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Like Father, Like Clown

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Like Father, Like Clown

Rating: 3.3 (173 votes)

Plot

Krusty the Clown finally comes to dinner with the Simpsons, and reveals that he is Jewish, and estranged from his rabbi father. Rabbi Krustofski never liked Krusty's profession of being a clown. He left Krusty for years. So Bart and Lisa team together to try and reunite the two. After searching and searching they find out that the rabbi appears on Reverend Lovejoy's radio show, and soon get his address. They try to convince Rabbi Krustofski to reunite the two by spouting ancient Jewish proverbs, but he refuses. Finally, he gives in when Bart quotes and inspirational phrase from entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Both Rabbi Krustofski and Krusty the Clown reunited on an episode of the Krusty the Clown show.


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Notes

  • Krusty has photos of himself with Alfred Hitchcock and the Beatles.
  • Movies playing at the Springfield-X theater include ''For Your Thighs Only,'' ''Crocodile Done Me,'' and ''Doctor Strangepants.''
  • Rabbi Krustofski turns down the Jackie Mason sandwich at the restaurant.

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References

  • The plot of this episode, a rabbi rejecting his son's choice of careeras an entertainer, is reminiscent of ''The Jazz Singer.''

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Vitals

PCode
8F05

Index
3×6

Aired
24 Oct, 1991

Airing (UK)
unknown

Written by
Jay Kogen
Wallace Wolodarsky

Directed by
Jeff Lynch
Brad Bird

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Tress MacNeille
Doris Grau

Special Guest Voice
Jackie Mason as Rabbi Krustofski

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Season 3

  1. Stark Raving Dad
  2. Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington
  3. When Flanders Failed
  4. Bart the Murderer
  5. Homer Defined
  6. Like Father, Like Clown
  7. Treehouse of Horror II
  8. Lisa's Pony
  9. Saturdays of Thunder
  10. Flaming Moe's
  11. Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
  12. I Married Marge
  13. Radio Bart
  14. Lisa the Greek
  15. Homer Alone
  16. Bart the Lover
  17. Homer at the Bat
  18. Separate Vocations
  19. Dog of Death
  20. Colonel Homer
  21. Black Widower
  22. The Otto Show
  23. Bart's Friend Falls in Love
  24. Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?