Whatever happened to Sideshow Bob Terwilliger?

[Rushfan102]

Does anyone know why the Simpsons staff haven't made any new episodes featuring
Sideshow Bob?

Joe

[grosse]

Because the writers have serious trouble making a plot that isn't totally
wacky and doesn't involve Homer?

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\ How did they do that???? The last episode was
\ 'Brother from another series' wasn't it. And
\ he and brother got thrown in jail again. How
\ does this write them into a corner?

Bart saved Sideshow Bob's life in that ep -- Bob is a kindler, gentler
lunatic now. If he was going to kill anybody, it'd probably be Cecil.

"Sideshow Bob called me Chief Piggum!"

--
Hard work made me quit.

[grosse]

Okay, howabout a 'Silence of The Lambs' parody?

Cecil is on the loose, but his brother Sideshow Bob is still in prison.
Lisa (for whatever reason) must gain SSB's trust in order to apprehend the
insane Cecil...

Nah.

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[Ben Varkentine]

>Rushfan102 <rushf...@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:19990731184732...@ng-xd1.aol.com...
>> Does anyone know why the Simpsons staff haven't made any new episodes
>featuring
>> Sideshow Bob?

For one thing, there's the fact that with the last SB episode they kind of
wrote themselves and him into a corner.
That episode has a lot going for it, but it still may have been a mistake, from
the perspective of making new episodes.

Ben Varkentine

"well all the things you say make perfect sense to me
somehow i'm still unsure
then i catch myself going through the same old rhapsody..."--Thompson Twins
.

[Nathan]

grosse wrote:
>Because the writers have serious trouble making a plot that isn't totally
>wacky and doesn't involve Homer?

Well, I'd certainly say that "Cape Feare" was totally wacky, and that was a
Sideshow Bob episode. I suppose that a Bob episode could involve Homer, too,
although they usually give a more prominent role to Bart.

>Rushfan102 <rushf...@aol.com> wrote in message
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>> Does anyone know why the Simpsons staff haven't made any new episodes
>featuring
>> Sideshow Bob?

Nathan
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[Nik Riviera]

How did they do that???? The last episode was 'Brother from another series'
wasn't it. And he and brother got thrown in jail again. How does this
write them into a corner?

Ben Varkentine wrote in message
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>>Rushfan102 <rushf...@aol.com> wrote in message
>>news:19990731184732...@ng-xd1.aol.com...
>>> Does anyone know why the Simpsons staff haven't made any new episodes
>>featuring
>>> Sideshow Bob?
>

[VertigoDC]

>\ How did they do that???? The last episode was

>\ 'Brother from another series' wasn't it. And
>\ he and brother got thrown in jail again. How
>\ does this write them into a corner?
>

>Bart saved Sideshow Bob's life in that ep -- Bob is a kindler, gentler
>lunatic now. If he was going to kill anybody, it'd probably be Cecil.

Would it really be an exercise in unbelievability for the writers to think up a
new way for Bart to piss off Bob? Or to give Bob circumstances that would make
him turn to crime again?

Not all who wander are lost- J.R.R. Tolkien

[p....@diamond.co.uk]

> Does anyone know why the Simpsons staff haven't made any new episodes featuring
> Sideshow Bob?

The latest episode featuring Sideshow Bob was "Brother From Another
Series," from Season Eight, in which the episode concludes with him
and his brother being put in jail.

I agree, another SB episode would bring back the spirit of some of
the older episodes.