Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes
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This episode is considered non-canon and the events featured do not relate to the series and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.
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"Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes"
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Episode Information
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"Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes" is the seventh episode of season 36 of The Simpsons and the seven-hundred and seventy-fifth episode overall. It will air on November 24, 2024. The episode was written by Jessica Conrad and directed by Debbie Bruce Mahan. It guest stars Andy Serkis as The Illustrated Man and Siegfried Blaze.
Contents
Synopsis
- "A tattooed man at a mysterious night circus transports Lisa into three strange stories from the innocent 1950s, the chilling retro-present, and a brutalist future where prestige TV rules the world."
Plot
The Simpson family attend to the R. Bradbury's Traveling Night Circus, and Lisa shows her disappointment in being brought there due to hating them, having got three shut down in the last month, but discovers the The Illustrated Man, a man with tattoos that bring people to alternate reality, which is just getting fired by the manager. The Illustrated Man shows her the first tattoo and the first story begins.
The Screaming Woman
Bart is in the woods and hears a woman screaming beneath the earth, and runs home to seek help, but Homer and Marge calls it a fib, due to how previously he told there was a boy in the woods crying wolf, but they only found a fat wolf when they investigated and no boy. Frusrated, Bart goes to his room and calls Milhouse on his tin can telephone, but he refuses as he's at his grandma's house, so Bart starts searching for a missing woman in a house, and comes to the Van Houten house, where Luann greets him and listens to his story, but she gives him much milk to get him sleepy.
Bart however wakes himself up and goes to the grave, where he starts hearing the woman singing, and tells Homer about it, who recognizes the song as the one Kirk used to sing at Double Beef Burger. They go to the grave and dig him up. He confirms that Luann is the one that buried him alive for letting Miss Hoover see him buying her hair dye. Wiggum lets her go due to the murder in the 1950s being more acceptable than divorce. Marge tells him they'll never doubt him again, and he tells them that Lisa is a communist and Wiggum takes her away.
Marionettes, Inc.
Back at the circus, a second story is triggered by a tattoo of cogs. In the future, Chalmers is at Skinner's office and gets quickly tired of his boringness, and goes to Moe's to relieve his stress, where Carl suggests him a solution to his problem, a new technology of a robot that looks just like a person, that he uses to avoid playing with Lenny. Chalmers decides to call the "Marionettes Frinkorporated" company and order one, and takes him to the school to Skinner, but when he goes back on the street he finds Skinner there too.
After a chase, Skinner tells him he bought a robot too to avoid being around him for being the mean one. But soon Carl finds them and tells them to disable the robot because he become sentient and feeling emotions, refusing to let the original go to Niagara Falls to have fun with Lenny, and resorting to violence so he had to kill him. Chalmers and Skinner get to the school but they're too late as the robots have found friendship, and having children call their teachers by name. A fight starts soon after between human and robots but Skinner ends up killing the wrong Chalmers, before going together to the office with the nicer one slightly happier, leaving the real Chalmers body on the ground, bleeding to death.
Fahrenheit 451
Lisa was going to go away, before the Illustrated Man tells her to gaze at a final story, where Firefighters break into the Lovejoy house, looking for the forbidden lowbrow entertainment, and they burn down all the apparatus. Homer comes home after work and watch Robber Barons with the family, forced to watch it darkened per indication of the director, as all lowbrow entertainment was outlawed.
At the Springfield Firehouse, Homer tells the others if they ever watched the stuff they burn but Wolfcastle tells him it's illegal before an alarm goes off, and they head to the school. Homer finds America's Funniest Home Videos VHS and he takes one offered by Willie to his house, while the others burn the rest down. Homer asks the others at dinner if they ever watch tv for fun but they look at him concerned.
In the basement, Homer brings out an old tv with a VCR incorporated and starts watching the VHS, laughing, before Bart finds him but doesn't understand it. Homer asks him to tell nobody about it, but being a fan of Robber Barons, Bart reports him to the fire department. The Burn-master general, Siegfried Blaze, shows up, telling him on how they quality tv to control the population.
He was going to force him to reeducate himself but Homer runs away, they start a search, but he finds the symbol from the tape at The Android's Dungeon. Krusty takes him to a library filled with lowbrow entertainment, but with the VHS he led the fire fighters straight to them, and they start burning the place down, but with a trick he led they run away to a camp as refugees. At the end of the story, Lisa finds herself trapped in a void, as she got trapped as a tattoos as reward for listening to all the stories.
Production
A line of dialogue that was cut after the Ringmaster fired the Illustrated Man featured him saying, "Blubbo the Eternal Baby will conduct your exit interview."[1] At one point, the scene where "Chalmers meets Robot Chalmers" was 57 pages long.[2]
The attic scene was initially different because the wood didn't match the rest of the concrete, brutalist house, but producer Richard Chung agreed to redo it.[3] Jessica Conrad came up with the idea for The Screaming Woman, suggesting an Andy Griffith Show-type whistling theme that could later turn creepy.[4]
In a discussion with Andy Serkis, Brian Kelley noted to himself not to ask him to do a Gollum voice and to be professional for once.[5] The reference to Mozart in the Jungle was originally Peaky Blinders.[6]
The original last shot began with the refugees before showing the town over spooky music, but it was reversed to add the narration.[7]
Gallery
Title card
Title card
References
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Cut dialogue"
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Chalmers meets Robot Chalmers"
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Original attic scene"
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Andy Griffith Show"
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Gollum"
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Mozart in the Jungle""
- ↑ Brian Kelley's Bluesky - "Last shot"
Promo videos
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