Trivia / The Simpsons S1 E11 "The Crepes of Wrath"

• Accent Depundent: The title being a reference to The Grapes of Wrath only makes sense to people who pronounce "crepes" to rhyme with "grapes". The word is actually pronounced "creps" to many, as in French where the word came from.
• Accidentally-Correct Writing: In the DVD Commentary, the writers note that the bit about adding antifreeze to wine was a parody of a 1985 incident where some wine was found contaminated with antifreeze, but that, obviously, the contamination wasn't deliberate. Except that the contamination was discovered when a winery started listing antifreeze as a business expense, and it was very deliberately added to make the wine sweeter.^note This is definitely dangerous, though not as dangerous as it sounds. Ethylene glycol is indeed poisonous, but when mixed with sufficient quantities of ethanol, it passes harmlessly into urine. It's still more expensive than sugar or corn syrup, though, and many brands of Austrian wine at the time had accidentally made the wine more poisonous— to the point of seriously endangering public health— by further diluting the wine with sugar (which cancels out the effects of ethanol) to sweeten the wine even more and make the glycol harder to detect, ultimately resulting in one of the biggest public health scandals in Austria and West Germany.
• The Cast Showoff: Nancy Cartwright is fluent in French.
• First Appearance: Of Agnes Skinner.
• Missing Trailer Scene: The promo features scenes of Bart wooing at some French dancers and eating French chocolates. Both scenes were cut.

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