He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell ( 1977 – 2012 ) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons ( 1989 – present ) and Futurama ( 1999 – 2003, 2008 – present )

Ron Popeil's success in infomercials, memorable marketing personality, and ubiquity on American television have allowed him and his products to appear in a variety of popular media environments including cameo appearances on television shows such as the X-Files, Futurama King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Sex and the City and The Daily Show.

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.

The voice and humor of Queer Duck character Bi-Polar Bear – voiced by Ren & Stimpy and Futurama actor Billy West – is also done in the style of Paul Lynde, as was the supervillain The Scoutmaster in the Simpsons episode Radioactive Man.

Tress MacNeille ( born June 20, 1951 ) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, Disney's House of Mouse, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rugrats, All Grown Up !, Chip ' n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Dave the Barbarian.

" Her TV roles include characters on The Simpsons, where she voices Agnes Skinner, Brandine Spuckler and Lindsey Naegle, and Futurama, in which her main role is the character Mom.

The success of The Simpsons led Fox to develop other animated series aimed at adults, including King of the Hill ( created by Mike Judge ), Futurama ( also by Groening ), Family Guy ( created by Seth MacFarlane ), American Dad!

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 ").

Groening explains, " When they tried to give me notes on Futurama, I just said: ' No, we're going to do this just the way we did Simpsons.

Animated shows, such as The Simpsons, Futurama, King of the Hill, South Park, American Dad !, and Family Guy, and even daytime cartoons such as SpongeBob SquarePants and What's New, Scooby-Doo ?, have also gone silent, except on the very rare occasion that canned laughter is used comically for a single joke, usually as a parody of a sitcom.

After 20 years since The Simpsons animation departed to Film Roman, Klasky Csupo started to have its animation credit in the ending credits of a Dexter's Laboratory music video (" Dee Dee and Dexter " by They Might Be Giants ) and Futurama ( Rough Draft Korea first, then Film Roman third with the 4th season and on ).

However, some 12-rated shows can be shown before 21: 00, such as The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Doctor Who, and Futurama.

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 game has been referenced in episodes of the television series Family Guy, Futurama, and The Simpsons.

He is married to Lisa Groening, sister of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, after whom Lisa Simpson is named.

These include the likes of The Simpsons, South Park, Futurama and Family Guy.

Groening explains, " When they tried to give me notes on Futurama, I just said: ' No, we're going to do this just the way we did Simpsons.

Patrick Lee of Science Fiction Weekly commented, based on a viewing of " Space Pilot 3000 " alone, that Futurama was deemed not as funny as The Simpsons, particularly as " the satire is leavened with treacly sentimental bits about free will and loneliness ".

This was the first in a line of many TV shows that Lampoon graduates went on to write for, including The Simpsons, Futurama, Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Seinfeld, The League, NewsRadio, The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and dozens of others.

Some shows like this include The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Simple Life.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the channel screened a 17 day, multiple animated show marathon named " Battle of the Animations " involving Family Guy, American Dad, The Simpsons, Futurama and King of the Hill.

Still others intentionally make the relations between two or more fictional universes confusing, as with The Simpsons and Futurama, where each show is fiction in the other.

The Simpsons and Futurama had two crossover mini-series in which the Futurama characters become trapped in a Simpson comic book and then upon escaping cause characters from The Simpsons, as well as many other literary characters, to be brought into the Futurama universe, this being the only way, according to editor Bill Morrison, " in which fictional characters ( could ) interact with " real " ones.

* 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 ".

She has appeared in other media relating to The Simpsons — including video games, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons Ride, commercials, and comic books — and inspired an entire line of merchandise.

He has appeared in other media relating to The Simpsons – including video games, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons Ride, commercials and comic books – and inspired an entire line of merchandise.

She has appeared in other media relating to The Simpsons – including video games, The Simpsons Movie, The Simpsons Ride, commercials and comic books – and inspired a line of merchandise.

" Despite his solitary life, in The Simpsons Movie, minutes before his likely death, Comic Book Guy says that his obsessive comic book collecting has been a " life well spent ".

The Simpsons parody comic of Larry Norman

" was drawn and signed by Bill Morrison, the illustrator of the Simpsons comic books, to raise funds for Norman's medical fund.

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.

Examples include a parody of the story published in a 1970 Batman comic book, comedic references in television programmes such as The Simpsons ( 1990 ), being discussed in a 2006 episode of the Catalan soap opera El Cor de la Ciutat, and a 2009 Wired Italia magazine article which compared selected photographs of McCartney, taken before and after his alleged demise.

Arnold comic strips also appeared in Simpsons Illustrated magazine.

* In an issue of The Simpsons Bongo comic when the British invade Springfield it shows John Cleese doing the goosestep and labels him as " the Minister of Silly Walks ".

Ralph is also very popular to feature in various other media, and sees fairly frequent use in the Simpsons comic book by Bongo as a focus.

In a Simpsons comic, Dr. Hibbert refers to the golden hour, except he says it is in the middle of the night during a time when doctors can charge the patients extra.

The word was used twice to comic effect in the Simpsons episode " Trash of the Titans ", which caused no offence to American audiences, but prompted complaints on occasions when the episode was broadcast unedited in the United Kingdom.

On the Futurama episode " Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences ", the main characters attend the 3010 convention ( with it being referred to as " Comic-Con Intergalactic " and the iconic eye logo now sporting multiple eyes ), where Fry looks for approval for his own comic while Bender attends a panel from Matt Groening ( creator of Futurama as well as The Simpsons ) on his new show " Futurella " ( a twist on the title of the show and a parody of its cancellation by Fox ).

These items were often brought into the game by other Simpsons characters, and the Simpsons ' own pets could be used as thrown weapons at various points in the game.

The jury — made up of notorious figures like Benedict Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, Blackbeard, John Dillinger, the starting line-up of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, and former U. S. President Richard Nixon ( who, at the time of the episode's premiere, was still alive, although Ned points out that this was part of a deal Nixon made with him ) — rules in favor of the Simpsons and the Grim Reaper judge dismisses the case.

* In The Simpsons Game, several aliens will cry " Beam me up Scotty " at particular points in the levels of the game.

When the Simpsons take Duncan home from the fair, Comic Book Guy points out to the Simpsons that they have already taken in a horse as a pet ( as seen in " Lisa's Pony "), and that " the expense forced Homer to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, with hilarious consequences.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, said: " Although not a great episode, this one has a series of high points that keep you amused until the end.

The staff thought Dinosaurs was a knock-off of The Simpsons, so at one point Bart exclaims " It's like they saw our lives and put it right on screen ," and points at the television screen.