Buzz Aldrin Kept Joke

When astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, guest-starred on "The Simpsons" episode "Deep Space Homer," the writers worried they might annoy him with his line, "second comes after first." They offered a softer replacement: "first to take a soil sample." Aldrin shut that down and said he preferred the original line. So the joke stayed exactly as written.

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