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On This Day in Simpsons History 🇺🇦

@dailysimpsons

Apr 25, 2023 • 15 tweets • 17 min read • Read on X

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@_rich_moore

#OnThisDay #OTD April 25, 1991, "Lisa's Substitute" (S02E19) first aired on the Fox network. Dir: @_rich_moore. Wr: @jon_vitti. EP: @canyonjim, @simonsam & Matt Groening. Guest-starring Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Bergstrom. #TheSimpsons

@_rich_moore

@_rich_moore @jon_vitti @canyonjim @simonsam This was the first episode of the show to have the opening sequence start at the driveway scene.

@MikeReissWriter

Mr. Bergstrom was modeled on the physical appearance of longtime Simpsons writer and producer @MikeReissWriter.

@MikeReissWriter

@MikeReissWriter When Lisa arrives at Mr. Bergstrom's apartment building, a list of tenants can be seen. One of the names is J. Vitti, for the episode's writer Jon Vitti, and another is M. Kamerman, for then-animator Jen Kamerman.

@MikeReissWriter

@MikeReissWriter Here are some of producer Sam Simon's notes after he first screened this episode, courtesy of @ThatGuy3002. (Tweet is only viewable to those who follow him!)

https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1121478285366525953

@MikeReissWriter

@MikeReissWriter @ThatGuy3002 Jon Vitti said this line was the maximum amount of the Charlotte's Web book they could feature in the episode without being sued. The staff contacted a relative of the author E. B. White, but she would not clear the use of the book.

@ThatGuy3002

More notes on that from @ThatGuy3002, which again, is only viewable if you follow his account.

https://twitter.com/ThatGuy3002/status/1134900381681618949

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 Some screen grabs from the production of "Lisa's Substitute" from @monkeyes' #TheSimpsons home movies (yet to be seen in public)

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes As usual for the time, the @TVGuide print ad for this episode focused on anything Bart, thus just advertising on the B-plot. (That opening tagline tho...)

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide This gag is a reference to the famous picture of former President Harry S. Truman holding up a copy of a prematurely printed edition of the Chicago Tribune that proclaimed "Dewey Defeats Truman", taken the day after his unexpected victory over Thomas E. Dewey in 1948.

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide In 2004,@nancycartwright said it is one of her top three episodes together with "Bart Sells His Soul" and "Bart the Mother."@YeardleySmith also named this one of her favorite episodes.

https://twitter.com/YeardleySmith/status/1198623982771154945

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith Hoffman was not sure if he wanted to be identified with a cartoon show at the time and therefore used the pseudonym Sam Etic in the closing credits. Sam Etic is a play on the word semitic, alluding to the fact that both Hoffman and Mr. Bergstrom are Jewish.

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith The episode references the 1967 film The Graduate, which guest-star Dustin Hoffman starred in and echoed his famous "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me" line. (video: Onikorp)

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith Brooks' original note for "You Are Lisa Simpson" had an exclamation point, but Vitti did not notice the animation had a period until the color screening.

https://twitter.com/jon_vitti/status/502695475384823808

@ThatGuy3002

@ThatGuy3002 @monkeyes @TVGuide @nancycartwright @YeardleySmith Syndication promo for "Lisa's Substitute".

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