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"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" is the ninth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 26, 1995. In this episode, Sideshow Bob attempts to rid Springfield of television by threatening to detonate an atomic bomb.
Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star listed "Cape Feare", "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming" and "Brother From Another Series" among the best episodes of the series, writing "forget Frasier, these are Kelsey Grammer's best roles." [77] "The Italian Bob" and its writer John Frink won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2007 in the animation category. [78]
Genevieve Koski of The A.V. Club gave the episode a B+, praising the appearance of Pierce and Mahoney as Cecil and Dr. Terwilliger post-Fraiser, but criticized the TiVo storyline at the beginning, and wondered "if Lisa's recap of Sideshow Bob's plot was meant to be an homage to "Black Widower", when Bart recapped Bob's plan to kill Selma. If it ...
The episode guest stars Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob. The episode's plot is based on the film Face/Off. "The Bob Next Door" received positive reviews from critics; most agreed that it was a funny and exciting return to form for Sideshow Bob after "The Italian Bob" and "Funeral for a Fiend".
While performing live from Springfield Prison, Krusty the Clown encounters Sideshow Bob.Bob talks about the crimes he has committed in the past, including framing Krusty for armed robbery, attempting to kill Selma Bouvier, and attempting to kill Bart Simpson as revenge for Bart exposing Bob's framing of Krusty and foiling his plan to kill Selma.
A cartoon of Tom Baker, as the Fourth Doctor, appeared as one of the "esteemed representatives of television" in The Simpsons episodes "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", "Treehouse of Horror X", and "Mayored to the Mob". A fan of Doctor Who since childhood, Simpsons creator Matt Groening favours Tom Baker's Doctor. [66]
The Sondheim musical took its name from Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, which is the theme tune to Sideshow Bob's show. [4] The close up shot of Krusty's face behind bars in the beginning of act two is a reference of the closing credit motif of the British television series The Prisoner from the 1960s. [ 4 ]
Without it, Bob wasn't nearly as entertaining, and the episode didn't result in a whole lot of laughs." [6] In 2022, Lloyd Farley of Collider ranked the episode last out of 15 Sideshow Bob episodes. He said that it lacked Bob's schemes and intentions to kill Bart, which what makes Sideshow Bob's episodes special. [1]