Season 23 - Episode 8
Fox (US)
Krusty the Clown episodes tend to be either very good or pretty bad. So it's actually a bit of a surprise that this falls somewhere right in the middle. It has a stellar guest turn from Joan Rivers, and a pretty funny cameo from Janeane Garofalo in the guest star of the week slots, and focused on Krusty once again playing to adult audiences.
The Krusty show gets cancelled again and Krusty finds himself down on his luck. The Simpsons coincidentally have just met a start talent agaent, Annie Dubinsky (voiced by Rivers) and introduce the two. Naturally, the two had been lovers many years before, and she had been the one to break Krusty. He had then dumped her, and the two have a fight and a flashback before eventually agreeing to rekindle both their professional and romantic relationships. After performing a theater show for nostalgic twenty somethings, Krusty ends up on an adult focused network HBOWTIME (very lazy parody from the Simpsons writers, as per usual). Annie becomes a control freak, and gets fired as producer, and Krusty eventually leaves with her. It's sweet, but hackneyed, and we're never going to see Annie again (just like Krusty's last love intrest, Anne Hathaway's Princess Penelope).
It's another average outing for The Simpsons, which given that this is now season 23 has to admired. The season as a whole has been pretty solid, with a couple of crackers sprinkled. If it can continue like this, while nowhere near its peak, it is still entertaining.
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