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[7G02] Strange computer seen through window of door to school room in genius school
[7G02] Book in genius school library "Design of Computers".
[7G04] Dr. Marvin Monroe has one of the World's more sophisticated electric generators (tape drives and everything..) {cjb}
[7G09] Cowboy Bob uses a computer to check Homer's credit rating.
[7F02] Definitely an IBM-PC/XT/AT seen in the background when Smithers raids the personnel office. {cjb}
[7F03] Computers were seen in Bart's dream about spending the rest of his life in the fourth grade.
[7F10] The Devil using a Macintosh computer in Bart's 'Life after death' experience. {jc}
[7F13] Homer tells Bart to hide his stolen Macintosh computer.
{To my eyes it looked like only a dumb terminal. -cjb}
[7F16] Homer's new car design calls for an onboard computer.
[7F23] Ned has a left-handed computer at his Leftorium shop.
[8F01] On the plane on their way to Washington Bart harasses the businessman in the seat behind him working on his portable computer by repeatedly reclining his seat. {bg}
[8F02] Computer seen on surveillance camera at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
[8F04] Smithers appears to have punched up something on a keyboard to get Homer's job file. (Also a SNPP employee is briefly seen running with a computer during the meltdown scare.)
[8F04] One of the SNPP employees takes off with a Macintosh SE. {cjb}
[8F05] PC seen on cover of Modern Jewish Father magazine
[8F06] Computer in bank behind loan officer.
[8F07] The `National Fatherhood Institute' had computers.
[8F12] Prof. Frink creates the ``Gamble-Tron 2000'' to pick the outcome of football games.
[8F15] Bart & Lisa's aptitude tests were graded by a computer Emma in Iowa.
[8F22] When ordering the weight loss tapes, the operator types the order into a computer. {bg}
[9F10] A couple of thieves were stealing a Macintosh computer while Springfieldians were at the town meeting.
{NB: The thieves didn't steal the keyboard. -cjb}
[9F15] The dentist uses a computer to show what will happen to Lisa if she doesn't get braces.
[9F16] In the scene with Itchy and Scratchy writers, which are in fact caricatures of members of the actual Simpsons writing team, we see George Meyer: sitting at a computer, tossing a pencil. {bg}
[1F02] Pretty much every scene with the nerds.
[1F04] Lizzie Borden tries to sit in an ergonomic computer chair.
[1F04] Martin had a Wang Computers' t-shirt.
{There's a funny bit of folklore about Wang Computers and T-shirts... cjb}
{Their slogan "Wang Cares" sounds like "Wankers" -hl}
[1F12] Smithers has a computer.
[1F15] The DJ 3000, It plays CDs automatically, and it has three distinct varieties of inane chatter. {sd}
[1F19] Skinner reads punch card.
[2F01] Itchy & Scratchy Land is run by computers.
[2F02]# Sideshow Bob has voting list stored on floppy disk.
[2F05] Dolph has an Apple Newton. {sh}
[2F07] UPC scanner/satellite linkup is featured (which is obviously run by computers).
[2F11] Two of the Superfriends names are Email and Database.
[2F13] Homer tells the Australians that in America "the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities."
[2F14] Store manager uses computer to check Homer's credit history.
[2F14] Computer on desk in First Bank of Springfield.
[2F15] Librarian uses computer to check status of book.
[2F17] Comic book guy uses a Linux type setup to log onto alt.nerd.obsessive.
[2F17] We then see four fellow nerds at four locations on computers, then Prince on a computer
[2F17] Nerd under conference table with laptop.
[2F20] DNA computer plays the Microsoft Windows tada.wav.
[3F04] Homer in computer generated 3D space.
[3F05] Homer works from a computer terminal at home.
[3F06] Government clerk uses a Windows 95 setup.
[3F06] Dragnet cops run computer aging program on laptop.
[3F08] Sideshow Bob uses computer terminal in blimp.
[3F08] Kent Brockman's program: Making The Most Of Your Modem. {hw}
[3F10] Burns uses a computer to perform analysis on every employee's resemblance with "Poppin Fresh".
[3F12] Computer on desk of bank employee at Bank of Springfield.
[3F13] Comic book guy wrote a screenplay where computers threaten our personal liberties.
[3F14] Smithers uses Macintosh to find his replacement.
[3F14]# Homer gets Burns a Cray supercomputer. Burns: You call this a supercomputer? (striking Cray with his cane)
[3F17] Nuclear technician uses computer to see if Homer's station console is operational.
[3F20] A young Professor Frink shows the Frinkiac-7.
[3F20] Apu wrote a tic-tac-toe program on punch cards.
[3F21] Homer mentions music festival founded by guy from Apple Computers.
[3F23] Globex employees using computers.
[3F24] Coyote mentions to Homer that he does not even have a computer.
