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Treehouse of Horror

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Treehouse of Horror	comment	These are The Simpsons' special annual Halloween Episodes. Earlier installments have the onscreen title of The Simpsons Halloween Special. Every season after the first (which premiered in December 1989 with a Christmas Episode) has had one.The specials are anthologies of three short stories with a horror theme (there are exceptions, though, simply for the sake of Negative Continuity), all Played for Laughs. The first episode had a Framing Device of the Simpson children telling scary stories in their treehouse, hence the name. The next three had different framing stories (respectively, Homer, Bart, and Lisa having nightmares after eating too much candy; telling scary stories at a Halloween party; and a parody of Night Gallery), but from the fifth onward, they were cut because of time constraints and the fact that the writers couldn't think of any good framing devices for the stories.Many of the tales feature Affectionate Parodies of contemporary Horror Films and The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes. Others are inspired by more traditional horror — there is even a Dramatic Reading of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in the first "Treehouse" episode. As one can expect, the stories tend to lean more into fantasy and horror than one would find in the (relatively) mundane series proper, and the plots will often take full advantage of the fact that the episodes exist out of canon to kill off major characters during the course of the story, sometimes repeatedly.In 2001, Fox Interactive, Software Creations, and THQ Inc. released The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror for the Game Boy Color, which saw the Simpsons going through levels based off of the classic segments.An annual comic book, The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror, was also published by Bongo Comics during their existence, and is considerably Darker and Edgier.Not to be confused with Halloween of Horror, the only canonical Halloween Episode of The Simpsons.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: A few stories end with the Simpsons family still stuck in their monster-forms.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Treehouse of Horror / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Played for Laughs. It's mostly the supporting cast, however. The Simpsons family themselves mostly only die when the the plot needed them to. It's usually happening to Homer. Everyone else is fair game in The Teaser, however.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_131ff928	type	Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag
Treehouse of Horror / int_131ff928	comment	Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: In the "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" segment "The Greatest Story Ever Holed," Snowball II sits on a throne in human fashion with her legs stretched out on Ralph Wiggum's head. She is a Nearly Normal Animal cat otherwise.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Treehouse of Horror / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The Three Shorts format came because of the Framing Device within the episode, and would feature each segment being written and directed by a different team. After the first few episodes, they abandoned a framing device altogether and the segments would be written by the same team, functionally making it like a regular episode but continuing the Three Shorts format out of tradition. The tradition came about partially because the early years of the show were adamant about trying to be consistent with their own presentation and being more grounded in reality compared to other cartoons (among other things, affirming that animals won't talk or the Amusing Injuries are not exaggerated). The "Treehouse of Horror" episodes were an opportunity to go all out with crazy adventures with the acknowledgement that it doesn't count against the Status Quo, even before Negative Continuity became a thing. Over time the show got Denser and Wackier on its own with exaggerated comedic adventures involving such things as aliens and Time Travel, eventually willing to have full-length non-canon genre episodes that resulted in TOH feeling more superfluous.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Treehouse of Horror / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Because Anyone Can Die here (more than once) for the sake of some good ol' gore. In particular, Treehouse of Horror IV and V fell into this, a conscious choice by (then) showrunner David Mirkin, who claimed that Halloween specials should be both scary and funny. Beginning with VI, the first under Mirkin's successors Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, the specials, while still having gory moments, weren't quite as intense.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Treehouse of Horror / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: In "Starship Poopers" (part of "Treehouse of Horror IX"), Kang delivers one of these to Homer while on The Jerry Springer Show.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Treehouse of Horror / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: In "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" of "Treehouse of Horror X", Homer and Bart realize they're on a rocket that's heading into the sun with various celebrity has-beens. Rather than spend another five minutes with Rosie O'Donnell and Tom Arnold, they eject themselves into space, where their heads swell up as they give a blissful sigh of relief and then pop.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Treehouse of Horror / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Many of the series antagonists like Sideshow Bob or Snake's various crimes, which are normally unsucessful despite the Fridge Horror about how bad what they are doing is, are often Played Straight here and can be downright disturbing with predictable results with one episode having Bob finally and not only kill Bart but raise him again to repeat the crime no less than 24 TIMES!
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1820eeb8	type	Becoming the Costume
Treehouse of Horror / int_1820eeb8	comment	Becoming the Costume: In "Treehouse of Horror XVI", a witch curses the townspeople into being whatever their costume is during a Halloween party.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
Treehouse of Horror / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: When Springfield is nuked by France, Homer danced naked in a church. In the Y2K story, Homer didn't fix his computer and everything collapses: chaos ensues and widespread looting begins.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_19f6e383	type	Transhuman Treachery
Treehouse of Horror / int_19f6e383	comment	Transhuman Treachery: Bart as a vampire in IV. Well, it's Bart.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1bf2c338	type	The Maker
Treehouse of Horror / int_1bf2c338	comment	The Maker: Lisa Simpson did a school science experiment which created microscopic 'life'. note It was done by putting a baby tooth into a bowl of soda, with Bart giving the tooth an electric shock from static cling.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1c3f4853	type	Put Off Their Food
Treehouse of Horror / int_1c3f4853	comment	Put Off Their Food: Parodied in "Treehouse of Horror IX". In the "Starship Poopers" segment, Homer and Lisa lose their appetite after seeing Maggie's fang. Homer then suddenly grabs Lisa's food and exclaims, "Wait, mine came back."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Treehouse of Horror / int_1e1afc1b	comment	"Treehouse of Horror II" is the only "Treehouse of Horror" special where the individual segments don't have onscreen titles. In this episode, the Framing Device is Lisa, Bart, and Homer having candy-induced nightmares, so the episode guide only refers to the segments as "Lisa's Nightmare", "Bart's Nightmare", and "Homer's Nightmare".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Treehouse of Horror / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Used to set the Halloween episodes apart from the usual episodes. Some segments manage to be this within the sub-series itself, most notably "Wanted: Dead, Then Alive" from XXVI and "MMM...Homer" from XXVIII. While making "Treehouse Of Horror V", Matt Groening actually encouraged the staff to make that the bloodiest and goriest special, sticking it to the people who said the specials were too bloody and gory.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Treehouse of Horror / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: In "The Devil and Homer Simpson from Treehouse of Horror IV, Homer sells his soul to Devil!Flanders for a donut, leading to his going on trial to try and get it back. In "Un-normal Activity" from Treehouse of Horror XXIII, Marge made a deal with Devil!Moe back when she was a kid to give her favorite child to him in the next 30 years in exchange for leaving her sisters alone. However, when that day comes, Marge is too attached to them to let any of them go. Homer then offers a compromise... a threesome with Devil!Moe and another devil.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Treehouse of Horror / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Marge and Lisa, usually the Only Sane Man in the series proper, often find their usual logic fails within the far more surreal situations of the specials. Lampshaded in "Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores" when Marge's voice of reasoning only makes things worse:
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Treehouse of Horror / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Treehouse of Horror / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Frequent; depending on the requirements of the short you'll see Skinner go from Dean Bitterman to a student-eating cannibal, Bart's troublemaking ramped up to Enfant Terrible-level criminality or Marge as a Wicked Witch.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
Treehouse of Horror / int_211eedd	comment	In another tale, "Hell ToupÃ©e," Snake is sent to the electric chair for smoking inside the Kwik-E-Mart (it was part of a "three-strikes" offense stipulation). After Snake's body has been burned, Homer gets Snake's hair grafted to his head to cover his baldness. What he didn't realize was that Snake's soul was still inside the hair graft, and once the hair was on, the soul gained access to Homer's brain and overrode his personality, forcing Homer to take revenge on all the witnesses who got Snake sentenced to death - including Bart. Homer, finding the murdered bodies of Apu and Moe and not realizing that Snake was behind the killings (and, more to the point, that he IS Snake when the hair is in control), promises to protect Bart by boarding up the door to his room. "There," he reassures Bart, "now nobody can get in." Then Snake takes over his mind and he sneers: "Or out."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Treehouse of Horror / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: A number of the stories revolve around many people being eaten. These include an episode where due to budget cuts and the rise in delinquent students, the staff decides to use the bad kids as a new food source.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Treehouse of Horror / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Also a main feature of many "TOH" shorts.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Treehouse of Horror / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When the cannibalistic staff of Springfield Elementary corner the Simpson kids.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_23cd71be	type	TabletopGame
Treehouse of Horror / int_23cd71be	comment	XXI contains one directed at the Tabletop Game Mouse Trap (1963), in which a parody called "Mouse Catch" is referred to as "the game so lame no one's ever finished it".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
