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Tag: Krusty Gets Kancelled
Quote of the Day
“Look, there must be something I can do on the show. Please, for Mom’s sake?” – Sideshow Luke Perry “Well, maybe we can find something.” – Krusty the Klown RIP Luke Perry
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“Here’s your taco, sir.” – Squeaky Voiced Teen “I don’t want it.” – Krusty the Klown “But this comes out of my salary! If I had a girlfriend, she’d kill me!” – Squeaky Voiced Teen
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“A lot of people know about the grotto and the game room.” – Hugh Hefner “Of course.” – Bart Simpson “But few know about the laboratory, the biosphere, the alternative energy research center.” – Hugh Hefner “Fascinating.” – Bart Simpson So long, Hugh Hefner.
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“C’mon, you stupid horse! I got my last ten bucks on you! . . . No, don’t look at me! . . . Run! . . . No, don’t come over here. . . . Ugh.” – Krusty the Klown
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“Dancing around in their underwear, that is so degrading.” – Krusty the Klown “Thirty seconds till your Lil’ Stinker sketch.” – Stage Manager “Gimme a bigger Lolly!” – Krusty the Klown
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“Hey, boyo, what’s so funny?” – Cameraman “Well, it’s . . . nah, you wouldn’t be interested. It’s too lowbrow.” – Bart Simpson “No, I’m quite lowbrow.” – Cameraman “Well, somebody just wrote a bawdy limerick on the men’s room wall.” – Bart Simpson “This I gotta see!” – Cameraman
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“Krusty, are you making any money?” – Bart Simpson “Nah. That guy’s giving it away for free.” – Krusty the Klown “Old gray mare she ain’t what she used to be, ain’t what she used to be, ain’t what she used to be!” – Crazy Old Man Singer
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“I’m a star again. I don’t know how to thank you kids.” – Krusty the Klown “That’s alright, Krusty.” – Bart Simpson “We’re getting fifty percent of the t-shirt sales.” – Lisa Simpson “What? That’s the sweetest plum!” – Krusty the Klown Happy (one day belated) birthday, Matt Groening!
Reading Digest: RIP, Real Life Bumblebee Man
“Dos huevos, por favor. Oh, que lastima.” – Bumblebee Man “I gotta steal that bit.” – Krusty the Klown Late last week, it was announced that Chesperito, a/k/a Roberto Gómez Bolaños, a/k/a the inspiration for Bumblebee Man had died at the age of 85. Reader Alex from Chile, writes in: He and his characters were loved in all Latin America and it’s easy to compare his shows rise and fall with the Simpsons, being the 70s the golden years of “El Chavo del Ocho” and “El Chapulin Colorado” and then from the 80s until now having nothing but the zombification of…
Quote of the Day
“Alright, here’s the deal: every time you watch my show, I will send you forty dollars!” – Krusty the Klown “Checks will not be honored.” – TV Announcer
Reading Digest: Teaser Announcement Edition
“What’s Gabbo?” – Bart Simpson “I figure it’s some guy’s name. Some guy named Gabbo.” – Homer Simpson It’s been relatively quiet around here the last few weeks. I’ve had a Season 16 disc from Netflix sitting next to my computer since the beginning of the month, but haven’t yet gotten around to more Lies Make Baby Jesus Cry or anything else. However, it was all in the service of something equally pointless: another little mini-book. It’s much shorter than “Zombie Simpsons”, so even using the word “book” feels like a stretch, but it does have a cover: Thanks, Cessna!…
Reading Digest: Marketing Success Edition
“Everyone is saying Gabbo this and Gabbo that! But no one is saying worship this and Jericho that!” – Reverend Lovejoy “What’s this about Gabbo?” – Jasper Yet another clipped Reading Digest this week because there are two idiotic pieces of public relations sucking up the internet’s attention. Firstly, they released a trailer for this week’s much hyped Lego episode. For the record, I quite liked The Lego Movie and it would be a welcome and pleasant surprise if Sunday’s episode was even half as entertaining. But I do not have my hopes up. Secondly, Jean, a practiced hand at managing PR…
Renewal Season: Watching the Wall
“Hey, Red Hot Chili Peppers, would you guys like to appear on a Krusty the Klown special?” – Bart Simpson “Sure, if you can get us out of this gig.” – Flea “No problemo. Hey, Moe, look over there!” – Bart Simpson “What? What am I looking at? I don’t see nothing. I’m gonna stop looking soon. What? What, is that it?” – Moe “Hey, Moe, can I look too?” – Homer Simpson “Sure, but it’ll cost you.” – Moe “My wallet’s in the car.” – Homer Simpson “He is so stupid. And now back to the wall.” – Moe…
Quote of the Day
“Well, you’ve been on TV longer than I have. I’m sure you’ve saved up quite a nest egg.” – Johnny Carson “Uh, yeah. Do they still buy human hair down at the wig shop?” – Krusty the Klown Happy 20th anniversary to “Krusty Gets Kancelled”! Original airdate 13 May 1993.
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“I admit I used the city treasury to fund the murder of my enemies. But, as Gabbo would say, ‘I’m a bad little boy’.” – Mayor Quimby
Compare & Contrast: Celebrity Game Shows and Homer Simpson
“Hurry, Charley, there is not much time.” – Rainier Wolfcastle “I ain’t goin’ nowhere. I’ve been in this square fer near thirty seasons, and I ain’t a leavin’ now. Aaaahhhh!” – Not Charley Weaver “He’s dead now.” – Homer Simpson Without drawing too broad a conclusion from just one example, there aren’t many clearer comparisons for how the show’s sense of humor deteriorated than to look at the two times they poked fun at The Hollywood Squares, first in Season 4’s masterful “Krusty Gets Kancelled”, and then again in Season 11’s pathetic “Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder”. What makes these two…
A Spectacular and Unwatched Catastrophe
“What the hell was that?” – Krusty the Klown Give Zombie Simpsons credit, when they embarrass themselves for a pop star, they really embarrass themselves for a pop star. From start to finish, “Lisa Goes Gaga” relentlessly displayed the pitiful imagination and mediocre craftsmanship behind Zombie Simpsons. In an episode where they outright tell the audience, right up front in an opening narration, that they’re discarding the usual rules and that weird and strange things are going to happen, just about the only weird and strange things that they managed to conjure were a lot of Lady Gaga outfits. Unfortunately…
Compare & Contrast: Krusty’s Nadirs
“That dummy doesn’t scare me. I’ve had plenty of guys come after me and I’ve buried ’em all: hobos, sea captains, Joey Bishop.” – Krusty the Klown “Don’t forget the Special Olympics.” – Ms. Pennycandy “Oh yeah, I slaughtered the Special Olympics!” – Krusty the Klown In the introduction to yesterday’s Crazy Noises, I mentioned that “Krusty Changes His Show” should be up there with travel episodes, Homer gets a job, and other serially repeated plots (Lisa gets a cause, Bart gets a girlfriend, etcetera). A corollary to that is the way we see Krusty freak out once he’s at…
The End of Zombie Simpsons Would Be Great; Still Probably Not Happening
“I don’t think they’re giving you enough information, Dad.” – Lisa Simpson “I’ll figure it out. I’m gonna use all the power of my brain.” – Homer Simpson The NFL escaped from its lockout basically unscathed, the NBA is getting into serious crunch time with theirs, and now Zombie Simpsons has added its name to this year’s list of labor-management disputes between millionaires and billionaires. This morning, gossip and media columnist Lloyd Grove published an anonymously sourced article on The Daily Beast reporting that contract negotiations between FOX and the voice cast aren’t going well (thanks to Gran2 in comments). …