Who Knew? FOX Wanted To Spin-Off Krusty The Clown From 'The Simpsons?' - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 11-04-2011, 10:40 PM

A live-action Simpsons spin-off about Krusty the Clown

It’s kind of incredible, when you think about it, that The Tracey Ullman Show spin-off The Simpsons has been around for so long — and been so popular for most of that run — without ever spawning a spin-off of its own. In fact, a few ideas for derivative series have been floated over the years. There was Tales from Springfield, which was to focus on the city’s non-Simpsons characters, and Matt Groening wanted to make Simptasia – yes, a Simpsons version of Fantasia. But the scrapped idea we find most intriguing is the live-action Krusty the Clown spin-off that surfaced in the mid-’90s and would have starred Dan Castellaneta (who voices Krusty, Homer, and many other Simpsons characters). Groening and a co-writer even wrote a pilot for the show, but development fell apart in the contracts-negotiation stage.

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sixfingers · 11-04-2011, 11:54 PM

I had heard about that, but I didn't know it was going to be live action. I thought it would be animated.

11-04-2011, 10:40 PM	#1
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11-04-2011, 11:54 PM	#2
sixfingers John Alan Elson Senior Member Join Date: Feb 22, 2008 Location: Sacramento Posts: 1,491	I had heard about that, but I didn't know it was going to be live action. I thought it would be animated.