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[The Simpsons] Whatever happened to Lionel Hutz and Troy McClure?

Yes, I am aware that Phil Hartman was murdered and the characters were retired in his memory, but I'm talking about in-universe.
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Troy McClure sued Krusty the Clown and the production studio of the Radioactive Man movie when it was revealed that they used his trademarked character “Silly Sailor”. If you remember, Troy McClure starred in the recurring role of “Silly Sailor” in such films as: ‘Mercers’s tribute to Oceanic Life’, ‘Love at 50,000 Leagues; The Erotic Entanglement of Seaweed’, and ‘Tootie! The Friendly Tugboat’.

Troy McClure bought the rights to “Silly Sailor” after his…fish rumor… caused the character and his career to spiral into obscurity and cause said films to only be valuable on the black market in Liechtenstein. When he discovered Krusty the Clown was using his character in the new Radioactive Man movie (which he auditioned for and was turned down), he sprung into legal action and sued for trademark violation.

He hired attorney/convicted copper wire wrangler Lionel Hutz to represent him, merely out of lack of financial ability to hire anyone else. Hutz was unable to come up with a legit case, until he found a book on trademark laws he stole from the Judges office one day to wipe hotwing sauce off his hands. He was able to use crude and extremely vulgar drawings of stick figures to win the case for McClure in the lump sum of 80,000,000 dollars and ownership of the Krusty Burger built on an un-manned oil rig out off the Atlantic Coast. 

Troy McClure now lives a quiet, yet still questionable, life out on that oil rig. As for Lionel Hutz, he was last seen taking his case earnings and hitch-hiking to Texas to buy lottery tickets. No one has seen him since.