Thursday, September 20, 2012

The Episodes of Sideshow Bob

Sideshow Bob, voiced by Kelsey Grammer, was the former sidekick of Krusty the Klown.  He was abused and oft-ignored by the clown throughout the years, and finally had enough.  This is a series of episodes documenting his on-again off-again relationship with insanity and a little boy named Bart Simpson.

01) Krusty Gets Busted
Season 01 - Episode 12-012
Bob frames Krusty for armed robbery, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart and his keen detective abilities.
Score: 7.9

02) Black Widower
Season 03 - Episode 21-056
Bob attempts to murder Selma for her money, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart and his keen detective abilities.
Score: 8.9

03) Cape Feare
Season 05 - Episode 02-083
After being foiled by Bart twice before, Bob tries to just kill Bart this time, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart and his keen time stalling abilities.
Score: 10

04) Sideshow Bob Roberts
Season 06 - Episode 05-108
Bob becomes mayor via voter fraud, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart Lisa and his her keen detective abilities (and some outside help).
Score: 9.5

05) Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
Season 07 - Episode 09-137
Bob tries to eliminate television by threatening to blow up the town with an atomic bomb, and almost gets away with it if not for Krusty and his keen desperation to stay on TV by any means.
Score: 9.3

06) Brother from Another Series
Season 08 - Episode 16-169
Bob's brother Cecil tries to frame Bob for the destruction of a crummy dam, embezzling money in the process, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart and his keen abilities of suspicion (towards Bob).
Score: 10

07) Day of the Jackanapes
Season 12 - Episode 13-261
Bob tries to kill Krusty by hypnotising Bart into blowing himself up with Krusty, and almost gets away with it if not for Krusty and his keen last second remorse that gets to Bob just in time.
Score: 9.1

08) The Great Louse Detective
Season 14 - Episode 06-297
The son of Frank Grimes attempts to kill Homer, and almost gets away with it if not for Bob and his keen detective abilities.
Score: 7.8

09) The Italian Bob
Season 17 - Episode 08-364
Bob tries to start a new life as mayor of a small Italian town, with a wife and kid, and almost gets away with it if not for Lisa and her keen, booze-soaked tongue.
Score: 5.1

10) Funeral for a Fiend
Season 19 - Episode 08-408
Bob tries to kill Bart by concocting a scheme with help from his wife, son, Cecil, and both of his parents, and almost gets away with it if not for Lisa and her superior, keen detective abilities.
Score: 7.4

11) The Bob Next Door
Season 21 - Episode 22-463
Bob swaps faces with a freed convict so Bart won't suspect him, then complicates the law by trying to shoot Bart across five states, and almost gets away with it if not for Bart and his keen abilities of suspicion.
Score: 7.4

12) The Man Who Grew Too Much
Season 25 - Episode 13-543
Bob becomes the head scientist of a genetically enhanced food company, then decides to take those practices to modify his own DNA, and almost gets away with it if not for... oh wait, he basically does get away with it.
Score: 7.2

Bonus) Treehouse of Horror XXVI (Wanted: Dead Then Alive)
Season 27 - Episode 05-579
Bob finally kills Bart, then builds a reanimation machine so he can kill Bart over and over, and almost gets away with it if not for the Simpsons and their brand new ability to care that Bart went missing.
Score: +1.1 for the segment, 7.0 for the episode

13) Gone Boy
Season 29 - Episode 09-627
Bob locates a missing Bart in an old missile base, and successfully ties him up to an active rocket about to launch, and almost gets away with it if not for his keen conscious kicking in at the last minute.
Score: 7.7

No comments:

Post a Comment