History Recap / TheSimpsonsS2E2SimpsonAndDelilah

* WhatTheHellHero: After Bart destroys his one bottle of Dimoxinil, Homer decides not to kill him, but to tell him he's ruined his father, crippled his family, and that [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking baldness is hereditary]]. Bart seems pretty choked up about the final one.[note]Though it's actually inherited from the mother's side.[/note]

* WhatTheHellHero: After Bart destroys his one bottle of Dimoxinil, Homer decides not to kill him, but to tell him he's ruined his father, crippled his family, and that [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking baldness is hereditary]]. Bart seems pretty choked up about the final one.

* AbsurdlyDedicatedWorker: "Simpson and Delilah", Homer uses a hair grower to get his hair back and is promoted and gets an assistant, Karl, who then takes the blame for something Homer did, gets fired, and still writes Homer's speech for him even after having been fired. The assistant is absurdly faithful to Homer.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Karl (and his appearance is not only the first time a celebrity [Harvey Fierstein voices Karl] has done voicework on ''TheSimpsons'', but the first time an animated series depicts a character established to be a homosexual kissing another man, though ''MissionHill'' would later go down in animation history as the first animated show to show an established gay male couple kissing). And unlike how Homer acted in "Homer's Phobia," he doesn't even notice or care that his secretary Karl is gay, but he does find it odd that Karl kissed him. The difference is that Marge wasn't around to tell Homer about Karl's sexual orientation and these were the early episodes where Homer wasn't very bright, whether intellectually or socially.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Karl convinces Homer that it's his own competence and personality, not his hair, that makes him a shining employee. However as it turns out, the plant's community are genuinely ''that'' shallow, quickly rejecting him for his baldness and leaving him demoted back to his old job.

* WhatTheHellHero: After Bart destroys his one bottle of Dimoxinil, Homer decides not to kill him, but to tell him he's ruined his father, crippled his family, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking baldness is hereditary]]. Bart seems pretty choked up about the final one.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Karl. And unlike how Homer acted in "Homer's Phobia," he doesn't even notice or care that his secretary Karl is gay, but he does find it odd that Karl kissed him.
** Not so unlike after all. The difference is that Marge wasn't around to tell Homer about Karl's sexual orientation.

* NamesTheSame: It's a bit odd to have a guest character named Karl, when we already have Homer's co-worker Carl (the black guy who's friends with Lenny).
* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the Biblical story of [[Literature/SamsonAndDelilah Samson and Delilah]], in which Samson lost his strength when his hair was cut. Similarly, Homer loses his success without his hair.

* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to the Biblical story of [[{{SAMSon}} Samson and Delilah]], in which Samson lost his strength when his hair was cut. Similarly, Homer loses his success without his hair.

* TakingTheHeat: Karl willingly took the fall when Homer was about to be fired for insurance fraud.

-->'''Both:''' DEMOXINIL!

Episode 7F02\\
First Aired 10/18/90\\

-->'''Both:''' DEMOXINIL!

* NamesTheSame: It's a bit odd to have a guest character named Karl, when we already have Homer's co-worker Carl (the black guy whose friends with Lenny).

First Aired 10/18/90

* NamesTheSame: It's a bit odd to have a guest character named Karl, when we already have Homer's co-worker Carl.

* SpecialGuestStar: Harvey Fierstein as Karl, who is noted in the commentary to be the show's first guest star who wasn't ashamed to say he'd done it. "Maybe not the most important barrier he ever broke down."

* AmbiguouslyGay: Carl
* ContinuitySnarl: Mr. Burns states his age is 81. In every future episode where his age is mentioned, it's 104.

* ContinuitySnarl: Mr. Burns states his age is 81. In every future episode where his age is mentioned, it's 104.

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