History Recap / TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled

** Luke Perry, in addition to being more successful than Krusty, can (somehow) make an 18th century carousel out of balloons.

* NegativeContinuity: Either that or Krusty considers the show where he had a cardiac arrest on the air (mentioned via {{flashback}} in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E12KrustyGetsBusted Krusty Gets Busted]]") better than the ones with Ray-Jay Johnson. Probably the latter, since the cardiac arrest episode is widely beloved by Krusty fans.

** Gabbo does this when he realizes that Ray Jay Johnson is his only guest against all the stars Krusty has gathered for his comeback special.

* OldShame: An InUniverse example. When his show is cancelled, Krusty is proud of having never done a bad show... except for the week that Ray Jay Johnson was his co-host.

** Krusty mentions the week of episodes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Seluga_ Ray J. Johnson]] co-hosted as the only bad episodes he did. Later, Gabbo discovers the only guest he has is Johnson.

** Krusty mentions the week of episodes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Jay_Johnson Ray Jay Johnson]] co-hosted as the only bad episodes he did. Later, Gabbo discovers the only guest he has is Johnson.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "I'm a bad wittle boy!" for Gabbo.

-->'''Bart:''' [[CatchPhrase Ay carumba!]]

'''Mel:''' ''(tearfully)'' Krusty, I--\\
'''Krusty:''' ''(threateningly)'' SHUT YOUR HOLE!!!

* WereLiveRealization: After Kent Brockman covers Gabbo's hot mic incident where he refers to kids as [="SOBs"=], he signs off. Unaware the camera is still on, he chuckles to himself and says "That oughta hold those [=SOBs"=]. A convenient "Brockman in trouble" graphic pops up prompting Kent to do a double-take. Later, a SpinningNewspaper reveals that Brockman's gaffe made everyone forget about Gabbo's, who was no longer in trouble.

-->'''Krusty:''' ...what the hell was ''that?!''

* DerangedAnimation: When ''Itchy & Scratchy'' are bought out by Gabbo, Krusty tries showing an incomprehensible Russian cat-and-mouse cartoon called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyxYdj9dGcI Worker & Parasite]]'', a parody of Dušan Vukotić's 1961 Yugoslavian short, ''Animation/{{Ersatz}}''. which is known to be very surreal in nature. Naturally, Krusty's reaction is "What the hell was that?!"

At first, the lavish production and the dummy's smart-aleck personality (reflected in his catchphrase, "I'm a bad wittle boy") are ignored by the Krust, who has already beaten bigger celebrities. However, he is soon forced to fight back with a similar act, but his dummy scares the kids. After ''Itchy & Scratchy'' switch to Gabbo's show (meanwhile, Mayor Quimby manages to get re-elected in spite of openly admitting the murder of some political enemies... just by appropriating the dummy's catchphrase), Krusty resorts to air a Dadaist Eastern European cartoon called ''Worker & Parasite'', but this attempt fails and the show is cancelled.

** Krusty mentions the week of episodes [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_J._Johnson Ray J. Johnson]] co-hosted as the only bad episodes he did. Later, Gabbo discovers the only guest he has is Johnson.

* JapaneseRanguage: Krusty's response to the aforementioned crank call: "Whoa! Me rikey velly much."

Krusty's comeback special features an emotional reunion with Mel after singing "[[Theatre/ALittleNightMusic Send in the Clowns]]" and RHCP perform "Give It Away" in their underwear, something that the clown (dressed in an ill-fitting "Buster Brown" costume) finds denigrating. Krusty's old friend Creator/JohnnyCarson drops in and lifts an '87 Buick while Hefner plays the glass harp, and Midler sings "[[Film/{{Beaches}} Wind Beneath My Wings]]". The special is a success (to the point Liz Taylor decides to fire her agent for rejecting the gig) and Krusty's career is revived. After the show, everybody celebrates at Moe's, and Bart and Lisa earn part of the profits. Krusty is toasted as the best showman in the world--- after Carson, who tap dances and plays an accordion while balancing Grampa and Jasper on his head.

* HostilityOnTheSet: InUniverse examples with both rival shows -- it's made pretty obvious that Arthur Crandall and Gabbo don't get along when the cameras are off even though Gabbo is Crandall's ''puppet'' and it's made perfectly clear that Krusty is a complete asshole to his co-workers (Sideshow Mel recalls a time when Krusty poured ''liquid nitrogen'' down his pants and damaged one of his flash-frozen buttocks with a hammer on the air as a reason he doesn't want to come back to the show and when he decides to go to the comeback special after all, Krusty is only amiable for about two seconds and then starts verbally abusing him again).
* {{Hypocrite}}: Not five seconds after saying that Gabbo's use of the phrase [=SOBs=] "has no place on or off TV", Kent Brockman says exactly that.

** Gabbo calls all of the kids in Springfield "sons of bitches" on live television and keeps his show (Kent Brockman calls people that too and it's implied that he gets in trouble for being caught by a camera). It's only when Krusty does his special that things start going downhill for him.

* WereLiveRealization: After Kent Brockman covers Gabbo's hot mic incident where he refers to kids as [="SOBs"=], he signs off. Unaware the camera is still on, he chuckles to himself and says "That outta hold those [=SOBs"=]. A convenient "Brockman in trouble" graphic pops up prompting Kent to do a double-take. Later, a SpinningNewspaper reveals that Brockman's gaffe made everyone forget about Gabbo's, who was no longer in trouble.

** ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'': ''The Springfield Squares'' is a localized version with local celebrities

* OutOfFocus: Marge has no lines in this episode, though she does appear. Creator/HarryShearer's characters aren't quite voiceless, but appear much less than usual.

* OutOfFocus: Marge has no lines in this episode, though she does appear. None of Creator/HarryShearer's characters speak, either.

* OutOfFocus: Marge has no lines in this episode, though she does appear.

* HotScientist: The Playboy Mansion has a laboratory, a biosphere, an alternative energy research center, and a desalinization plant, all staffed by lab coat-wearing Bunnies.

* BurgerFool: Mel takes a job at a fast-food restaurant during the short time he's unemployed.

-->'''Gabbo:''' ''I'm a bad widdle boy!''

* EpicFail: Krusty's very brief stab at ventriloquism while attempting to copy Gabbo's success. For starters, he has absolutely no skills to convincingly pass off as a ventriloquist, so he wears a large moustache that conveniently covers his mouth. His dummy, Alphonse, is also extremely old and in very poor condition. When Krusty starts using the dummy on his show, the dummy's mouth falls off, leaving an empty black chasm that scares the children. Krusty tries to reassure them that the dummy is "not even alive...it's ''dead''", and knocks on Alphons's head...smashing it in, and scaring the children even further. [[FromBadToWorse Clearly frustrated, Krusty kicks the now disfigured dummy into the audience]]. The reaction is predictable.

*** Music/TheRollingStones were asked to change [[Music/BetweenTheButtons "Let's Spend the Night Together"]] to "Let's Spend Some Time Together", as "spend the night" was seen as too sexually suggestive at the time. Mick Jagger didn't warm up to the change.