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Template:THOHnav Template:EpisodeHD "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" is the second episode of Season 24. It first aired on October 7, 2012. A sneak peek of the segment "The Greatest Story Every Holed" was screened at San Diego Comic-Con International on July 14, 2012.^[1] An audio commentary about the episode is available on a page at TheSimpsons.com.

Synopsis

In Mayan times, a Mayan Homer and Marge are witnesses to the prediction by ancient calendar makers that 2012 will be the end of the world. In "The Greatest Story Ever Holed", the Simpson family adopt a black hole; in "UNnormal Activity" the Simpsons install cameras all over the house when things start to go bump in the night; in "Bart & Homer's Excellent Adventure" Bart travels to 1974 to buy a comic book at cover price but inadvertently disrupts Homer and Marge's courtship.

Plot

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In Mayan times, at Chichen Itza - the height of the Mayan civilization - some citizens are looking upon their calendar, which says that the world will be destroyed at the end of thirteenth Baktoon. One Mayan says that it won't happen if they appease the gods with a human sacrifice. Another Mayan points to a guy they've been fattening up - after being accused himself of the one to be sacrificed. Glutton, the Mayan to be executed, asks for more cricket fajitas. Glutton's wife says that she will be so lonely once he is sacrificed to the gods - which shocks Glutton because nothing was said about a sacrifice. A Mayan priest enters, saying to get this over with. Glutton asks if they are any words of comfort - which are to try and look surprise when he sees his beating heart on the ground. Glutton is relieved when his wife reveals that she has a plan. Glutton's wife asks the priest if he is interested like women. The priest says "What priest isn't?", and is told by Glutton's wife to put a sack over his head and go into the room of pleasure - which is actually a balcony where Glutton was supposed to be executed. The priest is taken down by the executor, and the priest is executed - his head bouncing down the steps of the palace and onto the ground, where kids kick it around like a soccer ball. Later on, one Mayan notices that they have sacrificed the wrong person, and says that the world WILL be destroyed after the thirteenth Baktoon. One Mayan asks if he can explain that in simple ancient Mayan. On his ancient 'calculator' he finds that the world will end in 2012 - which another Mayan says that will be Obama's fault. In the present - October 31, 2012 - Homer asks Marge what Baktoon it is so he can set his watch. Marge says that it is the thirteenth. The doorbell rings and Homer answers the door - where giant Mayan gods are stood. A Mayan god squishes Homer and then another one destroys the Flanders house. The Mayan gods end up destroying the world - and then it blows up.

"The Greatest Story Ever Holed"

Springfield citizens are at the Springfield Subatomic Supercollider, which was built instead of a new baseball stadium due to the lobbying of Lisa Simpson. Mayor Quimby says that Professor Frink will throw the switch - which will reveal if the 'whatamacalit' will answer some obscure questions of some atomic physics or destroy the universe. The super collider is switched on - but nothing happens. Frink says that the collider is too small to tell anything important, causing everyone to moan and heckle Lisa. The citizens leave, but soon afterwards two things are traveling in the pipe of the super collider - a red light and a blue light. They end up crashing into each other - creating a black hole. The black hole travels out of the pipe and into the center, where Groundskeeper Willie is asleep in a chair. It sucks up his mop, and then him. Outside the center, Lisa is sitting on the ground, crying, when she notices that her tears are traveling in the air. They are sucked up by the black hole. Lisa is astonished, but then realizes that they have got to move it before it sucks up more kids, after Ralph and Nelson are sucked up by the hole. Lisa uses a stick to drag the black hole home, and it ends up sucking up Cletus' home along the way. Oil spurts up from the ground, but Cletus' excitement soon dies when the black hole sucks up all the oil. Lisa finally gets the black hole home - where it sucks up about a quarter of the things in the basement. Homer asks Lisa if she's got a stray dog down there, and Lisa says that it's much worse. Homer then asks her if there is TWO stray dogs, and this time Lisa says that it is a black hole - which was going to be Homer's 'next guess'. Later on, the Simpsons are in the basement admiring the black hole. Lisa tells the family that scientists believe that what goes into a black hole never comes out, or that it is a gateway to another universe. Homer asks if it can open a pretzel bag. The black hole opens the pretzel bag - and then all the pretzels in it. Lisa tells the family to not put things in the black hole because it will get bigger and more dangerous if they do. Homer is about to pat it, but before Lisa can stop him, Homer gets his fingers extended, grossing out the entire family. Marge puts a baby gate around the black hole, but that doesn't stop the family from feeding it. Marge feeds the black hole grease because it attracts raccoons. Bart tries to get the black hole to eat his math homework, but when it won't, he brings Edna Krabappel, his teacher, to the house where he pushes her into the black hole. The next day, the Simpsons are having breakfast while the black hole - now even bigger - sucks up everything on the ground floor of the house. Lisa notices that the black hole is looking a lot bigger, and asks if anyone wants to admit to throwing anything in. The family says no, but then Lisa asks if anyone has seen the cat. Santa's Little Helper then whines and lies down on the floor. Outside, many of Springfield's citizens are waiting to throw useless junk into the black hole because Homer opened his own business - Magic Craphole Waste Removal. Everyone runs away from the house when they see the house sucked up by the black hole. Many of Springfield citizens take that as their chance to throw away their junk - Comic Book Guy throws away a DVD of Disney's The Black Hole and Horatio McCallister attempts to throw away a skeleton before Lisa stops everyone, saying that if anything else is sucked into it, the black hole could reach critical mass. The Magic Craphone Waste Removal customers stand in wait to see what the black hole will do next. Somewhere, Milhouse hits a home-run while playing a game of baseball, and the ball is sucked up by the black hole, enlarging it greatly allowing it to suck up Springfield's citizens. All of Springfield ends up being sucked up by the black hole and the only people left in Springfield are the Simpson family. The family are sucked up - but not Maggie - who hangs on to a pipe. Her pacifier is sucked up by the black hole, which sucks the pacifier and goes off into the distance. Maggie is left there - very cross. Springfield ends up on a planet where the junk thrown into the black hole ended up. The aliens on the planet say that they have built their society on the 'treasures' sent to the planet. The aliens' favorite magazine is the Presidents' Day mattress blowout sale insert and their favorite food is banana peels. The aliens say that they listen to music on the most wonderful device ever created - The Zune. Marge stops Homer from telling the aliens that the treasures they have received is just their old junk, and then she says that it is wonderful stuff and "Enjoy it!".

"UNnormal Activity"

"Bart & Homer's Excellent Adventure"

Production

They planned to start the episode with the presidential elections again but changed it to the Maya Indians. The Black hole part was initially an idea for a regular episode. The idea of Bart travelling back in time came from James L. Brooks and the idea originally was Marge should fall in love with Bart.^[2]

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