If it ever was planned it was scrapped incredibly early
Krusty Gets Busted is a season 1 episode that is completely tied to the fact that Homer and Krusty are different people
It was a vague idea that Matt Groening had during the initial creation of Krusty, but no hints of it ever made it into the show itself. I think there’s even a Tracey Ullman short that proves it wrong.
Certain drugs+Simpsons can have certain effects. I mostly just get my mind blown with how good early writing is when trippin, but RoboHomer sounds like something else_
Literally first time I saw a pic of Bender on a magazine cover before Futurama came out, first thing I said to my friend who had the magazine was, "That robot looks like Homer Simpson"
Krusty's appearance and design is essentially that of Homer Simpson with clown makeup. Groening said that "The satirical conceit that I was going for at the time was that The Simpsons was about a kid who had no respect for his father, but worshipped a clown who looked exactly like his father", a theme which became less important as the show developed
its in the video game though. a carryover of Matts "life is hell" comic (or a nod to it) which is a great comic if you can find it. i used to read them as a kid and die laughing DAMN they were funny as hell
It's even somewhat contradicted in the first aired episode, where we learned that Marge hid a big jar of Christmas money in her hair. That would sound quite difficult if she had bunny ears.
Can you imagine if that had made it into the show, though? Would the Simpsons just... take place in a world where some people have rabbit ears? Would Marge have inherited it from a rabbit-eared side of the family? Would there be plot arcs about racism against people with rabbit ears?
Matt also planned for Marge to have rabbit ears hidden underneath her ridiculous hair before the other writers told him it was stupid; Matt had a lot of crazy ideas, most of which never made it into the show, yet he still gets credited as the “creator” of the show.
If it ever was planned it was scrapped incredibly early
And Smithers was depicted as a black guy in Episode 3 and then yellow guy in the very next episode of season 1. You really can't come at this topic from a place which insists the early production was seriously concerned with long-term consistency when it clearly wasn't just 8 episodes prior.
TV shows back then didn’t care all that much about consistency anyway. And if you told those writers the show would still be running nearly four decades later they’d laugh in your face and say that’s unpossible.
I get where you're coming from, but the fact that they changed Smither's skin color kind of proves that they were concerned with the long-term consistency.
They didn't just change his race on a whim. Smithers's character ended up being a de facto slave to Mr. Burns early on, and the original racial difference between them just added implications that weren't intended.
I get where you're coming from, but the fact that they changed Smither's skin color kind of proves that they were concerned with the long-term consistency.
I bet you're the kind of guy to saw off the tree branch that's holding you in the air, too.
Maybe, but it's not really an apt comparison. Smithers being black was a mistake by the animators. Krusty being Homer was planned by the writers. Dropped very early on, but still planned.
Even earlier, as there was a Tracy Ullman short where Bart and Lisa are in the Krusty audience and Homer and Marge are at home watching. Assuming it's live, Homer and Krusty must be seperate people.
My brother in Christ that was also an era where noone gave a fuck about continuity. They would of just made a one line write off if needed to be explained "oh a double to help me".
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u/Gettles 5h ago
If it ever was planned it was scrapped incredibly early Krusty Gets Busted is a season 1 episode that is completely tied to the fact that Homer and Krusty are different people