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Hell Toup�e
It's his third strike, Snake is sent to the electric chair. He vows revenge on all on those who were there when he was caught, Apu, Moe & Bart. Snake is electrocuted and his organs are saved for transplant. The beneficiary of his hair is one Homer J. Simpson. The hair begins exacting the revenge promised by its former owner.

The Terror of Tiny Toon
Marge takes the batteries from the TV remote control. Bart substitutes plutonium with strange results as he and Lisa become cartoon characters in an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, where the violence is real.

Starship Poopers
When Maggie gets her first tooth, a fang, and loses her legs, which are replaced by tentacles. Marge confesses that Homer is not the father, but rather Kang is. To settle the dispute on what would be better for Maggie's future, Bart suggests they go on The Jerry Springer Show and of course a fight or two breaks out. Add a recap »

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Writers:: David X. Cohen Larry Doyle Donick Cary

Director:: Steven Dean Moore

Stars:: Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier); Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others); Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson); Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others); Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others); Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others)

Recurring Role:: Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others)

Guest Star:: Regis Philbin (Himself); Ed McMahon (Himself); Kathie Lee Gifford (Herself); Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger); Jerry Springer (Himself)

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This episode was nominated for the 1999 Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore). edit »
List of the Halloween names used by the staff on this episode:

RAT GROENING
VEINS HELL BROOKS,
MATT GROIN INJURY,
SAM "SAYONARA" SIMON,
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GHOULIE KAVNER,
NANCY "KILLER ACTOR" CARTWRIGHT,
THE CANKER,
MY AREA,
HARRY (DEAD TIL 2005) SHEARER edit »
Originally in the Second Segment, the original plot is that Bart and Lisa were supossed to go on the Ally Mcbeal show, but Calista Flockhart backed out at the last minute edit »
This was the first Simpson episode created without the characters painted on celluloid, from then until part of the fifthteenth season all hand drawn character animation was put through a computer, colored there, and put directly on the film, Today every Simpson episode is put through the digtal proccess. Background animation and all! edit »
Opening Sequence:
Bart writes The Simpsons Halloween Special IX on the blackboard in blood stored in a pumpkin head. Then he runs out and we cut to the garage scene, but Bart slips on his skateboard and breaks his neck, Lisa drives into Bart on her bike and is thrown off into the wall where she gets stuck. Then Marge and Maggie drive Homer into the wall, killing him. Next we see Freddy and Jason sitting on the couch and asking themselves where the Simpsons are, they turn the TV on. edit »

Homer: You two-timing (Bleep!) (Bleep!)
Kang: Oh, yeah? Well (Bleep!) (Bleep!) hyper-bolic tarapoloid, (Bleep!) yo mama! edit »
Audience Member: Yeah, I got a question for that gross thing, whatever it is.
Jerry Springer: Homer?
Audience member: Nah, the green dude. edit »
Ed McMahon: Hi, I'm Ed McMahon. Tonight on fox, from the producers of When Skirts Fall Off and Secrets of National Security Revealed, it's World's Deadliest Executions. (the curtains reveal an electric chair and the audience cheers) Making his first appearance on the show, heeeere's Snake! (The audience boos Snake as he approaches)
Snake: Thank you, chickie-pies. (Cut to the Simpsons watching the show)
Homer: The chair? Ohh, how come they only do crucifixions during sweeps? (back to the prison)
Announcer: Snake played lacrosse at Ball State University.
Chief Wiggum: So long, Snake. You'll never harm another person with second-hand smoke. (Wiggum pulls the switch as Snake is being executed. The smoke coming off Snake causing Wiggum, Ed McMahon, and others to cough)
Snake: Dude� (he dies.)
Ed McMahon: Hi-yo!
Wiggum: All right, now let's get this carcass over to the hospital and carve it up for organs.
Barney: Dibs on the liver! edit »
Lisa: Of course! The transplant. Somehow Snake�s hair must be controlling�
Marge: Oh please, Lisa, everyone's already figured that out. edit »
Kent Brockman: And the fluffy kitten played with that ball of string all through the night. On a lighter note, A Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night. edit »

The Terror of Tiny Town
The segment title "The Terror of Tiny Toon" is a play on the title of the 1938 film, The Terror of Tiny Town. edit »
Starship Troopers
The segment title "Starship Poopers" is a parody of the title of the Robert Heinlein novel and later 1997 film Starship Troopers. edit »
When Apu sees Homer with his new hair he says, "Ooo, la la, Simpson" which is a play on the 1970's advertising slogan for Vidal Sassoon� "Ooo, la la, Sassoon." edit »
In "Hell Toup�e", Maggie picks up Snake's hair, holds it over her shoulder and starts sucking her thumb � la Linus from the "Peanuts" comics. edit »
Homer: Don't make me choose!

There is a 1986 episode of the the show Amazing Stories called "Hell Toupee" about a toupee made from the hair of an executed French murderer that hates lawyers. The hair uses its wearer to go on a lawyer-killing spree. edit »

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