Writer:	John Swartzwelder
Director:	Susie Dietter
Star:	Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others),  Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson),  Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others)
Recurring Role:	Doris Grau (Lunchlady Doris),  Maggie Roswell (Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and others),  Russi Taylor (Martin Prince, Sherri, Terri and others),  Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others),  Phil Hartman (Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure and Additional Voices)
Guest Star:	Mickey Rooney (Himself)

This was the first episode to be done colored using computer painting. (edit) Blackboard Joke: "Bewitched" does not promote Satanism.
Couch Gag: The couch is a fax machine and the family is a faxed document. (edit)

Bart: George Burns was right… show business is a hideous bitch-goddess.
Lisa: Cheer up, Bart. Milhouse is still going to need a true friend, someone to tell him he is great. Someone to rub lotion on him. Someone he can hurl whiskey bottles at when he's feeling low.
Bart: You're right, Lis. I can suck up to him, like the religious suck up to God. (edit) Helicopter Pilot: Hurry, Mr. Rooney! We've got a disenchanted little girl in a Jell-O Pudding commercial!
Mickey Rooney: I could play that. (edit) Mickey Rooney: Jiminy-jillikers. Jiminy-jillikers. Jiminy-jillikers!
Director: We're shutting down production.
Assistant: Yeah, well, we only have $1,000 left anyway.
Mayor Quimby: Uh, there's a $1,000 leaving town tax. (edit) Editor: Thanks to modern editing techniques, we can use existing footage to complete the film without Milhouse! (the assistant and director stare at him blankly) … Watch.
(Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy are surrounded in a dark cave)
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Looks like we're in trouble, Fallout Boy.
(scene switches to bright field)
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Jiminy-jillikers, Radioactive Man.
(back to cave)
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): We'll have to fight our way out. Are you ready?
(scene switches to Milhouse on a couch)
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Yes.
(scene switches to Radioactive Man and Fallout Boy fighting alien slugs)
Editor: Seamless, huh?
Assistant: (pause)… You're fired.
Editor: And with good cause! (edit) Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Ach! I can't believe Silly Sailor beat us both up and imprisoned us in his floating Aquaworld.
Fallout Boy (Milhouse): Jiminy-jillikers!
Radioactive Man (Wolfcastle): Uh, now there's no need for profanity, Fallout Boy. (edit)

Ad in Variety: "FLIM SPRINGFIELD" (edit) Moe reveals he was one of the original Little Rascals. (edit) This is the second time that someone messed up saying Radioactive Man's name, by saying "Radio Man." The first was Mayor Quimby in, "Three Men, and a Comic Book", and Principal Skinner in this episode. Also both are followed by the line "Radioactive Man, stupid!" (edit) Bart wears platform shoes, a striped suit, and walks a chihuahua in an attempt to appear taller so he could get the role of Fallout Boy. (edit) Springfield Shopper headline: "Milhouse Disappears! Movie On Hold" (edit)

Director: He's going to be big! Gabby Hayes big!
Gabby Hayes was an actor who appeared in several cowboy movies during the 1940s. (edit) Waterworld
The scene where Radioactive Man (Rainier Wolfcastle) and Fallout Boy (Milhouse) are hanging upside down in a cage as prisoners in "Aquaworld" is a direct reference to the 1995 Kevin Costner film Waterworld, at the time the most expensive movie ever made. The film's opening was highly anticipated, but it turned out to be a complete flop, mostly due to the fact that it had an incredibly bad storyline -- with a huge budget, nonetheless. Very much like the film being made in this episode of the Simpsons, making this a rather subtle double allusion. (edit) Bart: Now is the winter of our discontent.
This is the opening line of William Shakespeare's Richard III. (edit) Batman
The campy 70's Radioactive Man is identical to the campy 1966 Batman series with Adam West and Burt Ward. (edit) Bewitched
Radioactive Man's enemy, The Scoutmaster, sounds a lot like Paul Lynde. Lynde played Uncle Arther on the television show Bewitched. The Scoutmaster also says, "Lynde one ear and out the other." Bewitched is also mentioned in the blackboard joke for this episode. (edit)