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The Great Gabbo is a 1929 American Pre-Code early sound musical drama film directed by James Cruze, based on Ben Hecht 's 1928 short story "The Rival Dummy", and starring Erich von Stroheim and Betty Compson. [1] . The film features songs by Lynn Cowan, Paul Titsworth, Donald McNamee and King Zany.
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An advert of the show, just saying "Gabbo, Gabbo, Gabbo" came on after watching an episode of Springfield Squares. The whole of Springfield wanted to know what it was, even having a segment on Channel 6 News about it. When the proper advert came, it was revealed that it would be in the same time slot as The Krusty the Clown Show. After the first ep...
Gabbo, under the control of Arthur Crandall, usually says funny things. He then gets up, dances, does impressions, throws money out to the audience and travels back in time. The Gabbo Show also started to show The Itchy & Scratchy Show, taking it from The Krusty the Clown Show. Gabbo also crank calls people, another bit stolen from Krusty, although...
After Bartturned filming of the show back on, Gabbo was heard saying "all the kids in Springfield are SOBs". This caused a great outrage and many didn't think he deserved a place on TV after this. However, Gabbo still held his popularity.
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- "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
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Gabbo gets his name from the title character of the 1929 film The Great Gabbo. In the film, Gabbo is a ventriloquist who operates a dummy named Otto. Gabbo's face looks just like the famous dummy Howdy Doody, who hosted an afternoon children's program from 1947 to 1960.
A new kids' show starring Gabbo, a sarcastic ventriloquist dummy, and Arthur Crandall, his straitlaced ventriloquist becomes more popular than The Krusty the Clown Show. After several failed attempts to compete with The Gabbo Show , Krusty's show gets canceled and he spirals into depression.
After Itchy & Scratchy switch to Gabbo's show (meanwhile, Mayor Quimby manages to get re-elected in spite of openly admitting the murder of some political enemies... just by appropriating the dummy's catchphrase), Krusty resorts to airing a Dadaist Eastern European cartoon called Worker & Parasite, but this attempt fails and the show is cancelled.
Gabbo gets his name from the title character of the 1929 film The Great Gabbo. In the film, Gabbo is a ventriloquist who operates a dummy named Otto. Gabbo's face looks just like the famous dummy Howdy Doody, who hosted an afternoon children's program from 1947 to 1960.
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The Gabbo Show is a show that only appears in the episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. This show competed against The Krusty the Clown Show, airing in the same 4:00 PM slot as Krusty 's show. Gabbo is the titular puppet that presents the show alongside Arthur Crandall.
