The Simpsons: Tapped Out Treehouse of Horror XXXIII content update

This article is about the Tapped Out's Treehouse of Horror content update from 2022. For other year's Tapped Out Treehouse of Horror content updates, see The Simpsons: Tapped Out Treehouse of Horror content updates.

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"Halloween is the new "it" holiday. But as empty big box stores turn into Cauldrons of Capitalism, Lisa wants to bring out the Boo from her beloved books with Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft! When the two spooky scribes start to compete for who can become the Master of Horror, all of Springfield may be doomed. Will anyone survive Lovecraft teaming up with Mad Doctor Itchy to unleash a creation so frightening that you'll have to buy some boots just so you can shake in them?"

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Treehouse of Horror XXXIII is the two-hundred twenty-ninth content update for The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It started on October 12, 2022 and ended on November 16, 2022. It was the eleventh "Treehouse of Horror" update for the game.

Note

All items with this icon on the last column of the table are also available for just 30 in the Yearbook Mystery Box!

Characters

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Mopey Mary Unlocks after completing The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 5. Father Ben Unlocks after completing The Conjurationing Pt. 1. Sideshow Chicken Unlocks after completing At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 5. The Headless Horseman 150 Unlocks with Springfield Costume Shop. Edgar Allan Poe Unlocks with The House of Usher. H.P. Lovecraft Unlocks with Fogburyport. Mad Doctor Itchy Unlocks with Mad Doctor Itchy's Castle. Frankenscratchy Unlocks with Tray of 132 Donuts.

Returning

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Yearbook MB Dr. Crab 60 Frinkenstein 70 Count Dracula 75 Countess Dracula She-Wolf Gravedigger Billy 100 Unlocks with Cemetery Plot. Robo Burns Unlocks with Soul Extraction Institute. Doggy Smithers Doctor Colossus Unlocks in Dr. Colossus and Death Mountain bundle. Werewolf 145 Unlocks with Howl Hill. Blinky Monster 150 Unlocks with Scary Dock. Nosferatu Unlocks with Cursed Ship. M'nthster Unlocks with R'lyeh (Bermuda Triangle Lair). Panther Marge Unlocks with Mad Dr. Hibbert's Manor Mrs. Frink Unlocks with Screaming Monkey Medical Research Center. Beatrice Unlocks with Springfield Cursed Forest. Bridge Troll Moe Unlocks with Deep Dark Woods. Julienstein 160 Unlocks with Monster's Castle. Frankenstein's Monster

Outfits

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Willie the Riveter Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 5.

Returning

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Yearbook MB Moog 50 Count Burns 120 Unlocks with Burns Coffin.

Pets

Returning

Image Name Cost Unlock image Notes Yearbook MB Burns Monster 20 Helter Skeleter 25 Clawing Zombie 25 Formless Terror 30 Disco Zombie The Raven Red Goblin Unlocks in Mystical Pests Bundle. Blue Goblin Star Spawn 40 Cloakie Unlocks in Monster Minion Bundle. Shuffles Wearywolf Octoparrot 150 Unlocks with Screaming Monkey Medical Research Center.

Buildings

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Columbus Day HQ 4h Crushing Thanksgiving-Themed Specialty Stores Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 2. Unlocks in Halloween Headquarters Bundle. Spine Chills Overdoing Spooky Decorations Unlocks after completing The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 1. Spook House Shooting for Medium-Spooky and Nailing It Unlocks after completing The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 3. Crate and Burial Offering Past-Life Savings on This-Life Burial Needs Unlocks after completing The Conjurationing Pt. 2. Luxury Crypt Helping Rich People Show Off One Last Time Unlocks after completing The Conjurationing Pt. 5. Abandoned Lighthouse Polishing Lights, Tying Knots, Napping Unlocks after completing At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 4. Springfield Costume Shop 150 6s Selling Questionable "Sexy" Costumes Unlocks The Headless Horseman. The House of Usher Hoping the Raven Doesn't Come Over Again Unlocks Edgar Allan Poe. Fogburyport Promoting Fog-Themed Tourist Experiences Unlocks with Fogburyport Bundle. Unlocks H.P. Lovecraft. Mad Doctor Itchy's Castle Conducting Creepy Experiments Unlocks Mad Doctor Itchy.

