Talking Simpsons - Krusty Gets Busted (Revisited) With KC Green
Added 2020-05-06 04:00:00 +0000 UTCProfessional cartoonist KC Green (check out his newest book, He Is A Good Boy!) returns once more for the best episode of season one, Krusty Gets Busted! It's the first Sideshow Bob-focused episode, the first one directed by Brad Bird, and the best script/animation combo of the whole run. Plus KC drops on us some cartoon history of a proto-Itchy & Scratchy. Listen and enjoy (and if you don't enjoy it, don't blame me! I didn't do it)!
(And check out KC's awesome thread of Krusty-inspired art!)
Comments
I'm a few years older than Bob and Henry and I moved a few times growing up, so I was exposed to several children's hosts in different media markets, only one of which was a clown. Philadelphia had Captain Noah, a christian guy who looked like a taller, less vargranty Sea Captain, but without the gravelly voice. Louisville KY had Presto the Magic Clown. He didn't look like Bozo but followed a similar model. Rochester NY had Ranger Bob a cowboy type who lived in Gooberville. The actor for Ranger Bob apparently had some connections in the underground music scene of the early 1980s too if I remember correctly (citation needed of course, that claim is based on 35 year old school yard memories) I do specifically remember Ranger Bob and his cast doing a very surreal bit where they pretended to play and sing "Stairway to Gillian's Isle" by Little Roger and the Goosebumps, blue screened over Gilligan's Island footage. When my family finally ended up in Syracuse NY in 1985, there was no independent station but the local NBC affiliate WSTM had the STM Club with Scooby Doo. No gimmicky host but they sometimes had kids on bleachers on stage. A friend of mine and her Brownie troop were on once.
Stephen C. Nedell
2020-05-13 13:52:22 +0000 UTCThe tearful Krusty scene in "Like Father, Like Clown" was indeed Brad Bird's animation. Another great Silverman-heavy scene is Krusty's preamble and reaction to Worker and Parasite. As I wrote in an earlier comment, I'll be bolder than KC and say Groening totally cribbed Squeak the Mouse. Of COURSE he saw it. He probably is reluctant to name it as a source because of the pornographic nature, but c'mon, it's got the mouse taking a chainsaw through the cat's scalp drawn in a '30s-ish style on the cover. That's Itchy & Scratchy right there. Of course Groening swiped from it.
Thad Komorowski
2020-05-11 23:39:30 +0000 UTC
