Why no Simpsons/Futurama crossover?

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Tessa Lynn

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Is anyone surprised a Simpsons/Futurama crossover of some kind never happened? I know Futurama was canceled for like 5 years, but I'm just saying.

Would you want to see a crossover special?
 
I would definitely want to see a crossover special I mean we saw couple of references of futurama in the Simpsons so what's stopping them from having a crossover, in non-canon material of course.
 
It'll probably never happen. Both series have been established to exist as a TV show on the other, so I suppose the shows can't co-exist in a canonical fashion.

Bender has guest-appeared twice on The Simpsons, both of which were non-canon.
 
They could always pull a DC Comic Earth-Two explanation and just explain them being in a parallel Earth.

And, BTW Cyber, there is a trade containing both crossovers.
 
I'd love a crossover, but wasn't The Simpsons a TV show in Futurama? I guess what they could do is make some sort of invention that has them crossover some how??
 
Fox has already made it clear that animated shows about families work better than 'sci-fi' shows that appeal to nerds, and geeks. Since 'Futurama' has found it's audience on [adult swim], and regained new life on Comedy Central, I seriously doubt that Fox will have a change of heart, and bring 'Futurama' into their 'Animation Domination' block. So the only way I see a 'Simpsons/Futurama' crossover ever becoming A reality outside of the one shot comic would be A DTV movie.
 
Was one of those times when Homer became a missionary and was about to die alongside a native girl, when suddenly a PBS-style fundraising cuts the moment and shows Bender with other Fox characters?
 
There was a time during a hallucination or something when Bender landed in the car with Homer and Bart, I think. He put his arms around them saying " I like you guys" or something then they threw him out and he broke on the street.
 
It's not like Family Guy and American Dad which take place in the same time period. Remember that Simpsons and Futurama would be a millenium apart, plus according to Fry, the former would be a fictional series to him.
 
It's been established that The Simpsons is just a TV show in the Futurama universe, and that Futurama is just a TV show in The Simpsons' universe (there was a fanboy wearing a Futurama T-shirt in one Simpsons episode). Furthermore, Caucasian humans have peach skin in the Futurama universe and aren't yellow skinned like they are on The Simpsons. Any crossover between the 2 shows would have to be non-canon.

But to answer the question: No, I wouldn't want to see that, not being a fan of crossovers in general.
 
The main reason I don't see it happening is because Matt Groening seriously hates crossovers. He was so pissed off about the main character of "The Critic" guest starring on "The Simpsons" that he had his name removed from the opening credits for that episode. On every other one, he's always listed with Sam Simon and James L. Brooks under 'developed by'. He also voiced himself on an episode of "The Simpsons" where the characters referred to him as "the creator of Futurama".
 
Yes, that was during the episode future-drama (which actually was a non-canonical episode anyway i think) where in the future, bart and homer drive through a "quantum tunnel" which is where they meet bender. So really, a crossover COULD happen if the creators decide to muck about with reality (which is i believe what occurred in the comic crossover)

also:

to answer rick jones

The "hallucination" happened during a seperate episode, in which bart loses his mind from watching too much tv. Various tv characters (which include bender and a knock-off of pikachu) appear in his classroom replacing some of the students. Then a clown appears and says "its finally happened bart. you've lost your mind!"

What you thought was a hallucination actually happened as i mentioned above.

and finally, for visky

yes that also happened.
 
No, it wouldn't work since in both worlds they are considered tv shows. Besides the Simpsons-Futurama Crossover Crises comic is the only satisfactory crossover between the two that could possibly be created.
 
I have the Simpson-Futurama Crossover Crisis paperback version (with spiffy box cover) and I thought it was an EXCELLENT story that works really well.

I think they should make that into a DTV.

Com'on! You can't resist Smithers dressed as Harlock!
 
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