Some Enchanted Evening/References
Cultural references
- America's Most Wanted - America's Most Armed and Dangerous is a parody of the show.
- The Smurfs and The Care Bears - The Happy Little Elves is most likely a parody of the two shows.
- When Homer says "No, I said Samson, not Simpson.". This is a parody of a poem which ends in My name is Simpson, not Samson..
Trivia
- Dr. Monroe says to Marge "I'm as sure as my voice is annoying.". This is a joke on the fact Harry Shearer, the voice for Dr. Monroe, found the character annoying to voice.
- This episode was the first to be produced, yet last to air in the first season.
- A lipstick stain is seen on the inside of the front door when Homer and Marge leave for their night out. This is from the original version of the show where Marge tries to kiss Homer as he leaves for work, but he slams the door in her face, making her smooch the door instead of drinking her coffee.
- Marge's bowling ball from the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" can be seen.
- After Homer shaves, his five o'clock shadow returns about six or seven seconds later.
- Arnie Pie is heard on the radio and called "Bill Pie".
- Homer is actually Homer JAMES Simpson[citation needed].Template:Season 1 R
Production
A workprint of the episode was the first to come back from Korea as episodes of The Simpsons are often animated overseas to a South Korean animation studio AKOM.due to the overload of episodes and saving costs in lower developed countries like Korea. The Simpsons Shorts where everything was produced in-house in Klasky-Csupo although the domestic studio produces only the character and background layout of episodes. The original, rough version of "Some Enchanted Evening" is incomplete as it ends when Bart and Lisa just find out Ms. Botz is America's Most Wanted and sound effects and a soundtrack are absent and would have been inserted had there been a final version. The workprint was not been well received in the Gracie Films bungalow, with James L. Brooks giving a response with profanity.
The producers wanted a realistic environment for The Simpsons as other studios had unrealistic styles for animation such as Disney, Warner Bros, Hanna-Barbera, etc. The former two has a universe where the universe was bendy and characters seemed to be made out of rubber. Hanna Barbera used cartoon sounds which were also declined. While the shorts lacked much realism in animation, the half hour series had been intended to be as realistic as possible despite the unrealistic animation.
70% of the episodes had to be redone. The episode was worked on during the course of the first season until finally being aired on May 13, 1990 as the season finale. The producers considered aborting production of the series if the next episode, "Bart the Genius" has similar production difficulties although fortunately had several fixable animation problems. They convinced FOX to postpone the season premiere for several months. Although "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", the eight episode in production order, had to be aired as it was a Christmas special in December of 1989, becoming the first episode of the first season and the first episode of The Simpsons overall.
