The Season 26 premiere of The Simpsons used a death of a character as its publicity stunt. After 30 years, they've gained the right to kill as many characters as they wish. Here's the latest spoiler warning....Krusty the Clown's father, Rabbi Krustofski died.
From the very start, Krusty was the heart of the show. The main concept, back when they assumed only a few episodes, was that Homer in disguise. He rapidly changed into a form of secondary image for Bart, one with, in the Rabbi's words, a needy, bug that only laughs can satisfy.
In that case, Krusty has come to symbolize the show itself, an old performer who has almost outlived and his entire contemporaries, but still soldiers on giving laughter. The line that is surely echoing in the entire heads of the Simpsons producers and writers since the 1990s, "Okay, I've been on for 50 years. You're bound to repeat yourself a little."
In the 553rd episodes of the Simpsons have been literally everywhere and everything done. The current FXX marathon has showed that fans still love the show; it is more likely to be a little autobiography in Rabbi Krustofski and his son's final judgment.
"The Simpsons isn't as good as it used to be" the phrase that surrounds the air.
When Krusty discoivers that his father's in favor with Rabbi Rudenstein, is telling out jokes that Krusty told when he was a kid, "My father respected me, but could never tell me." Which is what makes Krusty's closure with his father in this episode all the more satisfying? There is no other show that's going to make the viewers happy. Someone who works on the show week in and week out, just to make people crazy, it's when everybody isn't happy when its got to hurt.
