Call it “Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gun”

OMG

Bart knew how long the entire H.M.S Pinafore was needed to stall Bob before he could go for the kill.

​@@undisclosedidentity9893Thank God he didn't choose Trial by Jury.

Oh yeah

+jihanjoo Out of no where British Flag at the end haha

+DCdabest Not to mention his machete suddenly turns into a saber.

+jihanjoo Bart knows of the existence of the HMAS Pinafore, as well as the lyrics, the sudden popcorn, everything is hilarious.

holy shit i never realized that. continuity on simpsons for once! i mean most of the shit didn't make sense, but damn!

Hes wearing a broom and a shower curtain!!!

more then nine years

And why he was kept silent, for that long!

He has made plenty in yearly returns from Frasier and lives comfortably.. I'm sure he doesn't need anything!

Unspecified They're not talking about the actor (Kelsey Grammer), they're talking about the character (Sideshow Bob). In the Simpsons, Sideshow Bob was Krusty's silent sideshow act before Sideshow Mel, and he resented Krusty wasting his talents on silly slapstick.

I think that's why he's supposed to be such an angry guy. He's a really talented classically trained performer who due to unknown circumstances is a sidekick on a kid's show where he's regularly humiliated. Bart just caused him to snap, which is why he has such an irrational hatred of him.

outsideredge it’s the best episode

i think the : änd now the finäl curtäin .. is even more Powerful

My fav episode as well.

As i get older and older...i still cant believe wasnt more scared for bart, theres someone LITTERALLY trying to KILL him lol, its unnerving

You Got Me Monologuing !!!

well there is a theory that Bart is secretly a genius along with the rest of the family

Yes that was an act of brilliance.

@@hellfighter496 Yeah, I've always thought that Bart is smart, but due to emotional neglect and/or ADHD he acts out and pulls pranks. I mean, it takes a pretty smart kid to transcribe all 17 minutes of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida for a pipe organ ( _without_ even owning one) just as a prank.

@@hellfighter496 long enough to deliver him to the authorities where Ralph's father (Clancy Wiggum is waiting for him)

I recently watched this ep and Bart is so smart for he knows that his family is tied up on boat and he’s trapped with Bob and sees the sign that it’ll take him awhile to be at Springfield so Bart have to play it cool and stall for time. Power to Bart Simpson! 👍

It's politeness plus sinister hubris and ego. That's what makes the whole scene so perfect.

And Side Show Bob's a big ham.

Bob was simply pushed too far by Krusty for several years. Underneath Bob is a boring and polite person. He is just filled with to much rage to be contained anymore. All men can become monsters if tormented enough. Krusty is a monster himself, he's just one of those fortunate enough to be under the protection of hollywood, and Bart. It's kinda ironic that Krusty didn't stay in prison given all of the other things they found out about Krusty after the robbery charges. I feel like his lawyers were able to sweep the rest of the stuff under the rug after Bart proved Krusty was innocent of robbery. It's REALLY wierd how much Krusty gets away with when you think about it. All becuase he entertains children. My guess is that's the real reason Krusty stayed a clown his whole life. He keeps going back to being a clown not out of necessity, but becuase it's a great public act.

Above all else, he's a showman and an entertainer.

@@jasonmnosaj and 🤡=🇮🇱

He also nailed it at ‘I am the captain of the Pinafore’.

When I was 12, this was my most favourite episode of all time. 10 years later, it still is

I agree

I wish we could have heard hin sing the entirety of all the songs

LOL sitting there eating POPCORN for crissakes

Clearly Bob was really into drama at some point, It's a shame he spent time trying to kill Bart and not going into the theatre performances. He clearly enjoys it, and that voice is like silk. I'd like to see an episode where Bob does some Shakespeare tragedies, Macbeth in particular.

@@paleface171 He signs in Italy when persuing the Simpsons, probably the closest you'll get to an actual performance with Bob, especially now

I mean you can’t blame him, Bob fucking NAILS it!

Heck, even the bit where he joins in.

He sounds exactly like sean bean then

yes, his derisive tone is impeccable.

By Lucifer's beard! that's a classic line :)

same, the way his voice drops is lovely

His daughter inherited his voice acting talents for sure, I hope we see her in more than Rick and Morty

Earlier on in the episode, the Simpson family are listening to “The FBI Light Opera Society Sings the Complete Gilbert & Sullivan”, & the entire family sings along to Three Little Maids from The Mikado. So not only is Bart familiar with Pinafore, he’s familiar with G&S in general, & had listened to Pinafore very recently

The fact that he’s apparently into it, too - it’s one thing to try and STALL, it’s another to be INVESTED!

