First off, the joke is weak. Secondly, even if it were funny, why should merely repeating it in the comments section get you 1.2k thumbs up? What a world.
@@generaljonblackjack That a great number of people "liking" a comment merely repeating a lame joke is disappointing. I don't think I can simplify the sentiment any further for you, I hope this helps.
@@tomedy_official yeah it's a shame Kelsey Grammer is a climate change denier, Vladdy P worshipper and PDFile. And I had to censor that or it wouldn't let me post.
@@tomedy_official kelsey grammer is a climate change denier, and PDF file, as well as a Nitup (I had to spell that backwards for it to actually post to this website) worshipper. Seriously, if you like him, DO NOT read his wikip
If you like Kelsey Grammer, and want to continue doing so, don't read his wiki page or his 2016 interview with the guardian. Or what he did to a 15 year old girl in 1995. I had to HEAVILY censor this comment because this app won't let me say the things that he's done.
Krusty's brief explanation of the pie gag, that it only works when the target has dignity to lose, is actually very good. Krusty usually seems so bored/annoyed by his job you often forget that he's actually a very competent entertainer who knows his craft well
yeah and hes been locked in that time unmoving town for years more than most sometimes think hes one of the few that acknowledges things dont seem to move on
@@raxsavvage him and superintendent Chalmers of course. 'oh, ask the town people eh? That will go well, who's first? The man in a bumblebee suit or the one with the bone through his hair?' 😂
You know in a way I feel he is right. You cant ask others to do what you find to difficult just because of that. Then again we inherently find murder reppelling wich adds another factor.
@@jaydentownsend5402 And I thought it was a reference to the THoH where Homer tricks Flanders into becoming an assassin for him (by pretending he's God)
@@pokedude720 True, true. if you believe in simpsons conspiracies there's the malibue stacy doll episode where lisa makes a doll. And during the first minute there's a "malibu stacy with a pyramid/eye" in the discount bin. Im not into conspiracies but i love simpsons stuff.
I was actually up by there a couple months ago, yeah that's a pretty accurate statement. I didn't go there, I went to the University of South Carolina Aiken, but still!
"The writers spent a long time trying to figure out a civilization that considered chief hydrological engineer a true calling and chose the Cappadocians, who were famous for underground cities although not specifically dams.[8]"
To be fair, Sideshow Bob had been distracted by prison and his brothers passive aggressive "charity". That's the only reason I can conjure as to the blatant faux pas regarding the Capodocians.
@@spreadthelove77 I know but I prefer to not edit... makes it seem like I've got something to hide. There's enough deceitfulness in the World already and I'm trying to have as little as possible, to have anything to do with it. I prefer to be as honest as possible about my mistakes. Thank you for the reply though. 😊
@PercivalBlakeney Admirable, but I can almost guarantee that nobody is going to bat an eye when they see a random comment on a Simpsons clip was edited at some point.
@@Cellidor True, but as the old saying has it "Abeunt studia in mores". A lapse in integrity today, leads to a greater one tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that... and my life has been characterised by a crashing lack of integrity (tegrity... as South Park pronounce it)... but thankyou for your candour. 😇
Little King Trashmouth - someone has written a screenplay as if Frasier and Niles were cannibals drive.google.com/file/d/1wfiQGCv92AWJXXQXFeTGpzIQebqDelk8/view
@@yeahbutontheotherhand Crossing your hands signifies God has the power, not us as mere mortals like we have any power in us at all. You can def pray anyway you want. Though there's a similar joke to yours.... Once someone asked me,"What do they call those tall pointy spires on top of churches?" I responded,"Prayer Antennas."
You know David Hyde Pierce came in and auditioned so well for Frasier that they made the role for him. You'll notice on Cheers, Frasier never once said he had a brother, and that's because they invented the idea of him having a brother because David was too good not to use.
It would be funny if they added Cecil insulting towards his Brother: "Well Bob, you're so corpulent that when you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villla, you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa."
@@iamcleaver6854 Cappadocia was (and still is as a region) located high in the mountainous eastern part of the Anatolian peninsula (in what is now Turkey). It's a very dry, rugged region so hydrological engineering would have been very important to them.
"These giant clown mitts are extremely hilarious, but they do make it difficult to shift gears." "That's the title of Erma Bombeck's latest, isn't it?" Gotta love those quick highbrow gags that you'd barely notice first time around.
