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"'''Margical History Tour'''" is the eleventh episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' [[The Simpsons (season 15)]]. The episode aired on February 8, [[2004]].
 
  
This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered [[anthology episodes]] that features mini-stories.  
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"'''Margical History Tour'''" is the eleventh episode of [[season 15]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the three-hundred and twenty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on February 8, [[2004]]. The episode is written by [[Brian Kelley]] and directed by [[Mike B. Anderson]].
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== Synopsis ==
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{{Desc|When the Springfield Library becomes low on books, the children of Springfield Elementary don't have enough resources to do research for their history papers. To help out, [[Marge]] gives the kids verbal anecdotes about historical figures including tales of [[King Henry VIII]], [[Sacagawea]]'s assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a very Bart-like [[Mozart]] feuding with his sister [[Sally Salieri|Salieri]].}}
  
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
[[Marge Simpson|Marge]] takes [[Bart Simpson|Bart]], [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], and [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]] to the library to study. The librarian tells Lisa that there are no more books, the library is now a 'multi-media learning center for children of all ages, but mostly bums'. The only items they find in the children's center are [[Everybody Poops]] the video and Yu-Gi-Oh! price guides. When Milhouse complains about needing a pumpkin sticker or better on a paper about Henry VIII Marge makes the best of the situation by telling stories about history.
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[[Marge]] takes the kids and [[Milhouse]] to the [[Springfield Public Library]] to study. They realize that there are very few books at the library, most of which are noneducational. Milhouse complains because he needs to write a book report on [[Henry VIII]]. So, Marge decides to tell the story to him to help him.
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=== Henry VIII ===
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[[File:Margarine suffocates Henry.png|thumb|left|Margarine of Aragon suffocates Henry VIII]]
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King [[Henry VIII]] (played by Homer) is unhappy because he can't sire a son, despite he and his wife, [[Margarine of Aragon]] (played by Marge), trying frequently. One day, Henry VIII is checking himself out in the mirror when he is complimented by [[Anne Boleyn]], who has been dubbed "Anne of the Child-Bearing Hips" by ''Wench Magazine''. Henry VIII immediately wants to marry her instead in an attempt to have a son. Margarine takes Henry to a [[marriage counselor]] (played by [[Dr. Hibbert]]) before Henry decides to go to see Sir [[Thomas More]] (played by [[Ned Flanders]]) to see about getting a divorce. After being told he is not permitted to do so as a Catholic, he founds his own church to allow him to get a divorce. Henry and Margarine divorce and Henry gets married to Anne Boleyn instead. Nine months later, Anne gives birth to a daughter and Henry has her executed.
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After Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry VIII meets [[Jane Seymour]] and immediately decides to marry her. Just after they marry, Henry realizes that her voice and speaking mannerisms are really annoying and has her executed. (In real life, Jane Seymour died in childbirth.) After this, he had another couple of wives executed before married the ninety-five year old [[Anne of Cleves]], due to her track record of having ten sons. (In real life, he and Anne of Cleves, who never had any children, divorced amicably after a brief union.)
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Shortly after this, Henry's advisor, [[Advisor Moe|Moe]], tells him that they are out of pikes for heads. Henry has him executed before checking the pike storage. Years later, on Henry's death bed, Margarine comes back to see him. Henry apologizes to her for locking her away and asks her to take him back. Margarine then grabs his pillow and suffocates him to death.
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After the story, Milhouse thanks Marge and walks away, only for [[Nelson]] to trip him up and steal his notebook. Lisa then complains that she can't find anything about [[Sacagawea]], only books about baseball player [[Ron Santo]]. Marge then tells her the story of Sacagawea.
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=== Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea ===
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[[File:Lewis and Clark save Sacagawea.png|thumb|right|Lewis and Clark save Sacagawea]]
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In 1804, President [[Thomas Jefferson]] (played by [[Mayor Quimby]]) sent [[Meriwether Lewis]] (played by [[Lenny Leonard]]) and [[William Clark]] (played by [[Carl Carlson]]) to find the Northwest Passage. They went to a Native American village to seek help from them. The [[Chief Homer|Native American Chief]] gave them his daughter, Sacagawea, to help them on their expedition, with Sacagawea's husband, [[Charbonneau]] (played by Milhouse), also joining them. Sacagawea warns the expedition about many poisonous things they were trying to eat or use, which annoyed the expedition. One of the members, [[Tweedleburger]] (played by [[Otto Mann]]), ate some berries to spite her and quickly died. As the expedition went on, the explorers became more and more annoyed at Sacagawea's bossiness.
  
