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Besides borrowing the overall plot structure of the Cape Fear films, the episode made several direct references to specific scenes from the films. References to the original include: Marge's going to Chief Wiggum only to be told Sideshow Bob has not broken any laws (also references the 1991 remake). References to the 1991 remake include ...
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]
75 years after that, Cape Feare is performed as a musical in a theater dedicated to The Simpsons. The characters, plot and morals have changed into more serious and epic forms. For example, Mr. Burns has been combined with Sideshow Bob (the actual Cape Feare villain) and is now a supernatural avatar of death and destruction.
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".
The Simpsons killed off Sideshow Bob in this year's twisted Treehouse of Horror special. One of the show's most-loved and longest-serving characters, Bob - voiced by Kelsey Grammer - finally meets ...
The film and its remake serve as the basis for the 1993 The Simpsons episode "Cape Feare" in which Sideshow Bob, recently released from prison, stalks the Simpson family in an attempt to kill Bart. The episode, and both films, serve as inspiration for Anne Washburn 's play Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play .
Cape Feare" is the second episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, which premiered on the Fox network on October 7, 1993 after being held over from season four. The episode features Sideshow Bob trying to kill Bart Simpson after getting out of jail. It is a spoof of the 1962 film Cape Fear as well as its 1991 remake, but alludes to other horror ...
Revealing she planned the entire killing spree so she could avenge the murder of Bart, Lisa first plays a vinyl of the aria Bob sang before killing Bart, "He is an Englishman" from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta H.M.S Pinafore, and then brutally murders Sideshow Bob.