[3G01] Scully using a computer.
[3G02] Kids at prestigious school using computers.
[4F05] Computer simulation used for Homer's bloody outcome.
[4F08] Oklasoft, Oklahoma's fastest-growing software company sounds familiar with Microsoft.
[4F11] Couch scene has "America Onlink" on Macintosh screen which fails to load Simpsons family members.
[4F12] ISP in Itchy, Scratchy & Poochie also stands for "Internet Service Provider".
[4F13] "The Crypto Barn - A place for codes" in the promenade. {hp}
[4F21] Future wars will held by computers and robots in space. {hp}
[5F02] French nuclear missile has "Intel inside" logo.
[5F04] Single women at bachelor auction go nuts for Apu when he mentions he has a doctorate in computer science.
[5F08] Homer gets job as a circus geek.
(not that type of geek!!- hl)
[5F10] Internet Comedian tells one-liners on laptop screen.
[5F10] When asked, "What do you think, Internet Comic?" the computer twice plays the famous system sound "Sosumi", found on all Apple Macintosh computers. {er}
[5F10] Krusty's comment about the quality of computer porn.
[5F11] Pretty much everything with Homer's internet company.
[5F11] Bill Gates appears.
[5F13] Homer goes to sex education computer.
[5F13] Frink demonstrates a "floating point" unit.
[5F14] IRS computer can process over nine tax returns a day.
[5F15] Monkey types "Pray for Mojo" on laptop.
[5F17] Homer says that Lisa was hooked up to a computer.
[5F19] Comic Book Guy has computer printout of technical errors.
[5F20] Bart says he does not need paper because everything is done on computers and staplers.
[5F21] Frink has a reel-to-reel computer.
[AABF03] Ralph Wiggum using school's lone Coleco computer (which looks like a Commodore PET).
[AABF09] Homer, describing Trent Steele: He has a company that makes computers, or, a computer that makes companies.
[AABF10] Marge's Canyonero has onboard computer.
[AABF10] Microsoft tagline "Where would you like to go today?" lifted almost directly from their ads. {bjr}
[AABF11] Martin's anatomy model is a brain with blinking lights.
[AABF13] "Navitron" the truck-navigating computer.
[AABF18] Comic Cook Guy wearing a "C:/DOS/RUN" shirt (which should have had backward slashes).
[AABF18] Comic Cook Guy displaying list of America's top cities on computer screen
[AABF18] Stephen Hawking has an onboard computer for his wheelchair.
[AABF20] Java Server computer cafe has bold colored Apple iMacs.
[AABF21] Computers at Springfield Shopper.
[AABF21] Lisa types Homer's review on computer.
[AABF22] Satellite has onboard computer and printer.
[AABF23] Comic Book Guy caught smuggling computer into movie preview. {dld}
[AABF23] Comic Book Guy types movie review on laptop. {dld}
[BABF01] The Collector has a computer in his lair.
[BABF01] Homer's computer has a Y2K glitch which spreads havoc around the world.
[BABF01] Bill Gates in line-up of important people to be evacuated.
[BABF04] Lisa uses computer to run Virtual Doctor.
[BABF06] Nerd's computer is in 256 (#FF0000) shades of red.
[BABF06] Bart song has line "I took a whiz on the school computer".
[BABF07] Lisa likens Funzo's destroying of toy competition to Microsoft.
[BABF07] Computer seen in surveillance room.
[BABF15] Love Your Computer store in Springfield Mall
[BABF20] Lisa uses a laptop to look up badgers.
[BABF21] Homer comments that we invented computers (and therefore we can defeat dolphins!).
[BABF22] Stockbroker at I.P.O. Friday's uses an iMac to place Homer's stock order
[CABF02] Episode title and much of this episode - The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
[CABF04] Woman in Let's Get Fiscal uses a Macintosh.
[CABF08] Magician says "Sure computer trickery is here to stay, but they'll always be a place for the practical special effects wizard.
[CABF16] Comic Book Guy is seen using a Macintosh.
[CABF18] There's several computers (loot) on Snake's house.
[CABF18] Inside police station we see a large computer with tape reels!
[CABF18] Snake: I swear I can change, Gloria. I'm taking classes in computer fraud.
[CABF19] Ultrahouse 3000 runs the Simpson household in a THOH segment.
[CABF22] Police Chief Wiggum's police cruiser has a Miranda Rights Teleprompter.
[DABF04] Computer and a modem demonstrating a device Artie Ziff invented to turn modem noise into music. "Hey there computer geek, you will be connected in no time."
[DABF04] Patty and Selma type an email to Artie Ziff from Marge Simpson which then transverses a Cisco router. {js}
[DABF04] We see Ziff's computer with Window icons.
[DABF07] Bart and Buck McCoy walk past a computer covered in leather.
[DABF15] Kerrie complains she lives in a dorm without a DSL line.
[EABF11] Bart uses a laptop (Apple?) at school during assembly to view banned web sites.
