* 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.

** In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " One Small Step ", USS Voyager discovers the fate of Ares IV, one of the first manned expeditions to Mars in 2032.

In the episode, B ' Elanna has a near-death experience and travels to Grethor, the Klingon Hell, where she meets her mother, Miral, and discovers that because of the dishonor B ' Elanna has caused her family, her mother would spend eternity in Grethor.

As Willow gives a book report in front of her high school class, she discovers herself wearing the same mousy outfit she wore in the first episode of the show (" Welcome to the Hellmouth ") as her friends and classmates shout derisively at her, and Oz and Tara whisper intimately to each other in the audience.

Later, his mother Julianna appears in the episode " Inheritance " and reunites with Data, though the crew discovers she was an android built by Soong after the real Julianna's death, programmed to die after a long life.

* In the Invader Zim episode " Battle Of The Planets " ( 2001 ) Zim discovers that the Martian race became extinct after transforming the planet Mars into a giant space ship.

* In the FlashForward episode, " The Garden of Forking Paths ", Mark Benford discovers on Dyson Frost's chalkboard that December 12, 2016 was ambiguously labeled, " The Start "".

In that episode, " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire " ( season one, 1989 ), Homer discovers that he has no money to buy Christmas presents for the family.

A two-part episode ran in the final season in which Raul discovers Chico's belongings in a closet.

In the sixth episode of the fifth revived series of Doctor Who, " Vampires in Venice ", Rory discovers he is Amy's eunuch, according to the Doctor's psychic paper.

At the end of the episode, Gildersleeve discovers the couple had left in a hurry that morning when they received Gildy's letter saying he would be stopping over in Wistful Vista.

The nineteenth episode in the third season of The X Files contains a scene where a security officer discovers a man being burned alive in a crematory.

In the South Park episode " Fun with Veal ", after giving up meat temporarily, Stan Marsh discovers his body is covered in sores.

* In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " Relics ", the Enterprise discovers an abandoned Dyson sphere.

After first appearing in the episode " Inca Mummy Girl ", Oz discovers he is a werewolf in the episode " Phases " and becomes a recurring character throughout the second season.

In the final episode, Thomas discovers a fact about his ancestry that makes him even more insufferable.

The first episode was broadcast on 12 July 2012 ( in which Satan attempts to show Edith that the ancient Greeks and the original Games were not as altruistic as she originally thought and Thomas ' participation in the Infernal Games ends up a crushing and painful disaster ) and the second on 19 July 2012 ( in which Satan is blackmailed by Edith into taking her to the London Olympics to see her competing grand-niece and discovers that the grand-niece isn't quite as Edith described her and Thomas tries to get himself certified insane to escape further eternal punishment

In the episode " Blasts from the Past ", Superman discovers the Phantom Zone projector, which also has a communication function that allows him to converse with the inmates.

* In Stargate Atlantis third season episode " The Ark ", Colonel Sheppard's team discovers a facility inside a hollowed-out moon that turns out to be an ark created by the people of the planet around which the moon is in orbit.

The Star Trek: Voyager episode " The 37's " confirms this ( without mentioning what the " other factor " actually is ), and shows the device to work among intra-species languages as well ; after the Voyager crew discovers and revives eight Humans abducted in 1937 ( including Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan ) and held in stasis since then, a Japanese Army officer expresses surprise that an Ohio farmer is apparently speaking Japanese, while the farmer is equally surprised to hear the soldier speaking English ( the audience hears them all speaking English only, however ).

This episode formed a cliffhanger and set off widespread speculation that the series was coming to an end, but the premiere of the second half of the season resolved the arc as Stan was erroneously diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome and discovers Jameson Irish Whiskey cures cynicism.

In the second episode, K discovers that he is an octopus-like alien who had been raised as a human, and he takes charge of the invasion of the planet, which is focused on ravishing Japanese women, since hentai transmissions have given the aliens the idea that that's what women are really like.

Edith goes through menopause in the second season (" Edith's Problem "), discovers a lump in her breast just before Christmas in the fourth season (" Edith's Christmas Story "), is nearly raped on her 50th birthday in the eighth season (" Edith's 50th Birthday "), and develops phlebitis in the show's final episode in season nine (" Too Good Edith ").

However, several pre-marital incidents do occur — including a season ten episode where Eric discovers that his parents had to marry because his mother became pregnant with him.