On many forums, variations of the line "My eyes! ↑ Episode: "The Last Temptation of Krust". "Urge to kill... rising...". However, as noted above, both "Time and Punishment" and "Nightmare Cafeteria" are still quite popular, so it's not like the quality goes down by that much after the opening. He doesn't seem too bothered, however. None of the Simpsons seem put off by the blood coming from the elevator. This is the song Moe uses to try and make Marge think Homer has run off to be gay Homer sees the ghost of Moe, and acknowledges that he's a ghost, and yet sees nothing odd about this situation, only demanding beer from him. Lisa and Homer are watching a Steven Wright Stand Up Comedy routine where Wright says "I finally got around to reading the dictionary. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 30, 1994, and features three short stories titled The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria.. ; Tough Act to Follow:. "Treehouse of Horror III" - A grave for Fish Police is … (1 had Bart and Lisa trading scary stories in the treehouse; 2 had Bart, Lisa, and Homer having nightmares from eating too much candy, 3 had the scary stories told at the Halloween party, and 4 had the. By the end of it, most of them seem to be incapable of speech to the point that Skinner axes Willie when the latter tries to rescue the kids. Marge Ziff is the name of an alternate version of/looks like Marge Simpson. Comic Book Guy's most well … Treehouse of Horror V doesn’t miss—there’s arguably always a weak link, but not in this episode. Kang and Kodos, the two space aliens from the very first Treehouse of Horror segment "Hungry Are The Damned". When the frozen Simpsons are forced to watch The Tony Awards. In "The Shinning", it appeared as if they were going to directly parody the famous typewriting scene of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" but it's revealed that Homer only wrote "feelin' fine" until lightning strikes and reveals that. When he finally accomplishes this, he relaxes in victory... only for Bart to inform him that it's in the toaster. And if "The Shinning" wasn’t the opening production, then neither of the later ones would be able to use the Groundskeeper Willie. These are The Simpsons' special annual Halloween Episodes. When this happens for the third time in the episode in "Nightmare Cafeteria", his dying words are "I'm bad at this". The teachers become this in "Nightmare Cafetieria", and by the end of the segment, they are sending kids to detention (read: slaughter) for occurrences that couldn't possibly be their fault. This episode won a Writers Guild of America Award for best animated program. "The Shinning" ends with the Simpsons all stuck frozen together watching TV in the snow and, being unable to change the channel or escape, Homer's insanity returns and his urge to kill rises again. For anyone who grew up watching The Simpsons, the Treehouse Of Horror Halloween specials are an annual horror staple, from spooky couch gag to horror-themed credits. "Kamp Krusty" - The couch gag has the family running up to the couch, but finding the Flintstones occupying it. "Treehouse of Horror XII" was originally scheduled to air on Sunday, November 4, 2001. “The Shinning,” Treehouse of Horror V (Season 6, 1994) Plot: Mr. Burns’s sea monkeys, otherwise known as the Simpsons, arrive to look after his creepy-looking lodge. Tropes used in Treehouse of Horror include: Abnormal Limb Rotation Range : Happens to Homer to parody The Exorcist in "Treehouse of Horror XVI". RELATED: The Simpsons: Every Single Treehouse Of Horror, Ranked Worst To … 4 – The Shinning – Treehouse of Horror V (1994) Coming out right in The Simpsons prime, Treehouse of Horror V offers their take on a Stephen King classic. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 17, 2006. This conversation when the teachers first start eating the "sloppy Jimbos": The beginning of "Time and Punishment" has Homer mysteriously getting his hand caught in the toaster and freaking out as he tries to get it out. In the episode, when Gil Gunderson is fired from his job, Marge … having them wear clothes similar to his and his family's. At one time, it competed with Scooby-Doo for most episodes produced of an animated television series. ", Ned Flanders' TV screen emerging from the floor is animated like the T-1000 in, Those helping Moe drag Homer out of the storeroom are, Homer's first arrival in prehistoric times spoofs the first scene featuring dinosaurs in, Homer follows his "Here's Johnny" bellowing with ", Homer's line "Oh, I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish." Skinner "joking" about having just eaten Uter. Averted in that Homer never actually gets hit with the bat; instead, he accidentally looks in a mirror while making a scary face, and his reflection scares him so bad he falls down the stairs and knocks himself out. moment from, At the end of "The Shinning", the Simpsons get frozen and helplessly watches the Tony Awards, where "One" from. But then the lightning flashes, and we see the expected line ("no TV and no beer make Homer go crazy"), Similarly, with the ending: instead of Homer freezing to death outside, the portable TV snaps Homer out of his insanity, prompting him to gather his whole family around it. Mr. Burns cuts the cable TV and steals the beer, thinking this will ensure hard-work from the family. Treehouse of Horror V has one reading 'Amusing Tombstones', signalling that the tradition was going to be stopped. "Time and Punishment" ends with Homer stuck back at home with his family, only in the wrong timeline where they're lizard-tongued human beings. