Production
According to the Complete Fourteenth Season commentary, the FOX network insisted that the 300th episode be scheduled specifically on February 16, 2003 so that there was time to plan a huge promotion for the episode. However the actual 300th episode would have already aired two weeks prior. Blink-182 recorded their lines for the episode on April 24, 2002, Hawk recording his a week later on April 29. Mark Hoppus of blink-182 has stated that being on The Simpsons was "truly one of those “wow, this is unreal” moments that I’ve been lucky enough to experience. It still makes my day every time I think about it." Tony Hawk also said "being on The Simpsons, let alone a milestone episode, really made me think to myself that I've actually, completely made it". Originally, Homer was supposed to blow Bart's money from his "Baby Stink Breath" commercials on a star that goes supernova, but the episode aired around the time that pop singer Michael Jackson caused controversy when he hung his son over a balcony in Germany and the reference was added at the last minute.
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Famous quotes containing the word production:
“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“It is part of the educator’s responsibility to see equally to two things: First, that the problem grows out of the conditions of the experience being had in the present, and that it is within the range of the capacity of students; and, secondly, that it is such that it arouses in the learner an active quest for information and for production of new ideas. The new facts and new ideas thus obtained become the ground for further experiences in which new problems are presented.”
—John Dewey (1859–1952)
“The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)