Oscar was one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer for not being able to pay a pledge in a Simpsons season 11 episode, " Missionary: Impossible ".

Roswell left The Simpsons in spring 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs The Simpsons.

* In The Simpsons episode " 22 Short Films About Springfield " ( 1996 ), bus driver Otto Mann takes a photograph of Lisa Simpson with various foodstuff stuck in her hair, claiming, " Fangoria will pay me twenty-five bucks for this shot!

The music that was used in the commercial was from " Casta Diva " from Vincenzo Bellini's Norma because the Simpsons crew would not have to pay for it.

As the Simpsons search through Rio de Janeiro, Homer is kidnapped and in order to free him the family must pay a ransom of 50, 000 dollars, which they do not have.

* The Wild Thornberrys: One of the movies at the Googleplex is called The Wild Dingleberries, with Lisa pointing out that animated movies based on animated TV shows is just a way for naive viewers to pay for something they can see for free in their own homes ( ironic, considering that The Simpsons would be turned into a feature-length movie four years after this episode aired ).

The Simpsons hold a funeral for Mona and pay their respects, but then the coffin suddenly slides away and into a forest and a grief-ridden Homer vents his frustration by kicking down Frank " Grimey " Grimes ' tombstone.

After the Simpsons win a trip to Delaware, Homer refuses to pay a $ 5 airport tax for his flight.

According to Mike Scully, the Simpsons staff had to pay the song's record company $ 100 000 for the rights to use the tune in the episode.

Because the design is slightly different from the real-life mascot, the Simpsons staff did not have to pay Hasbro for using their character in the episode.

Lisa protests that the Simpsons cannot accept the tobacco executives ' money, but Homer misinterprets this statement, and rejects the offer as insulting, demanding $ 150 billion for tomacco, which they refuse to pay.

This kill-off was the result of Roswell leaving The Simpsons in spring 1999 after a pay dispute with the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs the show.

When Maggie Roswell left the animated series The Simpsons in spring 1999 after a pay dispute with Fox Broadcasting Company, Gaven was hired to fill in for Roswell's characters.

After the show, Alex Trebek and two men approach the Simpsons family demanding that they pay the $ 5, 200 that Marge was in the red, and the family runs away.

Shows like MAD TV, The Simpsons and Saturday Night Live parody Cosby, using Jell-O references like " pudding pop ".

Recognizing the character for his appearance in The Simpsons Movie, Filmcritic called him " the most awesomely funny town drunk in pop culture ".

The logo has become part of American pop culture and has been parodied on The Simpsons, Family Guy, and 30 Rock.

The line from the Lindy Chamberlain character, " The dingo took my baby ", sometimes incorrectly rendered as " A dingo ate my baby ", became part of pop culture after the release of the movie, appearing on such shows as Seinfeld, The Simpsons and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Budke described the segment as " one of the most refined Simpsons pop references ever " and knows " people that consider this the point that they realized The Simpsons could be both highly hilarious and highly intelligent.

The incident was transmuted from tragedy to morbid comedy material for American shows such as Seinfeld and The Simpsons and " became deeply embedded in American pop culture " serving as " a punchline of The Atlantic probably remember hearing before knew exactly what a dingo was.

The Simpsons bestowed upon something a pop culture status it never had before, simply by being ripe for a joke.

The same year, the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, unveiled a new exhibit which galleried Biblical images in art and pop culture, including a promotional poster for " Simpsons Bible Stories.

The fictional character Bart Simpson from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons further popularized the phrase in modern pop culture.

" Do the Bartman " is a pop rap song from the 1990 Simpsons album The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

This episode has been parodied several times in pop culture: The Simpsons in the " Treehouse of Horror VII " segment, ' The Genesis Tub ', South Park in the episode " The Simpsons Already Did It ", and Futurama in the episode " Godfellas ".

Although the majority of WADs contain one or several custom levels mostly in the style of the original game, others implement new monsters and other resources, and heavily alter the gameplay ; several popular movies, television series, other video games and other brands from popular culture have been turned into Doom WADs by fans ( without authorization ), including Aliens, Star Wars, The X-Files, The Simpsons, South Park, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Red Faction, The Thing, Pokémon and Batman.

Since their introduction, Koopa Troopas have become the iconic enemy of the Mario franchise, often referenced in popular culture relating to the series: in 2007's The Simpsons Game, a Koopa Troopa appears as the apparent bride of the eccentric geek Professor Frink after Bart and Lisa rescue him from Donkey Kong in a parody of the popular arcade game.

