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The ‘Simpsons’ Arcade Game Confirmed a Lost Piece of ‘Simpsons’ Canon
Alyson Lewis
January 03, 2024
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This issue is about ‘SNL’ in 2024, ‘Simpsons’ canon, trivia, roasts, stupid predictions for the future, and much more.
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Cracked has been suggesting for a while that the cast of Saturday Night Live is too big. This year’s roster has actually downsized from its post-COVID peak, but there are still 17 cast members on this season’s show, 20 if you count the boys in Please Don’t Destry (and why wouldn’t we since they’re on nearly every week). Compare that number with the seven Not Ready for Prime Time Players in the show’s original group. SNL is still a 90-minute show, but now there are nearly three times as many funny people vying for air time. Plus, my pleas to Lorne Michaels to fire half the cast have fallen on deaf ears.
Marge Simpson may not be 100 percent human — time to go down the rabbit hole.
Most Simpsons fans know that, early on in the series, Matt Groening and his writers worked on a scrapped plotline in which Krusty the Clown would turn out to be Homer Simpson’s alter ego. Though the plan to reveal Homer as his son’s favorite TV clown never came to fruition, Homer and Krusty’s matching character models did make for one of the most iconic episodes ever in “Homie the Clown.” As the wise mobster once said, “I’m seeing double here — four Krustys!”
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