Editing A Tale of Two Springfields (section)

==Production==
[[File:Keith_Moon_4_-_The_Who_-_1975-2.jpg|thumb|upright|Drummer [[Keith Moon]], who died in 1978, is in the Who's line-up in this episode]]
The episode was pitched by [[John Frink]] and [[Don Payne (writer)|Don Payne]]. The episode was inspired by Don Payne's mother's neighborhood, where one side would spread rumors about the other side. [[Larry Doyle (writer)|Larry Doyle]] then pitched that the sides split apart because of different area codes.<ref name="Do the Bartman">{{cite video | people=Payne, Don|date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> During production the staff did not want one side to be slobs like Homer Simpson and the other snobs like Mr. Burns, but this ended up happening in the final product.<ref name="D'oh">{{cite video | people=Scully, Mike|date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> The writers later created a website about what [[badgers]] eat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thesimpsons.com/badgers/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010223210106/http://thesimpsons.com/badgers/ |title=What Badgers Eat |archive-date=23 February 2001 |work=thesimpsons.com |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The phone from the educational cartoon was voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]].<ref name="Hey Homer">{{cite video | people=Castellaneta, Dan|date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> The Who's singer [[Roger Daltrey]] and bassist [[John Entwistle]] made guest appearances in the episode, however guitarist [[Pete Townshend]] did not appear because he didn't know he was expected to provide his own voice and assumed someone else would, as in ''[[Yellow Submarine (1968 film)|Yellow Submarine]]'';<ref name="D'oh"/> Pete's brother Paul Townshend appeared as an additional guest voice instead. After a number of calls were made by the show's casting director in [[Los Angeles]] to the Who's managers in [[London]], the group agreed to appear on the show. The Who recorded their lines in [[England]], but weighed in on script details. During production the staff decided against including [[Zak Starkey]], who has played drums for the Who since 1996, and chose instead to animate the band's original drummer [[Keith Moon]] as a tribute.<ref name="Seinfeld">{{cite video | people=Daltrey, Roger|date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref>

===Deleted scenes===
When Roger Daltrey hits Marge with his microphone he improvised and said "Shut the [[fuck]] up, Marge." This was later included in the deleted scenes on ''The Simpsons – The Complete Twelfth Season'' DVD release.<ref>{{cite video |date=2009|title=The Simpsons The Complete Twelfth Season DVD commentary for the episode "A Tale of Two Springfields"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref> In the TV broadcast version, Daltrey says "Get out of the way, Marge".