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Plot

Homer Simpson sees an ad for Dimoxinil, a new "miracle cure" for baldness. He visits a store which sells Dimoxinil, but it is far out of Homer's price range. At work, Lenny suggests Homer pay for Dimoxinil through the company medical insurance plan. He successfully 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, mistaking him for a young go-getter, chooses Homer for the job. Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Lenford Lenny Leonard, MPhys is a fictional character in The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... Health Insurance is a type of insurance whereby the insurer pays the medical costs of the insured if the insured becomes sick due to covered causes, or due to accidents. ... Charles Montgomery Monty Burns, normally referred to as Mr. ...

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. Homer quickly becomes quite good at his new job. Burns is so impressed with Homer's efforts that he gives Homer the key to the executive washroom. Smithers begins to feel jealous of Homer and, after one look at Homer's file, discovers the case of insurance fraud that gave Homer hair in the first place. Waylon Smithers, Jr. ...

Homer is about to be fired for the scam, but Karl takes the blame and is fired instead. Homer is invited to give a speech at the next meeting. Homer is nervous about giving the speech without Karl, but reasons that as long as he has hair, everything will be fine. When he gets home, he finds that Bart has spilled all of Homer's Dimoxinil in a misguided attempt to grow a beard. The next day, Homer, bald again, arrives at the meeting. His fears are allieviated when Karl appears with a pre-written speech for him. Homer presents his speech, but the audience is unable to take him seriously without hair. Rather than punishing him, Burns, a fellow sufferer of male pattern baldness, sympathizes with Homer's situation. Homer is demoted back to his old position. Marge consoles him, singing "You Are So Beautiful To Me." Bart and his sister Lisa as news anchors. ... A man with a full beard A beard is the hair that grows on a mans chin, cheeks, neck, and the area above the upper lip (the opposite is a clean-shaven face). ...

Trivia

• In this episode, Mr. Burns is revealed to be 81 years old.
• 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 prevent confusion. However, Carl wasn't named until Season 3's Homer at the Bat (and was spelled as "Karl" by Homer in Principal Charming).
• "jiko kanri", mentioned by Homer in his speech, means something along the lines of "self-supervision" in Japanese.

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Cultural references

• The title comes from the Bible story "Samson and Delilah": Samson's strength depended on keeping Nazarite law, which included not cutting his hair.
• Dimoxinil is a spoof on a similar product, Minoxidil, which was originally used for high blood pressure, and later became Rogaine.
• The character Karl was played by openly gay actor Harvey Fierstein, and it is at least implied that Karl is also gay. (In the booklet for the season's DVD set, it is said that Karl's character is 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.
• Reference to movie "It's a Wonderful Life", when Homer ran through town when he gets his hair.
• Reference to movie "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", when Homer receives the key to the executive washroom.

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