Trivia / The Simpsons S 10 E 2 The Wizard Of Evergreen Terrace

• Technology Marches On: Homer's idea behind the "Lazy-Man Reclining Toilet-Chair" is bringing the bathroom to where the TV is. Today, smartphones and tablets do the opposite: bringing the TV to the bathroom.
• Write What You Know:
  • Dan Greaney based Homer's intense obsession with Edison on the fact that when he himself would have an obsession with something in life, he would badger and bore people with details of it.
  Homer's relationship to Thomas Edison's achievements is a version of my own experience of trying to communicate the experience of things you love by driving people crazy.
  • The untippable chair was also an idea of Greaney's; while working on the episode, he was leaning back in his chair and fell backwards. He casually said it would be great if there were legs on the back of the chair and someone in the writing room said that would be a great invention for Homer.

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