Writers of the episode had many ideas of what Herb would make to get rich again. The script of the episode had too many pages, so some parts of the episode were taken out. One of the parts that was taken out was Herb trying to get on a train to the Simpsons' town Springfield. Writers later put this idea in the season 8 episode "Burns, Baby Burns". There was going to be a joke about the Soviet Union breaking up. This was not put in the episode because the Soviet Union broke up after the episode was done being written (and it was not broadcast yet).