Krusty Gets Kancelled (revisited)

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four finger discount. Dude. Welcome to four figure Discant where this week we're here to do a very special review of Gone, all the way back to the finale of season four. It is an episode that my co host here is frequently bringing up one particular line, actually several particular lines. There's many famous moments in this episode. It's an iconic one. It is Crusty gets canceled. I'm Dando and irom guy. And yes, we are going to

finally answer the question why is a raven like a writing desk? And he's moving his hands together, which means he must be happy? Yeah or on cold? No, actually today I'm happy, not as cold today. Dan Thau has set the thermost out at a very agreeable temperature. We've both got o hoodies on. We're very very happy to you be talking about Krusty gets canceled. By the way, why is a raven like a writing desk?

Quite to Lewis Carroll, the writer of Alice in Wonderland, where it originally came from, because it can produce a few notes, although they are often very flat. Lewis Carroll not his best work. Not a tight five from Lewis tight five from John Swatswater. Though with writing of this episode, Holy moly, yes, yes, this is one of his absolute classics. This was one of those. This was sort of like the season four equivalent of

Homer at the Bat. So at the Bat worked so well ratings wise that I would have sort of smash out a whole range of guest stars in one episode in that one though, though, or a lot of baseball, a lot of showbiz luminaries. Yeah, this one's like, Okay, we've got a bunch of famous people we were trying to get into one episode, so we'd have to sort of fill every episode with a guest star. And I thought they the idea of Trusty being canceled was such a simple premise, but

an effective one to get that done. To get all the guest stars on a good reason for them to all be on anyway. Oh yeah, absolutely, to do a comeback special and then come back specials. Everybody loves an underdog, even in show business. Like you know, we may think your time has come and it's time for the hot new model to come in, but no, we still like We still like the old gray Man, even if she's not what she used to be. So yeah, bring him back

for another go around. I'm not sure if this was the first time we saw the old Jewish Man. I don't think it was one of the earlier appearances. At least anyway, he's the one his fans dropped down. That is correct. Yes, he went on to become a recurring He was sort of liked that. I think when it comes to the retirement home, it's grandbad jasper old Jewish guy, right, I think, oh, yes, it's just a funny accident. But what did you like the most about favorite?

But like, what are your thoughts about this episode? Because my memories of it were I never really liked it all that much as a kid, probably because I didn't know who the guest stars were. For the most part, I didn't know who beat Me was. I didn't know who e Lizabeth Taylor was. I didn't know who Johnny Carson was as a kid. You know. It's just there were these people who were obviously somebody in the Simpsons

universe, toy, but I thought, who are they? Yeah, I get the feeling the people in the writer's room, swartsweld Are and his Ilk are very much like Middler, Carson, Hefner. Absolutely, you know, a listers and they are and they are certainly not. I think that's a difference between a listers and legends maybe. I mean, I think by this stage Middler's probably still quite well known. Heffner, of course, is always

going to be well known. Johnny Carson there's a brand name, but they're not necessarily you know, the kids aren't walking around saying, gotta dress like Johnny Carson, or you know, oh, I've got to be doing the bet Middler challenge on TikTok or something like when did Carson finish nineteen ninety? That sounds about right, because this was apparently one of the last times he

appeared on a TV show after the show finished. Something I really dug in doing a little half assed research about this was that they initially wanted Carson to be trusty, almost essentially Cruss to wild be kind of a free loader hanging out of the Simpson household and mooching off them all. They kind of old Gil in kill Gill Volume one or two, and he was like, I'm not doing that. I don't know why. It gave him the krusty voice.

Well, no, no, but it's sort of like the opposite of what they did with you know, when Carl Weathers was on Arrested Development and he was just the real cheap skate, it was like, gus, do you going. Initially when they approached Carl Weathers, it was going to be like, oh, we just wanted to do a bunch of Apollo Creed gags, and Carl Weathers, to his credit, was like, Nah, I don't really want to do anything like that. What if I was really cheap?

It's like, this is Carl Weathers, this is Apollo Greed, this is Dutch from Predator, and he's just absolutely taken the piece out of himself. Well, he just knows what's sports comedy, you know he does. Indeed, he's Chubbs. Johnny Carson was like, He'll always be Chubbs to ninety kids. That's very very true, very true. But yeah, Johnny Cars was like, no, still got to be Johnny Carson, and they basically rewrote it, so he's like this magnanimous showed his mentor. Honestly,

I liked it as well. I mean Carson Carson for a reason. He's just very pleasant to listen to. His voice is kind of like he is, isn't he It's a bit like melted butter. Well, the older I got, the more I appreciated and respected Johnny Carson is purely just freezed tars as an interview and as a host, right and particularly twenty twenty four. You look back in his stuff now and go take me back. No carpal karaoke and no miming songs and gimmicks. It's just it's just good conversation.

It's just chatting to people. Yeah, getting getting the bits in fantastic. But you're right in terms of, yeah, you would have had some people at this stage going this is not exactly the cream of the crops showbiz wise. It's people that my parents really dug. So they very cleverly threw in a few newer talents, Bella, Luke Perry, Red Hot Chili Peppers, it's like, oh, we recognize them and they have a mix, didn't you? You did? Indeed? And they really good sports as well.

Luke Perry in particular, Yeah, showing up the fact that he's the pretty boy dujure look up to Crusty his half brother. Yeah, but look really wanting to be part of it, showing a bit of respect for these for these showbiz legends at all. But also my face, my valuable face is so great creators. No, what I love the most about that sequence was just the sound of him going through the glasses. Yes, it was really great sound work. Was it was? Yeah, just a prooved for no

reason, stacking acid but yeah, a great liner. But I think the reason I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed it now. I'm always a sucker for like behind the scenes showbiz stories, come back stories. Yeah, the business of show business as well. Yeah, you're just not on top anymore. People don't interesting to Oh I've got to find a way to come back.

