* 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.

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

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

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

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 episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

During the third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so David M. Stern decided to write a Marge episode, which became " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ).

* In The Simpsons episode " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ," Homer dresses up like a Teletubby to entertain Maggie, remarking "... and I'm all man, in case you heard otherwise " in reference to claims by Jerry Falwell.

Pitt is referred to in the Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", where Barney and guest star Wade Boggs get into a bar fight debating the greatest British prime minister of all time.

In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer asks Ned Flanders the question " Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that He Himself could not eat it?

* In The Simpsons episode " Father Knows Worst ", when Homer falls asleep while building a balsa wood model of Westminster Abbey, he has a vision of the ghost of Anne of Cleves played by Pamela Hayden.

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:

* Since the episode aired in 1992, the Simpsons episode, Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, ends likely at this year, stating 40 years later, with Bart in his 50s and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, watches the repeat of the repeat of the Itchy and Scratchy film, with his elderly father Homer.

* In The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror IV ", Homer is seen chasing Bart in a painting parodying the famous M. C.

Later in the episode, Howard is injured when trying to jump from a truck to the RV that Homer was driving.

Another episode (" Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ") Homer and Howard are fighting each other while appearing on The Springfield Squares.

In 1992, he guest-starred in an episode of the legal drama L. A. Law, as a Homer Simpson meetable character at a California amusement park who is dismissed for inappropriate behavior while in costume.

However, the episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of this backstory, portraying Homer and Marge as a childless couple in the early 1990s.

In the season seven ( 1995 ) episode " Treehouse of Horror VI ", Homer was computer animated into a three dimensional character for the first time for the " Homer < sup > 3 </ sup >" segment of the episode.

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

In " Blood Feud ", a season two episode of The Simpsons, Lisa Simpson tries to teach Maggie Simpson what a Zebu is using flashcards.

Stevenson has been referenced in television episodes of The Simpsons ( in the episodes " Lisa the Iconoclast " and " The Secret War of Lisa Simpson "), The Golden Girls, Happy Days ( in the January 28, 1975, episode " The Not Making of the President ") and Mystery Science Theater 3000s presentation of Manos: The Hands of Fate ( a Stevenson lookalike buys a car and one of the MST3K characters comments on it ).

In that episode, Grampa Simpson inherits $ 106, 000 from his girlfriend when she dies.

For example, in the episode " Saddlesore Galactica ", he wears a T-shirt saying " Worst Episode Ever " and criticizes the idea of the Simpson family keeping a horse since that was the subject of a previous episode.

Perhaps the best example of this is the episode " Mother Simpson ", where it is implied that he leads the FBI astray in their search for Mona Simpson, allowing her to escape in gratitude for curing his asthma.

In the episode " Duffless ", we see Wiggum misuse police terminology, phoning Marge Simpson to inform her Homer had been found DOA, only to correct himself and say he was DWI.

" In the episode " Million Dollar Maybe ", Wiggum sees Homer Simpson going 110 miles per hour, and when Lou attempts to pursue him, Wiggum stops him, stating, " Let him go, Lou.

Another good example is the episode " Pranksta Rap ", where Wiggum is charged with finding a supposedly missing Bart Simpson.

As seen in a flashback to the 1960s in the episode " Mother Simpson ", Brockman was known as Kenny Brockelstein early in his career.

Simpson also provided the incidental music for all of the episodes except for the Series One episode " Duel " and the Series Two episode " Gambit ".

In more recent times, it was replicated by Robert Downey Jr. in his lead role as Charles Chaplin in the 1992 Chaplin, Johnny Depp's character in the 1993 film Benny and Joon, Grampa Simpson in the 1994 episode of The Simpsons entitled " Lady Bouvier's Lover " and by Amy Adams ' character in The Muppets.

* 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.

Although seemingly happy at first, Katrina grows more and more suspicious of her boyfriend throughout the episode, only to discover his robot-girlfriend, April.

Born in the third season ( episode 1117 ) and named for the day of the week when he was born, Prince Tuesday is one of only two characters to age during the course of the series ( he starts as a baby, then a toddler ; from 1979 onward, he is elementary school age ( grows during week 1461-1465 ).

In late season seven, in episode seventeen " Scry Hard ", Paige grows tired of being cooped up in Magic School and desires a reprieve from her duties as headmistress.

In the episode, Bart breaks his leg and grows increasingly isolated in his room.

Recognising this, Brent quickly grows to despise Neil, and spends most of series two trying to one-up him at every point, most memorably with a dance routine in episode five, which he describes with typical false modesty and inaccuracy, saying " I've sort of fused Flashdance and MC Hammer shit ".

On the Walken episode, Michaels decides to quit Saturday Night Live because of this sketch ( and returns when he grows bored of the Peace Corps ).

In time, Terry grows into the cowl, and Bruce grows to accept him as his heir to the Batman legacy, demonstrating a great deal of faith in him despite his criminal past ; in the episode " Eyewitness ," when Terry was framed for murder, Bruce trusted Terry's claims of innocence even after Barbara Gordon told Bruce that she had seen Terry kill a man.

However, as the Justice League Unlimited episode " Epilogue " reveals, Terry ultimately grows into full acceptance of his role as Batman, and somewhere along the line discloses his secret to Dana.

For example, in the episode " 1001 Tricks ", Shazzan grows the Jester to his size, and the Jester casts a spell that sends a meteor to crash down on Shazzan.

In the seventh annual " Treehouse of Horror " episode, Bart discovers his long-lost twin, Lisa grows a colony of small beings and Kang and Kodos impersonate Bill Clinton and Bob Dole in order to win the 1996 Presidential election.

He grows to enormous size in one episode of the comic.

In one episode, Wally grows a moustache, thinking Julie will be enchanted with his debonair look, and then the poor boy is humiliated when she laughs at it.

At the end of the episode, host Rod Serling holds up an 8-by-10 black-and-white photograph of a handsome young man, noting that the photo shows Old Ben's true appearance and that when Jenny grows up, she will become his queen.