Two Dozen and One Greyhounds

"**Two Dozen and One Greyhounds**" is the 20th episode of ***The Simpsons*** 6th season. It was first broadcast on the Fox network on April 9, 1995. The episode was written by Mike Scully and Bob Anderson is the . In the episode, Santa's Little Helper mates with another greyhound at a race track. Mr. Burns wants to take their puppies to make a tuxedo out of them.

## Story 
Santa's Little Helper, the Simpson family's dog, runs to a race track and mates with a greyhound there. The owner of the racing greyhound lets the Simpson family keep her. She gives birth to 25 puppies. Homer and Marge are not able to take care of the puppies and tries giving them away. Mr. Burns asks them for all of the puppies. Lisa does not want Burns to have them, but he takes the puppies when the family does not see them.

Bart and Lisa later learn that Burns has taken the puppies. They go to his mansion and see him cleaning the puppies in a bath. Burns sees one of the puppies standing up and calls the puppy "Little Monty". He then sings a song on how he will kill the other 24 puppies and make a tuxedo out of them. Bart and Lisa go in the mansion to try to get the puppies back. They put the puppies in the basement and find Burns there. Bart tries to make it so that Burns does not know which puppy is Little Monty. When Burns makes Little Monty stand, Bart uses a clothes line to make all of the puppies stand. Burns wants to kill all of the puppies and Bart and Lisa, but then thinks he should not kill them all. He instead puts all of the puppies in greyhound racing and gets millions of dollars from it.

## Production 
"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" was written by Mike Scully. Bob Anderson is the  of the episode. Al Jean and Mike Reiss came up with the story of the episode. They got the idea after seeing the movie *One Hundred and One Dalmatians*. Mirkin thought it was great that they could use ideas from Disney in a "completely legal way". In one part of the movie, the puppies can be seen watching cartoons on a television screen. Groening said that made him love how cartoons work and made him create a fictional television show in *The Simpsons* called *The Itchy & Scratchy Show*. Matt Groening did not want this in the episode because he thought people watching it would not know who Calhoun was. MSNBC made a list of "TV's top 10 scariest characters" and put Mr. Burns on the top of the list. They talked about "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" where Burns makes a  on killing the puppies to make a tuxedo.

Ben Rayner from the *Toronto Star* thought that "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" was one episode of *The Simpsons* he liked the most. He thought Mr. Burns in the "See My Vest" song was the most  part. The *Toronto Star* later made a list of the best and worst episodes of *The Simpsons*. They put this episode as one of the best and said "See My Vest" was the best part of the episode. Todd Glichrist from IGN called the episode "" and talked about "See My Vest" by saying Mr. Burns " with copyright infringement". Michael Price from IGN thought the song was just a great as "The Monorail Song" from the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail". Colin Jacobson from DVD Movie Guide liked the  to many Disney movies and to Roy Calhoun. Jacobson said this made it a " show".

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