The episode has eleven guest stars: Ken Burns, Zooey Deschanel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anne Hathaway, Maurice LaMarche, Don Pardo, Natalie Portman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Al Roker, Sarah Silverman, and Marcia Wallace.
Eventually arriving at a Shakespeare in the Park performance, the manager announces that the showing of Romeo and Juliet is canceled, as the actors portraying the Montagues and Capulets are feuding with one another.
"[1] The producers wanted to pay homage to the 2000 film High Fidelity where Bart goes to visit past girlfriends to understand why things went wrong.
[2] Zooey Deschanel reprised her role as Mary Spuckler from the nineteenth season episode "Apocalypse Cow."
Sarah Michelle Gellar reprised her role as Gina Vendetti from the fifteenth season episode "The Wandering Juvie."
Anne Hathaway reprised her role as Jenny from the twentieth season episode "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly."
Natalie Portman reprised her role as Darcy from the eighteenth season episode "Little Big Girl."
Sarah Silverman reprised her role as Nikki McKenna from the twenty-first season episode "Stealing First Base.
[4] The episode earned a 3.8 adults 18–49 rating and received 8.08 million viewers, making it the most watched show in the Animation Domination lineup on Fox that night.
During the past couple of seasons, the extended opening scenes by guest animators Banksy and Bill Plympton were more talked-about than any episode itself.
'Moonshine River' opens with a cute, 40-second cartoon depicting the Simpsons as butterflies menaced by a mallet-wielding Baby Gerald (a.k.a.