"Симпсон отбасының қонағы: Фрейзер жұлдызының бауырласы"

David Hyde Pierce as Cecil Terwilliger and "Man in crowd"
| couch gag = The living room is on the ceiling. The Simpsons sit down, but fall to the "floor" (the ceiling).

The episode was written by Ken Keeler, who had been watching a lot of Frasier episodes at the time and had been assigned to write a Sideshow Bob episode and he thought it would be a good idea to mix the two. David Hyde Pierce was cast as Sideshow Bob's brother, causing Pierce to joke, "Normally, I would not do something like this. But how often do you get a chance to work with an actor like Kelsey Grammer and, more importantly, play his brother?" While Sideshow Bob is addressing the crowd, a man near the back raises his hand and says "probably"; he is also voiced by David Hyde Pierce, who had wanted to be a man in a crowd. The original script was run by the Frasier producers to make sure they were okay with it, and they only had one problem. There was a very brief scene in which Cecil talks to a visible character and refers to her as "Maris", who in Frasier is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier said the scene should go. According to director Pete Michels, it was difficult to draw Bob and Cecil standing together because their feet are both so big.

In its original broadcast, "Brother from Another Series" finished 39th in ratings for the week of February 17–23, 1997, with a Nielsen rating of 9.1, equivalent to approximately 8.8 million viewing households. It was the fourth highest rated show on the Fox network that week, following The X Files, King of the Hill and Melrose Place. Beforehand, the media said the episode "looks promising", and afterwards journalist Ben Rayner called it one of director Peter Michels' "classics". This episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or Special. In a 2008 article, Entertainment Weekly named Pierce's role as Cecil as one of the sixteen best guest appearances on The Simpsons. Grammer and Pierce were ranked second on AOL's list of their favorite 25 Simpsons guest stars.