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The episode was recorded at the Darryl F. Zanuck Building on the 20th Century Fox lot in West Los Angeles, where the cast and crew of The Simpsons gathered on a Monday morning in October 1993.

Before the recording session took part, the main voice actors of the show ( Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright, and Hank Azaria ) sat down with executive producer David Mirkin and a crew of writers at a table reading to determine what shape the script was in.

There was " genuine hearty laughter at various points " during the script run-through, said Ray Richmond, a reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News.

Immediately after the reading, the crew of writers hurried to make script changes based on what got laughs and what did not, while the actors waited impatiently.

Mirkin told Richmond that the script would require the equivalent of ten rewrites: " At every step, there are amendments and additions and refinements.

" Richmond commented that as the recording session started, the " astounding versatility " of the actors became clear ; " Castellaneta bounces from being Homer to Grampa to Barney without taking a breath and minus any evident vocal similarities.

" Mirkin said the episode was also a tour de force for Kavner, who in one scene voices Marge, Marge's two sisters, and Marge's mother.

He added that it was tough on Kavner's voice because those characters talk with " gravelly voices ".