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3 | Lisa gets in touch with her inner hipster after going to a music camp. Krusty is nominated for a Nobel Prize but it's actually a way to get him on the International Court of Justice. |
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6 | * AccidentalHero: Krusty refused to play in Apartheid-era South Africa after the venue didn't meet his requirements. Apparently this was the last straw that led to the release of Nelson Mandela from prison. Bart uses a video of this to successfully argue that Krusty has had a positive impact on Western culture, sparing him from prison. |
7 | * AddedAlliterativeAppeal: While looking for evidence that Krusty made a cultural contribution, Homer and Bart find a video of ''Series/TheElectricCompany1971'' with a blackboard. The blackboard has the phrase "Gus got gas and the guy got gum". |
8 | * AdolfHitlarious: A Dutch clock tower has two dolls hitting a [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler-shaped doll]] with hammers. |
9 | * AdvertisedExtra: The ''Series/{{Glee}}'' {{Guest Star}}s were heavily built up in the promos for this episode, but only really appear in a minor role in the first act. |
10 | * BoastfulRap: Kurt and Ethan (and Stephen Hawking, [[ItMakesSenseInContext and a cow]]) perform one at art camp about how "amazing" artists are. Subverted when it turns out none of the boasts were actually true, and they were just trying to impress Lisa. |
11 | * DarkReprise: While Lisa is at art camp, Kurt and Ethan perform a BoastfulRap about how great it is being an artist. When she discovers they were lying about [[StarvingArtist how glamorous their lives as artists are]], they perform a slowed-down ballad version that admits the truth. |
12 | * GuestStar: ''Series/{{Glee}}'' performers Creator/LeaMichele, Creator/CoryMonteith and Creator/AmberRiley appear as themselves at the art camp Lisa goes to. [[Music/FlightOfTheConchords Bret and Jemaine]] play the counselors, while Creator/StephenHawking makes a brief cameo during their BoastfulRap. |
13 | -->'''Stephen Hawking''': Yes. Break it down. [''spins in his wheelchair''] A brief history of rhyme. |
14 | * HypocriticalHumor: Right after telling Krusty that Europeans don't use the prefix "Euro" in everything, the judge orders Euro-guards to use Euro-cuffs on him. Furthermore, the Euro-cuffs do look like the symbol for the Euro currency. |
15 | * PlagiarismInFiction: Krusty is lured into the Netherlands where he can be prosecuted for stealing jokes from a Dutch clown. |
16 | * SensitiveArtist: PlayedForLaughs when Kurt and Ethan admit to Lisa via DarkReprise that being an artist is nowhere near as glamorous as they'd hyped it up to be. |
17 | -->'''Kurt''': [''singing''] Artists make a living dressing up like falafel. |
18 | -->'''Ethan''': [''singing''] Artists shed a tear when they're called something awful. |
19 | -->'''Passerby''': You ain't no falafel! |
20 | -->[''Ethan sheds a single tear''] |
21 | * ShoutOut: The title is obviously referencing ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. |
22 | * StarvingArtist: Being an artist might seem like a glamorous career, but it is not an easy one. Nor is it one where you're always going to succeed. Kurt and Ethan are forced to work a low-paying job to make ends meet. |
23 | * StealingFromTheTill: Kurt and Ethan work at a Subway {{expy}} from which they're implied to regularly steal tomatoes and other sandwich fillings, [[StarvingArtist as they apparently don't make enough money to eat properly]]. |
24 | * TooDumbToLive: While in jail, Krusty sings about having to become a prison snitch to get out and the fellow inmates who hear him beat him up. |
25 | * TrickedIntoAnotherJurisdiction: The Springfieldians are astounded by the announcement "live from Stockholm" that Krusty the Clown has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Krusty subsequently boards a plane to Oslo for the award ceremony, but to his surprise the plane lands in The Hague in the Netherlands. A Dutch policeman then reveals that Krusty is to be arrested and tried at the International Court of Justice for his manyfold crimes in Europe (such as dropping a monkey from the Eiffel tower, "aggravated hey-hey" in Greece, and stealing the jokes of a Dutch clown); the Nobel Prize was only a ruse to lure Krusty to Europe. |
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