Treehouse of Horror XXIV

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	Treehouse of Horror Episode

"Wait a second... It's Halloween?"

―Comic Book Guy

Template:EpisodeHD "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" is the five hundred and thirty-second episode of The Simpsons, the second episode of the twenty-fifth season and the twenty-fourth installment in the Treehouse of Horror series.

Synopsis

In “Oh The Places You’ll D’oh,” the first of three spine-tingling stories, Homer rides around Springfield wreaking havoc as “The Fat in The Hat” in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-ian tale. In “Dead and Shoulders,” Bart is beheaded during a kite accident, his head is attached to Lisa’s body and they must live together as one. The final terrifying tale, “Freaks no Geeks,” features Mr. Burns’ traveling circus, The Burnsum and Bailey Circus, which has stopped in Springfieldland in the 1930s. Trapeze artist Marge and Strong Man Homer are performers and things go awry when circus freak Moe starts to make advances towards Marge.

Plot

Act I: "Oh The Places You’ll D’oh"

It's Halloween in a rhyming Dr. Seuss-ian Springfield and three young children (Bart, Lisa and Maggie) are home with the mumps, while the rest of the town is trick-or-treating. Their mother (Marge) heads-out to attend a costume party, leaving them home alone and instructing them not to eat any candy. The kids quickly become bored, until, suddenly, they hear a knock on the door - it's The Fat In The Hat, who, according to his business card, is "the expert at this and expert at that."
He promises to save Halloween and, after quickly administering anti-mump shots, tells the children to jump on his cycle and he'll take them trick-or-treating. After knocking Grampa, who threatens to fight, unconscious with his gadget-riddled umbrella, the Fat in the Hat and the children head out.
Once in town, the children become unnerved by the Fat in the Hat's anger issues and his highly unusual political views. He ends up robbing Apu, blowing up Mr. Burns' mansion, killing Moe, knocking out Patty and Selma, blowing up the Town Hall, setting free all the animals at the zoo, and leaving a pile of bodies in his trail.
The kids realize they must escape from their psychotic guide and so they hop on a three-humped gumbammel(Barney), then a Krusty-cow (Krusty) - which ultimately gets beheaded by Sideshow Bob - and then fly back home on a large bee (Bumblebee Man). However, to their dismay, The Fat In The Hat is waiting inside. "I'm staying forever. You're all stuck with that. 'Cause I'm your new daddy, the Fat in the-", before he can finish, Maggie stabs him in the chest with his very own umbrella. "I'm afraid of nothing, not even hellfires. Just please, don't ever let me be played by Mike Myers.", the Fat in the Hat mutters before dying. The children craft the Fat's body into a rug and sit on him eating candy all night until their mother returns.

Act II: "Dead and Shoulders"

Bart has spent his day flying a kite and with the sun setting, decides to take a nap. With no-where to tie his kite, he wraps the string around his neck and dozes off. Channel 6's Arnie Pye's weather-report helicopter flies overhead and Bart's kite and the 'copter intertwine. Arnie panics and flies away - the force of which pulls the kite string tight, swiftly chopping Bart's head clean off his shoulders.
Bart awakens in a hospital bed and exclaims, "I'm alive. All patched up. End of story." Not actually, however, as Bart's decapitated head has since surgically been attached to Lisa's body by Dr. Hibbert, who reminds Lisa that she maintains full-control of her body, allowing her to do whatever she wants to Bart's head.
Bart struggles to adjust to life attached to his sister: she bores him by making him sit through her doll tea-parties, he is banned entry to Homer's man-cave because of its "No Girls" rule, and is presented to Lisa's class as a show-and-tell project.
They both attend therapy with Dr. Thurston. She encourages Bart to think of the positive aspects of being attached to Lisa and vice versa. This helps and the two develop a new-found appreciation for one another and brings them closer together.
That night, he discovers that, while she is asleep, he has control over Lisa's body. Bart then hatches a plan in order to make sure Lisa stays asleep, which sees him mixing Nappien pills with Lisa's yoghurt.
The following day, at a local saw mill, Bart straps him and Lisa (who is still asleep) down onto a piece of wood and waits until the saw cuts Lisa's head-off, leaving him still attached, and subsequently permanently in-control, of her body. Both of them, however, ultimately end up beheaded.
Once again, Bart awakens in hospital, this time, however, attached to his Aunt Selma. While, Lisa is attached to Krusty.

Act III: "Freaks no Geeks"

The final terrifying tale, features Mr. Burns’ traveling circus, The Burnsum and Bailey Circus, which has stopped in Springfieldland in the 1930s. Trapeze artist Marge and Strong Man Homer are performers and things go awry when circus freak Moe starts to make advances towards Marge. Eventually, Marge leaves Homer for Moe, and Homer is tarred & feathered from the waist-down, being presented as a new freakshow attraction, "The World's Strongest Duck". Later, it is shown in a newspaper that the 'duck' (Homer) died a few years later.

Production

The couch gag was directed by Guillermo del Toro. The extended titles featured a lot of homages to horror flicks, including Guillermo del Toro's own Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth.

According to Al Jean in an interview on September 28, 2012, this episode was already completed by then and includes "a very violent world resembling Dr. Seuss', and also the movie Freaks."

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  Script for the episode

Reception

The episode received 6.42 million viewers, making it the most watched show of the night beating American Dad!, Bob's Burgers and Family Guy.

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External links

• Couch gag for the episode at YouTube
• "Together as One" clip at YouTube
• "Barnsum and Bailey" clip at YouTube

References

Treehouse of Horror series
I • II • III • IV • V • VI • VII • VIII • IX • X • XI • XII • XIII • XIV • XV • XVI • XVII • XVIII • XIX • XX • XXI • XXII • XXIII • XXIV • XXV • XXVI • XXVII • XXVIII • XXIX • XXX • XXXI • XXXII • Not It • XXXIII • XXXIV • XXXV

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