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z-index:100; right:38px; top:17%;" class="metadata" id="featured-star"><img alt="This article is written in a real-world perspective." src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/71/Real-world.png/37px-Real-world.png" title="This article is written in a real-world perspective." width="37" height="37" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/7/71/Real-world.png 1.5x" /></div> <table align="right" style="background: #f0e3a2; border:2px solid #e9d677; width: 19%; border-top-left-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -khtml-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -icab-border-top-left-radius: 5px; -o-border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -khtml-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -icab-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -o-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px;; border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; -moz-border-radius-bottomleft: 5px; -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; 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border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;;" align="center"> <b>Episode Information</b> <table align="center" style="background: #FFFDF0; width: 100%; border-radius: 10px; -moz-border-radius: 10px; -webkit-border-radius: 10px; -khtml-border-radius: 10px; -icab-border-radius: 10px; -o-border-radius: 10px;"> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px"> Episode number: </th> <td> 324 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Season number: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Season_15" title="Season 15">S15</a> E11 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Production code: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> FABF06 </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Original airdate: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> February 8, <a href="/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_couch_gags" title="List of couch gags">Couch gag</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> The couch is replaced by a giant microwave. Someone puts a tray inside and presses a button. The Simpsons rise from the tray as it cooks. </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/List_of_showrunners" title="List of showrunners">Showrunner</a>: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Al_Jean" title="Al Jean">Al Jean</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Written by: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Brian_Kelley" title="Brian Kelley">Brian Kelley</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th align="right" width="80px" style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> Directed by: </th> <td style="border-top: 1px solid #aaa;"> <a href="/wiki/Mike_B._Anderson" title="Mike B. Anderson">Mike B. Anderson</a> </td></tr> </table> </td></tr></table> <p><br /> "<b>Margical History Tour</b>" is the eleventh episode of <a href="/wiki/Season_15" title="Season 15">season 15</a> of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Simpsons" title="The Simpsons">The Simpsons</a></i> and the three-hundred and twenty-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on February 8, <a href="/wiki/2004" title="2004">2004</a>. The episode is written by <a href="/wiki/Brian_Kelley" title="Brian Kelley">Brian Kelley</a> and directed by <a href="/wiki/Mike_B._Anderson" title="Mike B. Anderson">Mike B. Anderson</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc"><div id="toctitle" class="toctitle"><h2>Contents</h2></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Synopsis"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Synopsis</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Plot"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Plot</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Henry_VIII"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Henry VIII</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Lewis_and_Clark_and_Sacagawea"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Mozart_and_Salieri"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Mozart and Salieri</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Epilogue"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Epilogue</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Production"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Production</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Reception"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Reception</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Synopsis">Synopsis</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <dl><dd><span>"<i>When the Springfield Library becomes low on books, the children of Springfield Elementary don't have enough resources to do research for their history papers. To help out, <a href="/wiki/Marge" class="mw-redirect" title="Marge">Marge</a> gives the kids verbal anecdotes about historical figures including tales of <a href="/wiki/King_Henry_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="King Henry VIII">King Henry VIII</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sacagawea" title="Sacagawea">Sacagawea</a>'s assistance to the Lewis and Clark Expedition and a very Bart-like <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a> feuding with his sister <a href="/wiki/Sally_Salieri" title="Sally Salieri">Salieri</a>.