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[edit] Unsourced material moved from article to talk page

Moved the info below from the article to the talk page. When sourced to WP:RS/WP:V secondary sources, the material can be gradually added back into the article. Cirt (talk) 01:47, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural references

— Pinocchio — The lyric "You're gonna like me" — as well as the newspaper headline "Gabbo to have real boy operation" — are references to the 1940 Disney film.
— Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus — The final line in the song ("It's the greatest show in town") is a reference to the circus' tagline.
  • Greta Garbo — Mr. Burns misreads a billboard, causing him to tell Smithers that "Garbo is coming" and lightly groom himself.
  • The Great Gabbo — Gabbo gets his name from the title character (a ventriloquist who operates a dummy named Otto) of the 1929 film.
  • Howdy Doody — Gabbo's face looks just like the famous dummy (red hair, freckles), who hosted an afternoon children's program from 1947-1960.
  • Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon — The reunion of Krusty and Sideshow Mel (during the clown's singing of "Send in the Clowns") is a reference to the 1976 on-air reunion between Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin on the former's annual telethon.
  • Carmen - Johnny Carson balances a Buick Skylark car over his head while singing the famous aria Habanera
  • "Peter and the Wolf" — The musical piece that Hugh Hefner plays on the wine glasses is from the children's story composed by Sergei Prokofiev.
  • People magazine - imagined by Krusty as Peephole Magazine when trying to visualize Luke Perry's new look after he is shot out of a cannon.
  • "That ought to hold the little bastards" urban legend – Gabbo's statement referring to his audience as "little SOBs" (which is caught on live air, thanks to Bart) — and later, Kent Brockman's comment when he thought the station had cut to a commercial break — is a reference to this broadcasting urban legend.[1] The incident said to have inspired the urban legend had a children's radio (or television, depending on the source) host ending a program, then unaware the microphone was still live, uttered the infamous line, resulting in his near-immediate dismissal. It may also be a reference to a scene in the 1957 film A Face in the Crowd.
  • The Tonight Show — Bette Midler's serenading Krusty is the way Bette sang to Johnny Carson on Carson's next-to-last show. Their duet, however, is likely a reference to Midler's 1977 duet with Tom Waits on "I Never Talk To Strangers," which appeared on Waits' album Foreign Affairs.

[edit] More unsourced stuff moved from article

Not really noteworthy enough to deserve its own subsection of this article, not to mention that this entire thing is completely unsourced WP:OR. Will try to find some secondary sourced discussion of this and add it back into the article somehow, but certainly not with this much emphasis. Cirt (talk) 04:03, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Worker and Parasite

Worker and Parasite (written "Сфир Ет. Ѕеqонж" on screen, but in Russian literally "Рабочий И Паразит") was a fictional cartoon in The Simpsons episode "Krusty Gets Kancelled." When the popular cartoon Itchy and Scratchy, featuring a very violent cat and mouse, leaves the Krusty the Clown Show for Krusty's new competitor, Gabbo, "Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, Worker and Parasite," was a cheap replacement. According to the title screen, it was made in 1959. Simpsons creator Matt Groening maintains that their appearance on the show is one of the best parts of the series.

The cartoon opened with some faux-Cyrillic credits, which are non-sensical in real Cyrillic. The cartoon itself was quite unintelligible, featuring a crudely drawn cat and mouse chattering incoherently and bouncing around to the tune of dissonant background music. Worker and Parasite are first seen in a factory (where a wrench and sickle are visible as well); they then move in front of a line of identical, miserable-looking peasants who are lining up for supplies of some sort, and then within a nest of squiggly lines, possibly meant to represent conflict between the two characters. The cartoon concludes with the screen reading "ENDUT! HOCH HECH!" Afterwards, Krusty's on-air response (before a vacant studio) was shocked silence, a limp cigarette hanging from his mouth, then promptly, "What the hell was that?!", just before the last member of the audience leaves. Worker and Parasite have also appeared in Simpsons Comics.

[edit] This parody of the song has become more well-known by many than the Collins version.

By many, eh? Remove or source, thankyouverymuch. CapnZapp (talk) 09:26, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Source is already provided, thankyouverymuch. Cirt (talk) 10:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)