Production
The episode was written by Richard Appel, but the idea of Bart and Lisa attending a military academy had previously been pitched and had been floating around since 1991. The idea had not yet been used as an episode plot because the writers had not felt comfortable with taking Bart and Lisa to a strange place early in the series.
During the scene where the Commandant is talking, there is a brief shot of Lisa blinking. As there had been an error in the final print of the episode, the shot was animated, painted and shot the Friday before the episode's airdate. The spiky blond-haired boy, who runs towards the Eliminator while screaming, is a caricature of director Mike B. Anderson.
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