History Recap / TheSimpsonsS4E1KampKrusty

* {{Couch Gag}}/CrossoverPunchline: The Simpsons meet ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' in this week's couch gag.

* SelfFulfilledProphecy: It is implied Mr Black's posse tormented and wore down the kids in hopes that Krusty being a no-show would fly over them. Instead that ends up TheLastStraw and the kids straight up ambush them.

** At one point, we see Homer giving Marge a massage on a hill. When she says they'll miss the fireworks, Homer says they have all the fireworks they need right here (implying that they're going to have sex). He then pulls back a blanket to reveal a picnic basket stuffed with fireworks (which are probably Bart's).

* TheCakeIsALie: It was never really the plan for Krusty to come to the camp eventually. When Bart realizes this, he attacks.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Kearney eats the jellybean cookies Marge sent to Bart and Lisa, then he tells Lisa they were disgusting.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Krusty is the type of corporate fat-cat that would sponsor anything (and that is ''anything''), no matter how horrifyingly unsafe, as long as he got paid for it. He still burst out in tears and tried to make things right when he heard how badly children were treated on the titular camp, including a child being eaten by a bear (although he went there because they had taken over it ''Film/ApocalypseNow''-style, and still burst into tears when Bart corrected himself and said that it was only the child's ''hat'' that had been eaten -- it ''was'' a nice hat, though).

* NoSympathy: When Milhouse collapsed during the nature hike, Kearney jabbed a stick in him to get up. When Milhouse tried to tell him that a snake bit him, Kearney just tells him to get back in line.

* SummerCampy: A darker example of this trope.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: With how it turned out what Kamp Krusty was really like, Homer's ThrowTheDogABone moment for Bart terribly backfired.

** The camp counselors go missing after the kids take over the camp. The bullies presumably made their way back to Springfield, but Mr. Black is never seen again.
*** When put in the fact that Newscaster Kent Brockman said that three counselors are missing and presumed scared, he could be referring to Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney. Suggesting that Mr. Black wasn’t able get on the hydrofoil in time to make his escape with them, and he either [[OffscreenKarma got hunted down by the kids and are holding him hostage or even killed him]], or just ran away.

* CasualDangerDialog: While the cabin is caught in a ''Wizard of Oz''-style tornado and the campers are hanging on for dear life, Bart says in a normal voice, "Lisa, I've been thinking it over. Next summer, I'm getting a job."

-->''We will always love Kamp Krusty ...''
-->''A registered trademark of the Krusty Corporation,''
-->''All rights reserved!''

* SanitySlippage: Bart, after too long in Kamp Krusty.

* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: While experiencing a hurricane at the camp, Bart tells Lisa that next summer, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he' getting a job]].

-->'''Bart:''' Krusty, this camp was a nightmare. They fed us gruel, they forced us to make wallets for export, and one of the campers was eaten by a bear!
-->'''Krusty:''' Oh my God! [''Sobbing'']
-->'''Bart:''' [[SubvertedTrope Well, actually, the bear just ate his hat.]]
-->'''Krusty:''' Was it a nice hat?
-->'''Bart:''' Oh, yeah.
-->'''Krusty:''' [[FauxHorrific Oh my God!]] [''Sobbing'']

'''Krusty:''' I don't know her name, but she held up a liquor store last year![[note]]This could be in close reference to ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'' actress Dana Plato's armed robbery of a laundromat around the time of the episode's initial airing[[/note]]

** Krusty had a show called President Clown.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As the bus enters Kamp Krusty, the bridge it drives over collapses, an indication of what's in store for the children.H

* FMinusMinus: Bart gets a full hand of F- grades...[[FiveSecondForeshadowing in the dream intro]], where in real life [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he more plausibly gets all Ds]].

* RightfulKingReturns: {{Parodied}}: through various traumas and SanitySlippage Bart clings to the promise that Krusty the Clown will eventually show up, and when the best the camp has to offer is Barney crudely disguised as Krusty, he stages a revolt that leads to the actual Krusty the Clown finally coming to make amends.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: As the bus enters Kamp Krusty, the bridge it drives over collapses, an indication of what's in store for the children.

** We see Krusty being asked to keep it down at Wimbledon and apologizing to UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen and then, in his next scene, she's suddenly about to knight him.

But when the kids arrive, Krusty is nowhere to be found. It turns out, the ''real'' owner of the camp is a man named Mr. Black (voiced by Creator/HarryShearer), who merely bought the rights to use Krusty's name and image for the camp to attract kids and the clown has no actual association with the camp. But this is not all, as the marketing turned out to be false advertising. Instead of a fun and big budgeted summer camp, the titular Kamp Krusty is a low-budget, unsafe dystopia-like one, whose only purpose (save for making wallets in arts and crafts to sell) is to torture kids. Making matters worse, their counselors are none other than the bullies Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney! The cabins are vermin-infested, cold and locked tight from the outside at night, the lakes too dangerous to swim in, the kids roast pinecones instead of marshmallows, they're forced into sweatshop labor (for example, making fake wallets for export to Hong Kong), their nature hikes end in disaster, the infirmary staff members are more interested in smoking than tending to injured campers, they're fed nothing but gruel which sometimes has living animals inside of it, they do not get to write any letters to their parents for obvious reasons, their presents from home are taken, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking they are forced to sing a song praising the camp]]. Mr. Black and the bullies on the other hand enjoy a life of luxury while the kids suffer miserably.

