The episode was directed by Rob Oliver and written by Deb Lacusta, Dan Castellaneta, and Vince Waldron.
H. Jon Benjamin, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, John Roberts, and Kristen Schaal guest starred as their characters from the television series Bob's Burgers.
God and St. Peter discuss relaxing their admissions requirements to address the lack of people in heaven.
In the class, Marge talks about her atheist grandmother, Genevieve, who lived in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
The cast of the television series Bob's Burgers reprise their roles as the Belcher family in the couch gag.
In this episode, he plays himself as an angel in heaven as a nod to his 2014 car accident, which left him in a coma for two weeks.
Club gave the episode a B− stating, "The episode takes the form of a sort of religion-based Treehouse of Horror, with three stories (told by Ned, Marge, and Lisa, respectively) that test out the new criteria by which God will choose who deserves to hang out for all eternity in the show's traditionally cloudy and harp-strewn paradise.
Written by marrieds Dan Castellaneta and Deb Lacusta, along with first-time Simpsons writer Vince Waldron, the result is a decidedly low-stakes outing that, nonetheless, isn't without its charms.
"[3] Tony Sokol of Den of Geek gave the episode 4.5 out of 5 points ranking stating, "The Simpsons may not preach against evolution, but they have evolved from the kind of show that was uproariously laugh out loud to evoking us to say, oh, clever.
The series will always be a little intellectual, as it is a constant battle between the selfless wisdom of Marge and Lisa and the chaotic buffoonery of Bart and Homer.