This episode has the highest IMDb rating since the Season 9 premiere, "City of New York vs. Homer Simpson" and is also higher than all episodes after it so far (as of August 2021).
Originally titled Go Simpsons Go.
Done in the style of Run Lola Run.
Bart's chalkboard gag: Fire is not the cleanser.
The earliest example of a narrative with multiple perspectives is the still revolutionary 1950 movie Rashomon. However, it still didn't become a regular technique in Hollywood until Quentin Tarantino popularized the story-telling method in the '90s.