" Krusty Gets Kancelled " is the 22nd and final episode of the fourth season The Simpsons '. It was first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 13, 1993. In the episode, the new show featured the first Gabbo doll doll in Springfield and competed with the Krusty the Clown show. The Krusty event was immediately canceled. Bart and Lisa decide to help Krusty back in the air by holding a special comeback.
John Swartzwelder wrote the episode and David Silverman served as director. Following the success of "Homer at the Bat", the authors wanted to try the same guest star episodes, except with celebrities rather than baseball players. This episode proved quite difficult, as many actors requested guest stars refused at the last minute and the comeback special section was almost removed. Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Bette Midler, Luke Perry, and Red Hot Chili Peppers (Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Arik Marshall and Chad Smith) all guest stars as themselves and appear in special Krusty. Elizabeth Taylor and Barry White, both of whom starred in previous episodes this season, made a cameo appearance.
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Plot
One afternoon while watching television, Homer and Bart see a very disturbing ad for something named "Gabbo"; this is the beginning of a viral marketing campaign. Finally, "Gabbo" is revealed to be a ventriloquist puppet. Ventriloquist Arthur Crandall announces that Gabbo's new program will air in live competition with the established Krusty the Klown Show every afternoon at 4 pm. Gabbo's key words - "I'm a bad brat" - instantly amaze the intended audience, and this has a negative impact on Krusty and his show. The clowns vow to survive the competition from the new program, but Gabbo's ruthless tactics quickly attracted the audience of Krusty. Krusty tries to fight with his own puppets, but because of his terrible appearance and poor conditions, he becomes messy, and scares many kids in the audience. To make matters worse, Itching and Itching have moved to the Gabbo Show, forcing Krusty to show East European "Workers and Parasites", instead, that does not make sense. Finally, the Krusty rating reached its lowest point, and the show was canceled.
Left without a job and without building a nest egg, Krusty falls on hard times and starts suffering from depression. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa, as long as not impressed with Gabbo, decided to try to help Krusty. When Bart sneaks into the studio, he secretly records Gabbo referring to Springfield's children as "SOB", which damages his reputation. It backfired when Kent Brockman made the same reference, right after cursing Gabbo for it. Meanwhile, Krusty still slumped in sadness without work. After visiting his home and seeing photos of his celebrity friends, Bart and Lisa advised him to hold a special comeback. They started recruiting great celebrities to perform in special Krusty: Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Hugh Hefner, and Luke Perry. They also tried to recruit Elizabeth Taylor, but her agent declined the invitation before they could talk to her. Bart and Lisa then help Krusty back into shape before the special air.
The Krusty comeback special features reunion with Sideshow Mel, Perry shot from the cannon, Red Hot Chili Peppers sing "Give It Away" in their outfit, Carson lifts the Buick Squad 1987 over his head, Hefner plays a glass, and Krusty and Midler sing "Wind Beneath My Wings ". The show was a huge success and Krusty's career was back on track. While watching a special event at home, Taylor told himself he had to fire his agent. After that, everyone heads to Moe's Tavern for the party afterwards, where they toast with Krusty and watch Carson as he plays the accordion while balancing Grampa and Jasper on the bench above his head.
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Production
The idea of ​​a canceled The Krusty the Clown Show was praised by author John Swartzwelder. The rest of the authors decided this would be an opportunity to include a group of celebrity guest stars. They had done the same episode of the previous year called "Homer at the Bat" (starring nine Major League Baseball players) and hoped to imitate his success. At that point, the authors had a list of celebrities who wanted to place a guest spot on the show and decided to use this episode to burn some of them. However, the episode was described by executive producer Mike Reiss as a "nightmare" because some guests withdrew at the last minute and the script had to be changed several times. One of the goals for this episode is to have a former President of the United States. They wrote a "very respectable but cute" section for every living president (Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan) at the time, but they all rejected it. Only the last one responds, sends a polite reply.
All guest stars were recorded for several months. One of the authors' goals was to get a musical performance to perform, but some players, including The Rolling Stones and Wynonna Judd, turned the role down (though the Stones finally appeared in season 14 "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"). The Red Hot Chili Peppers were finally accepted, and directed by George Meyer, who told them to ad-lib many of their lines. The celebrity aspect of the episode was almost canceled because the producers could not get the obligations before the recording deadline. Johnny Carson appeared in the episode, and it was one of the few television appearances he made after he retired from The Tonight Show. He recorded his dialogue that night after the 44th Anniversary of the Emmy Primetime Awards. The original role for Carson was where he visited the Simpson family home and harassed him. Carson feels this role is too demeaning, so the authors take the opposite route and describe it as very flexible and multi-talented. Bette Midler's condition for starring in guests is that the show promotes her anti-trash campaign. Guest Elizabeth Taylor starred in herself and also recorded the part as Maggie in "Lisa's First Word" on the same day. Luke Perry was one of the first guests to approve their part.
"Workers and Parasites" cartoon short is a reference to Soviet cartoons. To produce animation, director David Silverman made some pictures and made the animation very jerky. The scene where Krusty sings "Send in Clowns" is very complicated for the animators as it involves two portraits of the same scene from different angles. Part of the scene was made by Brad Bird.
