THE SIMPSONS
5.02 - CAPE FEARE
Original Airdate: 07-OCT-1993 on FOX
Written by Jon Vitti. Directed by Rich Moore
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Fade in
(Curtains being
pulled open)
Announcer: Ladies and Gentlemen, its "Up Late with McBain. I'm your
announcer Uppen Kupin Fuer Wolfcastle and heeeeres McBain!
(McBain comes
out from behind the curtain onto the stage. He waves to crowd and touches hands
with band leader.)
McBain: Ya, thank you, ya. That's nice. Let's say hello to my music guy,
Zoe.(Crowd applauds, Zoe bows to McBain.) That is some outfit Zoe, it makes you
look like a homosexual.(Crowd boos, McBain is startled, he nervously speaks and
points to crowd.) Uh, oh...maybe you are all homosexuals too.(Crowd boos
louder.)
*Transition to
Bart and Lisa watching the TV*
Bart:(Annoyed) This is horrible.
Lisa: The Fox network has sunk to a new low.
(Marge enters
with the mail.)
Marge: Lisa you got a letter.
Lisa:(excited) It's from my pen pal Anya! (Lisa reads letter, Anya's
voice can be heard: "Dear Lisa, As I write this I am very sad. Our
president has been overthrown and(turns into man's voice) replaced by the
benevolent General Thrull. All hail Thrull and his glorious new regime!
Sincerly, Little Girl." Lisa moans.)
Marge: You got a letter too bart.(Gives letter to bart. He opens it.)
Bart:(Reads letter out loud.) I'm going to kill you.(Bart gasps.)
*Transition to
man pricking finger with letter opener.*
(Man writes
"DIE BART DIE" with his blood. He also checks off a things to do list
with his blood.)
*Transition to
Bart and Lisa watching Itchy and Scratchy. Bart looks worried.*
(TV exclaims,
"The Itchy and Scratchy Show!" Episode title: Spay Anything.)
(Scratchy walks
towards Itchy's Cat Hospital. Scratchy sees sign out front that says, "We
pay your pet $75." Scratchy bolts right in. 2 bulldog orderlies grab scratchy
and put him on a table. Itchy waves at Scratchy and turns on laser. .(Think of
in the Bond movie with the ray gun.) Scratchy screams. Scratchy extends his
tongue and unplugs the power cord. Scratchy breathes a sigh of relief. Itchy
runs back in and plugs laser back in and the laser proceeds to cut Scratchy
into many pieces.)
(Lisa laughs
but Bart does not, he still looks worried. Lisa notices this.)
Lisa:(Worried) Bart what's wrong?
(Homer picks up
mail and reads.)
Homer: Oh my god! Someone is trying to kill me! Eh!(Relieved)oh wait, its
for bart.(Shows letter to all.)
*Transition to
kitchen. The death threat letters are all layed out over the table.*
Marge:(Pointing to letter not written in blood.) Hmmm, this one is done in
different handwriting.
Homer: Oh, uh, I wrote that one after bart some how put this tattoo on my
butt.(Tattoo says, "Wide Low." Everyone laughs.)
Bart: But who would want to hurt me? I'm this century's Dennis the
Menace.
Homer: It's probably the person you least suspect.
Lisa:(sarcasticly laughs)That's good dad.
Grandpa: I say we call Matlock. He'll find the culprit. Its probably that
evil Gabbon McCloud or George Gueber Lindsey.
Bart: Grandpa, Matlocks not real.
Grandpa: Neither are my teeth but I can still eat corn on the cob if someone
cuts it off and smushes it off into a fine paste. Now that's good eating!
*Transition to
school yard.*
(Bart looks
paranoid, Milhouse walks over to him.)
Milhouse: I checked around, the girls are calling you "fatty fat fat
fat" and Nelson is planing on pulling down your pants, but no one is
trying to kill ya.
Bart: Ah, that's a relief.(Nelson pulls down Bart's pants from behing. The
girls chime in with a chorus of "Fatty fat fat fat.")
