Overview
- A line in the Season 37 opener suggested the fashion club took over the music room "when Mr. Largo died," followed by a joke about jury duty.
- Co-executive producers Cesar Mazariegos and Jessica Conrad told TVLine that Mr. Largo is alive and that the line was written as a gag.
- Mr. Largo does not appear on-screen in the episode, which helped fuel brief fan speculation before the official clarification.
- Producers noted the show rarely removes recurring characters, citing last year's carefully debated on-screen death of Larry the Barfly.
- The premiere centers on Lisa's rise in a school fashion clique, and producers teased a two-episode 800th-episode night with a special couch gag and a Marge–Santa's Little Helper story.