" In addition, The Knoxville News-Sentinels Terry Morrow commented that " to hear Lewis doing Azaria doing Lewis is a mind-bending gut buster, the kind of pay-off that die-hard Simpsons fans live for.

The Simpsons must therefore send the dog away to live with officer Lou.

* In the 19th episode of The Simpsons ´ ninth season, titled " Simpson Tide " originally aired on the Fox network on March 29, 1998, a reference to " The Clapper " is made where Homer tells his wife Marge that " We live in a highly technological age where fighting a war is as simple as turning off a light!

The show ran for a total of fourteen television seasons, and for nearly four decades, held the record as the longest running American television sitcom, live or animated, until the record was broken by The Simpsons in 2004.

The Simpsons watch him and feel sorry for him and more for themselves, seeing how ignorant the government really is and considering they have to go back and live with all the airplane noise.

The house thinks it over, and eventually opts to destroy itself rather than live with the Simpsons.

However, the Emmy voters were hesitant to pit cartoons against live action programs, and The Simpsons did not receive a nomination.

In 2000, the cast of The Simpsons performed a live reading of the episode script at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

" Such was the network's limited input that, when an executive suggested the staff introduce a new character to live with the Simpsons so as to " liven up the show ", the staff rejected the idea and instead created the episode " The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show ", inserting the one-time character Roy, with no explanation as to who he was, or why he was living with the family, as a reference to the executive's proposal.

The fish was mentioned in an National Review article discussing a legislation which would make it illegal to import, possess or release alive into California any live transgenic fish: " Sounds like someone watched one too many episodes of The Simpsons with Blinky, the three-eyed fish that swims by the nuclear-power plant.

The two were separated at birth, but it was discovered that Hugo was too evil to live in society, so the Simpsons did the " only humane thing to do ": Hugo was chained in the attic, where Homer fed him a platter of fish-heads once a week.

The Simpsons are a family who live in at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield in the United States.

He chose to live with the Simpsons because Marge was the only woman he ever loved ( despite that he almost raped her on their prom night as seen in " The Way We Was ").

At Moe's Tavern, Barney and Carl inform the Simpsons about a reality show, where a family is put in a Victorian house in which they must live as if it was the year 1895.

* In The Simpsons episode " Marge Be Not Proud ", Bart Simpson is caught stealing and is lectured by Homer, who concludes with the lines: " We live in a society of laws.

" Congrats, Simpsons, you just pissed off those who choose to live sober, by pandering to stupid college kids and idiot high schoolers who may be your only remaining fans ", Boss wrote.

" In his book The book is dead: long live the book, Sherman Young wrote that most people know Hawking from his appearance on The Simpsons, rather than from anything he has written.

Back at the Simpsons home, everyone is glad to live a normal life again — with the exception of Homer, who is upset that he does not live the lifestyle of rich people.

Thus, where David Grote of The End of Comedy: The Sit-Com and the Comedic Tradition ( 1983: 67 ) notes that sitcom episodes ' live in a kind of time-warp without any reference to the other episodes ,' producing a situation whereby everything ' remains inviolate and undisturbed, no matter what transitory events may occur ' ( 1983: 59 ), The Simpsons comically reflects upon this.

After tricking his wife Marge into believing that the model for the Burly paper towel corporation Chad Sexington would have dinner with the Simpsons, Homer takes the family to the Pimento Grove to watch live performers as compensation.

In the July 26, 2007 issue of Nature, the scientific journal's editorial staff listed an education film seen in the episode among " The Top Ten science moments in The Simpsons ", writing: "' Thank goodness I still live in a world of telephones, car batteries, handguns and many things made of zinc ,' says Jimmy, a character in an educational film.

Bart's mortal enemy Sideshow Bob is sent to live with the Simpsons so he can help find Homer's attempted killer, who turns out to be Frank Grimes, Jr., the son of a man that Homer drove to insanity ( in the episode " Homer's Enemy ").

In 1994, Matt Groening pitched a live action spin-off from The Simpsons that centered on Krusty and would star Dan Castellaneta.

The divorce action would fail if the citizen's intervention showed that the Simpsons had colluded by, for example, conniving in or staging the appearance of his adultery so that she could marry someone else.

* World of Springfield, a series of action figures based on the TV series The Simpsons

Some fans of oldcoot. com suggested that Bowman sue The Simpsons, though Bowman ultimately decided not to pursue legal action, as it wasn't the " character of the company ".

The magazine wrote that " the twisted humor of other Simpsons games isn't there and the action segments could be from any game.

The line, which originally began with action figures based upon Todd McFarlane's Spawn comic series, has since grown to feature a large number of licenced property lines including The Simpsons and " Movie Maniacs " ( which features numerous famous horror icons such as Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, The Terminator, Leatherface, and The Thing ), as well as other characters and lines like Basketball and Baseball legends, video game characters ( from Soulcalibur, Onimusha and Metal Gear Solid ), and Where the Wild Things Are characters.

On June 23, 2006, McFarlane announced the first line of actual Simpsons action figures, rather than statuettes or boxed sets, which would be released in 2007.

" An action figure based on Hawking's appearance in The Simpsons has been produced, with the figurine's computer screen reading " If you're looking for trouble, you've found it ," a line from " They Saved Lisa's Brain ".

