He has provided the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, winning an Emmy Award for his work in the episode " The Italian Bob ", his fifth Emmy win.

" He also has been known to arrest people impulsively, disregarding their involvement of a determined situation or crime, evident in " Brother from Another Series " where he arrested Sideshow Bob by the incidents of the episode, despite Bart and Lisa ( the main witnesses ) confirming his innocence, and in " The Frying Game " where he gleefully condemns Homer and Marge to death for murder without using a lie detector or making a DNA examination.

Sideshow Bob first appeared in the background of a scene in " The Telltale Head ", the eighth episode of season one.

Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, the showrunners for the seventh and eighth seasons, believed that every season of the show should contain an episode starring Sideshow Bob.

After writer Ken Keeler was assigned to write an episode featuring Sideshow Bob, he drew inspiration from episodes of Frasier.

" The Italian Bob " was ranked tenth, with the explanation that " All the things we love about a Sideshow Bob episode – the vengeance, the familiar settings and characters, the elaborate scheming – were missing from this half-hour.

* In television, The Simpsons episode with " Sideshow Bob " satirizes a Republican party gathering where the participants greet each other with an Enochian call, as identified by the writers and producers on the DVD commentary.

* Gino Terwilliger, Sideshow Bob's son seen in the season 17 episode, " The Italian Bob ".

* In The Simpsons episode " Sideshow Bob Roberts " ( Episode 2F02 ), several Archie Comics characters, including Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Moose Mason and Jughead Jones, make a brief cameo appearance.

* In The Simpsons episode " Cape Feare ", the Simpson family joins the Witness Protection Program after Sideshow Bob threatens to kill Bart Simpson.

In a deliberate in-joke, he voiced Cecil, the brother of Kelsey Grammer-voiced Sideshow Bob, in The Simpsons episode " Brother from Another Series ", in which the two characters parallel the Frasier-Niles relationship.

" The episode " Sideshow " reveals a sequence where Killer Croc nearly does hit Batman with a huge rock, but was drugged and couldn't throw it far enough to smash him.

This is the first episode of the series in which Sideshow Bob, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, Krusty the Clown, Jimbo Jones, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Dolphin " Dolph " Starbeam, Ms. Albright, and Apu Nahasapeemapetilon appear.

* An episode of The Simpsons, The Bob Next Door, features Sideshow Bob using face transplants to exchange his face with a cellmate as part of an elaborate prison escape plan so he can murder Bart.

This is often seen in slapstick comedy and cartoons, such as Tom and Jerry and The Simpsons episode " Cape Feare ", where in a series of rakes become what Sideshow Bob describes as his " arch-nemesis ".

In 1990, he directed the episode " Krusty Gets Busted " ( which marked the first speaking role of Sideshow Bob ) and co-directed the Season Three episode " Like Father, Like Clown.

* In The Simpsons episode " Sideshow Bob Roberts " ( originally aired October 9, 1994 ), Springfield's leading conservative talk radio host, Birch Barlow ( a parody of leading American conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh ) welcomes listeners to his show by introducing himself as the " fourth branch of government " and the " 51st state.

* When Lisa shuts down the power for the last time in the episode, Sideshow Mel says: ' I say we'll tear her limb from limb '; as a reference to the Bob Dylan song ' Bob Dylan's 115th Dream ' from the album Bringing It All Back Home.

In the The Simpsons episode " All About Lisa " Sideshow Mel takes Lisa Simpson aside when she becomes Krusty the Clown's assistant.

Kelsey Grammer voiced Sideshow Bob in the episode.

The episode followed the same basic plot outline as the films and used elements from the original film's score by Bernard Herrmann ( which was also used in the 1991 version ), which, after this episode, became Sideshow Bob's theme.

This episode marked the first time a Sideshow Bob episode was not a mystery.

* " Animals ", an episode of Men Behaving Badly

* " Animals ", an episode of Off the Air

* " Animals ", an episode of The Vicar of Dibley

In the 1972 episode of Gunsmoke titled " Hidalgo ", Arau portrayed the bandit " Mando " who shoots and wounds marshal " Matt Dillon ".

* " Abduction ", episode of Death Note, a Japanese animation television series

* " Abducted ", episode of Invader Zim, an animated television series

* " The Abducted ", a 2010 episode of Fringe

* In the episode " Goodnight Mr. Bean ", Mr. Bean and Teddy are reading an Asterix comic book.

* In a segment of The Simpsons episode " Margical History Tour ", Salieri is represented by Lisa Simpson, to Bart's Mozart.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

* In episode 4, season 1 of " Family Guy ", " Mind Over Murder ", Lois Griffin is rocking a sleeping and teething Stewie Griffin while her piano student plays a lullaby.

In the episode " Drones ", Beavis mentions something taking place " after Daria killed herself " and Butt-head incredulously tells him that Daria did not die but merely moved to a different city.

* 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.

The final episode of this series, " Goodbyeee ", is known for being extraordinarily poignant for a comedy – especially the final scene, which sees the main characters ( Blackadder, Baldrick, George, and Darling ) finally going " over the top " and charging off into the fog and smoke of no man's land to presumably die.

Set in the year 1582, the script of the pilot is roughly the same as the episode " Born to be King ", albeit with some different jokes, with some lines appearing in other episodes of the series.

In The Next Generation episode " Conundrum ", Worf mistakenly believes that the baldric indicates his rank or authority, so he briefly assumes command of the Enterprise.

According to this episode, Dr. Sam Beckett ( Scott Bakula ) influences Buddy Holly to change the lyrics from " piggy, suey " to " Peggy Sue ", thus setting up Holly's future hit song.

In 1977, Bixby appeared with Donna Mills, Richard Jaeckel, and William Shatner in the last episode, entitled " The Scarlet Ribbon ", of NBC's western series The Oregon Trail, starring Rod Taylor and Andrew Stevens.

That year, Love appeared in an episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes with Robbie Nevil in a segment titled " C ' est la Vie ", in which she is dressed in vintage clothes and discussed " bag ladies ".