Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening
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"Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening"
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Episode Information
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"Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening" is the third episode of season 38 of The Simpsons and the eight hundred twelfth episode overall. It originally aired on October 18, 2026. The episode was written by Nick Dahan and directed by Eddie Rosas. It guest stars Gustavo Dudamel as himself, Janina Gavankar as Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon, and Sunil Malhotra as Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
Synopsis
- All hell breaks loose on Halloween when a killer comes to Springfield and hacks their way through town. No Simpson is safe from... THE REVENGENING!
Plot
A Channel 6 News broadcast about Halloween as people know it being cancelled in Springfield is broadcasted. Mayor Quimby explains that due to everyone in town turning into lunatics every Halloween, he's putting a curfew in place and placing restrictions on what people can do to celebrate. The Simpsons go to the "Safe-O-Ween" party at the Springfield Town Hall, which Bart is annoyed about. Marge tells Homer that they were invited to the Van Houtens' non-alcoholic boo-ze cruise, which Homer doesn't like the sound of. Homer then gets text messages telling him to go to the Fudd Brewery at 9 p.m. Homer drives to the brewery, where he meets Dewey Largo, Professor Frink, and Gary Chalmers. They wonder where the party is because the brewery is abandoned and empty, but then they hear music coming from the basement. The four of them start partying and get drunk. Three and a half hours later, they leave the party. Frink calls for his Glayv-mo, a self-driving car, since they're all too drunk to drive. While the car drives them home, they decide to keep drinking. Homer struggles to get the cork out of a bottle of champagne until the cork shoots out and hits the Glayv-mo screen, switching the vehicle to manual drive mode. The four drunk passengers attempt to control the vehicle before it hits someone dressed in a robe and Daft Punk helmet, Daft Monk. Thinking that they killed the man, they decide to throw his body off the bridge so they don't have to explain to the police why they were out drunk past curfew.
The guilt of what they did eats at Homer for a whole year until the next Halloween. While the family is out shopping for Halloween costumes, Homer hears a knock at the door. He goes to answer it, only to find a note written in blood that reads "Karma." He meets up with Largo, Frink, and Chalmers at the Fudd Brewery to discuss it and finds that they all received notes, too. Homer, Largo, and Frink discuss going to the police about it, but Chalmers talks them down because his life has been great since the accident. That evening, Largo plays Gustavo Dudamel's Baton Hero on his Xbox. As he's playing, Daft Monk breaks into his house and kills Largo.
At Largo's funeral, the rest of the group discuss what happened. Homer and Frink suspect Chalmers of being behind the murder, so they go to his house to snoop around. When they break in, they find that Chalmers hasn't been coping as well as he made out to be. The house is in a state, with messages written on the walls, old food left out, and his new girlfriend actually being a mannequin. The pair become even more sure that Chalmers was behind the murder, then hear the front door, so they hide in a closet. Chalmers enters his house and notices something is wrong when he sees his year-old noodles are missing because Homer stole them. As he approaches the closet, Daft Monk comes into the house and kills Chalmers. Homer and Frink knock him over as they flee the closet, but Daft Monk catches and kills Frink before he can escape.
Homer returns home to tell Marge that they need to leave Springfield with the kids. However, Marge also has a confession to make to Homer: she also killed someone last Halloween. When Marge turned up at the Van Houtens' boat party, Captain McCallister took them out further than expected. So far outside city limits, everybody got drunk, including the Captain. When he went unconscious from the alcohol, Marge took over sailing the boat. However, the boat ran over a man in a robe and Daft Punk helmet and seemingly killed him. Homer is shocked because that was the same guy he killed. The Simpsons head to the Town Hall since the Safe-O-Ween party is being held again that year. However, they find that everybody there has received notes with "Karma" written on them. Chief Wiggum shows doorbell footage of the killer killing Luigi, and everybody realizes they "killed" the same guy. As Chief Wiggum tries to calm everybody down, the killer strikes him.
After everybody misnames him, Daft Monk reveals his name and is shocked that nobody got the pun from his costume. When Marge asks who he is, he tells the crowd that he is the man they all left for dead, the shame they tried to bury, and the one they pretended never existed. He then removes his helmet to reveal that he is Apu. The crowd is shocked, and Apu goes on a rant about how everybody thought they could get rid of him and he'd just disappear and there wouldn't be consequences for the horrible thing they did. Apu then explains his story. On Halloween the previous year, Apu went to the Fudd Brewery party dressed as Daft Monk. As he left, the bullies and Bart pushed a flaming shopping cart down the hill, which accidentally hit Apu. Thinking they killed him, the bullies and Bart fled. However, Apu was still alive and got up, only to be hit by a party bus driven by Otto and Duffman. The other party guests on the bus threw Apu in a dumpster and left. However, Apu was still alive and climbed out, although he was very unsteady from his injuries. When Chief Wiggum saw him, he thought he was a zombie, so he shot Apu. Thinking that he had killed him, Wiggum, Lou, Eddie, and Snake buried Apu under leaves and garbage before they fled. Apu was still alive, though, and wandered into the road again, where he was hit by the Glayv-mo. After he was thrown over the bridge, he floated under the boat and was injured even more.
