Simpson, when the first order to Marge's pretzel business after securing the protection of the local mafia comes from the Meat Packers Union Hall in Batavia.

*" The Stimpsons "-A parody of The Simpsons ( lampooning the fact that the BBC had recently lost the British broadcasting rights to the show to Channel 4 ) in which Homer is really Captain Pugwash, Marge Simpson is Mr Benn in disguise, Bart Simpson is actually Charley the Cat and the sofa is Bagpuss under a blanket.