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"'''Treehouse of Horror'''" (also known as "'''The Simpsons Halloween Special'''") is the third episode of [[season 2]] and the first annual Halloween special.
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"'''Treehouse of Horror'''", also known as "'''The Simpsons Halloween Special'''", is the third episode of [[season 2]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the sixteenth episode overall. It is also the first installment in the [[Treehouse of Horror series|''Treehouse of Horror'' series]] and consisted of three parts. It originally aired on October 25, [[1990]]. Part one was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Wes Archer]], part two was written by [[Jay Kogen]] and [[Wallace Wolodarsky]] and directed by [[Rich Moore]] and part three was written by [[Sam Simon]], with writing credit given to [[Edgar Allan Poe]], and directed by [[David Silverman]]. It guest stars [[James Earl Jones]] as [[Serak the Preparer]], the narrator and the [[removalist]].
  
 
== Synopsis ==
 
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The first of the annual Halloween spook-fest. In 'Bad Dream House', the family move into an [[Evil House|old haunted house]], and are possessed to kill each other. In 'Hungry are the Damned', the family are abducted by Kang and Kodos, and fattened up to the extent that [[Lisa]] questions their motive. Her nosiness ends up in the Simpsons being dropped off home again. In 'The Raven', a poem by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] is recited with the family as characters.
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{{Desc|The first of the annual Halloween spook-fest. In "Bad Dream House", the family move into an [[Evil House|old haunted house]], are possessed by an evil spirit, and attempt to kill each other. In "Hungry are the Damned", the family's abducted by aliens [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]] and are fattened up to the extent [[Lisa]] questions their motives. In "The Raven", a poem by [[Edgar Allan Poe]] is recited with the family as characters.}}
  
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
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=== Opening sequence ===
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=== Act I: "Bad Dream House" ===
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In a parody of the original ''Frankenstein'' film, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] warns viewers that the following program (''The Simpsons'') may give their children nightmares, so she suggests the adults to "tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow." However, the viewers ignore her and let their children watch it anyway.
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[[File:Bad Dream House - Title Card.png|thumb|left]]
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[[Marge]] warns viewers ''The Simpsons'' may give their children nightmares, so she suggests the adults "tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow." However, the viewers ignore her and let their kids watch it anyway.
  
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=== Wraparound ===
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When [[Homer]] comes back from trick-or-treating, he notices [[Bart]] and Lisa are telling ghost stories in [[Bart's treehouse|the treehouse]]. He climbs up and eavesdrops while Bart comments on Lisa's first story.
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When [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] comes back from trick-or-treating, he notices [[Bart]] and Lisa are telling ghost stories in [[Bart's treehouse|the treehouse]]. He climbs up and eavesdrops while Bart comments on Lisa's first story. Bart starts telling his own story called:
 
  
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=== Bad Dream House ===
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The Simpsons move into a new home at a great price. Lisa and [[Marge]] are scared there's an evil presence lurking in the house. However, Homer says there's nothing to worry about, despite a vortex in the kitchen. Homer throws an orange into the vortex, and the ones who live in the vortex throw it out with a note asking them not to throw stuff in. In the living room, Bart's strangled by a lamp cord, the house threatens the family to leave, and the family's thrown up to the ceiling. When everyone tries to settle in to sleep, the house brainwashes everybody into killing each other.
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[[File:Baddreamhouse.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The "haunted" house.]]
 
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The Simpsons move into a new home at a great price. Lisa and [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] are scared there is an evil presence lurking in the house, though Homer says there's nothing to worry about despite there being a vortex in the kitchen, Homer throws in an orange into the vortex then the ones who live in the world throw it out with a note that asks them not to throw in stuff. Bart being strangled by lamp cord, the house threatening the family to leave, and being thrown up to the ceiling. When everyone tries to settle in to sleep, the house brainwashes everybody to kill each other. When they stop what they're doing, thanks to Marge not being brainwashed, the house threatens that they will die horribly. Marge ends up angrily telling the house to shut up, and after a few moments, it complies. Marge then explains that since they are living in the house, the house is going to have to accept this. The house asks them to leave for a moment as it decides what to do. It determines it would rather die than live with the Simpsons, and the house implodes into nothingness.
 
