Futurama’s Simpsons Easter Egg Honors Matt Groening's Original Vision For The Show

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Their relationship has finally been fixed.

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Futurama's relationship to The Simpsons has always been a strange one, but season 11's most recent The Simpsons Easter egg honors Matt Groening's original vision for the show. Matt Groening is the creator of both The Simpsons and Futurama, with the two incredibly popular animated series having Easter eggs and references to each other woven throughout.

Although The Simpsons started out as a show in the universe of Futurama, one episode changed everything: "Simpsorama." The Simpsons season 26, episode 6, "Simpsorama" is a crossover between Futurama and The Simpsons. The episode sees Bender and the Planet Express gang travel back in time on a mission to kill Homer in order to prevent a future catastrophe.

Why Futurama Needed The Simpsons To Be In Its World Although Futurama does occasionally contradict its relationship with The Simpsons, The Simpsons really needed to exist as a show in Futurama's world. When Futurama was released in 1999, The Simpsons was at its peak. Comparisons between Futurama and The Simpsons were inevitable, so it would have been a bad idea to ignore them.

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