It's like Travolta pulp fiction. Very much. Yeah, I mean he was he was not done, wasn't he as a career Chavoulta when that came out, But pretty much, Yeah, Geralta was he wasn't cool anymore. No, no, because I mean he had, of course his seventies Heyday with you know, Greece and Saturday Night Fever, which wasn't that long before

pulp fiction. It was like within a ten to fift. Well, the eighties were kind of a wilderness for him because Greece was seventy eight, right, so by night one did pop Fish went ninety two, ninety four was ninety four, so give it up. I guess fifteen years is a long time. But when you think about it, fifteen years ago from now, it was two thousand and nine. Yeah, he didn't feel that long. No, that's true. That's true. For to go from where he was

to that. He was working consistantly, and he had a minor comeback in the Lay dadies with Look Whose Talk and that. I love those movies. Yeah, and he's really good and it he's like, oh, yeah, you're really charming and funny and lose shame here in this talking baby movie that's kind of knaff Brice Wills wasn't it though Brucellas was in it. Well, he wasn't in it, but he was. You know, the whole story about that though initially the baby wasn't going to talk at all. Oh really,

that's the whole person them. I think we had discussed this. It's we that's the selling point, right, I mean the story is based around what was it called We Couldn't Talk? It was initially called Daddy's Home, that's right. Yeah. The writer director is this woman Amy Heckling. She made Clueless and Fast Times originally high. Apparently she got knocked up by Harold Ramis, who really didn't want anything to do with ghostbusted. That busted made

him feel good? Dear did she calls? And she wrote this story about finding herself pregnant and alone at a certain age, and yeah, it was he just did a runner. I think he acknowledged the child later on in life, but initially he was kind of like, this is not really what I'm into. I thought we were just having kind of a fling. It's not do your research on this, folks. I maybe miss my own one. Howard Ramis under the bus. If that's not true yet, who can

tell? The Internet will tell you. But this is what I've heard anyway. And yeah, so she wrote this story about it, and I think the studio is like this is good entertaining enough, John t Roller and Cursey own there. They've got good chemistry. But I don't know how the baby actually came into the talking baby came into it, but they put the talking baby in gavi it. Bruce Willis's boy, all of a sudden, schools are through. The rip becomes a huge hit. He has like three sequels,

Yeah, at least two of them. I know it was a dog. There was the sequel. Well, there was a sequel with the girl with the daughter, which I think was the Roseanne. It was yeah, look he's talking to and looker's talking now. And maybe they did one with animals as well. I know you're talking now with the dog. Oh okay, yeah, but anyway, yeah, but he had a hit with those. But yeah, it wasn't until Pulp Fiction that Jolter came back and was

like, hey, this guy, we really like this guy. You know what's surprising to me is that we're so far into this episode and you haven't uttered the words Gabbo yet. It will tell us what to do. I did not appreciate Gabbo anywhere near enough as a child. Now listen and go, what a character. Just incredible. I mean a primo entertainer, you will give you one hundred percent, but also a dick. But he's also not real. It's a puppet. I know that's really treated like he's a

person, but no, it was all the ventriloquist. Yeah, but how is Gabbo doing his doing his tally Gully? I don't know is he real or not? But he did have the real boy operation. I did love that on there. We're doing two episodes back today, back to back. Today we're doing classic or vintage Simpsons episodes. We're doing that exclusive for Patreon

Home. I love Slanders review as well, so looking at season four and season five, one thing I noticed from the two episodes we're talking about is, yeah, a lot of great headline games, or maybe not a lot, but at least some. And I was always a sucker for those. I was at the after qumsis I'm a bad with a boy and two more bodies found. By the way, if we're coming ahead to the favorite moments, what's it my favorite? Anytime any public figure, and particularly those not

in showbiz, start appropriating catchphrases, I always find that marvelous. For Quimby Sure Sank in the Murder of my enemies. But as Gaba would say, I'm made bad with a boy reelected just got through the road. It does this, doesn't it? I'm a bad boy. Great Quimby in these two episodes as well, and we will talk about we'll talk about one answers, just really steering with the new England accent. Give me two Dogs, two

Sodas and two ways green bars lovely. I'm not going to say we forget the wonderful plethora of characters that Springfield has, but there's so many in these two episodes, particularly in this episode with the squares at the start of the Springfield Squares just Berry Way coming back, which is fantastic, but from day yeah, but for Rainy a Wolfcastle to be. It's always great when you realize, oh, this is in this episode and they're all little bit there's

so many bits of this. Go oh, I can betely forgot about that? What the hell was that? Or even you know they're playing with the scale entries. Now let's throw some crumb. There's so many in the two episodes we're doing today, Homeless Slanders and Cross Against Canceled, so many iconic means shots. Absolutely, I didn't believe it. But Rainie a Wolf is at the very start, you know, talking about his new film helped my son is a nerd, just the way I am horrified to discover he is

a nerd. It's just not a commedation. Just dug himself a hole. I'm sure you've been there before. Absolutely speaking of that, A Tarantino, I know as much as you do. I'll do you, fuddy, We do know about as much as these other were. Just not only he doesn't want to be my money. He didn't appreciate it. He didn't love it as much though he loved it. No, he didn't appreciate it. Gave you nothing, right, that's true, QT. What but what else?

Were your favorite moments? I have not written anything of my favorite moments because it's all the top of my head. I particularly loved Flee when they enter Mos because apparently they said to him, look, you pretty much improvised what you want, but they said, just walking to Moses like hem, it's amal. The animation they give him as well, just yeah, I didn't tell them to do that. He just designed to scream like that, like well, well animated to it. That was one of my favorite moments.

