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Law & Order is a media franchise composed of a number of related American television series created by Dick Wolf and produced by Wolf Entertainment. They were originally broadcast on NBC, and all of them deal with some aspect of the criminal justice system.

References to Law & Order in The Simpsons

Episodes

Picture	Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
	14	296	"Helter Shelter"	At the end of the day Homer is back to his couch watching a newly spawned spin-off of "Law & Order": Law & Order: Elevator Inspectors Unit.
	30	647	"Krusty the Clown"	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is one of the hundreds of shows seen on TV screens.

Games

Picture	Game	Reference
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out	At the Level 38 content update after tapping on Wiggum's exclamation mark: "I own all the Law and Order action figures, so I know I have the right to a fair and speedy trial with a jury of my peers."

Comics

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	Simpsons Comics #130	Marge the Sellout	Old TV Guide covers include one of Law & Order.
	Simpsons Comics #221	Yellow Is the New Black	Homer says "Hey, when did we renovate the bedroom to look like the boring half of 'Law & Order'?"

Books

Picture	Book	Reference
	The Ralph Wiggum Book	Lawn Order is a parody of Law & Order.

Common Cast and Crew

Cast

Name	Role in Law & Order	Role on The Simpsons
Will Arnett	Played Anthony Damon in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Angels".	Voiced Deputy Director Gratman in "Steal This Episode".
Ed Asner	Played Coach Martin Schultz in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Monster's Legacy".	Voiced a Lifeways editor in the season 11 episode "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?".
Scott Bakula	Played Kent Webster in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Vanity's Bonfire".	Voiced himself in "Bobby, It's Cold Outside".
Alec Baldwin	Played Jimmy MacArthur in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Criminal Stories".	Voiced himself in "When You Dish Upon a Star" and Caleb Thorn in "The Bonfire of the Manatees".
Christine Baranski	Played Katherine Masucci Beigel in Law & Order episodes "The Torrents of Greed (Part I)" and "The Torrents of Greed (Part II)" and Rose Siegal in the Law & Order episode "Nurture".	Voiced herself in "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire".
Julie Bowen	Played Gwen Sibert in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Trials".	Voiced Claire Dunphy, her character from Modern Family, in Family Guy's season 13 premiere "The Simpsons Guy", a The Simpsons/Family Guy crossover.
Beverly D'Angelo	Played Rebecca Balthus in five Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes and Serafina Carisi in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Promising Young Gentlemen".	Voiced Lurleen Lumpkin in "Colonel Homer" and "Papa Don't Leech".
Emily Deschanel	Played Cassie Germaine in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Surveillance".	Voiced herself in "Bart's Not Dead".
Snoop Dogg	Played Banks in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Diss".	Voiced himself in "The Great Phatsby: Part Two".
Adam Driver	Played Robby Vickery in the Law & Order episode "Brilliant Disguise", Jason Roberts in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode Theatre Tricks".	Voiced Adam in "Every Man's Dream".
Olympia Dukakis	Played Debby Marsh in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Pop".	Voiced Zelda in "The Old Man and the Key".
Chris Elliott	Played Anton Thibodeaux and Pete Matthews in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Lunacy" and "Patrimonial Burden".	Appeared in the special episode Springfield's Most Wanted.
R. Lee Ermey	Played Walter Burlock in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Trophy".	Voiced Leslie Hapablap in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" and "Waiting for Duffman".
Morgan Fairchild	Played Claire Lockton in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Bedtime".	Voiced Vivienne St. Charmaine in "Podcast News"
Victor Garber	Played Paul Sandig in the Law & Order episode "Savages".	Voiced Michael de Graaf in "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire".
Sara Gilbert	Played Caitlyn Ryan in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Trials".	Voiced Laura Powers in "New Kid on the Block".
Elliott Gould	Played Walter Thompkins in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Lessons Learned".	Voiced himself in the Season 14 episode "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"; was also interviewed in The Simpsons: Celebrity Friends, The Simpsons: Mischief & Mayhem, and The Simpsons: Access All Areas.
Kathy Griffin	Played Babs Duffy in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "P.C.".	Voiced Francine Rhenquist in "Bye, Bye, Nerdie".
David Harbour	Played Terry Jessup in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Dolls".	Voiced Fred Kranepool in the season 32 episode "Undercover Burns".
Jeremy Irons	Played Cap Jackson in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Mask" and "Totem".	Voiced the talking bar rag in "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches".
Jane Kaczmarek	Played D.A. Pam James in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Beautiful Frame".	Voice of Judge Constance Harm.
Carol Kane	Played Gwen Munch in two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Voiced Maggie Simpson in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving".
