Trivia / The Simpsons S 6 E 10 Grampa Vs Sexual Inadequacy

• The CSI Effect: The final scene is credited to a young boy saving his own life after watching Homer and Abe roll on the grass to put out the fire on their clothes.
• Deleted Scene:
  • Before leaving, Homer grabs two bottles of the tonic... so that he can use the corks as ear-plugs to block out Abe's rambling.
  • Originally, the subplot relating to the kids was supposed to end with their learning from Ralph Wiggum what was actually going on, only to spin that into a new conspiracy theory. 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.
• Orphaned Reference: There's a scene 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 original script basically had a full subplot's worth of it, including how their partnership ended.
• Referenced by...: In the Fallout series, the "Radiation King" brand that made Homer and Grampa's TV is also the manufacturer of all of the TVs and radios.
• What Could Have Been:
  • 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.
  • Barney and Grampa working together originally had 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 Barney drinking all the tonic and chases after him. The manager of the hotel they were staying in ends up hearing a very wrong-sounding account from Grampa and pulls two guns on him:
    Grampa: Oh, am I glad to see you. I was gonna spend the night with that young man, but as soon as I took my pants off, he ran away with my money.
  • The original draft has more scenes of Homer's "half-assed parenting." This includes him forcing the kids to spin an activity wheel, which lands on a puppet show, and Bart proceeds to derail their retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
  • After the girl bike scene, Homer forces Bart to ride it and Nelson laughs at him. Homer forces Nelson to apologize, and Nelson requests privacy. Rather than apologizing, Nelson wedgies Bart.
• Write What You Know: 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 ten years old.

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