In his book The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, John Ortved responded to this, commenting that despite the controversies the episode was " in fact a long-winded and lame exploration of the topic.

It was named by Vanity Fair < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s John Ortved as the show's fifth best episode.

" In The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History ( 2009 ), John Ortved describes Mirkin's era as moving the show away from more " realistic " emotional and character-based stories to " pure comedy " and " surreal " humor.

Ortved — using interviews with writers Bob Kushell and Brent Forrester and Mirkin's assistant Charleen Easton — describes Mirkin as an " outsider " on the show, with the writing staff, at least initially, divided with respect to Mirkin's comedy and leadership style.

Ortved said, " While the Simpsons people have always claimed evenhandedness in their satire, the show is, after all, hardly right-leaning, and it is hard to miss how gleefully the former President is mocked here.

Tomas Ortved releases his solo debut Sun Pistol in 2008.

John Ortved wrote " Scully's episodes excel when compared to what The Simpsons airs nowadays, but he was the man at the helm when the ship turned towards the iceberg.

" Ortved noted in his book that blaming a single show runner for what some perceive as the lowering quality of the show " is unfair.

* In episode 17, season 5 of " Family Guy ", entitled " It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One ", the Griffin family is wearing powdered wigs in their living room and Stewie Griffin begins playing several classical compositions, including those by Joseph Haydn and George Frideric Handel, when Peter Griffin, as Salieri, says " Play Peter Griffin ", alluding to the 1984 film Amadeus, when the disguised Salieri character requests that Mozart imitate his compositional style.

* In episode 13, season 2 of 30 Rock entitled Succession Tracey Jordan says that he is Mozart and Frank is the guy who was always jealous of Mozart.

In chapter 10 of the first part of the novel, Don Quixote says he must take the magical helmet of Mambrino, an episode from Canto I of Orlando, and itself a reference to Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando innamorato.

In the Doctor Who episode " The Sound of Drums ", The Master says to the American President, " Anything I could do?

In the Adventure Time episode, In Your Footsteps, Jake says, " He's trying to steal your identity.

In the same episode, Q says that Picard is " the closest thing in this universe that I have to a friend.

This was referenced on-screen in the episode " Blink " ( 2007 ), when the character Detective Inspector Shipton says the TARDIS " isn't a real box.

In the 2008 episode " Forest of the Dead ", River Song ( a character whose timeline intersects with the Doctor in reverse order ) says to the Doctor that she knows he would be able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers.

However, a Chinese source found in Dunhuang written by Mo-ho-yen says their side won, and some scholars conclude that the entire episode is fictitious.

Another way Steed contacted her was in the beginning of episode 13, " A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Station " when she enters her flat and sees a Meccano Percy the Small Engine going around a circular track with a note on one of the train cars that says " Mrs. Peel " in bold letters, she then walks over to Steed who says " you're needed ".

* Mentioned in the SyFy TV show Sanctuary ( episode " Requiem ") when Helen Magnus says that he was an abnormal (" You don't think a normal person would choose a job that impossible?

In the Cracking Contraptions episode " The Soccamatic ", Wallace says to Gromit, " How do you like my Preston North End soccamatic, Gromit ?".

This can be seen directly at least in two references to the Acme Corporation from Looney Tunes: in the world-map for episode two, which is the blueprints of the Vorticon Mothership, there is a small sign in the Standard Galactic Alphabet that says " Blueprint — Acme ".

In the third broadcast episode, " Mary Kaye's Baby ", Jesse says that he has delivered many babies, including Bo and Luke.

In another episode, " Dear Doctor ," Jonathan Archer says:

In the Deep Space Nine episode " Explorers ," Benjamin Sisko says that when he first entered Starfleet Academy, he rapidly spent an entire month's allotment of transporter credits ( which may not be the same thing as 23rd-century credits ) on transporting back and forth to his home in New Orleans.

In The Jetsons episode " Millionaire Astro ", in order to save Astro George Jetson says they will need a " Perry Spaceson " at the trial to win the case.

" Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old ( in 1993's " Selma's Choice ", his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, and in " Duffless ", Moleman confessed his real age at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, implying that his grotesque appearance has been caused by severe alcoholism ), though Moleman has been seen at the Springfield Retirement Home on season ten's " The Old Man and the " C " Student " and in the season 13 episode Little Girl in the Big Ten.

Another example of breaking the fourth wall occurs in an episode when Comic Book Guy's chair collapses, and he sarcastically says " Ooh, a fat man falls.

During the episode " Cape Feare ", for example, the parole board asks Bob why he has a tattoo that says " Die, Bart, Die ".

Whilst acknowledging that the episode " contains nothing that is historically impossible " Hill says that Matthew's " real concern is ... with theological reflection on the theme of OT fulfilment ".

In the opening scene of episode 6, series 1 ( 2010 ), of the British drama Downton Abbey, Mary Crawley, pushing her wheel chair bound cousin Matthew Crawley across the lawn in the Summer of 1918 says, " I shall have arms like Jack Johnson if I'm not careful.

* In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode " Prehibernation Week ", SpongeBob says, " They're tearing me apart.

Walter Burkert notes the presence of Tethys in the episode of Iliad XIV that the Ancients called the " Deception of Zeus ", where Hera, to mislead Zeus, says she wants to go to Oceanus, " origin of the gods " and Tethys " the mother ".

In method as well as in theme this little anecdote with its details selected as much for expressiveness and allegory as for `` realism '', anticipates a kind of musical composition, as well as a kind of fictional composition, in which, as Leverkuhn says, `` there shall be nothing unthematic ''.

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

If, as Reid says, `` nearly all his poetry was produced when he was not taking opium '', there may be some reason to doubt that he was under its influence in the period from 1896 to 1900 when he was writing the poems to Katie King and making plans for another book of verse.

He says the state, in order to proceed with economic development, must develop an understanding of how the various parts of its economy fit together and dovetail into the national economy.

Referring to Britain, he says, `` We see a nation that traditionally values sovereignty above all else willing to give up its economy, placing this authority in Continental hands ''.

Lagrange's law says that its velocity is equal to the square root of the product of the depth times the acceleration due to gravity.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

`` A remarkable substance '', says Dr. Keys, `` quite apart from its tendency to be deposited in the walls of arteries ''.

" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

Thus, " Armageddon " would mean " Mountain of Assembly ," which Jordan says is " a reference to the assembly at Mount Sinai, and to its replacement, Mount Zion.

One hypothesis for the cave fish's evolution says that because of its dark habitat, the fish embryo saves energy it would normally use to develop eyes to develop other body parts, and this developmental choice would eventually dominate the population.

Among the tracks he recorded was an early version of " That'll Be The Day ", which took its title from a line that John Wayne's character says repeatedly in the 1956 film The Searchers.

Micah 1: 2-7 draws on this event: Samaria, says the prophet, has been destroyed by God because of its crimes of idolatry, oppression of the poor, and misuse of power.

Wu Jinglian, one of China's leading economists and a longtime champion of its transition to free markets, says that it faces two starkly contrasting futures: a market economy under the rule of law or crony capitalism.

Brent says that when in the throes of its pain " he was, at first, almost stupefied, and then aloof, cold, depressed, extremely suspicious, impatient of the slightest crossing, and subject to violent outbursts of temper ".

Suppose, says Searle, that this computer performs its task so convincingly that it comfortably passes the Turing test: it convinces a human Chinese speaker that the program is itself a live Chinese speaker.

Rothkopf says that the United States should embrace " cultural imperialism " as in its self interest.

A geologist says that its structure is nearly impossible.

When the human main character, Takeru, argues that humans also have the ability to reproduce and disperse, the higher existence says carbon too easily mingles with other elements and therefore it would be impossible for a carbon-based existence to have evolved on its own.

The Oxford English Dictionary says its earliest quotation for " clipper " is from 1830.

Isaiah the prophet, in Chapter 19, Verse 19 says " In that day there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the LORD at its border.

In 1754 to 1762 Hume published the History of England, a 6-volume work of immense sweep, which extends, says its subtitle, " From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 ".