@@senecathefuka441 "Cecil, no civilization in history has ever considered chief hydrological engineering a calling...yes, yes, the Cappadocians, fine." it's a joke that my dumb little 10-year old self would never have gotten.
@@ctothaz I see, also at 01:40, but I think it's just bobs humor which is nerdy in this episode, nerdy jokes in the Simpsons are not so much are thing, but I was mostly a kid when I watched so I didn't get many Jokes anyways haha, also cause I'm Austrian and the German synchronization is actually quiet good, but many jokes are based on USA or works only in English language
My thanks to whoever took the time to make sure Bob's hair moved with so much personality as he spoke. What a nice bit of extra detail that was probably completely unnecessary
He said he'll be happy if it DOESNT taste like that. He picked the Latour because that's what it ISNT. How did you get this far into making that comment without realizing that lol
T. Henderson Given it was on for a decade, I think it’s safe to say it was a hit. It’s also one of the few 90s sitcoms that still holds up to this day.
@SuperRegal79 have you considered... That MAYBE... it's unpopular right now because the show ended a long time ago and it's no longer being produced.... And not only that, maybe it's also unpopular because TV shows with live studio audience laughter or laughtracks have gotten incredibly less common, now considered niche to modern tv watchers.. Also, let's not forget to mention Kelsey Grammar is an open Trump supporter which goes completely against the entire psychologically humanitarian theme of the show Frasier... New audience members is just hard to get for it right now. People who didn't watch it back then might have not had the time to or preferred something else in the same time slot. Doesn't make them bad or stupid, just different.
I kind of love this version of Frasier without the Laugh Track. It proves how funny a show is, and what kind of chemistry people have when you arent prodded on by suggestive cues. Try doing this with Friends.
@@GldnClaw technically its not a laugh track, its a studio audience laughing. If youve ever been to a taping of a television show you can see signs or cues to laugh or applause, and there are paid laughers that encourage the audience. Yes, as far back as the first episode
Well, I agree with you, I'm obsessed with the laughtrack stupidity, and the greatness of comedies with\without it; I also LOVE Frasier - I do consider it the best (non-animated) sitcom ever created.. but I think Friends is a really bad example. You could have said basically ANY tv show ever, why Friends? Not only Friends (s1-4) is particularly good without the laughtrack (it's actually better, for the same reasons you described for Frasier, incredible chemistry and timing, the laughter makes it duller), but to me in its first 3-4 seasons it's the the only other sitcom I would ever put in the same conversation of Frasier (not only the writing, but also for some different qualities that I only ever found there, like direction, esp. actor direction, well calculated slapstick spirit, and unique use of the space, for example). Basically, I think Friends really is the only laughtracked-sitcom ever that doesn't fit the example. But it's just an opinion.
Fun fact: the year was never mentioned. It just had 10 years ago. We all assume it 1987. Sideshow career as krusty sidekick 1984-90. This episode didn't aired until 97.
Because ancient Cappadocia was on the arid highlands of Anatolia, the people who lived there had to make extensive use of irrigation, and in fact made many of the driest areas cultivatable. Without it, the region would have been uninhabitable.
@@raylampert1243 I find historical references so much more satisfying than "currently trending references" in cartoon comedy. The latter is better suited to stand-up.
@@raylampert1243 Wouldn't this joke apply to Sumeria too? Fertile Crescent it may be, but being the first to develop irrigation would certainly be considered an honored profession.
Marge ripping Bart's hands apart is such a small subtle joke. Like does she think that the hand gesture is some magic that makes God do what Bart wants?
If anyone wants to see more David Hyde Pierce check out the movie "The Perfect Host". It shows you his range as an actor and is just a good movie in general.
“I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way” is such a perfect line that would’ve easily worked just as well on Frasier. Two incredibly well written shows.
My father was never a Simpsons fan. He felt that cartoons, even adult ones were below him. When I was old enough in my teens to enjoy the show and its humor, it became my favorite thing. I would tell him the jokes and that Sideshow Bob was my favorite character (still is) He cracked up slightly and repeated Bob's stage name. A small glimpse of him thinking the name itself is ridiculous and funny.
Instead of asking God to kill off Sideshow Bob, just because he wants to kill him and he, Bart, doesn't want him to kill him, why could Bart have ask Him to persuade him to see mercy of sparing Bart's life, and not desperately wanting to murder him? Is that better? Isn't that a fair deal? Sideshow Bob eagerly bent on killing Bart is bad, but Bart asking God for Sideshow Bob to die is just as bad as well.