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. While meant to show how Homer's attention is limited, it lost it's humor when a similar disaster happened in Scotland in 2013 [dead link]. It's never explained, and has engendered much debate among Simpsons fans over the years. MMM... Homer: Homer cannibalizes himself after he runs out of food while Margeand the kids are away from home. All Just a Dream : A few stories end with it being revealed to be a dream or fantasy of one of the characters. paraphrases a song from, When Homer travels in time after destroying everything in the past there's a montage of the Simpson house turning into various things, including an igloo, a Sphinx with Bart's head and, The shot from inside the refrigerator of Homer opening the door, seeing that there's no beer and commenting "Not a drop in the house" is a direct recreation of Wallace doing and saying the same thing while looking for cheese at the start of, Homer has a truly disturbing one mixed with his. "Treehouse of Horror X" is the fourth episode of Season 11, as well as the tenth Treehouse of Horror episode. When Kang and Kodos break into evil laughter and end up inexplicably morphing into Mr. Peabody and Sherman for some reason. Creators were forced to drop some of the earlier … The ghosts of The Shinning have to drag Homer out of the food pantry because he's too busy eating to carry out his revenge. The Simpsons, being such a Long Runner, has naturally amassed many episodes (more than 500, in fact). Treehouse of Horror XII Treehouse of Horror XII This is the final Halloween episode where the title says "The Simpsons Halloween Special." Krabappel, in particular, has grown obese by the end of the special, having eaten so much. Bart ends up in detention just for turning his desk backwards. Milhouse has this expression when he sees Krabappel reading "The Joy Of Cooking Milhouse. Elvis Stojko guest stars as himself. One jump cut later, we see that, When Mr. Burns lists all the horrific things his lodge is connected to, he also mentions, To the Tony Awards. as though he's going to throw them to the dogs, Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs living together, it is raining again as doughnuts fall from the sky. In "The Shinning", when Homer goes crazy, Marge threatens him with a bat much like the source material (the bat in question found in a glass case labeled "Break Glass In Case of Spousal Insanity"). The Simpsons, the longest-running American cartoon in history, with its own fair share of memetic goodness. Like many other Treehouse of Horror episodes, it contains three self-contained segments. The episode aired on Halloween of 1999, and would be the final Treehouse of Horror special to air either before or on Halloween until Season 21's "Treehouse of Horror XX" in 2009, a full ten years later. Homer graves until he's see Moe's death. Harsher in Hindsight: In "Hex and the City" from Treehouse Of Horror XII, aired in 2001, Carl and Lenny are crushed to death by a helicopter crashing into Moe's Tavern. ... such as the names of dead celebrities or cancelled TV shows. The Simpsons first aired from 1987 to 1989 as a series of animated shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.Unofficially known as "Season 0," the original 48 ad-bumpers kicked off what is now well established as one of television's all-time classic series (which premiered on the then-fledgling FOX network in December 1989). A description of tropes appearing in Treehouse of Horror. ↑ A quote used by Mr. Peabody in the second part of the "Treehouse of Horror V" episode, usually to tell Sherman to shut up. The middle segment, “Time and Punishment,” plays with the butterfly effect/time travel trope, but takes it to absolutely hilarious places. Treehouse of Horror (Western Animation) - TV Tropes Posted: (29 days ago) Many of the tales feature Affectionate Parodies of contemporary Horror Films.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.. "Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' sixth season and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. Some interpret it as a reference to writer/mystic. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV. that he secretly styles his then-girlfriend's hair to look like hers. In general, this one tends to be seen as the standard for Treehouse of Horror at its peak—all three shorts are considered some of the best, with "Nightmare Cafeteria" being very well-liked, "Time and Punishment" being a good top 10 … The Simpsons S5 E5 "Treehouse of Horror IV", The Simpsons S7 E6 "Treehouse of Horror VI", The Simpsons S 6 E 5 Sideshow Bob Roberts. Turns out the zebra did it." "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II" is the ninth episode of The Simpsons ' eighteenth season. … It is sometimes rendered as a C++ function: Worst. An unusual example is Krusty in vampire get-up from Treehouse of Horror IX who, despite not really playing a role in the segment, has been seen in Treehouse of Horror merchandise and media. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/YMMV/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV. Meme. The redlinks need to be changed from TV Tropes format to All The Tropes format. In "Nightmare Cafeteria," Krabappel pulls a hungry-looking one off (. "The Shinning"'s take on the typewriter scene: when Marge approaches it, only one thing is written on it: "feelin' fine". Principal Skinner has this when he is advancing on Bart in the Nightmare Cafeteria episode. The second segment, "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace" is a parody of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series, in which Groundskeeper Willie attacks schoolchildren in their sleep. The Exor-Sis: Maggie gets possessed by an evil demon called Pazuzu. The joke was reworked for Season 8's "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", where Roy inexplicably stayed with The Simpsons as a parody of the Remember the New Guy? Yeah, ok, so maybe the bad guy motivation isn’t quite as strong as you might hope. The Simpson family are employed as caretakers at Mr. Burns’ mansion. All Just a Dream : A few stories end with it being revealed to be a dream or fantasy of one of the characters. In this year's collection of frights, Homer comes down with a nasty case of Stanley Kubrick-esque cabin fever in The Shinning, Homer goes back in time and causes a temporal butterfly effect for every prehistoric animal he kills in Time and Punishment, and Springfield Elementary has a grisly solution to its food budget, overcrowding, and delinquent student crises in Nightmare Cafeteria. Tropes; trope: Well that escalated quickly. Tainted food at the community college Halloween party turns all the guests into zombies and turns the episode into a classic of the zombie genre. D&D Beyond "Nightmare Cafeteria" ends with all the children except Ralph dead, and because of. Later on, Kang and Kodos get turned into Mr. Peabody and Sherman after laughing at Homer's time-travelling, and Kodos (turned into Mr. Peabody) scolds Kang for asking how that happened. Community always goes all out with episodes that are an homage to classic movie and TV tropes, so of course the Halloween episode wouldn't be any different! When Maggie whacks Groundskeeper Willie in the back with the axe and says in James Earl Jones' voice "This is indeed a disturbing universe". In general, this one tends to be seen as the standard for, In an example of the episode itself, "The Shinning" is considered by many to be the best "Treehouse of Horror" segment the show ever did, and since it comes first, that means that the episode peaks at the beginning. In fact, "Nightmare Cafeteria" in general derives a lot of its appeal from this trope—the teachers committing cannibalism is scary, the teachers committing cannibalism while staying 100% in character and treating it as just an extension of their existing disregard for the student body is hilarious. The show has done several spoofs of Hanna-Barbera cartoons. He uses his ax to murder Willie before attempting to use it on his family. Episode - 2F03 First Aired - 10/30/1994 In this year's collection of frights, Homer … Tropes Media Browse Indexes Forums Videos ... 'The Simpsons' - 'Treehouse of Horror V' Originally aired: October 30, 1994. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The DVD Commentary discusses this trope extensively. Fandom Apps Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Homer, quite literally, in "The Shinning". She had a son with him, called Bartie Ziff. Coralisa: Lisa, along with Snowball V, discover a creepy/perfect version of her family in an alternate universe. The family accidentally leaves Grandpa behind at the gas station on their way to the lodge. Donning the guise of Clayface, one of his previous characters, Karlo tried to kill off the cast of the remake but … Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The entire school faculty in "Nightmare Cafeteria". It was delayed two days when the 2001 … Originally, Homer was going to say "non-fictional", but the Fox execs thought that term might be confusing since "non-fiction" is also a genre, so it was replaced with "non-Brazilian", which even the writers don't know what that means. Skinner put Yellow Weasel in detention for making a paper airplane. Posted in Other Recaps ... Karlo was a famous horror actor driven over the edge when one of his old movies was being remade and he wasn’t asked to star in