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Futurama was created by Matt Groening, and developed jointly with David X. Cohen. Though, Groening had previously created , the most popular and long running animated sitcom ever. Thus, it is only natural that Futurama would include references to The Simpsons occasionally within the show (not to mention, owning the copyright means not having to license material). The Simpsons, too, has referenced Futurama many times. Following is a complete list of connections between Futurama and The Simpsons.

Crew
There have been a number of people who work on both The Simpsons and Futurama:

Voices

 * Dan Castellaneta, who plays Homer Simpson (among others) on the Simpsons, played the Robot Devil on Futurama
 * Nancy Cartwright was credited for a soundbyte of Bart Simpson's line "Eat my shorts!" which was said by a doll on the garbage meteor in A Big Piece of Garbage
 * Stephen Hawking has appeared on both shows, playing himself.
 * Frank Welker, who plays Nibbler and many other animals on Futurama, has also played many animals on the Simpsons, including Santa's Little Helper.
 * Tress MacNeille who voices characters such as Hattie McDoogal and Ndnd also plays Agnes Skinner and Jimbo Jones on the Simpsons.
 * Hank Azaria who voices characters such as Chief Wiggum and Moe Szyslak also voiced the character of Harold Zoid.

Other

 * Brian Sheesley: He was an animation timer for three episodes of The Simpsons in . He has directed nine episodes of Futurama.
 * David X. Cohen: He did music/lyrics for, was writer for 35 episodes, story editor for 25 episodes, co-producer for 27 episodes, supervising producer for 15 episodes, co-executive producer for 10 episodes, producer for 9 episodes, consulting producer for 2 episodes and executive producer for 2 episodes of The Simpsons. He developed and was executive producer for all episodes of Futurama, voiced The Die of Power in Bender's Game, Fan #2 for the reading of "Futurama Returns" and the Computer in "Love's Labours Lost in Space", did music/lyrics for "Xmas Story" and "The Problem with Popplers", voice director for "Futurama (video game)" and designed one of the robots in the robot strip club.

The Simpsons in Futurama
The Simpsons has appeared in Futurama on many occasions:

Season 1
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 * , the Three-Eyed Fish, from The Simpsons makes a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way Fry travels through.
 * Rodney Dangerfield is drawn similar to his appearance in the Simpsons episode as Larry Burns.
 * There is a -like character when Fry rides the tube.
 * The chef on the Panucci's Pizza box is very similar to the chef in The Simpsons.
 * In The Simpsons two part episode, dreamt that  was in a race on the TV. The intro to the race was an information text saying "In Color". The same font and color like in "Space Pilot 3000". "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" aired approximately four years before "Space Pilot 3000" did.
 * The music in the background, while the suicide booth is trying to kill Fry, sounds Simpsons-like in nature.
 * In an early storyboard of this episode, Fry is watching The Simpsons on TV. This does not appear in the final episode.
 * The Ralph Wiggum-like character, first seen in "Space Pilot 3000", makes a reappearance; he can be seen in the background of Madison Cube Garden.
 * The badge at second from the bottom of Bender's sash is a picture of Homer Simpson.
 * Bart Simpson dolls appear on the garbage meteor.
 * When Bender eats the doll's shorts, he says "Mmm...shorts". This is a reference to one of Homer Simpson's quotes.
 * Bart and Homer dolls are prizes near Coney Island Community College.
 * The cartoon clip on the billboard in the opening credits is Bart, Lisa and Maggie in (on ) episode "Making Faces".

Season 2
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Season 3
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 * Fry's "Battle droid" attack is like one used in The Simpsons. David X Cohen and his sister used this when they were kids.

Season 4
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 * Among the parts of parade balloons, used in creating the hot air balloon that returns to the surface, is a balloon.
 * This episode is similar to The Simpsons episode, which David X Cohen co-wrote.

Films
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 * Disco Stu is seen in the crowd.

Comics
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 * On the cover, is seen and Fry, Bender, Leela and Amy are on the couch, seen in the
 * The title may be a reference to.
 * Maude Flanders is seen outside the Carton Network building. Comic Book Guy also has a cameo near the end.

Futurama Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis
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The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis II
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Other

 * Early versions of the characters in Futurama had five fingers to diferentiate from The Simpsons, but it looked weird and was changed. Poster Guy still retains the extra finger.
 * Matt Groening mocked The Simpsons commentaries in the commentary for "Love and Rocket" and says that Futurama commentaries are a lot more lively.
 * Both The Simpsons and Futurama have been nominated several times (up to 2004) for :
 * Neither "A Big Piece of Garbage" or won in.
 * Futurama wasn't nominated, while won in
 * "Amazon Women in the Mood" lost against in.
 * "Roswell That Ends Well" won against in.
 * "Jurassic Bark" lost against in.
 * Neither "The Sting" or in.
 * Fry's middle initial is J. This seems to be a popular choice for Matt Groening characters, having used it for Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson and Grampa on The Simpsons. Matt uses the "J." middle name, referring to one of his favourite shows,.
 * Nine looks faintly similar to Homer.
 * Zapp Brannigan looks and sounds like . was the voice of Troy McClure, and was also scheduled to be the voice of Zapp Brannigan until his untimely death. He was instead voiced by Billy West.

Futurama in The Simpsons
Futurama has appeared in The Simpsons on several occasions:

Futurama had not yet premiered yet.

Futurama had been premiered by this time.