So excited to be there. Speaking of two other things. Speaking of Brockman, I love it when he does the Gabbo thing as well as that'll hold the littles. All of a sudden, Brockman in trouble and krusty desperate to get a comeback first thing for money, gets gets prank called by Gabbo repons. I rack you very much, Oh, mek you very much. I'm not in trouble for that. It's terrible to be laughing at these things, but at the same time you laugh at the fact that he's a dickhead very

much. So Yeah, there was a lot of you brought the castle story before as well, but Bett Middless wouldn't agree to do it unless they acknowledge her. So her littering campaign a campaign. That's why she's done doing the Highway Star. It's great that they were able to fold as many gags and do it as they did. I mean, it's really one gag that she's just assaulting these drivers who litter. Yeah, but it works well on the on the two occasions that they do it. Also, thought Liz Taylor was

a fast very much. Was just like painting yourself as like a villain, almost like like I'm too good for this, too good for this kind of thing. Yeah, she was. I always watch this as a kid going she doesn't seem like a nice person, but you know she was up for it. Yeah, good honor. But she was the voice of Maggy she was indeed. Yeah, and she recorded this on the same day. What's that story that you know? You had to say daddy or something and she's

sexy? Apparently it's not true. Okay, everyone was like, ah, man, print the legend? What are you doing? Guys? Come on? Those were my favorite moms, but I'm sure there will be many more as we as we go throughout the episode. Let's go into some trivia questions, then, shall we? Next question? You there eating the paste? How about you start? All right, let's do it. So my first question for you is, what is the name of the racehorse that Krusty owns

with Bette Midler. It's Cruddler. Crudler, Yes, the sponsor who makes pure pork sausages. Who is it? Oh? What is that? It's farmer Dan? Okay. What is the name of the dummy that Crusty has? Alphons? Alphons? Yes? How did I talk about that? Moment we were talking about it just gonna laugh. That's the moment that so we always talk about the two beads of review this episode. He'll tell us what to do and and they were my favorite moments. This is really threadbaar Din

Store Ventril that just cracks the minute and cracking on the head kicks. It just looks like the worst kind of course, all the kids of the traumatize. The kids go kicks it into the audience. Oh I love that so much. A question for you? Or were you about to give me one? I just gave you alphons you did? Indeed, well, let me give you one. Also crust to related. What year was the Worker and Parasite cartoon made? Oh? So was it in Roman numerals? Was in

actual nineteen seventy five? I'm going to say nineteen fifty nine fifty and I'd be right, yes. Okay, then well I need two questions written down, So I'm going to say I'm going to find one more. When they drove past Hugh Haffner's house, what was it? What was the bus for? Oh? It said something something. This is Springfield Star Tours, shelley Ville Star Tours. Shell We will starts sorry, who you have to have never lived in Springfield? What are you talking about? My mistake? Who

are Johnny Carson's dinner guests that night? Ah? Okay, I won't look at my notes, so I know it's one from the San Diego Zoo and it is a doctor. It is doctor Carl Sagan, best known for writing the book Contact Okay and Joan Embry from the San Diego Zoo. That's the sweek is that they portrayed it for such a superman in this ditty. Well, by the end, I'm gonna lift this nineteen fifty nine eighty eighty seven, eighty seven buicks Gard Yeah, O my head, yes, and then

bouncing Grandpa and Jastra. He said at the NBA playing the accordion, You're the greatest, Yeah, the greatest manager business. That maybe that guy. I'll say one more. How many did motel the Chili Peper's agent that the venue holds? How many people last night? Doub before? Who is Sicho Mel's manager at Krusty Berger? Oh, Dtor, I'm mister Johannison, Mister Johanson. Is he got new problem? No? We all just want that manager. That's really. There's got to add back right. Oh yeah,

just a chill dude. Yeah, all right, So let's get into a review of Krusty Gets Canceled. The visional air date of the episode was May thirteenth, nineteen ninety three, production code nine F one nine, written by John Swartzwilder and directed by David Silverman. So to all timers right there, absolutely don't wonder. It's a classic. So the episode kicks off with Springfield Squares at the Springfield Harbor. And we talked earlier about help my son as

a nerd? And did do you remember Celebrity Squares to be called? It was Hollywood Square. No, we didn't call because Celebrity Squares. Yes, I loved that show when I was a kid, but it's just gone. It just disappeared. I feel like we need to bring back fun game shows. We've got Deal and O Deal like kind of shit. I just want wackish prices, right, you were saying this the other day, bring back yes, the hurdling guy. Well, the price is right, still going

in America. Drew carries the host. But I feel like the Prices Rise one of those shows where you can revive it every ten years or so because you're taken away and then when you go the prices rides returning to go, Yes, this is fun, and then we get our fix. And then five years later there it's been canceled. Well, I wasn't really watching it. Five years later it's back. It's back baby. It always feels the way that your family feuds in a bit of a lull moment, but it's

back, baby. We found someone to host when that deal and O deal, isn't it Yeah, fortune et cetera, cetera. Yeah, but think big dumb shit like celebrity squares, get a bunch of TikTokers and influences on there, kids watching. Yeah, yeah, I used to love celebrity scare. We used to always have who was our main person in celebrity squares because what we got big was the American one. She was always on there. Who was the Australian equivalent of whoopee. He was like the Charlie Oh.

