 The episode was written by Richard Appel and directed by Dominic Polcino . Appel who was looking for new locales to put Bart and thought it would be funny to have him work at a burlesque house . The problem was to find a way to put such a house in Springfield , which was solved with the bit with the toy airplane . There were a dozen different possible names for the Burlesque house , some of which were raunchy . 
