In addition to directing some television work, Bogdanovich returned to acting with a recurring guest role on the cable television series "The Sopranos", playing Dr. Melfi's psychotherapist, also later directing a fifth-season episode. He also voiced the analyst of Bart Simpson's therapist in an episode of "The Simpsons", and appeared as himself in the "Robots Versus Wrestlers" episode of "How I Met Your Mother" along with Arianna Huffington and Will Shortz. Quentin Tarantino also cast Bogdanovich as a disc jockey in ' and '. "Quentin knows, because he's such a movie buff, that when you hear a disc jockey's voice in my pictures, it's always me, sometimes doing different voices", said Bogdanovich. "So he called me and he said, 'I stole your voice from "The Last Picture Show" for the rough cut, but I need you to come down and do that voice again for my picture ... '"