  
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=== Hungry are the Damned===
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When they stop what they're doing (thanks to Marge not being brainwashed), the house threatens them they'll die horribly. Marge ends up angrily telling the house to shut up, and, after a few moments, it complies. She explains since they're living in the house, the house is gonna have to accept this. The house asks them to leave for a moment as it decides what to do. It determines it'll rather die than host the Simpsons and implodes into nothingness.
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[[File:TreehouseofHorror02.jpg|thumb|left|Kang and Kodos]]
 
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The Simpsons are having a barbecue until an alien ship abducts them. When they arrive on the ship, they meet Kang, Kodos, an unnamed alien and [[Serak the Preparer]], who treat the Simpsons extremely well by giving them countless amounts of food to hold them over until the great feast at [[Rigel IV]]. Lisa becomes suspicious and thus, one night, wanders around the ship and heads into the kitchen when Serak leaves. She mistakes the book ''[[How to Cook for Forty Humans]]'' as being titled ''How to Cook Humans'' and accuses the Rigelians of plotting to eat the family. They are shcoked at the accusation and angry at the Simpsons. The aliens then take them back home to live out their normal lives on Earth, and tell them that they have forfeited a blissful existence where they would have been treated like gods. Lisa then speculates that they, the [[Simpson family]], may be the true monsters.
 
  
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=== The Raven ===
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=== Act II: "Hungry are the Damned" ===
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[[File:The Raven.png|thumb|Bart as the Raven.]]
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[[File:Hungry are the Damned - Title Card.png|thumb|right]]
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A Simpson's version of the classic {{ch|Edgar Allan Poe}} poem, "{{w|The Raven}}", in which Homer is the [[The Raven Narrator|main character]], Lisa and [[Maggie]] are seraphin, Marge is the lost [[Lenore]], and Bart is none other than {{ch|The Raven}}, whose only line is "Nevermore".
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The Simpsons are having a barbecue until an alien ship abducts them. When they arrive on the ship, they meet Kang, Kodos, an unnamed alien, and [[Serak the Preparer]], who treat the Simpsons extremely well by giving them countless amounts of food to hold them over until the great feast at Rigel IV. Lisa becomes suspicious, and thus, one night, wanders around the ship and heads into the kitchen when Serak leaves. She mistakes the book ''[[How to Cook for Forty Humans]]'' as being titled ''How to Cook Humans'' and accuses the Rigellians of plotting to eat the family. They're shocked at the accusation and are angry at the Simpsons. The aliens take them back home to live out their normal lives on Earth, and tell them they forfeited a blissful existence where they'll have been treated like gods. Lisa speculates they, the [[Simpson family]], may be the true monsters as everyone gets mad at Lisa.
  