* PovertyFood: The Imitation Gruel that is the camp's only food source. Even the name is indicative of how much the counselors scrimped on budget for the kids.

* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: While experiencing a hurricane at the camp, Bart tells Lisa that next summer, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he was getting a job]].

Episode - 8F24\\
First Aired - 9/24/1992

-->'''Krusty:''' Was it a {{nice hat}}?

* EveryoneHasStandards: Krusty is the type of corporate fat-cat that would sponsor anything (and that is ''anything''), no matter how horrifyingly unsafe, as long as he got paid for it. He still burst out in tears and tried to make things right when he heard how badly children were treated on the titular camp, including a child being eaten by a bear (although he went there because they had taken over it ''Film/ApocalypseNow''-style, and still burst into tears when Bart corrected himself and said that it was only the child's ''hat'' that had been eaten -- it ''was'' a NiceHat, though).

* NiceHat: According to Bart, one of the campers had one of these that was eaten by a bear. Krusty reacts to this with the same gravitas as when he thought the kid was eaten by a bear.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Miss Hoover gives Lisa a B-plus in Conduct simply because she feels Lisa needs a blotch on her record. Lisa's resultant FreakOut causes her to injure Hoover.

*** When put in the fact that Newscaster Kent Brockman said that three counselors are missing and presumed scared, he could be referring to Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney. Suggesting that Mr. Black wasn’t get on the hydrofoil in time to make his escape with them, and he either [[OffscreenKarma got hunted down by the kids and are holding him hostage or even killed him]], or just ran away.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Miss Hoover gives Lisa a B-plus in Conduct simply because she feels Lisa needs a blotch on her record. Lisa's resultant FreakOut causes her to injure Hoover.

-->'''Homer''': [''In response to the announcement of "Seventeen"''] D'oh! [''"Thirty-two"''] D'oh! [''"Five"''] D'oh. [''"Eight"''] Woo-hoo! [''"Forty-seven"''] D'oh!

-->'''Bart''': Krusty, this camp was a nightmare. They fed us gruel, they forced us to make wallets for export, and one of the campers was eaten by a bear!
-->'''Krusty''': Oh my God! [''Sobbing'']
-->'''Bart''': [[SubvertedTrope Well, actually, the bear just ate his hat.]]
-->'''Krusty''': Was it a {{nice hat}}?
-->'''Bart''': Oh, yeah.
-->'''Krusty''': [[FauxHorrific Oh my God!]] [''Sobbing'']

-->'''Marge''': She complains ''now'', but when we go to pick her up, she won't want to leave.

-->'''Bart''': How do I know this isn't some beautiful dream, too?

-->'''Bart''': Ow! Y'know, a pinch is more traditional!

-->'''Drill sergeant''': All right you piles of pan-drippings, I wanna see Crisco coming out of those pores! We're not leaving till this Christmas ''HAM'' gives me a pull-up.

-->'''Lisa''': Who played your daughter in your short-lived sitcom ''President Klown''?\\
'''Krusty''': I don't know her name, but she held up a liquor store last year![[note]]This could be in close reference to ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'' actress Dana Plato's armed robbery of a laundromat around the time this episode first aired[[/note]]

-->'''Mr. Black''': Gentlemen, to evil.

--->'''Mrs. Krabappel''': [[{{Pun}} Have a]] ''[[{{Pun}} D]]''[[{{Pun}} -lightful summer!]]

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: This is largely how it becomes first apparent that the first part of the episode is a DreamIntro: Mrs. Krabappel simply casually changes all of Bart's grades to a C, and then chuckles coyly when Bart gives her a FlirtatiousSmackOnTheAss and calls her "doll."

* PostTreatmentLollipop: When Lisa tells Dr. Hibbert that she'll need her booster shots before she goes to camp, Dr. Hibbert tells her that she has "an advanced case of hypochondria" and the only known cure is a lollipop. Lisa then tells him not to patronize her.

-->'''Bart''': ''That's'' not Krusty the Clown!
-->'''Mr. Black''': What, do you think I slapped a clown suit on some wino? [''Laughs nervously'']

-->'''Mr. Black''': (to Jimbo) I thought you said you broke their spirits!
-->'''Jimbo''': We did...
-->[[[WouldHurtAChild Mr. Black slaps Jimbo in the face and shakes him]]]
-->'''Mr. Black''': ''YOU BROKE NOTHING!''

-->'''Lisa''': I think I'm going to die, Bart!
-->'''Bart''': We're all going to die, Lisa.
-->'''Lisa''': I meant ''soon''!
-->'''Bart''': So did I.