Monday, June 24, 2019

017 Krusty Gets Kancelled

The entry on the 1993 episode of The Simpsons (penned by that great lover of old-times Americana John Swartzwelder) "Krusty Gets Kancelled" mentions a number of cultural allusions contained in the show. It does not yet mention, however, perhaps the most important pop cultural reference in this tale of Gabbo, the demented ventriloquist's dummy: the allusion to the urban legend about "Uncle Don's" notorious blooper (which never actually happened). The entry on A Face in the Crowd ought to mention the debt the film owes to the Uncle Don story as well.
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