</i>"</span></dd></dl> <p><br /> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Plot">Plot</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/Marge" class="mw-redirect" title="Marge">Marge</a> takes the kids and <a href="/wiki/Milhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Milhouse">Milhouse</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Springfield_Public_Library" title="Springfield Public Library">Springfield Public Library</a> to study. They realize that there are very few books at the library, most of which are noneducational. Milhouse complains because he needs to write a book report on <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a>. So, Marge decides to tell the story to him to help him. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Henry_VIII">Henry VIII</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Henry VIII">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/b/be/Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png/200px-Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/b/be/Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png/300px-Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/b/be/Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png/400px-Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png 2x" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Margarine_suffocates_Henry.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Margarine of Aragon suffocates Henry VIII</div></div></div> <p>King <a href="/wiki/Henry_VIII" title="Henry VIII">Henry VIII</a> (played by Homer) is unhappy because he can't sire a son, despite he and his wife, <a href="/wiki/Margarine_of_Aragon" title="Margarine of Aragon">Margarine of Aragon</a> (played by Marge), trying frequently. One day, Henry VIII is checking himself out in the mirror when he is complimented by <a href="/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" title="Anne Boleyn">Anne Boleyn</a>, who has been dubbed "Anne of the Child-Bearing Hips" by <i>Wench Magazine</i>. Henry VIII immediately wants to marry her instead in an attempt to have a son. Margarine takes Henry to a <a href="/wiki/Marriage_counselor" title="Marriage counselor">marriage counselor</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Dr._Hibbert" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Hibbert">Dr. Hibbert</a>) before Henry decides to go to see Sir <a href="/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More">Thomas More</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Ned_Flanders" title="Ned Flanders">Ned Flanders</a>) to see about getting a divorce. After being told he is not permitted to do so as a Catholic, he founds his own church to allow him to get a divorce. Henry and Margarine divorce and Henry gets married to Anne Boleyn instead. Nine months later, Anne gives birth to a daughter and Henry has her executed. </p><p>After Anne Boleyn's execution, Henry VIII meets <a href="/wiki/Jane_Seymour" title="Jane Seymour">Jane Seymour</a> and immediately decides to marry her. Just after they marry, Henry realizes that her voice and speaking mannerisms are really annoying and has her executed. (In real life, Jane Seymour died in childbirth.) After this, he had another couple of wives executed before married the ninety-five year old <a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves" title="Anne of Cleves">Anne of Cleves</a>, due to her track record of having ten sons. (In real life, he and Anne of Cleves, who never had any children, divorced amicably after a brief union.) </p><p>Shortly after this, Henry's advisor, <a href="/wiki/Advisor_Moe" title="Advisor Moe">Moe</a>, tells him that they are out of pikes for heads. Henry has him executed before checking the pike storage. Years later, on Henry's death bed, Margarine comes back to see him. Henry apologizes to her for locking her away and asks her to take him back. Margarine then grabs his pillow and suffocates him to death. </p><p>After the story, Milhouse thanks Marge and walks away, only for <a href="/wiki/Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Nelson">Nelson</a> to trip him up and steal his notebook. Lisa then complains that she can't find anything about <a href="/wiki/Sacagawea" title="Sacagawea">Sacagawea</a>, only books about baseball player <a href="/wiki/Ron_Santo" title="Ron Santo">Ron Santo</a>. Marge then tells her the story of Sacagawea. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Lewis_and_Clark_and_Sacagawea">Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7e/Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png/200px-Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7e/Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png/300px-Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/7/7e/Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png/400px-Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png 2x" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Lewis_and_Clark_save_Sacagawea.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Lewis and Clark save Sacagawea</div></div></div> <p>In 1804, President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Mayor_Quimby" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor Quimby">Mayor Quimby</a>) sent <a href="/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis" title="Meriwether Lewis">Meriwether Lewis</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Leonard" title="Lenny Leonard">Lenny Leonard</a>) and <a href="/wiki/William_Clark" title="William Clark">William Clark</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Carl_Carlson" title="Carl Carlson">Carl Carlson</a>) to find the Northwest Passage. They went to a Native American village to seek help from them. The <a href="/wiki/Chief_Homer" title="Chief Homer">Native American Chief</a> gave them his