I only just realized. "You wanted to be Krusty's sidekick since you were five." So while the eternal-timeline of the simpsons makes things a tad wonky, cecil doesn't strike me as younger than mid twenties in this. So Krusty was an established/famous TV-Presenter-Clown already 20 years 'prior'.
@@ailyndanaemoyabrizuela2877 Which would be weird as Cecil references driving himself (clown mitts making it hard to shift gears.) PLus they mention clown college which would have happened before that, and since Cecil is the one who references princeton (as in, he assumes that is what Bob means) that would mean Cecil would have been at princeton at least 4 years before he was 15. Simpsons Timelines are so screwy.
I would pay good money to watch Frasier: The Animated Series and it’s just these two skilfully cutting down each other’s pretensions for half an hour ever week
Honestly this was the perfect ending for Bob. It makes sense that he ended up this way and it was all because of His brother. Had he not want to a clown and dragging Bob into it he would never even taken the job. Krusty isn’t even innocent either cause all of his gags were nothing short of Abuse for the sake of soulless entertainment. Being Humiliated like that for years would definitely mess anyone up. Doesn’t excuse for what Bob has done up to this point, but there are some moments where you can see from his perspective. It’s good writing and up to season 8 was the golden age of television.
It may have been a bit rude, but Krusty gave Cecil a good critique. Comedy is best when it’s at someone’s expense. It’s not really funny when someone wants to get hit in the face with a pie.
Marge: "You can't ask God to kill someone." Homer: "Yeah. Do your own dirty work." Joshua Graham from Fallout NV: "Hmm. Sound theology. I might need to reword it a bit, though..." Edit: I feel like I should clarify. One of Graham's best lines, which is delivered while cleaning an arsenal of pistols, is "I pray for the safety of all gentiles who come here. But we can't expect God to do all the work."
I love all of the Frasier references in this episode. Cecil's apartment having a piano and wine collection. Maris was even mentioned later on in the episode as well. I'm pretty sure Bob is eating scrambled eggs at 0:55. Referencing the song 'Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs.''
It's really not, hydrology is an earth science concerned about water, while hydrodynamics is an engineering disciple - while very related, they are still distinct fields.
Let me take a moment from everyone posting quotes of the thing you just watched to ask, 1:25 is that chair slide sound the same one from 'steamed hams' when the super intendent gets up to leave?
"The four years at clown college!"
"I would thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.."
Classic 😂😂😂
Oh course, Niles Crane went to Yale, not Princeton. :)
Was way too young to get that the first time I watched
First off, the joke is weak. Secondly, even if it were funny, why should merely repeating it in the comments section get you 1.2k thumbs up?
What a world.
@@tcorourke2007 Your point being?
@@generaljonblackjack That a great number of people "liking" a comment merely repeating a lame joke is disappointing.
I don't think I can simplify the sentiment any further for you, I hope this helps.
The timing between Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce was just so on point in this episode and on Frasier.
Only bob speaks with a British accent
Yeah it's a shame Kelsey Grammer is a climate change denier, putin worshipper and PDFile.
@@tomedy_official yeah it's a shame Kelsey Grammer is a climate change denier, Vladdy P worshipper and PDFile. And I had to censor that or it wouldn't let me post.
@@tomedy_official kelsey grammer is a climate change denier, and PDF file, as well as a Nitup (I had to spell that backwards for it to actually post to this website) worshipper. Seriously, if you like him, DO NOT read his wikip
If you like Kelsey Grammer, and want to continue doing so, don't read his wiki page or his 2016 interview with the guardian. Or what he did to a 15 year old girl in 1995.
I had to HEAVILY censor this comment because this app won't let me say the things that he's done.
Krusty's brief explanation of the pie gag, that it only works when the target has dignity to lose, is actually very good. Krusty usually seems so bored/annoyed by his job you often forget that he's actually a very competent entertainer who knows his craft well
yeah and hes been locked in that time unmoving town for years more than most sometimes think hes one of the few that acknowledges things dont seem to move on
And steals all his jokes.
He's right. Maybe it was the setup but I genuinely laughed when Bob got pied.
@@53subscribersnovideos35 -- If memes are anything to go by, then jokes only become funny once stolen.