Cultural reference
Frank Sinatra's 1973 appearance of "Send in the Clowns" song from Ol 'Blue Eyes Is Back was parodied in the episode, and Krusty sang the altered lyrics: "Send to those who are feeling and dumb, schmaltz - by comedian clowns "in his special comeback music number. The name Gabbo comes from the 1929 movie The Gabbie . He was originally designed to be more square, but the second design was made into a "Duddy Howdy Doody". His voice is based on Jerry Lewis. The sequence with a Gabbo song contains several references to the 1940 movie Pinocchio . Krusty mentioned that he beat Joey Bishop. Bishop is an entertainer with his own show, The Joey Bishop Show , which is dealing with the The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson . Bette Midler's kickback, Krusty is a reference to Bette singing for Johnny Carson in the second episode of Carson. The scene in which Krusty instructed Red Hot Chili Peppers to change the lyrics of the song "Give It Away" is a reference to Ed Sullivan who instructed The Doors to change the lyrics to the song "Light My Fire". The poses of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in this scene are based on The Doors . Flea, the bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was mistakenly seen playing the guitar during the show "Give It Away". Some of the scenes in Krusty are primarily based on Elvis Presley's Elvis Presley's "Elvis Presley's Special Comeback." The piece of music Hugh Hefner plays on a wine glass is from Peter and the Wolf and is composed by Sergei Prokofiev.
Reception
In its original broadcast, "Krusty Gets Kancelled" finished 24th in the rankings for the 10-16th week of May 1993, with a Nielsen 12.3 rating, equivalent to about 11.5 million households viewing. It was the highest-rated event on Fox's network that week, beating Married... with Kids .
In 2006, Bette Midler, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson, Luke Perry, and Red Hot Chili Peppers were listed at number four on the IGN list of best Simpsons. They all also appear on the AOL list of 25 guest stars of their favorite Simpsons. In 2007, Vanity Fair was named "Krusty Gets Kancelled" as the ninth episode of The Simpsons . John Ortved feels, "This is the best episode of Krusty - better than a reunion with his father, or the episode of Bar Mitzvah, who won the Emmy a lot later.. The guest casting as themselves is top-notch, and we can see the dark side of showbiz career Hollywood's brunettes, television, celebrities and fans are all stabbed beautifully here. "Brien Murphy of Abilene Reporter-News is classified as" Krusty Gets Kancelled "as one of his three favorite episodes The Simpsons , along with "Behind the Laughter" and "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase". Although Jim Schembri of The Age inserted this episode among the top 10 episodes of the series, he also noted "Unfortunately, this marks the beginning of the show's obsession with the star's brilliant acting." An article in Herald Sun puts "Krusty Gets Kancelled" among the top 20 episodes of The Simpsons, and is characterized as "Seeing Krusty's feeble endeavor to fight back with his own." The ventriloquist's dreadful doll , which falls apart in his lap in the air "as the episode peak. In 1997, TV Guide was named "Krusty Gets Kancelled" as the second largest episode of Simpsons and the 66th largest TV episode. In 2009, it was crowned as the 24th Largest TV Episode of All Time.
In an article about the 2003 DVD release on The Independent, "Krusty Gets Kancelled" is highlighted along with the episodes "When You're Plate The Stars", "Lisa the Iconoclast", "Dog of Death", "Homer Badman ", and" Grampa vs. Sexual Inability ". In a 2004 review of Four Seasons's seasonal release of The Simpsons on DVD, Andrew Pulver of The Guardian highlighted the episodes of "Krusty Camp" and "Krusty Gets Kancelled" as part of "TV Art at its peak ". Mike Clark from USA Today also highlights "Krusty Camp" and "Krusty Gets Kancelled" as a better season episode, along with "A Streetcar Named Marge" and "Lisa the Beauty Queen". Jen Chaney of The Washington Post described the episodes of "A Streetcar Named Marge", "Mr. Plow", "Marge vs. Monorail", and "Krusty Gets Kancelled" as "gems" of The Simpsons 'fourth season. Spence Kettlewell of The Toronto Star described the season 4 episodes of "Krusty Gets Kancelled", "Krusty Camp", "Mr. Plow", and "I Love Lisa" as "some of the best episodes" of the series. Forrest Hartman of Reno Gazette-Journal wrote that a large number of celebrity appearances subtract from the episode, commenting: "The result is a boring jumble scene with Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Red Hot Chili Peppers and more where we should be laughing just because famous people interact with Krusty. "This episode is one of three favorite Tim Long executive co-producers, including" The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show "and" A Milhouse Divided ".
In 2000, the episode was released as part of the Twentieth Century Fox set of The Simpsons Go Hollywood, commemorating The 10th anniversary of The Simpsons. The set includes "some of the best series of movies and TVs", and also includes episodes of "Marge vs. Monorail", "A Streetcar Named Marge", "Who Shot Mr. Burns", parts one and two, and "Bart Gets Famous". This episode was included in the 2003 release of The Simpsons Classics on DVD by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.
References
External links
- "Krusty Gets Kancelled". The Simpsons.com . FOX.com.
- "Krusty Got capsule episode Kancelled". Simpsons Archive .
- "Krusty Gets Kancelled" on TV.com
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