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This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered anthology episodes that features mini-stories.

Plot

Marge's Warning

While Marge is giving her warning, she receives a note saying that Congress won't let them show this year's Halloween episode because it's so scary, so they insist on showing a black and white film. The film is cut off and Bart appears in radio waves and tells us that he's controlling the programming, but Homer keeps fooling with the radio waves, commenting on how he can see his voice.

The Shinning

In a parody of The Shining, the family gets invited to Mr. Burns' summer cottage to look after it while he goes away. While outside, Bart starts to annoy Willie and reads his thoughts. Willie tells him that he has the shinning and says he should use it to call him if his dad starts to go loopy. Mr. Burns and Smithers cut the cable and take all the beer away, causing Homer to go crazy. He goes to the bar where Moe, as a ghost, tells him he'll give him a beer if he murders his family. Bart calls Willie to help, but Willie gets an axe in the back by Homer. Homer is ready to kill them until Lisa finds Willie's mini-TV in the snow. Homer calls his family to sit in the snow with him and they freeze while watching.

Time and Punishment

Homer gets his hand jammed in the toaster and he breaks it trying to get it off. When Homer fixes it, it becomes a time machine. Homer travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, but realizes that touching anything will impact the future. When he kills a mosquito, he returns to find Flanders the lord and master of the world. He goes back to the time of the dinosaurs and kills a fish. He returns only to find that Bart and Lisa are giants. He then wipes out all the dinosaurs by sneezing and returns to a perfect family. Everything is fine until Homer realizes that donuts are unknown in this world. As Homer leaves, donuts begin to fall from the sky while Marge states that it's raining again. Homer goes on a rampage and destroys everything. He seemingly returns to a normal house until the family start eating with their lizard tongues. Homer decides it is close enough.

Nightmare Cafeteria

Bart is given detention only to find it full, and is sent to the cafeteria. There, Jimbo trips Lunchlady Doris which gives Principal Skinner the idea to cook Jimbo. They then kill Uter for food, which Skinner accidentally reveals to Bart and Lisa. With nearly all the students in detention, Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse make a break for it. They are cornered by the teachers above a giant blender. Just as they are about to fall in, Bart wakes up from his nightmare. The family tell him that he has nothing to fear except the gas that turns people inside out. The gas seeps through the window and the family starts singing.

Quotes

• Homer: "Wow. I'm the first non-Brazilian person to go back in time."

Mr. Peabody: "Correction, Homer. You're the second."
Sherman: "That's right Mr. Peabody!"
Mr. Peabody: "Quiet you."

• Homer: So what do you think, Marge? All I need is a title. I was thinking along the lines of "No TV and no beer make Homer something something."

Marge: (worried) "... Go crazy?"

Homer: Don't mind if I do!

• Bart: Hey! I found a shortcut through your hedge maze.

Willy: Why you little (thinking) No, no, go easy on the wee one. His father's going to go crazy and chop 'em all into haggis!

Bart: What's haggis?

Willy: (gasps) Boy...you read my thoughts! You've got the Shinning.

Bart: You mean "Shining".

Willy: Shh! You want to get sued? Now look, boy: if your Dad goes gaga, you just use that... "Shin" of yours to call me and I'll come a running. But don't be reading my mind between four and five. That's Willy's time!

• Lisa (trips while being chased by an axe-wielding Homer, spots a handheld TV): Dad, look! (holds it up)

Homer: Television! Teacher, mother, (sexually) secret lover. Urge to kill... fading... fading... fading... rising! Fading... fading. Come, family. Sit in the snow with Daddy and let us all bask in television's warm glowing warming glow. (later, they're all encased in ice)

TV Announcer: Live, from Broadway, it's the Tony Awards, with yourhosts Tyne Daly and Hal Linden!

Bart: Homer... change channel!

Homer: Can't! Frozen! ("One" from "A Chorus Line" plays) Urge to kill...rising...

Triva

• Willie is hit in the back with an axe in all 3 stories.
• 1. Homer stabs him in the back with an axe.
• 2. Maggie kills him with an axe as well (then replying 'this is indeed a disturbing universe'.
• 3. Seymour Skinner, for trying to stop the children getting eaten by the teachers, to which Willie states "Och, I'm bad at this."