===Henry VIII===
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Eventually, the expedition comes across a group of Native Americans led by [[Indian Bart|Sacagawea's brother]] (played by Bart). Sacagawea's brother kills Charbonneau and the expedition moves on, eventually reaching the [[Columbia River]]. When Clark mentions that he wants to get to the [[Pacific Ocean]] to have mermaid sex, Sacagawea tells him that they were salmon. Lewis and Clark then get annoyed at Sacagawea, telling her that she should be grateful for civilizing her. Sacagawea then storms off and lays down on a warm, woolly rock, which turns out to be a mountain lion. Lewis and Clark then come along and save her, showing that they had listened to her advice during the journey. She then rejoins them and they find their way to the Pacific Ocean and name the area [[Eugene, Oregon]].
King Henry VIII ([[Homer Simpson|Homer]]) is unhappy that his wife, Catherine of Aragon](Marge, spelled as Margerine of Aragon) has borne him a daughter, Mary I (Lisa). Unable to execute Margerine because her father is the king of Spain, Henry attempts marriage counseling. Margerine then files for a divorce, forcing Henry to split his kingdom. Wanting a son to inherit the throne, Henry marries Anne Boleyn ([[Lindsey Naegle]]); nine months later, Anne tearfully apologizes to Henry for having borne him another daughter, Elizabeth I and is summarily executed. Henry goes through many wives, resulting in more and more daughters. Finally, after many years and executions, Henry is old and sick, lying on his bed, with Margerine by his side. He asks for her forgiveness for having locked her up in a dungeon and asks her to be his queen again. She accepts tenderly and then smothers him to death with his pillow. Elizabeth then becomes queen of England.
 
  
After the story, Milhouse leaves eagerly to start his report on Henry VIII, only to be tripped by [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]], who steals Milhouse's notes from Marge's story to use for his own report.
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After the story, Marge asks Bart what historic figure he wants to write about. When he doesn't give a proper answer, Marge talks about [[Mozart]].
  
===Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea===
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=== Mozart and Salieri ===
Meriwether Lewis ([[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]]) and William Clark ([[Carl Carlson|Carl]]) are assigned to explore the West by President Thomas Jefferson ([[Joe Quimby|Mayor Quimby]]). They meet a tribe of Native Americans led by Homer as the tribal chief, who offers them the guidance of his daughter, Sacagawea (Lisa). Sacagawea gives them many tips on how to survive the land, including how to scare a cougar, but quickly becomes fed up with Lewis and Clark's antics and stupidity. Finally, she leaves them and sets off back home. She encounters a cougar, but before it can attack, Lewis and Clark save her using the advice she gave them. The party arrives at the Pacific Ocean and a heavy downpour begins, prompting Lewis and Clark to name the rain-soaked place Eugene, Oregon. The two explorers reward Sacagawea by creating the Sacagawea dollar which - Marge explains - can be exchanged at the bank for a real dollar.
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[[File:Mozart on deathbed.png|thumb|left|Mozart on his deathbed with Salieri next to him]]
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Mozart (played by Bart) plays a show to his fans. After the show, his sister, [[Sally Salieri]] (played by Lisa) asks their father (played by Homer) if she can headline a show too. She is refused and told to play with the other untalented members of the family, {{ap|Randy|Margical History Tour}}, {{ap|Tito|Margical History Tour}} and [[Jermaine]]. Mozart pulls pranks on Salieri and teases her, which just annoys her more. At the [[Vienna Concert Hall]], Mozart wins an award for outstanding composer aged ten and under, which makes Salieri jealous. Later, Mozart plays an opera, "[[The Musical Fruit]]", at the [[Vienna Opera House]]. During the show, Salieri puts a sleeping potion in Emperor [[Joseph II]]'s (played by [[Mr. Burns]]) wine. When the audience notices the Emperor falling asleep, they assume he is bored and also act bored. After this show, Mozart is left disgraced.
  