@@raxsavvage him and superintendent Chalmers of course. 'oh, ask the town people eh? That will go well, who's first? The man in a bumblebee suit or the one with the bone through his hair?' 😂
Marge: "You can't ask God to kill someone."
Homer: "Yeah! You do your own dirty work!"
LOL
You know in a way I feel he is right. You cant ask others to do what you find to difficult just because of that. Then again we inherently find murder reppelling wich adds another factor.
@@dwarfie24 I thought more of the fan theory that homer was the one who really shot mr burns.
@@jaydentownsend5402 Its the beauty of Simpsons that a scene can analysed in more than one way and they can still be right. ;)
@@jaydentownsend5402 And I thought it was a reference to the THoH where Homer tricks Flanders into becoming an assassin for him (by pretending he's God)
@@pokedude720 True, true. if you believe in simpsons conspiracies there's the malibue stacy doll episode where lisa makes a doll. And during the first minute there's a "malibu stacy with a pyramid/eye" in the discount bin. Im not into conspiracies but i love simpsons stuff.
I love how all of the Sideshow Bob episodes are pretty much "The High Brow Comedy Hour"
But "Frasier" already is that.
What joke could be more highbrow than “Coveralls that don’t quite cover all”?
All these years later, "yes,yes the Cappadocians fine" still gets me...
It's one of my favorite quick, throw away Simpsons lines (and there have been many brilliant ones).
That joke sailed over my head for years! Lol.
@@Linguistic1 Please explain the joke if you don't mind! Did the Cappadocians specialize in water-based infrastructure? I don't recall
@@seronymus basically, yes. I believe the Cappadocians we're the first civilization to harness water power.
TIL
"The FOUR years of clown college!"
"I'll thank you to not refer to Princeton that way."
I was actually up by there a couple months ago, yeah that's a pretty accurate statement. I didn't go there, I went to the University of South Carolina Aiken, but still!
@@adamhovey407 University of South Carolina Aiken - who?
I can't believe Bob so callously forgot about the Capadocians like that. So disrespectful.
"The writers spent a long time trying to figure out a civilization that considered chief hydrological engineer a true calling and chose the Cappadocians, who were famous for underground cities although not specifically dams.[8]"
To be fair, Sideshow Bob had been distracted by prison and his brothers passive aggressive "charity". That's the only reason I can conjure as to the blatant faux pas regarding the Capodocians.
I thought the word capadocians referred to the food/wine Bob and Cecil were having?
Kelsey grammar is absolutely amazing as a voice actor. Honestly, they both are. I’d watch the two of them as a spin off.
Hint: it’s called Frasier 😀
Frasier is a hit show on NBC television.
Frasier reboot is soon
@@GldnClaw"Frasier (2023)" is a so-so show in the Paramount Plus streaming service (?)
He also voiced Stinky Pete from Toy Story 2
Bob "I'll be glad if it doesn't taste like orange drink, fermented under a radiator."
Cecil "That'll be the Le Tour then".
😊
"La Tour"... oopsie. 😁
PercivalBlakeney You can edit your own comment without having to say it again lol.
Ps, the reply is just Perfect Niles🤣🤣
@@spreadthelove77
I know but I prefer to not edit... makes it seem like I've got something to hide.
There's enough deceitfulness in the World already and I'm trying to have as little as possible, to have anything to do with it.
I prefer to be as honest as possible about my mistakes.
Thank you for the reply though.
😊
@PercivalBlakeney
Admirable, but I can almost guarantee that nobody is going to bat an eye when they see a random comment on a Simpsons clip was edited at some point.
@@Cellidor
True, but as the old saying has it
"Abeunt studia in mores".
A lapse in integrity today, leads to a greater one tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that... and my life has been characterised by a crashing lack of integrity (tegrity... as South Park pronounce it)...
but thankyou for your candour.
😇
If the Crane brothers were homicidal maniacs.
I would watch that show.
Little King Trashmouth - someone has written a screenplay as if Frasier and Niles were cannibals
drive.google.com/file/d/1wfiQGCv92AWJXXQXFeTGpzIQebqDelk8/view
Sam Evanson That is absolutely marvelous! And the comedic timing shines through just by reading it
I still wouldn't.
Scare Crow
Hi Martin. Have you taken Eddie out?
@@ukevo
That was excellent
The mesh with Niles and Fraser with Bob and Cecil is one of the best crossovers in tv history.
I like the minor touch of Marge trying to pull Bart's hands apart to stop him from praying.
