BONUS! Young Krusty, Kid, Prisoner Krusty and Old Man (Patreon)

A while back I decided to start grouping these non-speaking "bonus" characters together in posts to avoid spamming you all with multiple weekly posts about "random background jerk #629", but it means sometimes we get a few jammed up in the queue together as I spot a few eye-catching designs in quick succession.

So, first up is Young Krusty, from his days as (apparently) a mime, before the weight of showbusiness weighed him down:

This girl giggling at Krusty's heart attack also stood out to me. Crowd scenes tend to be a plethora of "look at this weirdo" moments, especially in season 1, but I just can't do them all, much as I wish I could.

I was questioning whether young Krusty was consistent with later versions of his young appearances (results: inconclusive), but I can say with confidence that prisoner Krusty is in no way representative of how they would portray Krusty later in the show.

Most notably: his naturally pale skin is absent here - many times later the show will comment on how "it ain't make-up". I wanted to research whether his feet have since been retconned into actually being big, but I know better than to search for a fictional character's feet on the internet.

You probably know the reference on Krusty's uniform but just in case: A113 refers to a classroom at the California Institute of Arts, where many animators are trained, and the number shows up as an easter egg in a lot of animated films, especially Pixar ones. This is noteworthy because Krusty Gets Busted was directed by Brad Bird,  who went on to direct The Incredibles and Ratatouille, and Bird was the first person to use A113 as an easter egg in a 1987 episode of Amazing Stories.

And lastly, this guy:

I suspect this was meant to be Jasper, but Jasper isn't established as a recurring character yet, so we get this approximation of a character from the model pack. We saw this happen back with Not Richard in Homer's Night Out, when consistency isn't required because no way did the animators know some nerd would be going through their work with a fine-toothed comb three decades later. How foolish of them!

This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.