THE FILTER

There have been many science-relevant cameos on The Simpsons over the years. Here are some of the more cromulent examples:

1. Lisa Simpson (after nearly 20 years and forays into several different disciplines, it’s fair to say she’s something of a renaissance girl).
2. Professor Frink (flubber enthusiast, autodialer inventor, Glaybin!).
3. Dudley Herschbach (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986).
4. Niels Bohr (Nobel Prize in Physics 1922).
5. Troy McClure. You may remember from such educational films as “Someone’s in the kitchen with DNA” and “Mothballing Your Battleship”.
6. Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon. Also, he went into space with Homer. His priceless “second comes right after first” line is bested only by his warning after a potato chip bag malfunction: “careful – they’re ruffled!”.
7. Adam West. Why? Because “Batman’s a scientist”. That’s why.
8. Stephen Hawking. Eternal kudos to this science legend for socking Seymour Skinner in the nose.
9. Stephen J. Gould. (Funny that he and Homer J. Simpson have the same middle name: Jay).
10. Pierre and Marie Curie (Nobel Prize in Physics 1903). For some reason, they’re attacking Tokyo.
11. Lenny Leonard, MSc and Carl Carlson, MSc. While Homer applied for his job not knowing what a “nuclear panner plant” was, these two had to rely on their graduate training to secure employment.
12. C. Montgomery Burns (scourge of the weak, master of the atom) and Charles Darwin (well, an actor playing Charles Darwin anyways). They met here to talk about the awesomeness of Blinky.
13. Homer’s nerdy college roommates. We don’t know their names, but they were über-dorky, replete with Monty Python and Star Trek references. (They showed up in one of several Simpsons episodes penned by Conan O’Brien).

SOURCE: The venerable institution that is The Simpsons. (Note: Many of the Simpsons writers have a background in science [more here]).
We are in awe.

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