Praying only works when you cross your hands xD
The transmission's already been sent, lady!
That part got me good. 😂
@@yeahbutontheotherhand Crossing your hands signifies God has the power, not us as mere mortals like we have any power in us at all. You can def pray anyway you want. Though there's a similar joke to yours....
Once someone asked me,"What do they call those tall pointy spires on top of churches?"
I responded,"Prayer Antennas."
And Homer walking slowly towards him XD
Usually I groan at the idea of guest stars posing as a character's family member, but Cecil works so well as Bob's brother!
It was just like watching a lost Frasier episode
You’ve heard of Fraser right?
I feel the same but this works
You know David Hyde Pierce came in and auditioned so well for Frasier that they made the role for him. You'll notice on Cheers, Frasier never once said he had a brother, and that's because they invented the idea of him having a brother because David was too good not to use.
i love your EarthBound style PFP :D
"HE'S GONNA CHANGE THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT GETTING HIT BY PIES!"
Chumley, you're hired!
It would be funny if they added Cecil insulting towards his Brother: "Well Bob, you're so corpulent that when you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villla, you sit around the magnificently appointed Tuscan villa."
"ejherm.... "
"yes, yes.... the capadocians, fine!" XD
Is it a reference to something? If so, I am not getting it.
@@iamcleaver6854 Cappadocia was (and still is as a region) located high in the mountainous eastern part of the Anatolian peninsula (in what is now Turkey). It's a very dry, rugged region so hydrological engineering would have been very important to them.
I'm just wondering why they didn't use the Dutch for that joke.
@@TonboIV cappadocians is a more obscure reference so i guess it makes the joke funnier?
....and the DUTCH! :O
I'm a failed actor turned hydrology engineer and I've never related to something so hard in my life X-D
lol!
I sure hope you don't unleash a terrible vengeance as well.
The Capadocians would have loved you
U went to clown college too?
@@jongon0848 felt like it
Kind of touching how Bob seems to smile genuinely when he sees that they like his “pie take.”
25 years today since this aired, damn!
After all this time it's still one of my favorite Sideshow Bob episodes and a clever Frasier reference/tie in👌
"These giant clown mitts are extremely hilarious, but they do make it difficult to shift gears."
"That's the title of Erma Bombeck's latest, isn't it?"
Gotta love those quick highbrow gags that you'd barely notice first time around.
Man the references in the old Simpson were really well thought up and quite intellectual to boot.
Sideshow Bob is a pretty classy guy when he's not plotting, so it stands to reason that his brother would be too
The glasses they're drinking out of change every cut.
The animation imperfections in the SD era are part of the charm.
Boy, I hope someone got fired for that blunder.
Plus they never closed the door when they walked into the apartment
i never realized how nerdy some of these jokes were lol
Which one?
The early Simpsons really did cover so many bases with their comedy
Cus Frasier and these VAs
@@senecathefuka441 "Cecil, no civilization in history has ever considered chief hydrological engineering a calling...yes, yes, the Cappadocians, fine." it's a joke that my dumb little 10-year old self would never have gotten.
@@ctothaz I see, also at 01:40, but I think it's just bobs humor which is nerdy in this episode, nerdy jokes in the Simpsons are not so much are thing, but I was mostly a kid when I watched so I didn't get many Jokes anyways haha, also cause I'm Austrian and the German synchronization is actually quiet good, but many jokes are based on USA or works only in English language
My thanks to whoever took the time to make sure Bob's hair moved with so much personality as he spoke. What a nice bit of extra detail that was probably completely unnecessary
Very funny joke. ‘82 Latour is arguably one of the greatest wines in history.
Though it’s beginning to pass at this point...
Does it taste like it’s been fermented under a radiator?
Little King Trashmouth How else would you make Bordeaux?
but it still mostly tastes like alcohol like everything else
So you drank it about an hour ago? 💦
He said he'll be happy if it DOESNT taste like that. He picked the Latour because that's what it ISNT. How did you get this far into making that comment without realizing that lol
It was amazing how after Bob was hit by the pie and Krusty and the others all laughed at him, his angry turned to happy when he took the job.
ANY Simpsons Episode with Side Show Bob Is A Ratings Winner
"Chum lee, your hired" Worst thing Rick Harrison ever said.
Supposedly when the show isn't running, he's just sitting in his car on his phone with the A/C on eating ice cream.