Returning

Image Name Cost Build time Task Notes Yearbook MB Official Halloween HQ 13,500 4h Packaging Fake Spiders Transylvania Cottage 30 Income Tax Catacombs 6s Cheap Housing for the Dead Ancient Dig 40 4h Enticing the Curious with Mysteries Sunken Temple 50 6s Aligning The Stars Also unlocks in R'lyeh (Bermuda Triangle Lair) bundle. Spooky Cabin 4h Creakin' 'n' Shakin' Version without bonus $ and XP. Mausoleum 60 6s Incubating Premium Zombies Bad Dream House 70 Scaring Unsuspecting Guests Springfield Cemetery 75 Incubating Zombies Cthulhu Monument 80 4h Driving People Insane Fogbury Port Lighthouse & Pier Exporting Fish Monster Fashion MAG Office 6s Hosting Community Classes Orphan Alley Creeping the Hell Out of People Large Mausoleum 90 4h Locking Down Real Estate Soul Extraction Institute 100 6s Rooting Out Gingers Unlocks Robo Burns and Doggy Smithers. Death Mountain 120 Hatching Implausible Schemes Unlocks in Dr. Colossus and Death Mountain bundle Soilant Red Factory 125 Running out of Business R'lyeh (Bermuda Triangle Lair) 150 Disrupting Cell Service Also unlocks in R'lyeh (Bermuda Triangle Lair) bundle. Unlocks M'nthster. Mad Dr. Hibbert's Manor Preparing for the Mad Master's Return Unlocks Panther Marge. Screaming Monkey Medical Research Center Perverting Nature for Fun and Profit Unlocks Mrs. Frink and Octoparrot. Monster's Castle 160 Quick-charging Electric Monsters Unlocks Frenkenstein's Monster and Julienstein.

Building skins

Image Name Cost Notes Krustyland Halloween Horror Night Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 1. Halloween Headquarters Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 2. Unlocks in Halloween Headquarters Bundle. Toilet-Papered Flanders House Unlocks after completing The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 4. Brown House of Horror Unlocks in Spooky Dark Plunger Bundle. Fraidy Cat Van Houten House Scary Blue House Skeletal Skinner House

Decorations

Image Name Cost Notes Halloween Horror Night Billboard 20 Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 3. Purchasable after unlock. Seasonal Workers 30 Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 4. Purchasable after unlock. Jack-O-Lantern Bouncy House Unlocks after completing The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 2. Purchasable after unlock. Springfield Forever Cemetery Unlocks after completing The Conjurationing Pt. 3. Ghost Cemetery 35 Unlocks after completing The Conjurationing Pt. 4. Purchasable after unlock. Zombies and Ghouls Billboard 20 Unlocks with Zombie Billboard Bundle. Purchasable after unlock. Zombie Years Billboard Bottomless Pit Unlocks after completing At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 2. Reanimator 30 Unlocks after completing At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 3. Purchasable after unlock. Spooky Dark Plunger Unlocks in Spooky Dark Plunger Bundle. Tapping the plunger will toggle all the Halloween/horror-themed façades in your land. Fogburyport Sign Unlocks in Fogburyport Bundle.

Returning

Image Name Cost Notes Spooky Wall 1 Bramble Hedge 2 Halloween Balloons 5 Bone Pile 15 Hanging Streetlamp Shallow Grave Hell Scientists 20 Vampire Casket Ruins Spooky Tent Flying Bats 20 Light-up Elder God Wavy-arm Elder God Homer's Grave Spooky Tree Unlocks in Spooky Forest Bundle. Vulture Tree Dead Tree Spooky Shrub 1 Spooky Shrub 2 Giant Snake in a Tree Spooky Brambles Spooky Grove Hangman Cage Tentacle Tree Halloween Party Wall Unlocks in Halloween Party Wall x 10 Bundle. Haunted Crossroads 25 Town Square Spooky Shed The Impossible Tower 30 Satan's Path Wailing Wall Haunted Stables Gate to Nowhere 35 Elder Blimp Foggy Swamp Covered Bridge Frontier Cemetery 40 Monster Couch U.F.P. Ancient Burial Ground Mechanical Ghost 40 The Shinning Maze Mortician Carriage Ancient Ruins 45 Magical Essence Sucker Wolf Rock 50 Insanity Cauldron Skinner Sarcophagus Ghost Zapper Dark Carriage 60 The Grand Pumpkin Lava Machine Stairway to Hell Fogbury Cemetery 70 Cemetery Plot 100 Unlocks Gravedigger Billy. Burns Coffin 120 Unlocks Count Burns. Howl Hill 145 Unlocks Werewolf. Scary Dock 150 Unlocks Blinky Monster. Cursed Ship Unlocks Nosferatu. Springfield Cursed Forest Unlocks Beatrice. Deep Dark Woods Unlocks Bridge Troll Moe.

