The Simpsons

Season 12 Episode 13

Day of the Jackanapes

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Day of the Jackanapes
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Krusty feels pressure from the network to change his show, so he decides to retire for the fifth and final time. Meanwhile, in prison Sideshow Bob becomes outraged when he finds out that Krusty has erased his past by taping over all his old episodes. He gets released from prison and begins plotting his revenge. First he gets an assistant janitor job at Springfield Elementary and then he begins turning Bart into a Krusty killing machine. During the Krusty's final bow, he expresses his regret for what he did to Sideshow Bob just a Bart is about to kill him…moreless
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  • This was OK.

    8.0
    This episode was ok. I was definately expecting better being that it was a Sideshow Bob episode and all. I think that it could have been much better, even though Bob still tried to kill Bart. What I liked:

    * The whole rake thing. That was kind of funny.

    * Homer's line about getting drunk at the flower shop. I do not know why, but I thought that it was pretty funny.

    * Probably the fact that Bob tried to kill Krusty. I don't really like Krusty so that is probably why.



    What I did not like:

    * The fact that Krusty was going to retire. That was like his fifth time already. It gets old.

    * This episode didn't have a whole lot of laughs and when there were, it wasn't that funny.



    I think that this episode could've been much better especially for a Sideshow Bob ep because they usually focus on him killing Bart, not the guy that made him famous.moreless
  • Ok episode overall, Bad for a Sideshow Bob episode

    6.5
    In this episode, Krusty decides to retire yet again. In an interview with Kent Brockman, he reveals that he taped over all the episodes with Sideshow Bob in them, thereby erasing his legacy. Bob is angry, and after recieving parole, decides to get rid of both, Bart and Krusty by hypnotizing Bart with a bomb strapped to him, and taking both of them out. This episode was ok the first time I watched it, with some good jokes, a reference to Cape Feare's Rake scene. However, I watched it again, and it really felt off, and overall unfunny. Overall, watch once if your a huge fan, but this is probablly one of my least favorite Sideshow Bob episodes. 6.5/10 Dmoreless
  • My favorite Sideshow Bob episode by far..... no competetion at all!!!!!!

    9.8
    First Krusty announces that he will only do one more episode for his show and then his show will be cancelled. Meanwhile Sideshow Bob learns that all the episodes from the Krusty the Clown Show with him in them have been erased. Sideshow Bob gets enraged with anger. Sideshow Bob gets a job at Springfield Elementary by announcing things on the loud speaker. He sends Bart to the old Sports shaq where he ties Bart up, and hypnotizes Bart to do whatever he says. At the Krusty the Clown final episode Sideshow Bob prepares Bart with a bomb strapped to him so when Krusty gives Bart a hug they both will be blown up to nothing. However, after Krusty apologizes to Bob on television Bob sees he has made a big mistake. Just as both Bart and Krusty are about to be blown up Krusty's monkey swoops down and throws the bomb away only hurting the studio executives who aren't dead because they reform like mutants. LOL In the end Krusty and Bob become friends again and Krusty's show does not get cancelled.moreless
  • Bob Returns

    7.0
    Sideshow Bob returns, and tries to control Bart to murder Krusty.



    Another Bob episode, another semi decent one. Almost all of the Sideshow Bob episodes are great, I think. A great voice actor. A lot of what he says is really hilarious, and it makes his episodes generally great. His earlier ones were great too. This episode is probably one of his lesser good ones, but still enjoyable. It has a lot of humor, but the plot is weird, and to me, the end just sort of happens.



    I am however glad that he doesn't actually die {it mentions he gets the death penalty at the end}.



    Decentmoreless
  • Sideshow Bob tries to control Bart to kill Krusty.

    9.5
    Upon learning that Krusty has erased all the archival tapes of his show from the Sideshow Bob era, Bob schemes to use Bart as a manchurian candidate to blow up Krusty live on the air. This is one of the best sideshow bob episodes the show ever made. Its hilarious, suspensful, and we see a heart warming scence at the end. I loved the part where the executed get blown up by the bomb, and then reform from some kind of plasma haha! You gotta love the who wants to be a millionaire parody. All in all its hard not to love this episode as its one of my favorites. A must see!moreless
Julie Kavner

