# Have the Simpsons ever referenced Monty Python?

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**Created:** [December 31, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-simpsons-ever-referenced-monty-python/337833 "2005-12-31T07:31:06Z")\
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Just had a Monty Python reference today. In the episode “Pulpit Friction” Moe chanting "Bring out your bed, bring out your bed with a pile of mattresses on a wheelbarrow.

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> [@tdn](#):
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> There was a Simpsons where they referenced Find the Fish. Or maybe that was Family Guy. Probably Family Guy.

[Yup, FG](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiXs73f5m64).

In the Harry Potter one, Burns is a dragon (for part of it). Smithers is a snake (“Slithers”), I don’t remember if they specify what kind.

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