===Mozart and Salieri===
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Mozart begins living on the streets and gets depressed, and eventually ill. He eventually makes his way back home where Salieri gets him the best doctor in [[Austria]] (played by the inept medical practitioner [[Dr. Nick]]), who applies leeches to his face. On Mozart's deathbed, Salieri apologizes to him. Mozart tells him that he thought Salieri's music would always go down best in history but since he was dying young, he would be cool forever. He then tells her to "eat my pantaloons" before he dies. After this, Salieri goes to see the Emperor, thinking of herself as the greatest composer alive now. However, the Emperor was with [[Ludwig van Beethoven]] (played by Nelson) at the time. Seeing this, Salieri goes insane and gets into a wagon heading to the asylum.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Bart) is a big hit in Vienna, playing sonatas on the grand piano as if he were at a rock concert. Antonio Salieri (Lisa) is resentful of Mozart's good fortune, especially when Mozart wins the best composer award. At Mozart's next opera, Salieri serves the Emperor ([[Montgomery Burns]]) wine spiked with a sleeping potion. The opera is a success until the crowd hears the Emperor snoring in the balcony. The failure of his opera leads to Mozart's fall from popularity, after which he develops a high fever and becomes deathly ill. At Mozart's deathbed, Salieri tells him she wanted to ruin his life, not kill him. Mozart confesses that he thought highly of Salieri's work, believing that it would be remembered more than his - but his youthful death ensures he and his music will be immortalized forever. He then dies, but not before saying "Eat my pantaloons." The next day, Salieri visits the Emperor's court to submit her musical work, but the court is already focused on Ludwig van Beethoven ([[Nelson Muntz|Nelson]]). Befuddled, Salieri hails a carriage to the mental asylum, gets in, and laughs hysterically as the carriage draws away.
 
  
Lisa realizes that Marge's telling of the lives of Mozart and Salieri is not the real version, noting that Mozart and Salieri had better relations in their time, and says that the story is based on the movie ''Amadeus''. Homer says that the person who played Mozart also starred in ''Animal House'', and he sings the theme from that film over the credits.
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=== Epilogue ===
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At the end, Homer says that the guy who played Mozart was also in ''{{W|Animal House}}'' and starts singing "[[Animal House]]", singing that it was a great movie which ended like ''{{W|American Graffiti}}''. The episode then wraps up in a similar way, showing:
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*''Henry VIII still holds the world turkey-leg-eating record.''
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*''Sacagawea went on to great riches posing for butter boxes.''
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*''Mozart's burial site is now the most popular gas station in Vienna.''
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*''That night, Homer watched 'Animal House' again. He went to work the next day in a toga.''
  