Bart is smarter than Lisa in a lot of ways. In my opinion, he would do better than Lisa. He has a mixture of street and book smarts, can adapt after high school depending if he wants to go to college. Lisa depends too much on school smarts.

​@@RyanTheDark Lisa is intelligent; but much of her aura of "genius" stems from her being compared to the adults around her and those in her age group. She'll always be smarter when compared to the Wiggums or Lenny. She's so completely tied her sense of self-worth to her intellect that she's not managed to develop social skills or street smarts; and loses her mind whenever she's not the "smart one". Bart, by comparison, is an unmotivated underachiever; he sees no reason to try to succeed other than making Marge happy since Homer doesn't care. But get him invested, and he can outwit just about anyone.

​@@DragonmanX90Lisa's also horrifically naive at times due to her smarts being mostly education. Bart would never fall for socialism like she would for example.

PhantoMace2012 Kelsey Grammer should do a one man show of HMS Pinafore

Inject that into my veins

Me too 😍

All three parts of Nevermind the Whys and Wherefores. :) That'd be great.

@@tailsmileslover I'd happily pay money to watch that.

I would pay good money to hear him do a full album of ALL G&S soundtracks

I agree! I also like hearing him sing the song "I've grown accustomed to his face"; kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mteHnJCbuta2aGQ.html

If there can be a theatrical film adaptation of ‘HMS Pinafore’, they should definitely cast him as the captain and possibly film it at the sailing ship in San Diego.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8Wbi9x9sr3Ioas.html He would be good too. However, Patrick Stewart would be just as good (here's why).

OMG YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS

How could you say such a thing about Kelsey Grammer?

He could have been saved. Krusty pushed him too far.

The comment I was looking for. It was so cool

I heard that episode before, but having Robert killing Bart is chilling, had the murder happened, I would drive the hypercar prototype to evade the cop as my betrayal to Simpsons family.

Best part was from 4:3 screen to 16:9 screen

I hadn't watched the Simpsons in ages. The 1 time that I do, it's a Tree House of Horror and that exact episode. They did a very good job with it.

@@brianchapman8531 I haven't saw those halloween specials, but discovering it's contents, which is something else no one had thought about, like killing a Simpsons' children, that kill could be blamed on Mallari.

Make that two decades for me!

What, never?

William Craig Well hardly ever

Charlotte Bowe same love it

26 years I've been singing this medley.

This episode was good on all levels, this scene proves it

its an ALL TIMER episode, easily

You have entirely too many spaces in the hockey mask quote.

That’s everyone’s favorite scene dumbass

Dude it had me laughing like a hyena on joker toxin and i still laugh like that to this very day

i'd watch that premise

*Bob, also I’d bet he’s listened to it way more than the average person has. I’ve memorized over half of The Who’s Tommy from listening to it so many times, so i wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same with Bob & Pinafore.

I would argue "a fish called Selma" but this is right up there

+Darkstar263 Even in the commentary the writers were cracking up non stop at Kelsey singing and joking about where the costumes came from and how Bart had a playbill and joins in xD. Was really funny.

Darkstar263 Same!

This became my favourite episode in 1993 and that hasn't changed since.

This episode came out the year I was born.

What about the program that bart has lol

I'd like to think that was some kind of production assistant on the crew of The Simpsons set

A FLOWER? (If anybody manages to get this reference, i’ll be really happy!)

This alternate timeline where Lisa witnessed Bart being gruesomely murdered, traumatized her causing her mind to be warped by grief and vengeance. Crazy to think if Lisa would become a psychopath if Sideshow Bob succeeded in killing Bart in the original airing of Cape Feare.

Looks like someone changed history. But who?

​@@carlostorres-iq5ki Barry Allen

@@dubbman44 The Flash of DC comics? Amazing. But what about Marvel Comics character, The Beyonder, The Watcher or someone has Time travel and manipulation, and dimension travel?

noooooo

One simple change really made the difference between life and death

Are you lying? This sounds completely made up

@@christianmendozatapia295 I assure you However, take it as you will.

@@UncleAnaesthesia well, I guess I'll have to take your word for it

@@christianmendozatapia295 From my personal experience with college professors, some of them do grade students based on personal sympathy for them.

@@dinoslavski his story sounds like complete horsesh**. He showed this clip to his professor who "loved it" because he was "the lead" and got extra credit... 🙄🙄🙄 hey, i got a bridge in brooklyn for sale if youre interested. believe whatever you want, i call him a liar...

