being upstaged at his audition as Krusty's sidekick (his dream job since he was five-years-old) ten years prior by Bob, who was chosen as the clown's sidekick instead. Cecil locks Bob, Bart and Lisa in the dam and prepares to blow it up, taking the money with him. Deciding to work together, Bart, Lisa, and Bob escape and try to save the dam. While Lisa and Bob defuse Cecil's dynamite, Bart lunges at Cecil before he can press the plunger. Cecil attempts to swat him off with the briefcase, which falls open and scatters money over the river below, washing it away. Cecil throws Bart off a cliff, but Bob grabs the dynamite's chord and swoops down to save him. As the two dangle over the side of the dam, Bob cuts the cord on the dynamite to prevent Cecil from destroying the town. Bob and Bart plummet down the dam's wall, but a protruding pipe stops their fall. The police arrive and arrest Cecil. Bob gloats over his victory, having gained the respect of Bart and Lisa, but Chief Wiggum arrests Bob, despite Bart and Lisa's protests that he is reformed. As they are taken away, Cecil tricks Bob into swearing revenge and incriminating himself. The dam then crumbles and releases a torrent of water on Springfield, but does only minimal damage. In jail, Bob and Cecil bicker over who gets the top bunk and Bob wins when he pushes Cecil onto the floor, only for Cecil to ask him if they get any menus. Production The episode was written by Ken Keeler, who had been watching a lot of Frasier episodes at the time and had been assigned to write a Sideshow Bob episode and he thought it would be a good idea to mix the two. David Hyde Pierce was cast as Sideshow Bob's brother, causing Pierce to joke, "Normally, I would not do something like this. But how often do you get a chance to work with an actor like Kelsey Grammer and, more importantly, play his brother?" While Sideshow Bob is addressing the crowd, a man near the back raises his hand and says "probably"; he is also voiced by David Hyde Pierce, who had wanted to be a man in a crowd. An early draft of the episode originally featured an opera house explosion, which was changed because the writers felt using a dam