daughter, Sacagawea, to help them on their expedition, with Sacagawea's husband, <a href="/wiki/Charbonneau" class="mw-redirect" title="Charbonneau">Charbonneau</a> (played by Milhouse), also joining them. Sacagawea warns the expedition about many poisonous things they were trying to eat or use, which annoyed the expedition. One of the members, <a href="/wiki/Tweedleburger" title="Tweedleburger">Tweedleburger</a> (played by <a href="/wiki/Otto_Mann" title="Otto Mann">Otto Mann</a>), ate some berries to spite her and quickly died. As the expedition went on, the explorers became more and more annoyed at Sacagawea's bossiness. </p><p>Eventually, the expedition comes across a group of Native Americans led by <a href="/wiki/Indian_Bart" title="Indian Bart">Sacagawea's brother</a> (played by Bart). Sacagawea's brother kills Charbonneau and the expedition moves on, eventually reaching the <a href="/wiki/Columbia_River" title="Columbia River">Columbia River</a>. When Clark mentions that he wants to get to the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Ocean" title="Pacific Ocean">Pacific Ocean</a> to have mermaid sex, Sacagawea tells him that they were salmon. Lewis and Clark then get annoyed at Sacagawea, telling her that she should be grateful for civilizing her. Sacagawea then storms off and lays down on a warm, woolly rock, which turns out to be a mountain lion. Lewis and Clark then come along and save her, showing that they had listened to her advice during the journey. She then rejoins them and they find their way to the Pacific Ocean and name the area <a href="/wiki/Eugene,_Oregon" title="Eugene, Oregon">Eugene, Oregon</a>. </p><p>After the story, Marge asks Bart what historic figure he wants to write about. When he doesn't give a proper answer, Marge talks about <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a>. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Mozart_and_Salieri">Mozart and Salieri</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Mozart and Salieri">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Mozart_on_deathbed.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/3e/Mozart_on_deathbed.png/200px-Mozart_on_deathbed.png" width="200" height="150" class="thumbimage" srcset="https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/3e/Mozart_on_deathbed.png/300px-Mozart_on_deathbed.png 1.5x, https://static.simpsonswiki.com/images/thumb/3/3e/Mozart_on_deathbed.png/400px-Mozart_on_deathbed.png 2x" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Mozart_on_deathbed.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Mozart on his deathbed with Salieri next to him</div></div></div> <p>Mozart (played by Bart) plays a show to his fans. After the show, his sister, <a href="/wiki/Sally_Salieri" title="Sally Salieri">Sally Salieri</a> (played by Lisa) asks their father (played by Homer) if she can headline a show too. She is refused and told to play with the other untalented members of the family, <a href="/wiki/Randy_(Margical_History_Tour)" title="Randy (Margical History Tour)">Randy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_(Margical_History_Tour)" title="Tito (Margical History Tour)">Tito</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jermaine" title="Jermaine">Jermaine</a>. Mozart pulls pranks on Salieri and teases her, which just annoys her more. At the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_Concert_Hall" title="Vienna Concert Hall">Vienna Concert Hall</a>, Mozart wins an award for outstanding composer aged ten and under, which makes Salieri jealous. Later, Mozart plays an opera, "<a href="/wiki/The_Musical_Fruit" title="The Musical Fruit">The Musical Fruit</a>", at the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_Opera_House" title="Vienna Opera House">Vienna Opera House</a>. During the show, Salieri puts a sleeping potion in Emperor <a href="/wiki/Joseph_II" title="Joseph II">Joseph II</a>'s (played by <a href="/wiki/Mr._Burns" class="mw-redirect" title="Mr. Burns">Mr. Burns</a>) wine. When the audience notices the Emperor falling asleep, they assume he is bored and also act bored. After this show, Mozart is left disgraced. </p><p>Mozart begins living on the streets and gets depressed, and eventually ill. He eventually makes his way back home where Salieri gets him the best doctor in <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a> (played by the inept medical practitioner <a href="/wiki/Dr._Nick" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Nick">Dr. Nick</a>), who applies leeches to his face. On Mozart's deathbed, Salieri apologizes to him. Mozart tells him that he thought Salieri's music would always go down best in history but since he was dying young, he would be cool forever. He then tells her to "eat my pantaloons" before he dies. After this, Salieri goes to see the Emperor, thinking of herself as the greatest composer alive now. However, the Emperor was with <a href="/wiki/Ludwig_van_Beethoven" title="Ludwig van Beethoven">Ludwig van Beethoven</a> (played by Nelson) at the time. Seeing this, Salieri goes insane and gets into a wagon heading to the asylum. </p> <h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Epilogue">Epilogue</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Epilogue">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3> <p>At the end, Homer says that the guy who played Mozart was also in <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_House" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Animal House">Animal House</a></i> and starts singing "<a href="/wiki/Animal_House" title="Animal House">Animal House</a>", singing that it was a great movie which ended like <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Graffiti" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:American Graffiti">American Graffiti</a></i>. The episode then wraps up in a similar way, showing: </p> <ul><li><i>Henry VIII still holds the world turkey-leg-eating record.