Trivia / The Simpsons S 11 E 12 The Mansion Family

• What Could Have Been: Originally Britney was going to introduce herself by saying "I'm teenage songbird Britney Spears.", but her management forced the writers to change it, thinking that songbird was a slam or an insult, resulting in the line becoming "I'm teen sensation Britney Spears.".
• Write What You Know: The first part of the story was pitched by executive producer Mike Scully, whose grandmother was the oldest citizen of his hometown.
  Scully: They had a ceremony where she was awarded a cane that had a golden head on it. And the weird thing of the ceremony is her name wasn't on the cane, and the mayor of the town stood up and he says: "And now, of course as soon as Hazel passes away, her name will be engraved on the cane." So she would never live to see it happen. But nonetheless, she was given the cane.