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Encyclopedia > Today I Am A Klown
The Simpsons episode
"Today I am A Klown"
Episode no. 319
Prod. code FABF01
Orig. Airdate December 7, 2003
Writer(s) Joel H. Cohen
Director Nancy Kruse
Chalkboard "Over forty and single is not funny."
Couch gag Homer is Batman, Bart is Robin, and Marge, Lisa, and Maggie are all Batgirl, as they slide from a pole to a couch, a la the original Batman series.
Guest star(s) Jackie Mason as Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky and Mr. T as himself
SNPP capsule
Season 15
November 2003 – May 2004
  1. Treehouse of Horror XIV
  2. My Mother the Carjacker
  3. The President Wore Pearls
  4. The Regina Monologues
  5. The Fat and the Furriest
  6. Today I am A Clown
  7. 'Tis The Fifteenth Season
  8. Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays
  9. I, D'oh-Bot
  10. Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
  11. Margical History Tour
  12. Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  13. Smart and Smarter
  14. The Ziff Who Came to Dinner
  15. Co-Dependent's Day
  16. The Wandering Juvie
  17. My Big Fat Geek Wedding
  18. Catch 'em If You Can
  19. Simple Simpson
  20. The Way We Weren't
  21. Bart-Mangled Banner
  22. Fraudcast News
List of all Simpsons episodes...

"Today I am A Klown" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season. The episode aired on December 7, 2003. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox network. ... Image File history File links FABF01. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joel H. Cohen is a writer for The Simpsons. ... Nancy Kruse is an animation director on The Simpsons. ... Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Homer Jay Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-man, and still sometimes as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Bartholomew Jo-Jo Simpson, better known as Bart, is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) (voiced by Julie Kavner) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Lisa Marie Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) is a fictional character on the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Margaret Maggie Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons. ... Jackie Mason (born Jacob Maza on June 9, 1931, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is an ordained rabbi and an American stand-up comedian. ... // Akira Akira As one of Springfields most prominent Japanese American citizens, Akira is the owner of a karate dojo (which Bart briefly attended) and also works at The Happy Sumo sushi restaurant. ... Mr. ... Homer at Christmas. ... Treehouse of Horror XIV is the first episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, as well as the fourteenth Halloween episode. ... My Mother the Carjacker is the second episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... The President Wore Pearls is an episode of The Simpsons first broadcast on November 16, 2003 as the third episode of the shows fifteenth season. ... The Regina Monologues is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... The Fat and the Furriest is an episode from The Simpsons that aired in the fifteenth season on November 30, 2003. ... Today I am A Clown is the sixth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Tis the Fifteenth Season is the seventh Christmas episode of The Simpsons. ... Marge vs. ... I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot, best known as I, Doh-Bot, is the ninth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, first airing on January 11, 2004. ... Diatribe of a Mad Housewife is the tenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, first aired on January 25, 2004. ... Margical History Tour is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Milhouse Doesnt Live Here Anymore is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, airing on February 15, 2004. ... Smart and Smarter is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... The Ziff Who Came to Dinner is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Co-Dependents Day is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... The Wandering Juvie is the sixteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... My Big Fat Geek Wedding is the 17th episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, first aired on April 18, 2004. ... Catch em If You Can is a Simpsons episode which aired on April 25, 2004. ... Simple Simpson is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... The Way We Werent is the twentieth episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Bart-Mangled Banner is an episode from The Simpsons fifteenth season. ... Fraudcast News is the 22nd and last episode of The Simpsons fifteenth season, first aired on May 23, 2004. ... The Simpsons The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox network. ... The Simpsons The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Synopsis

Maggie is locked in the bathroom and she is eventually freed, thanks to Lisa trying their rescue solution a second time. The family hears the doorbell, finding Dr. Hibbert, who says that Santa's Little Helper had impregnated his poodle, Rosa Barks, and he turns over the puppies to the Simpson family and making them their problem. Although Lisa reads a Simpsons episode guide that says that Homer was taking Santa's Little Helper to have him neutered, Homer was never able to complete the deed. Bart and Lisa give out puppies to people, including Krusty, who takes him for a walk to his old neighbourhood. // Akira Akira As one of Springfields most prominent Japanese American citizens, Akira is the owner of a karate dojo (which Bart briefly attended) and also works at The Happy Sumo sushi restaurant. ... Santas Little Helper (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), is a fictional character in the television series The Simpsons. ... The Poodle is a breed of dog; specifically, it is a gun dog noted for its ability in the water and bird hunting skills. ... Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American seamstress and civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey a bus drivers... Krusty the Clown, or Herschel Schmoikel Krustofski (full name: Herschel Pinkes Remochel Krustofski), is a fictional character in the cartoon The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ...