Despite all these injuries, Apu was still alive. He washed up on The Island of Forgotten Garbage, where Dr. Nick found him. Dr. Nick explained that the island is where all the forgotten garbage from Springfield ended up. Dr. Nick helped patch Apu up, and when he had recovered enough, Apu built a boat and sailed back to Springfield, a journey that only took thirty minutes. When Apu arrived back in town, nobody paid any attention to him. He found his apartment empty and the Kwik-E-Mart boarded up. Angry at everybody in town, Apu decided to get revenge and became Daft Monk once more to kill the people who left him for dead. After Apu finishes his story, Homer realizes that he messed up. In a selfless act, Homer offers himself to Apu in exchange for the lives of everybody else. Homer tells Apu that offering himself was what the old Apu would have done and that everybody in town loved him. Feeling moved by Homer's speech, Apu hands Homer the lighter before he can set the Town Hall on fire. However, since the lighter is hot, Homer drops it, igniting the building.
Apu wakes up in the Kwik-E-Mart and realizes that all the events of the past year were a dream. Manjula takes the kids out trick-or-treating while Homer buys beer from Apu. Apu tells Homer that he had a nightmare where everyone in town killed him and tried to cover it up and that the whole town forgot about him. Homer tells Apu that could never happen, as Springfield loves him and could never forget him. Homer then invites Apu to his Halloween party, which he forgot to do previously. The two of them leave to go to the party as the Daft Monk helmet under the counter starts glowing.
Production
"Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening" sees the return of Apu, nine years after The Problem with Apu. Apu's last speaking appearance in the show was in the season 29 premiere, "The Serfsons". Hank Azaria stopped voicing the character following the fallout from the documentary The Problem with Apu. "The Revengening" features Apu with a new Indian-born American voice actor, Sunil Malhotra. The episode also sees the return of Manjula, who is now voiced by Janina Gavankar. In an interview with Variety, showrunner Matt Selman said, "We love this character, and wanted to bring him back in a smart, ‘Simpsons’-y way that allowed him to evolve". Malhotra said that when he received a call about the show, his stomach sank because he knew what the role would be. He then became curious and wondered, "Did the writers’ room look different now? Could they bring him back in a way that acknowledged and apologized for past mistakes? Could I make the character my own, and reclaim him in some way? And could they achieve all of that in an unmistakably ‘Simpsons’ way that didn’t disappoint fans?" Malhotra was prepared to walk away from the role if he felt the character would be slipping back into old stereotypes, and wanted to engage with the producers before he committed to the role.[1]
The following scenes were added to the Disney+ release of the episode but were not included in the syndicated version:
- The episode opens with a Channel 6 News broadcast about the Halloween curfew. Mayor Quimby gives a speech explaining that the sale of alcohol, toilet paper, and candy corn is prohibited and that trick-or-treating will be severely rationed and limited to the confines of the Town Hall. When a reporter asks him why, Mayor Quimby explains that every Halloween, the people of the town turn into lunatics. Bart's quick explanation of all this at the start of the syndicated episode is also removed.
- When Homer receives the secret text messages, he pretends to answer the phone, claiming that it's a call from work and that there's a nuclear meltdown he has to deal with.
- Before Homer and his friends dump Daft Monk's body, Chalmers questions what the costume is.
- Before breaking into Chalmers' house, Frink tells Homer that if Chalmers killed Largo, there would be a teeny-tiny scrap of evidence. Homer then says "found it" when he enters the house instead of "he did it."
- When Marge starts steering the ship, she says, "Look at me, I'm Miami Vice." She then thinks the boat gets stuck and gives it some gas before it cuts up Daft Monk.
- When Homer says they have to go somewhere safe, Marge says, "Somewhere safe, somewhere safe."
- When Chief Wiggum bangs his gun against the podium, it goes off and shoots a beer bottle. Wiggum then says that he should stop using it as a gavel.
- A scene showing Apu walking out of the party before he starts singing is added.
- Before Dolph lights the shopping cart on fire, Bart and Nelson have some dialogue about what they are about to do.
- Duffman asks the other guests on the party bus if they all agree to take the secret to their graves.
- When Apu returns to his empty home, he looks at a broken picture of his family.
- When Apu walks through town, he sees Snake and raises his arms as if he's about to be held at gunpoint. However, Snake pulls out a lollipop and starts licking it, ignoring Apu.
- When Apu tells Homer about his nightmare, Apu mentions blaming karma. Homer then asks which one is Karma, asking if it's his child with the peanut allergy.[2]
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