In Treehouse of Horror XIV, why is Ned Flanders so surprised to have seen Confucius and Milton Berle in heaven?
Neither Berle nor Confucius were Christian. In Sunday, cruddy Sunday,at Moes. The travel agent and Moe speak with their mouths behind beer glasses. Eg: “President Clinton will be there with his wife, Barbara.” It was because at the time the writers didn’t who’d be playing in the Superbowl. They did it so that fans couldn’t lip-read who their original predictions would be. The Clinton and Hilary thing was just a “joke”, that Clinton might not be president (though, they showed him later in the episode) and that he might not be married when the episode aired. And so they could update it and re-run it at the time of the Superbowl (like they did with Lisa The Greek). Obviously they made it noticable on purpose and as you say it was mainly used for the Clinton gag.