Mount Holyoke also featured in " I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can ", an episode of The Simpsons: " The Seven Sisters were immortalized in popular culture in a 2003 episode of The Simpsons.

The Simpsons caused a sensation, entering popular culture and gaining wide acclaim for its satirical handling of American culture, families, society as a whole, and the human condition.

As a popular superstition, the five-second rule pops up frequently in popular culture, including appearances in the live-action / animated film Osmosis Jones, Grey's Anatomy, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Arthur, Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures, Lucky Star and The Simpsons.

After the attack on the French, this is a vicious, unkind, offensive and wonderfully amusing slaughter of Australian culture by the makers of The Simpsons ".

Television columnist Ray Richmond wrote that the episode was a cultural milestone for The Simpsons and that the " issue gay marriage was mainstream to some degree, but now that staff has deigned it worthy of the show it is interwoven into the popular culture.

Hard Copy became such a staple of popular culture it was parodied on The Simpsons in the episode " Homer Badman " as Rock Bottom, a show which clearly misrepresents facts in order to create scandal.

The American sitcom All in the Family has provided much influence for the comedy in The Simpsons, as John Alberti writes in his book Leaving Springfield: the Simpsons and the possibility of oppositional culture.

He wrote " The Simpsons has always been great about addressing / mocking the way that out culture treats the elderly.

The Simpsons arrive in Japan and, although Lisa wants to explore Japanese culture, Homer prompts the family to eat at an American-themed restaurant named Americatown.

of Homer is a non-fiction book analyzing the philosophy and popular culture effects of the American animated sitcom, The Simpsons, published by Open Court.

Writers from the fields of religion, philosophy, popular culture, and psychology cited the episode in books discussing The Simpsons and the show's approach to the nature of the soul.

* 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.

Krabappel's name was chosen by early Simpsons writers Wallace Wolodarsky and Jay Kogen as a play on the fruit " crabapple " and as a reference to the teacher Miss Crabtree from the 1930s The Little Rascals TV series.

Several songs, films and other television programs, including The Simpsons, reference or parody characters and events from the show, including the memorable "... can turn the world on with her smile " line from the title song.

In 2009 an episode of the cartoon The Simpsons, " In the Name of the Grandfather ", featured the family's trip to Dublin and Lisa's reference to Bloomsday.

The animated series The Simpsons makes reference to delusional parasitosis in the motto of the Springfield Psychiatric Center: " Because There May Not Be Bugs On You ".

( e. g. " Weird Al " Yankovic appearing on The Simpsons, when he himself sings songs that reference The Simpsons ).

* 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 Simpsons makes a reference to the show in an episode in which Homer complains about his family on a program called " Taxicab Conversations.

The last scene where Herb presents the Simpsons family with gifts for their trust in him is a reference to the film Wizard of Oz, in which the Wizard presents Dorothy, the Lion, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Man with gifts.

Younger audiences, unfamiliar with the original subject being referenced in a contemporary film or TV series, do not recognize the reference and assume that, for instance a Twilight Zone plot reference in The Simpsons has been thought up by the creators of The Simpsons instead of the other way around.

According to The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean, Gould wrote a letter to the producers of the show thanking them for the reference.

" Worker and Parasite ", a reference to Eastern Europe an animation, is one of Matt Groening's favorite moments from The Simpsons.

" 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.

For The Simpsons reference, see Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy.

Many people behind The Simpsons were huge fans of The Godfather and Jim Reardon looked for a way to shoot him in the eye as a reference to Rocco's character, Moe Greene.

In the karaoke room, a gentleman introduces himself as Richie Sakai, a reference to a writer on The Simpsons with the same name.

The show's admitted liberal slant has been joked about in episodes such as " The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular ", in which a reference is made to " hundreds of radical right-wing messages inserted into every show by creator Matt Groening.

Soon after, in reference to the controversies and terrorist threats surrounding depictions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad in the South Park episodes " 200 " and " 201 ", the chalkboard gag on that week's Simpsons episode, " The Squirt and the Whale ", read " South Park – We'd stand beside you if we weren't so scared ".

The couch gag with the huge pink foot squashing the Simpsons is a reference to The Foot of Cupid of the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

The episode contains the first reference to the Internet on The Simpsons, as " Computer Signals " being sent between the Nerds and MIT.