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Later Welles attempted to claim authorship for the script , but it was written by Howard Koch , whose inside story of the whole episode , The panic broadcast ; portrait of an event , appeared in 1970 . In the first episode , those locals are suspicious when a new imam comes to town . This work was started in December of 1989 , two weeks before the first episode , when I first heard The Simpsons were going to get their own show . In the first episode , she 's off-put by seeing a plea to help crippled children on TV , but her remote control batteries die and she sets off to get new batteries so she can change the channel away from the crippled kids . " Silverman said no joke is off-limits - - in the second episode , Silverman 's character learns " elderly black women are wise beyond their years but younger black women are prostitutes " - - as long as it 's more funny than offensive . In the Virgilian episode , however , this feature is notably absent . The quotation serving as the caption at the bottom of the first plate , " With one hand he was tightly grasping his forehead , with the other his knee " [ Chapter II , top of column 2 , p. 390 in Harper 's ) prepares us for the moment when , late in the initial episode , the trespassing Margery unexpectedly encounters the odd , obviously aristocratic stranger - - " a fine-framed dark mustached gentleman , in a dressing gown and slippers , .