Treehouse of Horror
For the continuing series of Halloween specials, see Treehouse of Horror Series.
"Treehouse of Horror"
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Episode Information
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Episode also known as The Simpsons Halloween Special. This episode is the first out of 12 Halloween specials to be named "The Simpsons Halloween Special" in Treehouse of Horror it was "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror" and by Treehouse of Horror XIV it was simply "Treehouse of Horror".
Contents
Opening sequence
In a parody of the original Frankenstein fim, Marge warns viewers that the following program (The Simpsons) may give their children nightmares, so she suggests the adults to "tuck your children into bed tonight instead of writing us angry letters tommorrow". However, the viewers ignore her, and let their children watch it anyway.
Plot
Wraparound
When Homer Simpson comes back from trick-or-treating, he notices Bart and Lisa are telling ghost stories. He climbs up and listens while Bart comments on Lisa's first story. Bart starts telling his own story called:
Bad Dream House
When the Simpsons move into a nice looking house, Lisa & Marge are scared there is an evil presence lurking. Homer says there's nothing to worry about despite there being a vortex in the kitchen, Bart being strangled by the China, the house threatening the family to leave, & being thrown up to the ceiling. But when everybody tries to sleep easily, the house brainwashes everybody to kill themselves. When they stop what they're doing, thanks to Marge not being brainwashed, the house threatens them if they do not leave. Marge cannot take it anymore & tells the house off. The house asks them to leave for a moment asHungry are the Damned
The Simpsons are having a barbecue until an alien ship abducts them. When they arrive on the ship, they meet Kang & Kodos & an unnamed alien & Serak the preparer, who treat the Simpsons extremely well by giving them countless amounts of food to hold them over until the great feast at Rigel 4. Lisa becomes suspicious & thus, one night, wanders around the ship & heads into the kitchen when Serak leaves. She mistakes the book "How To Cook For Forty Humans" as "How To Cook Humans" & accuses the Rigelians. They are angered at the Simpsons & they are sent back home to live the life of not gods, but normal human beings.
The Raven
A Simpson's version of the Edgar Allan Poe tale, "The Raven", in which Homer is the main character, Lisa & Maggie are angels, Marge is the lost Lenore, & Bart is none other then the Raven.
As the episode comes to a close, Bart & Lisa ponder on the story before going to bed, not knowing Homer was freaked out by all of the stories. Everybody goes to bed, but Homer has trouble sleeping that night, as he decides he hates Halloween when he hears the Raven outside.
Appearences
Characters
- Marge Simpson
- Homer Simpson
- Lisa Simpson
- Bart Simpson
- Maggie Simpson
- Moving Man
- Evil House
- Kang
- Kodos
- Serak the Preparer
Vehicles
Locations
Trivia
- This is the only Treehouse of Horror episode to take place in Bart's treehouse.
- The tombstones at the beginning read from first to last, and left to right, in all caps: Ezekiel Simpson; Ishmael Simpson; Cornelius V. Simpson; Garfield; The Grateful Dead; Casper, the friendly boy; Elvis; Your name here; Paul McCartney; and disco.
- 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 humans with a book which translated means "To Serve Man." However, in the Twilight Zone episode, the aliens do actually intend to eat humans.
- Edgar Allan Poe is credited as a writer for this episode.
- This is the only halloween episode with the normal Gracie Films logo sequence; from Treehouse of Horror II it features a pipe organ playing its jingle, and Treehouse of Horror IV onwards, a scream replaces "shh".
- This is the only Treehouse of Horror in which Kang and Kodos don't (tried to) conquer Earth.
