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Even more thrilling than The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" episodes are those in which Bart is pitted against his mortal enemy, Sideshow Bob. The two classic episodes on this video, "Black Widower" and "Cape Feare," are killer. Kelsey Grammer is in fine voice as Krusty the Clown's maniacal former sidekick, whose evil plans are invariably foiled by Bart, a "little boy who never lost his mistrust." Beware, Aunt Selma. The next episode you watch of your beloved MacGyver may be your last! In "Black Widower," Bart must convince clueless Chief Wiggum and his family that Selma
Even more thrilling than The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" episodes are those in which Bart is pitted against his mortal enemy, Sideshow Bob. The two classic episodes on this video, "Black Widower" and "Cape Feare," are killer. Kelsey Grammer is in fine voice as Krusty the Clown's maniacal former sidekick, whose evil plans are invariably foiled by Bart, a "little boy who never lost his mistrust." Beware, Aunt Selma. The next episode you watch of your beloved MacGyver may be your last! In "Black Widower," Bart must convince clueless Chief Wiggum and his family that Selma's new husband, Sideshow Bob, intends to murder her. Classic moment: Homer's ode to cocktail weenies: "They taste as good as they look. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup--it tastes like ketchup. But brother, it ain't ketchup!" In "Cape Feare," someone is sending Bart anonymous death threats. "But who'd want to hurt me?" Bart protests. "I'm this century's Dennis the Menace." Sideshow Bob, that's who. He's been paroled and vows revenge on "the spirited little scamp who ... sent me to this dank, urine-soaked hellhole." A new identity and a new houseboat cannot keep Sideshow Bob from the Simpsons--make that the Thompsons, thanks to the Witness Protection Program--door. Bart again prevails with, as Homer describes it, "a plan fiendishly clever in its in-trick-asies." --Donald Liebenson
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Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Release date: 5 September 2000
EAN: 0024543004806 UPC: 024543004806
Tags: Marge Simpson (1), Clown (1), Phil Hartman (1), Drunkeness (1), Principal (1), Dysfunctional Family (1), Matt Groening (1), Couch (1), Bart Simpson (1), Springfield (1), Blackboard (1), Nuclear Power Plant (1), Tress Macneille (1), Homer Simpson (1), Color (1), Ned Flanders (1), Barney Gumble (1), Moe Szyslak (1), Krusty The Clown (1), Donuts (1)
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