Emmerdale "is the heart of the community." Home Farm is a sprawling mansion in Emmerdale; it was first introduced on-screen as Miffield Hall in 1973 and was renamed in 1978. Other locales include a factory and a bed-and-breakfast. Character types on "Emmerdale" have included "bad boys", such as Cain Dingle, Ross Barton, Carl King, Robert Sugden and Aaron Livesy; "bitches", such as Kim Tate, Charity Dingle, Nicola King, Chrissie White, Kelly Windsor and Sadie King; "villains", such as Cameron Murray, Lachlan White, Pierce Harris, Steph Stokes, Rosemary King, Gordon Livesy, Emma Barton and Sally Spode; caring characters, such as Laurel Thomas,
What to Expect When Bart's Expecting this as an opportunity to show Bart how babies are made. Nonetheless, the stallion turns out to like playing "It's Raining Men" more than making babies with the female horse. The horse then mates with Sudsley Brewright and the pregnancy test comes back positive. Dennis Perkins of "The A.V. Club" gave the episode a B-, saying "A serviceably funny episode with some good lines and an appearance from a reliable guest star, “What To Expect When Bart’s Expecting” nonetheless reiterates that current "Simpsons" episodes have a ceiling for what they can accomplish—and that it’s lower than it used to be."