Treehouse of Horror / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Even in an anything-goes Darker and Edgier Halloween special, Sideshow Bob will never get the last laugh on Bart, as seen in Treehouse of Horror XXVI.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Treehouse of Horror / int_26ac510e	comment	The first five specials all feature a disclaimer by Marge (or Homer, in the case of III) about the episode's content (the first of which was a sincere attempt to warn the viewers), and an opening sequence featuring a pan across Springfield Cemetery (in homage to the usual opening sequence's swoop over Springfield), passing several humorous tombstones. These were both dropped as they were becoming difficult to write and were eating into the time for the stories themselves, although they both make later returns as a Mythology Gag: Lisa gives a very similar disclaimer before the "Mmm... Homer" segment of XXVIII, and the tombstones make a return in XXIX.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_27a40541	type	Furry Confusion
Treehouse of Horror / int_27a40541	comment	Furry Confusion: Scratchy (the bipedal Funny Animal cat) and Snowball II (the normal quadrupedal cat) show up together in "Treehouse of Horror IX" segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon". The two cats are at such differing levels of anthropomorphism that Furry Confusion ensues. As Scratchy is male and Snowball II is female, this also inverts Humanoid Female Animal hard.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_294f1400	type	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range
Treehouse of Horror / int_294f1400	comment	Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: Done in "Treehouse of Horror XVI", in a parody of / Shout-Out to The Exorcist. A possessed Homer climbs on the wall and ceiling, and rotates his head around 180 degrees. When Marge says she'll call Mr. Burns that he can't go to work, he falls back on the bed in success, with his head still backwards. In "Treehouse of Horror I", Maggie turns her head around 360 degrees while looking for a knife.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Treehouse of Horror / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The annual "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, every year since 1990. The creators have mentioned that they actually wish they could stop doing these, or at least change up the anthology format, but they've become such an iconic part of the show that they feel they have no choice but to continue. They're Played for Laughs... most of the time. Oddly enough, due to the Fox network's commitment to televising baseball's World Series, few of the "Treehouse" episodes since 2000 have aired anywhere near Halloween itself. For most of the 2000s they were scheduled after Halloween, in November; since 2010 they've typically aired earlier in October. Season 27's "Halloween of Horror" was notable for bucking tradition and being an ACTUAL Halloween Episode that was intended to be part of the show's canon, and they playfully mention the "scary treehouse stories". The next episode was a normal "Treehouse of Horror" installment.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Treehouse of Horror / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: Only the first episode takes place in a treehouse. Many of the shorts only have a passing connection to horror, often exploring sci-fi, action, political thrillers and fantasy genres that barely include a Halloween theme. The only thing keeping them from being a regular episode is a willingness to have crazier endings like everyone dying.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2b88a383	type	Grave Humor
Treehouse of Horror / int_2b88a383	comment	Grave Humor: These were used as openers for the early ones; the last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2cc97423	type	Ultraterrestrials
Treehouse of Horror / int_2cc97423	comment	Ultraterrestrials: Downplayed with the dolphins in "Night of the Dolphin". They weren't always aquatic: they just had to adapt to the sea after humans forced them down there.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2d5400a9	type	Evil Teacher
Treehouse of Horror / int_2d5400a9	comment	Evil Teacher: In 'Nightmare Cafeteria', the third segment of "Treehouse of Horror V", the faculty of Springfield Elementary become cannibals to solve the overcrowding of students in detention and food budget cuts.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
Treehouse of Horror / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: Homer does it in "Treehouse of Horror IV":
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2f64caee	type	X Called; They Want Their Y Back
Treehouse of Horror / int_2f64caee	comment	X Called; They Want Their Y Back: From Treehouse of Horror XX:
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Treehouse of Horror / int_2feeca6e	type	Lightmare Fuel
Treehouse of Horror / int_2feeca6e	comment	Lightmare Fuel: It goes without saying that these are Halloween Episodes of an animated comedy series.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_3007eabd	type	Censor Decoy
Treehouse of Horror / int_3007eabd	comment	Censor Decoy: There's a Fox Network censor in the teaser for TOH VIII, whose name happens to be Fox Censor. The unintentional effect was that he became a literal censor decoy, as the folks doing the DVD commentary admit to a very violent opening act.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_311500f5	type	Breaking Old Trends
Treehouse of Horror / int_311500f5	comment	Breaking Old Trends: 2022 will see two installments of Treehouse of Horror, the first one being a normal length episode focused on singularly parodying Stephen King's It.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_313598b7	type	Millennium Bug
Treehouse of Horror / int_313598b7	comment	Millennium Bug: Happens in the "Treehouse of Horror" X story "Life's a Glitch, then, You Die", on a Downer Ending, but this happened to air in 1999.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Treehouse of Horror / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: The "Treehouse of Horror II" segment "Bart's Nightmare" parodies the episode "It's a Good Life" from The Twilight Zone (1959), with Bart cast in the role the bratty, powerful child Anthony had in the original story. Nancy Cartwright previously appeared in the "It's a Good Life" segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie, playing a sister of Anthony who ends up telported into a cartoon in TV much like Bart did to Homer when he refuses to change the channel while watching a football game.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_392fe295	type	Supporting the Monster Loved One
Treehouse of Horror / int_392fe295	comment	Supporting the Monster Loved One: One episode reveals that Bart has a monstrous, murderous Evil Twin who the family keeps chained in the attic and feeds fish heads. But then he escapes...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Treehouse of Horror / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: In the "Hell Toupee" segment from Treehouse of Horror IX:
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Treehouse of Horror / int_40d1bc9d	type	Ambiguous Clone Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_40d1bc9d	comment	Ambiguous Clone Ending: Averted in "Send in the Clones". The last of Homer's copies is surprisingly blunt when revealing the original was killed by Lisa's plan.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_41a6f48	type	Horror Comedy
Treehouse of Horror / int_41a6f48	comment	Horror Comedy: Definitely skews far on the "comedic" end of the spectrum, though the David Mirkin-era episodes (IV and V) were closer to the middle.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4378c556	type	Loose Canon
Treehouse of Horror / int_4378c556	comment	Loose Canon: In general, Treehouse of Horror is treated as an Elseworld, separate from The Simpsons' normal universe. But sometimes the line between canon and non-canon can get blurry, and certain Treehouse elements can bleed over into the regular series, and will be treated as though they were already there to begin with. Indeed, Kang and Kodos, the German exchange student Uter, and the Lard Lad mascot all started as canon foreigners here, but later found their way into The Simpsons proper and became canon immigrants.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_437cbac5	type	Sound Off
Treehouse of Horror / int_437cbac5	comment	Sound Off: The dolphin army in "Night of the Dolphin".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_45bc787c	type	Mundane Wish
Treehouse of Horror / int_45bc787c	comment	Mundane Wish: In the second Treehouse of Horror, Homer gets a monkey's paw good for four wishes. The first wish is used by Maggie, who wishes for a new pacifier. The second is used by Bart, who wishes for the Simpsons to be rich and famous. Third is Lisa, who wishes for World Peace. (Homer: "Lisa, that was very selfish of you!") After aliens Take Over the World because nobody knows how to fight back (due to the world peace thing), Homer decides to use the final wish by getting very specific so it won't backfire.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_45bdaa0e	type	Just Ignore It
Treehouse of Horror / int_45bdaa0e	comment	Just Ignore It: "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_45cec696	type	God Guise
Treehouse of Horror / int_45cec696	comment	God Guise: Happens to Lisa in one Treehouse of Horror episode. An accident with her science fair project creates a race of miniature people, who think she is God for stopping Bart from destroying them.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_45d74260	type	Speech-Impaired Animal
Treehouse of Horror / int_45d74260	comment	Speech-Impaired Animal: Subverted in "Night of the Dolphin" — when Snorky takes the podium and begins his speech, he at first speaks in a squeaky, stilted voice with You No Take Candle dialect, but then he clears his throat and begins speaking more eloquantly.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Treehouse of Horror / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: The twist in Kang and Kodos's first appearance was that they actually were benevolent aliens (although a deleted scene confirms they were Evil All Along). In every subsequent appearance, they are antagonists in some way.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_47e9e5c6	type	Smart People Know Latin
Treehouse of Horror / int_47e9e5c6	comment	Smart People Know Latin: In the parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Nerd and TV Genius Martin is seen Asleep in Class dreaming about conjugating Latin verbs.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Treehouse of Horror / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Kang and Kodos disguise themselves as newlyweds hitchhiking to "Earth's Capital" in the 6th one; their disguises are rather ridiculous.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Treehouse of Horror / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In HomerÂ³: In "Treehouse of Horror V", one of the tombstones from the opening sequence is for "Amusing Tombstones". This was the writers' way of showing that they were tired of coming up with ideas for humorous tombstone messages. Similar sequences had been used as introductions in all four previous "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, but have not been used since this episode.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
Treehouse of Horror / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: These specials take the show's more moderate Black Comedy and crank it up to eleven, with the main cast regularly maiming and killing each other at whim for gags. Of course it's all reset by the next segment.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
Treehouse of Horror / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: Parodied and subverted in "Treehouse of Horror VII", when Homer first meets Kang and Kodos:
