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−	|image             = Kang-Kodos.jpg	+	{{EpisodePrevNext|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
−	|Episode Number    = 230	+	{{THOHPrevNext|Treehouse of Horror IX|Treehouse of Horror XI}}
−	|productionCode    = BABF01	+	{{Noncanon Episode|THOH}}
−	|originalAirdate    = October 31, 1999	+	{{Episode
−	|couchGag          = Each member of the family dresses up as something from a previous "Treehouse of Horror" special, save for Lisa, who is an axe victim.	+	|image= Treehouse x title.png
−	|specialGuestVoices = [[Tom Arnold]] as himself <br/>[[Dick Clark]] as himself <br/>[[Lucy Lawless]] as herself	+	|number= 230
−	|Written By        = [[Donick Cary|Donick Spooky]]<br/>[[Tim Long|Terrifying Tim Long]] <br/>[[Ron Hauge|Uh, An Ogre?]]	+	|season=11
−	|Directed By        = [[Pete Michels|Pete Scary Spice Michels]]	+	|snumber=4
		+	|prodcode= BABF01
		+	|airdate= October 31, [[1999]]
		+	|couchgag= Each member of the family dresses up as something from a previous "Treehouse of Horror" special, save for Lisa, who is an axe victim.
		+	|guests= [[Tom Arnold]] as {{Ch|Tom Arnold|himself}}<br>[[Dick Clark]] as {{Ch|Dick Clark|himself}}<br>[[Lucy Lawless]] as {{Ch|Lucy Lawless|herself}}
		+	|showrunner1= Mike Scully
		+	|showrunner2= George Meyer
		+	|showrunner3= Al Jean
		+	|writer= [[Donick Cary]]<br>[[Tim Long]]<br>[[Ron Hauge]]
		+	|director= [[Pete Michels]]
		+	|DVD features=yes
	}}		}}
−	"'''Treehouse of Horror X'''" is the fourth episode of [[The Simpsons]]' eleventh season, as well as the tenth [[Treehouse of Horror Series|Halloween]] episode. One of two Halloween specials to actually air on October 31st, [[Treehouse of Horror II]] was the other one.	+	"'''Treehouse of Horror X'''" is the fourth episode of [[season 11]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two-hundred and thirtieth episode overall. It is also the tenth installment in the [[Treehouse of Horror series|''Treehouse of Horror'' series]] and consists of three parts. It originally aired on October 31, [[1999]]. The episode was written by [[Donick Cary]], [[Tim Long]] and [[Ron Hauge]] and directed by [[Pete Michels]]. It guest stars [[Tom Arnold]] as {{Ch|Tom Arnold|himself}}, [[Dick Clark]] as {{Ch|Dick Clark|himself}} and [[Lucy Lawless]] as {{Ch|Lucy Lawless|herself}}.
−	This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered [[anthology episodes]] that features mini-stories.	+	== Synopsis ==
		+	{{Desc|In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" The family (with Marge driving) runs over and believes that they've killed Ned Flanders, in "Desperately Xeeking Xena" Bart and Lisa become super-heroes and in "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" Y2K destroys the world and [[Springfield]].}}
−	== Opening sequence ==	+	== Plot ==
−	'''Announcer:''' Live from fabulous Centauri City, it's ''The Simpsons Tenth Halloween Special''! ''(curtains reveal a pumpkin-shaped spaceship with two eyeballs in the eyeholes)'' Now, please welcome your hosts - if you haven't been probed by these two, you haven't been probed - [[Kang and Kodos]]! ''(the eyeballs are revealed to be Kang and Kodos's eyeballs as they emerge from the spaceship)''<br />	+	=== Opening sequence ===
−	'''Kang:''' Thank you, thank you.<br />	+	[[File:CouchGagS11E04.png|thumb|left|Everyone is what they were in previous Halloween specials (except for Lisa)]]
−	'''Kodos:''' Yes, thank you ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our tenth anniversary show. Oh, we've got a great -- ''(notices Kang wearing a welders' mask and lighting an acetylene torch)'' Kang, what are you doing?<br />	+	Kang and Kodos open the show in front of an alien audience, in the style of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In". No one laughs, and canned laughter is played instead. The Simpsons (in various THOH attire) witness the whole thing on TV.
−	'''Kang:''' You said we were going to warm up the audience. ''(cut to a shot of the audience, which is entirely consisting of aliens including one that resembles [[Abraham Simpson|Grampa]])'' ''(Canned laughter is played, but audience appear unamused)''<br />
