Fun fact: the "Do the Bartman" music video was directed by a young man by the name of Brad Bird. Whatever happened to that guy?

A "Bort" name tag from Universal Studios.

Still, "Look At All Those Idiots" is a nice slice of Mr. Burns evil. And I'll probably always have a soft spot for "Deep Deep Trouble" if only because DJ Jazzy Jeff produced it (and I don't care what any haters say - that part at the end when the beat drops and Maggie's pacifier becomes the only instrumentation was…

And J.T. from Step By Step, can't forget him.

Also, when this aired I very may well have been the only ten-year-old on the planet who knew who Archie Bell & the Drells were.

I completely forgot the Archie Bell bit was in this episode! For some reason the line "I'm Archie Bell and I'm also the Drells!" always cracks me up.

Now that Nabin brought it up…favorite Grandpa quotes, GO!

According to the Naked Gun 2 1/2 commentary, Goulet never let anyone call him Bob. "You may call me Robert or Mr. G."

BERKMAAAAAN!!!!! DID YOU RUIN EVERYTHING AGAIN?!?

I love how Mr. Rosenthal injects with his own ideas without being asked to, then immediately backtracks with "hey, this is just off the top of my head! Lay off me, you parasites!"

For years I misremembered it as "neon clutches." Clutches is the funnier word, IMO.

I may need to see this movie.

I may need to see this movie.

What REALLY sells the whole sequence, for me, is the barely-comprehensible-yet-strangely-triumphant way Homer says "one" ("WAAAAH!")

What REALLY sells the whole sequence, for me, is the barely-comprehensible-yet-strangely-triumphant way Homer says "one" ("WAAAAH!")

THE ELEPHANT THE

THE ELEPHANT THE

Not the elephants!

Not the elephants!

Fun fact: after his presidency was over, Reagen was offered a cameo in Back To The Future Part III as the 1885 Hill Valley mayor who unveiled the clock tower ("May it stand for all time!") He apparently considered it, but decided against it. And then, The Simpsons replaced Back To The Future at Universal theme parks.…