Animated Series· 1989· Comedy
The Simpsons: 2 recorded works trace back to it, and it draws on 2 recorded sources.
Works that record this one as a source, with the evidence a contributor gave.
The Simpsons made adult animation a form rather than an experiment, and BoJack takes three specific things from it: talking animals treated as ordinary citizens with no explanation offered, dense visual gags in the background of scenes that are about something else, and a Hollywood satire that assumes the audience knows the industry. What Bob-Waksberg adds is consequence, letting characters remember what happened last season, which is exactly the thing The Simpsons refuses to do.
Same creator, and more usefully the same writers' room method: Groening and David X. Cohen built Futurama out of what The Simpsons had established, which was that an animated half hour could carry dense joke-per-second writing for adults and still have a family at the centre. The inherited structure is the dysfunctional workplace-as-family, the satirical present dressed as something else, and an emotional episode once a season that the show has earned the right to.
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
An episode-level homage. "HOMR" follows the novel's plot: Homer's intelligence is raised by a medical procedure, isolates him, and he chooses to give it up.
An episode-level homage. "The Italian Bob" plays on The Italian Job in its title and its Italian setting.