Julie Kavner

Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier

Harry Shearer

Harry Shearer

Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others

Dan Castellaneta

Dan Castellaneta

Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others

Nancy Cartwright

Nancy Cartwright

Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others

Yeardley Smith

Yeardley Smith

Lisa Simpson

Hank Azaria

Hank Azaria

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others

Gary Coleman

Gary Coleman

Himself

Guest Star

Kelsey Grammer

Kelsey Grammer

Sideshow Bob Terwilliger

Recurring Role

Tress MacNeille

Tress MacNeille

Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others

Recurring Role

Karl Wiedergott

Karl Wiedergott

Additional Voices

Recurring Role

Trivia, Notes, Quotes and Allusions

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  • TRIVIA (8)

  • QUOTES (13)

    • Bart: Hello family.
      Marge: Where have you been young man, it's nearly bed time.
      Bart: I was…I was…
      (Bob appears in a thought bubble)
      Sideshow Bob: If anyone asks…you were at the flower shop.
      Bart: I was at the flower shop.
      Homer: Oh yeah, uh…I was at the flower shop too. Yep. Getting drunk at the ol' flower shop.

    • Bart: Hey I'm not afraid of you, every time we tangle, you wind up in jail. I'm six and zero.
      Sideshow Bob: I'll admit that the record is a little one sided. But this time…I cannot fail.
      (runs into a rake)

    • Sideshow Bob: The Prison Book Club consists mainly of prisoners who club me…with books!

    • Wiggum: Hey Kent. Are you guys still having that contest where you guess which city the weather girl is in?
      Kent: Heh…that was eight years ago!
      Wiggum: Is it Pittsburgh?

    • Krusty: Folks, I've been in showbiz for 61 years. But now these jerks have sucked all the fun out. I don't need twelve suits telling me which way to pee.
      Executive 1: For "pee", could you substitute "whiz"?
      Executive 2: I dunno, that could upset the Cheese Whiz people.
      Executive 1: I was just thinking that.

    • Marge: Well, I think it's good for a show to go off the air before it becomes stale and repetitive!
      Smithers: Maggie shot Mr. Burns again!
      (The family looks at him blankly.)

    • Host: Moe, yesterday we asked you the $500 000 question, and you stalled for 15 minutes!
      Moe: Yes, I was told to.

    • Sideshow Bob: The rake, my archenemy!
      Bart: I thought I was your archenemy!
      Sideshow Bob: I have a life outside of you, Bart!

    • Sideshow Bob: You are in my power!
      Bart: I am at your command!
      Sideshow Bob: I didn't say anything about command. I said "You are in my power." Now, say it!
      Bart: I am in your power.
      Sideshow Bob: Good. No, go back to command, I like that better.

    • Krusty: (In 1950's act as a cosmonaut.) I think the Bolstoy did the Nutcracker in my pants!
      Krusty: (Present) Back then you couldn't say “pants.” So I was banned for 10 years.

    • Sideshow Bob: Well, Krusty, this is your Waterloo. Soon, you'll be Napoleon Blown-apart.
      Leo: Ugh! Terrible.
      Sideshow Bob: Oh, hush up, Leo.

    • Krusty: Oh no, I wanted to keep this quiet.
      Dr. Hibbert: Can I embarrass this guy for a moment? Three years ago, Krusty pledged over a million dollars to start Krusty's care center.
      Krusty: Please, stop already.
      Dr. Hibbert: To this day, Krusty has not given us a dime, has he, Francis?
      Francis: I'm cold all the time.
      Krusty: Aw, look, it was all a bookkeeping snafu.
      Dr. Hibbert: Could I have the check now?
      Krusty: Now!? Eh... aw, sure.
      Francis: God bwess you, Kwusty.
      Krusty: And if my banker is watching let nothing stop the payment of this check!

    • Bart: Time to blow up the clown.
      Homer: Go, blow.

  • NOTES (3)

    • Tagline: Krusty: "Mukluk."

    • The sarcastic moustached man that has numerous jobs is revealed to have the name Raphael in this episode.

    • Blackboard Joke: The hamster did not have a "full life".
      Couch Gag: The family arrives, Freud is sitting on a chair next to the couch. Homer jumps on the couch, lays down and sobs "Oh! Doctor! I'm crazy!" while the rest of the family looks confused.

  • ALLUSIONS (3)

    • Episode Title
      This is a play on the novel The Day of the Jackal, about a professional assassin who is hired to kill the President of France.

    • Terminator 2
      When the tv executives are blown up, they turn into liquid and reform, just like the T-1000 in Terminator 2.

    • Nightmare on Elm Street
      Bart crossing the deserted schoolyard and the children's voices reciting a creepy poem is a parody of the Nightmare on Elm Street films.

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