The cultural context of The Krusty the Clown Show was always lost on me. Were there really TV shows hosted by clowns in the late 80s/early 90s not made exclusively for toddlers, that a 10 year old edgelord like Bart could legitimately be into?
jew mesmerizes goyim with show business, it's kind of their schtick
>>218664881There's Bozo, Cooky, and Pogo (but I don't know if Pogo was known because of the clowning)
Mexico had a long running character, chabelo. He was an eternal kid and ran a game show.
>>218664881Yes but at the same time not in the 90s, also Krusty becomes an amalgamation of media, do they do parodies when they want.
Let me be blunt: is there a labor crisis in America today?
>>218664881In the early 90s I remember watching Bozo the clown sometimes, though it was old and weird. I’m sure others existed. I think it kind of evolved to more educational clown like shows like Beakman’s world and then eventually mostly scientific like Bill Nye the science guy
>>218664881It was an artifact of the life experience of the Boomer writers that the show had: They grew-up with things like Bozo the Clown and Howdy-Doody being examples of what would be popular children's entertainment. By the '90's, when The Simposons was written to take place, this was a fairly antiquated and anachronistic cultural element.It's an overall benign example of a minor failure of the "write what you know" approach. While a little bit anachronistic and out of place in the 90's setting, this did at least allow for Krusty the Clown to be another one of the shows auxiliary characters, and he's relatively unique in that regard and produced some of the show's best jokes and entertaining plot-lines (he was especially useful if the Writers wanted to do something with or relating to Hollywood, showbusiness, celebrity-excess, etc.)
>>218665340It always amused how deep his actual voice was.
Clowns were a bigger deal pre-2000's. Hence Ronald McDonald. For some reason people thought kids liked them and spammed them everywhere.
>>218664881The closest thing would be Pee-Wee's Playhouse, but as you say that was for younger kids. Maybe You Cant Do That on Television had a bit of that variety show feeling.>>218665534Well it says two things. First that Simpsons was never a show for kids, so what the kids watched was indicative of the parents, not what they really were watching.Second, I was born in 82 and grew up on Simpsons (and also Garfield having Bozo saying HeeeeeEEEY KIDS!) and it never really occurred to me to question that these were proper shows to watch.
>>218666901still,none of them were wealthy as Krust he being that rich is inaccurate
>>218664881`87 anon here. I remember watching some Bozo the clown but that was more because I only had 5 channels and nothing else kid wise was on.
>>218664881I’m 42, and Bozo was regular background noise as part of my “getting ready for school” routine. To this day, anytime I successfully shoot a wadded up paper into a trash can, I say I just won Archway Cookies, and nobody ever has a fucking clue what I’m talking about.
>>218664881From the 50s through 70 a lot of major market local tv stations had children’s entertainers (not always clowns) that would do bits (like announce kids birthdays) and usually introduce cartoons or syndicated light comedies (Gilligan’s island, I dream of Jeannie), often afterschool or sat morning hours.* Died out mid 80s as dedicated national kids programming like Nickelodeon and power rangers started etc.. Simpsons creators, obviously, would have been kids in 60s and 70s and that what they’re referencing, ironically. *there were also late nite horror movie hosts (especially in caliwali), which is how we got Elvira amd Svengoolie and parodies like SCTV’s count Floyd.
>>218665534before warner bros made their own tv channel and packaged kids morning cartoon block (kids wb!), a local station in my city had their own morning and afternoon cartoon block with a hostthis was all the way up until mid 1995, when the station became a WB affiliate
>>218670056>>218670028speaking of horror hosts, sammy terry still pops up here from time to time
The Simpsons is a documentary.
WdymHe's some generic kids show mascot - Barney, Bluey, Sportacus, etc
>>218668308Garfield was Binky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSwfPNY9Orw
>>218670028https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_children%27s_television_presenters>>218670089https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_host
>>218670303groening credits Portland KPTV’s, “Rusty the Nail” as inspiration for Kristy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Allen
Brazilian not-Bozo (But based in Brazilian Bozo actor) has an incredibly good biopict. I'm not brazilian, just watched the film years ago and thought was pretty good
>>218664881idk about clowns specifically but there were several studio shows for kids that would air cartoons in it.My favourite was pic rel, the talking puppet dog was funny and it had TMNT, The Smurfs, Topo Gigio, Inspector Gadget, The Real Ghostbusters, Count Duckula, Mighty Max and others. A rival network channel had a similar show but only with Looney Tunes cartoons, they didn't overlap so I would often watch both.
>>218665373That depends on your definition of "crisis"
>>218670303Here a better list of kid’s tv hostshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_local_children%27s_television_series_(United_States)
