Day of the Jackanapes/References

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Day of the Jackanapes

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Cultural References

• The title parodies the title of the book The Day of the Jackal.
• The plot parodies the movie The Manchurian Candidate.
• The game show Me Wantee! is a parody of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
• The statue of Krusty (outside the Krusty Burger) that Bob has Bart destroy references the famous Big Boy statues outside of Big Boy Restaurants.
• Krusty getting harassed during a restaurant sketch and suddenly breaking character is reminiscent of the infamous moment on ABC's 1980s sketch comedy show Fridays where Andy Kaufman harassed then-cast member Michael Richards over refusing to stay in character during a sketch about restaurant patrons ducking into the bathroom to smoke marijuana during a dinner date and gets into a fight with him. There are stories debating whether this was staged or real that persists to this day.
  • This moment was also seen in the 1999 Andy Kayfman biopic Man on the Moon.
• Krusty's line "Our Chimpendale's dancer's gonna give you the full monkey!" references the 1997 film The Full Monty.
• A picture of Krusty and Bob that was unveiled while Krusty was lamenting his cruel treatment of Bob closely resembles the cover of Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends.
• Krusty sings a song similar to Barry Manilow's Mandy, marking the second time the song was parodied on the show (Homer had previously sung his own version in "The Last Temptation of Homer").
• The scene where the two executives of Krusty's show reform into a silvery mass after being blown up references a similar ability the villain from Terminator 2 possesses.
• In his cosmonaut gag from 1957, Krusty identifies himself as "Kaputnik." Roger Kaputnik is the perennial hypochondriac created by MAD Magazine writer Dave Berg for his "Lighter Side..." series.
• Chief Wiggum references George W. Bush when witnessing Bart using a Bat to vandalize a Krusty statue on Sideshow Bob's orders. He say's "It's so great seeing a kid use a wooden bat. These days, it's all aluminum this, and George W. that."
  • It should be noted that this is the first time the Simpsons made a Bush joke since his inauguration into office.
  • Also of note is the fact that this scene has been edited in syndication.

Trivia

• Bart mentioned that he had defeated Sideshow Bob 6-0 in this episode. In reality, it should have been 5-0. Brother from Another Series wouldn't count, since Sideshow Bob wasn't the one who instigated a crime in the episode (it was his brother Cecil), and Bart wasn't even the one responsible for sending him back to jail.
• Day of the Jackanapes was released four years after Brother from Another Series, the previous Sideshow Bob episode, making the time in-between the two episodes the longest cooling-off period Bob ever had.

• When Marge states that cartoons should end before becoming old and stale, Mr. Smithers states that "Maggie shot Mr. Burns again", referencing "Who Shot Mr. Burns?".