Trivia / The Simpsons S8 E20 "The Canine Mutiny"

• Recycled Script: Married... with Children did a similar episode (season three's "Master the Possibilities") where Al tries to apply for a credit card and finds a credit card approval letter in the mail for Buck the dog, then gets the idea to use the card after Marcy tells him that it's legal to keep anything you didn't send for in the mail.
• Throw It In!: Hank Azaria ad-libbed the entire sequence during the credits in which Chief Wiggum and Lou sing along to "Jammin'".
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally, instead of going to the dog park, the family took Laddie to a waterfall and he performed a series of dives, but it was scrapped as it had already been proven that Laddie was a form of "superdog". Likewise, Laddie rescuing Baby Gerald was originally a complicated rescue scene, but was cut into showing the aftermath.
  • After Bart's "dog burning" fantasy, when he hears a ship's horn in the distance, there was originally going to be a faint cry of "more dogs", but it was deemed that it took the joke too far.
  • Lisa becoming addicted to the pep pills was originally going to be expanded on. Her tirade towards Bart was part of that, but was left it because the writers thought it was funny enough on its own.

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