===Epilogue===
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== Production ==
At the end, Homer says that the guy who played Mozart was also in 'Animal House' he starts singing about how 'Animal House' was great a great movie and it ended like 'American Graffiti' where it shows pictures of everyone and says what happened to them. The episode ends with pictures of each story and some text saying what happened to them.
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[[Al Jean]] asked [[Brian Kelley]] to write the episode.<ref>{{Com|Kelley, Brian|Margical History Tour|Fifteenth|(2012).}}</ref> The backgrounds of the castle in Henry VIII were based on {{W|Windsor Court}}.<ref name="AlJean">{{Com|Jean, Al|Margical History Tour|Fifteenth|(2012).}}</ref> Puppets of characters are hard to animate. They have to make it animate like a puppet rather than a character.<ref name="MikeBAnderson">{{Com|Anderson, Mike B.|Margical History Tour|Fifteenth|(2012).}}</ref>
  
''Henry VIII still holds the world turkey-leg-eating record.''
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Writing segments based on female characters for Lisa is hard, due to there being so few well known women documented through history.<ref name="AlJean"/> The scene where Clark blows his nose on a squirrel had to be animated three times to get it right.<ref name="MikeBAnderson"/> It was Brian Kelley's idea to base the Mozart segment on ''{{W2|Amadeus|film}}''. Al Jean liked the idea because using the music is free.<ref name="AlJean"/> [[Trevor Johnson]] and [[Gerald Rey]] did the backgrounds for the Mozart segment. The crowd of fops and dandies was all drawn by [[Orlando Gumatay]]. To get the animation on the candles in the scene where Mozart is dying, they had to do a superimposition, animate a hotter center. The animators had to do two or three passes to show the glow.<ref name="MikeBAnderson"/>
  
''Sacagawea went on to great riches posing for butter boxes.''
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== Reception ==
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As of September [[2018]], the episode has a 7.2 rating on {{W|IMDb}}<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0784540/ IMDb - "Margical History Tour"]</ref> and a 8.0 rating on {{W|TV.com}}.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/margical-history-tour-298221/ TV.com - "Margical History Tour"]</ref>
  
''Mozart's burial site is now the most popular gas station in Vienna.''
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== References ==
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{{Reflist}}
  
''That night, Homer watched 'Animal House' again. He went to work the next day in a toga.''
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{{season 15}}
  
==Cultural references==
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[[Category:2004]]
*The title is a take off of the song, ''Magical Mystery Tour'' by The Beatles.
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[[Category:Anthology episodes]]
*Some items seen in the library are ''[[Everybody Poops]]: The Video'', ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Price Guides'', and ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy & Scratchy]]'' books on tape.
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[[Category:12-rated episodes]]
*Henry wipes his mouth with the Magna Carta, an important document in the 1200s.  This is not the only time that Homer wipes his mouth with an important document, as he also does so with the sacred parchment at a meeting of the secret Stonecutters society in ''[[Homer the Great]]''. In ''[[Make Room for Lisa]]'', he licks the Eighth Amendment off the Bill of Rights.
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[[Category:Episodes written by Brian Kelley]]
*When Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn are making love, she says "Oh, Henry!" Which is a possible reference to the candy bar, Oh Henry!
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[[Category:Episodes directed by Mike B. Anderson]]
*Homer says to Bart in his dream to "get out of my dreams and into my wife", a reference to the song, "Get Outta My Dreams, and into My Car, which in turn  was inspired by a line in the song ''You're Sixteen''.
 
*Homer sings a variation of "I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am".
 
*Marge says that one of the good things about Elizabeth I's reign is the fact that it gives various British actresses a chance to play her when they reach a certain age, a reference to the frequent portrayals of Elizabeth in film and television by famous actresses such as Glenda Jackson, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench.
 
* The music in Bart's opera is in fact Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik with lyrics referring to flatulence. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" isn't an opera however.
 
* The three more talented brothers of Lisa are three members from the Jackson Five.
 
* Nelson's laugh imitates the opening bars from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
 
* Reverend Lovejoy says "In the name Henry, the Hank and the holy Harry". The latter two are references to cast members [[Hank Azaria]] and [[Harry Shearer]].
 