However, when Krusty returns to his old neighbourhood, and finds that his star is not on the Jewish Walk of Fame, he goes to complain and finds out he did not have a bar mitzvah, which means he is not a Jewish man. Bart and Lisa take Krusty to see his father, who agrees to help Krusty achieve his goal. But with this happening, Krusty cannot do shows on Saturday (the Sabbath); therefore, he must seek a replacement, and gets Homer to replace him for the day. Homer's replacement show is a talk show, featuring Moe, Lenny (later replaced by Barney and Disco Stu), and Carl as panelists. The show becomes a success in its own right; meanwhile, Krusty continues to learn his Jewish traditions. When a Jewish child reaches the age of maturity (12 years and one day for girls, 13 years and one day for boys) that child becomes responsible for him/herself under Jewish law; at this point a boy is said to become Bar Mitzvah (בר מצווה, son of the commandment... This article concerns the Sabbath in Christianity. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Moe Szyslak (pronounced SIZZ-lack, as opposed to the Polish pronunciation, SHISS-lack) is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Lenford Lenny Leonard is a fictional character in The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... Barnard Barney Gumble born (April 20 or June 15, 1967) is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... // Akira Akira As one of Springfields most prominent Japanese American citizens, Akira is the owner of a karate dojo (which Bart briefly attended) and also works at The Happy Sumo sushi restaurant. ... Carlito Carl Carlson is a fictional character in the animated TV series The Simpsons. ...


Homer's show is a surprising success, so much that Krusty's show is eventually cancelled by Channel 6. Lisa suggests that Homer put his power to good use after listening to Bart's advice, but ironically, ratings decline and Homer's show is also cancelled. Krusty, after being fired by Channel 6, pitches his bar mitzvah to the Fox network. When his bar mitzvah ("Krusty the Klown's Wet 'n' Wild Bar Mitzvah"), featuring Mr. T as a guest, airs, it becomes a ratings smash, drawing "Raymond rerun good" ratings, but the spectacle disappoints his father. To impress him, Krusty arranges to have a true and almost serious bar mitzvah in a temple. The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... Everybody Loves Raymond, sometimes referred to in the abbreviated form Raymond, was a popular and long-running American sitcom that was produced from 1996 to 2005 and broadcast on CBS. The show revolved around the life of Ray Barone, a Newsday sportswriter from Lynbrook, Long Island who lives with his...


Quotes

  • Krusty: (flipping through the channels) Seen it. Bad. Boring. Saw it on the plane. Rerun. Rerun. Telemundo. Me. Turned it down. ABC. Banned from the set. Lame. Lame. Regis.
  • Krusty: (pitching a show) How about a show where girls think I'm a millionaire? But what they don't know is, I'm rife with disease!
  • Krusty: (pitching another show) How about you put me in a family of poor people, and I laugh at them?
  • Chief Wiggum: Uh, Simpson, I hate to bother you when you're eating, but you're always eating. Will you sign an autograph for my boy?
    Homer: My pleasure.
    Ralph Wiggum: I eat Legos.
    Homer: So did I, son, and look where I am now.
  • Homer: (knocking over a bottle of Pepto-Bismol in the bathroom) Oh no! Baby blood!
  • Homer: (reading cue cards) Welcome to The Homer Simpson Show. I'm your host... next card... Homer Simpson. It's great to be here in... next card ...Springfield. My guests are... Moe Szyslak, local businessman; Carl Carlson, raconteur; and Lenny Leonard, three-time juror.
  • Lisa: Dad, you have great power now, use it well.
    (A thought bubble appears above Homer, showing Abraham Lincoln with John Wilkes Booth behind him)
    Homer: Duck, Mr Lincoln! (knocks out Booth)
    Lincoln: Thank you Homer! (Homer appears on a five dollar bill shaking hands with Lincoln)
  • (in another dream, Lee Harvey Oswald loads his sniper rifle in Dallas at 12:30 on November 22. Homer and Lincoln appear)
    Homer: (to Abe) You hit him high. I'll hit him low.
    (Homer and Lincoln attack Oswald)
  • Mr. T: I pity the fool who didn't bring a fountain pen.
  • Mr. T: I pity the shul that won't let Krusty in now!
  • Mr. T: I pity the fool who didn't bring an envelope to this Bar Mitzvah!
  • Hyman: Now, you can't mix milk and meat, ya got that? On Christmas, you must eat Chinese food and pork is strictly forbidden!
    (Krusty gets ready to eat a sub, but then finds a dead pig in it)
    Krusty: Oh, so many rules! I feel like I'm in a strip club!


 

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