Would you like to write a review? Krusty the Clown, born Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofski, is the son of Rabbi Hyman Krustofski. And then I heard I actually won an Emmy for it. [2] In the episode, Krusty the Clown, a famous TV comedian, is convicted of the armed robbery of the Kwik-E-Mart. ``My young friends, for years I have been silent, save for the crude glissandos of this primitive wind instrument. ", "Football... his groin...it works on so many levels! Krusty is falsely arrested for robbing the Kwik-E-Mart, but Bart is determined that he is innocent. 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With his polysyllabic vocabulary and love for Gilbert and Sullivan, he was an urbane showman through whom The Simpsons’ Harvard alumni writers could indulge their artier inclinations. Whatever would Tennessee Williams make of this. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Homer: The reason I look unhappy is that tonight I have to see a slideshow starring my wife's sisters. Never have I seen you look so unhappy while purchasing such a large quantity of ice cream. SS is dedicated to The Simpsons and host to thousands of free TV show episode scripts and screencaps, cartoon framegrabs and movie scripts. In the original (78-page-long) script for “Krusty Gets Busted”, Sideshow Bob was written with James Earl Jones in mind – drawing from the Star Wars star’s legendary villain kudos. This fan-favourite sequence, in which Bob unintentionally – and repeatedly – whacks himself in the face with a rake, was the result of the writers needing to fill time (“creative padding”, as Reiss called it), but became an unforgettable piece of surrealist comedy. he best jokes on The Simpsons always seem to fly out of nowhere, smacking you in the face like an upturned rake. Widely heralded as one of the series’ finest episodes – and, by extension, one of the finest episodes of TV ever made – “Cape Feare” was an episode-long parody of the 1962 classic Cape Fear, and Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of the same name. Krusty Gets Busted - Kelsey Grammar makes his first of many appearances here as Sideshow Bob, Krusty the Clown's sidekick. Mr. Krabs is getting himself prepared for a new day.] Grammer himself had only recorded one rake-in-the-face reaction sound, not expecting to hear it nine consecutive times in the finished product. Homer's 'Spiderpig' in The Simpsons is arguably one of the best moments of the past 25 years of the show. This article is a transcript of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Krusty Bucket" from Season 12, which aired on August 10, 2019. This marked the first proper appearance of Sideshow Bob (he had appeared with a goofier look, standing mutely next to Krusty the Clown in “The Telltale Head”). In the episode, Krusty the Clown is convicted of armed robbery of the Kwik-E-Mart and sentenced to jail. He can talk he can talk he can talk he can talk he can talk! The Simpsons: Season: 1 Episode: 12 [incomplete: not enough] Apu: What's the matter, sir? You can also choose to be emailed when someone replies to your comment. And for the next few seasons, The Simpsons’ writing staff kept succeeding in figuring out new angles, from “Sideshow Bob’s Last Gleaming”, which cast Bob as a Dr Strangelove-esque Cold War supervillain waging a war on television, to “Brother From Another Series”, which brought in Grammer’s Frasier sibling David Hyde Pierce to play Bob’s brother, Cecil. The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Brad Bird. Just watch out for those rakes.”. Homer: The reason I look unhappy is that tonight I have to see a slideshow starring my wife's sisters. - Hey, kids! Sideshow Bob was a favourite of Simpsons fans from his very first appearance, in 1990's 'Krusty Gets Busted', In his early, non-speaking incarnation, Bob boasted a rounder, goofier look, Sideshow Bob enjoys a cigar in an elaborate parody of 'Cape Fear'. “Brother From Another Series” leaned heavily into the two stars’ Frasier personas, and subverted the formula by casting Bob as Bart’s unlikely saviour, and Cecil as the murderous Terwilliger, who harbours a lifetime of bitterness at being passed over for the role of Krusty’s stooge. How do you want to celebrate? At the time of “Krusty Gets Busted”, Grammer was working as a regular on Cheers, playing the comically pompous psychiatrist Dr Frasier Crane. [1] The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Brad Bird. Not an actual episode, just a minute and a half short that you can find on the special features. Season 1, Episode 12 Original Air Date: April 29th 1990 US Audience: 30,400,000 viewers. [The episode begins at Mr. Krabs' anchor house early in the morning. Like Sideshow Bob can sing. Playing out like a twisty legal thriller, the episode revolved around Bob, Krusty’s not-so-trusty sidekick, framing the blue-haired goon for armed robbery, in order to seize control of his kids TV timeslot. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Grammer has declared it his favourite Bob episode, and it’s easy to see why. Hyman strongly opposed Krusty's wish to become a clown and make people laugh, wanting the boy to go to yeshiva instead. ... (“Krusty Gets Busted”). SpongeBob: Delivery! Always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom...". The episode: "Krusty Gets Busted" The role: Sideshow Bob. It was Bird who was responsible for Sideshow Bob’s design, which sharpened and evolved over the course of production (and of the episode) to better suit Grammer’s smooth baritone. - Krusty! Never have I seen you look so unhappy while purchasing such a large quantity of ice cream. This episode marks the beginning of the long-running saga of "Bart v. But, somewhat ironically, its first year was also its roughest. I was directing him in a scene where Bob is being shoved into a prison cell and said, ‘I need you to make a noise like you’re being roughed up by cops.’ ‘Oh, I can do that,’ he said with a grin.”, Matt Groening, the cartoonist who created The Simpsons, hit on one of the key reasons for Grammer’s success: “His voice fits in with the regular cast – he doesn’t feel like an outsider.”, Grammer had in fact borrowed Sideshow Bob’s deep, overly theatrical voice from Ellis Raab, a theatre director for whom the Cheers star worked early on in his career, performing odd jobs like hanging wallpaper and painting his bathroom. What happened: The script specifically mentioned James Earl Jones as the voice of Bob, … With hindsight, it’s hard to imagine anyone else taking on the character, so infused is he with Grammer’s distinct style of fusty erudition. I campaigned for the other guy, but I voted for you! My grand momma loves to read these on the potty. Do you want me to sing you a birthday song? Krusty's real last name, Krustofski, was pitched by Al Jean. [The episode begins with SpongeBob making a Krusty Krab delivery. “It recurs in my life like a bad dream.”. When Bob was brought back, to seduce, marry and (attempt to) kill Marge Simpsons’s sister Selma in season three’s “Black Widower”, the character was fleshed out, given a life outside of show business, and imbued with much more of the Grammerian charm. Karma originally watched “Kamp Krusty” with her step-father, who opted not to explain it to her. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Dedicated to The Simpsons and host to thousands of free TV show. Post your Comments or Review This page has been viewed 196 times this month, and 1530 times total. One day, he was performing at a rabbi's convention when one joking rabbi squirted seltzer on him, washing off his clown makeup. Casting Sideshow Bob in the Max Cady role, as a deranged killer who gets out of prison and plans revenge (on Bart), “Cape Feare” was the final episode written by the original team of Simpsons writers – a team which, knackered by four years of near-constant work, finally felt they had licence to let loose. Or as I call them "The Gruesome Twosome." Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. But the spiky-haired fiend’s villainy was tempered by a vaudevillian buffoonishness, and he would routinely fall prey to the crudest pratfalls. Simpsons episode scripts: full transcripts, perfect for finding that exact quote or reciting with your buds! The plan works perfectly, until he is foiled by Bart Simpson and his own conspicuously oversized feet. [gets caught in the spinning doors] Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa! The suspect is dressed like Krusty the Clown, Bart's television idol. Nowhere is this juxtaposition more evident than in the character of Sideshow Bob, the show’s honey-voiced villain whose first sensational appearance turns 30 today. There were and are a few Simpsons semi-regulars, like Kelsey, Albert Brooks, Marcia Wallace and, of course, Phil Hartman, who – even though they didn’t appear in every episode – were so special to us that they became beloved members of our Simpsons family. By the end of its first run, it was averaging 27.8 million viewers per episode – a number that subsequent seasons could never match. As of Jan 16 21. This is Brittany and today's her birthday? “Black Widower” used Bob as the pretext to parody Cool Hand Luke and Psycho, and hinged a significant plot point on the character’s dislike of the TV series MacGyver. Oakley and Weinstein would graduate to the position of showrunners for seasons seven and eight – two of the series’s most popular – and made a point of bringing back Bob twice more. With all our hearts! 14 likes. In 1986, Krusty had a heart attack promoting pork products on the air and required a … Some enchanted evening: the kids get babysitted by a criminal. "The Simpsons" Krusty Gets Busted (TV Episode 1990) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Chalkboard: They are laughing at me, not with me. When Rabbi Krustofski found out, he disowned his son, and did not spea… Weinstein tells me: “Bob went from being a murderously angry former sidekick to a murderously angry refined bon vivant and self-proclaimed ‘sophisticate’ who’s far too intelligent for the residents of Springfield but just can’t stay away.”, According to Weinstein, writing for Bob “was always a challenge, because we had to figure out a new way and reason for him to break out of prison and wreak havoc on the Simpson family – thus our political take with ‘Sideshow Bob Roberts’. " Krusty Gets Busted " is the twelfth episode of Season 1. Since then, there have been several other outings for the character, putting Bob in new situations and pairing him up with different characters, like Homer (in “The Great Louse Detective”) and Lisa (in season 25’s “The Man Who Grew Too Much”). -- ``Krusty Gets Busted'' At home, Lisa and Maggie watch the Krusty the Clown show, sans Krusty. A robbery was commited by Professor Pinchworm (disguised as Ronald McDonald) at the green Grocers across the street from Lisa and Corduroy The Bear's home. The fledgling show was on the cover of Newsweek by April. Skip to main content. The results were chaotically funny, from the impromptu Gilbert and Sullivan medley that buys Bart time to escape at the end, to the classic, memetic “rake gag”. Plot: “Krusty the Clown” robs the Kwik-E-Mart. Bart Simpson is one of Krusty's biggest fans. It's Michael Jackson, singing Lisa Simpson 'Happy Birthday'. However, Krusty performed slapstick comedy behind his father's back. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? “It was really fun to figure out these new angles for Bob,” he adds. Who do you love? Couch: Maggie gets squeezed out and caught by Marge. When The Simpsons debuted as a standalone series (after appearing in short form on The Tracy Ullman Show) in December 1989, it was an immediate hit. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Well, happy birthday, Brittany! The episode was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky and directed by Brad Bird, the gifted animator who would go on to direct The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, writers who had been Simpsons nerds before getting taken on board with the show. "The Simpsons" - set in the fictional town of Springfield - parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition, and is a satirical depiction of a middle class American lifestyle. There is a 75 character minimum for reviews. Among these first 10 episodes, however, there was one standout: “Krusty Gets Busted”. If your review contains spoilers, please check the Spoiler box. “Sideshow Bob is the character gift that keeps giving,” he continues. Sideshow Bob’s next appearance, in “Sideshow Bob Roberts”, was no less contrived – an extended parody of All the President’s Men in which Bob rigs the election to become Springfield’s Republican mayor. ", "Forward not backward! It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss real-world solutions, and more. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. This article is a transcript of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Krusty Kleaners" from Season 11, which aired on August 7, 2018. “Although he’s not as evil as Bob,” wrote Reiss, “Kelsey is a staunch Republican. They actually sent me a tape, But it ended up in a drawer and I didn’t watch it. Krusty is an oddball character, but he is still Bart's hero. Good night: Homer & Marge scare the kids before they go to bed. From the start, it was clear that Bob’s cartoonish villainy made him ripe for such parody – at the end of “Krusty Gets Busted”, he is dragged away in a police van screaming lines like an unmasked Scooby Doo ghoul. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. [climbs into his bathtub to shower] There we go. Thirty years on from Kelsey Grammer’s remarkable cartoon debut, Louis Chilton looks at the legacy of one of the most endearing felons in fiction, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Read our full mailing list consent terms here. Krusty's father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofski was played by Jackie Mason, who won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the episode. The music was harsh and distracting (composer Richard Gibbs would be replaced by Alf Clausen from season two onwards), and the voice performances were still a little off-key – Dan Castellaneta’s Homer, for instance, still sounded like a largely unembellished Walter Matthau impression. Hey, Mr. President! "Krusty Gets Busted" is the 12th episode of The Simpsons' first season. 10 Season One: Krusty Gets Busted. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? As voiced by Kelsey Grammer, Bob – or Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, to use his full name – was the perfect Simpsons antagonist. None of Bob’s appearances in the past two-and-a-half decades have had the impact of “Cape Feare”, but there’s still an indefatigable fondness for the character, among fans and creators alike. "Krusty Gets Busted" is the twelfth episode of the first season of The Simpsons (production code 7G12), first broadcast on April 29, 1990. Dynamic and tautly told, “Krusty Gets Busted” elevated the first season of the show, and laid the groundwork for much of what was to follow. He had been initially brought onto the hit sitcom as a guest star – playing the boyfriend of Shelley Long’s Diane Chambers and love rival to Ted Danson’s Sam Malone – but Grammer’s sublime comic timing and confident versatility meant the character was soon upgraded to series regular. In his 2018 book Springfield Confidential, writer Mike Reiss wrote: “Kelsey is every bit as smart as the characters he plays—we’ve never written a Sideshow Bob line so esoteric that he didn’t get it.”, The similarities didn’t end there. The actor told Vulture in 2019: “I didn’t see the show right away. Mr. Krabs: [yawns and takes off his robe] Oh, yeah. Bart and Lisa investigate, convinced that Krusty has been framed. What's that, Sideshow Bob? "He can talk! But things kicked up a notch with season five’s “Cape Feare”. Krusty quickly introduces a clip of Robert Frost in 1963 reading one of his poems. BCDB Rating: 4.7 / 5 Stars from 2 users. Sideshow Bob puts his slide whistle to his lips, then sets it back down. Krusty Gets Busted (1990) Season 1 Episode 7G12- The Simpsons Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch. In the episode "Krusty Gets Busted" (Season 1, Episode 12) he declares, "I've based my entire life on Krusty's teachings," and sleeps in a room filled with Krusty merchandise.He exposes Sideshow Bob's attempted framing, helps Krusty return to the air with a comeback special, reigniting his career, and reunites Krusty with his estranged father. Featuring some of the best dance moves ever seen on the show. Animation troubles blighted the production schedule (the episode “Some Enchanted Evening” infamously needed about 70 per cent of its animation completely replaced). By this time, Bob had come a long way from his season one beginnings. Krusty gets Busted is the fourteenth episode of my fanon. 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