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| The Simpsons family room. On the floor are Lisa (playing with a rabbit | |||
| doll) and Maggie (playing with a rattle). On the couch are Marge | |||
| (knitting a scarf) and Homer (reading the newspaper). Bart enters | |||
| wearing a sombrero and looks around nervously. He gradually becomes | |||
| the center of attention as Homer raises his head from the paper. | |||
| Homer: | [suspiciously] How come you're always wearing that hat? | ||
| Bart: | Fashion statement, Dad. | ||
| Homer: | [annoyed] Take off the hat, boy. | ||
| Bart reluctantly does so. His hair is long. | |||
| Lisa: | [teasing] Look, he's a beatnik! | ||
| Marge: | [gasp!] You go get a haircut! | ||
| Homer: | Right now. | ||
| Bart pushes the hair out of his face. | |||
| Bart: | I was afraid this moment would come... | ||
| Bart's sitting in a barber's chair, the barber standing behind him | |||
| jacking up the chair with his foot. | |||
| Barber: | Well, what'll it be, sonny? | ||
| Bart: | [not brightly] Just a little off the top, sir. | ||
| Barber: | Ah, sure thing. | ||
| Close-up on Bart's face as we hear the scissors (*snip snip*) and | |||
| see hair falling. Bart watches the hair fall. | |||
| Barber: | There ya go. | ||
| The barber spins Bart's chair around so he (and we) can see him in | |||
| the mirror. Bart is bald. | |||
| Barber: | Well, whaddya think? | ||
| Bart: | [shocked] What the hell did you do to my head? | ||
| Barber: | [as if this happened every day] Well, that'll be five dollars, please. | ||
| The barber shoves a lollipop in Bart's face. | |||
| Barber: | Here's a sucker! | ||
| Bart can only stare. | |||
| A window. Bart appears outside, opens the window (*ungh*) and climbs | |||
| in, clutching a paper bag in his left hand. Bart walks to a table, | |||
| on which is conveniently placed a jar of glue and a piece of cardboard. | |||
| He pours glue on the cardboard, then empties the bag of hair onto it. | |||
| (The hair magically assumes its pre-cut shape.) Bart then pours glue | |||
| on his head and places the hairy cardboard on his head. He walks to | |||
| the mirror and smiles at his achievement. But the smile vanishes from | |||
| his face when the hair falls off the cardboard, leaving Bart with a | |||
| blank piece of cardboard glued to his head. | |||
| Back to the Simpsons family room. | |||
| Homer: | Isn't that boy back from the barber yet? | ||
| Lisa: | [snitching] I heard him sneaking around in his bedroom. | ||
| Homer: | [calling] Bart! Front and center! | ||
| Bart comes into the room, hanging his head, which is covered by a | |||
| paper bag. | |||
| Bart: | I'll take it off, but you all gotta promise you won't laugh, okay? | ||
| Promise? | |||
| Bart removes the bag. | |||
| All gasp. | |||
| Then snicker. (Marge and the girls cover their mouths; Homer hides | |||
| behind the newspaper.) | |||
| Then burst out laughing. (Including Maggie.) | |||
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