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References/Trivia

This is the second Treehouse of Horror episode not to have the credits littered with "scary names". The others are I and XIII.
This is the last Treehouse of Horror episode to have the name Halloween Special.
The "Burns family corpses" in the opening sequence are as follows (from left to right as seen on-screen):
- A man's body that somewhat resembles General Douglas MacArthur as it's wearing an Army uniform and has a pipe and sunglasses like MacArthur's; however, it's a three-star general and MacArthur was a five-star. The body has a tomahawk stuck in its chest.
- A man's body dressed as a pirate. It has a patch over its left eye and a cutlass stuck in its right eye socket.
- A woman's body, dressed as a burlesque dancer, with three bullet holes in its forehead.
- A man's body wearing a suit of armor with a pitchfork stuck through the helmet's eye slits.

Sex and the City - Punned in the title. A Hex is a curse.
Homer lures the Leprechaun using Lucky Charms cereal, the mascot of which is a Leprechaun.
- Homer accidentally pours (Trix) into the hole first, attracting rabbits (The Trix mascot being a rabbit).
- Bongo, the one-eared rabbit from Life in Hell, is the last rabbit to jump in.
- One of the creatures lured into the trap by the Lucky Charms is Katie Couric.
Yoda from Star Wars is the priest at the Leprechaun/Gypsy wedding. He says "Husband and wife I pronounce you now".

House of Wax - Punned in the title. To 'whack' someone is Mafia slang for killing them.
Demon Seed - The film and characters are parodied, especially the Proteus IV computer.
2001: A Space Odyssey
- The Ultrahouse camera eyes resemble the HAL 9000 computer.
- When Marge decides the machine must die, the Ultrahouse suggests that she take a stress pill. HAL 9000 makes the same suggestion to astroanut David Bowman in 2001.
Friends - When the Simpsons test The Matthew Perry voice for the Ultrahouse, it says "Uh, yeah, could I be any more of a house," a reference to Chandler's usual attitude.
Another voice option for the house is Dennis Miller. Marge and Lisa suggest that this voice caused murder-suicides.
When Lisa suggests 'James Bond's voice for the Ultrahouse (referring to Pierce Brosnan being the 5th Bond actor), Marge thinks of George Lazenby (the 2nd Bond).
Marge recalls that Peirce played the lead in Remington Steele, which he confirms.
Bad Taste - When Homer emerges from the floor after the Ultrahouse's murder attempt, the family discover that the back of his head is missing, revealing his brain. In Bad Taste, Derek falls off a cliff, presumably to his death, only to wake up later and notice that a piece from the back of his head is missing, also revealing his brain.
One of the items the Ultrahouse attacks Homer with is the electric hammer Homer invented in "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace".

The title is a pun on the phrase "Whiz Kids."
Harry Potter - Hogwarts School and various characters and themes from the Harry Potter books, parodied by the third segment.
When Nelson makes Milhouse zap himself, his third transformation resembles Mr. T.
Led Zeppelin - The bands name is punned when Lisa uses a spell on Bart called "Head Zeppelin", which turns Bart's head into a Zeppelin.
Bart enters Montymort's lair via the school bathrooms, the same way that the Chamber of Secrets is accessed in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Montymort's "wailing wall" features Krusty the Clown, Maude Flanders,Comic Book Guy, Snake Jailbird, Bleeding Gums Murphy, Rainier Wolfcastle, Kent Brockman, Mr. Largo, Patty Bouvier, Blue-Haired Lawyer, Uter Zorker, Old Jewish Man, and possibly Frank Grimes.
Montymort says that Lisa has "more wicked witchery than Stevie Nicks".
Mork and Mindy - Bart exlaims "Shazbut."
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - the scene where Slithers tries to eat Lord Montymort's body parallels the scene where a girl is almost eaten by a Freddy Krueger snake.