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Treehouse of Horror / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Marge does a pretty good job of concealing the revelations that she's both a witch, and the Head Vampire. See also Beware the Nice Ones.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
Treehouse of Horror / int_4bfe435c	comment	Lobotomy: In one alternate reality, Ned Flanders is an Overlord. Several people have a part of their brains removed and claim it feels good and they appear relaxed. Homer escaped.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4c8d7e0b	type	Forgotten Framing Device
Treehouse of Horror / int_4c8d7e0b	comment	Forgotten Framing Device: "Treehouse of Horror III" and "Treehouse of Horror IV" end without returning to their frame stories.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
Treehouse of Horror / int_4e07ef21	comment	"Treehouse of Horror II" has Lisa, Bart and Homer experiencing Acid Reflux Nightmares after eating too much Halloween candy.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Treehouse of Horror / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell: "I'll see you in Hell yet, Homer Simpson!" ("Treehouse of Horror IV", Flanders/Satan) "See you in Hell." "Still pushing that boulder?" "Uh-huh." ("Treehouse of Horror III", various zombies returning to their graves)
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: A lot of TOH shorts have these.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4e6fe81	type	Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal
Treehouse of Horror / int_4e6fe81	comment	Your Brain Won't Be Much of a Meal: In "Treehouse of Horror III", a zombie horde clamoring for "Braaaains" inspects Homer's head, then abandon him in disgust. Most ridiculously, the zombie taps Homer on the head and a very hollow sound is heard before it moves along.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4ef0ebb0	type	Three Shorts
Treehouse of Horror / int_4ef0ebb0	comment	The Three Shorts format came because of the Framing Device within the episode, and would feature each segment being written and directed by a different team. After the first few episodes, they abandoned a framing device altogether and the segments would be written by the same team, functionally making it like a regular episode but continuing the Three Shorts format out of tradition.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Treehouse of Horror / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first TOH has three separate commentary tracks. Up to Treehouse of Horror XIV, each segment was written by a different writer (IV also had a fourth writer for the framing stories); beginning with XV, one writer is responsible for the entire episode. (The change was made because having a different writer for each story was resulting in a hugely over-long first draft which was nigh impossible to edit down to length.) Also, the first four have framing stories told by the main characters. The first three make varying attempts to fit the show's canonicity; the fourth, a take-off of Night Gallery, less so. They were eventually dropped because they took up too much time that could be used for the stories instead. The first few specials opened with a character (usually Marge) on a stage warning parents about the content that was about to follow. The first five also contained a shot in the opening credits where the tombstones in the cemetery had amusing messages - such as the names of dead celebrities or cancelled TV shows. Treehouse of Horror V has one reading 'Amusing Tombstones', signalling that the tradition was going to be stopped. The first TOH uses the standard Gracie Films Vanity Plate audio, while the second and third have the organ music but not the woman's scream. The first TOH had a different director for each segment, and lacked the scary names for the cast and crew which would become standard (scary names were absent from "Treehouse of Horror XII" and "XIII", though). While the series has always used the title "Treehouse of Horror", it wasn't until thirteen installments in that they started using it on the actual title cards, though the first one to do it called it "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror". Before that, it was simply "The Simpsons Halloween Special".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Treehouse of Horror / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Often and usually Played for Laughs. One memorable example is "that fog that turns everybody inside out."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5111ff0	type	Kill the Poor
Treehouse of Horror / int_5111ff0	comment	Kill the Poor: In the Treehouse of Horror XVII short "Married To The Blob," Mayor Quimby and the town of Springfield reach a compromise with Homer, who has gained an insatiable appetite after becoming The Blob: They keep Homer inside a new "homeless shelter," and any vagrants who enter are immediately fed to him. In a very twisted way, this is effectively supposed to kill two birds with one stone. Homer, as the Grim Reaper, uses a bum to demonstrate reaping for Lisa's class on Career Day in TOH XIV.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_54243cf7	type	Parrot Exposition
Treehouse of Horror / int_54243cf7	comment	Parrot Exposition: From XI's "Night of the Dolphin":
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Treehouse of Horror / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Gracie Films fanfare is played on a pipe organ and is preceded by a scream, though this isn't always the casenote The first TOH featured the regular jingle, since the episode is considered canon plus Early-Installment Weirdness, and changing the Gracie logo was rare in general back then. The pipe organ version was installed for II, and the woman's scream came along in IV. On two occasions, the logos were related to the final segment: in VI, the jingle was done in the style of Myst/Philip Glass, continuing on the closing credits theme, which was done the same way; in XIX, the jingle was done in the style of "Linus and Lucy", AKA The Peanuts Theme, since the final segment was a take-off of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown". And sometimes, the woman's scream is placed by another sound effect, such as Regis Philbin screaming, "My eyes, my beautiful eyes!" in IX, and sometimes, a scream from Homer is heard..
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Treehouse of Horror / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_55cd4012	comment	Many of the shorts only have a passing connection to horror, often exploring sci-fi, action, political thrillers and fantasy genres that barely include a Halloween theme. The only thing keeping them from being a regular episode is a willingness to have crazier endings like everyone dying.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_57f23855	type	The Death of Death
Treehouse of Horror / int_57f23855	comment	The Death of Death: The premise of "Reaper Madness" is that Homer kills the Grim Reaper which effectively creates a world without death. In order to restore balance, Homer takes up the mantle.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_587515b3	type	And the Rest
Treehouse of Horror / int_587515b3	comment	And the Rest: In one "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Homer believes he's the last man alive and mourns each member of the "main" family and "all the rest", which includes the pets, Maggie and the TV.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_599ad6d5	type	Contrived Clumsiness
Treehouse of Horror / int_599ad6d5	comment	Contrived Clumsiness: Bart uses the "My finger slipped" excuse when Lisa's science experiment turns into a miniature civilization, and he keeps crushing buildings in it.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5a62e8d0	type	SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
Treehouse of Horror / int_5a62e8d0	comment	Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror: Sure, THOH is Better than a Bare Bulb, but then again, it never finds its home at any point of the sliding scale. Which, according to main THOH writer David X. Cohen, is entirely the point: THOH episodes must be both scary as hell and funny as hell, at the same time.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
Treehouse of Horror / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: Parodied in "Treehouse of Horror V": In another tale, "Hell ToupÃ©e," Snake is sent to the electric chair for smoking inside the Kwik-E-Mart (it was part of a "three-strikes" offense stipulation). After Snake's body has been burned, Homer gets Snake's hair grafted to his head to cover his baldness. What he didn't realize was that Snake's soul was still inside the hair graft, and once the hair was on, the soul gained access to Homer's brain and overrode his personality, forcing Homer to take revenge on all the witnesses who got Snake sentenced to death - including Bart. Homer, finding the murdered bodies of Apu and Moe and not realizing that Snake was behind the killings (and, more to the point, that he IS Snake when the hair is in control), promises to protect Bart by boarding up the door to his room. "There," he reassures Bart, "now nobody can get in." Then Snake takes over his mind and he sneers: "Or out."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5c0fc07b	type	Nightmare Sequence
Treehouse of Horror / int_5c0fc07b	comment	Nightmare Sequence: In a "Treehouse of Horror", Bart and Lisa, in a parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street, are being terrorized by Groundskeeper Willie in their dreams.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Treehouse of Horror / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: What happens when Plot Armor won't save you from being Too Dumb to Live.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5d0dd7b3	type	Wasteful Wishing
Treehouse of Horror / int_5d0dd7b3	comment	Wasteful Wishing: In the monkey's paw segment of "Treehouse of Horror II", Homer uses his wish by asking for a turkey sandwich. He regrets it when he realizes the turkey's a little dry.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5f6c6cc1	type	Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
Treehouse of Horror / int_5f6c6cc1	comment	Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Homer in Treehouse of Horror XXII. He sneaks off with the candy that he was supposed to put at a Candy for Troops Drop Off, but he sneaks off with it to a place called Candy Eating Peak. After a boulder falls on his arm and he eventually chews off his arm, it turns out that Bart, Lisa and Maggie replaced the candy with vegetables offscreen with this note: Enjoy your veggies, homeboy
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Treehouse of Horror / int_5f91efd9	type	Creative Closing Credits
Treehouse of Horror / int_5f91efd9	comment	Creative Closing Credits: "Treehouse of Horror V" has the Simpson family (who have all been turned inside out by toxic gas) singing a Broadway-style song. In fact, nearly all of the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes have credit gags in the form of Halloween-ized staff names.note The first one did not have them, due to Early-Installment Weirdness, and XII and XIII also lacked them; there are several different accounts as to why, including that they took too long to come up with, they were becoming too elaborate and unreadable, had increasingly less to do with Halloween, or they were felt to be insensitive after 9/11. They were reinstated due to fan demand.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Treehouse of Horror / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Two Treehouse of Horror stories have this: one where Bart uses an occult spell book to try and reanimate Snowball I ("Dial Z for Zombies" in III) and another where Krusty Burger's latest sandwich turns the people into "munchers" (cannibalistic zombies; "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" in XX).
