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
Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey that Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey's voices tend to get mixed up with one another. Irving Berlin wrote a stage show while in the Army during World War I entitled "Yip Yip Yaphank" at Camp Yaphank from which names were taken for this cartoon. Yahooey spoke very much like Jerry Lewis. The show had 23 episodes of 6 minutes each. The episode "The Volunteers" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 1. The episode "Black Bart" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's vol. 2. In the later animated TV series "Animaniacs", the character Slappy Squirrel