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Mar 30, 2021 · Hey hey! Krusty rejected a life as a Jewish scholar. The 1991 Simpsons episode "Like Father, Like Clown" provides a lot of information and explanation as to why Krusty is the way he is....
- He Didn't Debut on The Simpsons
- He's Been Married 15 Times
- His Face Is Bleached Permanently White
- He Was Originally Intended to Be Homer in Disguise
- He Played A Villain on The '60s Batman TV Show
- He Was Banned from Television For 10 Years For Saying "Pants"
- He's A Republican
- There Are Real-Life Krusty Burger Restaurants
- His Death Was Teased For The Show's 26th Season
- "Kamp Krusty" Almost Became A Movie
For such a global phenomenon, it's still hard to believe that The Simpsons started life as several minutes long animated shorts for a much bigger show. While The Tracey Ullman Show's other animated short, Dr. N!Godatu, was dropped after the first season, The Simpsonswent from strength to strength, eventually eclipsing the show altogether and becomi...
Hollywood marriages seldom seem to last and as someone who has been in the industry for many decades, Krusty has a long list of ex-wives. According to himself, he's been married a total of 15 times. His first wife was apparently Holly Hippie, one of his assistants on The Krusty the Clown Showin the 1970s. According to Holly, the reason they divorce...
Early Krusty appearances like in the episode “Krusty Gets Busted” show the TV clown without his signature grease painted face and red nose, but since then, he always seems to be fully made up. According to the Simpsonsproducers, they had lengthy discussions over whether Krusty should always look like a clown or not. It was eventually decided that i...
It's no accident that Krusty and Homer look so similar. According to series creator Matt Groening, one of the original concepts for the show was to have Homer be revealed to be Krusty, turning his son's disrespect for his father and hero-worship of a TV clown on its head. This was later dismissed along with a whole host of wacky concepts (Marge's t...
Although Springfield has its own superhero in the form of Radioactive Man, Batman himself seems to exist in their universe too, played by the much missed Adam West. As an illustration for how long Krusty has been in show business, it's revealed that he was one of the show's villains of the week. He played “the painted Pagliacci of perfidy”, the vil...
Krusty's career has been long and storied, but he didn't exactly get off to the best start. As a young comedian, he got his first big television break in the 1950s. However, during his set, he said the apparently dirty word “pants” and was barred from appearing on TV until the '60s. Krusty's bad luck continued when he was scheduled to appear on (re...
Most of Springfield's residents seem to be apolitical, but Krusty is staunchly Republican. He's often seen in meetings of the Springfield Republican Party, conversing with fellow members like Rainier Wolfcastle, the Rich Texan, Dr. Hibbert, and Mr. Burns. In the episode "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Bart gets the idea to push Krusty to run for C...
As well as being a send-up of celebrities and TV personalities, Krusty is also a parody of another burger-shilling clown you may be familiar with. Krusty Burger restaurants are a dime a dozen in Springfield, and they serve all sorts of fattening, greasy meals for its customers to gorge themselves on. Along with the Kwik-E-Mart, Krusty Burger has be...
When you've been on the air as long as The Simpsons has, it can be hard to get people as interested in your show as they once were. Prior to the 26thseason of the show, the creative team teased a big character death was going to hit Springfield. The writers dropped several cryptic clues as to the identity of the soon-to-be-deceased, including that ...
We all remember the "Kamp Krusty" episode right? Bart and Lisa go off to the Kamp Krusty summer camp only to find it a gruelling, torturous affair run by a corrupt businessman called Mr. Black. The kids eventually rebel and it makes national news. Well, when James L. Brooks saw the completed episode, he thought it was perfect for a movie adaptation...
May 17, 2022 · Strip away the white face paint, red button nose, and green hair from children's entertainer Krusty the Clown, and he's a dead ringer for everyone's favorite nuclear safety inspector,...
Jul 19, 2020 · Krusty wasn’t inspired by someone close to Groening but by a peculiar character he used to watch when he was a child. That character is Rusty Nails (whose real name was James H. Allen), a Portland clown that Groening has described as sweet and who sometimes had a Christian message, but he still scared young Groening.
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Nov 11, 2019 · The Simpsons creator Matt Groening originally intended for Homer and Krusty the Clown to be the same person. Here's why this twist was wisely changed.
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[7] Krusty seems to retire from—and then get back into—show business repeatedly throughout his career. [12] . One of his retirements is almost made permanent due to just- paroled Sideshow Bob's latest scheme: wiring plastic explosives to a hypnotized Bart and sending Bart onstage.
Feb 18, 2019 · After getting captured, the drug dealers send a ransom letter to Krusty for Homer’s release. Krusty doesn’t want to pay but the crew won’t leave their colleague behind.
