King of the Hill

The family goes to a church picnic. When the kids start a game of capture the flag, Bart chooses Homer to be on his team. Soon, Bart realizes Homer is not physically fit and is disappointed in him when he collapses just a few feet from the finish line and gets egged by the other kids. That night, Homer thinks about how ashamed Bart was and, at midnight, sneaks out to exercise. At a later night, Homer is running and decides to stop at the Kwik-E-Mart, where he discovers an energy bar called "Power Sauce," which he starts to eat regularly.

During another one of his late-night runs, he finds a 24-hour gym. There, he meets Rainier Wolfcastle who becomes his fitness coach. In two months, Homer is slimmer and has defined muscles. Homer then reveals to the family that he has been secretly working out. The family is impressed, even Bart. He goes with Homer to the gym one day, where Rainier is being asked by two "Power Sauce" representatives to climb the tallest mountain in Springfield, "The Murderhorn", as a publicity stunt. When Rainier refuses, Bart informs them that Homer will climb it and, when he is asked, Homer accepts, despite having no mountain climbing experience and seeing how dangerously tall the Murderhorn is.

When he finds out that Homer is climbing the mountain, Abraham Simpson urges Homer not to do it, as he attempted to when he was younger, and was betrayed by his friend C. W. McAllister. In the flashback he remembers that he was thrown off the mountain by McAllister to his "death." Homer ignores him and publicly begins his climbing. He is aided by two Sherpas as guides, who were instructed to drag Homer up the mountain as he sleeps. During one of these nights, Homer wakes up to discover that he is being secretly dragged, and fires the two Sherpas. After a loss of communication with Homer, many, including the "Power Sauce" representatives, predict Homer's death and claim to him that the bars are made of just apple cores and shredded Chinese newspaper. Homer ignores their plea and continues to climb while having hallucinations, and when he believes he has reached the top, he only sees that he has made it to a ledge.

Homer enters a small cave on the side of the mountain and discovers the frozen body of McAllister and his journal. Homer reads that it was actually his father that betrayed McAllister and even attempted to eat him. Ashamed of himself and his father, Homer climbs out and sticks his flag on the ledge causing mountain's peak to break off, thereby making the ledge Homer was standing on the peak. Proud of his work, Homer uses McAllister's body as a sled to go down the mountain, where he is greeted by a crowd. Homer is happy that Bart is finally proud of him, but chagrined when Marge notes that he left his wallet on the summit

Krusty Gets Busted

Homer stops by the Kwik-E-Mart on the way home from work, and witnesses a robbery committed by a masked clown resembling Krusty. He identifies the clown as Krusty to the police, and Krusty is arrested, upsetting Bart, who considers him to be his idol. During his trial the next day, Krusty is revealed to be illiterate. After being called out to the stand, Homer points out Krusty as the robber, and he is convicted and sentenced to jail. The community then gathers up in a public burning as they burn up all of Krusty's merchandise. Krusty's sidekick Sideshow Bob becomes the new host of his show and making it a more educational program, while retaining the popular Itchy & Scratchy cartoons. Still refusing to accept that his hero could have committed the crime, Bart enlists the help of a reluctant Lisa and they set out to prove Krusty's innocence.

At the scene of the crime, Lisa deduces Krusty could not have been the robber because the robber used the microwave not suitable for those with a pacemaker (which Krusty was revealed earlier to have), and reading a magazine at the magazine rack. She accepts Bart's theory that he may have been framed. She asks Bart if there was anyone who had motives to see Krusty gone and he suggests they ask Sideshow Bob because he may identify any known enemies. Bart and Lisa go to Sideshow Bob for his help in finding out if Krusty had any known enemies who wanted him gone, but are given tickets to his show. At the live broadcast, Bart is invited up on stage with Bob, where he points out the facts regarding the microwave and magazine, which Bob dismisses. When Bob says he has "some mighty big shoes to fill", Bart remembers how Homer stepped on the robber's shoes that made him scream in pain. When he watched Krusty head to trial, he was wearing normal shoes much too small to hold feet as large as the robber's. Bart knew that despite wearing clown shoes all the time, Krusty never would have felt Homer stepping on them due to his small feet. It was then he realized that Sideshow Bob is the real robber, since he had the most to gain in Krusty's downfall and has large feet. Bart proves his evidence by hitting Bob's feet with a comedy mallet on live television. The police, having watched the show, realized they wrongfully put Krusty in jail for a crime he did not commit and head down the studio to arrest Sideshow Bob.

Arrested and exposed, Bob confesses that the reason he framed Krusty was out of frustration for constantly being on the receiving end of the clown's humiliating gags. He gives a grudging kudos to the Simpson kids before being carted of to jail. Bob warns criminals not to underestimate children in spite of their innocent looks, because they were smart enough to foil him and can do the same to them. The charges against Krusty are dropped and he regains the trust of the community. Homer then apologizes to Krusty for fingering him in court, and Krusty thanks Bart for standing up for the truth and sticking to his convictions, and a picture is taken of the two shaking hands (which Bart later hangs in his bedroom, refilled with Krusty decor).

Ooooohhhhh, a gym!

Krusty Gets busted has some of the slow pacing and weird dialogue that early episodes have, but it gets some points for a great Sideshow Bob performance. And I love the exchange: "What would you do if I went off the air?" / "WE'D KILL OURSELVES!!!"

But I do love the Murderhorn.

krusty gets busted is quintessential early simpsons

i love it

I'm going to unlock the awesome power of apples