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Treehouse of Horror / int_60c53080	type	Parody Assistance
Treehouse of Horror / int_60c53080	comment	Parody Assistance: "Treehouse of Horror XXXIII" has the animesque segment "Death Tome" spoofing the Death Note anime that is being animated by the same studio responsible for the original anime.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6136e02f	type	Brain Food
Treehouse of Horror / int_6136e02f	comment	Brain Food: The zombies in "Dial Z for Zombie" (part of "Treehouse of Horror III") crave delicious brains. Amusingly, they turn down Homer because apparently, he has no brains. He actually is offended by this and starts yelling at the zombies over it.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Treehouse of Horror / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: You will NOT like that bloodcurdling scream used in the Gracie Films logos unique to these specials.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
Treehouse of Horror / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Homer in "Treehouse of Horror XVI".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Treehouse of Horror / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted when Apu holds off the zombies. The family leaves thinking he sacrificed himself, while Apu complains that they were supposed to wait for him to get back. In Treehouse of Horror XXI, Homer lets the vampires suck on his blood (to save Lisa from becoming a vampire). His blood was filled with bad cholestrol, which poisons them. Homer also tries to fly back to the house, but he ends up falling down and (possibly) also dies from falling from a great height.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_66faa669	type	Silence, You Fool!
Treehouse of Horror / int_66faa669	comment	Silence, You Fool!: TOH VII segment, "Citizen Kang", has Kang (or is it Kodos?) say this trope, TOH VIII segment, "The HÎ©mega Man", has Mutant Sideshow Mel saying this trope (subverted in that Mel quickly follows with: "...You're talking too loud."), TOH X has Maggie (in a different voice) say this to Lisa in the episode's couch gag, and near the end of the TOH XI first segment, "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad", has the devil say "Silence, Sinner!" to ghost Homer.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Treehouse of Horror / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Kang and Kodos in various appearances. Often used as an Overly Long Gag.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6831a0c9	type	Devious Dolphins
Treehouse of Horror / int_6831a0c9	comment	Devious Dolphins: Justified in "Night of the Dolphin": their violent rampage against humans is a response to humanity's various crimes against them.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6bc0b4c3	type	Parody Magic Spell
Treehouse of Horror / int_6bc0b4c3	comment	Parody Magic Spell: In one episode, Bart reads a spell from a magic book that's basically a list of odd brand names and famous surnames.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Treehouse of Horror / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Professor Frink and Marge in Treehouse of Horror XXI. Bart in Treehouse of Horror XII.Â
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6d70ac30	type	Touch Telepathy
Treehouse of Horror / int_6d70ac30	comment	Touch Telepathy: In an episode Ned spontaneously develops the ability to see a vision of how someone will die when touching them.Â
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6e49fa1f	type	Mayan Doomsday
Treehouse of Horror / int_6e49fa1f	comment	Mayan Doomsday: The basis of XXIII's cold opening. It turned out it happened because the Mayans sacrificed the wrong person (they intended to sacrifice their own Homer, but, thanks to their own Marge, their own Moe ended up sacrificed instead).
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Treehouse of Horror / int_6e8b95dc	type	The Teaser
Treehouse of Horror / int_6e8b95dc	comment	The Teaser: The first two and the fifth had homages to Frankenstein (1931), with Marge addressing the audience. These Cold Openings were common place after the framing stories were dropped, though each varies in length and characters. Most of the "Treehouse of Horror" specials feature this; in the earlier days, it was Marge or Homer warning the audience that the episode in question is violent, while later specials featured a quick Halloween-related skit before the opening sequence.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_722d0026	type	Vanity Plate
Treehouse of Horror / int_722d0026	comment	The first TOH uses the standard Gracie Films Vanity Plate audio, while the second and third have the organ music but not the woman's scream.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Treehouse of Horror / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: In "The Ned Zone" from XV, Ned gains the power to foresee peoples' deaths after being hit in the head with Homer's bowling ball, and has a vision of himself shooting Homer to death. He believes he's managed to stop this, only to have a vision of Homer self-destructing the power plant's core and destroying Springfield. In the process of stopping this second vision, he ends up causing the original vision to happen, but Homer still manages to blow up the plant anyway.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Treehouse of Horror / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Justified in order to both tell these episodes from the main canon (which still has a lot of Idiot Ball, just not to this extent) and rack up a big body count (with Groundskeeper Willie being this side of Kenny McCormick in the fifth special), which in turn also tells the halloween episodes apart from the canonical ones.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
Treehouse of Horror / int_73d4b01a	comment	While the series has always used the title "Treehouse of Horror", it wasn't until thirteen installments in that they started using it on the actual title cards, though the first one to do it called it "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror". Before that, it was simply "The Simpsons Halloween Special".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_75735299	type	Vampire Monarch
Treehouse of Horror / int_75735299	comment	Vampire Monarch: In a parody of Bram Stoker's Dracula, in order to de-vampirize Bart they have to kill the head vampire. Lisa figures Burns must be it since he bit Bart. So the family sneak back into his castle and stake him. However...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Treehouse of Horror / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Bart and Lisa in TOH XX...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Treehouse of Horror / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: Lisa gets bitten in "Night of the Dolphin".Â Also in "The Ned Zone" Homer getting abducted in â€œCitizen Kangâ€�
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Treehouse of Horror / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Treehouse of Horror / int_78c895c8	comment	The tradition came about partially because the early years of the show were adamant about trying to be consistent with their own presentation and being more grounded in reality compared to other cartoons (among other things, affirming that animals won't talk or the Amusing Injuries are not exaggerated). The "Treehouse of Horror" episodes were an opportunity to go all out with crazy adventures with the acknowledgement that it doesn't count against the Status Quo, even before Negative Continuity became a thing. Over time the show got Denser and Wackier on its own with exaggerated comedic adventures involving such things as aliens and Time Travel, eventually willing to have full-length non-canon genre episodes that resulted in TOH feeling more superfluous.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Treehouse of Horror / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" has the residents of Springfield listening to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds radio broadcast in 1938 and panicking. Then they learn it was only a hoax. Then Kang and Kodos launch a real invasion, reasoning correctly that the townspeople will dimiss it as another hoax.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_801a35a5	type	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_801a35a5	comment	Only the Leads Get a Happy Ending: Most any story where the Simpson family makes it out okay, usually means someone else ends up dead or suffering as a result. A perfect example is "Hell ToupÃ©e", which kill off Moe and Apu, but still secures an "Everybody Laughs" Ending.