  
==Errors==
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* Salieri was a man and he was not related to Mozart at all
 
[[Category:Season 15]]
 
[[Category:Trilogy Episodes]]
 
[[Category:Anthology]]
 

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Episode Information
Episode number: 324
Season number: S15 E11
Production code: FABF06
Original airdate: February 8, 2004
Couch gag: The couch is replaced by a giant microwave. Someone puts a tray inside and presses a button. The Simpsons rise from the tray as it cooks.
Showrunner: Al Jean
Written by: Brian Kelley
Directed by: Mike B. Anderson


"Margical History Tour" is the eleventh episode of season 15 of The Simpsons and the three-hundred and twenty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on February 8, 2004. The episode is written by Brian Kelley and directed by Mike B. Anderson.

Synopsis[edit]

"When the Springfield Library becomes low on books, the children of Springfield Elementary don't have enough resources to do research for their history papers. To help out, Marge gives the kids verbal anecdotes about historical figures including tales of King Henry VIII, Sacagawea's assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a very Bart-like Mozart feuding with his sister Salieri."


Plot[edit]

Marge takes the kids and Milhouse to the Springfield Public Library to study. They realize that there are very few books at the library, most of which are noneducational. Milhouse complains because he needs to write a book report on Henry VIII. So, Marge decides to tell the story to him to help him.

Henry VIII[edit]

Margarine of Aragon suffocates Henry VIII

King Henry VIII (played by Homer) is unhappy because he can't sire a son, despite he and his wife, Margarine of Aragon (played by Marge), trying frequently. One day, Henry VIII is checking himself out in the mirror when he is complimented by Anne Boleyn, who has been dubbed "Anne of the Child-Bearing Hips" by Wench Magazine. Henry VIII immediately wants to marry her instead in an attempt to have a son. Margarine takes Henry to a marriage counselor (played by Dr. Hibbert) before Henry decides to go to see Sir Thomas More (played by Ned Flanders) to see about getting a divorce. After being told he is not permitted to do so as a Catholic, he founds his own church to allow him to get a divorce. Henry and Margarine divorce and Henry gets married to Anne Boleyn instead. Nine months later, Anne gives birth to a daughter and Henry has her executed.

After Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry VIII meets Jane Seymour and immediately decides to marry her. Just after they marry, Henry realizes that her voice and speaking mannerisms are really annoying and has her executed. (In real life, Jane Seymour died in childbirth.) After this, he had another couple of wives executed before married the ninety-five year old Anne of Cleves, due to her track record of having ten sons. (In real life, he and Anne of Cleves, who never had any children, divorced amicably after a brief union.)

Shortly after this, Henry's advisor, Moe, tells him that they are out of pikes for heads. Henry has him executed before checking the pike storage. Years later, on Henry's death bed, Margarine comes back to see him. Henry apologizes to her for locking her away and asks her to take him back. Margarine then grabs his pillow and suffocates him to death.

After the story, Milhouse thanks Marge and walks away, only for Nelson to trip him up and steal his notebook. Lisa then complains that she can't find anything about Sacagawea, only books about baseball player Ron Santo. Marge then tells her the story of Sacagawea.

Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea[edit]

Lewis and Clark save Sacagawea

In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson (played by Mayor Quimby) sent Meriwether Lewis (played by Lenny Leonard) and William Clark (played by Carl Carlson) to find the Northwest Passage. They went to a Native American village to seek help from them. The Native American Chief gave them his daughter, Sacagawea, to help them on their expedition, with Sacagawea's husband, Charbonneau (played by Milhouse), also joining them. Sacagawea warns the expedition about many poisonous things they were trying to eat or use, which annoyed the expedition. One of the members, Tweedleburger (played by Otto Mann), ate some berries to spite her and quickly died. As the expedition went on, the explorers became more and more annoyed at Sacagawea's bossiness.

