"Oh at Harvard they taught you?" Myers interjects. "Hit the streets, egghead. You should have majored in not getting fired!"

The producer then further taunts the cartoon writer, who according to the current writers is a dead ringer for Vitti who was then a writer on the show.

"Hey egghead, sing 'fair Harvard' for me."

When the cartoon writer begins to sing his boss throws a crumpled paper into his mouth muffling him.

"You sir, have the boorish manners of a Yalie," says the indignant writer.

"Here's a witty rejoinda for ya'" retorts the boss, hitting him in the head with a heavy-looking desktop nameplate.

The hapless writer comes back later in search of his Harvard mug and gets smacked in the head with his bosses' nameplate yet again.

The boss hires Bart and Lisa's grandfather under the mistaken impression he is a writer, he tells the assembled staff.

"I want you to see what a good writer looks like. He's got something you couldn't get at your fancy school: life experience."

A writer responds, "Actually, you know I wrote my thesis on life experience," and starts to expound on it before being told to shut up.

Next Season

Cohen says that next season, The Simpsons' eighth, will likely revive the plot line that involves the Itchy and Scratchy writers, bringing back the Harvard graduates.

"I'm writing an episode right now that revolves around the Itchy and Scratchy show," says Cohen, who adds that the episode will likely include Oakley as a character. "It uses the writers several times... but it's the kind of a thing, once I hand the script in [that can change]."

Oakley says that his staff is working on a show in which Burns attends the Harvard-Yale game and complains that Harvard wins all the time.

"There's a really good line," Oakley says. "Burns says something like 'ah, let Harvard have its football and academics. Yale will always be first in gentlemanly club life.'"