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What does it mean that this episode has aired "five times in the United States"? I'm in Canada, where there are about 10 different reruns on various channels every day of the week, and I assume it must be even higher in the US. I have certainly seen this episode more than five times. Adam Bishop 14:10, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

In the UK it's probably aired hundreds of times. I don't see the need of listing any more than the first showing in the article, ditto for all the other Simpsons episode articles. BillyH 16:20, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "The Call of Cthulu" related

The story's mainly about homer as a monster, cthulhu is also a monster. Episode's title "The Call of The Simpsons" is like the book "The Call of Cthulhu". Could it be related? Maybe, some trivia stuff. --84.171.113.211 17:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

"According to Bob, Homer couldn't afford the Ultimate Behemoth if he lived to be a million, but could afford $350 a month. Assuming Homer is 35 in this episode, the Ultimate Behemoth would cost over $4,199,853,000." This is a really ridiculous trivia point IMO, as the "lived to be a million" phrase is what we that speak English like to call an exaggeration. I'll just delete it then.--Charibdis 01:58, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Television in Ultimate Behemoth

Also on the subject of the Ultimate Behemoth, the article states that it had a flat-screen TV. Seeing as this was 1990, I am left doubting if they even existed at that time. I thought the first ones were only made commercially available in the late 90s, early 2000s. Was this actually what the guy in the episode listed the vehicle as having, or is it just someones observation of what looks like a flat-screen tv? Ortac (talk) 18:29, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

The salesman says nothing about a flat screen TV. A big screen TV can be seen for about a second when he shows the Simpsons the inside of the RV. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.179.172.226 (talk) 06:04, 21 May 2008 (UTC)