Simpson and Deliliah
Homer sees an advertisement for Dimoxinil, a new "miracle breakthrough" for baldness. He visits a store which sells Dimoxinil, but at $1000 it is far out of Homer's price range. At work, Lenny suggests Homer pay for Dimoxinil through the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant medical insurance plan. The druggist yells that Dimoxinil is a frivolous product that is not covered by any medical insurance, but whispers to Homer that he will arrange an under-the-table trade. Homer successfully applies the drug, and after using it, he wakes up the next day to the thrill of having a full head of hair, and runs throughout the town blissfully. 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.

As he is about to become an executive, Homer tries to look for a good secretary, but all the applicants fail due to being seductive young women – until Homer finds a man named Karl, who earnestly persuades Homer to tell himself that he deserves everything he has and is the finest creature God ever created. Homer eventually picks Karl, and they go shopping for a suit. At an executive board meeting, Homer is singled out by an impressed Burns to give a suggestion to increase worker productivity, and Homer meekly suggests that he give more tartar sauce in the lunch room, which Mr. Burns does. Following the increase in tartar sauce distribution, Mr. Burns is glad to hear that workplace safety is on the up-and-up and accidents are down. Smithers remarks that all the past accidents were either caused by Homer or believed to be traced to him. However, Burns tells Smithers to stop being negative and even accuses him of harboring jealousy towards Homer. Homer forgets his wedding anniversary, but Marge forgives him due to his new demanding schedule. Karl covers for Homer by hiring a singing telegram service to serenade Marge with "You Are So Beautiful", which Marge loves.

Homer becomes successful and receives the honor of being given the key to the executive washroom. Smithers begins to feel jealous of Homer for his high standing with Mr. Burns and searches Homer's file, finding the damaging information he seeks in the case of insurance fraud that gave Homer hair in the first place. Smithers gleefully prepares to fire Homer for the fraud, but Karl takes the blame for Homer and writes the $1000 check to repay the company. Frustrated, Smithers is instead forced to fire Karl, who has sacrificed his own job to save Homer's. Homer is deeply saddened to see Karl go after all Karl had done for him, including lending Homer his umbrella before finally leaving in the rain. Homer is invited to give a speech at the next meeting, and Smithers does his best to ruin Homer's confidence. Homer is nervous about giving the speech without Karl, but reasons that as long as he has hair, everything will be fine.

Meanwhile, at home, Bart uses some of the Dimoxinil in a misguided attempt to grow a beard. When Homer enters and catches Bart, Bart accidentally drops the Dimoxinil, spilling it all onto the floor. By the next day, Homer has lost all his hair and, bald again, arrives at the meeting. His fears are alleviated when Karl appears with a pre-written speech for him, but Homer is still convinced he is incapable of accomplishing anything without his hair. Karl impatiently tells Homer what he had been trying to teach him all along—that all of Homer's achievements had been the result of his own will and effort, not of his hair. Karl urges Homer to think higher of himself and give the speech, even kissing him on the lips to prove his point. Reassured, Homer presents a brilliant speech on the Japanese art of self-management, but the audience is unable to take him seriously because he has no hair. Everyone leaves, leaving Homer greatly disappointed. Burns angrily summons Homer, threatening to fire him, but reveals photographs of himself with strawberry curly hair in his younger years when girls flocked to him until he went bald, and as a fellow sufferer of male pattern baldness, sympathizes with Homer's situation and merely demotes him back to his old position rather than terminating him.

At home later that night, Homer confesses to Marge he is afraid that his life has returned to a dead-end job, that his kids will be disappointed because he can no longer buy the things for them he promised he would, and most of all that Marge will no longer love him as much. However, Marge reminds Homer that his safety inspector job has always brought food to the table, and that the kids will get over not being spoiled. Marge then reaffirms her love for Homer as they sing "You Are So Beautiful" together into the night.


