The long-running American animated sitcom The Simpsons has been so influential in modern pop-culture that it needed a whole page for all the tropes it named, as shown in the following list:
- Anyone Remember Pogs? ("Bart Sells His Soul")
- Are We There Yet? ("Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?")
- Brevity Is Wit (from William Shakespeare)("Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington")
- Cartoonish Supervillainy ("Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two")
- Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys ("Round Springfield")
- Close-Enough Timeline ("Treehouse of Horror V")
- Commie Nazis ("King of the Hill")
- Couch Gag
- Crazy Cat Lady ("Girly Edition")
- Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Nixon ("Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire")
- Dean Bitterman ("Homer Goes to College")
- The Dog Was the Mastermind ("Beyond Blunderdome")
- Earth All Along ("A Fish Called Selma")
- Flanderization
- Free-Range Children ("Treehouse of Horror V")
- Forgot Flanders Could Do That
- The "Fun" in "Funeral" ("Selma's Choice")
- Glove Slap ("E-I-E-I-D'oh")
- Goggles Do Nothing ("Radioactive Man")
- It's Been Done (as The Simpsons Did It) ("Homer's Barbershop Quartet")
- Jerkass ("The Joy of Sect")
- Kent Brockman News
- Know-Nothing Know-It-All ("Lisa the Vegetarian")
- Mayor of a Ghost Town ("A Tale of Two Springfields")
- My Beloved Smother ("Fear of Flying")
- Named Like My Name ("Homer to the Max")
- Non-Giving-Up School Guy ("The Boy who Knew Too Much")
- Perfectly Cromulent Word ("Lisa the Iconoclast")
- Poor, Predictable Rock ("The Front")
- Putting the "Pal" in Principal ("Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song")
- Retirony ("Homer vs Dignity")
- School Is for Losers ("Bart's Comet")
- Sold His Soul for a Donut ("Treehouse of Horror IV")
- Stupid Sexy Flanders ("Little Big Mom")
- Suspect Is Hatless ("Homer's Triple Bypass")
- Think of the Children! ("Much Apu About Nothing")
- Think Unsexy Thoughts ("The Last Temptation of Homer")
- Trash of the Titans ("Trash of the Titans")
- Whale Egg ("Make Room for Lisa")
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?
- A Wizard Did It ("Treehouse of Horror X")
- Worst. Whatever. Ever! ("The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show")
- You Might Remember Me from... ("Homer Vs Lisa And The 8th Commandment")
- You Wanna Get Sued? ("Treehouse of Horror V")
- Zany Scheme ("Homer Goes To College")
