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:
“I really know nothing more criminal, more mean, and more ridiculous than lying. It is the production either of malice, cowardice, or vanity; and generally misses of its aim in every one of these views; for lies are always detected, sooner or later.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“... this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competition and shall come to pool their powers of production is coming to pass all over the earth.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“Perestroika basically is creating material incentives for the individual. Some of the comrades deny that, but I can’t see it any other way. In that sense human nature kinda goes backwards. It’s a step backwards. You have to realize the people weren’t quite ready for a socialist production system.”
—Gus Hall (b. 1910)