Krusty Gets Busted/References

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Krusty Gets Busted

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References

• This is the first episode we hear the catch phrase "I didn't do it" (later made infamous by Bart in Bart Gets Famous) originally uttered by Krusty the Clown.
• As Bart and Lisa arrive at the crime scene, the music from Mission: Impossible can be heard.
• The District Attorney is dressed up, and even acts a lot like 1950's attorney Perry Mason.
• Sideshow Bob's line, "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for these meddling kids" is from Hanna Barbera's Scooby-Doo.
• The entire idea behind the Itchy & Scratchy cartoons is nothing more than an "extremely violent" version of the old Tom & Jerry cartoons. Their names, however, were inspired by the 1958 cartoon Pixie & Dixie.
• The cover of Timely Magazine showing a picture captioned "Krusty - Krook of the Year" is a pun on Time magazine's annual Person of the Year issue.
• A magazine called News Weekly is shown which is a parody of the magazine Newsweek.
• Most of the plot for this episode, including a recurring clown character being framed by a co-worker with at least one robbery and the main characters discovering evidence of the frame-up and proceeding to clear the clown's name and expose the real crook, was similar to the Garfield and Friends season 2 episode "Binky Goes Bad!"

Trivia

• Sign on the Kwik-E-Mart microwave: "People with pacemakers should stay away from this thing."
• Number of Slide Carousels Patty and Selma bring from their trip to the Yucatán: Eight.
• Krusty's prison number in this episode is A113. A113 is an Easter egg that graduates of CalArts, such as Brad Bird, put in their films and cartoons; such as this one, all the Pixar movies, two other Simpsons episodes (Cape Feare and Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming), and other films and cartoons.
  • Coincidentally Kelsey Grammar who plays Bob in this episode, voiced Stinky Pete in the 1999 Pixar film Toy Story 2.
• This is Kelsey Grammar's debut as the voice of Sideshow Bob.
• This is also the episode that began Bob's rivalry with Bart.
• Bob's large feet also reveal his identity in The Bob Next Door, released 20 years later.
• Bob's large feet also foil his plans in Funeral for a Fiend.
• This is the first episode to have Krusty's name somewhere in the title.
• This it also the first episode to focus on a supporting character rather than a Simpson family member (It focuses on Krusty the Clown).
• This is the first appearance of Kent Brockman.
• This is also the first appearance of Judge Snyder although at this stage in the series he is known as Judge Moulton (as mentioned in Bart Gets Hit By a Car) and has a Caucasian appearance and a higher voice.
• This is only one of two episodes on the Season 1 boxset to end with the original 20th Century Fox Television logo that was used on the first three seasons of the show. The only other episode to have it is "There's No Disgrace Like Home". Every other episode has the 20th Television logo.
• According to Lisa, the events of the episode take place in the year, 1990 in the sixth season episode, "Sideshow Bob Roberts", despite being produced in 1989, the same year as the other episodes being produced for the first season.
• This is the second and last episode to show Chief Wiggum with brown skin and black hair (the first being "The Telltale Head") although he is later shown with black hair again in several episodes from season 3. (Also, a flashback of the end of this episode featuring him with Krusty and Bart was shown in "Like Father, Like Clown".)

Goofs

• When Apu says "You can emerge now from my chips. The opportunity to prove yourself a hero is long gone. ", his left arm is missing.

  

  Apu's arm is missing.

• Sideshow Bob refers to The Death of a Titan as Chapter 35 of The Man in the Iron Mask, when in reality it is chapter 50. He could have been reading an abridged edition.
• When Chief Wiggum orders the police to arrest Sideshow Bob (after being accused for framing Krusty), his skin is white until after Krusty is released from prison, when he and the police apologize for the misunderstanding.
• Krusty says that he is illiterate but in later episodes, he is shown reading out stuff. He could have learned how to read to some degree between this point in time and then, or he may have been lying about his illiteracy all along.

• The Kwik-E-Mart's door opens before Krusty (who’s really Sideshow Bob in disguise) steps on the sensor. 
• Sideshow Bob gives the Simpson kids three tickets to his show. Maggie should be too young to need a ticket. 
• Technically, the trial should have been thrown out when it was discovered that Krusty had been illiterate, since the security footage showed Krusty reading near a magazine rack, in direct contradiction to Krusty's illiterate status.