Kamp Krusty
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Kamp Krusty" | |
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| Episode no. | 60 |
| Prod. code | 8F24 |
| Orig. Airdate | September 24, 1992 |
| Writer(s) | David M. Stern |
| Director | Mark Kirkland |
| Chalkboard | "This punishment is not boring and pointless" |
| Couch gag | Fred Flintstone, Wilma and Pebbles are sitting on the couch. |
| SNPP capsule | |
| Season 4 September 24, 1992 – May 13, 1993 |
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"Kamp Krusty" is the first episode of The Simpsons' fourth season. Bart and Lisa go to a summer camp with high expectations, but are subjected to a harrowing experience instead. As described in the episodes commentary of The Simpsons - The Complete Fourth Season, The Kamp Krusty script was suggested by James L. Brooks to be lengthened for a Simpsons Movie. Due to problems with making the episode long enough for 180 minutes, this idea was dropped.
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[edit] Synopsis
It's the last day of school. After getting Ms. Krabappel to change the Fs on his report card to Cs, Bart, his fellow students, and the faculty tear down the school with chainsaws, flamethrowers and even a wrecking ball, to the tune of Alice Cooper's "School's Out." This turns out to only be a dream, but it really is the last day of school.
Bart and Lisa are excited about being able to spend the summer at Kamp Krusty ("The Krustiest Place On Earth"), a summer camp run by Krusty the Clown, but Homer has made Bart's visit conditional on his getting at least a C average on his report card. At school, Bart finds Ms. Krabappel has given him a D- in each subject. On the bus ride home, he uses a marker to fix each grade to an A+. Bart presents the card to his dad, but Homer sees through the ruse ("A+?! You don't think very much of me, do you, boy?"). Homer chides Bart for not faking plausible grades ("You know, a D turns into a B so easily. You just got greedy.") but admits that he didn't really want to have Bart around the house all summer, so he can go to Kamp Krusty after all.
The kids of Springfield all leave for Kamp Krusty. Once there, the camp's director, Mr. Black - who licenses the Krusty brand for his camp - announces that Krusty won't be around for a few weeks, and instead Springfield Elementary's bullies, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney, will enforce order. At Kamp Krusty, the cabins are decrepit and vermin-infested, the lake is too dangerous to swim in, and the kids are fed nothing but Krusty Brand Imitation Gruel ("Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference"). Meanwhile, with the older kids gone, Homer and Marge are having a wonderful summer together. Homer has even grown two extra strands of hair and lost a few pounds. Lisa sends a letter to Marge, describing how the kids are forced to make wallets for export in arts and crafts, and hikes have become brutal forced marches, but Marge and Homer think she's exaggerating. Bart retains the hope that Krusty will come and save the kids. Krusty himself, unaware of any of this, approves more shoddy merchandise bearing his name before heading off to Wimbledon.
Mr. Black announces to the campers that Krusty has finally come, but it's just local drunk Barney Gumble dressed as Krusty. This indignity leads Bart to finally snap; he leads the campers in rebellion, driving out Mr. Black and the bullies, and establishing Camp Bart. The newscaster Kent Brockman arrives at the camp to report on the revolt; when Homer watches the live broadcast and finds Bart is the leader, he instantly loses his newly-grown hair and gains back his weight. Krusty is called back from Wimbledon in England and comes to the camp to apologize to the kids, saying he was offered "a dumptruck full of money" in exchange for putting his name on the camp. To make it all up to the campers, he offers to take them to the happiest place on Earth: Tijuana. The kids and Krusty have fun together in Mexico.
[edit] Trivia
- Bart's locker combanation is 36,24,36
- When Lisa is giving mail back to the campers, we hear the first indication that Ralph's last name was Wiggum.
[edit] Cultural references
- Ben Hur - The scene where Kearney beats a drum to make the youthful campers work in the sweatshop is taken from the slave galley scene in the 1959 film.
- Collapse of the Soviet Union - The Krusty totem pole suffers the same fate as various statues of Communist leaders (e.g., Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin) in the camp revolt scenes.