We had someone who was always on there. So here's what I'm thinking. I mean, I know I watched Celebrity Square certainly, but there was one that I always watched called Blankety Blanks. Oh yeah, Graham Kennedy. Yeah, we're great. My idol as a kid, Oh fantastic, and Dave went ugly, Dave Gray, the standard comedian. He had this guy Noel Ferrier who was probably an actor. He was I can't remember him really acting anything, but he was kind of a portly, little not stuffy, but

kind of a bit frasier ish. Yeah. This guy Stuart Wagstaff who was like a yeah, a bit of a not pompous brit but you know, slightly a little too little too smart and sophisticated with the show, but you know, he managed to bring just a bit of a class to the proceedings. Just all these regulars who would show up on the show and sort of do the rounds of these game shows. It was fascinating. I feel like for those who are listening overseas, Graham Kennedy if trying to describe me,

he was a combination. He was almost like he was a Carson but with a bit of Jimmy Fallon thrown into it with the wackiness. He was like, he was, yeah, if we're going way back to like Carson here, he's like Carson with Robin Williams energy. Yeah, or say I'm throwing a really antique names here, but like Jack Benny Yaw like he was just he was a comedian as well as a host. Yeah, and so a lot of the comedy bled through, and a lot of it was kind of

not bad boy comedy. He was just like a bit of a cheeky doing. He said fuck on television, yes, but he said it in the way of a of a crow. So he was like, fag, I'm just just being a crow. And I was like, I don't think you are. What are you getting away with him? He was known as the king and for good reason. Yes, so Celebrity Squares of Springfield Scarees is going on. It's a giant title wave with coast garts get away, fifty foot tight a wave. Charlie refuses to go what was his Who is this

Charlie guy? I have no idea. I'm going to go my next I should know this. I don't know if he's like an actual person or just a Springfield regularly, because I was looking and they never they don't put his name. They do say his name. At one point, I just say Charlie, do they Charlie must have been like a regular on Hollywood Squares called Charlie Charlie. Hollywood Squares let's google it right now. She's done this earlier. Cliff Ar Kett, Oh, yes, he's on Hollywood Square so or

they called him in something else here. But Charlie Weaver, Oh, I've heard of Charlie. It's Cliff Kett. Cliff Kett is like the father of the arcades, like Rosanna and Patricia. So cliff Ar Kett is a pit cliff Ar Keutt and the Hollywood Squares. And it's just cliff I Kett in the square in the bottom corner. So maybe it's meant to be a take off of Cliff Arkett. Possibly it looks just like he's just like Charlie on this on this episode. So and I'm just like we got Barry White back.

He set himself up very nicely in the top right hand corner. Pause, casually knows where her bread's buttered a lava lamp, Pitt, did you see that? Yeah, what's gabble? Figure? It's some guys name some guy named Gable. So that is just the perfect marketing. Just get your attention first. You go and get the attention first and then draw them in. But Homer tries to figureut who it's reading the paper, turning it sideways. Look, I tell you anything, there's teasing it, Dad, It's

just it's just you have to watch it to find out. So he tries to use all the power in his brain. You see the billboard Garble is coming and the sermon from Lovejoy. No one is saying, worship this Jerry Cole that I forgot just how quickly they got into things. Oh yeah, it's within the within like a minute, it's just Gabbles here, Garble was coming and everyone's excited. Yeah, as I said, he'll tell us what

you tell us what to do? How great is that? It's the first clips of Gabbo though he's going to be there every day at four, and Bart's worrying. Oh he need is a hook. I'm a ban little boy. Yeah yeah, So then you know, I've never actually seen the connection there. There you go, that's the you idiot Dan. Oh no,

that's a bit of the Simpsons. You're constantly finding new jokes. There was a joking Hamah loves Flanners that it was when he arrives at the church of someone saying something in the background that I never would picked up had it to be for the subtitles. I was like, I've never. Now that I know it's there, I'm gonna hear it every time. We'll get into it and tease for our Patreon exclusive. If it's what I'm thinking. I was like, oh, I did not know that, not the Fallen one.

Okay, because that's the father one. That's my favorite moment whole episode, just about back to crusting its cancers. But yeah, so he then sings his song. Yeah, God, I love him. He's like, oh Ship, well you screwed now. Crusty is pulling out all the stops. Yeah, fucking unstoppable Crusty. You know he's not bothering. Yeah, slide of the Special Olympics. Everyone's trying to take me on and they never win.

But then he gets the ratings and he lost to the channel Ocho, which is the w be Mande a couple of eggs on the face and he steals the bit and then which is planning the sea for later, because Crusty is no for stealing bits from Steve Allen. Correct, Then bart Mill has Nelson then melting trains on the card track and let's put some crudd on it. What is the fascination with crud as a kid, What exactly is crud. I thought crub was just like shit, right otherwise just mak Yeah.

I always thought it was like mud with like sticks and grass in it. Yeah yeah, I'm a filthy, repulsive, or contemptible person. Is a crud something something that is worthless, objectionable, or contemptible, So basically anything that's just crap? Yeah yeah, anyway, as opposed to chud. That's when the chuds came at me. So you want ventriloquism, do you watch this? Hello, Well, fans, I've got a riddle for you. Why is a raven like a writing desk? I don't know. Why is

the Hey? That dummy can't hurt you. He's not even alive, he's dead. It's iconic, the visual of the kids screaming and his dog just had burst open and mouth mouth, a gate broken off, broken jewel, his limbs, the arm off, kicked it. Have you had a moment this is usually something you see on a golf course, on someone's bits of dummy, but you throw something the ground and kick it. Have you had a moment where you spat the dummy and kicked something. I've seen friends snapped

golf clubs of her poles and kick them. I've certainly done some kicking and to the point where it's like, now I've hurt my foot. I saw a friend of mine, the white name. Name's not embarrassing, but he he's keen on this girl. And we always always just went, ah, she's not really rip mate, Like we can tell she's not leading you on, but we know you might spiritual occasionally, but we know there's nothing there. She's not she's not there for the long haul. And then he saw

