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| This picture of Bob laughing maniacally looks more like him being really eager. Which he is, I guess. Eager to commit murder! |
Krusty becomes annoyed over how TV has changed over the years, even more so how meddlesome network executives have gotten. They get so meddlesome with their terrible ideas that Krusty has had enough and decides to retire, his final show airing the upcoming Friday. Krusty also has an interview with Kent Brockman, when he reveals that he's taped over all of his old shows during an infatuation with Judge Judy, and then reveals that he feels the show hadn't gotten really funny until Sideshow Bob had been replaced with Mel.
This interview does not go unnoticed by Bob, and is so fueled with rage over Krusty's neglect he decides to go out and kill him. Flimsy reasoning is enough for him to get paroled, and he quickly sets up shop at a storage locker to set up a master plan. It starts with him taking a job at the Elementary School, with Skinner and Bob having a mutual disdain of Bart Simpson. Taking on the role of morning announcement, uh, guy, Bob uses this to his advantage and announces that Bart should go unescorted to a shack out back. Bart goes and is immediately captured by Bob, who plans to have Bart kill Krusty during Krusty's final show, using hypnotism to get Bart under his control.
The Simpsons get invites to the show (for some reason), and Bob is able to sneak his way in. "Activating" Bart, Bob calls him over to begin the final stage of his plan: equipping Bart with belts lined with plastic explosive with Bart's hands applied with triggers to said explosive, Bob plans to have Bart hug Krusty, setting up an explosion and killing off both of them.
Having Bart go to the stage after Krusty says a particular phrase, Bob's plan is about to work without a hitch. However, in the time it takes for Bart to actually reach the stage, Krusty reveals one single regret he's had his entire career: that his abuse of Bob while he was Krusty's sidekick was what led Bob down the path of crime. Krusty's remorse reaches Bob, and he has a last second change of heart. He attempts to stop the assassination, but is unable to reach the two. Thankfully, Mr. Teeny, Krusty's show monkey, spots the plastic explosives under Bart's jacket and is able to swoop in and remove the explosives, throwing them into a room full of network executives (who survive the blast somewhat).
Krusty and Bob reconcile their differences, though Bob is once again hit for attempted murder and the episode ends with Bob trying to convince Chief Wiggum to at least get a trial before getting the guillotine.
Quick Review
This ends up to be an excellent Sideshow Bob episode. He hadn't appeared in Mike Scully's tenure as showrunner, as he had feared that Bob's storylines had dried up, a fear that seemed somewhat true at the beginning of the episode when "Krusty doesn't think much of me" doesn't really seem like much of a motive for Bob - who had reformed only to be falsely arrested in his last major appearance - to go out and kill again.
Still, the jokes around Bob worked really well and though this episode is part of "new Simpson" territory, it can be counted among the better episodes that feature him, and its certainly one of the best episodes of Season 12.
Final Score: 9.1
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