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Cape Feare"Cape Feare" is the second episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, first aired on October 7, 1993. The title—and plot—are a spoof of the 1991 film Cape Fear. Episode details Production Number: 9F22
Original Air Date: October 7, 1993
Writer: Jon Vitti
Director: Rich Moore
Blackboard: "The cafeteria deep fryer is not a toy"
Couch Gag: The family forms a chorus line, which turns into a large production number
Guest Voice: Kelsey Grammer as Sideshow Bob Synopsis When Bart gets a letter, it is written in blood with five words: "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU". Bart later gets another batch of letters written in blood. Homer believes it could be "probably the person you (he) least suspect", and Bart believes it so. Marge tries unsuccessfully to appeal to Chief Wiggum for action, and Lisa tells Bart that the person writing these letters could be Moe, but it's not, and Bart wonders it could be...Sideshow Bob! The writer turns out to be the notorious Sideshow Bob, who is at a parole hearing. After he promises not to kill Bart, he is granted parole. Bart meets a cigar-smoking Sideshow Bob at a movie theater, and Bart accuses Bob of writing the letters. Bob plans his next evil plot to kill Bart. At the Simpson home, Chief Wiggum helps set up a network of trap strings attached to a Krusty doll, with Wiggum assuring the Simpsons that the trap is infallible. It does not work. Homer tries to consult a vigilante to stop Sideshow Bob from ever coming to Springfield again, but it does not work. Bob goes around the neighbourhood in an ice cream truck telling everyone he will not kill anyone on a list of names on the street the Simpsons live on, he excludes Bart. With all attempts having failed, the Simpsons join the FBI's Witness Relocation Program. As they enter the program, they will be given a new name (the Thompsons), new jobs, new identies, and a new houseboat in a town called Terror Lake, not to mention a CD, "The FBI Light Opera Society Sings the Complete Gilbert and Sullivan". The Thompsons move to Terror Lake; ironically, Sideshow Bob has strapped himself under the car. In Terror Lake, Bart hears Bob's voice, when he straps himself under another car, and he is in the middle of a street at a parade. Bart warns his parents that Sideshow Bob is threatening to kill him. Sideshow Bob has arrived on the houseboat, cutting it loose from the deck, as he holds a knife that he hopes he will kill Bart with, and he approaches Bart in his bedroom. Bob has also tied up the other members of the Thompsons. Bart escapes out the window and tries to hide from Bob, who now holds a sword as he is 15 miles from Springfield. Bart asks Bob to sing the entire score to the H.M.S. Pinafore. Despite Bart's request, Bob still attempts to kill Bart, and the boat reaches Springfield. He is arrested, and the Simpsons return to Springfield. Trivia - There is a classic scene where Sideshow Bob steps on 14 rakes, just as soon as the Thompsons move to Terror Lake.
- Tattoos fluently appear in this episode: Bart wrote a "WIDE LOAD" tattoo on Homer's butt (which prompted him to write an angry letter in black ink), and Sideshow Bob has many tattoos throughout the episode, which include a tattoo of Bart's severed head saying "Ouch, man!" on a skateboard, a skull and crossbones on his right arm, a tombstone on his left arm, the infamous "Die Bart, Die!" tattoo on his chest, and tattoos of three-letter words on three fingers on hands, which are "L-U-V" and "H-?-T", similar to the tattoos "L-O-V-E" and "H-A-T-E" on Robert Mitchum's character's fingers in The Night of the Hunter.
Quotes - Chief Wiggum: Sideshow Bob has no decency. He called me Chief Piggum!
- Pasty-Faced Lawyer: But what about the tattoo on your chest? Doesn't it say "Die Bart, Die"?
Sideshow Bob: No, that's German for "The Bart, The." - Bart: But who'd want to hurt me? I'm this century's Dennis the Menace.
Homer: It's probably the person you least suspect. - Bart: (pointing to Bob) Take him away, boys.
Chief Wiggum: Hey, I'm the chief here! Bake him away, toys.
Lou: What'd you say, Chief?
Chief Wiggum: Do what the kid says. - Milhouse: Um, I checked around. The girls are calling you "fatty-fat fat fat", and Nelson's planning to pull down your pants, but nobody's trying to kill ya.
Bart: Ah, that's good.
(Suddenly, Nelson pulls down Bart's pants!)
Girls: (chanting in unison) Fatty-fat fat fat! Fatty-fatty fat fat! - Marge: (holding scissors as if she attempted to kill Bart; said threateningly) Bart, I'm going to GET you...
(Bart gasps.)
Marge: (cheerfully) ...some ice cream at the store, since I'm saving so much money on diet cola! (Marge holds up a "DIET COLA: 75 OFF!" coupon.)
(Scene switches to the Flanders family house.)
Ned Flanders: (threateningly) Say your prayers, Simpson... (brandishes a Freddy Krueger-style glove)
(Bart gasps.)
Ned Flanders: (cheerfully) ...because the schools can't force you like they should! (clips the hedge) Maude, these new finger razors make hedge trimming as much fun as sitting through church!
(Cutaway to Bart's classroom.)
Edna Krabappel: (threateningly) You're going to be my murder victim, Bart...
(Bart gasps.)
Edna Krabappel: (sweetly) ...in our school production of Lizzie Borden, starring Martin Prince as Lizzie!
(Martin appears as an axe-wielding Lizzie Borden in drag.)
Martin: Forty whacks with a wet noodle, Bart!
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