Trivia / The Simpsons S4 E13 "Selma's Choice"

• Acting for Two: Julie Kavner voiced a total of five different characters in this episode: Marge Simpson, Patty and Selma, their mother Jacqueline, and their aunt Gladys.
• Edited for Syndication: The following scenes were edited out in the syndicated version on network TV (the cable reruns, DVD version, and Disney Plus version are uncut):
  • After Homer hugs Patty and Selma (and they insult him within earshot), there's a short scene where Homer packs the station wagon with luggage. Bart complains, "Hey, Homer! This luggage is crushing me!" Homer retorts, "Hey, you don't hear Lisa complaining" followed by a cut to show that Lisa isn't complaining...because she's so smushed up against the window that she can't even speak.
  • Bart and Lisa counting the luggage falling off the car on the way to the funeral.
  • A scene where Marge, caring for a sick Homer (with Homer drinking Pepto Bysmol from a Foam Dome), offers some rental tapes, Boxing's Greatest Weigh-Ins and Yentl^note and later, The Erotic Adventures of Hercules. Homer asks what Yentl is and Marge tells him it's about a bookish young Jewish woman who poses as a man so she can go to rabbinical school. When Homer says Yentl sounds great, Marge concludes that he's delirious.
• Technology Marches On: Great Aunt Gladys records her will on a videocassette. These days, if she were tech-savvy (or knew someone who was), she could have recorded her video will as a video file and either burned it on a DVD, saved it on a flash drive, played it on a camera phone, or even emailed it to her family (or had Lionel Hutz email it).
• What Could Have Been: In the original draft, Selma was going to look after Maggie and a sick Homer in the third act while Marge took Bart and Lisa to the Duff Gardens. In the final episode, Marge stays behind while Selma takes the kids instead.
• Write What You Know: The side story of Homer getting sick from eating an old sandwich is based on a similar situation happening to one of the writers.

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