"), " The Simpsons " ( Episode: " Co-Dependent's Day "), as well as the parody Star Wars episodes of Robot Chicken, in which Best reprised the role in voice-over form.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Take My Wife, Sleaze ", a parody of Rebel Without a Cause became an inspiration for Homer Simpson to form his motorcycle gang, even though he watched it with his vintage 1955 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he won at a ' 50s nostalgia cafe earlier in this episode.

The song Lisa sings in this episode later reappeared in expanded form on The Simpsons Sing the Blues CD.

( He also appears in animated form in the Simpsons episode " The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show " wearing the squid shirt.

Kurt M. Koenigsberger said in his book Leaving Springfield that The Simpsons, while " not strictly a literary form ", " is certainly the literate of all situation comedies.

Kennerley further wrote that " based on this episode, [...] The Simpsons is in top form.

The segment ends with a contently mutated Homer in the form of a walrus, and the rest of the Simpsons and Springfield mutants lounging aside the resort ’ s pool, intending to spend the rest of their days on Dr. Hibbert ’ s resort.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, praised the episode for containing " a memorable guest character in the French waiter Monsieur Lacosse, two great slapstick sequences involving the same, and displays Principal Skinner — pursuing Bart across the mountains like ' a non-giving-up school guy ', and confessing that in some ways he's " a small man ; a petty, small man " — in particularly fine form.

In The Simpsons 2F03, Treehouse of Horror V, Moe is subjected to a full frontal lobotomy after undergoing ' Re-neducation ' leaving him drooling and somewhat incapacitated.

Moe Szyslak () is a fictional character in the American animated television series, The Simpsons.

The creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening based Moe on Louis " Red " Deutsch who was made famous when he was repeatedly prank called by two Jersey City residents.

* The Moe Szyslak File at The Simpsons Archive

on Sesame Street playing a reworked version of " Shiny Happy People " called " Furry Happy Monsters ", and appeared in an episode of The Simpsons titled " Homer the Moe ", where R. E. M.

* Moe Szyslak, character on the animated television show The Simpsons

In Eeny Teeny Maya Moe, the sixteenth episode of the The Simpsons ' twentieth season, Moe removes a banner in his bar advertising dwarf tossing, to avoid offending a dwarf woman he is dating.

In " Homer's Enemy ", an 8th-season episode of The Simpsons, Moe Szyslak shows off his own enemies list, which Barney Gumble quickly appraises as Nixon's list, with the latter's name crossed out and replaced with Moe's.

* On The Simpsons episode " Moe ' N ' a Lisa ", the Rhode Island state trooper rides a Big Wheel ( lampooning the small size of the state ).

In The Simpsons Season 15 episode " Co-Dependent's Day ," after Moe unthinkingly gives away a rare 1886 bottle of Chateau Latour, he proceeds to dry his tears with another priceless collector's item, an original manuscript of The Two Noble Kinsmen.

* Moe ' N ' a Lisa – episode of The Simpsons based on Middlebury's Bread Loaf Writers ' Conference.

Animator Matt Groening had obtained a copy and incorporated the phone high jinks into a running gag on The Simpsons with barkeeper Moe Szyslak, who is based on Deutsch.

* In The Simpsons episode " The Ziff Who Came to Dinner ", Moe Szyslak refers to Artie Ziff by saying, " He's like a spy in the house of Moe.

Collins ' success led to work on many other animated programs, including Inhumanoids, where he voiced D ' Compose and Tendril, and The Simpsons, where he originated the voice of Mr. Burns in the first season episode " Homer's Odyssey ", and recorded lines ( but was dubbed over ) as Moe the bartender for " Some Enchanted Evening ".

Matt Groening has described him as the inspiration for Moe Szyslak from The Simpsons.

* In the Simpsons episode Moe Goes from Rags to Riches, Lisa is Scheherazade and Nelson Muntz is King Shahryar, and Lisa tells him the story.

* In The Simpsons episode Flaming Moe's, Homer invented a similar drink called a Flaming Homer which Moe steals from him for his bar.

Other nominations in that category included the Simpsons episodes " Moe Baby Blues " and " My Mother the Carjacker ", both from 2003, and episodes of Futurama, King of the Hill, and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius.

Moe Szyslak, a character on The Simpsons.

Many people behind The Simpsons were huge fans of The Godfather and Jim Reardon looked for a way to shoot him in the eye as a reference to Rocco's character, Moe Greene.

* Moe's Tavern, operated by Moe Szyslak in The Simpsons

On September 14, 2004, the episode was released in the United States on a DVD collection titled The Simpsons Gone Wild, along with the season one episode " Homer's Night Out ", the season ten episode " Sunday, Cruddy Sunday ", and the season thirteen episode " Homer the Moe ".

