The Simpsons episode
"Brother from Another Series"
Bob with Cecil.
Episode no.	169
Prod. code	4F14
Orig. airdate	February 23, 1997[1]
Show runner(s)	Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein
Written by	Ken Keeler[2]
Directed by	Pete Michels[2]
Couch gag	The living room is on the ceiling. The Simpsons sit down, but fall to the "floor" (the ceiling).[2]
Guest star(s)	Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob David Hyde Pierce as Cecil Terwilliger[1]
DVD commentary	Matt Groening Josh Weinstein Ken Keeler Kelsey Grammer Pete Michels
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"Brother from Another Series" is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons' eighth season and originally aired February 23, 1997. Sideshow Bob is released from prison into the care of his brother Cecil and claims to be a changed man. However, Bart does not believe him and tries to find out what Bob is up to.^[1] It was the first episode directed by Pete Michels and was written by Ken Keeler.^[2] Guest starring Kelsey Grammer in his sixth appearance as Sideshow Bob and David Hyde Pierce as Cecil.^[1] The title is not only a pun on the movie The Brother from Another Planet, but also a reference to the fact that guest stars Kelsey Grammer (Frasier Crane) and David Hyde Pierce (Niles Crane) also play bickering brothers on the sitcom Frasier. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... 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Plot

Former criminal Sideshow Bob is declared a changed man by Reverend Lovejoy and released from prison, despite the protests of Bart. Bob is released into the care of his brother Cecil, who is Springfield's chief hydrological and hydrodynamical engineer. The two had previously not spoken since Bob had become Krusty the Clown's sidekick, a job which Cecil had always coveted. Cecil and Bob plan to build a dam in a river near Springfield and Bart, believing that Bob is still evil, continuously follows Bob around. Bob begins to become upset over Bart's investigations and his incompetent employees and expresses his desire to see the dam blow up. Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, better known by his stage name Sideshow Bob, is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Reverend Timothy Lovejoy (more commonly known as Reverend Lovejoy) is a fictional character and the local minister in the long-running animated TV show The Simpsons. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... This following is a list, by episode, of one-time fictional characters from the American animated television comedy series The Simpsons. ... Springfield is the fictional city in which the animated American sitcom The Simpsons is set. ... Congressman Herschel Pinkus Yerucham Krustofski (Hebrew: הרשל שמויקל פינקוס ירוחם קרסטופסקי, born c. ...

Meanwhile, Bart enlists Lisa to help find out what Sideshow Bob is up to, much to the annoyance of Bob. They decide to go to Bob's trailer at the dam construction site and discover a briefcase full of money, evidently stolen from the dam construction funds. They are soon discovered by Bob and the children run away and hide inside the dam's turbine room, but are cornered. They confront Bob with the money and he denies knowing anything about it. Cecil shows up and reveals that he embezzled the money by cutting back on construction and plans on framing Bob and using him as a scapegoat. He locks Bob, Bart and Lisa in the dam and prepares to blow it up. Embezzlement is the fraudulent conversion of property from a property owner. ... The term framing can have several possible meanings: framing (telecommunication), where it relates to synchronization framing (economics), where it relates to rational choice theory framing (World Wide Web), where it relates to the use of multiple panes within a web page framing (communication theory), where it relates to the contextual... The Scapegoat by William Holman Hunt, 1854. ...

Bob helps Bart and Lisa escape and they try to save the dam. Bart jumps on Cecil's back, but is thrown off of a cliff. Bob, seeing that Bart is in danger, grabs the dynamite and cord and dives down in an effort to save him. He manages to save Bart and the town by cutting the cord on the dynamite. The police arrive and Cecil is immediately arrested. Bob gloats over his victory and wins over Bart and Lisa's respect on him, but Chief Wiggum suddenly arrives and declares that he does not believe that Bob is innocent and arrests Bob. Inside the police car, Cecil tricked Bob into telling the kids that they'll pay for this, but when Bob realized this, he angrily rebukes Cecil for making it look like he went crazy again. Meanwhile, the dam suddenly breaks and the town is flooded, although no serious damage is caused. In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and police officer), Sarah (mother), and Ralph (child). ...