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=== Closing Sequence ===
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=== Act III: "The Raven" ===
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As the episode comes to a close, Bart and Lisa consider the tales before going to bed, not knowing Homer was freaked out by all of the stories. Everybody goes to bed, but Homer has trouble sleeping that night, as he decides he hates Halloween when he hears the Raven outside.
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[[File:The Raven - Title Card.png|thumb|left]]
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Lisa reads a classic tale of terror, "The Raven", penned by Edgar Allan Poe
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[[The Raven narrator|Homer]], a wealthy, yet distraught lover lamenting the loss of his [[Lenore]], sits, asleep, with a book titled "Forgotten Lore Vol.~II" on his lap. He's soon disturbed from his slumber and awoken by a repeating tapping on his chamber door. Homer's spooked by a rustle heard outside. Screaming, Homer hides behind his reading chair and utters, "Sir, or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you." Homer proceeds to approach the chamber door and throws it open while covering his eyes. There's nothing there but darkness.
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Suddenly, there comes a tapping on the window. Homer opens the window, and {{Ch|The Raven|a raven}} flies into the room and perches above the chamber door upon a bust of [[Pallas]]. Homer attempts to communicate with the raven, but the bird only replies with, "Nevermore."
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The bird continues with this reply and begins to anger Homer. Homer lunges for the Raven, who flits away. Homer chases the bird across and around the room, but it remains barely out of reach. Homer and the raven's chase makes a mess of his chamber and results in Homer throwing a potted plant at the Raven, who dodges the projectile. The plant pot hits Homer on the head, and tiny ravens dance around his head, chanting, ``Nevermore, Nevermore, Nevermore...''
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The chase continues. The Raven plucks books from the shelf and drops them, before returning to its place atop the bust of Pallas. Meanwhile, below, the carnage it wrought upon the room, Homer seemingly descended into madness. The narrator concludes, "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted - nevermore!"
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With the poem now finished, Bart and Lisa talk about the tales before going to bed and Bart didn't find the story that scary, not knowing Homer was freaked out by all of them. Everybody goes to bed, but Homer has trouble sleeping that night and decides he hates Halloween after hearing the Raven outside.
  
 
== Production ==
 
== Production ==
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The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]], [[Jay Kogen]], [[Wallace Wolodarsky]] and [[Sam Simon]]. [[Wesley Archer]], [[Rich Moore]] and [[David Silverman]] directed. The episode is considered to be non-canon and takes place outside the normal continuity of the show. Part of the series' attraction to the writers is that they are able to break the rules and include violence and kill off characters, which they would not usually be able in a regular episode.
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This is the first episode of ''The Simpsons'' to be composed by [[Alf Clausen]], who went on to be the main composer until [[season 29]]. The idea behind the episode was to parody {{W|EC Comics}}, [[James L. Brooks]] said, "shocking" for a cartoon on network television. He also said this episode's tame compared to later "Treehouse of Horror" episodes.<ref name="EW">[https://ew.com/gallery/simpsons-treehouse-horror-top-10/#21073833 Entertainment Weekly - "'Simpsons': 'Treehouse of Horror' Top 10!"]</ref>
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The idea of Kang and Kodos came from [[Jay Kogen]] and [[Wallace Wolodarsky]].<ref>{{Com|Kogen, Jay|Treehouse of Horror|Second|(2002).}}</ref> Kang and Kodos' designs were based off a cover of an EC Comics issue.<ref name="Reiss">{{Com|Reiss, Mike|Treehouse of Horror II|Third|(2003).}}</ref> They were originally designed to be constantly drooling. Initially, creator [[Matt Groening]] decided against this to make the animation process easier. However, the animators didn't mind, so the drooling stayed in.<ref>{{Com|Groening, Matt|Treehouse of Horror|Second|(2002).}}</ref> The names of Kang and Kodos come from two ''[[Star Trek]]'' characters. Kang's named after a {{W|Klingon}} captain from the episode "{{W|Day of the Dove}}", and Kodos is named after Kodos the Executioner from the episode "{{W|The Conscience of the King}}".<ref name="Reiss"/>
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== Reception ==
 
== Reception ==
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The episode's positively received by fans and critics. In [[2011]], {{W|Entertainment Weekly}} named "Hungry are the Damned" the best Treehouse of Horror segment.<ref name="EW"/> As of September [[2018]], the episode has a 8.3 rating on {{W|IMDb}}<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701278/ IMDb - "Treehouse of Horror"]</ref> and a 8.8 rating on {{W|TV.com}}.<ref>[http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-1301/ TV.com - "Treehouse of Horror"]</ref>
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Since It originally aired, the episode has received very positive reviews from television critics and is almost always included in the lists of "best episodes" of the show.
 
  
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== Gallery ==
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File:Treehouse of Horror - Hungry are the Damned poster.jpg|Poster for "Hungry are the Damned"
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== In other languages ==
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Season 2 Episode
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"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish" 017 →
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Treehouse of Horror Episode


Donut Homer.png This THOH is considered non-canon and the events featured do not relate to the series and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

The reason behind this decision is: The episode is part of the Treehouse of Horror series.

