![]() The censors objected to the suicide reference (and thought that more impressionable viewers would be drawn to imitating what Homer did), so the writers changed it to Homer getting a shotgun and running upstairs to confront the aliens (only to realize that it's Bart). ![]() Originally, after Homer panics over Bart's phony alien invasion message, he is seen mixing a punch bowl filled with Kool-Aid and rat poison in the kitchen.Two of the names on the Krusty the Clown birthday list are the names of people who would later become part of the Simpsons staff: Ken Keeler and Patric Verrone (though Patric Verrone only wrote one episode of The Simpsons - season 17's " Milhouse of Sand and Fog" - and quit writing for The Simpsons in favor of working on Futurama).Lisa puts a vase over Bart's head, calling him, "Bartron, an evil robot from Mars gone berserk." ![]() An early short called " Space Patrol" that aired on " The Tracey Ullman Show" shows Bart, Lisa and Maggie playing a make-believe game of "Space-Patrol". When Bart pretends to be an alien using the Superstar Celebrity Microphone, he calls himself "Bartron".This is the first episode in which Sideshow Mel speaks.The music for the first part of the game was taken from the first level of Contra, while the second was an 8-bit rendition of Monster Mash (referencing the events of " I Love Lisa") while adding in a poison gas cloud that Larry has to evade (referencing " 'Round Springfield"). Larry the Looter was eventually made into its own flash game by GumpyFunction, with similar graphics and the entire beginning recreated, with the only difference being that it is now possible to actually evade the shopkeeper's shotgun round, as well as kill him (ironically, the shopkeeper's death animation was taken directly from Larry's death animation from being shot by the shopkeeper).At the time the episode aired, Soon Ja Du, the shopkeeper who shot Harlins, was appealing her guilty verdict. When Bart played the game, Larry would also be killed by a shopkeeper a la Latasha Harlins. Two of the four officers involved in the assault would be convicted on federal civil rights charges. The episode debuted Larry the Looter three months before the notorious Rodney King verdict riots which saw widespread looting and arson across Los Angeles following the acquittal at the state level for the officers who were videotaped assaulting King the previous year.
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