Kamp Krusty
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Template:Infobox Simpsons episode "Kamp Krusty" is the first episode of The Simpsons' fourth season. Bart and Lisa go to a summer camp with high expectations, but are subjected to a harrowing experience instead.
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Synopsis
It's the last day of school. After getting his teacher to change the Fs on his report card to Cs, Bart, his fellow students, and the faculty tear down the school. This turns out to only be a dream, but it really is the last day of class. Bart and Lisa are excited about being able to spend the summer at Kamp Krusty ("The Krustiest Place On Earth"), a summer camp run by Krusty the Clown, but Homer has made Bart's stay conditional on his getting at least a C average on his report card. At school, Bart finds Mrs. Krabappel has given him a D- in each subject. On the bus ride home, he uses a marker to fix each grade to an A+. Bart presents the card to his dad, but Homer sees through the ruse. Homer chides Bart for not faking plausible grades ("You know, a D turns into a B so easily") but admits that he didn't really want to have Bart around the house all summer, so he can go to Kamp Krusty after all.
The kids of Springfield all leave for Kamp Krusty. Once there, the camp's director, Mr. Black, announces that Krusty won't be around for a few weeks, and instead Springfield Elementary's bullies, Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney, will enforce order. At Kamp Krusty, the cabins are decrepit and vermin-infested, the lake is too dangerous to swim in, and the kids are fed nothing but imitation gruel. Meanwhile, with the older kids gone, Homer and Marge are having a wonderful summer together. Homer has even grown two extra strands of hair and lost a few pounds. Lisa sends a letter to Marge, describing how the kids are forced to make wallets for export in arts and crafts, and hikes have become brutal forced marches, but Marge and Homer think she's exaggerating. Bart is keeping alive the hope that Krusty will come and save the kids. Krusty himself, unaware of any of this, approves more shoddy merchandise bearing his name before heading off to Wimbledon.
Mr. Black announces to the campers that Krusty has finally come, but it's just local drunk Barney Gumble dressed as Krusty. This indignity leads Bart to finally snap; he leads the campers in rebellion, driving out Mr. Black and the bullies, and establishing Camp Bart. The newscaster Kent Brockman arrives at the camp to report on the revolt; when Homer watches the live broadcast and finds Bart is the leader, he instantly loses his newly-grown hair and gains back his weight. Krusty is called back from England and comes to the camp to apologize to the kids, saying he was offered "a dumptruck full of money" in exchange for putting his name on the camp. To make it all up to the campers, he offers to take them to the happiest place on earth: Tijuana. The kids and Krusty have fun together in Mexico.
Quotes
- Lisa: You're feeding us gruel?
Dolph: Not quite! This is "Krusty-Brand Imitation Gruel". Nine out of ten orphans can't tell the difference. - Jimbo:: Yo, Mr. Black, another brandy.
Mr. Black: (addressing Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney) Gentlemen, to evil! - Bart: Krusty is coming! Krusty is coming! Krusty is coming!
- Kent Brockman: Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq; and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together.
- Bart: (while being interviewed live by Kent Brockman) Can I say "crappy" on TV? </br> Kent Brockman: Yes son, on this network you can.
- Homer: (with fingers crossed, before Kent Brockman reveals who the leader of the rebellion is) Don't be the boy..don't be the boy..don't be the boy...
(once it was revealed that it was indeed Bart)
Homer: D'oh! (then instantly loses his two new strands of hair and gains back his weight)
Trivia
- When Krusty approaches the camp, he has an altercation with reporters and punches out a cameraman. This is based on a real incident involving Axl Rose.
- The plot of this episode was considered for The Simpsons Movie but the writers were unable to expand it.
- There are some similarities to Alan Sherman's 1963 parodistic song on a kid's summer camp experience in Camp Grenada
- There is a reference to the book Lord of the Flies, when a pigs head on a stake is seen outside of Bart's command centre.
- Although the episode I Love Lisa establishes officially that Ralph is the son of Chief Clancy Wiggum, Ralph is actually referred to by his last name of Wiggum in this episode first.