If you dispute this, please bring it up on the episode's talk page.

"Tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow."
―Marge Simpson
"Treehouse of Horror"
Treehouse of Horror (Title Card).png
Episode Information
Episode number: 16
Season number: S2 E3
Production code: 7F04
Original airdate: October 25, 1990
Guest star(s): James Earl Jones as Serak the Preparer, the narrator and the removalist
Showrunners: James L. Brooks
Matt Groening
Sam Simon
Written by: John Swartzwelder (part 1)
Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky (part 2)
Sam Simon and Edgar Allan Poe (part 3)
Directed by: Wes Archer (part 1)
Rich Moore (part 2)
David Silverman (part 3)
DVD features


"Treehouse of Horror", also known as "The Simpsons Halloween Special", is the third episode of season 2 of The Simpsons and the sixteenth episode overall. It is also the first installment in the Treehouse of Horror series and consisted of three parts. It originally aired on October 25, 1990. Part one was written by John Swartzwelder and directed by Wes Archer, part two was written by Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky and directed by Rich Moore and part three was written by Sam Simon, with writing credit given to Edgar Allan Poe, and directed by David Silverman. It guest stars James Earl Jones as Serak the Preparer, the narrator and the removalist.

Synopsis[edit]

"The first of the annual Halloween spook-fest. In "Bad Dream House", the family move into an old haunted house, are possessed by an evil spirit, and attempt to kill each other. In "Hungry are the Damned", the family's abducted by aliens Kang and Kodos and are fattened up to the extent Lisa questions their motives. In "The Raven", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe is recited with the family as characters."


Plot[edit]

Act I: "Bad Dream House"[edit]

Bad Dream House - Title Card.png

Marge warns viewers The Simpsons may give their children nightmares, so she suggests the adults "tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tomorrow." However, the viewers ignore her and let their kids watch it anyway.

When Homer comes back from trick-or-treating, he notices Bart and Lisa are telling ghost stories in the treehouse. He climbs up and eavesdrops while Bart comments on Lisa's first story.

The Simpsons move into a new home at a great price. Lisa and Marge are scared there's an evil presence lurking in the house. However, Homer says there's nothing to worry about, despite a vortex in the kitchen. Homer throws an orange into the vortex, and the ones who live in the vortex throw it out with a note asking them not to throw stuff in. In the living room, Bart's strangled by a lamp cord, the house threatens the family to leave, and the family's thrown up to the ceiling. When everyone tries to settle in to sleep, the house brainwashes everybody into killing each other.

When they stop what they're doing (thanks to Marge not being brainwashed), the house threatens them they'll die horribly. Marge ends up angrily telling the house to shut up, and, after a few moments, it complies. She explains since they're living in the house, the house is gonna have to accept this. The house asks them to leave for a moment as it decides what to do. It determines it'll rather die than host the Simpsons and implodes into nothingness.

Act II: "Hungry are the Damned"[edit]

Hungry are the Damned - Title Card.png

The Simpsons are having a barbecue until an alien ship abducts them. When they arrive on the ship, they meet Kang, Kodos, an unnamed alien, and Serak the Preparer, who treat the Simpsons extremely well by giving them countless amounts of food to hold them over until the great feast at Rigel IV. Lisa becomes suspicious, and thus, one night, wanders around the ship and heads into the kitchen when Serak leaves. She mistakes the book How to Cook for Forty Humans as being titled How to Cook Humans and accuses the Rigellians of plotting to eat the family. They're shocked at the accusation and are angry at the Simpsons. The aliens take them back home to live out their normal lives on Earth, and tell them they forfeited a blissful existence where they'll have been treated like gods. Lisa speculates they, the Simpson family, may be the true monsters as everyone gets mad at Lisa.