- Lord of the Flies - Various references during the camp revolt scenes (kids using primitive weapons and wearing war paint, the burning effigy, a fly-covered pig's head skewered on a stake behind Brockman). Lord of the Flies would be more explicitly parodied in the episode Das Bus.
- Disneyland - The slogans "The Krustiest place on Earth!" (Kamp Krusty) and "The happiest place on Earth!" (Tijuana, Mexico) are plays on the slogan for Disney theme park resorts, "The Happiest Place on Earth!" Additionally, Black mentions that he was previously head of Euro Krustyland before it exploded, a parody of the unpopularity of Euro Disneyland.
- The episode ends with the song "South of the Border".
- Seven Chances - Bart, Milhouse and Lisa run for cover from falling rocks just like Buster Keaton in this 1925 film.
- Apocalypse Now - "Camp Bart" resembles Col. Kurtz's camp to an extent
[edit] The Kamp Krusty Song
Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty
By the shores of Big Snake Lake
Though your swings are rusty
We know they'll never break!
Kearney: Louder! Faster!
From your gleaming mess hall
To your hallowed baseball field
To your spic-and-span infirmary
Where all our wounds are healed!
Hail to thee Kamp Krusty
Below Mt Avalanche
We will always love Kamp Krusty!
A registered trademark of the Krusty Corporation, All rights reserved!
(the bleachers collapse)
[edit] Quotes
- Marge: Lisa, watch out for poison ivy! Remember, leaves of three, let it be!
Homer: Leaves of four, eat some more!
- Lisa: Before I go to camp, I'll need boosters for malaria, German measles, encephalitis, Hansen's disease...
Dr. Hibbert: Oh, now I'm afraid what we have here is an advanced case of hypochondria. There's only one known cure, a wowwipop. (laughs)
Lisa: Don't patronize me, doctor.
- Martin's father: Have a good time at Image Enhancement Camp!
Martin: Spare me your euphemisms! It's fat camp for daddy's chubby little secret!
Martin's father: You promised you wouldn't make a scene!
- Lisa: You're serving us gruel?
Dolph: Not quite! This is "Krusty-Brand Imitation Gruel". Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference.
- Marge: Homer, do you remember your promise to the children?
Homer: Sure do! When you're 18 you're out the door!
- Jimbo:: Yo, Mr. Black, another brandy.
Mr. Black: (addressing Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney) Gentlemen, to evil!
- Bart: (delirious and freezing in his cabin) Krusty is coming! Krusty is coming! Krusty is coming!
- Lisa: (in her letter home from camp) Our arts and crafts centre is, in actuality, a Dickensian work house.
Jimbo: Come on, wimps. These Gucci wallets have to be on the streets of Hong Kong by Friday.
- Mr Black: Now, I promised you kids a treat in lieu of dinner, and here it is! Krusty the Clown!
Bart: (nudging Milhouse and Lisa) See? I told you Krusty would come! He'll bring us food and smite our enemies! - Barney Gumbel: (dressed as Krusty): I am too Krunchy the Clown!
- Bart: I've been scorched by Krusty before. I got a rapid heartbeat from his Krusty brand vitamins, my Krusty calculator didn't have a seven or an eight, and Krusty's autobiography was self-serving with many glaring omissions. But this time, he's gone too far!
- Mr. Black: To the hydrofoil!
- Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.
- Bart: (while being interviewed live by Kent Brockman) Can I say "crappy" on TV?
Kent Brockman: Yes, on this network you can.
- Homer: (thinking, before Kent Brockman reveals who the leader of the rebellion is) Don't be the boy...don't be the boy...
(once it was revealed that it was indeed Bart)
Homer: D'oh! (then instantly loses his two new strands of hair and gains back his weight)
- Bart: Krusty, they fed us gruel, forced us to make wallets for export, and one of the campers was eaten by a bear!
Krusty: OH MY GOD!
Bart: Well, actually, the bear just ate his hat.
Krusty: Was it a nice hat?
Bart: Oh yeah.
Krusty: OH MY GOD!
[edit] External links
- "Kamp Krusty" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