her. He thought he was like in with he thought she laughed him, and then he saw her kissing someone else, and he walked out inside the Rica Hotel here in Geelong and kicked this ben and broke three of his toes. It's just like, don't laugh, don't laugh, don't laugh. But that's the universe telling you this girl's not for you. Yes, yeah, move on, buddy. That girls for the streets. And he is happily married with two kids. So yeah, yes, all worked out well for

redacted, Yes, redacted, how you do? But basically yeah, so Acruss is now resorting to offering forty dollars checks will not beyond. So one thing I do miss about these early episodes when they would have those little very hush disclaimers like that way checks will not be on it not a guarantee. It reminds me of just you know us to watch the political ads following. Yeah. I also why are they speaking so fast and as because you've got to get all the ship take it up all the time. Then the little

disclaimer has to be. As long as it's in there, you can't understand anything they're saying. Conditions are but Quimby Now he says he used the city treasury to fund the murder of his enemies. But I'm a bad little boy. It's the hands that's what gets me. Now it's she is Scratchy, who are now on Gabbo. So you can't play she scratchy crusty. He has to play worker and parasitean always loved worker in parasite. Just this absolute surreal Soviet from post World War two? What the hell was that? Is

top three I reckon most used screenshots for sixty teams. He's got the cigarette danger Yeah, and the audience have all left. The ball bailed on Krusty. So now Krusty is telling everybody that he's been canceled. I remember for some reason in my head him being canceled and then telling him he's canceled. But you don't get that. No, I know there's a bleeded scene somewhere. Maybe they tell him then, I'm not too sure, but it's just

him explained that to the team being canceled. I think it's easy to complaint this and the other episode where he's basically run out of money. Yeah, I r s yeah, and he's always got that account. Who's saying Guy O that side of the cameras, but the think that's the one that's right. But this is where he doesn't want you're looking family and side show muggets. A couple of lines here, not teen season equivalent, but you know, no, you know, welcome family, your whole. Then he sees

Carson goes to see him at his house. I'm sure you you saved quite the nest egg. I'm like Guy and Dad, I can relate. They're playing tennis. He runs through his guest list for dinner and doctor Carl Sagan as he said it, and Joan Embry from the San Diego Zoo. Then it's cut to him doing an audition for Morrow's Place to stage play. I guess is it it's honest. Is it a stage, I don't know.

I think I think it's an audition for the show. So the show, okay, But he's nose and he loses his final ten dollars betting on the horse at the Springfield downs. Oh, because that's right. The horse comes up and it's very friendly. No, don't look at me. Yeah, kids, Then watch Gabbo doing his prank call I've got a big kick, guys out of him going it's r so you gotta kill the time, you fill the gap, you can't sit down, and so simple, but it

adds so much it's ringing. Hello. Is this Krusty the Cloud? Is this the callback for that porno film? Look? It was a little nervous that day, but I'm all man, I can assure you no. I represent a Japanese camera company. We'd like to pay you two million dollars to do a camera commercial. Whoa me riichy very much? Oh? I hope I didn't offend you. I need this bad, bad enough to hit yourself over the head with the phone. WHOA you got it? Jo Blood?

What if this is anyone but Steve Rallan, you're stealing my bit. Somebody had to ruin Gabble's career the way he ruined Krusty's. He wrongs, don't make a right bike? Yes he do, No he don't, Yes he do gay do wrong, Lisa. I love it with Homers authoritative like that. I mean, he's wrong, but he's completely wrong. But he's doing the whole Father knows best thing. I mean, you've got the glasses on

reading the papers like this guy seems legit. Now, there's an iconic Simpson's little backstage bit that we used to always do the rounds on marathons and things like that, which shows Yardley and Nancy recording this in the studio. He goes, no, no, no, it doesn't. It cuts to ski pants and Dan and Dan in real times as two wrongs. We can right.

It was all recorded in one take. I want to get this audio of this bit and then back to back that up because it's so cool Washington Simpson's voice actors actually doing the show, and there's very limited footage of it released anyway. That's interesting. It's so weird. I guess at the time that anything because you look at it's like, oh, we've got the the guys recording the Lion King The Lion King thirtith anniversary was last week or the

week before, and there was some footage that's just been released. It's like, you've been sitting on this ship for thirty years. Why have you not released this? Like, yeah, it's so weird, Like people want to see voice actors doing the roles. They certainly do. Yeah, But anyway, so Chrust, he's not doing well, you know that he's falling through the prank phone calls and all that kind of thing. But then I've got

here home. Yeah, so Bart visits the studio to he's gonna get back at Gabbo because that's what the two wrongs not making right this was talking about, and we really spouse down for an ad for Gabbo airlines. It's such a little jerk, isn't he? Oh Gabbo. But it's like ventraloquism, right, it's such a unique niche of a career where you're the life of this puppet. But it's almost like they create a new personality for themselves and

they voice their grievances studio. You get the feeling that someone who's a ventraloquist has got bipolar, or they got a business, a friendly or something oh. They they've got a few demons. They're very very repressed people and they're letting it out through Teddy Bear or whoever. Yeah, everyone always goes to Stratsman, don't they. They do, Yeah, except I remember there was one. Remember we had him at pop Culture. Yeah, yeah, I remember that. When Straisman became a thing, right, it was huge.

It was like so populous, so everyone everyone loved Stratsman for a while, wasn't It was gabbo oh very much that right, But then this other guy came around. I can't remember. He's Jeff Doneham Jeff, and he had the terrorist puppet. Yeah. I was like shout up, I kidd you,

and everyone's like, funck, we cannot do this now. It was just a terrorist ve like like whoaly ship is the may be wrong about Stratsman, but I mean he came to pop Culture when we were working there and I was at some event where he was doing his many people there, there were a few actually, because he was huge in Australia because he was on when we had Hey Saturday. It would come and he do bits on that kind of like some people are just really famous in Australia but not back home.