*Transition to
Bart's room. Radio alarm goes off*
Radio Announcer: Alright, this is dedicated to Bart Simpson with the message, I am
coming to kill you, slowly and painfully.(Radio plays "Wipeout." Bart
pulls covers over face. He goes downstairs where Marge is cutting something.)
Marge:(Pointing scissors at bart.) Bart I'm going to get you!!...(Bart
gasps).....some ice cream at the store since I'm saving so much money on diet
cola.(She holds up a coupon. Bart dashes outside. As he is walking outside Ned
Flanders jumps out in front of him wearing a hand razor glove. Bart gasps.)
Ned: Say your prayers Simpson!(Bart trembles.)........because the schools
can't force you like they should.(Ned starts tending to the bushes with the
glove. Maude appears.) Maude these new finger razors make hedge trimming as fun
as sitting through church!
*Transition to
Mrs. Kraboppel's classroom*
Edna: You're going to be my murder victim Bart..........in our school
production of Lizzie Borden starring Martin Prince as Lizzie!
Martin:(Holding prop axe) 3 whacks with a wet noodle Bart!
*Transition to
Police station* (Marge is talking with Chief Wiggum.)
Wiggum: I'd like to help you m'am, but, heh heh, I'm afraid there's no law
against mailing threatning letters.
Marge: I'm pretty sure there is.
Wiggum: Hah! The day I take cop lessons from Ma Kettle.
Lou:(comes over with rule book.)Hey, she's right chief.
Wiggum: Well shut my mouth! It's also illegal to put squirrels down your
pants for the puposes of gambling.(Pans to officers doing just that.)Boys,
knock it off!
*Transition to
Bart's room* (Lisa rushes in)
Lisa: Bart I've figured it out! Who's someone you've been making
irritating phone calls to these years.
Bart: Linda Lavin?
Lisa: No, someone who didn't deserve it. (They go down to kitchen. Lisa
dials Moe's.)
Lisa: Hello, Moe. We know your the one behind it so knock it off or we're
going to the cops!
Moe:(At Moe's) No, no, I'll take care of it.(Moe bursts into backroom.) Ok
it's over, get them out of here!(Moe brakes open a crate, a Panda is inside. Pandas
run out of Moe's with Moe shouting, "Alright, undele! undele!)
*Transition to
Bart's room window*
Bart: You're out there somewhere, but where? Where!?!(Screen pans towards
Springfield State Prison, we go inside a cell window which belongs to the
infamous Sideshow Bob. He is writing another death threat to Bart in his own
blood. He laughs when he is done. Then he starts to write something new.)
Bob: Dear "Life in these United States"...a funny thing
happened to me...(Bob collapses.)
Snake: Use a pen Sideshow Bob.
*Transition to
Springfield Penitentiary "America's fastest growing prison."*
(Parole board.
Middle board member knocks on table with gavel. Snake stands before them.)
M. board
member: Parole granted. (Snake walks away.) Next up for
parole, Bob Tewillager, AKA Sideshow Bob. (Bob enters, he stops to talk to
Snake.)
Bob: Take care Snake, may the next time we meet be under more felicitous
circumstances.
Snake: Guh?
Bob: Take care.
Snake: Buh. (Parole board meeting for bob starts. Chief Wiggum testifies.)
Wiggum: Sideshow bob has no decency. He called me Chief "Piggum." (Courtroom
laughs. Wiggum laughs.) Now I get it. (Laughs again) That's good. (Selma
testifies)
Selma: Sideshow Bob tried to kill me on our honeymoon. (courtroom whispers
amoungst themselves.)
Lawyer: How many people in this court are thinking of killing her right now?
(3 peoples hands go up.)Be honest! (Everyone raises their hands including
Patty. The man next to Patty looks at her.)
Patty: Well, she's always leaving the toilet seat up. (Bob goes up to
testify.)
Lawyer: Robert, if released would you pose a threat to one Bart Simpson?
