A selection of fan-favorite The Simpsons characters are combined with various classic Transformers characters in new crossover art. The long-running animated sitcom focused on the lives of its titular family is currently in the midst of season 35 and is set to return on February 18. Meanwhile, Transformers will go back to its earliest days with Transformers One, an animated prequel movie exploring Optimus Prime and Megatron’s rise to power.
While The Simpsons season 35 is currently on hiatus, artist @thumbs1 shared several combinations of Simpsons and Transformers characters in ten pieces of artwork on their Instagram account.
The above post takes a selection of bot designs from Transformers‘ iconic Generation One era and combines them with several Simpsons mainstays. The artist has ensured each crossover makes sense, including metalhead Otto being inspired by Soundwave, while Mr. Burns and Smithers reference Megatron and Starscream’s designs.
The Simpsons Has Had Many References To Transformers’ Heroes
With both franchises having been present in pop culture for many decades, the Transformers have frequently found themselves the subject of many Simpsons jokes. Alongside the couch gag in “Future-Drama,” the sitcom has created various parodies of the franchise. Transformers does exist in The Simpsons‘ world; though its sequels exhausted audiences in “3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage,” the typically villainous Mr. Burns sang about his Megatron appreciation in his “High to Be Loathed” musical number.
“Robots in Disguise” did receive a full parody segment in The Simpsons season 20’s “Treehouse of Horror XIX.” A last-minute Christmas gift from Bart to Lisa is revealed to be an agent from two suspiciously familiar-looking warring robot factions, bringing their war to Springfield. While various household items, big and small, transform into intergalactic warriors, Homer and Ned Flanders’s transformed cars have a notable resemblance to Transformers leaders Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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It is clear the artist has placed incredible thought into their work combining The Simpsons and Transformers. While keen-eyed Transformers fans will appreciate the Generation One aesthetic, each Springfield citizen’s respective personality matching their Cybertronian inspiration will leave those familiar with each series smiling. With such detail in the above art, it begs the question of whether these two properties could ever manage a true crossover.
The Simpsons
The Simpsons is a long-running animated TV series created by Matt Groening that satirically follows a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. Homer, a bit of a schmoe who works at a nuclear power plant, is the provider for his family, while his wife, Marge, tries to keep sanity and reason in the house to the best of her ability. Bart is a born troublemaker, and Lisa is his super-intelligent sister who finds herself surrounded by people who can’t understand her. Finally, Maggie is the mysterious baby who acts as a deus ex machina when the series calls for it. The show puts the family in several wild situations while constantly tackling socio-political and pop-culture topics set within their world, providing an often sharp critique of the subjects covered in each episode. This series first premiered in 1989 and has been a staple of Fox’s programming schedule ever since.
- Release Date
- December 17, 1989
- Cast
- Tress MacNeille , Julie Kavner , Harry Shearer , Pamela Hayden , Nancy Cartwright , Hank Azaria , Dan Castellaneta , Yeardley Smith
- Seasons
- 35
- Writers
- Matt Groening , James L. Brooks , Sam Simon
- Network
- FOX
- Franchise(s)
- The Simpsons
- Directors
- David Silverman , Jim Reardon , Mark Kirkland
- Showrunner
- Al Jean
