History Trivia / TheSimpsonsS7E11MargeBeNotProud

* RecycledScript:
** This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]".
** Remember when ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' did this?

** This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" (only as a depressing ChristmasEpisode instead of a funny, off-season episode).

* TechnologyMarchesOn: All the video games seen in this episode are on ROM cartridges and ''Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge'' is shown with pixelated graphics and a very artificial-sounding robotic voice coming from the titular golfer. Dating this episode to the mid 90s since compact discs and later digital formats have taken over as the standard video game format by the next decade as well as more advanced programing and graphics have given games more realistic visuals and sounds.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mike Scully based this episode on his own experiences getting caught shoplifting as a kid.

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" (only as a depressing ChristmasEpisode instead of a funny, off-season episode).

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Krusty's Christmas special features appearances by former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, who died in February 2000, and a video Christmas card from Music/TupacShakur, who died in September 1996 (only ''9 months'' after this episode first aired).

* HostilityOnTheSet: Josh Weinstein, co-showrunner at the time, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he refused to do the answering machine gag as written since he didn't understand why [[BaitAndSwitch Brodka would keep talking despite no one being on the line]], so Weinstein had to stand in the recording booth and adlib some responses from Marge and later edit them out).

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Krusty's Christmas special features appearances by former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry[[note]]the same Tom Landry that Hank Hill idolizes and Bobby's school is named after as seen on ''King of the Hill''[[/note]], who died in February 2000, and a video Christmas card from Music/TupacShakur, who died in September 1996 (only ''9 months'' after this episode first aired).

* WagTheDirector: Josh Weinstein, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he refused to do the answering machine gag as written since he didn't understand why [[RuleOfFunny Brodka would keep talking despite no one being on the line]], so Weinstein had to stand in the recording booth and adlib some responses from Marge and later edit them out).

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" (only as a depressing ChristmasEpisode instead).
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Krusty's Christmas special features appearances by former Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry, who died in February 2000, and a video Christmas card from Music/TupacShakur, who died in September 1996 (only 9 months after this episode first aired).

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There actually was a game called ''VideoGame/BloodStorm''.

* WagTheDirector: Josh Weinstein, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes" (for example, he refused to do the answering machine gag as written since he didn't understand why [[DontExplainTheJoke Brodka would keep talking despite no one being on the line]], so Weinstein had to stand in the recording booth and adlib some responses from Marge and later edit them out).

* WagTheDirector: Josh Weinstein, called Creator/LawrenceTierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes".

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" (only as a depressing ChristmasEpisode, though "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace" was so depressing, it made this episode look good).

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There actually was a game called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloodStorm Blood Storm].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: There actually was a game called [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BloodStorm BloodStorm].

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]".

* WagTheDirector: Josh Weinstein, called Lawrence Tierney's appearance "the craziest guest star experience we ever had". In addition to yelling at and intimidating employees of the show, Tierney made unreasonable requests such as abandoning his distinctive voice to do the part in a southern accent and refusing to perform lines if he did not "get the jokes".
* WriteWhatYouKnow: Mike Scully based this episode on his own experiences getting caught shoplifting as a kid.

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie".

* RecycledScript: This episode has been described as Marge’s version of the episode "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"