History Trivia / TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud

** Mr. Burns is trying to shut off the tv and beer supply.

** Homer trying to persuade Maggie to give up Bobo by giving her a box to play with... only for Homer to like the box better. It is worth noting because a later scene where Marge tells Homer that she's proud of him refusing the money for the sake of his daughter has a call-back where Homer plays with the box before Marge takes it away, and, without it, the scene of Homer playing with the box until Marge takes it comes off as the kind of random humor you'd find on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The episode clearly dates itself to before April 2001, when Joey Ramone passed away. Then Dee Dee would die in 2002, Johnny in 2004, and Tommy in 2014. UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush, who makes a cameo as one of the guests turned from the birthday party, then passed away in 2018.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush getting turned away at Burns' party because he only served one term as U.S. President (1988 to 1992) and UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter (another one-termer U.S. President; serving from 1976 to 1980) trying to be friends with Bush, Sr. because of it.

** Mr. Burns is trying to shut off the TV and the beer supply.

** Homer trying to persuade Maggie to give up Bobo by giving her a box to play with...only for Homer to like the box better. It is worth noting because a later scene where Marge tells Homer that she's proud of him refusing the money for the sake of his daughter has a call-back where Homer plays with the box before Marge takes it away, and, without it, the scene of Homer playing with the box until Marge takes it comes off as the kind of random humor you'd find on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

* EditedForSyndication: The American syndicated version (barring the DVD and the cable reruns) have edited the following scenes.
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush getting turned away at Burns' party because he only served one term as U.S. President and UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter (another one-termer U.S. President) trying to be friends with Bush, Sr. because of it.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The episode clearly dates itself to before April 2001, when Joey Ramone passed away. Then Dee Dee would die in 2002, Johnny in 2004, and Tommy in 2014. UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush, who makes a cameo as one of the guest turned from the birthday party, then passed away in 2018.

** Originally, one of the historical moments Bobo was around for was John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the writers thought the joke would be in bad taste (and would cause FridgeLogic, because if Bobo was on the ''Nautilius'' in 1957, how would he have ended up in Dallas in 1963 -- unless the ''Nautilius'' part was the new scene the writers created to cover up the rejected JFK scene).

* DeletedScene: The ending of the episode was originally longer, but two segments were cut. The first saw Washington D.C. destroyed by invading Canadian troops, who found Bobo. The second featured the entire planet being overrun by giant Redwoods and spotted owls.

** The ending was gonna include Bobo ending up in Washington DC, where its under attack by Canadians. And a TimeSkip where a noble-looking Homer is in an Earth inhabited by very tall redwoods and large owls.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush getting turned away at Burns' party because he only served one term as U.S. President and UsefulNotes/Jimmy Carter (another one-termer U.S. President) trying to be friends with Bush, Sr. because of it.

** UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush getting turned away at Burns' party because he only served one term as U.S. President and Jimmy Carter (another one-termer U.S. President) trying to be friends with Bush, Sr. because of it.

* KarmaHoudini: It just so happens this is the episode that contains the picture included on the Karma Houdini main page

** The ending was gonna include Bobo ending up in Washington DC, where its under attack by Canadians. And a TimeSkip where a noble-looking Homer is in an Earth inhabited by very tall trees and large owls.

** The ImagineSpot of Homer owning his own recording studio and singing the Big Mac jingle before drooling all over himself and the microphone.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, one of the historical moments Bobo was around for was John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the writers thought the joke would be in bad taste (and would cause FridgeLogic, because if Bobo was on the ''Nautilius'' in 1957, how would he have ended up in Dallas in 1963 -- unless the ''Nautilius'' part was the new scene the writers created to cover up the rejected JFK scene).

** Homer trying to persuade Maggie to give up Bobo by giving her a box to play with...only for Homer to like the box better. It is worth noting because a later scene where Marge tells Homer that she's proud of him refusing the money for the sake of his daughter has a call-back where Homer plays with the box before Marge takes it away, and, without it, the scene of Homer playing with the box until Marge takes it comes off as the kind of random humor you'd find on ''FamilyGuy''.

** Homer trying to persuade Maggie to give up Bobo by giving her a box to play with...only for Homer to like the box better. It is worth noting because a later scene where Marge tells Homer that she's proud of him refusing the money for the sake of his daughter has a call-back where Homer plays with the box before Marge takes it away.

** GeorgeHWBush getting turned away at Burns' party because he only served one term as U.S. President and Jimmy Carter (another one-termer U.S. President) trying to be friends with Bush, Sr. because of it.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Originally, one of the historical moments Bobo was around for was John F. Kennedy's assassination, but the writers thought the joke would be in bad taste (and would cause FridgeLogic, because if Bobo was on the ''Nautilius'' in 1957, how would he have ended up in Dallas in 1963 -- unless the ''Nautilius'' part was the new scene the writers created to cover up the rejected JFK scene)?