The Critic/Sherman of Arabia

Sherman of Arabia
Season 2, Episode 7
Airdate	April 30, 1995
Written by	Richard Doctorow
Directed by	Brian Sheesley
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The Critic — Season Two

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Sherman of Arabia is the seventh episode of the second season of The Critic, and the twentieth episode overall.

Starring: Jon Lovitz (Jay Sherman), Nancy Cartwright (Margot Sherman), Christine Cavanaugh (Marty Sherman), Gerrit Graham (Franklin Sherman), Doris Grau (Doris), Judith Ivey (Eleanor Sherman), Nick Jameson (Vlada Veramirovich), Maurice La Marche (Jeremy Hawke), Charles Napier (Duke Phillips), Park Overall (Alice Tompkins), Kath Soucie (Various), Russi Taylor (Penny Tompkins)

Special Guest Voice: Tress MacNeille

Trivia

The Show

• Alarm Clock Opening: "This is Howard Stern, I want to apologize to the following groups: Latinos, Native Americans and Mothers Against Drunk Drivers. I guess the only one I can make fun of is that fat film critic Jay Sherman."
• Opening Movie Parody: A parody of the scene where Julie Andrews sings in a field in The Sound of Music, the camera gets too close and accidentally hits her in the face, sending her careening off the side of a mountain.
• Closing Theatre Shot: "Is the snack bar still open?"

Behind the Scenes

• Network Screening: When the producers were showing two episodes to the new head of FOX, this was one of the two. At one point, his executives in the room with him started laughing uproariously when the Hee Haw: The Next Generation joke came on. The network head refused to believe that the joke was really funny, which was a clear sign to Al Jean that he was actively looking for reasons to cancel the series.