Comment retracted. That's what I get for posting while tired. I'm sorry about that, Henry.
I was thinking the same thing 🤣
To think if Bob wasn't there at the audition he'd never get the job frame crusty and go to jail
Cecil is to blame for all of this!
@@letsbepandasthank you random UA-camr with a Hank Scorpio pfp,we didn't realize it. /s
To be fair, Bob only went to the audition because he wanted Cecil to get the job as Krusty's sidekick
One of the best work The Simpsons has come up with. Ever.
the replication of the Fraiser litemotif and the transition card is neat
“What about the buffoon lessons? The 4 years at Clown college?”
“I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way.”
🤣
If you don't look at the screen, you'd think this WAS an episode of Fraiser
Somehow, even the part of a kid wishing for a man to die works
It would've been complete had Cecil offered Bob "Sherry" when they entered the apartment.
"And please God... kill Sideshow Bob"
"Bart NO!!!"
"It's him or me O Lord!!!" >n
I'm with Marge on this one, I don't want that handsome British redhead Springfieldian to die either
Cecil leaves his apartment door open
Why not? He already let in a homicidal maniac.
@@crazysicko47
🤣🤣🤣
Good one.
Frasier is a hit show on the NBC Television Network
T. Henderson Given it was on for a decade, I think it’s safe to say it was a hit. It’s also one of the few 90s sitcoms that still holds up to this day.
No, it was definitely a hit. It was a top ten show for much of its run.
@T. Henderson you obviously don't have good taste in humour..stick to big bang theory mate 😂
Creme and crust all over my face.
What is a clown to do?
Goodnight Springfield! 🌃
This needs more updoots
Sideshow Bob has left the prison. Er, again.
@@kisbie quite stylish!
Mercy!
Most here apparently never heard of Frasier and its humor.
It was before my time
@SuperRegal79 have you considered... That MAYBE... it's unpopular right now because the show ended a long time ago and it's no longer being produced.... And not only that, maybe it's also unpopular because TV shows with live studio audience laughter or laughtracks have gotten incredibly less common, now considered niche to modern tv watchers..
Also, let's not forget to mention Kelsey Grammar is an open Trump supporter which goes completely against the entire psychologically humanitarian theme of the show Frasier... New audience members is just hard to get for it right now.
People who didn't watch it back then might have not had the time to or preferred something else in the same time slot. Doesn't make them bad or stupid, just different.
It had humour? I remember it being the most anti-funny show of the 90s. Or maybe the second behind Friends?
@@piroshi3rd Nah it's really because folks are fucking dumb as rocks these days. Esp millennials. No culture
@@garethbain9125 bruhainlet moment.
Absolutely amazing back and forth between these two.
I kind of love this version of Frasier without the Laugh Track. It proves how funny a show is, and what kind of chemistry people have when you arent prodded on by suggestive cues. Try doing this with Friends.
Didn't earlier seasons of Frasier not have a laugh track?
@@GldnClaw technically its not a laugh track, its a studio audience laughing. If youve ever been to a taping of a television show you can see signs or cues to laugh or applause, and there are paid laughers that encourage the audience.
Yes, as far back as the first episode
I don’t think all of Friends had a laugh track.
Well, I agree with you, I'm obsessed with the laughtrack stupidity, and the greatness of comedies with\without it; I also LOVE Frasier - I do consider it the best (non-animated) sitcom ever created.. but I think Friends is a really bad example. You could have said basically ANY tv show ever, why Friends? Not only Friends (s1-4) is particularly good without the laughtrack (it's actually better, for the same reasons you described for Frasier, incredible chemistry and timing, the laughter makes it duller), but to me in its first 3-4 seasons it's the the only other sitcom I would ever put in the same conversation of Frasier (not only the writing, but also for some different qualities that I only ever found there, like direction, esp. actor direction, well calculated slapstick spirit, and unique use of the space, for example).
Basically, I think Friends really is the only laughtracked-sitcom ever that doesn't fit the example. But it's just an opinion.
Fun fact: the year was never mentioned. It just had 10 years ago. We all assume it 1987.
Sideshow career as krusty sidekick 1984-90. This episode didn't aired until 97.
When asked why he took the role of Cecil. David said it was because you don't get many chances to play Kelsey Grammer's brother.
This whole episode was written as a parody based on the show, Fraiser, and imo is the BEST side-show Bob episode.
Cape Feare is my favorite episode straight out, but all Bob episodes are a treat.