−	'''Kodos:''' Ladies and gentlemen, I have to apologize for my partner. He had to borrow a human brain! ''(more canned laughter)''<br />
−	''(cut to [[Simpson family|Simpsons']] living room, where the family sits on the couch, with [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] appearing as the jack-in-the-box from "[[Treehouse of Horror II]]", [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] as the witch and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] as the half-fly mutant from "[[Treehouse of Horror VIII]]". [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] is the alien/human mutant from "[[Treehouse of Horror IX]]" and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] is an axe-attack victim.)''<br />
−	'''Lisa:''' What do aliens have to do with Halloween?<br />
−	'''Maggie:''' Silence! ''(she uses her ray gun to disintegrate Lisa)"''
−	== Plot ==
−	[[File:Treehouse_of_Horror_X.jpg|thumb|240px|Ned Flanders when he turned into a wolf]]
	=== I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did ===		=== I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did ===
−	On a foggy evening with a full moon, The Simpsons are driving down a road until Marge accidentally smashes into a jogging [[Ned Flanders]], killing him. The next day, Homer climbs to the top of his house with Ned's body, calling down to Maude in her front yard "Hey Maude! Look who's helping me clean the chimney! (a buzzard lands on Ned's limp head, pecking at him, Homer brushes it away)" Maude replies "oh, I'm so relieved! Whenever you go on one of your late night fog-walks I get so worried" Homer voices Ned, moving him like a puppet "relax, I'm fine, but when I do die, I don't want any autopsies!". Maude then goes indoors when her pies are finally done. At the same time, Homer throws Ned off the roof, whose corpse lands on the dog house, Homer mutters "oh, she missed it!". Homer dumps Ned's corpse in his house, waiting to hear Maude's horrified scream. Shortly after Ned's funeral, a mysterious cloaked figure with a buthchers hook begins terrorizing the family. The simpsons find their living room covered in the phrase "I know what you did". After a confrontation, the Simpsons flee their house. They get into the car but discover that its covered in the same phrase. They escape the figure but the car runs out of gas. As the figure closes in Homer tells them to hide in various places but the figure catches them. They then discover that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident and he tells them, by an incredibly coincidence, he had been bitten by a werewolf moments before Marge hit him, and werewolves are near impossible to kill (with the exception of silver bullets). As the clouds drift past the moon, its luminous light engulfs Ned's body and he rips off his clothes, he is now werewolf Flanders. The family flees down the street while Flanders mauls Homer to death, with Homer still mocking him "ooow! ah... (Flanders struggles to pack Homer into his mouth) eyes bigger than your stomach, eh wolfie? Heh heh... OWWW! oh God, no!".	+	[[File:Werewolf Flanders - Treehouse of Horror X.png|thumb|left|Flanders as a werewolf]]
		+	On a foggy evening with a full moon, The Simpsons are driving down a road until Marge accidentally smashes into [[Ned Flanders]], killing him. The next day, Homer climbs to the top of his house with Ned's body, calling down to Maude in her front yard and Maude is relieved, as she is always worried when he goes on one of here late night fog-walks. Homer voices Ned, moving him like a puppet saying he's fine, but when he does die, he doesn't want any autopsies. Maude then goes indoors when her pies are finally done. At the same time, Homer throws Ned off the roof, whose corpse lands on the dog house. Homer dumps Ned's corpse in his house, waiting to hear Maude's horrified scream. Shortly after Ned's funeral, the Simpsons return home, Homer gloating about how easy it was to get away with murder and attempts to drive over Milhouse, with Marge stopping him. The family then discovers that someone knows that they murdered Ned, writing "I know what you did" on their front door. Late at night, the Simpsons are sitting on the couch, when