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Treehouse of Horror / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: in "Hell Toupee", Snake is sentenced to the electric chair under the 'three strikes' law. The three strikes in question are torching an orphanage, blowing up a bus full of nuns (it was self-defense), and smoking a cigarette in a no-smoking zone. The 'Bus full of Nuns' line was even the original Trope Namer for this trope. From "If I Only Had a Brain", when Mr. Burns' robot collapses on him; Harry Shearer's name in many of the end credits is this, as he often forgoes a Halloween credit and just uses his real name.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8124e7a6	type	Sudden Downer Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_8124e7a6	comment	"Nightmare Cafeteria" from the fifth episode features this ending. Only to take a further turn for the freaky shortly afterwards.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: Many segments end like this. Examples include Bart Simpson's Dracula where the vampire family go to attack Lisa then suddenly do a parody of A Charlie Brown Christmas and I've Grown a Costume on Your Face where Maggie turns the whole town into pacifiers.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8430699a	type	Alternate Universe
Treehouse of Horror / int_8430699a	comment	Alternate Universe: None of the scenarios are considered canon.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Treehouse of Horror / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Homer is often this.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8a8534fb	type	Chemically-Induced Insanity
Treehouse of Horror / int_8a8534fb	comment	Chemically-Induced Insanity: In one story, Kodos and Kang spray Homer with rum so people will dismiss his alien-abduction story as drunken ravings.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8a8b2a87	type	And Knowing Is Half the Battle
Treehouse of Horror / int_8a8b2a87	comment	And Knowing Is Half the Battle: In "Treehouse of Horror XVI":
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8b3ad439	type	Fog of Doom
Treehouse of Horror / int_8b3ad439	comment	Fog of Doom: "Treehouse of Horror V" ends with a fog entering the house and turning the Simpsons inside-out.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8e1aef2d	type	Reference Overdosed
Treehouse of Horror / int_8e1aef2d	comment	Reference Overdosed: "A Clockwork Yellow" is an Affectionate Parody of everything Stanley Kubrick.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_8f7e610d	type	Autocannibalism
Treehouse of Horror / int_8f7e610d	comment	Autocannibalism:Â In one episode, Homer's head is turned into a donut. Homer being Homer, naturally keeps picking at it. Also, in The Teaser spoofing 127 Hours, he eats most of his limbs. He comments that he tastes good at one point. This is the entire premise of the "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" segment "MMM...Homer".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_902ff525	type	Sdrawkcab Alias
Treehouse of Horror / int_902ff525	comment	Sdrawkcab Alias: In the credits of ''Treehouse of Horror VII, Dan Castellaneta's name is spelled backwards.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Treehouse of Horror / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The Mad Men title sequence to "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising" (part of "Treehouse of Horror XIX").
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Treehouse of Horror / int_93773e14	type	TransformationTrauma
Treehouse of Horror / int_93773e14	comment	Transformation Trauma: Cat-Marge and Werewolf Flanders. And when the family turned inside-out from the strange, viral cloud that got into their home due to cheap weather stripping.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_93deab19	type	Ominous Fog
Treehouse of Horror / int_93deab19	comment	Ominous Fog: The short featuring werewolf-Flanders parodies the hell out of this trope. "Guess I forgot to put the fog lights in!" Also, the short song with the fog that turned people inside out featured some Ominous Fog.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Treehouse of Horror / int_96e5792c	comment	The first five specials opened with a character warning viewers about the episode's potentially scary content. The first one was a sincere attempt to head off inevitable complaints from Moral Guardians, which Marge references in the second.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_972142db	type	Headless Horseman
Treehouse of Horror / int_972142db	comment	Headless Horseman: The opening segment of "Treehouse of Horror VI" shows Krusty the Klown in the persona of the Headless Horseman.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_97cf7f86	type	Vampire Hickey
Treehouse of Horror / int_97cf7f86	comment	Vampire Hickey: In IV's story, Bart Simpson's Dracula, after Bart is captured by a vampire Burns in his crypt hideout, they return to the dining hall to show Homer and Marge that everything is alright... despite Burns having blood dripping from his fangs and the two obvious puncture wounds on Bart's neck.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_9a692ae9	type	13 Is Unlucky
Treehouse of Horror / int_9a692ae9	comment	13 Is Unlucky: "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" begins "on the thirteenth hour of the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month", with a public meeting to discuss the misprinted calendars purchased by the town.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_9cdb5ec5	type	Genre Anthology
Treehouse of Horror / int_9cdb5ec5	comment	Genre Anthology: Parodies of Night Gallery and other horror related TV shows were common.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Treehouse of Horror / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Ironically given the premise of the specials - but the Couch Gag for Treehouse of Horror X has the family dressed as forms they ended up taking in previous specials. Bart is the fly boy from VIII, Maggie is her half-alien form from IX, Homer is his jack-in-the-box form from II, and Marge is the witch from VIII. Lisa's costume is original (which is probably why she gets zapped with a ray gun).
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Treehouse of Horror / int_9de3b377	type	Unrealistic Black Hole
Treehouse of Horror / int_9de3b377	comment	Unrealistic Black Hole: In Treehouse of Horror XXIII. The mini black hole created by the particle accelerator is actually way too big. A black hole with the mass of the Earth would only be about 1/3 of an inch in radius.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Treehouse of Horror / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Mostly averted. Outside of the wraparounds, which are all set on Halloween, most of the stories could theoretically take place on any random day of the year. There are a few exceptions, including "The Terror of Tiny Toon", "I've Grown a Costume on Your Face", "Heck House", "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse", "The Diving Bell and the Butterball", and "Oh, the Places You'll D'oh"note Halloween; "Citizen Kang"note The week leading up to America's Election Day, which coincidentally includes Halloween; "Easy Bake Coven"note Which, In-Universe, retroactively created Halloween; "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die"note New Year's Day; and "Untitled Robot Parody"note Christmas.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_a05522e3	type	Alien Abduction
Treehouse of Horror / int_a05522e3	comment	Alien Abduction: Multiple shorts featuring Kang and Kodos show them kidnapping humans, including the whole Simpson family in the first "Treehouse of Horror" episode.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_a246aed6	type	Sapient Cetaceans
Treehouse of Horror / int_a246aed6	comment	Sapient Cetaceans: In one episode, dolphins invade the land and take over, also they can speak English.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	Cruel Twist Ending: Happened in a lot of older stories, such as Terror at 5 1/2 Feet ( Bart manages to keep the Gremlin from crashing the bus but gets institutionalized for his efforts, with the Gremlin coming back to torment him) and Bart Simpson's Dracula ( The Simpsons stake Count Burns in the heart but Marge turns out to be the head vampire and the family attacks the somehow still-human Lisa. Fortunately, they all break out into "Hark the Herald Angels Sing.").