Devil Flanders: “That can be arranged…”

@@lz8703 Ned Flanders? You're the Devil?

roomie4rent The version I know ends with a reprise of Englishman

Quaba99 It was just a tongue in cheek way of asking for more.

There should be another 3½ numbers after "He remains an Englishman" in D major: the rest of this number has Captain Corcoran being demoted and ending with "He remains an Englishman" reprise in F major. After that we have "Farewell my own" in C major, "A many years ago" in E minor, and the Act 2 finale ending with a reprise of "He remains an Englishman" in F major.

@@simoncooper6752 It's funny you happen to write this now, four years after my OP - a few days ago, I came across the word "pedantic" and, not knowing the definition, decided to look it up. All Websters would tell me was "Simon Cooper" and nothing more. I was so puzzled until you came along and now I understand completely. Thank you for that!

Eh, he’ll pay us back the next time he escapes Prison

He's a great singer as well as actor.

Kelsey Grammer is a under appreciated national treasure

tailsmileslover First ever episode of The Simpsons I watched. Forever endeared me to both the Simpsons and Frasier Crane :)

He's such a great character man

Just like Frasier.

Sideshow bob is kind of tragic in that he truly loves show business but ended up stuck as an assistant to a clown, singing HMS Pinafore is something he would love to do

Bob is a perfect display of narcissism and Grammer is the perfect sound of G & S.

​@@wooden2187Honestly it's not even narcissism, he's just an actor AND a singer that KNOWS he's talented and feels frustrated no one appreciates him, so he can't help but show it off at every chance he gets lol

I want to hear more of the ones he already does and even more of them

The West Wing brought me here.

For he himself has said it and it's merely to his credit That he is an Englishmen. He remains an Eeeheeeheeeheeeheeenglishmaaan!

LOL th..thanks

I want to know where all the props came from.

Classic Wiggum.

Were they making arrests or enjoying the services?

Subtly best joke of the episode lol

@@freemantle85 the cops were all wearing robes and slippers so I’d say they were enjoying the services.

Not really. It's light opera--a bit middle brow and WASPy, which is part of the joke.

That episode shown what was supposed to happen, the outcome would be different and changed the series stories.

+Yosei (Joseph) Izumi you know sometimes i wonder if the donut cop from The Amazing World of Gumball was inspire from Chief Wiggum because they're both idiots in their jobs

he said "take him away boys"

me

Such a brilliant callback!

Me too

Do what the kid said.

Did you see Treehouse Of Horror 2023?

+TheTaff512 Yeah....

+Edd Jones It's a good thing you drifted by this brothel!

By Neptune's Knickerbockers

Bake him away toys!

Julian Herrera what did you say chief?

Golden Age Simpsons dabbled in surrealism, but knew when to toe the line. It rarely used it as a plot point, but instead for a great joke. It isn't until the Scully era that you get stuff like Homer ending up on a Prisoner-esque island.

WouldNotPokeThat That's a good disctintion. Sideshow Bob would not need to have these props and costumes and the Union Jack appear out of nowhere for the episode to work. I remember the Prisoner episode...ugh. But the first sign for me was Armand Tanzarium. There you have the whole plot centred on something surreal. That was the beginning of the Scully era, Season 9.

valar Principal And The Pauper is where the show forever loses its magic. Although I think you can start to see the cracks around season 8, that was the first episode that legitimately upset me. The show became too weird and meanspirited after that.

WouldNotPokeThat It bothered me because they spent 8 seasons developing Principal Skinner as a character and then went, "Nah, he's another dude" and then, "Forget the whole thing." Way too contrived. Yep, then the series got weird and meanspirited.

Which ones the Prisoner episode?

That WASN'T even Bart!! The hands are darker skinned, and Bart was still clapping by then! It makes even less sense, I love it!

yess!

Yes the reason for the numerous jokes was because the episode ran too short

Guilty as charged

1:14 that’s the right time stamp

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😰

It's Kelsey Grammer, A.K.A. Frasier Crane.

@@williamcooper007Also LCDR Thomas Dodge

@@mjwatts1983 I never seen that movie.

⁠@@williamcooper007Really?! I never watched Frasier so I never knew.

@@tmntfangirl4700 They have every episode on Paramount +.

Sometimes in a comedy, the most impactful thing an actor can choose to do is to play something completely straight. It really hits harder that way!

“Guilty as charged!”

Lisa: AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

I hope people think the same about my voice but I envy him!

0:59 that little echo when he stats here

He can go from absolutely psychotic to perfectly sweet in the same sentence. Brilliant.

@@hoilst265yes I agree it is brilliant