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| I notice critics aren't even bothering to point out the retcons nowadays... |
Krusty the Klown's show is basically nothing more than constant Itchy & Scratchy cartoons, most of which are referencing old stuff (like as though its writers are aware of the criticisms but instead of taking it constructively, they lash out on a rant about how its not even their fault). Marge gets Bart and Lisa to stop watching TV so the family can go out and do something... like go to the museum of TV. There, they meet the former agent of a 50s sitcom actor, Annie Dubinsky (voiced by Joan Rivers). Meanwhile, Krusty confronts the network executives over how he's been minimized on his own show. The execs reply that Krusty's become too outdated to be relevant and fire him on the spot. His agent shares their sentiments and excuses himself from being both Krusty's agent and friend.
The Simpsons go to a Krusty Burger for lunch, where the kids see Krusty wasting away in a ball pit. The two are able to snap Krusty out of it for a bit, and when he tells them he needs a new agent, they decide to show him to the agent they had met earlier. However, when going to her office, Dubinsky reacts rather angrily to Krusty and refuses to even talk to him. The Simpsons eventually get Annie to talk about her past with Krusty: in the late 60s she found a beatnik Krusty in a cafe telling it like it is. Annie, looking for her first client at the time, decides to help Krusty make it big, and does so successfully by switching Krusty's act to a much more slapstick approach. Every day Krusty would make people laugh while at night he and Annie would have sex. One night, though, Krusty reveals he's gotten a new agent - only saying so because he's forced to tell the truth after sex - and Annie angrily throws him out. In the present, Krusty promises he's changed and begs Annie for one last chance, and she relents and agrees to take him on again.
Annie is able to set up a live show for Krusty where he appeals to the nostalgic, and it works wonderfully. Further, Krusty and Annie rekindle their own relationship. The two are approached by premium network HBOWTIME to start up a similar program aimed at adults. Krusty agrees but with one condition: Annie becomes the show's producer. This ends up a poor choice, as Annie becomes very obsessed with making the show perfect and is out of control. The network executives demand Krusty fire Annie after she goes off again during the taping of his first episode, but Krusty ends up siding with Annie as both of them end up on yet another network but for a show focused on sex after sixty.
Quick Review
Perhaps as a warm up to episode 500, the beginning of the episode starts up with perhaps a comeback to criticisms of dated references. Of course, they could do what classic Simpsons rarely ever did by not referencing current culture, but I would have to suppose that would be too much to ask of them.
The episode itself wasn't that great. Joan Rivers was fine in her guest spot, but overall there wasn't a lot of humor to accompany the plot. The heavy use of network executives didn't help matters either.
Final Score: 6.8
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