Rosebud (The Simpsons) sixth seasons of the show. Directed by Wes Archer, supervising director David Silverman describes the episode as "one of the more challenging ones" to direct. The Ramones (Joey Ramone, Johnny Ramone, C. J. Ramone and Marky Ramone) guest star in the episode as themselves. The episode is largely a parody of the 1941 film "Citizen Kane" and the title references Charles Foster Kane's dying word "Rosebud". The episode also contains references to "The Wizard of Oz", "Planet of the Apes", George Burns, Charles Lindbergh, The Rolling Stones and Adolf Hitler. Critical reaction to "Rosebud" was largely positive and in 2003
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