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"Like Father, Like Clown" is the sixth episode of the third season of the American animated television series ''
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''. It originally aired on
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in the United States on October 24, 1991. In the episode,
Krusty the Clown Herschel Shmoikel Pinchas Yerucham Krustofsky (; ), better known by his stage name Krusty the Clown (sometimes spelled as Krusty the Klown), is a recurring character on the List of animated television series, animated television series ''The S ...
reveals to the Simpsons that he is Jewish and that his father,
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Hyman Krustofsky, kicked him out for pursuing a career in comedy.
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and
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try to reunite a heartbroken Krusty with his estranged father. The episode was written by the duo of
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and Wallace Wolodarsky, and directed by Jeffrey Lynch and
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; as it was Lynch's first credit as a director, Bird was assigned to help him. Krusty's religion had not been part of the original concept of the character, so Kogen and Wolodarsky decided to parody the 1927 film ''
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'' and establish that Krusty is Jewish. The episode was carefully researched and two rabbis, Lavi Meier and Harold M. Schulweis, were credited as "special technical consultants". Comedian
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, who had once been an ordained rabbi, provided the voice of Hyman Krustofsky. Hyman later became an infrequently recurring character voiced by
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. Mason returned to voice the character in several later episodes. In its original broadcast, "Like Father, Like Clown" finished 34th in ratings with a
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of 12.7. Mason won a
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in 1992 for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his performance as Hyman Krustofsky.


Plot

Krusty had agreed to have dinner with the Simpsons to repay
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for helping exonerate him for charges of armed robbery. When he keeps canceling, an upset Bart writes him a letter saying he has lost faith in Krusty. Krusty's secretary, Lois Pennycandy, is so moved by the letter that she threatens to quit if Krusty does not keep his promise to Bart, so Krusty reluctantly attends. When asked to say grace, Krusty recites a
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. Realizing that Krusty is
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,
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speaks of his heritage, making him break down in tears. He tells the family that saying the blessing reminds him of his troubled past. Krusty reveals his real name is Herschel Krustofsky () and describes his upbringing on the Lower East Side of Springfield. His father, Hyman Krustofsky, is a
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who hated his son's wish to become a comedian and wanted him to follow in his footsteps. At school, Krusty made the other students laugh and became a
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comedian behind his father's back. One night, Krusty performed at a rabbis' convention unknowingly attended by Hyman. A rabbi squirted
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on him, washing off his clown makeup. Recognizing Krusty, an outraged Hyman immediately disowned his son. They have not seen or spoken to each other in 25 years. While filming an episode of ''The Krusty the Klown Show'', Krusty is reduced to tears on-camera after showing a father-and-son themed episode of ''
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''. Lisa says “A man who envies our family is a man who needs help” and she and Bart decide to reunite father and son. Hyman tells them: "I have no son!" and Bart says "Great, we came all this way and it's the wrong guy." He adds: "I didn't mean that literally!" He refuses to reconcile with Krusty because he believes that his son had abandoned his faith and family. To outsmart Hyman, Lisa finds
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teachings that urge forgiveness, but he refutes her arguments. In a last-ditch effort, Bart convinces Hyman to abandon his stubborn ways by quoting
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— a Jewish entertainer like Krusty — and making a passionate plea about the struggles that the Jewish people have overcome. Bart's speech finally convinces Hyman that entertainers have a place in
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. Krusty is feeling glum when he starts the live of his show, and then calls for ''Itchy & Scratchy'' to roll. Bart and Lisa arrive backstage with Hyman, and he and Krusty joyously reconcile before the audience. Hyman accepts a cream pie from Bart and throws it in his son's face.


