Production
"Children of a Lesser Clod" was written by Al Jean and directed by Michael Polcino. Jean initially had multiple different storylines including Homer getting hurt, before he eventually pitched them all into this episode. During production, the staff members looks for an actual NBA player to appear with a shot gun during the first act, but the no player accepted the role. The line when Milhouse says he knows Bart's dad better than Bart knows him is a reference to Mike Reiss's real life experience. During production the animators need Ralph to get off screen for a two shot so they decided that Ralph followed a butterfly. When Homer puts his daycare permit in the picture frame Bart and Lisa gave him was based on a real life experience of former writer Dana Gould in which he gave his parents a newspaper article about him winning a boston comedy competition and later found out that it was replaced by Larry Bird dunking butterfingers. The third act did not initially include a police car chase and it was placed in after the table read. The scratches in Homer's day-care video were added to the animation in post-production.
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