[EABF11] Observing a meteor shower Marge comments "Oooh, this is even better than our screen saver. And I love our screen saver."
[EABF19] Abe points out his web site on an Apple - OLD COOT.COM WHY TODAY STINKS
[FABF05] Marge uses a computer to write the great American novel.
[FABF11] Bart abuses the Wedding Registry computer at Costington's.
[FABF17] Springfield Shopper story writer uses a computer to write the story of Bart mooning the flag.
[FABF17] Lisa uses a laptop to read email.
[FABF19] Nelson: Hey, I'm sure it's just a phase. Like when I use to stand on the overpass and drop computers on the freeway. Marge: That's how we got our Kaypro!
[FABF21] Homer uses a computer to research how to build a nuclear reactor on www.nuclear-secrets.com.
[GABF04] Homer logs into the www.ePISCOPAL.com web site on a Mac to become a priest.
[GABF07] At the Merry Widow Life Insurance company we see the woman behind the desk using a computer.
[GABF15] Bart finds www.sexyslumberparty.com broadcast from Ned Flanders house on his computer in his room
[GABF15] Apu checks out www.sexyslumberparty.com on his laptop in the Kwik-E-Mart
[HABF06] Access control computer, for Burns mansion's PANIC ROOM: Computer: Enter place of birth: Burns: Pangaea. Computer: Correct. Your password has been emailed to you.
[HABF07] Winner of Duck Race and Church Fundraiser wins a home computer. Marge: That's the new feMac, the computer designed just for women!
[HABF07] Ned Flanders (after giving Marge a feMac): We could do a little quid pro for the Kaypro,...
[HABF09] diePOD: Dr. Egoyan's assisted death computer
[HABF18] Amber PaiGow Simpson; A gifted cocktail waitress who hoped one day to learn computers.
[JABF09] Lisa typing out next edition of the Fourth Gradian on a computer at school.
[JABF10] Lisa showing Marge the internet on a laptop.
[JABF12] Computer in Chemistry Lab at Springfield Elementary.
[JABF14] Computer in Springfield Elementary Counter Truancy Unit
[JABF15] Flanders on computer sending email complaining about Ken Brockman swearing on airwaves.
[JABF15] Lisa sets up a computer webcam to let Kent Brockman broadcast truth about Fox
[JABF15] Lenny and Carl watching Kent Brockman's web cam at SNPP.
[JABF15] Sideshow Mel and Mr.Teeny watching Kent Brockman's web cam at home.
[JABF19] Computer visible on desk at bank.
[JABF21] Marge uses web to look up how to deal with a clingy baby. "The C.R.I.E. method" - "Create Responses for Infant Edu-loving!"
[JABF22] We see a computer in Bart's room.
[KABF01] Sideshow Bob: You shall all perish in a tragic accident, caused by a defective laptop battery.
[KABF02] Laptop on OFF kichen table.
[KABF04] Marge takes the Apple Computer when Homer and Marge divide their belongings in flashback episode
[KABF04] Flashback of Kirk Van Houten using dial-up line on computer for six hours to download picture of Luann cheating on him.
[KABF11] Comic Book Guy at Sundance reporting on his web site AIN'T I FAT NEWS about Lisa's Capturing The Simpsons movie.
[KABF13] In couch opening Simpsons are drag and dropped onto couch by a mouse pointer on an Apple screen, then entire couch is drag and dropped into the trash bucket, then empty trash is selected.
[KABF13] We see Homer and Bart looking up 1917 Kissing Lincolns mistruck penny on an Apple Laptop.
[KABF15] Homer and Marge are using a laptop to track Bart's cell phone GPS.
[KABF17] PC on desk at Bail Bonds office.
[KABF20] Laptop at Bashir's house, Simpsons' Jordanian neighbors.
[LABF05] Patty & Selma are using a Windows PC with the Pipes screensaver at the DMV.
[LABF06] Moe surfing the net using one of three computers at the library.
Moe: I would do anything to chat with Maya. Short of actually purchasing a computer.

SNPP has a computer voice for meltdown/self-destruct warnings [8F04, 1F02].

Virtual References

[9F10] Lisa dreams of a virtual history class.
[1F12] Smithers has a virtual Burns screensaver.
[2F15]# Bart trying to play virtual pool has a virtual bar fight with man playing virtual darts. {bjr}
[3F24] Professor Frink's Virtual Chili.
[5F08] Yard Work Simulator.
[5F13] Bart says he's going to toss a virtual salad.
[5F13] Nelson tells Bart to kiss the virtual ass.
[BABF04] Lisa uses Virtual Doctor to diagnose Homer and Bart with leprosy.
[BABF13] Homer and Marge try Virtual Fudge

[MC25] Intel commercial where an Intel processor is implanted into Homer's brain making him super intelligent. {je}

#- cut in syndication


Contributors:
bg - Bruce Gomes
bjr - Benjamin J. Robinson
cjb - Chris J Baird
dd - Daniel L. Dreibelbis
ddg - Don Del Grande
er - Eric Rustan
hw - Hari Wierny
hp - Henrik Paulini
jc - Jordan Crouse
je - Jordan Eisenberg
js - James Saunders
sd - Stuart Dunkeld
sh - Simon Humphries


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