Stacy Keach	Played "Orion Bauer" in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "American Disgrace".	Voiced Howard K. Duff VIII in "Hungry, Hungry Homer", "Old Yeller-Belly", "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play", "Waiting for Duffman" and "Havana Wild Weekend". He also voiced Don Bookner in "Bart's New Friend".
Jane Krakowski	Played Emma Spevak in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Bound".	Voiced Zhenya in "The Fabulous Faker Boy".
Jerry Lewis	Played Uncle Andrew Munch in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Uncle".	Voiced Jonathan Frink, Sr. in "Treehouse of Horror XIV".
Delroy Lindo	Played Detective Victor Moran in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Baggae".	Voiced Gabriel in "Brawl in the Family".
Ludacris	Played Darius Parker in two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Voiced himself in "You Kent Always Say What You Want".
Patti LuPone	Played Ruth Miller in two Law & Order episodes "Homesick" and "Navy Blues", and Lydia Lebasi in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Agent Provocateur".	Voiced Cheryl Monroe in "The Girl on the Bus".
Natasha Lyonne	Played Gia Eskas in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Educated Guess".	Voiced Sophie in "The Nightmare After Krustmas", "E My Sports", "Marge the Lumberjill", and "When Nelson Met Lisa".
Debi Mazar	Played Peggy Bernardi in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Babes".	Voiced Minnie Szyslak in "King Leer".
Michael McKean	Played Elias Grace in the Law & Order episode "Mega" and Bill Nolan in the Law & Order episode "Call Home", and Fred Sandow in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Father's Shadow".	Voiced David St. Hubbins in "The Otto Show" and Jerry Rude in "Monty Can't Buy Me Love".
Sam McMurray	Played Will's attorney in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Rhodium Nights".	Voiced a Duff commercial narrator and an Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee in "Homer's Odyssey" and Gulliver Dark in "Homer's Night Out".
Ian McShane	Played Sir Tobias Moore in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode " I'm Going To Make You a Star".	Voiced Artemis in "The Last Barfighter".
Colm Meaney	Played Wyatt Landon in the Law & Order episode "Lost Boys", Harold Garrett in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episodes "In the Wee Small Hours (Part I)" and "In the Wee Small Hours (Part II)".	Voiced Tom O'Flanagan in "In the Name of the Grandfather".
Martin Mull	Played "Dr. Gideon Hutton" in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Retro".	Voiced Seth in "D'oh-in' in the Wind".
Rhea Perlman	Played Roxana Fox in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Unorthodox".	Voice of Carla Tortelli in "Fear of Flying".
Luke Perry	Played Noah Sibert in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Trials".	Voiced himself in "Krusty Gets Kancelled".
Michael Rapaport	Played Richie Caskey in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Sheltered Outcasts".	Voiced Mike Wegman in "Go Big or Go Homer" and "Bart the Cool Kid".
George Segal	Played Roger Tate in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Abomination".	Voiced Nick, his character from the film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in "Heartbreak Hotel".
Wallace Shawn	Played Professor Roy Batters and Benjamin Edelman in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Snatched" and "Alta Kockers".	Voiced Wallace the Hernia in the season 30 episode "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
Brooke Shields	Played Sheila Porter in five episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Voiced herself in "The Front".
Martin Short	Played Sebastian Ballentine / Henry Palaver in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Pure".	Voiced Guthrie Frenel in "Springfield Splendor".
J. K. Simmons	Played Dr. Emil Skoda in Law & Order; in six episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Reprised his role as J. Jonah Jameson in "Moe'N'a Lisa", voiced a tabloid editor in "Homerazzi", JJ Gruff in the season 29 episode "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage", Dr. Jessup in the season 30 episode "Daddicus Finch" and Victor Kleskow in the season 30 episode "Girl's in the Band".
Stephen Tobolowsky	Played Jim Halliwell in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Malignant", Edwin Adelson and Defense Attorney Kayman in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes "Bullseye", and "The Good Girl".	Voiced Tom O'Flanagan in "In the Name of the Grandfather".
Kathleen Turner	Played Rebecca Shane in the Law & Order episode "Magnet".	Voiced Stacy Lovell in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy".
John Waters	Played a Pornmonger Man in two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Voiced John in "Homer's Phobia".
Steven Weber	Played Matthew Braden in three episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.	Voiced Neil in the Season 9 episode "King of the Hill".
Serena Williams	Played Chloe Spiers in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Brotherhood".	Voiced herself in "Tennis the Menace".
Henry Winkler	Played Edwin Todd from the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Greed".	Voiced Ramrod in the Season 11 episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze".

External links

Law & Order at Wikipedia

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