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Treehouse of Horror / int_a7325f9e	type	The Many Deaths of You
Treehouse of Horror / int_a7325f9e	comment	The Many Deaths of You: Occasionally, a Treehouse segment will experiment with how many times a character can be killed, then brought back, in the same story. Bart ("Wanted: Dead, Then Alive"), Homer ("Heaven Swipes Right"), and Lisa ("Be Nine, Rewind") all get this treatment at different points, but each manage to come out with a Surprisingly Happy Ending.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Treehouse of Horror / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Invoked in "Treehouse of Horror V" where Bart and Lisa tell Marge about the cannibalism going on in their school, Marge promptly dismisses them telling them that she cannot fight all their battles- and they should forcefully scold the teachers to not eat them. It doesn't work.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_aadcbbe4	type	Close-Enough Timeline
Treehouse of Horror / int_aadcbbe4	comment	Close-Enough Timeline: A story from Treehouse of Horror V ends with everything normal, except for people having long snake tongues. Homer names the trope by saying this line. A similar thing happens in Treehouse of Horror XIV when Lisa ends up changing the appearances of Homer, Marge, Bart and Maggie, eventually getting to a point where they're their normal selves, but they spin hula hoops around.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_abc60c5d	type	Harmful to Minors
Treehouse of Horror / int_abc60c5d	comment	Harmful to Minors: Happens to Bart and Lisa in TOH XX or TOH IIX...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_abfcd50d	type	Breaking and Bloodsucking
Treehouse of Horror / int_abfcd50d	comment	Breaking and Bloodsucking: In the parody of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Bart and his friends are flying outside Lisa's window, telling her the silly perks of being a vampire. Bart then tells her she has no choice, smashes through, and is about to bite her when Homer walks in and warns him about biting his sister.Â
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ad118ed1	type	Aesop Collateral Damage
Treehouse of Horror / int_ad118ed1	comment	Aesop Collateral Damage: Parodied in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode where the entire family suffered painful transformations all because Homer insulted a gypsy woman. All Homer had to do was apologize, and he would've resurrected his dead son, but since none of the karma actually befalls him, he doesn't learn anything.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Treehouse of Horror / int_ae853f28	comment	Done in "Treehouse of Horror XVI", in a parody of / Shout-Out to The Exorcist. A possessed Homer climbs on the wall and ceiling, and rotates his head around 180 degrees. When Marge says she'll call Mr. Burns that he can't go to work, he falls back on the bed in success, with his head still backwards.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b21ddb6b	type	Content Warnings
Treehouse of Horror / int_b21ddb6b	comment	Most of the "Treehouse of Horror" specials feature this; in the earlier days, it was Marge or Homer warning the audience that the episode in question is violent, while later specials featured a quick Halloween-related skit before the opening sequence.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b30b0aac	type	Real-World Episode
Treehouse of Horror / int_b30b0aac	comment	Real-World Episode: Homer goes through a mysterious portal behind the bookcase and ends up doing this at the end of the seventh-season "Treehouse of Horror VI."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b4d76fc	type	"King Kong" Climb
Treehouse of Horror / int_b4d76fc	comment	"King Kong" Climb: In "King Homer". (Predictably.) He doesn't make it to the top, and falls down in exhaustion. Cut to the planes flying around the top of the tower, with the pilots looking confused.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Treehouse of Horror / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That! XXI contains one directed at the Tabletop Game Mouse Trap (1963), in which a parody called "Mouse Catch" is referred to as "the game so lame no one's ever finished it". In VI, when Homer tries to describe the dimension he's trapped in by asking "Did any of you see the movie TRON?" everyone in the room replies "no" — with the exception of Chief Wiggum, who then immediately tries to backpedal and claim he hasn't seen it either.Â After Sam Simon left the series, he was always credited as "Sam 'Sayonara' Simon". However, after his untimely death, out of respect, he was never given a scary name.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Treehouse of Horror / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Happens from time to time, such as Bart pulling the switch for the "Super Fun Happy Slide" leading right back to Count Burns' chamber, or Homer plunging to his death (with the rest of his clones) in a gorge, in an effort to catch enormous doughnuts.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b87d659f	type	Consolation Backfire
Treehouse of Horror / int_b87d659f	comment	Consolation Backfire: In an episode, after an army of Homer clones destroys Old Gil's farm, Old Gil sighs and says "At least I still have my health." Cue the Homers eating him alive. His skeleton is left behind to say "Awwww..."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Treehouse of Horror / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Since it is an unwritten rule that Kang and Kodos have to appear in every Treehouse episode, as the years go by, their roles have been gradually diminishing to this. While the writers attempt to give them speaking lines lampshading their lack of focus, their most recent appearances have been mainly obligatory.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Treehouse of Horror / int_ba236071	comment	In the opening for "Treehouse of Horror XX," Homer gets the dead Xs version of this after his head is torn off by the Universal Monsters' angry wives and lands in the punch bowl. The eyes make up the Roman numeral in the title afterward.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Treehouse of Horror / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: Ned thinks in The Ned Zone that he must avoid his scary vision about Homer, instead he's forced to shoot Homer to stop him causing a nuclear meltdown-which then happens anyway.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_bbd981ee	type	Child Eater
Treehouse of Horror / int_bbd981ee	comment	Child Eater: In the "Nightmare Cafeteria" part of Treehouse of Horror V, Springfield Elementary is suffering from both overcrowding in detention and food budget cuts. To solve both problems, the faculty starts eating the children one by one and sending the kids to "detention" for even minor infractions to process them as cattle. The Salem Witch trial parody in another Halloween episode had Marge and her sisters, being witches for the act, take up the Flanders idea that they would eat children. They even ate a bunch of kids off-screen before they reached the Flanders.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Treehouse of Horror / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: These episodes always take place out of the normal continuity of the show, and aren't even in continuity with each other.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
Treehouse of Horror / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: Parodied and Zig-Zagged in "Hungry Are the Damned." The cookbook's title is revealed to be not How to Cook Humans but How to Cook for Forty Humans. (Matt Groening wanted the full title to end with ...and Then Eat Them, but was outvoted.) Kang and Kodos, upset at Lisa's accusation, returns the Simpsons to Earth.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c02925f0	type	Wingding Eyes
Treehouse of Horror / int_c02925f0	comment	Wingding Eyes: Parodied in the "Treehouse of Horror XV" segment "The Ned Zone": When Homer hears about Flanders's ability to predict peoples' deaths, his eyes turn into skulls, then dollar signs, then American flags and finally a dog chasing a cat before his normal pupils return. In the opening for "Treehouse of Horror XX," Homer gets the dead Xs version of this after his head is torn off by the Universal Monsters' angry wives and lands in the punch bowl. The eyes make up the Roman numeral in the title afterward.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Treehouse of Horror / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead:Â Homer offers himself to a zombie horde so that his family can escape. He's ultimately rejected, as he doesn't have a brain for the zombies to eat. Inverted in another episode: "Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!"
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c3accb7c	type	Double Speak
Treehouse of Horror / int_c3accb7c	comment	Double Speak: Parodied in an episode, where, in a Strangers on a Train parody, Bart and Lisa agree to "prank" each others' teachers and "ding-dong-ditch" them. Of course, by prank, Bart means kill, and by ding-dong-ditch, he means throw the ding-dong in a ditch.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c4caad92	type	Opium Den
Treehouse of Horror / int_c4caad92	comment	Opium Den: In "Four Beheadings and a Funeral" (part of "Treehouse of Horror XV").
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c4d09d24	type	Couch Gag
Treehouse of Horror / int_c4d09d24	comment	Couch Gag: The first few specials(3-10) featured a darker spin, such as the family being zombies, the family shown dead and hanging from nooses (with Maggie being barely alive enough to suck on her pacifier), or dropping dead in front of the Grim Reaper who was waiting for them on the couch... One time they didn't make it to the couch at all (which was for the best since Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees were waiting on the couch for them).
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Treehouse of Horror / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: The ending of XI's "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad". With one minute left to perform a good deed in order to get into Heaven, Homer saves a baby from a runaway carriage. Unfortunately...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c6aca700	type	Jury of the Damned
Treehouse of Horror / int_c6aca700	comment	Jury of the Damned: "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment), when Homer sold his soul for a doughnut, included a jury consisting of John Wilkes Booth, Lizzie Borden, John Dillinger, Blackbeard, Benedict Arnold, the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, and Richard Nixon (who, at the time of the show's premiere, was still alive, making this dialogue a mix of Harsher in Hindsight and Hilarious in Hindsight):
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Treehouse of Horror / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: See the ever so convenient Whole-Plot Reference. At the end of "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid", the scene shows the ruins of Springfield while "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" by The Ink Spots plays. Fallout, anyone?