the phone rings. Homer answers it and a male voice says "I know you're alone." The voice turns out to be Moe, who was trying to call Maude Flanders, but mistakenly dialed Homer. A thunderclap fills the their living room with light, showing that the inside of the house is covered in the phrase "I know what you did". After a confrontation with a mysterious cloaked figure wielding a butcher's hook, the Simpsons flee their house. They get into the car but discover that its covered in the same phrase. They escape the figure but the car runs out of gas after Homer prays for God to save his life. As the figure closes in Homer tells them to hide in various places. He tells Marge to hide in an old abandoned amusement park, Lisa to hide in the pet cemetery, Bart to hide in the spooky roller disco, and that he will skinny-dip in the lake where sexy teenagers were killed exactly one hundred years ago. And the figure catches them. They then discover that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident and he tells them, by an incredibly coincidence, he had been bitten by a werewolf moments before Marge hit him, and werewolves are near impossible to kill (with the exception of silver bullets). Lisa then puts together that Ned was going to kill them, and they all laugh. As the clouds drift past the moon, its luminous light engulfs Ned's body and he rips off his clothes, he is now werewolf Flanders. The family flees down the street while Ned mauls Homer to death, with Homer still mocking him.
	=== Desperately Xeeking Xena ===		=== Desperately Xeeking Xena ===
−	Marge takes [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] to [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]], where [[Chief Wiggum]] is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son [[Ralph Wiggum|Ralph's]] candy, he tells them what the candy really contains "safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate!" As [[Nelson Muntz|Nelson's]] extremely bulky pillowcase of goodies is being scanned, the X-ray machine inevitably explodes. The subsequent exposure to radiation gives Bart the ability to stretch his body like rubber and Lisa gains extraordinary strength. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "[[Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl]]". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), [[Lucy Lawless]] (dressed as [[Xena]]) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. [[Comic Book Guy]], who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her metal breast plate. Lawless goes to remove the breastplate, but when hundreds of fans raise their camera's to photograph her breasts she stops with a statement of "Maybe later." He takes her to his lair, where he puts her in an aluminized PET film bag for "safekeeping" and imprisons her in a room of other similarly-captured celebrities such as Yasmine Bleeth and Tom Baker. Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout, but he manages to knock Clobber Girl out with a working phaser gun that was fired only once to prevent William Shatner from releasing another album. He wastes all his remaining shots on Stretch Dude, who splits in half and does somersaults to avoid the rays. The Collector hurls his empty raygun at Stretch Dude, hitting him on the forehead and knocking him out as well. He suspends the drowsy duo over a vat of bubbling Lucite, slowly lowering them towards certain doom and mocks them "Goodnight Retch Dude &amp; Slobber Girl. Sweet screams!". Lucy Lawless, still in her plastic restraint, lures the Collector over by pretending to be attracted to him. When he's close enough she grabs his lips and then attacks him with Kung Fu moves. Stating that he fell for a "ruse so hackneyed, it would make Stan Lee blush!", the Collector grabs his limited edition double edged lightsaber from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and ignites the blades. Lucy reminds him that he has removed it from its original packaging and it is now no longer a collectible. He backs away in horror and plummets into the vat, eventually emerging to strike a dramatic death pose (imitating a Lorne Greene pose from Battlestar Galactica) before the plastic hardens around him. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back. Clobber Girl is confused, and points out that Xena can't fly. Lucy responds that she isn't Xena; she's Lucy Lawless. This explanation satisfies Clobber Girl and the trio fly away to a reprise of the 'Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl' theme tune.	+	[[File:Desperately Xeeking Xena.png|thumb|left|Desperately Xeeking Xena|160px]]Marge takes [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]] to [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]], where [[Chief Wiggum]] is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son [[Ralph]]'s candy, he tells them what the candy really contains "safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate!" As [[Nelson]]'s extremely bulky pillowcase of goodies is being scanned, the X-ray machine inevitably explodes. Before the explosion, Bart does not duck down to avoid it, and only stares in awe. Lisa stands up to try to get him to get down. The machine explodes, knocking Bart into a gym wall and Lisa into a book case, which collapses on top of her, much to Principal Skinner's horror, as Lisa's grades qualify the school for grants. The subsequent exposure to radiation gives Lisa extraordinary strength, allowing her to pick up the book case. Bart gains the ability to stretch any part of his body. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "[[Stretch Dude]]" and "[[Clobber Girl]]". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), Lucy Lawless (dressed as Xena) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. [[Comic Book Guy]], who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her metal breast plate. Lawless goes to remove the breastplate, but when hundreds of fans raise their camera's to photograph her breasts she stops with a statement of "Maybe later." He takes her to his lair, where he puts her in an aluminized PET film bag for "safekeeping" and imprisons her in a room of other similarly-captured celebrities such as Yasmine Bleeth and Tom Baker. Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout, but he manages to knock Clobber Girl out with a working phaser gun that was fired only once to prevent William Shatner from releasing another album. He wastes all his remaining shots on Stretch Dude, who splits in half and does somersaults to avoid the rays. The Collector hurls his empty raygun at Stretch Dude, hitting him on the forehead and knocking him out as well. He suspends the drowsy duo over a vat of bubbling Lucite, slowly lowering them towards certain doom and mocks them "Goodnight Retch Dude &amp; Slobber Girl. Sweet screams!". Lucy Lawless, still in her plastic restraint, lures the Collector over by pretending to be attracted to him. When he's close enough she grabs his lips and then attacks him with Kung Fu moves. Stating that he fell for a "ruse so hackneyed, it would make Stan Lee blush!", the Collector grabs his limited edition double-bladed lightsaber from ''[[Star Wars]] Episode I: The Phantom Menace'' and ignites the blades. Lucy reminds him that he has removed it from its original packaging and it is now no longer a collectible. He backs away in horror and plummets into the vat, eventually emerging to strike a dramatic death pose (imitating a {{W|Lorne Greene}} pose from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'') before the plastic hardens around him. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back. Clobber Girl is confused, and points out that Xena can't fly. Lucy responds that she isn't Xena; she's Lucy Lawless. This explanation satisfies Clobber Girl and the trio fly away to a reprise of the ''Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl'' theme tune.
	=== Life's a Glitch, Then You Die ===		=== Life's a Glitch, Then You Die ===
