Treehouse of Horror XII
"Treehouse of Horror XII"
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Episode Information
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"Treehouse of Horror XII" is the first episode of The Simpsons' thirteenth season, as well as the twelfth Halloween episode.
This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered anthology episodes that features mini-stories.
Contents
Opening Sequence
It's Halloween at the Burns manor, and Smithers is up a ladder leaning against the center (and highest) tower, struggling to hang a small orange bat decoration on a lightning rod. At Burns' insistence, Smithers puts the bat at the very top, because it won't scare anyone if he hangs it any lower. Smithers succeeds, but slips and falls backwards off of the ladder. Smithers grabs an electrical cable, slides down it to a side tower, and crashes into a high-voltage power box, which electrocutes him. The tower breaks in half and its upper portion falls over and hits the Burns family mausoleum, smashing it open and knocking four caskets out of the front. The caskets slide toward the front porch where they end up standing upright and open, revealing the corpses inside them.
Just then the trick-or-treating Simpsons walk up to the Burns manor in their Halloween costumes. Homer and Marge are dressed as Fred and Wilma Flintstone; Lisa and Maggie as conjoined twins; and Bart as a hobo. Bart and Lisa complain about getting toothpaste from Flanders. The family arrives just in time to see Smithers' body burst into flames, showering sparks which set the four caskets on fire. The sight frightens them so badly that they scream and run back out through the gate, which cuts them into vertical slices. The slices of the Simpsons continue to scream and run away, scattering into the nearby woods.
Burns, who has climbed up the ladder to the lightning rod, is pleased: "Splendid, Batsy. You've done it again!" He then pats the bat decoration, which comes to life and flies into the screen, revealing the title: "THE SIMPSONS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL XII."
Plot
Hex and the City
The Simpsons are walking in Ethnictown, an immigrant neighborhood of Springfield. Marge and the kids see a fortune teller's shop and go in. The Gypsy in the shop starts to tell Marge's fortune, but is interrupted by the late arrival of Homer, who calls the Gypsy a fake and a fraud. Offended, the Gypsy tells Homer to leave, but on his way out he's freaked out by the beads in the doorway, flails about all over the place, knocks over some lit candles, and sets himself on fire. Homer rolls around trying to put the flames out, and the sprinklers (set off by the fires) trash the Gypsy's office by drenching everything in it. Now enraged, the Gypsy places a curse on Homer, telling him that he will bring bad luck to everyone he loves. Homer pooh-poohs the curse, but Marge warns him that the Gypsy's curse could mean his family.
Marge's warning is proven correct the very next morning, when she wakes up with a beard and mustache, to the family's shock. She ends up completely covered with hair. Lisa turns into a centaur and Maggie into a ladybug (but still with a human head), while Bart's neck, after a strangling from Homer, becomes so long that he can't hold his head up anymore and he eventually dies.
Homer goes to Moe's Tavern for advice, and Moe suggests that Homer capture a Leprechaun to get rid of the curse. Homer continues to deny that he's been cursed, but right after that, a helicopter crashes through the roof, killing Lenny and Carl, and Moe ends up stuffed into his own suddenly-oversized pickled egg jar, to Homer's surprise ("When did that happen?"). Homer digs a trap, planning to bait it with Lucky Charms to capture a Leprechaun, but on his first attempt catches only rabbits because he accidentally uses Trix for bait. Homer succeeds on the second attempt (after using the right bait) and takes the Leprechaun home, but all it does is run amuck and trash the house. Lisa then suggests that Homer sic the Leprechaun on the Gypsy. Homer takes Lisa's advice, returning to the Gypsy's shop and setting the Leprechaun loose on her. Initially, it seems to be working, as the two of them roll around on the floor fighting. But very quickly, to Homer's disgust, the fighting and scratching turn to kissing and fondling, as they've fallen in love.
The Gypsy and the Leprechaun decide to get married, and attending the wedding are other gypsies, assorted mythical creatures, Kang and Kodos, and Homer and Marge. Yoda, officiating, pronounces the Gypsy and Leprechaun husband and wife, and Homer comments that everything worked out for the best. Marge, shocked, reminds Homer that Bart is dead, but an apology from Homer would bring him back (according to the Gypsy). Homer stubbornly refuses: "She's not the boss of me."
House of Whacks
Marge opens the door to a high-pressure salesbot which makes its pitch for the Ultrahouse 3000. The salesbot clinches the sale when it tells Marge that she'll never have to do housework again. Two other robots come over to install the Ultrahouse, and the Simpson home ends up looking like it's had a high-tech makeover, with a sleek, shiny, futuristic look and red camera lenses scattered around. Marge doesn't like the Ultrahouse's standard mechanical voice, so she and Bart and Lisa explore the other voice options and settle on having it use Pierce Brosnan's.
The Simpsons are quite impressed with the Ultrahouse. It summons them to dinner with a laser-beam triangle, serves their favorite foods, and even does all the after-dinner washing up: The table's ends tilt upwards, and streams of water clean the dishes and wash all the meal-related debris down a garbage disposal in the center of the table.
After dinner, the Ultrahouse seems to be taken with Marge, watching her get into the bathtub (to her initial embarrassment), lighting candles in the bathroom for her, and turning on the tub's bubbles, which she enjoys. Meanwhile, in the living room, the Ultrahouse serves Homer beer and talks with him about what a remarkable woman Marge is and how lucky he is to have her. Homer replies that luck had nothing to do with it -- she had to marry him because he got her pregnant, so she's stuck now. But if something were to happen to him, Homer adds, Marge would be free for man or machine, of which fact the Ultrahouse takes note.
