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
The Aquabats! Super Show! Aquabats themselves, with additional scoring on most episodes provided by Matthew Gorney, Warren Fitzgerald or individual credits for Aquabats members James R. Briggs, Jr., Richard Falomir and Ian Fowles. Fitzgerald, the guitarist for punk rock band The Vandals and formerly of New Wave group Oingo Boingo, served as the series' music supervisor. The "Super Show!" theme song was co-written by The Aquabats and Fitzgerald. Whereas most musically oriented shows like "The Monkees" typically break the narrative of an episode for a music video performance of a standalone song, each episode of "Super Show!" usually featured one or two unique songs