Bundles

Image Name Cost Notes Contents Halloween Headquarters Bundle Unlocks after completing The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 2. Columbus Day HQ and Halloween Headquarters Zombie Billboard Bundle Unlocks after completing At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 1. Zombies and Ghouls Billboard and Zombie Years Billboard Spooky Forest Bundle 20 Spooky Tree x4, Vulture Tree x2, Dead Tree x6, Spooky Shrub x4, Giant Snake in a Tree, Spooky Brambles x2, Spooky Grove, Hangman Cage x2, Spooky Shrub 2 x4, Tentacle Tree Halloween Party Walls x 10 Halloween Party Wall x10 Mystical Pests Bundle 40 Red Goblin and Blue Goblin Monster Minion Bundle 50 Cloakie, Wearywolf, and Shuffles Dr. Colossus and Death Mountain 120 Death Mountain and Doctor Colossus Fogburyport Bundle 150 Fogburyport w/ H.P. Lovecraft, and Fogburyport Sign Spooky Dark Plunger Bundle Spooky Dark Plunger, Brown House of Horror, Fraidy Cat Van Houten House, Scary Blue House, and Skeletal Skinner House M'nthster, Lair, and Temple 160 R'lyeh (Bermuda Triangle Lair) w/ M'nthster, and Sunken Temple Tray of 132 Donuts 132 and Frankenscratchy

Consumables

Image Name Content Cost Notes Screen Dozen Donuts 12 1 Shattered Token 1 Event completed Daily challenges Dozen Donuts 2 Shattered Tokens 2 Stack of 60 Donuts 3 Shattered Tokens 3 Tray of 120 Donuts 5 Shattered Tokens 5 Truckload of 300 Donuts 10 Shattered Tokens 10 Store Full of 900 Donuts 15 Shattered Tokens 15 Boatload of 2400 Donuts Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box Token 1 60 Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box Oyster Eating Table, Cthulhu, Spooky House, Dracula's Castle, The Webs, Dracula-la Land, House on Scary Hill, Shinning Hotel, Death, Dr. Lenny's Lab, Frinkiac 7, Hell Labs, Evil Homer, Count Burns' Castle, Mad Doctor's Castle, Malicious Krubb, Hellport Pentagram, Torture Stand, Hugo, Kill-E-Mart, Moe's Terror, Krusty Murder, Scream-son House, Pet Cemetery, Construction Yard, Medieval Rich House, Burns Family Crypt, Medieval Cathedral, Zombie Sandwich, Werewolf Flanders, Spooky Gorge, Count Grampa, Were-Milhouse, Mummy Wiggum, Gallows, Murder House, Slithers, Gelatinous Homer 1 Shattered Dreams Mystery Box Shattered Dreams Mystery Box: Nature 1 5 Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box Tokens 5 240

Prizes

The True Meaning of Halloween

Image Name Unlock Krustyland Halloween Horror Night The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 1 Halloween Headquarters Bundle The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 2 Halloween Horror Night Billboard The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 3 Seasonal Workers The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 4 Willie the Riveter The True Meaning of Halloween Pt. 5

The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill

Image Name Unlock Spine Chills The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 1 Jack-O-Lantern Bouncy House The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 2 Spook House The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 3 Toilet-Papered Flanders House The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 4 Mopey Mary The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill Pt. 5

The Conjurationing

Image Name Unlock Father Ben The Conjurationing Pt. 1 Crate and Burial The Conjurationing Pt. 2 Springfield Forever Cemetery The Conjurationing Pt. 3 Ghost Cemetery The Conjurationing Pt. 4 Luxury Crypt The Conjurationing Pt. 5

At the Suburbs of Madness

Image Name Unlock Zombie Billboard Bundle At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 1 Bottomless Pit At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 2 Reanimator At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 3 Abandoned Lighthouse At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 4 Sideshow Chicken At the Suburbs of Madness Pt. 5

Gil Promo

After tapping on Gil's icon Sure, having a lot of decorative Halloween doodads in your Springfield is great, but turnin' those buggers on is a real hassle, right? Well hassle no more! Ol' Gil's Spooky Plunger will turn them all off or on with a single tap! How great is that? And to sweeten the trick-or-treat bag, I'll throw in four completely new Halloween facades to make your town even scarier! Almost as scary as where Gil will be sleeping tonight if you don't buy this bundle. If the offer is accepted Congrats! You're the real Master of Horror now! If the offer is rejected Oh, rats! You don't get it. I'll be sleeping in the alley with rats now. But hey, the more the scarier, am I right?!