The scene was included as a reference to the 1998 action science fiction film Godzilla, in which three of the main The Simpsons cast members ( Azaria, Cartwright and Shearer ) had a live-action role.

" However, another contributor to the book said it " falls flat, mostly because it relies too much on its license Simpsons and not enough on solid platform action.

" Similarly, a 1994 review in Game Players said " the designers of this action game took a standard story, plastered the Simpsons faces on boring characters, then threw in some of the show's running jokes.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote that the episode is " notable for Mr Burns ' impersonation of Marge, some spectacular action sequences, and some good underwater scenes-but is not especially brilliant ".

" Adam Finley of TV Squad listed " Raging Abe " as one of the most touching episodes of The Simpsons, noting that it is " more " crazy action flick " than emotional, but I list it here because it shows Grandpa Simpson as someone other than a crazy old coot.

Daspit and Weaver write that it is " the absolute power that teachers have over students ' every action that allows for the image to be presented on The Simpsons.

TV Globinho is a Rede Globo program that used to air on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 6: 00 AM, featuring cartoons, such as Dragon Ball Z and GT, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Digimon, Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh !, SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly OddParents, The Penguins of Madagascar, The Simpsons, Totally Spies, Dungeons and Dragons ( TV series ), and live action shows, such as Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight, Wizards of Waverly Place, Power Rangers ( now on Band ), Kenan & Kel, Drake & Josh, iCarly and others.

An action figure set based on " Colonel Homer " was released in March 2002, and two of Lurleen's songs from the episode appeared on the Simpsons compilation album Songs in the Key of Springfield.

The set, featuring Homer in his white suit and Lurleen with her guitar, is part of the World of Springfield series of The Simpsons action figures created by Playmate Toys.

Nelson Shin could confidently take offense at Banksy's intro in 2010 because The Simpsons is not now, nor has it ever been, made in North Korean conditions.

The suspenseful bandage removal sequence has been parodied on three Fox TV animated sitcoms: The Simpsons (" Pygmoelian " and " Gone Maggie Gone "), Family Guy (" He's Too Sexy for His Fat ", " Meet the Quagmires "), and Futurama (" The Cyber House Rules ").

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

It was notably spoofed during the Medieval Times sequence in the Jim Carrey movie The Cable Guy, in The Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer, and on Futurama as the national anthem of Dr. Zoidberg's home panet, Decapod 10.

* The Simpsons – Bart writes something different on the blackboard and there is a different " couch gag " at the end of the title sequence in each episode.

On December 5, 2010, " The Fight Before Christmas ", the eighth episode of The Simpsons twenty-second season, featured an Inglourious Basterds sequence during a World War II flashback.

At the end of the opening sequence, she always finds something different under her desk ( similar to The Simpsons ' couch gag ), such as a mood ring or maracas ( also the letter Q in the episode " Vanessa Less Tessa ", a glowing green stick in the episode " Hazelnut's Finest ", a singing Dieter doll in the episode " Presenting Stewart Waldinger ", Mardi Gras beads, and her Ann's remote control in the episode " Radio Freak Hazelnut ".

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For instance, in The Simpsons episode " Please Homer, Don't Hammer ' Em ", the song plays in a sequence parodying Star Wars, during an allergen-stick battle between Bart Simpson and Seymour Skinner.

In the two-part Simpsons episode, " Who Shot Mr. Burns ?," Chief Clancy Wiggum has trouble solving the case and falls into a dream sequence in which he awakes in the Red Room and Lisa speaks backwards.

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" Simpsons creator Matt Groening has gone to say on record ( according to the season five DVD set audio commentaries ) that the torture sequence in " Pigs is Pigs " is his favorite scene in all of animation and his inspiration for the sequence in this episode of The Simpsons.

The opening sequence of the season nineteen premiere of The Simpsons calls back to the events in the movie.

" The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, commented that apart from " the memorable lawn mowing sequence at the end, this episode is notable for our first viewing of the gaudy, gadget-filled, God-fearing splendour that is the Flanderses ' home.

" The sequence where tiny spaceships attack Bart in " The Genesis Tub " marks one of the first uses of computers in The Simpsons animation.

Writing for the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky noted that " Bart the Daredevil "' s sequence in which Homer falls down the gorge is the one that " everyone remembers ", noting that " he's getting much stupider by this point.

This is the first " Treehouse of Horror " special to be called " Treehouse of Horror " instead of " Simpsons ' Halloween Special " in the opening or title sequence.

Marge Simpson appeared as Skyfire in one opening sequence to the Simpsons alongside the rest of the Simpson family rendered as Autobots.

This sequence involving Bill Cosby's over-exaggerated mannerisms from this and other episodes on The Simpsons ( as well as the Family Guy episode " Brian Does Hollywood ") became an internet meme when many parodies on these particular segments became internet memes in their own right, especially on YouTube and YTMND.

This sequence was added to " liven up the visuals ", because the writers thought the episode tended too heavily towards extreme realism and because most of the scenes in the episode were taking place in and around the Simpsons ' house.

Meyer also pitched the sequence involving the " ship of lost souls ," which received mixed reactions from The Simpsons staff members.