Rosebud (The Simpsons) the ratings for the week of October 18–24, 1993. It acquired a Nielsen rating of 11.9. The episode was the second highest-rated show on the Fox network that week after "Married... with Children". In 2003, "Entertainment Weekly"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s placed "Rosebud" second on their top 25 "The Simpsons" episode list, writing that "despite being one of "The Simpsons" most spectacularly overstuffed episodes, "Rosebud" has plenty of heart". IGN.com ranked The Ramones's performance as the fifteenth best guest appearance in the show's history. In 2007, "Vanity Fair" named it the best episode of the show, calling it, "A perfect episode. Mr. Burns's lamentations
A Tale of Two Springfields providing his own voice and assumed someone else would, as in "Yellow Submarine". Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete's brother Paul Townshend provided guest voices in the episode. After a number of calls were made by the show's casting director in Los Angeles to The Who's managers in London, the group agreed to appear on the show. The animated versions of the band members included Daltrey in his trademark tight T-shirt and long curls, even though Daltrey cut his curls in the mid-1980s, as the staff wanted to use the image The Who are best known for. The Who recorded