Bob: Bart Simpson? Ha! The spirited, little scamp who twice foiled my
evil schemes and sent me to this dank, urine soaked hell hole.
Left board
member:
Uhh, we object to the term, "urine-soaked
hell hole" when you could of said, "pee-pee-soaked heck hole."
Bob: Cheerfully withdrawn.
Lawyer: What about that tattoo on your chest, doesn't it say "DIE BART
DIE"?
Bob: No! That's German...for "Die Bart Die" (Courtroom
laughs.)
Right board
member:
No one that speaks German can be a bad man.
M. board
member:
Parole granted. (Bob leaves penitentary.)
*Transition to
movie theater. "Now playing: Ernest goes somewhere cheap."*
(Bob lights up
a cigar & starts laughing madly at the movie. The Simpson family is also in
the theater.)
Marge:(coughs) That man is so rude.
Homer:(while smoking novelty cigar.) Yeah. (Leans over toward Bob.) If you
dont mind were trying to watch the moo(Ernest's head gets stuck in the toilet,
homer laughs madly and slaps Bob in the back. Bob turns around.)
Bob: Now really, that's too much!
Bart &
Lisa:
Ahhhhh!!! Sideshow Bob!!!
Bart:(Pointing at Bob.) You wrote me those letters.
Marge: You awful man, stay away from my son!
Bob: Oh I'll stay away from your son alright, stay away forever.
Homer: Oh no!
Bob: Wait a minute that's no good. (Gets angered at his mistake and walks
away. He then comes running back.) Wait I got a good one now! Marge say stay
away from my son again.
Marge: No! (Bob cringes in extreme anger.)
*Transition to
Simpson's house. The Police have finished "installing" their
"security system."
Wiggum:(Plucks string) Now sideshow bob cant get in without me knowing and
once a man is in your home anything you do to him is nice and legal.
Homer: Is that so? (Leans out window and calls to Ned.) Oh Flanders, won't
you join me in my kitchen? (Homer waits to pounce Ned and pounds his fist into
his hand.)
Wiggum: Uh, it doesn't work if you invite them in.
Ned: Hidely Hey!
Homer: Go home.
Ned: Toodly Doo!
*Transition to
Nogotiator's office*
Negotiator: Now don't you fret, when I'm through he won't step foot in this town
again. I can be very, very persuasive. (Holsters gun.)
*Transition to
bar*
Negotiator:(Whining) Come on, leave town.
Bob: No.
Negotiator: (Still whining) I'll be your friend.
Bob: No.
Negotiator: (Pouting) Oh, you're mean.
*Transition to
Evergreen Terrace, right outside of the Simpson's and the Flanders's houses.*
(Bob is driving
a van with loudspeakers mounted on the roof.)
Bob: The following neighborhood residents will not be killed by me: Ned
Flanders, Maude Flanders...
Ned: (Pleased) Isn't that nice.
Bob: ...Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson, that little baby
Simpson, that is all. (Homer bursts into Bart's room.)
Homer: Woo Hoo! Did you hear Bart? He...(Bart looks at him) oh.
*Transition to
Witness Relocation Program*
Right FBI
Agent:
Don't worry Mrs. Simpson we've helped hundreds
of people in danger. We'll give you a new name, a new job, new identity.
Homer: (Raising hand) Oooh, I want to be John Elway! (Homer starts day
dreaming about being John Elway. The ball is snapped to Homer and he dives over
the pile into the endzone.)
Announcer: Elway takes the snap and runs it in for a touchdown! Thanks to
Elway's Patanent last second magic the final score of Super Bowl XXX is Denver
7, San Francisco 56.
Homer:(Back to reality) Woo Hoo!
Marge: I don't think this is such a good idea.
Homer: This isn't just because of Sideshow Bob it's a chance to turn around
all our stinking lives.
Bart: I'll be Gus, the lovable chimney sweep,(in british accent) clean as
a whistle, sharp as a thistle, best in all Westminster, yeah!
Homer: Shut up boy.