I myself also really liked Sideshow Bob's last gleaming. Especially the bit with the helium.
Sideshow Bob is awesome,any episode featuring him is gonna be good
the shape of the glasses changed during the flashback.
QUALITY animation.
Boy, I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder.
What, are we to believe these are some kind of- heh- magic wine flutes or something??
1:05
They’re just drinking a selection of wines from different glasses. It’s called a smorgaswine and it’s elegantly cultural.
Princeton joke, excellent. But why would the Cappidocians have a different opinion about hydrological and hydrodynamical engineering?
Because ancient Cappadocia was on the arid highlands of Anatolia, the people who lived there had to make extensive use of irrigation, and in fact made many of the driest areas cultivatable. Without it, the region would have been uninhabitable.
@@raylampert1243 I find historical references so much more satisfying than "currently trending references" in cartoon comedy. The latter is better suited to stand-up.
Wow looks like someone got their history degree at Princeton.
@@raylampert1243 Wouldn't this joke apply to Sumeria too? Fertile Crescent it may be, but being the first to develop irrigation would certainly be considered an honored profession.
@@raylampert1243 Is it possible to throw a cream pie at a comment?
Sideshow Bob slowly morphing into Frasier, until this episode seals it 🤣🤣
Marge ripping Bart's hands apart is such a small subtle joke. Like does she think that the hand gesture is some magic that makes God do what Bart wants?
Apparently. Hands folded are not necessary to pray.
And Bart’s little vocalisation once she does.
If anyone wants to see more David Hyde Pierce check out the movie "The Perfect Host". It shows you his range as an actor and is just a good movie in general.
They easily make you forget that you're watching The Simpsons and not an episode of Frasier
Yes, yes, the Cappadocians! Fine!
Hydrological and hydrodynamical? Talk about running the gamut...
One of the best lines
Those Cappadocians though.
Yeah modern day Turkey still benefits from it
“That’s the title of Erma Bombeck’s latest” haha, on the nose
1:49 Cecil is one of few characters to have 5 toes
"That guy's a genius! He's gonna change the way we think about getting hit by pies!"
“I’ll thank you not to refer to Princeton that way” is such a perfect line that would’ve easily worked just as well on Frasier. Two incredibly well written shows.
I love how unfunny Sideshow Cecil is as a name
I kind of liked sideshow Ralph wiggum...
Sideshow Mel??
My father was never a Simpsons fan. He felt that cartoons, even adult ones were below him.
When I was old enough in my teens to enjoy the show and its humor, it became my favorite thing. I would tell him the jokes and that Sideshow Bob was my favorite character (still is)
He cracked up slightly and repeated Bob's stage name. A small glimpse of him thinking the name itself is ridiculous and funny.
I love how Bob and his family are so sophisticated
Back when the Simpsons respected their audience.
Instead of asking God to kill off Sideshow Bob, just because he wants to kill him and he, Bart, doesn't want him to kill him, why could Bart have ask Him to persuade him to see mercy of sparing Bart's life, and not desperately wanting to murder him? Is that better? Isn't that a fair deal? Sideshow Bob eagerly bent on killing Bart is bad, but Bart asking God for Sideshow Bob to die is just as bad as well.
Cecil: "Snicker all you want, Bob."
Bob: "Thank you, I believe I shall."
I only just realized.
"You wanted to be Krusty's sidekick since you were five."
So while the eternal-timeline of the simpsons makes things a tad wonky, cecil doesn't strike me as younger than mid twenties in this.
So Krusty was an established/famous TV-Presenter-Clown already 20 years 'prior'.
And he was already that jaded. Was he just born miserable?
One episode suggests Bob worked as Krusty's sidekick for a good while, too; ten years IIRC. I wouldn't be surprised if Krusty were 50-60 years old.
After he fakes his death, about a half dozen of his old sidekicks show up to the funeral.
Cecil is supposed to be 25, if so, he would have 15 in memory since 10 years have passed since those events
@@ailyndanaemoyabrizuela2877 Which would be weird as Cecil references driving himself (clown mitts making it hard to shift gears.) PLus they mention clown college which would have happened before that, and since Cecil is the one who references princeton (as in, he assumes that is what Bob means) that would mean Cecil would have been at princeton at least 4 years before he was 15.
Simpsons Timelines are so screwy.
Frasier and the Simpsons are one of my favorite shows, this "crossover" is heaven for me.