Production

"Like Father, Like Clown" was written by the duo of Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky. Krusty's religion had not been part of the original concept of the character, so Kogen and Wolodarsky decided to parody ''
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'' and establish that Krusty is Jewish.Jean, Al. (2003). Commentary for "Like Father, Like Clown", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season'' VD 20th Century Fox. They pitched the idea to co-executive producer Sam Simon, who rejected it, but it was approved by James L. Brooks.Kogen, Jay. (2003). Commentary for "Like Father, Like Clown", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season'' VD 20th Century Fox. Krusty's last name, Krustofsky, was established in this episode as pitched by
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. The portion of the episode where characters quote the
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in support or opposition of clowning were carefully researched. Cited passages from the Bible include Exodus 20:12 and
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1:8. The quotations from the
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were also researched, and two rabbis, Lavi Meier and Harold M. Schulweis, were credited as "special technical consultants". Schulweis was asked to take a look at a draft of the script. While not a fan of the show, he felt "it was profound" and added some corrections. He later commented, "I thought it had a Jewish resonance to it. I was impressed by the underlying moral seriousness." The episode was co-directed by Jeffrey Lynch and Brad Bird. It was Lynch's first credit as a director, so Bird was assigned to help him out and "usher ynchinto the world of directing things quickly".Bird, Brad. (2003). Commentary for "Like Father, Like Clown", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season'' VD 20th Century Fox. Krusty is one of Bird's favorite characters, and he always tries to animate a scene in every Krusty episode. Rabbi Krustofsky was voiced by
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, who had once been an ordained rabbi, but had resigned to become a comedian. Mason recorded his lines in
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, and Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Krusty, went there to record with him. In the script, Bart and Lisa try to trick Rabbi Krustofsky into meeting with Krusty by arranging a lunch date between him and
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, the "
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-winning Jewish novelist". Originally, this was intended to be
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, but the writers changed it when Singer died, and Mason had to re-record his lines to accommodate the alteration. Rabbi Krustofsky became an infrequently recurring character, and his occasional speaking parts were voiced by Castellaneta. Mason later returned to voice the rabbi in " Today I Am a Clown" in the fifteenth season, " Once Upon a Time in Springfield" in the twenty-first season, and " Clown in the Dumps" in the twenty-sixth season, in which the character dies.


Cultural references

The episode is a homage to the film ''
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'' (1927), about a son with a strict religious upbringing who defies his father to become an entertainer. Krusty is partially based on Jewish comedian
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, who starred in the 1959 version of the film. A nod to the film is featured in dialogue when Rabbi Krustofsky says, "Oh, if you were a musician or a jazz singer, this I could forgive!" In the Simpsons house, Krusty plays ''
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''. In Krusty's studio, there are pictures of him with
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and
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. Lisa tells
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there are many Jewish entertainers, including
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,
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,
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and
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. In Krusty's flashback, he and his father walk down the street in a parody of a scene from ''
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''. The scene of a young Krusty practicing comedy in the bathroom is a reference to
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's '' Portnoy's Complaint''. Lisa and Bart try to trick Hyman into meeting Krusty, telling him that "the Nobel-Prize winning Jewish novelist
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" wants to have lunch with him at Izzy's Deli. They tell Krusty that he's to be presented with the
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and walks in humming "
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", asking to be directed to
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's table. At the end of the episode, Krusty and his father sing " O Mein Papa", a 1952 song originally by
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. Bart quotes a passage from
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's 1965 autobiography ''Yes, I Can''.


Reception

In its original broadcast, "Like Father, Like Clown" finished 34th in ratings for the week of October 21–27, 1991, with a
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of 12.7. It was the highest rated program on Fox that week. Mason won a
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in 1992 for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his performance as Hyman Krustofsky. He was one of six voice actors from ''The Simpsons'' to win the award in its inaugural year. He is one of three ''The Simpsons'' guest stars to win the award; Marcia Wallace won in 1992 for voicing
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, and
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won for voicing
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in 2006. In 1998, ''
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'' listed it in its list of top twelve ''Simpsons'' episodes. The authors of the book ''I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide'', Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called the episode, "a magnificent show, with Jackie Mason wonderfully over the top as Krusty's long-lost pa, and Lois Pennycandy giving Krusty a good talking to about Bart."
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and
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of ''
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'' listed "Like Father, Like Clown" as one of the ten episodes of ''The Simpsons'' that shows the "comic and emotional scope of the show". They wrote, "Most Krusty the Klown episodes go heavy on celebrity cameos, while playing up the character's misanthropic greed. This one gave him a heart, as Bart and Lisa try to reunite him with his estranged rabbi father (voice of Jackie Mason), who has never forgiven his son for going into show biz." DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson wrote that the episode "lacks a surfeit of guffaws, but it manages to be sweet and heartfelt without becoming sappy. It's more of a charming show than a laughfest, but it does the job." In a retrospective review in ''
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'', Nathan Rabin writes "Like most Borsht-Belt shtick-slingers, Krusty is prickly and hard on the outside but soft, tender and sweet on the inside. Shtick without sentimentality is like lox without bagels and 'Like Father, Like Son' taps into a side of Krusty we seldom see: a lost little boy who never got over his father’s rejection and pines for what he sees as the domestic bliss of the Simpsons. As Lisa says with just the right note of sad, weary understanding, 'A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.'” In his 2018 memoir '' Springfield Confidential'', ''Simpsons'' season 3 showrunner
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named the episode as one of four that broke new ground, alongside " Moaning Lisa", " Homer at the Bat" and the original "
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". Reiss noted how the episode established several new precedents for the show: it centered on a secondary character, it focused on a non-Christian religion and expert consultants were involved in the writing of the religious debate between the Rabbi and Bart.


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