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Homer discovers a miracle hair growth formula named Dimoxinil and rushes out to buy it. His visions of robust hair, however, are cut short when he finds out that the formula costs $1,000.00. Homer is persuaded by Lenny to cheat his employer's health insurance policy so that the company will pay for it. Applying the formula overnight, Homer awakens to find a thick mop of hair.
Marge finds the new Homer exciting. Mr. Burns mistakes him for an energetic young go-getter and promotes him. Assuming his new title, Homer hires an assistant named Karl. With Karl's help, Homer so impresses Burns that he is given the key to the executive washroom. Smithers, fuming with jealousy, snoops through Homer's files and finds the bogus insurance claim. He confronts Homer, but Karl takes the blame for doctoring the claim. Karl is fired, leaving Homer to fend for himself.
When Bart breaks the bottle of hair potion, Homer returns to his old, bald self. Karl convinces Homer that it was not his hair that made him a better person, it was believing in himself. Homer gives a speech to his fellow executives on increasing profitability, but without hair, no one takes him seriously and he is demoted to his old position. At home, Homer also expects rejection, but Marge assures him that he loves him just the way he is. |
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- The Simpsons family watch Grade School Challenge on TV while eating dinner
- Dimoxinil's slogan is "Hey, today I'm gonna do it."
- Dimoxinil brochures are $5 and payment can be mailed to 485 Hair Plaza, The Hair City, Utah
- Homer's medicine cabinet contains toothpaste, Soft Swabs, Bald Buster, Mint O' Clean, Hair Master, Gorilla Man Scalp Blaster, UBE Hair, Baby Powder, Floss, NU GR, Utran, Bator Forumula, Hair Chow and an I Like Your Smile! sticker
- The $1000 Dimoxinil kit contains a six month supply, gravity boots, scalp massager and an I [Heart] Dimoxinil t-shirt
- The generic alternative to Dimoxinil is $19.95 Hair in a Drum and any hair growth is purely coincidental
- The nuclear power plant features Honor System Coffee Refills 25¢
- Homer goes for a haircut at Jake's Unisex Hair Palace
- The nuclear power plant reassignment room is 503
- Homer and Karl shop at Royal Majesty for the Obese or Gangly Gentleman, No Food or Drink Allowed in Store, 2 Suits $99, You Rip It, You Buy It
- Current' Events The Springfield Power Plant Employee Newsletter reads Work Accidents Reach Record Low, Output Up 15 Percent, Management Caves in to Condiment Outcry
- Homer is given "the key" to the Executive Washroom
- Employee files next to Homer's in the file cabinet are Smith, Bill -- Simmons, Al -- and Sims, Fred
- Homer's Dimoxinil treatment was To keep brain from freezing
- Homer's solution to save the power plant $526,000 is Jiko Kanri, The Japanese Art of Self Management
- Mr. Burns is 81 years old but Homer guesses he is 102
- When Mr. Burns had hair the color was "strawberry blonde"
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