Eventually, the expedition comes across a group of Native Americans led by Sacagawea's brother (played by Bart). Sacagawea's brother kills Charbonneau and the expedition moves on, eventually reaching the Columbia River. When Clark mentions that he wants to get to the Pacific Ocean to have mermaid sex, Sacagawea tells him that they were salmon. Lewis and Clark then get annoyed at Sacagawea, telling her that she should be grateful for civilizing her. Sacagawea then storms off and lays down on a warm, woolly rock, which turns out to be a mountain lion. Lewis and Clark then come along and save her, showing that they had listened to her advice during the journey. She then rejoins them and they find their way to the Pacific Ocean and name the area Eugene, Oregon.

After the story, Marge asks Bart what historic figure he wants to write about. When he doesn't give a proper answer, Marge talks about Mozart.

Mozart and Salieri[edit]

Mozart on his deathbed with Salieri next to him

Mozart (played by Bart) plays a show to his fans. After the show, his sister, Sally Salieri (played by Lisa) asks their father (played by Homer) if she can headline a show too. She is refused and told to play with the other untalented members of the family, Randy, Tito and Jermaine. Mozart pulls pranks on Salieri and teases her, which just annoys her more. At the Vienna Concert Hall, Mozart wins an award for outstanding composer aged ten and under, which makes Salieri jealous. Later, Mozart plays an opera, "The Musical Fruit", at the Vienna Opera House. During the show, Salieri puts a sleeping potion in Emperor Joseph II's (played by Mr. Burns) wine. When the audience notices the Emperor falling asleep, they assume he is bored and also act bored. After this show, Mozart is left disgraced.

Mozart begins living on the streets and gets depressed, and eventually ill. He eventually makes his way back home where Salieri gets him the best doctor in Austria (played by the inept medical practitioner Dr. Nick), who applies leeches to his face. On Mozart's deathbed, Salieri apologizes to him. Mozart tells him that he thought Salieri's music would always go down best in history but since he was dying young, he would be cool forever. He then tells her to "eat my pantaloons" before he dies. After this, Salieri goes to see the Emperor, thinking of herself as the greatest composer alive now. However, the Emperor was with Ludwig van Beethoven (played by Nelson) at the time. Seeing this, Salieri goes insane and gets into a wagon heading to the asylum.

Epilogue[edit]

At the end, Homer says that the guy who played Mozart was also in Animal House and starts singing "Animal House", singing that it was a great movie which ended like American Graffiti. The episode then wraps up in a similar way, showing:

  • Henry VIII still holds the world turkey-leg-eating record.
  • Sacagawea went on to great riches posing for butter boxes.
  • Mozart's burial site is now the most popular gas station in Vienna.
  • That night, Homer watched 'Animal House' again. He went to work the next day in a toga.

Production[edit]

Al Jean asked Brian Kelley to write the episode.[1] The backgrounds of the castle in Henry VIII were based on Windsor Court.[2] Puppets of characters are hard to animate. They have to make it animate like a puppet rather than a character.[3]

Writing segments based on female characters for Lisa is hard, due to there being so few well known women documented through history.[2] The scene where Clark blows his nose on a squirrel had to be animated three times to get it right.[3] It was Brian Kelley's idea to base the Mozart segment on Amadeus. Al Jean liked the idea because using the music is free.[2] Trevor Johnson and Gerald Rey did the backgrounds for the Mozart segment. The crowd of fops and dandies was all drawn by Orlando Gumatay. To get the animation on the candles in the scene where Mozart is dying, they had to do a superimposition, animate a hotter center. The animators had to do two or three passes to show the glow.[3]

Reception[edit]

As of September 2018, the episode has a 7.2 rating on IMDb[4] and a 8.0 rating on TV.com.[5]

References[edit]

  1. Kelley, Brian (2012). Commentary for "Margical History Tour", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifteenth Season.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jean, Al (2012). Commentary for "Margical History Tour", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifteenth Season.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Anderson, Mike B. (2012). Commentary for "Margical History Tour", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifteenth Season.
  4. IMDb - "Margical History Tour"
  5. TV.com - "Margical History Tour"


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