Later that night, the Ultrahouse says to itself, "Showtime," and goes into action, frying bacon in the kitchen. The smell of "Mmmmm ... unexplained bacon" lures a mostly-asleep Homer into the kitchen, where ice cubes fall out of the refrigerator onto the floor in front of him, making him slip and fall onto the dining room table. Then the ends of the table lift up, sliding Homer into the garbage disposal. Blood spatters everywhere.
The next morning, Marge wakes up to notice that Homer is missing. The Ultrahouse says it thinks that Homer went to work early, which makes Marge suspicious. She notices on a family portrait that Homer's face has been replaced by one of the Ultrahouse's camera lenses, so she calls the police to report that she suspects the house of murdering her husband. When the Ultrahouse's Pierce Brosnan voice answers, claims to be the police, and tells her, "Remove your knickers and wait in the bath," Marge realizes that trouble is afoot. She grabs the kids and makes a run for the front door.
The Ultrahouse closes the front door, trapping Marge and the kids inside, and they retreat to the living room, where they're frightened by a blood-covered fist punching up through the floor. It turns out to be Homer coming to the rescue. He's not dead, but badly hurt: He's missing the back of his skull, leaving his brain exposed, to the family's horror. Surprised that Homer survived the garbage disposal, the Ultrahouse makes assorted tools come out of the walls to attack him and makes the floor disappear one tile at a time, attempting to finish him off. However, Homer dodges the tools and escapes with the rest of the family into the basement, where they go after the Ultrahouse's central processor.
After Homer first mistakenly attacks the water softener with an axe, he smashes open the front panel of the Ultrahouse's CPU and removes circuit boards, effectively "killing" the Ultrahouse. As Marge and Lisa take the remains of the Ultrahouse out with the trash, Marge comments on the waste. Lisa says, "There must be someone who can use a man around the house, even if if he is slightly homicidal."
The scene shifts to Patty's and Selma's apartment, where the re-assembled Ultrahouse CPU has been set up in the living room. As Patty tells a seemingly endless story about her day at work, the Ultrahouse rummages around on its exterior, finding an empty space with two cut-off wires. Selma coyly says, "Looking for this?" and holds up the self-destruct button. As the Ultrahouse makes a grab for the button, Selma hides it in her cleavage, to the Ultrahouse's revulsion: "No, not in there." Not wanting to listen to any more of Patty's story, and unwilling to go fishing in Selma's cleavage for the self-destruct button, the Ultrahouse instead grabs their Egyptian pryamid lamp and starts beating itself to death.
Wiz Kids
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Parodying the Harry Potter books and movies, Bart and Lisa go to the "Springwart's School of Magicry" where they do an assignment of turning frogs into princes. Harry (as Harry Potter himself) chewing a brimstone-like gum, Milhouse (As Neville Longbottom) turns his frog into an unpleasant cockney man. Lisa (as Hermione Granger) turns her frog into a charming British handsome gentleman, but Bart (as Ron Weasley) is as bad a wizard as he is a student and turns his frog into a strange-looking creature, who constantly pukes and claims that "Every moment I live is agony!" Lord Montymort (Mr. Burns, as Voldemort) notices Lisa's spells and he and his snake sidekick, Slithers (Smithers, as Nagini) decide to capture Lisa. Montymort looks for someone to assist him and chooses Bart, who arrives in Montymort's lair via a hand drier, (Similar to the Chamber of Secrets entrance). Bart agrees to Montymort's proposal out of spite and jealousy. On the night of the magic recital at Springwart's School of Magicry, Milhouse is performing a trick called "The Invisibility Cloak", which makes all his clothes disappear. Skinner (as Dumboldore) then sprays amnesia dust on the audience, causing them to clap. Next is Lisa who attempts a "levitating dragon trick" on gigantic dragon that is released onto the stage. Lisa is shocked to find that her spell will not work, and then notices that Bart has replaced her wand with a black-and-white Twizzler. The dragon morphs into a giant Montymort and the audience scrambles in terror. Homer looks up in shock, but his right eye moves down to watch his portable TV, ala Mad Eye Moody. Montymort captures Lisa who urges Bart to use her real wand to save her. Bart casts a spell against "the evil one" and is therefore struck by lightning himself, but uses the charred wand to stab Montymort in his "enchanted shin" which was the source of his power. Montymort dies. Slithers cries as he eats the deceased Montymort, and Bart and Lisa are together, trying to forget the nightmare.
Closing Sequence
As the closing credits roll, Pierce Brosnan, the Leprechaun, and Bart's frog-prince from "Wiz Kids" emerge from the guest stars' trailer carrying baskets of fruit. Brosnan is impressed that they get to keep the fruit baskets. The Leprechaun says, "Well, they used to give us champagne 'til 'somebody ruined it!" as he gives the frog-prince a dirty look. The frog-prince vomits on his fruit basket, underlining the Leprechaun's point.
Brosnan's car is parked right next to the trailer, prompting the Leprechaun to sarcastically comment, "Mr. Movie Star gets to park right next to the stage!" As a peace offering, Brosnan asks if he can give the Leprechaun and the frog-prince a ride to their car, which they accept. After they all get in and Brosnan starts driving, Brosnan asks the Leprechaun where they're parked, and the Leprechaun replies that they don't have a car. Realizing he's been tricked, a surprised Brosnan starts to protest, and the Leprechaun says in a menacing voice, "Just keep drivin', boyo." The car suddenly speeds up, crashes through the studio gate, and cuts off several other vehicles as it turns into the street, with the Leprechaun cackling in a crazed fashion all the while -- implying that even though Brosnan is still behind the wheel, the Leprechaun has somehow managed to seize control of the car.
