DAVID MIRKIN: But yeah, that's what it felt like to be out of a club.

BILL OAKLEY: Okay, this movie is not a Cheech and Chong movie, despite what everybody thought on the internet.

DAVID MIRKIN: So anyway, this did evolve into something I was very very upset and concerned about at that time, and it only got worse. Which the the media, the tabloidization of the the media…

DAVID MIRKIN: This episode was a real, real difficult episode to do on a lot of levels. It's a huge episode, in terms that we had to create an entire Itchy & Scratchy™ Land. Which is an enormous amount of writing to, like, create this whole new environment, and most of the episode takes place within this new…

DAVID MIRKIN: And I know this has probably been mentioned before, but in case for some reason this is, ah, the first commentary we're listening to,
we spent hours on those basically freeze-frame jokes. Uh, so for some, y'know, uh, nerd with no life who likes to freeze-frame things and get every little thing, we like to…

MATT GROENING: You know we did a thing, we did a promotion with Burger King™ with sort of an environmental message on the cups, these plastic cups, y'know. And with the idea we were going to give the proceeds to an environmental group. No environmental group would take.

DAVID MIRKIN: Malibu Stacy™ appeared many times before this. That was the name of Lisa's doll and it was one of those things where we were trying to come up with an episode going through things in the universe. And previously, we'd done this episode called Duff™less about the Duff™ plant and the Duff™ company. Uh,…

It's mostly about Ross Perot, and the last two chapters are excerpts from the Oliver North trial.

DAVID MIRKIN: Now, while we were doing this show, it was after Conan had done his audition for the late night show he took over. So, Bart getting famous became an opportunity for him to go on a talk show, and even though The Conan O'Brien Show did not exist yet, we decided to put him on The Conan O'Brien Show and, uh,…

DAVID MIRKIN: Bill and Josh, by the way, if you follow their writing they love anything old-timey. And they love to write old-timey stuff, and they do it great.

DAVID MIRKIN: That's Mindy, and the voice that says “Hi, how's that going,” is one of the most beautiful women in the world, uh, Michelle Pfeiffer. I'm not going to pull any punches on that, it’s absolutely true. And she came in, and she was uh… uh… annoyingly stunning. Let me put it that way.

YEARDLEY SMITH: For me, when I watch Lisa, she does exist separately from me, and I love her, so when I watch her she's so cute; “Oh, that’s so funny!” and I don't sort of feel like I had anything much to do with her. She's just like this little entity.

YEARDLEY SMITH: For me, when I watch Lisa, she does exist separately from me, and I love her, so when I watch her she's so cute; “Oh, that’s so funny!” and I don't sort of feel like I had anything much to do with her. She's just like this little entity.

MATT GROENING: This is Matt Groening, and today's date; June 17th, 2004.

With the exception of Groening, O'Brien and the voice actors, all of the writers/directors/producers' voices sound so alike. It makes a transcriber's job very difficult.

With the exception of Groening, O'Brien and the voice actors, all of the writers/directors/producers' voices sound so alike. It makes a transcriber's job very difficult.

DAVID SILVERMAN: Wang Computers is another in the long list of places that said they would send us free stuff, and never did.

DAVID SILVERMAN: Wang Computers is another in the long list of places that said they would send us free stuff, and never did.

Well, he was both interrupting and got interrupted. Silverman was asking Archer a question, when Mirkin interrupted with his stupid Dustbuster observation. But then he got shut down when Archer developed the gonadicity to answer the question over Mirkin's blathering.

Well, he was both interrupting and got interrupted. Silverman was asking Archer a question, when Mirkin interrupted with his stupid Dustbuster observation. But then he got shut down when Archer developed the gonadicity to answer the question over Mirkin's blathering.