−	On December 31, 1999, Dick Clark celebrates his ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' in [[Springfield]] instead of Times Square. Homer, the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]'s Y2K compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates the computer virus that spreads rapidly to other systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "2000", the computer display reads "1900". Within minutes, Dick melts to death (he is shown to be a robot) and chaos breaks out as airplanes crash, appliances explode, malfunction and turn evil, including the Springfield Revolving Restaurant's Sit 'n' Rotate room dislodging from its stand and flying off, presumably into space. A widespread looting soon begins and as the family roams the streets observing the damage (including traffic lights that shoot multi-coloured beam blasts), [[Krusty the Clown|Krusty]]'s pacemaker sets itself to hummingbird speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "best &amp; brightest" and will be launched shortly in an effort to preserve human civilization on Mars. When they reached the shuttle, Homer unsuccessfully attempts to bluff his way on board, but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft, knowing that she's the ship's proofreader. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and she quickly chooses Marge, who then takes Maggie along. Homer and Bart soon find a second, unguarded rocket nearby and climb on board just before it launches. However, they quickly notice that this ship is filled with the likes of Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Courtney Love, Spike Lee, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell and Dr. Laura: it is deliberately set for a collision course with the sun. Unable to bear the short trip to oblivion with the B-list celebrities, Homer and Bart eject themselves into the vacuum of space, where they sigh in relief as their heads swell up onscreen and explode offscreen while the rocket heads towards the sun.	+	{{Quote|Good-bye, Lisa. Remember me as I am— filled with murderous rage!|Homer, as Lisa and Marge leave for Operation Exodus}}
		+
		+	On December 31, 1999, Dick Clark celebrates his ''New Year's Rockin' Eve'' in [[Springfield]] instead of Times Square. Homer, the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]]'s Y2K compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates the computer virus that spreads rapidly to other systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "2000", the computer display reads "1900". Within minutes, Dick melts to death (he is shown to be a robot) and chaos breaks out as airplanes crash, appliances explode, malfunction and turn evil, including the Springfield Revolving Restaurant's Sit 'n' Rotate room dislodging from its stand and flying off, presumably into space. A widespread looting soon begins and as the family roams the streets observing the damage (including traffic lights that shoot multi-colored beam blasts), [[Krusty]]'s pacemaker sets itself to hummingbird speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "best &amp; brightest" and will be launched shortly in an effort to preserve human civilization on Mars. When they reach the shuttle, Homer unsuccessfully attempts to bluff his way on board (claiming to be the piano genius from the movie ''Shine''), but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft, knowing that she's the ship's proofreader. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and she quickly chooses Marge, who then takes Maggie along. Homer and Bart soon find a second, unguarded rocket nearby and climb on board just before it launches. However, they quickly notice that this ship is filled with Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Courtney Love, Spike Lee, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell and Dr. Laura and the like: it is deliberately set for a collision course with the sun. Unable to bear the short trip to oblivion with the B-list celebrities, Homer and Bart eject themselves into the vacuum of space, where they sigh in relief as their heads swell up onscreen and explode offscreen while the rocket heads towards the sun.
		+
		+	=== Title Cards ===
		+	<gallery orientation="none" captionalign="left">
		+	File:I Know What You Diddly-Iddly-Did.png
		+	File:Desperately Xeeking Xena.png
		+	File:Life's A Glitch, Then You Die.png
		+	</gallery>
−	== Characters ==	+	== Gallery ==
		+	<gallery>
		+	File:Promotional Card BABF01.png|Promotional image
		+	</gallery>
−	* [[Kang]]	+	{{Images|ep=yes}}
−	* [[Kodos]]	+	{{Treehouse of Horror}}
