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Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky (Yiddish: הערשעל שמױקל פּינחס ירוחם קרוסטאַפֿסקי; Hebrew: הירשל שמויקל פנחס ירוחם קרוסטופסקי), better known by his stage name Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a recurring character on the animated television series The Simpsons.
- Sophie Krustofsky (daughter)
- Television clown, entertainer, Congressman
Jul 19, 2020 · This is because the original idea was for Homer and Krusty to be the same person, as Bart didn’t respect his father but he looked up to a clown that looked just like him. The idea was eventually dropped, though it was used in the episode “Homie the Clown”, where Homer went to Clown College and dressed up as Krusty.
Mar 30, 2021 · Flashbacks explain how Krusty came to be a father, as well as the reasons why Sophie's mother, Erin, kept him out of her daughter's life. Erin was serving as a soldier in the early '90s Gulf War ...
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- Matt Groening wanted a live-action Krusty spin-off. With a show as popular as The Simpsons, talk of spin-offs were inevitable. One of the ideas that actually got pretty close to being made was a Krusty spin-off, only it wasn't going to be animated.
- "Insane Clown Poppy" was nearly about Homer's illegitimate daughter, not Krusty's. In the third episode of Season 12, “Insane Clown Poppy”, Krusty is revealed to have a long lost daughter named Sophie (voiced by Drew Barrymore) as the product of a fling with a soldier during the Gulf War.
- The Krusty Burger Olympic promotion was a parody of a real marketing disaster. In the episode "Lisa's First Word", we flashback to the early '80s, when Lisa and Bart were much younger.
- He's based on several real-life clowns. Local TV clowns aren't really a thing anymore, but when the cast and crew of The Simpsons were growing up, they were all the rage.
In a flashback to an old episode of The Krusty the Clown Show, Krusty has a severe heart attack while being aired live. He collapses on the ground clutching his chest and gasping for air, to the amusement of the studio audience, which is mostly children and thinks it’s all in good fun.
May 31, 2022 · Krusty The Clown is the chain-smoking, meat peddling, high-maintenance clown prince of Springfield. Krusty has gone through a lot in his decades-long career on The Simpsons from bankruptcy… to near bankruptcy. Here are 15 times Krusty stole the side-show. 15 Krusty’s Nicotine Patches.