In March 2009 Meaney guest-starred as an Irish bartender on the St. Patrick's Day episode of The Simpsons, " In the Name of the Grandfather ".

The levels are familiar to fans of The Simpsons and some of the television humor appears in the game: for example, in the first level Bart can make a prank call to the bartender Moe in order for him to run outside so that the player can spray paint his purple apron ( an example of an item that the aliens need ) into a red color that the aliens do not want.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

In the animated series The Simpsons, the parents of character Ned Flanders are beatniks who have him placed in a mental institution as a child after they have trouble disciplining his bad behavior ( Complains his mother: " We've tried nothin ', and we're all out of ideas!

Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, wanted to have a character that was " really cranky " and old, and who complained a lot and invented stories to tell to children, so he created Grampa.

He was named after television writer John Frink, who was later hired on The Simpsons.

Waylon J Smithers, Jr., usually referred to by simply his surname, is a recurring fictional character in the long-running animated series The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.

When declaring him the second-scariest character on television ( behind only Mr. Burns of The Simpsons ) in 2005, MSNBC's Brian Bellmont described Cartman as a " bundle of pure, unadulterated evil all wrapped up in a fat — er, big-boned — cartoony package " who " takes a feral delight in his evildoing ".

On April 25, 1993, Lorne Michaels chose Conan O ' Brien, who was a writer for The Simpsons at the time and a former writer for Michaels at Saturday Night Live, to fill Letterman's old seat directly after The Tonight Show.

The comic book version of The Simpsons, Simpsons Comics, also published a story called ' The Last Fat Man ', based partially on ' Time Enough at Last ' and actually has a short scene where Homer Simpson shoos a bespectacled man who is reading a book out of a nuclear bunker so he can eat in it, unintentionally taking shelter in it.

A part of the plot and Escalante is parodied ( a Latino-American teacher named Julio Estudiante who worked with inner city students to choose math over inner-city gang violence ) in the Simpsons episode " Special Edna ".

Born in the United States, Hayden provides various voices of The Simpsons including Bart's unlucky best friend Milhouse Van Houten, teenage thug Jimbo Jones ( with Nancy Cartwright as Kearney and Tress MacNeille as Dolph ), Ned Flanders ' first-born son Rod Flanders ( Nancy Cartwright voices Todd Flanders ), Chief Wiggum's wife and Ralph Wiggum's mother Sarah, Lois Pennycandy ( Krusty the Clown's personal assistant who is infatuated with him, despite his bitter, cruel treatment of everyone who works for him.

In 2010, Laurie guest starred in The Simpsons " Treehouse of Horror XXI " as Roger, a castaway who is planning a murder scheme on a ship during Homer and Marge's second honeymoon.

In the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Insane Clown Poppy " Christopher Walken ( played by Jay Mohr ) reads " Goodnight Moon " to a group of children, who recoil from his scary visage and tone despite his reassurances and exhortations for them to come closer.

After Sideshow Bob's stooges pull up to the Simpsons ' house, toss Bart Simpson ( who had been investigating Bob ) out of their car, and deliver a warning to " Stay away from Sideshow Bob!

Ned Flanders, who was designed by Rich Moore, first appeared in the season one episode " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

She also made an appearance on The Simpsons as movie star Sara Sloane, who falls in love with Ned Flanders.

The idea for it was suggested by The Simpsons producer James L. Brooks, who wanted to do an episode where Lisa was sad but she did not know why.

* In The Simpsons episode, Kill Gil, Volumes I & II, houseguest Gil Gunderson prepares breakfast for Bart and Lisa and asks, " Hey, who wants some eggs a la Harold Stassen?

" Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, stated: " Despite being a Lisa show, it is poor Ralph Wiggum who steals the show with three great irrelevant replies, especially those concerning his cat's breath.

In an episode of The Simpsons —" I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can "— Lisa Simpson is tempted by the Siren-like representatives of the Seven Sisters ( and George Plimpton ), who offer a scholarship to the Sister school of her choice ( and a George Plimpton hot plate ) if she will throw a

Examples of other media which take part in metafictiveness are Al Capp's Fearless Fosdick in Li ' l Abner, the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen, or the Itchy and Scratchy Show within The Simpsons, as well as the computer game Myst in which the player represents a person who has found a book named Myst and been transported inside it.

Examples of town bullies include Biff Tannen from the Back to the Future series of movies, the real life case of Ken Rex McElroy who conducted a 20-year campaign terrorizing three counties in northwest Missouri, and Nelson Muntz as the main bully in The Simpsons television series, with Jimbo Jones, Dolph and Kearney Zzyzwicz as his cronies.

* Eleanor Abernathy, the Crazy Cat Lady who tosses living cats at everyone in The Simpsons