Act III: "The Raven"[edit]

The Raven - Title Card.png

Lisa reads a classic tale of terror, "The Raven", penned by Edgar Allan Poe

Homer, a wealthy, yet distraught lover lamenting the loss of his Lenore, sits, asleep, with a book titled "Forgotten Lore Vol.~II" on his lap. He's soon disturbed from his slumber and awoken by a repeating tapping on his chamber door. Homer's spooked by a rustle heard outside. Screaming, Homer hides behind his reading chair and utters, "Sir, or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you." Homer proceeds to approach the chamber door and throws it open while covering his eyes. There's nothing there but darkness.

Suddenly, there comes a tapping on the window. Homer opens the window, and a raven flies into the room and perches above the chamber door upon a bust of Pallas. Homer attempts to communicate with the raven, but the bird only replies with, "Nevermore." The bird continues with this reply and begins to anger Homer. Homer lunges for the Raven, who flits away. Homer chases the bird across and around the room, but it remains barely out of reach. Homer and the raven's chase makes a mess of his chamber and results in Homer throwing a potted plant at the Raven, who dodges the projectile. The plant pot hits Homer on the head, and tiny ravens dance around his head, chanting, ``Nevermore, Nevermore, Nevermore...

The chase continues. The Raven plucks books from the shelf and drops them, before returning to its place atop the bust of Pallas. Meanwhile, below, the carnage it wrought upon the room, Homer seemingly descended into madness. The narrator concludes, "And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted - nevermore!"

With the poem now finished, Bart and Lisa talk about the tales before going to bed and Bart didn't find the story that scary, not knowing Homer was freaked out by all of them. Everybody goes to bed, but Homer has trouble sleeping that night and decides he hates Halloween after hearing the Raven outside.

Production[edit]

This is the first episode of The Simpsons to be composed by Alf Clausen, who went on to be the main composer until season 29. The idea behind the episode was to parody EC Comics, James L. Brooks said, "shocking" for a cartoon on network television. He also said this episode's tame compared to later "Treehouse of Horror" episodes.[1]

The idea of Kang and Kodos came from Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky.[2] Kang and Kodos' designs were based off a cover of an EC Comics issue.[3] They were originally designed to be constantly drooling. Initially, creator Matt Groening decided against this to make the animation process easier. However, the animators didn't mind, so the drooling stayed in.[4] The names of Kang and Kodos come from two Star Trek characters. Kang's named after a Klingon captain from the episode "Day of the Dove", and Kodos is named after Kodos the Executioner from the episode "The Conscience of the King".[3]

  • Script

Reception[edit]

The episode's positively received by fans and critics. In 2011, Entertainment Weekly named "Hungry are the Damned" the best Treehouse of Horror segment.[1] As of September 2018, the episode has a 8.3 rating on IMDb[5] and a 8.8 rating on TV.com.[6]

Gallery[edit]

  • Poster for "Hungry are the Damned"

In other languages[edit]

Language Name Translation
Germany.png Deutsch "Horror frei Haus" Horror free home
Hispanic America.gif Español "El Especial de Noche de Brujas de Los Simpson" The Simpsons Halloween Special
France.png Français "Simpson Horror Show" Simpson Horror Show
Brasil Flag.png Português "A Casa da Árvore dos Horrores" The Treehouse of Horror
Hungary flag.png Magyar "A borzalmak Simpson-háza" Simpson house of horror
Ukraine flag.png Українська "Сімпсони святкують Хелловін" The Simpsons celebrate Halloween
Flag of Japan.png 日本語 "ハロウィーン・スペシャル" Halloween Special

References[edit]

The Saga of Carl - title screen.png Wikisimpsons has a collection of images related to "Treehouse of Horror".
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Entertainment Weekly - "'Simpsons': 'Treehouse of Horror' Top 10!"
  2. ↑ Kogen, Jay (2002). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror", in The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Reiss, Mike (2003). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror II", in The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season.
  4. ↑ Groening, Matt (2002). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror", in The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season.
  5. ↑ IMDb - "Treehouse of Horror"
  6. ↑ TV.com - "Treehouse of Horror"
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