Hey Howdy Hey Tappers!
Update time in Springfield! Always nice to see new content in TSTO, as the latest mini-event has hit our games. Of course, an all-new event means all-new premium content in our stores, just tempting us to drop those pink sprinkles!
As we all know, that limited-time label can tempt us to grab everything in sight because it’ll be gone soon. But don’t sweat it! That’s where we come in to tell you what’s worth those donuts and what you might want to hold off on.
Wondering if you should add Skinny Palmer and KJAZZ to your Springfield? Well before you hit that confirm button let’s break down the pros and cons of adding this jazzy duo to your town…
Building/Decoration: KJAZZ
Character: Skinny Palmer
Donut Cost: 150 Donuts
Size: 6×8
Earns: $135,15xp/4hrs
Conform-O-Meter: Socialism +20
Can Be Placed: grass|pavement|boardwalk|pier|dirt
WDTCF?: Skinny- “Jazzy and the Pussycats” S18, E2
KJAZZ- “Round Springfield” S6, E22
Leaves stores October 7th, 2020
The Rundown:
-The standard price for a character/building combo
-Helps earn event currency at a premium rate
-Voiced
-Comes with questline
-Visual Tasks are 4hrs and 8hrs
-Has no tasks at KJAZZ
-Lisa has a 6hr task at KJAZZ, Host a Radio Show No One Listens To
What Did I Do?:
Grabbed it.
Here’s a look at the tasks…
Skinny Palmer’s Permanent Tasks:
Task | Length | Earns | Location |
Whisper Sweet Nothings to Eleanor | 1hr | $105, 26xp | Apartments in Springfield/Brown House |
Follow the Footprints | 4hrs | $260, 70xp | Outside/visual |
Busk for Extra Cash | 8hrs | $420, 105 | Outside/Visual |
Scat Sing to Unwilling Bystanders | 12hrs | $600, 150xp | Grocery Store/KEM/Android’s/Brown House |
Wait for a Slot at Open Mic Night | 24hrs | $1,000, 225xp | Spotted Cat/Jazzy Goodtimes/The Jazz Hole/ Brown House |
I’ll have the full dialogue of the questline up later on, but for now, here’s the Turbo Tappin’ version of the questline…
The Couch Caper Pt. 1
Skinny Palmer starts
Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Clues- 2hrs
Make Lunchlady Dora Squeeze Ketchup Packets- 2hrs
The Couch Caper Pt. 2
Skinny Palmer starts
Make Skinny Palmer Stock Up on Detective Supplies- 4hrs
The Couch Caper Pt. 3
Skinny Palmer starts
Make Skinny Palmer Have a Stakeout- 4hrs
Make Manacek Have a Stakeout- 4hrs
The Couch Caper Pt. 4
Skinny Palmer starts
Make Skinny Palmer Follow the Footprints- 4hrs
The Couch Caper Pt. 5
Skinny Palmer starts
Make Skinny Palmer Search the Couch Cushions for Coins- 2hrs
Make Lunchlady Dora Search the Couch Cushions for Coins- 2hrs
Thoughts on Skinny and KJAZZ? Will you be spending the donuts to bring it to your Springfield? Did you already? Why or why not? Where have you placed it in your town? Design plans? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!
And feel free to share some photos of your design plan as well! If you need help (or a refresher) posting photos in the comments, check out this post.
A great character and building combo in this event for a number of reasons:
KJAZZ: Another radio station to go with KBBL Radio; Lisa and Skinny Palmer use it in part 2 of the main questline; it gets used permanently by 2 characters Lisa and Marbles Le Marquez (which kind of makes up for Skinny Palmer not having a permanent task there); its from a classic episode; one of the few items that improves the socialism rating (which is only increased from visiting neighbours). 📻
Skinny Palmer: He’s voiced; great outdoor and indoor tasks (he can use an event prize (Spotted Cat), a rarely used building (Grocery Store) and random apartments); helps with the event in 2 ways by earning event currency and having 2 tasks in the main questline (one uses KJAZZ which is the only time he uses it); dialogue and questline are great which also involves Lunchlady Dora and Manacek; he’s 1/3 of the Skinny Palmer Trio. 🎺
There are still some improvements for these two including: Like what CJBrownLV said, KJAZZ having the ability to broadcast programs such as “KJAZZ Hits”, “Moleman in the Morning”, Lisa’s Radio Show, and BGM’s album “Sax on the Beach”; Skinny Palmer having at least 1 permanent task at KJAZZ (the one time 2 hour task he had “Improvise Scat on KJAZZ” would be great if it was permanent); Skinny Palmer having a joint visual task with Marbles Le Marquez and Tic Tock Simpson. 🎷
They are still really good items.
