Character
The design of Dr. Nick is modeled physically on Gábor Csupó, the co-founder of Klasky Csupo animation studios (which animated the series for its first three seasons and The Tracey Ullman Show shorts). The animators mistakenly believed that Hank Azaria was impersonating Csupó, when in fact he was doing a bad impression of Ricky Ricardo from the TV series I Love Lucy.
In The Simpsons Movie, Riviera is impaled by a large shard of glass that breaks and falls off the enormous dome covering Springfield, saying "Bye, everybody!" before he faints. Executive producers James L. Brooks and Al Jean confirmed that the character was not dead, but he just fainted, and he would be "brought back to life à la Dr. Marvin Monroe". Riviera is seen alive and well, without any explanation, playing golf with Dr. Hibbert in "Lost Verizon", as well as performing an operation in "Judge Me Tender".
He appears again in season 20's "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe" where he was to perform a surgery on Moe Szyslak, but as usual he screws up, and performs it on Springfield Elementary School band conductor Dewey Largo. Most recently, he appeared in the opening for the episode To Surveil with Love, in which the characters sing Ke$ha song "Tik Tok". He can be seen underneath the couch as the bit is ending.
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