Pop quiz: When you’re a community procedural a couple of socially awkward forensic anthropologist and her colourful crime-solving colleagues, the place would you stick a reference to the longest-running American sitcom in historical past? That is proper! In an X-ray scan.
Certain sufficient, those that stored an in depth eye on one of many lab scenes on the Jeffersonian in “The Dwarf within the Dust” caught an X-ray picture of a cranium that regarded conspicuously much like the noggin of 1 Homer J. Simpson (full with a distinctly minuscule mind relative to the remainder of his head). Removed from the one Easter egg of the hour, Homer voice actor Dan Castellaneta additionally performed a minor function within the episode as “Officer Novarro” (seen above), with a part of Danny Elfman’s iconic opening theme for “The Simpsons” accompanying his look in a single scene. On high of that, the final word winner of the episode’s little individual wrestling match is none aside from the Bumblebee Man, the Spanish-language sitcom actor who’s been a recurring character on “The Simpsons” courting again to season 4 in 1992.
“The Simpsons” would, in a way, repay the favor the yr after “Bones” resulted in 2017. The present’s season 30 premiere, “Bart’s Not Lifeless,” facilities on a bunch of Christian filmmakers wanting to make a movie impressed by Bart’s experiences after he practically died making an attempt to tug off a harmful dare and lied about seeing Heaven when he was unconscious. Amongst these interviewed to play the Simpsons within the film-within-the-show is Emily Deschanel (as herself). The entire thing might need come throughout as broad satire as soon as upon a time — earlier than 2014’s uproariously nonsensical “God’s Not Lifeless” ushered in a brand new age for faith-based movies as bonafide field workplace contenders. Who says “The Simpsons” is not related anymore?