The guy from Weiredest Brendan. This leasing of Weirdest Tenage Dopey came out. It wasn't a hit, right, not a hit at all. Number one in Australia, So let's just go to Australia. There one thing I'd like about if I was a rock star. I mean, of course he'd want to be huge, but I think it'd be also great to be kind of niche, like really big in Germany. It's always Germany and you can always go back to Germany or Japan. David Hasselhoff, Yeah, he is

an icon. It's like run a little on cash, Okay, time for a tour of Germany or whatever. Yeah, I think little side hustle. It's kind of cool about it. What I always loved about the end of Spinal Tap. You know, it's like, oh, well the band's history. No, you guys are huge in Japan and they go and they perform and just love Spiral Tap in Japan. But basically here this is where Gabbo gets in trouble because but flicks on, well he sounds the wise guy to

go look at the look. Yeah, let's not forget about this. This guy just he knocks like three of them out of the park. Hey boy, what's so funny? Oh no, I'm very low brown. And then this gotta see I was just smiling from the beginning to end. I'm always happy when you get a wise guy, and oh no, I'm very little bro. I feel like if you were going to get a Simpsons tato, it would be the white. It probably would be Yeah, he's your man, isn't he? He boil, what's so funny? Well, nah,

you wouldn't be interested. It's too low brow. No, I'm quite low bro. Well, somebody just wrote a body limerick on the men's room wall. This say, gotta see other kids in Springfield? Or so bees? Gabbo's kind of language has no place on or off TV. And that's my two cents. I don't know how those sol bees. What the Then we see Krusty and he's now dropping his pants for food for food? Will drop

pants for food for food? Yeah? But unfortunately the old Jewish guy's giving anyway for free, and the old gray man sure ain't what she used to be. He then they didn't take him home, and he sees the pits. I see the picture of all the subjects in the wall. But the first one they see is Luke Perry, who is revealed he is his half brother. Yeah, that's why I've always thought I may have mentioned on the podcast before. Or Jack Perry, Luke Perry son, who's a restaurant.

Aw now, why would he not be a guest star of the Simpsons as Krusty's nephew. It's a very good point. Does he still go by jungle Boy or whatever? No, he's now just Jack Perry. It's a pretty cool name. Yeah, it is a very cool name, isn't it. Jack's just a cool name. Jack, just Jack. Jungle Boy is like, you know, it's a character, but he's just Jack Perry. It's like your dad is Luke Perry just big Jack Perry. But Liz Taylor as well, she's I told him to go away good, but we're not quite

up to that. But yeah, running through the people, said Liz Taylor, Bette Midler, and they suggested, let's do a special so it gives them the dress address book. I have to clow my way back on TV. But it's not gonna be easy. Que the old Jewish guys now hit and well got the old the old old man dancers. Well this you mentioned hay Hayes Saturday before. This is very much a Red FAC's skit, isn't it. It is, although I think the old Man dancers sounds like a

pretty professional outfit. This isn't like an amateur hour thing. It's so weird that you brought up Hayes Saturday because I watched one video of Red Faces like three days ago on YouTube. Now my algorithm is just filled with guest appearances from Red Faces, and there's one that had Will Smith and Shaquille O'Neill as the guest scorers, and I was like, what a lone up? Oh god, ye Will Smith. It was the place to be. It was the big show. Say, when I watch it, that's cornish ship now.

Oh absolutely. When John Blackman, who was the voiceover guy, he passed away. He passed away recently. Yeah, they had some tributes on TV and of course they were showing hey, hey clips. It's like everybody came to hey, this was the best alone. There's Will Smith, there's all the biggest stars of the day. And then Rove sort of took the mantle from that, didn't he He did, and then he just sort of goes, I'm done, and just like retired because you wanted to go tackle

America. Yeah, had Rove America, which fucking taint and some things in America for a little while. And now and now he's doing radio with Abby somebody, I think, or whatever. But he's just he's never become Rove again, has he. He was like the gold LOGI every year kind of thing. Although I was walking through the supermarket the day, yeah, stealing stuff, walking through the supermarket the other day, buying stuff, and that

was stealing money from you with the prices, that's correct. Yes, Infletion was here SLB. I saw you know the rack of magazines that the checkout, Yeah, it was. I think we might have been TV. We've got something with the Rove on the cover saying I'm not done yet. So I'm pretty sure that indicates that you are, by the way, Robe coming on the show. So friend of the pod, I'll show you, come

on, I'll show you. He probably would actually, Okay, Zack cut all that out, but it's like, okay, so what are you going to do? Make a comeback, and good for you. I just to watch Rove because I always wanted to have my own talk show when I was kid. That was my thing. I was like, I'm gonna have my own talk show, and now you do. Now I top, no one listens. Basically, I wanted my own This thing's not even plugged in. Yeah yeah, all this time you're on this podcast, you still pay me.