−	* [[Homer Simpson]]	+	{{season 11}}
−	* [[Marge Simpson]]	+	{{DEFAULTSORT:Treehouse of Horror 10}}
−	* [[Bart Simpson]]
−	* [[Lisa Simpson]]
−	* [[Maggie Simpson]]
−	* [[Ned Flanders]]
−	* [[Maude Flanders]]
−	* [[Moe Szyslak]]
−	* [[Edna Krabappel]]
−	* [[Seymour Skinner]]
−	* [[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]]
−	* [[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]]
−	* [[Dr. Hibbert]]
−	* [[Bernice Hibbert]]
−	* [[Lenny Leonard]]
−	* [[Carl Carlson]]
−	* [[Kirk Van Houten]]
−	* [[Comic Book Guy]]
−	* [[Old Jewish Man]]
−	* [[Reverend Lovejoy]]
−	* [[Milhouse Van Houten]]
−	* [[Chief Wiggum]]
−	* [[Krusty]]
−	* [[Sherri and Terri]]
−	* [[Lewis]]
−	* [[Martin Prince]]
−	* [[Nelson]]
−	* [[Ralph Wiggum]]
−	* [[Eddie and Lou]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Lucy Lawless|Lucy Lawless]]
−	* [[Waylon Smithers]]
−	* [[Professor Frink]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Tom Baker|Tom Baker]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Yasmin Bleeth|Yasmin Bleeth]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Dick Clack|Dick Clark]]
−	* [[Abe Simpson]]
−	* [[Ruth Powers]]
−	* [[Helen Lovejoy]]
−	* [[Dr. Nick]]
−	* [[Willie]]
−	* [[Jasper Beardley]]
−	* [[Luann Van Houten]]
−	* [[Sideshow Mel]]
−	* [[Sea Captain]]
−	* [[Bumblebee Man]]
−	* [[Arnie Pie]]
−	* [[Rod Flanders]]
−	* [[Todd Flanders]]
−	* [[Larry]]
−	* [[Martin Prince Sr.]]
−	* [[Martha Prince]]
−	* [[Legs]]
−	* [[Brandine Spuckler]]
−	* [[Mrs. Glick]]
−	* [[Miss Hoover]]
−	* [[Disco Stu]]
−	* [[Otto Mann]]
−	* [[Agnes Skinner]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Tom Arnold|Tom Arnold]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Dr. Laura|Dr. Laura]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Ross Perot|Ross Perot]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Dan Quayle|Dan Quayle]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Tonya Harding|Tonya Harding]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Al Sharpton|Al Sharpton]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Courtney Love|Courtney Love]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Spike Lee|Spike Lee]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Pauly Shore|Pauly Shore]]
−	* [[wikipedia: Rosie O' Donnell|Rosie O' Donnell]]
−	== Trivia ==	+	[[Category:1999]]
−	*After Homer makes Maude believe Ned had a heart attack, he says "And that's the end of that chapter" - the catchphrase of Homer Simpson on ''Police Cops'' in [[Homer to the Max]].	+	[[Category:12-rated episodes]]
−	*This is the last "Treehouse of Horror" to date with a [[couch gag]].	+	[[Category:Episodes written by Donick Cary]]
−	*When Ned got attacked by the wolf in the bushes, his cries sound awfully feminine - possibly a reference to [[Bart of Darkness]], in which his girlish squeal was confused for Maude's.	+	[[Category:Episodes written by Tim Long]]
−	*After transforming into a werewolf, Ned still says "Diddly" after growling.	+	[[Category:Episodes written by Ron Hauge]]
−	*When Homer pokes the supposedly dead Flanders, he pokes him through the glass of his spectacles.	+	[[Category:Episodes directed by Pete Michels]]
−	*Life's a glitch, then you die is a reference to the catchphrase "Life's a bitch, then you die."
−	*"Desperately Xeeking Xena" had the coining of the term "A wizard did it",
−	* Moe's phone call was a reference to the movie Scream referring to having a poor excuse for a plot hole.
−	*Homer tells the guard of the rocket that he is the piano genius from the movie ''Shine'' and that his name is Shiney McShine, when the name he should have used is David Helfgott.
−	*The first part of this episode is a parody of the 1997 film "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
−	*The third segment parodied the Y2K panic as well as When Worlds Collide.
−	*The Band playing at New Year's Rockin' Eve is actually Ratt according to the drumset, though the band members thought they were either Quiet Riot, Poison or Whitesnake.
−	{{Season 11}}	+	[[de:BABF01]]
−	[[Category:Treehouse of Horror]]	+	[[sv:Treehouse of Horror X]]
−	[[Category:Season 11]]
−	[[Category:Episodes]]
−	[[Category:Anthology]]

