 While working on "Teen Angel", Freiberger suggested that, if Jean was ever to run "The Simpsons", he should hire Freiberger as a writer on the series.For the thirteenth season, Jean became show runner and assigned Freiberger to write the episode.Freiberger wrote the first draft as a freelance script at his parents' barn in Pennsylvania, and when he returned to the writing staff to rewrite the story, Freiberger took so many notes that the script became 106 pages long.