I will happily indulge his man's delusion, will indulge delusions for money, aw food. So I always wanted to have my own talk show. So I used to like study Row and then I started and I saw let him and I was like, oh, this guy knows what he's doing. This is how you do it. It's Middler. I can't believe you did it all by yourself. We are Americans. We deserve clean highways. Your pegs. Oh no, but Middler, shall we all start tours? Bart goes to see who you have. No, we get chili peppers at Mo's,

and we want we want chili. Really it was a love but sort of smuggling them out by saying, look over there, what is it. I'm gonna stop looking soon. So great is that it? Can I look too, It's gonna cast it now back to the wall, Liz Taylor. I told him the buzzer good. Then they arrive and Crusty's completely overweight. How long were they gone for? This is me eating drinking of the milkshakes, but I understand that. But how long were they gone for? Because he's

ballooned? This is an absolute tangent, but it's something I've always found very funny. Ryan Gosling years ago, was cast by Peter Jackson to be the lead in this movie, The Lovely Bones. He was meant to play this grieving father and Ryan Gosling he looked like Ryan Goslin this day, so we thought, well, this dad is going to be a bit of a sad sack. He like melted tubs of Ben and Jerry's in his microwave and just drank it. And to put on a but to put on some weight fast

to be the dad in this movie. He got on New Zealand where Peter Jackson was making the movie. Peter Jackson, look at you'd been in my movie looking like that, You're fined. He didn't. He got replaced by Mark Wulburg. Holy shit, why because such Jonnage wasn't he supposed to put on weight? Though? I think I don't think he consulted Peter Jackson on what he he was going to do. Think Jackson was back now and goes, I had gossling. I supposed to Wholburg. Warburg was was pretty hot

at that. So they found Krusty. Yeah, he's put on all the weight and they said, look, can you move in with us and how we get back into shape. Homo says, they've got a sofa bed bed that was the previous one. Tries a bit open. Then they're working on his pie routine, his aim and hit him in the face of the piets or warm. It's actually piping hot piping, so delicious. Yes, Then we get the boxing and he sees Gabbos and he punches Homer pop prices off

through the roof. He cuts back. Yeah. Then Krusty is I always liked the bit of Marge and in the aerobics. Yeah, I didn't touch it with their matching leotards and stuff. It's like the Crusty is just he's accepted here. Yes, I've hit rock bottom. These people are not like professional trainers, but these are the only ones who are willing to help me now. And he's acknowledging that, and it's nice. At the end the

kids get acknowledged as well. That's true. Yes, and you've also got Krusty's trying to get into shape by doing the rocky thing, punching the big side of be and Homer, of course, is taking bites out of it, because when people go out of their way to help you with things, you should always acknowledge them, shouldn't you? You should indeed, So now Chrusty is begging Mal to return to the show. He's working at the Gulp and Blow, and he's refused. He guess no, here I'm being respected.

Mister Jannison treats me with dignity except the earlier version of the squeaky voice tin. I want to say, he's got the voice, but he's not quite designed right yet. I guess not. I tac over and to the thing. Ah oh another. Honestly, it's twenty twenty four and this shit still happens. You look at people in Case and you're like, oh, look at you guys. You are not going to be making my hamburger correctly,

you know, Oh no, you're You're an absolute buffoon. I'm not sure how familiar or appreciative listeners of Forfinger Discount are of the Australian podcaster and YouTuber friendly Jeordie's. But he'll occasionally have this thing where it's like KFC horror stories or fast food horror stories? Is he still doing Is he still doing his bit because he was like all the ray you Yeah, he was off the radar for all because someone burned down his house. Yeah yeah, but

was that not a publicity that wasn't known? It was. It was a really good one. But yeah, he'll do these ones occasionally, like right in with your fast food worker horror stories and yeah, some of the ones are here, particularly bad KFC are just like, oh, I'm never having you know, tenders again. Yeah, because the shrunk triggers, right, yeah, shrink flation. We're in the pool. But so yeah, basically Mail refuses to come back, which is just planting the seeds for the big

return later on. By the way, Also just great line from not quite Squeaky Boys team. But yeah, that's a bit of an I kind of one. Had a girlfriend should kill me, she'd kill me? Yes, and outstip of the rehearsal, Loup Perry is doing his balloons crust. He does a horsey I think it was, and Perry does a nineteenth century carousette and he kicks him out, I love this please, he's for love's sake.

Oh fine, I'll find something for you, and he has the vision of him hitting the brick wall and new look for Look, Yes, new look for Luke, Our time for the spash the special, So Krusty Special tonight, gabbled have real boy operation Now they planned the seeds earlier in the episode about ray J Johnson, Yes, which was when he was talking about how they're being canceled, and these are the guests we're getting on. No, no, we had great guests except for ray J Johnson. Now that's

who Gabbo has. So Krusty now suggests to the chili pepers. Now, this is apparently a take on from the Doors movie. When was it Ed Sullivan who suggested that the doors don't sing? Certain looks a light my fire. So yeah, whether this actually happened on the Ed Sullivan Show is up to debate. But the design of where the way they're sitting in this shot is exactly how the doors were in the film. Yeah, I want to

revisit the Doors of the film. I remember really enjoying it when I was like, I've watched since I was a teenager, but I remember Kim were being really good. I loved it. Yeah, big fan of the Doors movie. Yeah, I have to check it out. You've got I think it's Flea who's doing a lot of thrusting. He's always thrusting, but just the everyone can enjoy that, so many great moments. Yeah, forget you, Claire. Okay, but what about what I wanted? I want hug

and kiss you. Oh that's much better. I just wish I had it actually sung that. Later on I heard them actually singing those lyrics. But this was great publicity for the Chili Peper. They're already a huge band with the kids, right, but if parents are watching this, they'd be put into such a more positive light. Oh god, yeah, like, oh they're nice guys. Yeah, they're not these weird sort of sex magic dudes from the La Underworld. Yeah. Then just a bunch of nice guys.

