The Simpsons

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The Simpsons is one of the longest running TV series of all time. The characters were created by cartoonist Matt Groening, who based them on rabbit characters that appeared in his comic strip "Life In Hell", and the initial Simpsons shorts appeared on Fox's "The Tracey Ullman Show" before the characters were developed into the form you know them today.

Since its premiere in late 1989, over 440 episodes have been produced and broadcast by the Fox network, which also broadcasts Family Guy. A feature film was also released in 2007. There have been a number of Simpsons-related gags in episodes of Family Guy, including the cameo appearance by Homer Simpson in the "Police Squad!"-style opening of the episode PTV and in The Juice Is Loose. Family Guy has often been accused of being a rip-off of the Simpsons.

In Mother Tucker, Brian mentions Stewie selling out. The resulting flashback parodies the Butterfinger commercials The Simpsons did in the early 1990s. Stewie says Bart Simpson’s catchphrase from the commercials, “Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger,” before adding a forced “D’oh!”

The Simpsons family are all killed in a chain reaction shooting one-by-one by Quagmire after his long night of sex with Marge when Homer catches them getting it on in Movin' Out (Brian's Song).

Bart Simpson, also made another appearance in an episode as a toy from a skill crane.

Peter Griffin was in the episode of the Simpsons "Treehouse of horror XIII" where he was as one of the hundreds of clones of Homer Simpson, in "Send in the Clones". Peter also appeared on a wanted poster in Italian Bob, where he was wanted for plagerism, and Stan Smith was wanted for plagerism of plagerism.