Marge gets a job as a segment producer on Krusty's new talk show, which she soon realizes is a never-ending nightmare.Marge gets a job as a segment producer on Krusty's new talk show, which she soon realizes is a never-ending nightmare.Marge gets a job as a segment producer on Krusty's new talk show, which she soon realizes is a never-ending nightmare.
Dan Castellaneta
- Homer Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Julie Kavner
- Marge Simpson
- (voice)
- …
Nancy Cartwright
- Bart Simpson
- (voice)
Yeardley Smith
- Lisa Simpson
- (voice)
Hank Azaria
- Ron Rabinowitz
- (voice)
- …
Harry Shearer
- Reverend Lovejoy
- (voice)
- …
Drew Barrymore
- Drew Barrymore
- (voice)
Pamela Hayden
- Focus Group Lady
- (voice)
- …
Tress MacNeille
- Lindsey Naegle
- (voice)
- …
Kimberly Brooks
- Mother
- (voice)
- (as Kimberly D. Brooks)
Chris Edgerly
- Pat
- (voice)
- …
Dawnn Lewis
- Bernice Hibbert
- (voice)
- …
Melanie Minichino
- Audience Member
- (voice)
- …
Renee Ridgeley
- Dr. Wendy Sage
- (voice)
Tony Rodriguez
- Julio
- (voice)
Maggie Roswell
- Helen Lovejoy
- (voice)
- …
James Sie
- Segment Producer #2
- (voice)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKrusty's talk show, and the subsequent hostile workplace scandal, is a reference to The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003). DeGeneres was long known as the "Queen of Nice".
- Quotes
Krusty the Clown: For the first time in my life, I'm NOT responsible for a toxic work environment.
- ConnectionsReferences The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
Featured review
Pretty Nice
Certainly thin, but much more enjoyable, to me, than similar Marge episodes. I recently watched the "Marge is a high-end pot saleswoman" episode, yet ultimately felt blasé by the end. It was all a tad forced, with only a couple of good quips in it, much of the humor overshadowed by the premise. Conversely, "The King of Nice" just feels well-written, and is well-paced: there's a sense that it flows, and the jokes contain more than surface-level wit. There's something inspired to the way we cut back to Marge's abandoned intervention, where the assembled group scrambles to find somebody else's problems to address. Moe asks Homer how his drinking is; he replies, "The same."
In short, you can feel the effort here: there's just something refreshing to the way the episode keeps purring past its opening minutes, where many lesser Simpsons episodes dump all their best material (albeit by design). It's not a great episode, and, arguably, barely even a good one. But it's still clever, not only consistently, but surprisingly so, with unexpected moments of wit that catch you off guard. I like this version of The Simpsons, however imperfect. To me, it's as a far cry from mediocrity, having seen what that looks like firsthand.
In short, you can feel the effort here: there's just something refreshing to the way the episode keeps purring past its opening minutes, where many lesser Simpsons episodes dump all their best material (albeit by design). It's not a great episode, and, arguably, barely even a good one. But it's still clever, not only consistently, but surprisingly so, with unexpected moments of wit that catch you off guard. I like this version of The Simpsons, however imperfect. To me, it's as a far cry from mediocrity, having seen what that looks like firsthand.
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- collinschris-49632
- Jun 2, 2024
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