 In their section on the episode in the book I Can 't Believe It 's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide , Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood comment : " We love Homer sitting at home trying to remember to pick up Bart — he 's watching a TV show about a baseball star called Bart , with pictures of Bart on all sides , and even Maggie seems to be calling her brother 's name . " Writing in the compilation work The Psychology of The Simpsons , Robert M. Arkin and Philip J. Mazzocco reference a scene from the episode where Homer " argues with his own brain about a desired course of action " to illustrate self @-@ discrepancy theory , the idea that " humans will go to great lengths to attain and preserve self @-@ esteem " . 