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Treehouse of Horror / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In one segment, D-list celebrities are going to get shot into the sun. Tom Arnold voices himself here and proves a good sport about it.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_c97314e3	type	Eat the Camera
Treehouse of Horror / int_c97314e3	comment	Eat the Camera: Done at the end of Bart's nightmare in Treehouse of Horror II, when Bart wakes up screaming due to Homer kissing him in his dream, out of all things.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_cd33644f	type	Incriminating Indifference
Treehouse of Horror / int_cd33644f	comment	Incriminating Indifference: Parodied in Treehouse of Horror X, after Marge accidentally runs Ned Flanders over, resulting in his death. At his funeral, Homer warns the family that appearing too sad might seem suspicious, so they enter the wake with bright smiles.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Treehouse of Horror / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Invoked in the re-telling of "The Raven" (when the protagonist finds "darkness there and nothing more" behind his chamber door) - only to be promptly dismissed.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Treehouse of Horror / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: Oddly enough, this does happen on occasion, like in "HomerÂ³", "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", and "War and Pieces". The Treehouse of Horror episodes as a whole starting with Treehouse of Horror XIV.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Treehouse of Horror / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die" aired on Halloween of 1999, but took place two months after that point.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_cfeb01b3	type	Title Confusion
Treehouse of Horror / int_cfeb01b3	comment	Title Confusion: As this collage shows, the first twelve episodes called this series The Simpsons Halloween Special. The thirteenth episode changed it to The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror, and afterwards just Treehouse of Horror. As far as episode guides are concerned, however, it always has been Treehouse of Horror.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Treehouse of Horror / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The "King Homer" segment in "Treehouse of Horror III" (a parody of 1933 version of King Kong) and the long segment Dial M For Murder or press # to Return to the Main Menu in Treehouse of Horror XX. The first part of the "Homerzilla" segment in "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" is this as well, but it switches to color halfway through.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Treehouse of Horror / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: In the cold opening of "Treehouse of Horror XXII", Homer does this to most of his limbs after his arm gets trapped under a boulder, in a direct parody of Aron Ralston's plight. This ends in total Nightmare Fuel...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Treehouse of Horror / int_d06305ff	comment	Talking with Signs: Seen in "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" (part of Treehouse of Horror VI"): After seeing Groundskeeper Willie (playing the role of Freddy Krueger) for the first time, Bart holds up a sign that reads: "Eep."
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d2b33bef	type	Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness
Treehouse of Horror / int_d2b33bef	comment	Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness: The overall plot of "The Others", where the Simpsons are antagonized by their Tracy Ullman-era counterparts.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Treehouse of Horror / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: In Bart Simpson's Dracula, when Bart and Lisa are running up the stairs to escape Burn's vampire minions. Bart comes across a lever for a "Super Happy Fun Slide". He lampshades he knows its a trap, but figures what the hey and pulls it. Leading to him sliding back down into the vampire lair, getting captured, bitten and turned. Homer nearly does the same thing later in the episode, but Lisa stops him. In another early Treehouse of Horror episode, the aliens' cookbook "How to Cook For Forty Humans" caused Lisa to think they were going to eat The Simpsons, first thinking the dust covered title was "How to Cook Humans" until Kang blew some dust off to reveal that it said "How to Cook For Humans" until Lisa blew more dust off revealing "How to Cook Forty Humans" before the final dust was blew off revealing its full title. Unfortunately, Lisa's distrust ruined their chances of being pampered by the alien civilization and they were returned to Earth.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d2c125f3	type	Gypsy Curse
Treehouse of Horror / int_d2c125f3	comment	Gypsy Curse: The premise of "Hex and the City" (part of "Treehouse of Horror XII").
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
Treehouse of Horror / int_d4055b8b	comment	Square-Cube Law: Professor Frink (or his Japanese equivalent) lampshades the impossibility of a creature Homerzilla's size capable of actually being able to thrive on land. He's instantly crushed by the monster.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d4c98786	type	Writing Around Trademarks
Treehouse of Horror / int_d4c98786	comment	Writing Around Trademarks: This bit from Treehouse of Horror V.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d4f3a682	type	The Operators Must Be Crazy
Treehouse of Horror / int_d4f3a682	comment	The Operators Must Be Crazy: In "Treehouse of Horror III," Marge tries to let the toy company know a Krusty Doll is attempting to drown her husband as she speaks. She holds and gets a song about how much fun it is to be clown.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d791dbbb	type	Cannibal Larder
Treehouse of Horror / int_d791dbbb	comment	Cannibal Larder: The teachers at school are eating the kids, and they keep the kids locked in small cages - except for a few "free range children" which are in a pen outside.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_d8ad2130	type	Anal Probing
Treehouse of Horror / int_d8ad2130	comment	Anal Probing: The short "Citizen Kang" from Treehouse of Horror VII saw Homer abducted by Kang and Kodos. Homer's reaction to this is to say, "I suppose you want to probe me. Well, you might as well get it over with" and immediately drop his pants and moon his alien captors. Kang and Kodos respond to this in shock horror, begging, "Stop! We have reached the limits of what rectal probing can teach us!"
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Treehouse of Horror / int_da0eeab5	type	Breakout Character
Treehouse of Horror / int_da0eeab5	comment	Breakout Character: Despite appearing in just one segment of the first special, which was given no more prominence than the other two, Kang and Kodos have gone on to appear in every single special since then, even when they have nothing to do with the plot. Later on they even managed to appear in non Treehouse of Horror episodes as well, though theyâ€™re almost entirely restricted to appearing here.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_dd60caca	type	Severed Head Sports
Treehouse of Horror / int_dd60caca	comment	Severed Head Sports: Also happens on one of the "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, again with Moe as the victim of a Mayan sacrifice. His head rolls down the stairs and is used by kids as a soccer ball. Zombie Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney kick zombie Skinner's head around in TOH III. He can feel it, too.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_df33a778	type	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
Treehouse of Horror / int_df33a778	comment	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Subverted in XX when Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy and Frankenstein head out to do their usual scaring on a Halloween night and are made fun of by Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney for their "old fashioned" costumes. They rectify it by going into a nearby costume shop and come out dressed as Iron Man, Harry Potter, Jack Sparrow and SpongeBob SquarePants respectively.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
Treehouse of Horror / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Segment: "There's No Business Like Moe Business" in Treehouse of Horror XX. Done as a Milestone Celebration, which is given a Lampshade Hanging at the end of the episode.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e26d8285	type	Explosive Decompression
Treehouse of Horror / int_e26d8285	comment	Explosive Decompression: Bart and Homer by the end of "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die", as part of a Gory Discretion Shot; Bill Clinton and Bob Dole suffer a much more realistic version of this trope in "Citizen Kang".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Treehouse of Horror / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Likely because Treehouse of Horror is such an unusual title on its own, other language dubs of the series have gone with alternative names: In French, it becomes the Simpson Horror Show. In Italian, it becomes La Paura Fa Novanta (idiomatically, "fear makes the unthinkable happen")
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Treehouse of Horror / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Individual segments often reference the premises of movies or television shows. The segment "Terror at 5Â½ Feet" is a reference to "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from Twilight Zone. "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is based off of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) with Groundskeeper Willie as Freddy Krueger. "The Shinning" obviously references Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. "The HÎ©mega Man" is a parody of the Charlton Heston movie The Ωmega Man. "Be Nine, Rewind" is based off of Happy Death Day with Lisa dying on her 9th birthday and reliving the day all over again and again. "The Pookadook" is a parody of The Babadook where Marge is possessed by a demonic creature that feeds on her resentment towards her family.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e49a3a77	type	Offering Another in Your Stead
Treehouse of Horror / int_e49a3a77	comment	Offering Another in Your Stead: Facing down Kang and Kodos, Homer says, "Please don't eat me, I have a wife and kids... eat them instead!"
