" Prior to the episode's official broadcast on television in the United States, Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post called Limbaugh's guest appearance in the episode " genuinely funny ," and David Weigel of Slate commented, " I'm not at all surprised that Limbaugh would embrace the show and answer its mockery of conservatives ; the plotline is a perfect conservative narrative.

In an episode of the BBC drama series Dalziel and Pascoe, a public house situated on the North York Moors which the episode's plot revolves around is named ' The Barguest ', and features a large black dog on its sign.

The episode's subplot, which revolves around Marge listening in on phone calls using a baby monitor, was inspired by former showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who also listened to private phone calls with a monitor.

The episode's subplot revolves around Marge, who listens to phone calls by picking up their frequencies with a baby monitor.

The episode's plot primarily revolves along Hobo's effort to destroy all evidence of his origins, which he successfully does.

Other inaccuracies include scenes based around " SNL ", specifically the first episode's host.

Toying with many television conventions, Monty Python's Flying Circus ( 1969 – 74 ) played around with the concept of cold opens, sometimes having an entire episode before the starting credits, and, in two instances (" The Cycling Tour ", the first episode to have a full-length story, and " The Golden Age of Ballooning ", the first episode of series four ) had no opening credits at all ( the former has a brief title card with the episode's title, and the latter has no titles because Terry Gilliam had not finished the new opening sequence ).

"[...] The Internet was just starting to turn into a serious waste of time around this point in history ", staff writer Matt Selman said in the episode's DVD commentary.

" I pitched setpiece to Tim when we were pitching around ideas ", Selman said in the episode's DVD commentary.

In Season 5, Episode 9, " The Ornithophobia Diffusion ", the episode's Sheldon plot centred around his confronting and eventual overcoming of this condition.

In John Ortved's book The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, Lee stated that he attended the episode's table read, and was impressed with the size and quality of the creative staff, who all sat around the conference table.

As the first radio episode's writing progressed, the Guide became the central focus of his story, and he decided to base the whole series around it, with the initial destruction of Earth being the only hold-over from the " Ends of the Earth " proposal.

* The Game 365, hosted by Fran Healy, features profiles and interviews of players and coaches with the backdrop of following each episode's guest around for a day in his / her athletic environment.

Capill, who was campaigning against the film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which was released around the same time " Spontaneous Combustion " was broadcast, took exception to the episode's portrayal of the Stations of the Cross reenactment.

Much of the episode's humor is structured around cutaway sequences that parody popular culture, including those centered around The Chronicles of Narnia, Sesame Street, Homicide: Life on the Street, Mentos, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Much of the episode's humor, in standard Family Guy fashion, is structured around cutaway sequences that parody popular culture, including those centered around Star Trek, Wizard of Oz, ALF, Gilligan's Island, Bewitched, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Much of the episode's humor is structured around cutaway sequences that parody popular culture, including references to Happy Days, Nova, One Day at a Time, and The More You Know.

During the credits, the boys settle down to a game of cards, while around them, all of the episode's characters enter the house.

" In the book Leaving Springfield, Matthew Henry praised the episode's critiquing of " the most common misconception about homosexuality: namely that gayness is somehow contagious ", as well as its other themes.

It also contains a hidden neural relay linked to River Song, saving her at the episode's conclusion — the purpose for which the future Doctor gave Professor Song the device.

Howerd was central to most of the gags and he started each episode with a prologue — a " to camera " piece that was seldom concluded and rarely had anything to do with the episode's plot.

" The Obsolete Man " takes the episode's literary subtext — the notion that reading may eventually be considered " obsolete " — to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian ( also played by Meredith ) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence.

* Synopsis — a brief summary of the episode's plot

A 2004 episode about the importance of voting on election day seemed to suggest that the men in the family were voting for President George W. Bush, while the women were voting for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry — however, the script went out of the way to make sure that no mention of either candidate was ever made directly by name, leaving the viewer to decide ; the episode's message was " Vote, no matter who you vote for.

The audience's first critical assumption — that this is a " musical episode " where the Buffy cast is presumably unaware that they are singing — is overturned when it becomes clear that the characters are all too aware of their musical interludes and that determining the supernatural causes for the singing will be the focus of the episode's story.

In his memoir Star Trek: Memories, William Shatner called this one of the series ' worst episodes — in the full general autobiography Up Till Now, he called the episode's plot a " tribute " to NBC executives who slashed the show's budget and placed it in a bad time slot.

This sets the stage for subsequent appearances — each as the episode's villain — in the two-part episode " The Demon's Quest ", adapting his attempts from the comic to make Batman his heir and then to cleanse the world of humanity.

The jury — made up of notorious figures like Benedict Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, Blackbeard, John Dillinger, the starting line-up of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, and former U. S. President Richard Nixon ( who, at the time of the episode's premiere, was still alive, although Ned points out that this was part of a deal Nixon made with him ) — rules in favor of the Simpsons and the Grim Reaper judge dismisses the case.

The action before the title sequence which was supposed to resolve the previous episode's cliffhanger — by showing the Doctor turning the tables with the electrified ID badge — was omitted.

They highlighted scenes " such as the building of the ' Lucky Savage ' casino and the destruction of Homer's chapel by an earthquake and a river of lava ," but also noted that " Some of the episode's best humor is back in Springfield, after Homer makes Bart the man of the house — as Bart fills in for Homer at the nuclear plant, Mr. Burns berates " Homer " for his poor performance record, gets tired of talking and ends up just poking Bart with a stick.

") Another recurring gag involves rubber chickens being thrown at Svengoolie after a cornier-than-usual joke — usually at the end of each episode's closing sketch.

* As Whedon points out on the episode's DVD commentary, Early, having secretly assessed the crew from their conversations, takes down Shepherd Book the same way he handles ex-soldier Mal — quickly and brutally — providing another hint of the preacher's hidden nature.

Dudley uses variations of the theme as a basis for all of the episode's scores and was awarded a British Academy Television Award for her work on the third series.

* The episode's title is a reference to the third line in the nursery rhyme " Rock-a-bye Baby ".

For example, the first episode's random special niche thanks credit celebrity was Rick Dees, and the third episode's was Greg Maddux.

" The episode's reference to Le Ballon Rouge was named the third greatest film reference in the history of the show by Nathan Ditum of Total Film.

Even though " She of Little Faith " is a Christmas episode, the holiday is not mentioned until the episode's third act.

The episode's third act features many references to the 1967 science fiction series The Prisoner.

Following its broadcast, the episode received mixed reviews from critics ; commentators were divided over the episode's third act.

The episode's third act, which serves as a parody of The Prisoner, features several references to the series.

" However, he was critical of the episode's third act.

The third episode's overworld is a top-down perspective, similar to Commander Keen, changing to the traditional platformer style when entering one of the 15 levels.

Because the Simpsons visit Toronto in the episode, the Fox network decided to promote it as the episode's main focus, even though Canada is not mentioned before the third act.

The last removed scene was from the episode's third segment.

The episode's third segment was written by Selman.

The beginning of the episode's third act shows Marge and Lisa watching a Super Bowl commercial.

" The episode's third act went through several incarnations, and the writers had a lot of ideas about what Burns should do once he has captured the Loch Ness monster.

Tim Conway appears as himself in the episode's third segment.

According to Jean, the episode's table read went " great " until the third act.