Simpson and Delilah

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"Simpson and Delilah"
Episode no.	15
Prod. code	7F02
Orig. Airdate	October 18, 1990
Writer(s)	Jon Vitti
Director	Rich Moore
Chalkboard	"Tar is not a plaything."
Couch gag	The family does a little dance.
Guest star(s)	Harvey Fierstein as Karl
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Season 2 October 11, 1990 – July 11, 1991
Bart Gets an F Simpson and Delilah Treehouse of Horror Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish Dancin' Homer Dead Putting Society Bart vs. Thanksgiving Bart the Daredevil Itchy & Scratchy & Marge Bart Gets Hit by a Car One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish The Way We Was Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment Principal Charming Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Bart's Dog Gets an F Old Money Brush with Greatness Lisa's Substitute The War of the Simpsons Three Men and a Comic Book Blood Feud
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"Simpson and Delilah" is the second episode of The Simpsons' second season, which aired on October 18, 1990.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural References
4 External Links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Homer Simpson realizes he does not have much hair and wants a new hair cure drug, Dimoxinil, after seeing a commercial on TV calling it a "miracle breakthrough". He visits a store which sells Dimoxinil, but it costs $1,000, and Homer cannot afford that. At work, Lenny suggests Homer pay for Dimoxinil through the company medical insurance plan. Homer arranges to get the Dimoxinil through a shady deal in an alley with the doctor who offered the Dimoxinil for $1,000. He applies the drug, and the next day, Homer wakes up with hair. At work, Mr. Burns surveys the security monitors to find a new person to promote to an executive position. He sees Homer with hair and chooses Homer for the job.

Homer rolls on the lawn in happiness after growing hair.

As he is about to become an executive, Homer tries to look for a good secretary, but all the applicants fail - until Homer finds a man, Karl, who applies. Homer eventually picks Karl, and they go shopping for a suit. At the power plant's board meeting, Homer finds a good suggestion to improve the low productivity and decrease the record high worker accident rate: Give people more tartar sauce when they have fishsticks every Tuesday. Mr. Burns approves Homer's proposal, and accidents have, according to Smithers, decreased by the number of accidents that Homer himself is known to have caused last month. With Burns impressed with Homer's efforts, he gives him the key to the executive washroom.

As Homer is given the key, Smithers exposes Homer's phony medical insurance form, where the reason Homer got Dimoxinil was recorded as "to keep brain from freezing." Burns asks Homer to give a speech to the executives, and at the same time, Smithers discovers that Homer has bilked the power plant's insurance plan out of $1,000. Smithers fires Homer on the spot, but Karl takes the blame and is fired instead. When he gets home, Bart has used Homer's Dimoxinil in order to grow a beard. Bart accidentally spills Homer's bottle, and Homer is infuriated. The next day, Homer, bald again, arrives at the meeting. Homer presents his speech, but the people who see it reject him. He is asked to come to Mr. Burns' office, and Burns mentions his struggle with "male-pattern baldness". In the end, Homer gets his regular job back, and Marge consoles him.

[edit] Trivia

Homer thinks the capital of North Dakota is Hitler while watching the TV show Grade School Challenge.
Dimoxinil is a spoof on a similar product, Minoxidil, which was originally used for high blood pressure, and later became Rogaine.
The address of Dimoxinil is 485 Hair Plaza in Hair City, Utah.
The name of some of Homer's hair restoration products are "Bald Buster", "Hair Chow" and "Gorilla Man Scalp Blast".
When Homer says he cannot afford the product he is offered "Hair in a Drum" for $19.95. The Dimoxinil salesperson tells him that any hair growth experienced while using the "Hair in a Drum" will be purely coincidental.
Homer gets his hair cut at Jake's Unisex Hair Palace.
Homer and Karl shop for a new suit at the Royal Majesty: For the Obese or Gangly Man.
The character Karl was played by openly gay actor Harvey Fierstein, and it is at least implied that Karl is also gay. This marks the beginning of a trend of several LGBT characters on The Simpsons. The character was supposed to reappear in "Three Gays of the Condo", but Fierstein objected.
This also features the first animated male-on-male kiss.
This episode is unusual in that one of the guest characters has the same name as one of the (semi) regulars, in this case Carl (albeit spelt differently, with a K). Normally this would be avoided to avoid confusion.