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e4dde6dc	type	Sent Into Hiding
Treehouse of Horror / int_e4dde6dc	comment	Sent Into Hiding: The fate of Bart's twin brother Hugo, who is hidden away in the attic.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
Treehouse of Horror / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: The annual "Treehouse of Horror" series has this in a many installments.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e57965c6	type	Covered in Mud
Treehouse of Horror / int_e57965c6	comment	Covered in Mud: In a Treehouse of Horror episode parodying Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds broadcast: Springfield is terrified of being invaded by Martians. Sideshow Mel tells everyone to take off their clothes and wallow in the mud. That way the Martians will leave them alone, not realizing that they're people.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e5a93e61	type	Homeworld Evacuation
Treehouse of Horror / int_e5a93e61	comment	Homeworld Evacuation: One episode has 2 ships to leave the earth with various stars. One goes to Mars, and the other to the Sun.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e5f8ceac	type	Army of The Ages
Treehouse of Horror / int_e5f8ceac	comment	Army of The Ages: Bart uses a DeLorean time machine and changed history where Marge married Artie Ziff instead of Homer, and are rich. Homer tries to counter it with an army of Homers across history. They all get easily beaten up by Bart and Artie.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e8760868	type	Space Whale Aesop
Treehouse of Horror / int_e8760868	comment	Space Whale Aesop: Guns are the only way we can protect ourselves from cowboy zombies.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
Treehouse of Horror / int_e9327f58	comment	In Treehouse of Horror XXI, Homer lets the vampires suck on his blood (to save Lisa from becoming a vampire). His blood was filled with bad cholestrol, which poisons them. Homer also tries to fly back to the house, but he ends up falling down and (possibly) also dies from falling from a great height.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
Treehouse of Horror / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Subverted in HomerÂ³. Homer is trapped forever in the live action dimension, but he is happy when he finds a bakery that sells erotic cakes. Played straight with some of the framing devices for the stories as they end up having no resolution, such as the Halloween party in the third special.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Treehouse of Horror / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: A few stories end with it being revealed to be a dream or fantasy of one of the characters. The "Treehouse of Horror II" stories were explicitly set-up as nightmares that Lisa, Bart, and Homer have as a result of eating too much Halloween candy. Though Homer's leads into an Or Is It? moment. "Nightmare Cafeteria" from the fifth episode features this ending. Only to take a further turn for the freaky shortly afterwards.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_eaa2b8f8	type	Bewitched Amphibians
Treehouse of Horror / int_eaa2b8f8	comment	Bewitched Amphibians: In a parody of Harry Potter, students are expected to turn frogs (presumably of original frog descent) into princes.Â
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Treehouse of Horror / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Treehouse of Horror / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack:Â In a Treehouse of Horror segment Professor Frink kills his father this way as the only organs he didn't have were testicles. In another Treehouse of Horror, when attempting to stake the Vampire-Burns, Homers nailed him in the crotch first, before Lisa corrected him. Bart in â€œYou Gotta Know When To Golemâ€�: â€œI didnâ€™t say â€˜kick Homerâ€™s WALLSâ€™â€�.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ed4275d1	type	Universal Remote Control
Treehouse of Horror / int_ed4275d1	comment	Universal Remote Control: In the short "The Terror of Tiny Toon", Marge takes the batteries from the TV remote to stop Bart and Lisa watching an Itchy and Scratchy Halloween special, and Bart replaces them with a piece of plutonium he finds in Homer's toolbox. Afterwards, the remote starts displaying reality-warping properties including messing with Lisa's skin color with the Color buttons, sending Bart and Lisa into the cartoon when Enter is accidentally pushed, and reversing time with its Rewind button.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_efd95d99	type	Poking Dead Things with a Stick
Treehouse of Horror / int_efd95d99	comment	Poking Dead Things with a Stick: In Treehouse of Horror X, the "I Know What You Did-Iddly-Did" segment sees Marge accidentally run over Ned Flanders with the car. Homer ascertains that he's dead in a super-technical medical way—poking him in the eye with a stick. Later, when Ned catches up with the family and is revealed to be undead, Homer again pokes him in the eye with the stick. In "Treehouse of Horror XIV", in the segment "Reaper Madness", after Homer kills the Grim Reaper with a bowling ball, Lisa has a stick in hand and uses it to poke the Grim Reaper's bare skull.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f068cba	type	Oddball in the Series
Treehouse of Horror / int_f068cba	comment	Oddball in the Series'': "Treehouse of Horror II" is the only "Treehouse of Horror" special where the individual segments don't have onscreen titles. In this episode, the Framing Device is Lisa, Bart, and Homer having candy-induced nightmares, so the episode guide only refers to the segments as "Lisa's Nightmare", "Bart's Nightmare", and "Homer's Nightmare". "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" has five segments instead of the usual three.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f25493f4	type	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here
Treehouse of Horror / int_f25493f4	comment	Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here: Unless...note You were in a Treehouse of Horror episode...
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f273b1cb	type	Devil in Plain Sight
Treehouse of Horror / int_f273b1cb	comment	Devil in Plain Sight: Kodos (the Destroyer) in, ''E.T., Go Home".
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f2a8ac6e	type	The Secret of Long Pork Pies
Treehouse of Horror / int_f2a8ac6e	comment	The Secret of Long Pork Pies: Treehouse of Horror XX features a play of Moe using Homer's blood as an ingredient in a delectable beer.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f2d2ec5f	type	Evil Chef
Treehouse of Horror / int_f2d2ec5f	comment	Evil Chef: Lunchlady Doris is usually a Lethal Chef at worst in the regular continuity, but in "Nightmare Cafeteria", she starts to cook the school's children on Skinner's orders and serving them to the staff.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f2dadf81	type	Evil Twin
Treehouse of Horror / int_f2dadf81	comment	Evil Twin: Hugo is a subversion. Bart turns out to be the evil twin.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f31926c2	type	Expendable Alternate Universe
Treehouse of Horror / int_f31926c2	comment	Expendable Alternate Universe: Characters lose their Plot Armor meaning they often die in gruesome ways while the majority of the segments have a Bittersweet Ending.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f56aeb67	type	Alien Invasion
Treehouse of Horror / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: Some shorts with Kang and Kodos show them trying to conquer Earth as well, although just how competent they are at it varies.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Treehouse of Horror / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Each story in "Treehouse of Horror V" features Groundskeeper Willie getting killed with an axe to the back after saying he'll help. Ned Flanders also tends to be killed off fairly often during the course of the entire series. The first five specials all feature a disclaimer by Marge (or Homer, in the case of III) about the episode's content (the first of which was a sincere attempt to warn the viewers), and an opening sequence featuring a pan across Springfield Cemetery (in homage to the usual opening sequence's swoop over Springfield), passing several humorous tombstones. These were both dropped as they were becoming difficult to write and were eating into the time for the stories themselves, although they both make later returns as a Mythology Gag: Lisa gives a very similar disclaimer before the "Mmm... Homer" segment of XXVIII, and the tombstones make a return in XXIX.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_fabef10f	type	Don't Explain the Joke
Treehouse of Horror / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: During the cold open to "Treehouse of Horror XVII":
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Treehouse of Horror / int_fb60e9a2	type	He's Got a Weapon!
Treehouse of Horror / int_fb60e9a2	comment	He's Got a Weapon!: In one of the early episodes, Kang runs past in the background yelling, "He's got a board with a nail in it!" He's being pursued by Moe, who does indeed have a board with a nail in it.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_fc8bc8e	type	Special Edition Title
Treehouse of Horror / int_fc8bc8e	comment	Special Edition Title: Featuring the requisite spooky imagery as well as a Theremin-style arrangement of the theme music.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Treehouse of Horror / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Ned Flanders turning evil (or being secretly already evil) is a frequent plot. So far he's been Satan (especially ironic since Ned is a devout Christian); a global dictator in an alternate timeline; an undead werewolf; Satan again; and a Well-Intentioned Extremist serial killer, though the last one was Homerâ€™s fault.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_fcf82917	type	Wacky Cravings
Treehouse of Horror / int_fcf82917	comment	Wacky Cravings: In the 'In the Na'Vi' segment of "Treehouse of Horror XXII", Kang reveals that pregnancy is particularly difficult for females of his species as their planet has no pickles and their only ice cream is butterbrickle.
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Treehouse of Horror / int_ff89e65b	type	Not in the Face!
Treehouse of Horror / int_ff89e65b	comment	Not in the Face!: "Dial Z for Zombies", from "Treehouse of Horror III", has a brief gag of the zombified Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney kicking around zombie-Skinner's head like a soccer ball, prompting him to cry "Ow! Careful, not the face!" The "Treehouse of Horror XV" segment "The Ned Zone" has Flanders seeing a future in which he kills Homer.
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Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Slept Through the Apocalypse / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Slow-Paced Beginning / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Smart People Know Latin / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Sophisticated as Hell / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Stock "Yuck!" / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Stripped to the Bone / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Tarot Troubles / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	That Wasn't a Request / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	The Ludovico Technique / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	The Titling / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	13 Is Unlucky / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Throw the Book at Them / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Too Kinky to Torture / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Trapped in TV Land / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Trash Landing / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Ãœberwald / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Vertigo Effect / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Violence Really Is the Answer / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	What Have You Done for Me Lately? / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Who Is Driving? / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Writer Revolt / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Yawn and Reach / int_2196de57
Treehouse of Horror	hasFeature	Is This What Anger Feels Like? / int_2196de57
treehouseofhorror	sameAs	Treehouse of Horror

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