Due to the musical tap dance sequences, this episode was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing, Television Animation, Music by the Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA, music editor Bob Beecher
According to the DVD commentary, episode writer Julie Thacker came up with the story when she started enrolling her five daughters into dance classes during the summer. She noted that she didn't particularly like the teachers' methods and the other children's rude parents.
Chief Wiggum uses rat traps (to catch the assumed culprit of the mall vandalism) from ACME, the same company Wile E. Coyote patronized.
Shirley Temple was offered to guest voice the role of Vicki Valentine but declined.
Couch: The living room is a jungle. Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie swing in on a vine gracefully, like Tarzan. Homer, however, swings past the couch and crashes, like George of the Jungle.