it. trope and a parody of how TV shows add on Totally Radical characters in a desperate attempt to stay relevant to the times. I… Nine people were killed as a result. The episode was written by Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, David Cohen and Bob Kushell, … Homer does this when he goes crazy. At the beginning of "Time and Punishment", when he first time-travels, Homer encounters Mr. Peabody and Sherman, with Mr. Peabody scolding Sherman for talking. ... "Treehouse of Horror V": The Shining becomes The Shinning, ... Homer discovers an oafish character on a new hit TV show shares his name, and decides he has to change his to avoid being associated … Willie tries to save someone in trouble in each short and gets an axe in his back each time. The first TOH uses the standard Gracie Films Vanity Plate audio, while the second and third have the … In the finale of "Time and Punishment", Homer returns to the past with a baseball bat so he can hit everything he sees and help change the future for better or worse. The goggles do nothing!" are commonly used by posters to indicate they've seen something they really wish they hadn't (not too dissimilar to "do not want"). During Homer's second attempt to reenact the famous "Here's Johnny!" Contents. All of Groundskeeper Willie's deaths through the special. The title of this episode is a reference to Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2. 14/25. Bart apparently didn't notice he was the only one who followed his suggestion of everyone in class turning their desks to face backwards. On VHS releases, it was retitled The Night Dracula Saved the World.. Every year since its second season, The Simpsons has given fans a Halloween special under the classic “Treehouse of Horror” title (this has actually made the numbering very confusing, because the Halloween special is always one behind the season, which has become more obvious now that we’re past 30 seasons). The Simpsons is a long-running animated sitcom, in production since 1989. And the ending sequence, which probably crosses it several times. The special, which … Outer Limits style Radio Waves of Bart and Homer’s voices are played upon your TV screen, as Bart remains sinister and evil as ever reassuring that they will be in control of what we are about to witness, while Homer on the other hand is, let’s just say, very much Homer Simpson. In "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores", a freak storm brings Springfield's over-sized advertisements and billboards to life and they begin attacking the town. Tropes used in Treehouse of Horror include: Abnormal Limb Rotation Range : Happens to Homer to parody The Exorcist in "Treehouse of Horror XVI". Ever. In 2020, it aired its thirty-second season, making it the longest-running … After Artie and Bartie beat up the United Federation of Homers Through History, Marge realized that she had married the wrong man and got together with … They're cooking kids in the school cafeteria. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. A page for describing Recap: Simpsons S6 E6 "Treehouse of Horror V". Suspiciously Similar Song: The song during the credits, "One (Chorus Line of People)", is a parody of "One (Singular Sensation)" from A Chorus Line. The Halloween That Almost Wasn't is a 1979 American television special that revolves around Dracula (Judd Hirsch) trying to save Halloween from the Witch (Mariette Hartley) who threatens it.It won an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Children's Program" and was nominated for three others. A moment in the literal sense: Homer's line "I'm the first non-Brazilian person to travel through time!" While The Simpsons is a faint shadow of its former self these days (and has been for quite some time), the show’s heyday manages to transcend its disappointing legacy, shining as an indelible part of American pop culture and still entertaining while the animated sitcom has long passed its sell-by date.The Simpsons bequeathed us many joys, and one of the most beloved is the Treehouse of … 1 History 2 Appearances 3 Gallery 4 Citations After Bart makes it so that Marge and Homer never got together, Marge got married to Artie Ziff. Treehouse of Horror VII Written by Ken Keeler, Dan Greaney and David S. Cohen Directed by Mike B. Anderson ===== Production code: 4F02 Original airdate in U.S.: 27-Oct-96 Capsule revision C, 14-Jun-97 Original Airdate in Canada: 26-Oct-96 "TV Guide" Synopsis {ljs} Three segments comprise "Treehouse of Horror VII," the annual Hallowe'en installment of the series, including aliens who … Starting with Treehouse of Horror XIII, the words "Treehouse of Horror" will be in its place in the title before the roman numerals. Hilarious in Hindsight: In … Weak link, but not in this episode Wright says `` the Simpsons seem off. A Dream or fantasy of one of the special, having eaten so much sense: 's. Krusty '' - the couch gag has the family famous `` Here 's Johnny! the characters got to. 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