FYI, his questline doesn’t unlock until you get The Spotted Cat and start part 4 of the main questline.
also marbles is voiced!! very nice!!
Am i the only one who farming for donuts with bloodmobile not working?
You are not…EA has seemingly adjusted this one.
Patric, do you think they have plans to adjust the other items that can be used for donut farming?
Hard to say…the could do the same with rat trap tricks. But it would be very hard to do with KEMs, as they are interactive vital decorations. But, they could mess with values. Hard to say.
My guess is that they will leave KEMs alone…as they tend to dole out the donuts more slowly, and not in giant dollops like the RTTs and BMs.
I think this must have been a temporary bug as Im still able to farm with bloodmobiles and rat trap trucks. havent tried with K.E.M’s as that is a bit tedious
Update: seems like it was a temporary bug indeed. Reinstalled the app and i now can farm with BMs no prob.
Thanks for the answers !
Not working? What has been happening?
Since I have the donuts to spend I tend to by any combo whether good or bad. Even bought a ton of Jazz bands for the 4% … at 20 donuts you can’t go wrong and it really brings up ones percentage.
Hmmm. I just had a jazzy good times bldg dropped off in my game. Anyone know about this?? (But not in main acct. only in secondary one).
I also didn’t have questline start for this in main acct.
Yea it’s needed for part of the questline, so when you unlock the first building if you don’t have it I believe it’s an added bonus
A nice surprise!
You actually must buy him, in order to continue the event, as he is required for two tasks in part 2 and 3. I also has no quest with him yet – propably after event complete.
You’re not forced to buy him. If you don’t have him his tasks won’t appear for you.
I bought this combo. Really like that the character is voiced. However, no quest line started for me 🙁
Glad to know I’m not the only one
??? i am still showing the milhouse event and no new update in the google play store!!! plus my game has not loaded in a couple of days…???
Sounds like you need to uninstall, and reinstall.
Looks like I am going to have to reinstall as well. Just have the spinning donut.
Must be the 3rd time I have had to do this in as many months.
Never mind, just got to get on with it.
Skinny Palmer – fun “voiced” Character with silly Visual Tasks (enjoy his Questline with Lunchlady Dora & Manacek at the Bachelor Arms Apartments!)
KJAZZ Building – kinda wished L-EA-Z-Y had made this like KBBL & Channel 6 (a Building with Character Tasks & different Hourly Tasks you can buy to start, but hey still a fun Building!)
He’s another Premium Character that earns Event Currency at Premium amount (by now? you either want the Premium Content ….. or you don’t waiting to see if this shows up in a Mystery Box).
Got him.
Because Yellow Lives Matter.
After getting the vomitorium / bourbon band. You are offered additional bourbon bands at 20 donuts a pop. The bourbon band offers a 4% bonus percentage. This is a great deal for XP percentage. I have acquired several myself.
Yup, it’ll be covered on that SIB…although covertly so EA doesn’t make the adjustment.
We trust YOU for validation more than we do EA (thank you for taking the time to post when we know how busy you are). 😀👍🏻
I think EA have gotten wise to this anomaly as the item is no longer in the store. 😵
I didn’t get any questline with my purchase.
It’ll appear, may be log jammed with something else.
Same here. No questline. All characters are free. Skinny Palmer has a 60m task that’s grayed out, “Whisper sweet nothings to Eleanor” that says it requires “quest”. Doesn’t appear to be anything that can be done to get the questline started.
Keep playing through. I don’t remember specifically because I did it so quick, but it may not trigger until you’ve finished the event.