How long was The Secret of Monkey Island in production?
The Secret of Monkey Island
The Secret of Monkey Island ultimately cost $200,000 to produce, and was developed over nine months.[33]
The Monkey Suit
"The Monkey Suit" was written by J. Stewart Burns and directed by Raymond S. Persi as part of the seventeenth season of "The Simpsons" (2005–2006). Burns received inspiration for the episode from the Scopes Monkey Trial, a 1925 legal case in which high school science teacher John Scopes was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which made teaching evolution unlawful. Clarice Drummond, the ACLU lawyer who represents Lisa, is a reference to the ACLU lawyer Clarence Darrow who defended Scopes, while Wallace Brady is a reference to William Jennings Bryan, an attorney in the Scopes Monkey Trial. American actor Larry Hagman guest starred in the episode as Wallace Brady, while American actress Melanie Griffith played herself as the narrator of an audio tour at the museum. Burns did research for "The Monkey Suit" by reading Richard Dawkins' book "The Selfish Gene" and watching "Inherit the Wind" (a film based on the Scopes Monkey Trial). He also visited a natural history museum.