Treehouse of Horror V
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For the continuing series of Halloween specials, see Treehouse of Horror Series.
"Treehouse of Horror V"
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Episode Information
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- "Ach, I'm bad at this."
- ―Groundskeeper Willie[src]
"Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of the sixth season, and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror Series.
Contents
Synopsis
Treehouse of Horror V is an Anthology episode that features mini-stories. "The Shinning" is a parody of The Shining where the Simpsons become the winter caretakers of Mr. Burns' mountain lodge and Homer goes insane and tries to murder the family. In "Time and Punishment," Homer repeatedly travels back in time and alters the future. He tries to change things back, but fails and settles for a reality close to his own. In "Nightmare Cafeteria," Principal Skinner begins using detention students as cafeteria food. When Bart and Lisa are about to be slaughtered, Bart wakes up and realizes it is a dream. But immediately afterward, in the closing sequence, he and the family are attacked by fog that turns people inside out.
Plot
Marge's Warning
"Hello, once again. As usual, I must warn you all that this year's Halloween show is very, very scary. And those of you with young children may want to send them off to bed at... Oh, my. It seems that the show is so scary, that Congress won't even let us show it. Instead they've suggested the 1947 classic Glenn Ford movie, 200 Miles to Oregon."
- A clip of the film then shows. The episode is cut off and Bart's voice is used in radio waves to tell us that he is controlling the programming. Homer also cuts in and plays with the radio waves using his voice, to Bart's annoyance.
Bart's Warning
- "There's nothing wrong with you're television set. Do not attempt to adjust your picture. We are controlling the transmission." "What's that, boy? We're in control? Hey, look! I can see my voice! (Laughs) Eep! Eep! Eeeeep! Blup, blup, blup, blup, blup. This is my voice, on TV!" "Dad! you're ruining the mood!" "Sorry." "For the next half-hour, we will control what you see and hear. You are about to experience the terror and foul horror of... The Simpsons Halloween Special."
The Shinning
Time and Punishment
After escaping his "Re-Neducation" (a process that includes a glass of warm milk, a lie down, and a total frontal lobotomy), he goes back to the time of the dinosaurs in hopes to change the future, and ends up accidentally sitting a fish ("Oh, I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish."). He returns only to find that Bart and Lisa are giants that mistake him for a bug that "looks a lot like Dad", they then try to smash him.
His third attempt to change the past succeeds in him wiping out all the dinosaurs by sneezing on a T-Rex, who in turn sneezes on another dinosaur, which also sneezes on another dinosaur and so on, and they all drop dead. Before returning to the future, Homer says grimly,"This is gonna cost me." He returns to the future in the basement. He goes upstairs to see a large, fancy kitchen, he scans the room to see his family, whos are dressed elegantly. Homer, at first oblivious, cries,"D'oh! I mean, hey." Bart presents him with the morning paper, addressing him as "Father, dear." and Lisa asks if they're taking the new Lexus to Patty and Selma's funeral. Homer counts out the perfections in his life, exclaiming,"Whoo-hoo! I hit the jackpot!" As he sits down, he asks Marge, very kindly, to pass him a donut. Marge replies,"What's a donut?" Homer screams uncontrollably and runs back to the basement and the soung of the time machine zapping is heard. After he is gone, donuts begin to fall from the sky and Marge says,"It's raining again," implying that the rain in this universe is donuts.
Homer returns to his basement to discover Groundskeeper Willie in his kitchen. Willie says,"You're still not in your own world, Homer. I can get you home, but you have to do exactly as I--[screams]" he fall to the floor, showing that Maggie has killed him with an axe. Maggie takes out her pacifier and says in a deep voice (James Earl Jones),"This is indeed a disturbing universe."
Homer returns to the dinosaur era. Holding a club, he yells,"Don't touch anything? I'll touch whatever I feel like!" and destroys anything in the past that he can before returning to the future. The family's house in the future ends up changing multiple times. First it changes to an igloo, then to a caveman house, then to a MacDonald's, then to an underwater house, then to a giant shoe, then to Sphinx with Bart's head, where Kang and Kodos make their brief appearance, watching from their spaceship. Kang comments that Homer is totally unprepared for the effects of time travel, they both laugh at Homer's suffering. Homer finally stops and returns to the present. He returns to the kitchen and asks Marge several questions: his name, the color of the sky, and what of donuts. Marge answers them all accurately. Homer, now satisfied, sits down to eat with the family. Everything appears to not be what it seems when the family start eating a breakfast with lizard tongues. Homer decides it is close enough.
