Following the episode's broadcast, the Fox network received several angry letters and emails from concerned Catholics, who were uneasy with the commercial scene. According to Scully, the letters were worded the same, and all started with "My family and I have always enjoyed "The Simpsons", until last night..." Nevertheless, the letters provoked a reaction from "The Simpsons" staff, and in an interview, Scully said, "We got a couple of hundred letters, and it was very obvious from reading a majority of them that Catholic letter writers had not seen the show. Some of them were from third-graders, all saying the same thing: 'Please don't make fun of my religion.' Which we all know third-graders are very adamant about."