Left FBI Agent: We have places were your family can hide in peace and security,
Cape Feare, Terror Lake, New Horrorfield, Screamville...
Homer: Oooh, Icecreamville!
L FBI Agent: No, screamville. (Homer screams)
R FBI Agent: I'll tell you what sir, from now on you'll be uh, Homer Thompson at
Terror Lake. (Homer nods) When I say hello Mr. Thompson you'll say
"hi."
Homer: Check.
R FBI Agent: Hello Mr. Thompson(Homer stares blankly at him.).....remember now,
your name is Homer Thompson.
Homer: I gotcha.
R FBI Agent: Hello Mr. Thompson(Homer stares blankly at him. Agents look at each
other.)
(Much later,
the conversation is still going on.)
R FBI Agent: Urrrh, now when I say, "Hello Mr. Thompson" and press
down on your foot you smile and nod.
Homer: No problem.
R FBI Agent: Hello Mr. Thompson (RFBI presses down on homer's foot.)
Homer: (leans over to LFBI.) I think he's talking to you. (RFBI hits his
forehead.)
*Transition to
outside Simpson home, Simpsons are about to leave.*
R FBI Agent: Here you go. (Hands Homer the keys to the car.)
Marge: Oooh, what a cute convertable. You guys at the bureau thought of
everything.
Lisa: Hey look, the FBI light opera society sings the complete Gilbert
& Sullivan. (Simpsons drive away singing the complete Gilbert and Sullivan,
Sideshow Bob hides under the car.)
Homer: Lousy speed bumps.(Speed bumps hit Bob in the head. Homer is
drinking coffee) This coffee is too hot. (pours it outside, lands on Bob.) Hey
kids wanna drive through that cactus patch?
Bart: Yeah!
Lisa: Yeah!
Bob: No.....
Homer: Two against one!(Homer drives into cactus patch with Bob still
inderneath.)
*Transition to
what looks like normal Simpson's opening only it is replaced with "The
Thompsons" and it zooms in on Terror Lake.*
Homer: Wow! A houseboat, you know the great thing is if you don't like
your neighbors you can just pull up the anchor and sail someplace else. (Simpsons,
er, Thompsons laugh, other houseboats quickly sail away. Thompsons go into
houseboat, Bob rolls out from under the car battered and bruised. He gets up and
he steps on a rake and it hits him in the face. He turns another direction and
is hit in the face by another rake. Continues to happen over and over and over
again.
*Transition to
inside the houseboat.*
Marge: Homer, where's the dog?
Homer: I tied him up out back. (While tied to a post, the dog is shown
swimming in the lake.)
Marge: <sigh> We've left it all behind. How can you make a clean
brake with your life?
Homer: Relax Marge, I tied up all the loose ends before we left.
*Transition to
"old" Simpson home. Grandpa is knocking on the door.*
Grandpa: Hello? Hello!?! You have my pills! I'm cold and there are wolves
after me. (Wolf howls can be heard in the distance.)
*Transition to
Bart walking down a sidewalk. A car drives up along side of him.*
Bob: Hello Bart.
Bart: Ahhhh! (Looks over and sees an old lady.)
Bob: Down here Bart. (Bart looks down and Bob is underneath the car. He
unstraps himself but is hit in the head by the car's bumper as it pulls away.)
Bart: What do you want!?
Bob: Surely theres no harm in laying in the middle of a public street. (Just
then a marching band appears and marches on Bob, they are then followed by
numerous elephants who each trample Bob.)
*Transition to
houseboat. Homer is busy drinking a duff. Bart rushes in.*
Bart: Mom! Dad! I saw Sideshow Bob and he threatned to kill me!
Homer: Bart! Don't interrupt!
Marge: Homer this is serious!
Homer: Oh, it is not.
*Transition to
Bates Motel. There is a vacancy.*
Bob: (Writing plan) Roman numeral three: Surprise boy in bed (sips tea)
and, uh,...disembowel him!...No, I dont like that "bowel" thing
there. Gut him! Le mot Juste! (kisses his plan.)