Treehouse of Horror II

Lisa's Nightmare

In the first of three segments, the Simpsons visit Morocco (which Homer mistakes for Monaco). Homer purchases a severed monkey's hand that will grant four wishes, despite the vendor's warning that the wisher will meet with grave misfortune. Back in Springfield, the family argues in how to use the wishes. Despite Marge's warning to heed the advice of the vendor in not using any of them, Maggie is granted that first wish: a new pacifier. Next, Bart wishes for the Simpsons to be rich and famous. His wish is granted, but the people quickly tire of the family's annoying antics, cheesy merchandise and celebrity treatment. Horrified by these wasteful wishes, Lisa wishes for world peace and Homer is furious. While all countries declare peace and destroy their weapons, the aliens Kang and Kodos realize the human race is "ripe for the plucking" and, armed only with a slingshot and a club, enslave the Earth. At the house, Homer blames Lisa and deems her own wishes to be selfish. She defends herself, claiming that Bart and Maggie's own wishes were also selfish as well and felt that hers was the only selfless one. Soon, Marge catches the people who are angry with the Simpsons and calls for a temporary truce in the family. Determined to make a wish that cannot be twisted, she begs Homer to do the right thing and use the last wish to get rid of the aliens. Much to her dismay, Homer refuses and demands a turkey sandwich, but the turkey turns out to be a little too dry. With all of the wishes used, he goes to throw out the paw, but his neighbor Ned Flanders asks about it. Hoping to see Flanders suffer, Homer gladly hands the paw over. Ned's first wish is to "Get rid of those awful aliens," which is accomplished when Moe chases after Kodos with a board with a nail sticking out of it, then brings the aliens back to the flying saucer. Kodos laments their failed invasion, but Kang assures him that humanity is doomed: they will end up in an arms race creating increasingly bigger boards and bigger nails, which will ultimately "cause the human race to create a board with a nail in it so big to doom mankind." Everyone celebrates and after Flanders wishes to "spruce up the ol' homestead," his house is converted into an opulent castle, making Homer jealous. Lisa wakes up from her nightmare and begs Bart to keep her company. Bart sleepily complies after Lisa gives him a candy necklace. Bart then has a nightmare.

Bart's Nightmare

In the second segment, Springfield is held in a grip of terror by Bart, who has omnipotent powers. Bart turns whoever is not happy with his rule into another being, and even history is changed to suit Bart's pleasure. When Homer refuses to turn off a football game so that Bart can watch "The Krusty the Clown Show" (which has been running for 346 consecutive hours), Bart transports him into the football stadium in place of the ball for a field goal kick. As Homer creeps back into the house, trying to surprise Bart with a blow to the back of the head, Bart transforms him into a jack-in-the-box. Marge suggests that the two see Dr. Marvin Monroe. The doctor says that Bart is desperate for paternal attention from Homer and suggests that the two spend more time together. Despite being a jack-in-the-box, Homer spends quality time with Bart, and they soon become a normal, loving family. Bart turns Homer back into a human and the two share a warm family moment, causing Bart to wake up screaming. Bart and Lisa wake Homer and Marge and beg them to let them sleep in their bed. As the two crawl into bed, Homer laments that he has to go to work in a few hours and dozes off, becoming the last one in the episode to have a nightmare.

Homer's Nightmare

In the third segment, Mr. Burns fires Homer for his laziness and incompetence. Looking for work, Homer answers a classified ad to become a grave digger. Meanwhile, Burns is nearing the completion of his giant robotic laborer, which he hopes will eventually replace weak-bodied human workers. The only remaining step is to implant a human brain into the machine's body. Searching a graveyard the following night, Burns mistakes Homer, snoring in an open grave, for a newly buried corpse and, despite signs that Homer may still be alive, removes Homer's brain with an ice cream scoop and places it in the robot. However, Robo-Homer is just as lazy and incompetent as he was as a human, using his x-ray vision to locate donuts. Burns declares the experiment a failure and, after restoring the brain to Homer's still-living body, kicks the robot, which topples over and crushes Burns. Afterward, he tells Smithers to get some surgical tools and ether.

Homer wakes up screaming after Bart bites him. While going to the bathroom, Homer finds Mr. Burns's head grafted on his shoulder, Burns revealing that due to the fact his own body was crushed, Burns's head was instead surgically placed onto Homer's neck. Homer, in a stage of denial repeatedly mumbles that it is all a dream, and Mr. Burns sarcastically reassures him, "Oh that's right, it's all a dream... or is it?" and laughs maniacally.

In a faux sneak preview for the next episode, Lisa reminds Homer that her class is hosting an "all you can eat" spaghetti dinner while Burns reminds him that they have a reception for Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands that same night. This causes Homer to remark how he hates having two heads.

Treehouse of Horror II is a damn masterpiece. But after years of curiosity and internet searching, I still can't make any sense of this joke:

Apu: Gordon, you've got to help us!
Gordon: What do you want me to do? I'm a baker now.

What is this referencing?

I don't think I've voted against any Treehouse of Horror yet. They're so good.

That's a good Treehouse of Horror, but I think Simpson and Delilah is wonderful. I love Karl.

i think im with ST here