Nightmare Cafeteria
Principal Skinner notices two problems at Springfield Elementary School: First, the detention hall is becoming dangerously overcrowded with students; and second, Lunchlady Doris is reduced to serving Grade F meat (consisting of circus animals and filler) in the cafeteria.
Skinner discovers a common solution to both problems: eating the detention students. Jimbo Jones trips Lunchlady Doris, accidentally spilling stew all over himself. Skinner takes a taste of the stew, and is impressed with the Jimbo/stew combination. Skinner orders Jimbo to help Lunchlady Doris in the cafeteria, and Jimbo is put to work cleaning a giant pot while someone spills meat tenderizer on him. Eventually the lid is closed on him and Jimbo is killed and cooked, ending up being served as "Sloppy Jimbos" in the teachers' lounge and the cafeteria. Everyone likes the new dish, especially the teachers: "Mmmm ... this sandwich tastes so young and impudent." In the cafeteria, Üter cuts in line to get another Sloppy Jimbo, and Skinner sends him to detention.
Lisa becomes suspicious when Üter disappears and a German meal called "Üterbraten" is served in the cafeteria. Lisa asks Bart if he find that to be strange. Skinner, overhearing the conversation, says he's got a "gut feeling" that Üter is still around, asks, "Isn't there a little Üter in all of us?", and then says "You might even say we just ate Üter and he's in our stomachs right now!" Skinner then backpedals, telling Bart and Lisa to "scratch that last," but it's too late: Now they both think that something's up.
At home, Bart and Lisa try to tell Marge what's happening at school, but Marge doesn't believe them. She says that since they're eight and ten years old, she can't be fighting all their battles for them, and they should just look the teachers straight in the eye and say, "Don't eat me!" Disappointed, Bart and Lisa reluctantly return to school. Eventually, so many students are in "permanent detention" (according to Mrs. Krabappel) that the remaining students have all been merged into one class. Only Bart, Lisa, Milhouse, Wendell, and Ralph are left. When Wendell drops his pencil and Mrs. Krabappel gleefully sends him to detention, Milhouse sees Mrs. Krabappel reading a book titled The Joy of Cooking Milhouse, and he suggests to Bart and Lisa that the three of them should make a break for it, since any one of them coould be next.
The trio sneak down the hall, but are caught by Lunchlady Doris, who charges at them with a spinning eggbeater. Groundskeeper Willie tries to come to their rescue, but is quickly felled by Skinner hitting him in the back with an axe. Skinner and the teachers advance on the three students, and they are quickly cornered on a ledge above a giant food processor, which Skinner turns on and switches to the "gooify" setting. As they're forced closer to the edge, Bart tells Lisa and Milhouse not to worry and says that something always comes along to save them. When Milhouse falls into the food processor and is instantly "gooified," Bart changes his statement to "Something will come along and save the two Simpson children." No rescue comes, however, and Bart and Lisa are also forced over the edge, screaming as they fall toward the rapidly whirling blades of the food processor.
Closing Sequence
Immediately after falling into the food processor, Bart screams and wakes up to find out it was all a dream. Marge reassures him that there's nothing to worry about except the mysterious fog that turns people inside out. The fog then seeps in through the window and does just that. The family and Groundskeeper Willie all begin to do a musical number (to the tune of "One" from A Chorus Line) about being turned inside out. At the end, Santa's Little Helper drags Bart offstage by his intestines.
Production
The episode premiered on October 30, 1994, and was directed by Jim Reardon. The writers were Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, David Cohen and Bob Kushell. James Earl Jones guest-stars as the voice of an alternate universe Maggie, in his second appearance in a Simpsons Halloween episode.
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David Mirkin deliberately placed more graphic violence in the episode due to complaints about excessive violence in the show. The episode features a recurring joke in every story where Groundskeeper Willie is struck in the back with an axe when trying to help someone.
Treehouse of Horror series
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| Halloween of Horror • Thanksgiving of Horror | ||
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| Not It • Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes |
