Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming

Season 7, Episode 9, Aired
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Terrible television programming leads Sideshow Bob to hatch a plan to cease all TV production and Bart and Lisa become hostages while trying to foil his plan.
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    By Southparkfa, Aug 11, 2010 Report Abuse
    In this episode, Sideshow Bob breaks out of prison, and has a new hate for television, due to his inmates liking it so much. He then breaks into th USO (or something like that) air show, and threatens to bomb Springfield with a nuclear bomb from his hiding hole if tv ins't banned forever. So it's up to Bart and Lisa to find him and stop his evil plans. This was a superbly written episode, it was (with the execption of a boring part or 2) exciting and excluding the lazy ending it was great and funny. One of the best Bob episodes. 10/10 A+moreless

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  • Good Bob episode, but I've seen better

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    By fenway98, Aug 11, 2010 Report Abuse
    This was a good Sideshow Bob Episode, but I can think of much better, like Cape Feare, Brother from another series, and day of the jackanapes.

    However, there were many great scenes, such as The Simpsons being impressed by the air show, Sideshow Bob getting rid of Tv, but having to send his message by TV, Homer trying to climb up the fence, the alien with the probe, and more.

    So.... this was a good episode, just not up to par with other Sideshow Bob Episodes.

    Overall Grade for this episode is: 85%/B+

    My next review is going to be: Spongebob Squarepants: You Don't know Sponge/Hide and then what happensmoreless

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  • I Like bob Episodes

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    By futuramarama, Jul 02, 2010 Report Abuse
    Bob episodes, for me at least, are generally the best of their seasons (well, the earlier ones for sure), and although this isn't the best of season 7, it is still a pretty good episode, albeit a bit weaker than others. The plot never interests me a whole lot, but there is a lot of humor so in a way it makes up for it, I think. My only main complaint is I thought the end was kind of dumb, and I thought some of it was boring throughout, but it still gets an A+ because it was funny and i did like some of itmoreless

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  • this was a good ep

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    By cube2k8, May 21, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of the simpsons the charater returns its sideshow bob and he is at it again this time since crusty show got taken down and had to aire his shows from a place out in the nowere of a desert .sidshow bob threatens the city with a nuclear bomb and takes the rightbrother plane sice there was going to be air show he uses it to try to go kill krusty thing is since its old and slow they can keep up with it and drives it at krusty place and he is saved this was a good epmoreless

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  • Sideshow Bob still doesn't get it

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    By twilightboy, Apr 09, 2008 Report Abuse
    Another not very funnny episode as oppossed to the first 5 episodes of this seventh and probably last classic Simpsons' season. Sideshow Bob is still a hateful and evil person after all these years. I would think that Springfield should have kept him in a much more secure prison, but it doesn't. I think this story is rather overdone. Stealing nuclear bombs, flying planes and the way things are resolved remind me more of a tree house of horror special than of a regular Simpsons' episode. A couple of good laughs here and there make watching this show worth while.moreless

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    • The "atomic bomb" Sideshow Bob steals reads "10 Megatons" on the side. This reveals the weapon Bob had swiped was actually a hydrogen bomb. These nuclear weapons, also called "H-bombs" or "superbombs," were more powerful than regular atomic bombs, and their explosion yields are measured in megatons, while conventional atomic bombs are measured in kilotons.

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    • The esteemed representatives of television consist of Kent Brockman, Bumblebee Man, Steve Urkel, Dr. Who, and Krusty the Clown. Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: Wedgies are unhealthy for children and other living things. Couch Gag: The family appear as sea monkeys. Edit
    • Before the TV ban takes effect, among the news stories Kent Brockman recalls is "dogs that were mistakenly issued major credit cards" -- an interesting parallel to Bart acquiring a card under the name of Santos L. Halper in "The Canine Mutiny" (which wouldn't air for another year and a half). Edit

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    • Chief Wiggum: Hey, where's Sideshow Bob, and that guy who eats people and takes their faces? Prisoner: I'm right here. Chief Wiggum: Oh, then where's Sideshow Bob? Eddie: He ran away, Chief. Chief Wiggum: Great. Well, if anyone asks, I beat him to death, okay? Edit
    • Grampa: (standing in the port-a-john toilet) This elevator only goes down to the basement, and somebody made a awful mess down there. Edit
    • Lisa: When Bob broadcast that message, his voice was higher than normal. And what makes your voice high? Bart: Tight, binding underwear? Lisa: Helium! Edit

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    • Family Matters One of the televison representatives was none other than Steve Urkel from the televison show Family Matters. Edit
    • Dr. Who Doctor Who, as portrayed by Tom Baker, the main character from the television show of the same name, Dr. Who, makes a cameo in this episode as one of the "esteemed representatives of television." Edit
    • The Day After The scenes around Springfield, at the time of Sideshow Bob's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb fails (due to it being a dud), references The Day After, the 1983 made-for-TV film which depicted a surprise nuclear attack on Omaha, Nebraska. A montage of scenes of normal, everyday life (including rush-hour traffic, a childbirth and a wedding) were shown at the moment the bomb detonated, wiping out everything. Edit

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