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 growing of food and the growing of children are both vital to the family’s survival.... Who would dare make the judgment that holding your youngest baby on your lap is less important than weeding a few more yards in the maize field? Yet this is the judgment our society makes constantly. Production of autos, canned soup, advertising copy is important. Housework—cleaning, feeding, and caring—is unimportant.”
—Debbie Taylor (20th century)
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
“The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally to be nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)