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Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot

Episode Number: 398    Season Num: 18    First Aired: Sunday May 13, 2007    Prod Code: JABF12
Homer unwittingly drags the family into a cornfield maze after attempting to leave a boring Harvest fest that Marge brought them to. When everyone except Homer escapes, Santa's Little Helper rescues him and becomes the town hero. So the family enrolls him in the Police Dog Academy and after graduation he's teamed with Lou. Police life becomes too much for Santa's Little Helper and he bites Bart. It is decided that he can no longer live with the family. Bart finds a new pet in a python, but in the end, Bart must choose between his dog and his snake.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: John Frink
Director: Matthew C. Faughnan
Star: Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others),  Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others),  Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others),  Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier),  Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others),  Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
Recurring Role: Karl Wiedergott (Additional Voices),  Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel),  Russi Taylor (Martin Prince, Sherri, Terri and others),  Stephen Hawking (Himself),  Maurice LaMarche (Additional Voices),  Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others),  Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others)

Notes

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Blackboard Joke: Pearls are not oyster barf.
Couch Gag: Everyone runs in and sits on the couch. Then another set of Simpsons comes in and squeezes onto the couch. More and more sets of the family come in until they fill up the entire house and start falling out the windows. Homer yells, "Don't shove!" (edit)

Quotes

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Microsoft Paper Clip: You look like you're trying to eat me. Need some help? (edit)
Bart: Hey Lis, wanna touch Strangles? He's not slimy at all, he's scaly.
Lisa: (After touching the snake) Eww! He is slimy!
Bart: That's because I soaked him in slime! (edit)
(lost in the corn maze)
Lisa: Dad, why don't you throw me in the air and I can see which way is out? (he does) Corn. (again) More corn. (again) Another kid getting thrown in the air. (again) Witches' coven. (again) Seattle Space Needle. (again) Amateur production of You Can't Take It With You. (again) Oh, I'm getting dizzy. (again) And corn again. (edit)
Bart: Oh man! It's like the chemicals cut one! (edit)
Judge Snyder: You stand accused of giving hope to scrawny young men. How do you plead?
Snake: Guilty… of being innocent!
(Crowd laughs, Santa's Little Helper growls) (edit)

Trivia

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When nitric acid & ethanol are mixed in this episode it produces a toxic gas. In fact, mixing these two chemicals will make a very explosive mixture, not a toxic gas. (edit)
The music playing over the scene where Santa's Little Helper, along with the other animals, are in training is from the 1975-1976 television series S.W.A.T.. (edit)
After Snake got arrested, the court is shown. Near the front entrance you can see a "El Barto" tag. (edit)
Even though the pet store owner cut Strangles down to 1 foot, he is still looking longer, after Bart takes him home. (edit)
Lou lives in an apartment. (edit)

Allusions

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In Bart's fantasy sequence, Santa's Little Helper looked like RoboCop and then transforms like a Transformer, after Bart told him to do so. (edit)
In Bart's fantasy sequence, he sees Santa's Little Helper rescue him from Jason Voorhees and Pinhead, of Friday the 13th and Hellraiser respectively. (edit)
The song played when Santa's Little Helper looks for Homer in the maze is Korn's "Freak On A Leash". This might be a pun on the fact that the maze is built inside a corn field. (edit)
Willie: That'll do snake, that'll do.
This is a reference to a similar line at the end of 1995 film Babe: "That'll do pig, that'll do." (edit)
Title: Is a take on the 1992 film "Stop or My Mom Will Shoot." (edit)
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8.6
Great
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
"Another great installment"
Bart must choose to have a snake as a pet or his dog Santas Little Helper.. Who will he choose???
Continue » Posted Dec 31, 2007 8:07 am PST
6.4
Fair
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
"Unoriginal"
This episode wasn't so original. The plot was similar in another show.
Continue » Posted Oct 18, 2007 6:19 pm PST
9.3
Superb
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
"Above average"
simpsons
Continue » Posted Aug 2, 2007 7:57 pm PST

tubalcane420
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9.0
Superb
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
"Another great installment"
I'm going straight. Straight to my customers to sell them more drugs.
Continue » Posted May 17, 2007 2:31 pm PST

jimbo_001
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8.5
Great
Stop Or My Dog Will Shoot
"Another great installment"
I have to hand it to the writers, they certainly are creative with plots about pets.
Continue » Posted May 15, 2007 9:40 pm PST
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