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Trivia[]
- The couch gag featured Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees sitting together five years before Freddy vs. Jason was released.
- In "Terror of Tiny Toon", Bart and Lisa were originally going to end up on the FOX legal dramedy Ally McBeal when Homer was changing channels to help Bart and Lisa escape, but Calista Flockhart (the star of the show) backed out at the last minute (which explains the live-action portion with Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford).
- Mike Scully is credited as "Mike "Insert Scary Name" Scully", somehow breaking the fourth wall.
- This is possibly the first episode to use brighter colors.
- Originally, the televised execution of Snake was supposed to be hosted by Troy McClure (with McClure voiced by Phil Hartman). When news hit that Hartman was murdered by his wife, Brynn, the original scene was replaced with one where Ed McMahon (who voiced himself) is the host.
Censorship[]
- Over in the UK (mostly on Sky Showcase and Channel 4), the following scenes are cut:
- On "Hell Toupee":
- Moe saying, "Hey, Apu, you got a breakfast cereal for people with syphilis?" was edited in Channel 4 and Sky Showcase airings so that "...for people with syphilis?" was cut, though not Moe actually eating the cereal ("Penicilli-Os") or the scene of Homer (possessed by Snake) ripping Moe's heart out with a corkscrew.
- Snake getting electrocuted during the televised execution was shortened in Channel 4 airings.
- On "Starship Poopers":
- Kang showing Marge the different places humans have sex -- the back seat of a Camaro, an airplane bathroom, a best friend's wedding, and the alley behind a porno theater -- was cut on Channel 4 so that way the last item was just described as an alley behind a theater (though the doorway with the "XXX"s above it wasn't censored).
- Jerry Springer screaming, "Son of a (bleep)!" as Maggie attacks him was cut on Channel 4 airings, though the bleeped out language when Homer first beats up Kang (Homer's "You one-eyed, two-timing [bleep]. I'm going to [bleep]" and Kang's "Oh, yeah? Well [bleep], you hyperbolic paraboloid [bleep] your mama!") and Marge's "I'm so [bleep] embarrassed" as Kang, Homer, and Maggie are attacking Jerry Springer wasn't altered.
- On "Hell Toupee":
Goofs[]
- In the intro, the garage door is purple-pink instead of its usual peach-tan color.
- When Homer hugs Bart after he takes the hair possessing him off, Homer's left hand (Right side of the screen, but Homer's left side) becomes the same color as his pajamas, which is bright blue. It briefly fixes itself right after that 1st frame with Homer and Bart hugging which was copied a few times, but it happens again in the frame
afterthat next frame, only to fix itself again for the rest of the shot when Bart says, "I love you too, dad!". 
This is what it looks like.
Barney without chest hair and Ms. Hoover's glasses colored yellow where her face isn't
- When Marge and Maggie honk their horn to tell Homer to move out the way, Maggie's body is left out in the scene.
- When Barney calls dibs on Snake's liver, he is missing the hair from his chest.
- If Snake was going to be harvested for organs after being executed (with Barney wanting Snake's liver and Homer getting Snake's hair and scalp), then the electric chair would realistically be a bad choice for him, as electrocution would have made the internal organs unsalvageable. An execution by hanging, guillotine, or lethal injection would have been preferable.
- At the beginning of the same shot, the lenses of Ms. Hoover's glasses are colored yellow even in the area where they overlap with the background, not her face.
- When Homer leaves the bedroom in the middle of the night, his hair is darker than usual, presumably because of the lighting. But a few moments earlier, his hair was colored its usual color despite the lighting being the same.
Lou with a blue tie
- Snake did not go after Chief Wiggum, who arguably had the strongest role in his arrest and his eventual execution, and it is never explained why.
- As Lou points to the dead Apu, his tie turns blue for a frame.
Marge without eyelashes
- When Homer enters Moe's to kill Moe, Moe's chest lacks chest hair initially, but then the chest hair appears in the next shot.
- In the Jerry Springer scene where Homer attacks Kang while swearing at him, Maggie is briefly seen without eyes.
Maggie without eyes
- In another shot in the sequence, Marge briefly lacks eyelashes.
The purple-pink garage door
Cultural References[]
- Shocker - Hell Toupee plot.
- The Twilight Zone episode "Dead Man's Shoes" - Hell Toupee plot
- Amazing Stories: Hell Toupee - Hell Toupee name and plot.
- Body Bags - Hair turns someone evil.
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure - Snake, possessing Homer, says "I know you are, but what am I?" This has been previously used in Lemon of Troy.
- Child's Play - The death of the hair.
- Hill Street Blues - Chief Wiggum yells "Freeze, hairball!"
- Peanuts- Maggie sucks her thumb while holding the hair.
- Pleasantville, Twilight Zone: The Movie, Shocker, Stay Tuned, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare - plot of The Terror of the Tiny Toon all reference these movies about real-world people getting sucked inside the television and put into violent, twisted versions of their favorite shows.
- The Terror of Tiny Town - The Terror of the Tiny Toon name.
- Tiny Toon Adventures - The Terror of the Tiny Toon name.
- Soap - Alien plot of somebody else being someone's real father.
- Starship Troopers - name, font, and logo of Starship Poopers.
- Alien - Maggie attacks Jerry Springer like the facehugger alien kills John Hurt. Killer Toupée's final attempt at killing Bart also resembles that of the facehugger tactic from the same franchise.
- The Jerry Springer Show - Homer, Marge, and Kang go to The Jerry Springer Show to see which dad Maggie belongs to, including Jerry Springer himself guest staring.
- The White Water Investigation - when Bart tells Kang and Kodos, "Don't forget Ken Star when they are going to kill all the leaders in Washington."