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	Season 11 Episode
← 229 "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"	230 "Treehouse of Horror X"	"E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" 231 →

← IX "Treehouse of Horror IX"	X "Treehouse of Horror X"	"Treehouse of Horror XI" XI →
	Treehouse of Horror Episode

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.

"Treehouse of Horror X"

Episode Information Episode number: 230 Season number: S11 E4 Production code: BABF01 Original airdate: October 31, 1999 Couch gag: Each member of the family dresses up as something from a previous "Treehouse of Horror" special, save for Lisa, who is an axe victim. Guest star(s): Tom Arnold as himself Dick Clark as himself Lucy Lawless as herself Showrunners: Mike Scully George Meyer Al Jean Written by: Donick Cary Tim Long Ron Hauge Directed by: Pete Michels DVD features

"Treehouse of Horror X" is the fourth episode of season 11 of The Simpsons and the two-hundred and thirtieth episode overall. It is also the tenth installment in the Treehouse of Horror series and consists of three parts. It originally aired on October 31, 1999. The episode was written by Donick Cary, Tim Long and Ron Hauge and directed by Pete Michels. It guest stars Tom Arnold as himself, Dick Clark as himself and Lucy Lawless as herself.

Synopsis[edit]

"In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddly-Did" The family (with Marge driving) runs over and believes that they've killed Ned Flanders, in "Desperately Xeeking Xena" Bart and Lisa become super-heroes and in "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" Y2K destroys the world and Springfield."

Plot[edit]

Opening sequence[edit]

Kang and Kodos open the show in front of an alien audience, in the style of "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In". No one laughs, and canned laughter is played instead. The Simpsons (in various THOH attire) witness the whole thing on TV.

I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did[edit]

On a foggy evening with a full moon, The Simpsons are driving down a road until Marge accidentally smashes into Ned Flanders, killing him. The next day, Homer climbs to the top of his house with Ned's body, calling down to Maude in her front yard and Maude is relieved, as she is always worried when he goes on one of here late night fog-walks. Homer voices Ned, moving him like a puppet saying he's fine, but when he does die, he doesn't want any autopsies. Maude then goes indoors when her pies are finally done. At the same time, Homer throws Ned off the roof, whose corpse lands on the dog house. Homer dumps Ned's corpse in his house, waiting to hear Maude's horrified scream. Shortly after Ned's funeral, the Simpsons return home, Homer gloating about how easy it was to get away with murder and attempts to drive over Milhouse, with Marge stopping him. The family then discovers that someone knows that they murdered Ned, writing "I know what you did" on their front door. Late at night, the Simpsons are sitting on the couch, when the phone rings. Homer answers it and a male voice says "I know you're alone." The voice turns out to be Moe, who was trying to call Maude Flanders, but mistakenly dialed Homer. A thunderclap fills the their living room with light, showing that the inside of the house is covered in the phrase "I know what you did". After a confrontation with a mysterious cloaked figure wielding a butcher's hook, the Simpsons flee their house. They get into the car but discover that its covered in the same phrase. They escape the figure but the car runs out of gas after Homer prays for God to save his life. As the figure closes in Homer tells them to hide in various places. He tells Marge to hide in an old abandoned amusement park, Lisa to hide in the pet cemetery, Bart to hide in the spooky roller disco, and that he will skinny-dip in the lake where sexy teenagers were killed exactly one hundred years ago. And the figure catches them. They then discover that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident and he tells them, by an incredibly coincidence, he had been bitten by a werewolf moments before Marge hit him, and werewolves are near impossible to kill (with the exception of silver bullets). Lisa then puts together that Ned was going to kill them, and they all laugh. As the clouds drift past the moon, its luminous light engulfs Ned's body and he rips off his clothes, he is now werewolf Flanders. The family flees down the street while Ned mauls Homer to death, with Homer still mocking him.