Bob and Cecil are taken away to jail and are locked in the same cell, where they continue to bicker childishly over who gets the top bunk in their cell.^[1][3][4][5]

Production

A deleted scene featuring Hans Moleman. The money and gun from Cecil's briefcase falls on Moleman. Moleman thanks God for the money, then grabs the gun and demands God hand over the rest.

The episode was written by Ken Keeler, who had been watching a lot of Frasier at the time and had been assigned to write a Sideshow Bob episode and he thought it would be a good idea to mix the two.^[6] Pierce was cast as Sideshow Bob's brother, causing Pierce to joke, "Normally, I would not do something like this. But how often do you get a chance to work with an actor like Kelsey Grammer and, more importantly, play his brother?"^[7] While Sideshow Bob is addressing the crowd, a man near the back raises his hand and says "probably"; he is also voiced by David Hyde Pierce, who had wanted to be a man in a crowd.^[8] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Hans Moleman is a fictional character on The Simpsons and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Keeler at the 2003 Writers Guild Awards, after winning in the animation category. ... Frasier is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. ...

An early draft of the episode originally featured an Opera house explosion,^[6] which was changed because the writers felt using a dam would be more exciting.^[8] An early rule of Sideshow Bob episodes was to recap what had gone on in previous Bob episodes, in case the viewer had forgotten who he was.^[8] The original script was run by the Frasier producers to make sure they were okay with it, and they only had one problem. There was a very brief scene in which Cecil talks to a visible character and refers to her as "Maris", who in Frasier is an unseen character, and the producers of Frasier said the scene should go.^[6] The writers spent a long time trying to figure out a civilization that considered chief hydrological engineer a true calling and chose the Cappadocians, who were famous for underground cities although not specifically dams.^[8] New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Opera Bolshoi Theatre. ... Maris Crane is a character on the American television sitcom Frasier. ... Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influence current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. ... For other uses, see Cappadocia (disambiguation). ...

Cecil was drawn to resemble David Hyde Pierce, but still look similar to Bob.^[9] According to director Pete Michels, it was difficult to draw Bob and Cecil standing together because their feet are both so big.^[9] There was a scene featuring Hans Moleman and his house, which was cut, but his house can still briefly be seen in the scene where Cecil throws Bart off of a cliff.^[8] The sequence was cut in order to make room for the explanation of why Bob was sent back to prison.^[8] Ken Keeler has said that it is his favorite deleted scene.^[6] David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his co-starring role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier alongside Kelsey Grammer. ... Pete Michels is an animation director on Family Guy. ... Hans Moleman is a fictional character on The Simpsons and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...

Cultural references

The "Krusty the Clown Prison Special" is based on Johnny Cash's 1968 appearance at Folsom Prison. Krusty's song is a parody of Folsom Prison Blues.^[8] The episode contains several references to Frasier, with the intention of making it blatantly obvious that The Simpsons was ripping it off. These include: A title card just before the start of the second act which says "Frasier is a hit show on the NBC Television Network" and when Bart jumps on Cecil and says "guess who," Cecil replies with "Maris?" Cecil's inability to see Bart also refers to the fact that Maris, Niles' wife in Frasier, is never actually seen.^[10] For the song of the same name, recorded by Tracy Byrd and later by Jason Aldean, see Johnny Cash (song). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Folsom Prison Blues is an American country music song written by Johnny Cash in the early 1950s and originally recorded with his trio in 1956 for the Sun Records label. ... Frasier is an American sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer as psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane. ... In motion pictures, an intertitle is a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of (i. ...

Reception

Beforehand, the media said the episode "looks promising,"^[11] and later called it one of director Peter Michels' "classics."^[12] This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Sound Mixing For a Comedy Series or a Special.^[13] An Emmy Award. ...

References

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