Treehouse of Horror V
"Treehouse of Horror V"
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Episode Information
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This is one of several Simpsons episodes which are considered anthology episodes that features mini-stories.
Contents
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 that Flanders is the unquestioned 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
Principal Skinner is worried that the detention hall is becoming overcrowded and Lunchlady Doris is being forced to serve Grade F meat in the cafeteria. Skinner discovers a common solution to both problems: eating misbehaving children. The first student such is Jimbo Jones who is served as "Sloppy Jimbos". Üter is then sent to detention and made into a German meal called "Üterbraten". Bart and Lisa figure out what the teachers are doing, but one by one, the kids are gradually eaten away. Eventually Bart, Lisa and Milhouse are the only students left and they decide to escape. Skinner and the other teachers corner them on a ledge above a giant blender. Willie tries to save them, but Skinner kills him. Milhouse, Bart and Lisa fall into the blender. Bart wakes up to find this was all a dream, but a mysterious fog seeps in through the window, turning the family (and Willie)inside out. They all begin to do a musical number about being turned inside out, at the end of which Sanata's Little Helper drags Bart offstage.
Quotes
[Tuesday] Homer: [in car] Well, it was a long trip, but we're almost there. Marge: Homer, did you remember to lock the front door of the house? Homer: D'oh! [Wednesday] Homer: Well, it's been two long trips, but we're finally almost there again. Marge: When you locked the front door, did you remember to lock the back door? Homer: D'oh! D'oh! [Thursday] Lisa: [long silence] Oh, no! We left Grampa back at the gas station. [Homer stares determinedly ahead, appearing not to notice her] What about Grampa?
Mr. Burns: [after an elevator empties out a huge amount of blood] Hmmmm... that's odd. Usually the blood gets off on the second floor.
Burns: Yes, by cutting off cable TV and the beer supply, I can ensure an honest winter's work out of those low-lifes. Smithers: Sir, did you ever stop to think that maybe it was doing this that caused the previous caretakers to go insane and murder their families? Burns: Hmm... perhaps. Tell you what: we come back and everyone's slaughtered, I owe you a Coke.
Homer: No TV and no beer make Homer... something-something... Marge: Go crazy? Homer: Don’t mind if I do! [Goes on a mad rant] [Marge breaks open a case labeled "In case of spousal insanity, break glass" and grabs the baseball bat within] Marge: Stay away from me, Homer! Homer: [chasing Marge up some stairs] Give me the bat, Marge. Gimme the bat. Come on. Gimme the bat. Gimme the bat! (makes scary face) Ha ha ha! Scaredy cat! Bleaahhh... [Makes another scary face, then sees himself in a mirror] AAAAAHH! [falls down stairs, knocking himself out] [Marge leaves unconscious Homer locked in a pantry] Marge: You stay here until you're no longer insane. Hmm, chili would be good tonight.
Homer: Can't murder now. Eating.
Homer: [Homer chops into a room] Heeeere's Johnny! [camera pulls back to reveal empty room] Homer: D'oh! [chops into another room] Homer: Daaaaavid Letterman! Grandpa: Hi David, I'm Grampa. Homer: D'oh! [chops down another door] Homer: [holding a ticking stopwatch] I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradley! All this and Andy Rooney tonight on "60 Minutes"! Family: AHH!
Willie: Uh-oh. The little fat boy and his family are in trouble. [runs outside, throws TV in the snow] Willie: I'm coming to rescue the lot of you! [opens door to lodge] Willie: All right, loony: show me what you got. [Homer drives an axe into his back] Willie: Aw, is that the best you can do? [collapses]
Willie: You're still not in your own world, Homer! I can get you home, but you have to do exactly as I... [Maggie axes him] Argh! [collapses] Maggie: [James Earl Jones voice] This is indeed a disturbing universe.
Willie: Hold on, kids! I'm coming to rescue the lot of you! [Skinner appears and axes him] Argh! Oh, I'm bad at this. [collapses]
Homer: I've gone back to the time when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos! OK, don't panic -- remember the advice your father gave you on your wedding day. [remembers] Grandpa: If you ever travel back in time, don't step on anything because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine. Homer: Fine. As long as I stand perfectly still and don't touch anything, I won't destroy the future. [a mosquito flies in] Stupid bug! You go squish now! [swats it] Homer: That was just one teensey mosquito. but that won't alter the future right? [silence] RIGHT? Megatherium: [mumbles] I don't know.
Homer: [back in time; a T-Rex stands near him] AHHH! [He sneezes; the T-Rex sniffles, then collapses, causing a big line of dinosaurs to drop dead] Homer: This is gonna cost me... [Arriving back in the present, he notices the layout of the house has changed so he is richer] Homer: D'oh! I mean, hey... Bart: Good morning, Father dear. Hope you're well. Lisa: Are we taking the new Lexus to Aunt Patty and Selma's funeral today? Homer: Hmm, fabulous house, well-behaved kids, sisters-in-law dead, luxury sedan... whoo hoo! I hit the jackpot. [sits down] Marge, dear, would you kindly pass me a donut? Marge: Donut? What's a donut? Homer: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! [runs downstairs and disappears back into time; outside the window, donuts start falling from the sky] Marge: Hmm... it's raining again.
[A stereotypical Darwin fish crawls out of a lake and Homer absently squashes it] Homer: Oh, I wish I wish I hadn't killed that fish...
Homer: Don't touch anything? I'LL TOUCH WHATEVER I FEEL LIKE!
[Skinner turns a food processor on to "gooify" and backs the children towards it] Bart: Don't worry, guys. Something always comes along to save us. [Milhouse falls off the edge into the blender] Bart: [to Lisa] Uh, nevertheless, I remain confident that something will come along and save the two Simpson children...
- 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...
- Skinner (To Bart): Im going to enjoy devoruring you, Bart Simpson. Yes...I believe I'll start as you've often suggested by eating your shorts...
Jimbo: It's hard to scrub this giant pot from the inside when you keep spilling meat tenderizer all over me. [The pot lid is closed on Jimbo] Jimbo: Oh, great. Now I gotta work in the dark.
Bart: I wonder where Jimbo is today. He should've beaten us up for our lunch money an hour ago.
Lisa: Bart, isn't it strange that Uter is missing and suddenly, the cafeteria is serving this mysterious food called "Uter-braten"? Principal Skinner: Oh, relax kids. I've got a gut feeling Uter's around here somewhere. (starts to laugh) After all, isn't there a little Uter in all of us? (laughs harder) In fact, you might say we just ate Uter and he's in our stomachs right now! (laughs, then realizes his faux pas) Wait. Scratch that one.
Marge: Relax, honey. You were just having a crazy nightmare. You're back with your family now where there's nothing to be afraid of... except that fog that turns people inside out. Bart: Huh? Homer: Uh oh, it's seeping in. Stupid cheap weather stripping!
Trivia
- 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."