Desperately Xeeking Xena[edit]

Marge takes Bart and Lisa to Springfield Elementary, where Chief Wiggum is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son Ralph's candy, he tells them what the candy really contains "safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate!" As Nelson's extremely bulky pillowcase of goodies is being scanned, the X-ray machine inevitably explodes. Before the explosion, Bart does not duck down to avoid it, and only stares in awe. Lisa stands up to try to get him to get down. The machine explodes, knocking Bart into a gym wall and Lisa into a book case, which collapses on top of her, much to Principal Skinner's horror, as Lisa's grades qualify the school for grants. The subsequent exposure to radiation gives Lisa extraordinary strength, allowing her to pick up the book case. Bart gains the ability to stretch any part of his body. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "Stretch Dude" and "Clobber Girl". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), Lucy Lawless (dressed as Xena) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. Comic Book Guy, who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her metal breast plate. Lawless goes to remove the breastplate, but when hundreds of fans raise their camera's to photograph her breasts she stops with a statement of "Maybe later." He takes her to his lair, where he puts her in an aluminized PET film bag for "safekeeping" and imprisons her in a room of other similarly-captured celebrities such as Yasmine Bleeth and Tom Baker. Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout, but he manages to knock Clobber Girl out with a working phaser gun that was fired only once to prevent William Shatner from releasing another album. He wastes all his remaining shots on Stretch Dude, who splits in half and does somersaults to avoid the rays. The Collector hurls his empty raygun at Stretch Dude, hitting him on the forehead and knocking him out as well. He suspends the drowsy duo over a vat of bubbling Lucite, slowly lowering them towards certain doom and mocks them "Goodnight Retch Dude & Slobber Girl. Sweet screams!". Lucy Lawless, still in her plastic restraint, lures the Collector over by pretending to be attracted to him. When he's close enough she grabs his lips and then attacks him with Kung Fu moves. Stating that he fell for a "ruse so hackneyed, it would make Stan Lee blush!", the Collector grabs his limited edition double-bladed lightsaber from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and ignites the blades. Lucy reminds him that he has removed it from its original packaging and it is now no longer a collectible. He backs away in horror and plummets into the vat, eventually emerging to strike a dramatic death pose (imitating a Lorne Greene pose from Battlestar Galactica) before the plastic hardens around him. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back. Clobber Girl is confused, and points out that Xena can't fly. Lucy responds that she isn't Xena; she's Lucy Lawless. This explanation satisfies Clobber Girl and the trio fly away to a reprise of the Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl theme tune.

Life's a Glitch, Then You Die[edit]

"Good-bye, Lisa. Remember me as I am— filled with murderous rage!"

―Homer, as Lisa and Marge leave for Operation Exodus

On December 31, 1999, Dick Clark celebrates his New Year's Rockin' Eve in Springfield instead of Times Square. Homer, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's Y2K compliance officer, confidently declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates the computer virus that spreads rapidly to other systems all over the world. As Dick Clark's New Year's ball drops and hits "2000", the computer display reads "1900". Within minutes, Dick melts to death (he is shown to be a robot) and chaos breaks out as airplanes crash, appliances explode, malfunction and turn evil, including the Springfield Revolving Restaurant's Sit 'n' Rotate room dislodging from its stand and flying off, presumably into space. A widespread looting soon begins and as the family roams the streets observing the damage (including traffic lights that shoot multi-colored beam blasts), Krusty's pacemaker sets itself to hummingbird speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "best & brightest" and will be launched shortly in an effort to preserve human civilization on Mars. When they reach the shuttle, Homer unsuccessfully attempts to bluff his way on board (claiming to be the piano genius from the movie Shine), but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft, knowing that she's the ship's proofreader. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and she quickly chooses Marge, who then takes Maggie along. Homer and Bart soon find a second, unguarded rocket nearby and climb on board just before it launches. However, they quickly notice that this ship is filled with Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Tonya Harding, Al Sharpton, Courtney Love, Spike Lee, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell and Dr. Laura and the like: it is deliberately set for a collision course with the sun. Unable to bear the short trip to oblivion with the B-list celebrities, Homer and Bart eject themselves into the vacuum of space, where they sigh in relief as their heads swell up onscreen and explode offscreen while the rocket heads towards the sun.

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