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"Stark Raving Dad" is the first episode of season 3. It originally aired on September 19, 1991 and was written by Al Jean and Mike Reiss and directed by Rich Moore. Michael Jackson guest starred as Leon Kompowsky although he was credited as John Jay Smith due to legal reasons.

Thanks to Bart leaving his lucky red hat in the load of washed white shirts, Homer wears a pink shirt to the nuclear power plant. He is promptly committed to a mental institution where he meets up with a heavy-set, bald, white man, Leon Kompowski, who walks and talks like Michael Jackson.