Yeah. So then they're playing their underpants. He sings send in the Clowns. And this is a great rendition, isn't it? It is? And it's moving even like twenty twenty four, it's twenty years ago this episode aired, or even not more. It's still moving where Mal walks in, Yeah, I borrowed a bit from the Elvis Si exten a lot of based Yeah, but I love your crusty quiet. Then he shoots Luke Perry out of the cannon and just my face, my valuable face, and just as you

said, the sounds through the glass landed a pillow factory explodes. I love the content looks like a bunch of pillows that it cuts to crusty it crowd of Blauds. Then the chili Pepper's look at it, look at him out there, saying so degrading is where's my lalie for the little stinker sketch. Carson then lifts the nineteen eighty seven Buick skylike above his head while oh no,

I'm thinking of another bit of music. So you have then playing stuff from Tayler's looking at her diamonds, and she don't need to fire my agent. Then Bette Midler does distribute as she did to Carson, win beneath my Wings, which she's saying on the I think the second last episode of Carson. It sounds about right. I've never liked win beneath my Wings No, for reasons it strokes means the ultimate humble brag song. I was like everything I do is great. I'm doing so fantastic in life, couldn't do it

without you. But check this out. You know I'm the one with the wings. You're just the wind beneath. That's fine, that's fine. I can fly fire. You just win. I can fly higher than an eagle. Not without you, though you helped. If Bett Miller said that song for you, would you feel special? I would? I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, it's like I'm the important one. You've You've

helped me get to where I am. But go google the lyrics of wind Beneath My Wings and it's basically this person saying everything's going so great for me. Thanks. You deserve an Emmy for this cause more Dinalds. That's just the Simpsons riders getting bad at them with the Emmys. Then it's time for the celebration party at Mo's and there's a he's getting cold fish on the love test. I've test behind me here, you do, indeed, I saw it right here, So I hold off with the camera. There it is

love test. Not sure it's in focus or not. But now I'm out of focus. I think, okay, my focus, I know my focus. I'm sure find out. But the love test here pretty sure you'd be a hot to Marley, I would be a you'd be a casanova, that's for sure. Is that the top one? Yes, hot tomorrow is a second o the guys, you've be number two. You're the wind beneath you have is a cold fish and he's happy about it. Apparently might have been so in real life, and his lady is, but you know who among

us? Then Carson says, now, remember save money. This time he's a rubistatic fand I was crusty. No. Then Chili Pepper's arrived. He it's so great, and Hithert and Wigham are in now andies as well, do that my handies. And then the kids say they're getting fift percent of the shirt sails. That the sweetest blooms of the club. That's the sweetest plum. Yeah, they pulled the George Lucas. It's the biggest fantastic That's

one of the things. I was just happy, so happy for George Lucas when he when he made all his millions and he still billion but when he made his billions. But the same with the folks at Fox is like okay, yeah, fine, you can have all this at the merch. They're like Wars next thing, you know. Now, there is a moment here when Carson is playing the theme and the Grandpa and Jasper everyone's gathered around the shot. Just prior to that. Did you see what was out the window?

Tell me it's Liz Taylor looking in. Oh, I never noticed that as a kid over the last movie review. I think I may have noticed. But yeah, Liz Taylor's at the window gazing, wishing she was part of the party. Oh, nice little easter. Good on Liz Taylor for Oh, she had nothing to do with that, but playing there, but being part of two Simpsons episodes, yeah, I mean they got They of

course attracted a lot of great talent over the years and still do. I don't know whether she was actually marketed as being Liz Taylor in the Simpsons this week when it was her voicing Daddy, but certainly for a certain cohort, and particularly we know when this episode comes out. I mean, you're thick in the generation x Weeds. Even if people aren't like oh, like I was saying, for oh, Liz Taylor is like an A list. I mean, you're not going to get her for your She's still a good she's

still a really good get, cause she's like legitimate Hollywood royalty. But not for kids, the kids, No kid, I couldn't give a shit. But but honestly, yeah, for a slightly more grown up audience or slightly grown more grown viewers, like these guys mean business because even you know the name Elizabeth Taylor, right, I knew. I knew of her, Yeah, you know, she reminds me of another name who I don't know anything about her. When I was a kid, but I always used to hear

people talking it was lies of Menelly. I'd always hear people talking about Lis of Monelley. I'm like, who is this lies of Menaley? She's obviously somebody. Yeah, but I couldn't tell you who she was, And she'd be on the Nanny should be doing this something like who are you? Why are you on all these shows that I want? And it's great when you well, if you get curious and you sort of wind the tape back and you say, oh my god, they can do all this fantastic stuff.

All they inspired all these other people. You can see the influence that they had on so and so. A few years down the line, it's one thing I love about heart and entertainment. It's like, yeah, just going back a little bit. Oh, this influenced this, This influenced this. I watched this really old movie a couple of weeks ago called Metropolis. It's like a German movie from my twenties. Yeah, you love that movie? I do like it. No, No, what's the one you have the

poster of Metropolis? Yeah? Yeah, I mean it's very much of It's like it's a silent movie from the nineteen twenties, but you look at the shit in that and it's influenced so many fucking things. What's the action movie that is influenced basically every action movie we've ever seen? Oh that's a good point seven something, was it? Oh seven Samurai? Yeah yeah, unless you're a movie No, I mean it's highly acclaim, but the average person

probably hasn't heard of it. But if that at least watched it. Yeah, still the name sort of you would you will have heard it even if I haven't seen it. But yeah, overall, Chrussy gets canceled. This is just basically them sort of pulling their dickeat and saying, look at us, look at all the guest stars we have. Yeah, it's very much a time capture ninety three. Though all the guest stars here aren't really relevant now, any of them. I think it's just nice we lived through this

ear so we know who the guest stars are. But Alliot would watch this now and go, I don't know who any of these people are. No, you wouldn't know Luke Perry probably, yeah, probably wouldn't even know the Chili Peppers, not until he's older, as the Chili was probably the one that sort of lasted the longest, as Flea calls them the red Hots. Yeah. So yeah, thank you guys for your support. He had four Vinger discount. I hope you enjoyed our review of Krusty gets Canceled. Please

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