The Stellar Acting Career of Troy McClure

Original list by Jeff Soesbe

Updated by Kerwin So.
Movies | TV Series | TV Specials | Musicals | Cartoons | Educational Films | Do-It-Yourself Videos | Telethons | "I Can't Believe They Invented It!" | Other Infomercials & Miscellaneous | Self-Help Videos | Fragrances | Assorted Independent Products | Publications | Business Ventures | Medical Films
Key to Abbreviations | Original Credits

NEW!  The gracious John Chadwick has provided me with this information which I was previously missing because I've never "experienced" the Virtual Springfield CD-ROM.  These are, unsurprisingly, hysterical.

From the Virtual Springfield CD-ROM:

MUSICALS

MOVIES And you can see a clip from "Calling All Quakers".

OTHER COMPUTER TRAVEL GUIDES

 
A PERSONAL AD READS:

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(It's spelled Itchylogist, but I think they meant Icthyologist)  [maybe a reference to I & S? - K]
 
A TV Guide cover features a spotlight falling on a sullen McClure and reads: "Troy McClure's TV Career Turning Point:  Director's Chair or Elephant Graveyard".

Movies (top)

Notes

  1. "Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die" is the first McBain movie, according to the McBain trading card.
  2. Troy turned down the part of McBain's sidekick in "McBain IV : Fatal Discharge" to do "Contrabulous Fabtraption". [3F15]
TV Series (top) TV Specials (top) Musicals (top) Cartoons (top) Educational films and the like (top)

Notes

  1. Note : The Meat Council film is number 3F03 in the "Resistance is Useless" Series.
Do-It-Yourself Videos (top) Telethons (top) "I Can't Believe They Invented It!" (top) Other Infomercials and Miscellaneous (top) Self-Help Videos (top) Fragrances (top) Assorted Independent Products  (top) Publications (top) Business Ventures (top) Medical Films (top) Key to abbreviations (top) Original Credits (top)

Episode number research and thankless past maintenance carried out by Chris Baird (cbaird@scorch.apana.org.au), with his modest assistant Bucky Whaley (Bucky.Whaley@launchpad.unc.edu).

Some information provided by Dave Hall (davehall@muug.mb.ca) and Chris Lehr (cjl1782@rit.edu).

"I Can't Believe They Invented It" details provided by Gregory Myers (gregory_myers@prenhall.com).

Information from printed Simpsons materials supplied by Jim Dyer (jym@remarque.berkeley.edu), Anthony Dean (adean@expert.cc.purdue.edu), James Liu (sliu39@mail.idt.net), Phil McGoldrick (phil.mcgoldrick@xtra.co.nz), Ian Pugh (skypilot@ezaccess.net) and the man himself, Troy McClure (masquerading as weiland@uclink2.berkeley.edu).

Information from AfterDark(tm) Simpsons Screen Saver (movies and ICBTII! provided by John (JTMacc@aol.com).

This list can also be found, along with many other Simpson tidbits, at The Simpsons Archive.

P.S!  Jeff Soesbe sez:

 
"Here's the details on the birth of the list:

The list was created during a conversation between Tim Nichols and me while goofing off one day at Apple. While discussing The Simpsons, we both professed extreme admiration for that actor of actors, Troy McClure. We wrote a list of all the movies we could remember on the whiteboard outside my cubicle and titled it 'Troy McClure's Movies'. I then sent out a call on the alt.tv.simpsons newsgroup (for this was early in 1991, before the World Wide Web was the cultural force it was today) for the rest of the titles, and collected the full list (which was about 10-12 movies). I gave the list a title worthy of Troy, and posted it to the newsgroup. Thus was 'The Stellar Acting Career of Troy McClure' born."