In ' Anthology of Interest I' (2000) Hawking appears as a member of the Vice Presidential Action Rangers (VPAR), who guard the space-time continuum.

Hawking as a cartoon character in The Simpsons Hawking appears with David Walliams and Catherine Tate as an Andy Pipkin character, who transforms into a machine.

(episode 108: ' The Hawking Excitation' episode 117: ' The Extract Obliteration' (voice-over) episode 155: ' The Relationship Diremption' (voice-over) episode 173: ' The Troll Manifestation' episode 200: ' The Celebration Experimentation' episode 216: ' The Geology Elevation' episode 232: ' The Proposal Proposal'.) When taking a tour of the set, he paused at the Warp core, smiled, and said, 'I'm working on that.' During the tour, Hawking requested, and was allowed, to sit in the captain's chair of the Enterprise-D. Hawking portrayed his own hologram for this episode, making him the only guest in any Star Trek series to play himself. Nimoy made the necessary contact, and as a result Hawking appears at the beginning of the Season 6 cliffhanger, ' Descent', when Data is seen playing poker with holographic depictions of Hawking, Sir Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.

At the release party for the home video version of the A Brief History of Time, Leonard Nimoy, who had played Spock on Star Trek, learned that Hawking was interested in appearing on the show.

Hawking appeared with host Victor Lewis-Smith in the pre-titles sequences of this show. He was in a skit in which he made a phone call to guest Jim Carrey.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien (episode 1752).

Television and film Appeared as himself Comedy and drama Stephen Hawking (1942–2018), a theoretical physicist, has appeared in many works of popular culture.

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