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The Simpsons/Dog of Death
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| Dog of Death | |
| Season 3, Episode 19 | |
| Airdate | March 12, 1992 |
| Production Number | 8F17 |
| Written by | John Swarzwelder |
| Directed by | Jim Reardon |
| ← 3x18 Separate Vocations |
3x20 → Colonel Homer |
| The Simpsons — Season Three | |
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Dog of Death is the nineteenth episode of the third season of The Simpsons, and the fifty-fourth episode overall.
The Simpson's dog, Santa's Little Helper, gets the spotlight in this episode. When he suddenly falls ill and the family spends their meager savings on a life-saving operation, they soon become resentful of SLH when the impact of their severe budgeting takes effect. When SLH runs away and is later taken in by Mr. Burns to become one of his attack hounds, will he remember his past?
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- "Androcles and the Lion": The fable is about a runaway slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion after remembering that some time earlier the main protagonist helps heal the lion's wounded paw. That serves as the basis for the scene where Bart trespasses on Burns' grounds and is saved by SLH (who had, through training, been turned into a bloodthirsty attack hound) by running protecting him from the other hounds that almost attack Bart.
- Books Homer throws in the fireplace:
- "The Lottery": During a newscast, Kent Brockmann reports on the sudden surge in popularity of 1948 short story by Shirley Jackson, before stating that the story has absolutely nothing to do with winning the lottery, prompting Homer to throw his copy into the fire.
- "Fatherhood": The Bill Cosby series of essays on being a good dad to one's children. The book was previously referenced in "Saturdays Of Thunder."
- "Fahrenheit 451": The novel about book banning and book burning in a dystopian American future.
- Encyclopedias: The Encyclopedia Generica is a play on the Encyclopedia Britannica. Generica is available through the local supermarket, one volume at a time (Vol. 4, containing Copernicus to Elephantiasis, is the volume currently on offer), much like Funk & Wagnalls was at various points from the 1960s through 1990s.
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