*Transition to
Bart's cabin*
(Bart is
tossing and turning in bed. His door opens and he wakes. Someone is entering
with a butcher's knife. Bart sits up in bed. The person rushes in, it is
Homer.)
Homer: BART YOU WANT SOME BROWNIES BEFORE YOU GOTO BED!!!!
Bart: Aaaahhhhhhhh!!!!
Homer: C'mon, let me cut you a brownie while there still hot.
Bart: <sigh of relief> Dad, I'm kinda edgy right now. I'd appreciate
you not coming in my room screaming and brandishing a buthcer's knife.
Homer: Why? Oh, haha, the Sideshow Bob thing. I'm sorry boy.(He leaves. Bart
settles down again. Homer then burst through the door wearing a hockey mask and
wielding a chainsaw.)
Homer: BART!! YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK!!!! (Bart
screams and looks like he is going to die from fear.) Oh, sorry, What am I
thinking?
*Transition to
outside houseboat. Bob climbs up onto the deck. He walks foward and is once
again hit in the face by another rake. He throws it aside. He cuts the rope
keeping the boat at the docks and the boat begins to drift.)
*Transiton to
Bart's cabin. The door is opened, Bart wakes.*
Bob: Hello, Bart! (Approaches Bart)
Bart: Mom! Dad!
Bob: Your family can't help you now.
*Transition
showing rest of family tied up. Homer is knocked out cold.*
Homer: <snore>
Lisa: Oh no! Dads been drugged!
Marge:(annoyed) No he hasn't!
*Transition
back to Bart's cabin.*
(Bart escapes
through the window just as Bob's short sword (kind of.) almost hits him. Bart
runs to the front of the boat to escape but is greeted by a hungry alligator.)
Bart: Uh oh! (He runs to the back to escape bt there are electric eels
there.) ewwoooh!(He runs back to the front just to see the gator again.) Oh
yeah...(Bart is trapped.)
Bob: Well Bart, any last requests? (Walks toward Bart.)
Bart: Well,...there is one, but(Looks at distance to Springfield
sign.)...Nah...
Bob: No, go on.
Bart:You have such a beautiful voice.
Bob: Guilty as charged.
Bart: Uh huh. Anyway, I was wondering if you could sing the entire score
of the HMS Pinnafore.
Bob: Very well Bart. I shall send you to heaven before I send you to
hell. (Grabs Bart and seats him. Bob sings the entire score to the HMS
Pinnafore, which takes awhile of course. When he finishes he receives flowers
and Bart gives him a standing ovation. Bob draws his sword (Which has now
transformed into a saber.0_o)
Bob: And now for the final curtain. (Just as Bob is about to strike the
boat hits the shore and Bob losses his balance and falls against the railing. Gun
cocking sounds are heard, the Springfield police are there.)
Wiggum: Hold it right there Sideshow Bob. You're under arrest.
Bob: By Lucifer's beard!
Wiggum: Uh yeah, it's a good thing you drifted by this brothel.
*Transition to
later that day.*
Bart: I knew I had to buy some time so I asked him to sing the score from
the HMS Pinnafore.
Homer: Oooh, a fiendishly clever intricacy. (In other words he said it was
a great plan.)
Bart: (Looks over at cops.) Take him away boys.
Wiggum: Hey, I'm the chief here. Bake him away toys.
Lou: What you say chief?
Wiggum: Do what the kid said.
*Transition to
outside the old Simpson home*
Marge: It's so good to be home again. (Grandpa or should I say
"Grandma" runs up to the car.)
Grandpa: Look what happened without my pills!!
Marge: Huh!?! Bart run upstairs and get Grandpa's medicine! (Jasper walks
over to Grandpa.)
Jasper: Not so fast. I want to court this fair young lady.(Grandpa blushes)
Grandpa: There's something you should know about me.
Jasper: I've got (Sounds like, "steel lady tickets.")
Grandpa: I'm all yours! (Kisses Jasper.)
Fade to black.