</i></li> <li><i>Sacagawea went on to great riches posing for butter boxes.</i></li> <li><i>Mozart's burial site is now the most popular gas station in Vienna.</i></li> <li><i>That night, Homer watched 'Animal House' again. He went to work the next day in a toga.</i></li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Production">Production</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Production">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/Al_Jean" title="Al Jean">Al Jean</a> asked <a href="/wiki/Brian_Kelley" title="Brian Kelley">Brian Kelley</a> to write the episode.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The backgrounds of the castle in Henry VIII were based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor_Court" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Windsor Court">Windsor Court</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AlJean_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlJean-2">[2]</a></sup> Puppets of characters are hard to animate. They have to make it animate like a puppet rather than a character.<sup id="cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MikeBAnderson-3">[3]</a></sup> </p><p>Writing segments based on female characters for Lisa is hard, due to there being so few well known women documented through history.<sup id="cite_ref-AlJean_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlJean-2">[2]</a></sup> The scene where Clark blows his nose on a squirrel had to be animated three times to get it right.<sup id="cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MikeBAnderson-3">[3]</a></sup> It was Brian Kelley's idea to base the Mozart segment on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Amadeus (film)">Amadeus</a></i>. Al Jean liked the idea because using the music is free.<sup id="cite_ref-AlJean_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlJean-2">[2]</a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Johnson" title="Trevor Johnson">Trevor Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Rey" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerald Rey">Gerald Rey</a> did the backgrounds for the Mozart segment. The crowd of fops and dandies was all drawn by <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Gumatay" title="Orlando Gumatay">Orlando Gumatay</a>. To get the animation on the candles in the scene where Mozart is dying, they had to do a superimposition, animate a hotter center. The animators had to do two or three passes to show the glow.<sup id="cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MikeBAnderson-3">[3]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Reception">Reception</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Reception">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>As of September <a href="/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a>, the episode has a 7.2 rating on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDb" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:IMDb">IMDb</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> and a 8.0 rating on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV.com" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:TV.com">TV.com</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Margical_History_Tour&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Kelley, Brian (2012). Commentary for "<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Margical History Tour</a>", in <i>The Simpsons: <a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Fifteenth_Season" title="The Complete Fifteenth Season">The Complete Fifteenth Season</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-AlJean-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-AlJean_2-0">2.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-AlJean_2-1">2.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-AlJean_2-2">2.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Jean, Al (2012). Commentary for "<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Margical History Tour</a>", in <i>The Simpsons: <a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Fifteenth_Season" title="The Complete Fifteenth Season">The Complete Fifteenth Season</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-MikeBAnderson-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">↑ <sup><a href="#cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-0">3.0</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-1">3.1</a></sup> <sup><a href="#cite_ref-MikeBAnderson_3-2">3.2</a></sup></span> <span class="reference-text">Anderson, Mike B. (2012). Commentary for "<a class="mw-selflink selflink">Margical History Tour</a>", in <i>The Simpsons: <a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Fifteenth_Season" title="The Complete Fifteenth Season">The Complete Fifteenth Season</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0784540/">IMDb - "Margical History Tour"</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/margical-history-tour-298221/">TV.com - "Margical History Tour"</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><br /> </p> <table align="right" width="25%" style="background: #f0e3a2; padding: 2px; border:5px solid #e9d677; border-top-left-radius: 5px; width: 100% -moz-border-radius-topleft: 5px; -webkit-border-top-left-radius: 5px; 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