Quests

• Too Cool for Ghoul
• The True Meaning of Halloween
• The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill
• The Conjurationing
• At the Suburbs of Madness
• The Real Horror Was the Friends We Made Along the Way
• A Riveting Performance
• The New Ghoul in Town
• Is There an Exorcist in the House?
• The Greed-Quest of Well-Known Kadath
• Unforgivably Headless
• A Shady Day of Hazing
• Once Upon a City Dreary
• This Cat, This Monster
• Little Chicken Monster

Dates

Date Event 10/12 - 11/16 Event, The True Meaning of Halloween, Springfield Costume Shop w/ The Headless Horseman, Seasonal Workers, Jack-O-Lantern Bouncy House, Ghost Cemetery, Zombies and Ghouls Billboard, Zombie Years Billboard, Reanimator, Tray of 132 Donuts bundle, Halloween Horror Night Billboard, Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box, Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box Token, 5 Treehouse of Horror XXXIII Mystery Box Tokens, Returning items 10/21 - 11/16 The Hip Hop Haunting of House Hill, The House of Usher w/ Edgar Allan Poe 10/30 - 11/16 The Conjurationing, Spooky Dark Plunger Bundle, Fogburyport Bundle 11/8 - 11/16 At the Suburbs of Madness, Mad Doctor Itchy's Castle w/ Mad Doctor Itchy

Conform-o-meter impact

Name Rating Points Halloween Horror Night Billboard Consumerism 5 Columbus Day HQ, Crate and Burial 10 Fogburyport 20 Spook House, Seasonal Workers, Jack-O-Lantern Bouncy House, Zombies and Ghouls Billboard, Zombie Years Billboard Indolence 10 Springfield Costume Shop, The House of Usher, Mad Doctor Itchy's Castle 20 Luxury Crypt Obedience 10 Springfield Forever Cemetery, Ghost Cemetery Righteousness Abandoned Lighthouse, Fogburyport Sign Socialism Bottomless Pit Tree-hugging 100 Spine Chills Vanity 10 Reanimator 100 Spooky Dark Plunger Vanity Bonus $ and XP 200 4%

Other changes made

October 11th Update (4.58.0; "v4_58_THOHXXXIII")

• The app icon and the splash screen were changed to new ones for the event.
• An autumn look was set for trees.
• Leaves were falling on the screen.
• A new character group, Moms, was added: Agnes, Helen Lovejoy, Empty-Nest Marge, Anime Marge, Luann, Sarah Wiggum, Mrs. Muntz, Mrs. Frink, Rose Quimby, Mrs. Prince, Queen Gautama, Stephanie Brockman, Panther Marge, Grandma Van Houten and Courtney.
• A new character group, Wives, was added: Helen Lovejoy, Ms. Peyton, Empty-Nest Marge, Anime Marge, Luann, Sarah Wiggum, Bernice Hibbert, Mrs. Frink, Tabitha Vixx, Rose Quimby, Mrs. Prince, Queen Gautama, Stephanie Brockman, Countess Dracula, She-Wolf, Womenhet, Panther Marge and Mrs. Claus.
• A new character group, School Girls, was added: Clarissa Wellington, Amber Dempsey, Mary Spuckler, Noir Lisa, Janey, Allison Taylor, Brittany Brockman, Alaska Nebraska, Zia Simpson, Nikki McKenna, Samantha Stankey and Annika.
• A new character group, Mad Scientists, was added: Blarg Alien, Sebastian Cobb, Mrs. Frink, Dr. Crab, Dr. Colossus and Dr. Griffin (Invisible Man).
• Pet Cemetery's build time was fixed.
• Mopey Mary was added to the characters that can Moonbounce.
• Murder House's build time was changed to 4 hours.

October 18th Update ("v4_58_THOHXXXIII_Patch1")

• The shop timer for the Spooky Forest Bundle was changed so that the item would disappear from the store on October 21st, rather than lasting the full event.

Sources

• Overview at Tapped Out - Update Information