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Tags: <futurama><the-simpsons>
Title: Does Springfield still exist in the Futurama future?
Question: Does Springfield still exist in the Futurama future? I don't expect to see the characters travel to the future, but if Fry's descendant could survive, so could the Simpsons.

Answers:
sents: text: In the episode "A Big Piece of Garbage" Fry finds a pile of Bart Simpson dolls and he comments about them as if he is aware that "The Simpsons" is a TV show.
text: Also in the episode "Mars University" you can see Simpson dolls hanging in one of the booths when Fry has his flashback to the carnival.
text: These seem to indicate that The Simpsons is a show in the Futurama universe, and not a real place.
text: In the crossover books w/ the Simpsons the Futurama cast gets projected into Simpsons merchandise and the creator states in the foreword that The Simpsons is a fictional TV show in the Futurama universe.
text: Oddly enough, Futurama merchandise shows up in The Simpsons indicating it's a show in that universe.
text: When Bender showed up in The Simpsons they went through a dimensional gateway, indicating that it's not the same universe.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7442/Douglas Kraemer
score: 56
sents: text: I agree with Andres that they do not exist in the same universe.
text: In A Big Piece of Garbage there are Bart Simpson dolls as an indicator of 20th century culture(specifically 20th century not 21st century).
text: This means that The Simpsons are a TV show in the Futurama universe just as they are in ours.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/5374/Dave Cousineau
score: 6
sents: text: Actually, in the audio commentary for I believe Mars University (it has been a long time since I've watched early eps)
text: Matt Groening explains alongside David Cohen that the Simpsons is technically "fake" while Futurama is "real" as in multiple episodes, you see Simpsons characters as stuffed dolls.
text: Originally, the character designs for all humans for Futurama were also going to have 5 fingers, but in the end, it was harder to animate, and looked strange.
text: So no, in the world of Futurama (read: our world) the Simpsons, and the town of Springfield are fictitious.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/7444/Drew
score: 6
sents: text: Note that Springfield is referenced in The Simpsons as being in all the states that there is actually a Springfield (as a running gag).
text: So, if The Simpsons is just a show in Futurama, then it is likely that there are just as many Springfields as there are in our time.
text: But there hasn't been any reference to any of them in Futurama so far.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/1109/OghmaOsiris
score: 2
sents: text: I don't think the Springfield from the Simpsons TV show exists in Futurama's future at all.
text: Why?
text: Because I don't think the Simpsons and Futurama exist in the same universe at all .
text: In The Simpsons' world, people are yellow.
text: In Futurama, they aren't.
text: Of course, that doesn't preclude some tongue-in-cheek TV show reference ;)
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/770/Andres F.
score: 1
sents: text: Another note that supports that The Simpsons and Futurama are different universes is that the characters have different physiologies.
text: This is clear because Futurama characters have natural skin tones, while Simpsons characters do not.
answer_details: author: scifi.stackexchange.com/users/3183/Darth Egregious
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
Springfield from the Simpsons TV show is not though to exist in Futurama's future at all.  
Springfield does not exist in the Futurama future.