0:16 - 0:43 - 0:50 - 1:02 - 2:40
Seems like the animators had quite the hard time to decide what length of their glasses should be.
Great episode. Though i never watched Frazer, so the references to that show went over my head at the time.
Same, i just get them because of the comments on clips of the episode making a huge deal out of it
If only we could all get a job as easily as Bob did lol. Then again, he ended up hating it so.....
Krusty: Hey Hal! Pie job for Lord autumn bottom there!
Bob: oh dear.
😆
This is my favorite Sideshow Bob episode.
"The 4 years of clown college -"
"I prefer you not talk about Princeton like this."
You really butchered that quote.
@@donnydont please don't tell the quote police
Tossed salads and scrambled eggs
Quite stylish.
Mercy!
0:07 that would be the Latour then. I don't know why but I've just always found that line so funny!
"oh dear"
So great to hear "Niles and Frasier", lol 😆
their glasses halved in size after the flashback
Hey, Hal! Pie job for Lord Autumnbottom there!
I would pay good money to watch Frasier: The Animated Series and it’s just these two skilfully cutting down each other’s pretensions for half an hour ever week
Anyone else feels the irrestistible urge to learn more about the Cappadocians and their fascinating pioneering culture of hydrodynamic engineering?
… maybe a little.
Look how sofisticate cecil is eating at 0:39
'That'll be the Latour, then' - that really did crack me up :D
"Thank you, I do believe I shall"
LMAO!!
Honestly this was the perfect ending for Bob. It makes sense that he ended up this way and it was all because of His brother. Had he not want to a clown and dragging Bob into it he would never even taken the job.
Krusty isn’t even innocent either cause all of his gags were nothing short of Abuse for the sake of soulless entertainment.
Being Humiliated like that for years would definitely mess anyone up. Doesn’t excuse for what Bob has done up to this point, but there are some moments where you can see from his perspective.
It’s good writing and up to season 8 was the golden age of television.
This like like Steamed Hams but with more Drama.
Steamed Hams for nerds
It may have been a bit rude, but Krusty gave Cecil a good critique. Comedy is best when it’s at someone’s expense. It’s not really funny when someone wants to get hit in the face with a pie.
1:45
Top left; isn't that the dean of Homer's college and former Pretenders bassist?
Ohhh i hate the stupid Dean
In the end of this episode Bart saves his life
Marge: "You can't ask God to kill someone."
Homer: "Yeah. Do your own dirty work."
Joshua Graham from Fallout NV: "Hmm. Sound theology. I might need to reword it a bit, though..."
Edit: I feel like I should clarify. One of Graham's best lines, which is delivered while cleaning an arsenal of pistols, is "I pray for the safety of all gentiles who come here. But we can't expect God to do all the work."
1982 vintage wine 😄
Little things like that make it special
Nails? Who’s Niles? This is clearly Cessel a totally different character
And the sad part is, I feel like you really tried.
Heyyyyyy, Niles and Frasier Crane gone rogue, hell yeah😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥😝😝😝😝
I would like to hear the whole “Fraiser” theme song Simpsoned or vice versa.
Too bad The Simpsons writers ain't been quite right lately or that would totally happen
It’s him or me. O Lord!
I love all of the Frasier references in this episode. Cecil's apartment having a piano and wine collection. Maris was even mentioned later on in the episode as well.
I'm pretty sure Bob is eating scrambled eggs at 0:55. Referencing the song 'Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs.''
Kinda surprised now that the last scene, where they fight over the top bunk, wasn’t a Frasier-esque credits sketch.
I blame everyone and everything since I'm in so much pain and misery
Hydrological AND hydrodynamic engineer. Seems a bit redundant to me.
It's really not, hydrology is an earth science concerned about water, while hydrodynamics is an engineering disciple - while very related, they are still distinct fields.
I see Simpsons...
But I see Frasier
1:32 well if he choice Cecil as krusty’s sidekick he wouldn’t frame krusty and set him up for robbery
I still don't see how that's in any Sideshow Bob's fault. If anything, Cecil should blame Krusty.
Temna Senka people often misplace their anger
or blame himself?
Let me take a moment from everyone posting quotes of the thing you just watched to ask,
1:25 is that chair slide sound the same one from 'steamed hams' when the super intendent gets up to leave?
Yeah, it's the generic sound they use every time a chair slides on the floor, you could probably hear it in just about every episode of the show.