 The episode opens with an old documentary on Jebediah Springfield , starring Troy McClure as Springfield . The writers tried to make this documentary seem as lousy and low @-@ budget as possible . One of these tricks was to have post @-@ production add scratches to the animation . The animators added production errors that would come in a low @-@ budget film . For example , a man in the crowd looks at the camera , some of the people are wearing wristwatches , McClure 's stuntman does not have the same sideburns as he does , and a boom microphone can be seen entering the frame . In the Historical Society , the animators spent a lot of time decorating the walls . Besides numerous historical references , they also decorated the walls with The Simpsons characters set in the 19th century . The first painting shows Otto Mann ( Springfield 's school bus driver ) driving children in a horse @-@ drawn carriage . Another painting shows Marge Simpson in silhouette . The last one shows Professor Frink holding a kite in the manner of Benjamin Franklin . 
