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"Cape Feare" originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 7, 1993. [1] It finished 32nd in the ratings for the week of October 4–10, 1993, with a Nielsen rating of 12.3. [15] The episode was the highest-rated show on the Fox network that week. [15] Cast member Hank Azaria considers "Cape Feare" his favorite episode.
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 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 ...
Even though the episode aired during the beginning of the fifth season, "Cape Feare" was the last episode written by the original team of writers and guest starred Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob. [3] Compared to previously produced episodes, the episode featured several elements that could be described as cartoonish. [2]
Sideshow Bob, formally known as Dr. Robert Underdunk Terwilliger Jr., PhD, is one of The Simpsons' most adored villains. He's sophisticated, persnickety, has a penchant for high culture, and an ...
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 ...
Kurland praised the following sequence's plot structure as "the only horror-centric" part of the episode, but felt it was unfitting for a return of Sideshow Bob to the show. Kurland said that Treehouse of Horror series already has a recurring " 'multiple Homer' concept", therefore making "Lout Break" overdone.