History Trivia / TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy

** Barney and Grampa working together originally had [[https://archive.org/details/2F07-grampa-vs.-sexual-inadequacy-table-draft even more scenes]]. Their partnership ends when Grampa gets fed up with Barney's alcoholism and dumps all the beer down the toilet, but then finds Grampa drinking all the tonic and chases after him. The manager of the hotel they were staying in ends up hearing a ''very'' [[LessDisturbingInContext wrong-sounding]] account from Grampa and pulls two guns on him:

* OrphanedReference: There's a gag in the third act where, since Homer doesn't want anything to do with Grampa, Grampa carries on the "Simpson & Son" business with Barney acting as the "son". While it feels like a crazy throwaway gag, the [[https://archive.org/details/2F07-grampa-vs.-sexual-inadequacy-table-draft original script]] basically had a full subplot's worth of it, including how their partnership ended.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The episode was originally intended to deal with Homer and Marge's problematic sex life, but later developed into a story about the relationship between Homer and Grampa. The season 9 finale "Natural Born Kissers" would explore Homer and Marge's sex life.

* DeletedScene: Originally, the subplot relating to the kids was supposed to end with their learning from Ralph Wiggum what was actually going on. However, it was cut from the episode when it aired because the writers couldn't figure out how to justify someone like Ralph as having any knowledge about sex.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the kids unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's EpilepticTrees to Lisa's OccamsRazor? A DeletedScene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new wild theory off it.
-->'''Bart:''' Sex, eh? And where you find sex, you'll find the ''mole people!''

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Are the kids unaware of sex, or do they just prefer Bart's EpilepticTrees to Lisa's evocation of OccamsRazor? A DeletedScene seems to point at the latter when, finding out the truth, they're unperturbed and Bart spins a whole new wild theory off it.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The episode was originally intended to deal with Homer and Marge's problematic sex life, but later developed into a story about the relationship between Homer and Grampa.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Al Gore is depicted as the Vice President, cementing this as an episode that could only come from the '90s.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Bart's obsession with conspiracy theories was inspired by the writers' observation that children around Bart's age go through a stage where they become "addicted" to information about [=UFOs=] and paranormal phenomena. Bill Oakley himself had gone through the same thing when he was around 10 years old.

* ReferencedBy: In the VideoGame/{{Fallout}} series, the "Radiation King" brand that made Homer and Grampa's TV is also the manufacturer of [[https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Radiation_King_(company) all of the TVs and radios]].

* TheCSIEffect: The final scene is credited to a young boy saving his own life due to watching Homer and Abe roll on the grass to put out the fire on their clothes.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Bart's obsession with conspiracy theories was inspired by the writers' observation that children around Bart's age go through a stage where they become "addicted" to information about UFOs and paranormal phenomena. Bill Oakley himself had gone through the same thing when he was around 10 years old.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Bart's obsession with conspiracy theories was inspired by the writers' observation that children around Bart's age go through a stage where they become "addicted" to information about UFOs and paranormal phenomena.[4] Bill Oakley himself had gone through the same thing when he was around 10 years old.