When You Dish Upon a Star

] with Homer as Yogi, Bart as Boo Boo and Ned as Ranger Smith. The time machine drawing in Homer's screenplay contains a Flux capacitor the device from "Back to the Future". Posters for "9½ Weeks" and "L.A. Confidential" both staring Basinger, are seen in Homer's museum.cite book |title=The Simpsons Forever! A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Continued. |last=Groening|first=Matt|year=1999|page=52 |publisher=HarperPerennial|isbn=0-06-098763-4|] At the end of the episode, Brian Grazer has a poster of the movie "Titanic" in his office.

Reception

"When You Dish Upon a Star" finished 32nd in the weekly ratings for the week of November 2–8, 1998 with a Nielsen rating of 9.2. [cite news|title=The X-Files Has Seen Better Days|date=1999-11-12|accessdate=2008-08-30|page=4E|publisher=Sun-Sentinel Company|author=The Associated Press] In his review of "The Simpsons"' tenth season, James Plath of Dvdtown.com noted "When You Dish upon a Star" was wrote to be "one of the funnier episodes".cite web|url=http://www.dvdtown.com/reviews/simpsons-the-the-complete-10th-season/5056|title=Simpsons, The: The Complete 10th Season [Special Edition] |accessdate=2008-08-24|last=Plath|first=James|publisher=Dvdtown.com|date=August 17, 2007] In a "Simpsons" flasback review, Robert Canning of IGN reviewed the episode positively, commenting "I'm not saying this episode is one of the greatest the series has every produced, but it is very, very funny, and it features one of my all-time favorite guest performances."cite web|url=http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/885/885213p1.html|title=The Simpsons Flashback: "When You Dish Upon a Star" Review|accessdate=2008-08-24|last=Canning|first=Robert|publisher=IGN|date=June 30, 2008] The authors of the book "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide", Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, wrote in a negative review: "Despite three very high-profile guest actors, this episode is really rather dull and uninspired. The only real moment of interest is the car chase at the end, and Kim Basinger's delightfully self-deprecating quips about her constant adoration of her Oscars, Alec Baldwin apparently not having one himself."cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season10/page4.shtml|title=When You Dish Upon a Star|author=Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian|accessdate=2008-08-24] IGN rated Ron Howard as the twelfth greatest guest appearance on The Simpsons.cite web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/730/730566p3.html|title=Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearance|author=Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson & Brian Zoromski|accessdate=2008-08-31]

References

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*imdb episode|id=0701293|episode=When You Dish upon a Star