Treehouse of Horror/References
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Cultural references
Trivia
- Despite the word "treehouse" being in all of The Simpsons Halloween specials, this special is the only one to have the treehouse motif.
- The tombstones at the beginning read from first to last, and left to right, in all caps:
- "Bad Dream House" parodies a number of haunted house films. The opening image of the house shows that one side resembles the house from "The Amityville Horror" house. Much of the plot follows the events of the film "Poltergeist", such as a spooky tree outside Lisa's bedroom, and the implosion of the house at the end of The Fall of the House of Usher.
- Bart, as the raven, knocks several Edgar Allan Poe stories off the bookshelf, including "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Tell-Tale Heart", and "The Purloined Letter".
- The book "To Serve Forty Humans" is a reference to a Twilight Zone episode where aliens greet people with a book which means "To Serve Man" when translated. The curious people accept the aliens' invitations to see their homeworld, and they travel with the aliens on their spaceships. One woman accepts such an invitiation, but is stopped by her brother, who has properly translated the book and is shouting "It is a cookbook! It is a cookbook!"
- Edgar Allan Poe is credited as a writer for the skit "The Raven".
- This is the only Halloween episode with the normal Gracie Films logo sequence; in "Treehouse of Horror II" and "III" it features a pipe organ playing its jingle, and from Treehouse of Horror IV onwards, a scream replaces "shh".
- This is the only "Treehouse of Horror" special where the cast is not accredited with Halloween-like names.
- The Indian Burial Ground under the house in "Bad Dream House" contains the grave of Mahatma Gandhi.
- In "Hungry are the Damned," when the Rigellians are measuring the Simpsons' weight, along with Kang, Kodos, and Serak, there is a fourth unnamed Rigellian with them who does not appear in the rest of the episode.
- Kang and Kodos first appear in this episode, and Serak the Preprarer makes his only appearance in this episode.
Goofs
- In "Hungry Are The Damned," at the very end, the family looks up at Kang and Kodos' ship and Marge's necklace is white like Lisa's, when it should be red.
- Around the same time, Homer says that the burgers are getting cold. The burger he is eating has a bite out of it. However, in a close-up shot, it is a whole burger again.
Continuity
