This episode famously had to be moved to the season finale from its intended series premiere. This was the case because the animation came back ruined from Korea; the production team spent months trying to fix it. You can tell that this episode has a rough production history in that the animation is crude and there are technical mistakes everywhere. The writing isn't as crisp as it got in the later years of the show as well.
The episode is a good token for the first season however. Because the first season is also rocky and technical, continuity errors crop up repeatedly. And the voices are yet unfinished, undefined. But the show's gentle parody of suburbia and Americana comes through. Season 1 is not part of the golden era of the Simpsons.
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