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==Plot==
==Plot==
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[[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] listen to a podcast hosted by [[Marc Maron]] with [[Krusty the Clown]] as a guest. Krusty tells the story of the troubled production of his directorial debut ''The Sands of Space''.
At a road block, Bart's phone battery dies so he tries to listen to what Lisa is listening to, and finds Marc Maron's podcast and discovers he interviewed Krusty, where he gets upset once Marc mentions the movie The Sands of Space and starts narrating the story around the movie.


In the '90s, Krusty's career is taking off following his role as the dog cop in ''Good Cop Dog Cop''. Before he will sign on to film the sequel, Krusty wants to star in an adaptation of his favorite book, ''The Sands of Space''. The film studio's executives agree to produce the film, but plan on cutting costs by shooting in Mexico and hiring amateurs for the crew. Most of the town of [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]] sign up for the film crew, including a young [[Homer Simpson]] and his girlfriend [[Marge Simpson|Marge Bouvier]].
Krusty started his work on the set as a star on the movie Good Cop, Dog Cop. At the idea of a sequel, Good Cop, Dog Cop 2: Golden Revolver, Krusty proposed to produce the movie of the book The Sands of Space.


Krusty fires the director and takes over the role himself, but finds himself unable to make any decisions until he takes on Marge as his assistant director. With Marge's help, the production gets underway, but she finds it difficult to balance her job and her relationship with Homer. Krusty becomes jealous and plots to kill Homer by putting him on more and more dangerous jobs on the crew.
In the crew, Marge and Homer as production assistants, were hired along other Springfielders, and are going to shoot it in Mexico. But the production of the movie isn't going too well when Krusty argues with the director and he leaves the set, so Krusty becomes the director, but doesn't know how to do it and starts crying.


Homer is sent to retrieve a lizard in a sandstorm and subsequently falls unconscious in a ravine. A vision of Bart, Lisa, and [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] as [[cactus|cacti]] appears and gives him the will to get up. However, he is captured by Mexican gangsters, and Krusty refuses to pay the ransom. Marge and the crew go to save him, pretending the film weapons are real, but the ruse is quickly seen through. Marge convinces Krusty to hand over the film to the captors, ensuring it would never be released, and dooming Krusty to a life of children's television.
Krusty starts falling apart, so Marge goes to help him and so he hires her as assistant to the director to decide for him. Her work though interferes with her love with Homer, and Krusty tries to break them, and appear to give in, but once alone, he plots to take him down, giving him hard and dangerous jobs on the set.


In the present, Krusty and Maron travel to Mexico and learn that the movie was released as a comedy there entitled ''El Bozo Loco''
Homer is sent to grab a lizard in the middle of a sandstorm and gets unconscious down a ravine, and awaits death down there, but cacti versions of Bart, Lisa and Maggie appears making him change idea, but he gets captured. Krusty refuses to save him, but the crew doesn't give up and goes to save him, using weapons from the movie, which are all fake. The only way to stop it is Marge selling the movie itself to the captures. And after that Krusty's career ended and he went back to kids tv.

Back home, Bart and Lisa asks Homer and Marge how it was to work for the movie, asking what happened to the movie and if Krusty ever saw it. In Mexico, at the El Bozo Loco theater, the movie is shown and Krusty finds out people thinks its a comedy and laugh at the ending.


==Reception==
==Reception==
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After 30 seasons, The Simpsons have a lot more to look back on than forward to. Episode 14, "The Clown Stays in the Picture," takes another in a series of peaks into their past for a revelatory look to add to the series canon, whether we remember it or not. Krusty the Clown is a local hero. Well known on every TV set in Springfield except the Flanderses. Up until now, his only nationally recognized appearances was as the Adam West-era Batman villain Clownface. We knew that Bob Newhart was vaguely familiar with the name.

What we didn't know is Krusty the Clown costarred in a hit comedy film called "Good Cop Dog Cop." It spilled so much popcorn a sequel was a natural. All of Hollywood's biggest names, Danny DeVito, Cher, Spielberg, Eddie respected the money he made. But his thwarted attempt at motion picture fame was thwarted by something Krusty keeps secret, the likes of which can only be admitted on a Mark Maron podcast.

The studio decides to go along with the idea, just to heel the dog cop into submission. They deem it a hippy dippy vanity project, hire a has-been to direct it, and a never-was to do everything else. It turns out Krusty takes the low-budget project very personally. So when the director starts turning it into schlock, Krusty blows his nose in the guy's ascot, and fires him. The director quotes silent star Lillian Gish, telling Krusty to go crap in a hat, before he mysteriously drowns, and the clown announces he is going to make the picture himself. The way it should be, if only he can decide what that should be.

"The Clown Stays in the Picture" scored a 0.9 rating with a 4 share and was watched by 2.75 million people, making "The Simpsons" Fox's highest rated show of the night.


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Revision as of 22:48, 5 March 2019

"The Clown Stays in the Picture"
The Simpsons episode
Episode no.Season 30
Directed byTimothy Bailey
Written byMatt Selman
Original air dateFebruary 17, 2019 (2019-02-17)
Episode features
Couch gagTBA
Episode chronology
The Simpsons season 30
List of episodes

"The Clown Stays in the Picture" is the 14th episode of the thirtieth season of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, and the 653rd episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox.

Plot

Bart and Lisa listen to a podcast hosted by Marc Maron with Krusty the Clown as a guest. Krusty tells the story of the troubled production of his directorial debut The Sands of Space.

In the '90s, Krusty's career is taking off following his role as the dog cop in Good Cop Dog Cop. Before he will sign on to film the sequel, Krusty wants to star in an adaptation of his favorite book, The Sands of Space. The film studio's executives agree to produce the film, but plan on cutting costs by shooting in Mexico and hiring amateurs for the crew. Most of the town of Springfield sign up for the film crew, including a young Homer Simpson and his girlfriend Marge Bouvier.

Krusty fires the director and takes over the role himself, but finds himself unable to make any decisions until he takes on Marge as his assistant director. With Marge's help, the production gets underway, but she finds it difficult to balance her job and her relationship with Homer. Krusty becomes jealous and plots to kill Homer by putting him on more and more dangerous jobs on the crew.

Homer is sent to retrieve a lizard in a sandstorm and subsequently falls unconscious in a ravine. A vision of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as cacti appears and gives him the will to get up. However, he is captured by Mexican gangsters, and Krusty refuses to pay the ransom. Marge and the crew go to save him, pretending the film weapons are real, but the ruse is quickly seen through. Marge convinces Krusty to hand over the film to the captors, ensuring it would never be released, and dooming Krusty to a life of children's television.

In the present, Krusty and Maron travel to Mexico and learn that the movie was released as a comedy there entitled El Bozo Loco

Reception

References

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