The Simpsons"Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
Original Air Date: November 4, 2007
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Marge is making cupcakes. She wants to know if we remember Halloween? It was a whole long week ago. They’re still celebrating at the Simpson house, or at least they are trying to before all the promo animations start popping up all over the screen. Marge dust busters up an American Idol promo and exterminates a football graphic with bug spray. Then 24, Prison Break, Cops and House all pop onto the screen. Marge wants to know why people can’t just watch the show they’re watching. She takes a mixer to Cops, Sticks Jack Bauer to the ‘fridge with a magnet and microwaves House and then she bakes the whole batch of dead promo people into a meatloaf for the family. Homer dives in.
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Original Air Date: November 5, 2007
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Marge is making cupcakes. She wants to know if we remember Halloween? It was a whole long week ago. They’re still celebrating at the Simpson house, or at least they are trying to before all the promo animations start popping up all over the screen. Marge dust busters up an American Idol promo and exterminates a football graphic with bug spray. Then 24, Prison Break, Cops and House all pop onto the screen. Marge wants to know why people can’t just watch the show they’re watching. She takes a mixer to Cops, Sticks Jack Bauer to the ‘fridge with a magnet and microwaves House and then she bakes the whole batch of dead promo people into a meatloaf for the family. Homer dives in.
Now Marge is making Crème Brulé or (in English) burnt cream. She’s out of butane so she sends Bart to the butane storage shed in the backyard and into an E.T. parody. Kodos is hiding out in the shed. He’s been left on Earth to research human vulnerabilities and he assures Bart to help shore up those vulnerabilities with peace. Kodos needs to phone home, but needs a bunch of stuff to build the telephone – the 7 billion body bags are going to be a problem. Kodos sends Bart on a fool’s errand and has a job that he thinks will keep Lisa busy while he really builds a portal that will allow his alien brothers to come to earth. He wants Lisa to find the secret locations of all the U.S. missiles. Too bad for Kodos that those locations were printed, according to Lisa, in yesterday’s New York Times (oooh burn!).
Kodos is freshening up and singing a little ditty about eating all the humans when Homer jumps into the shower with him. He freaks when he realizes it Kodos. Marge wants him out of the house, but it’s not because he’s Jewish. The feds show up and Homer stalls them at the front door dressed as Abe Lincoln and speaking with a strange southern drawl. Bart and Kodos are riding off on a bike. Bart wants to fly over the heads of the government agents with the power of love, but Kodos zaps them instead. Kodos opens a space portal and the aliens start flowing in to eat everyone’s heads.
The army stages a battle and the aliens are all blown away except for the one they are doing the autopsy on. It’s technically a vivisection he points out, since he’s still alive, but Homer smothers him with a pillow. Nobody likes a know-it-all.
Mr. And Mrs. Smith….errr I mean Simpson are sitting in the therapists office. They are fighting because Marge doesn’t know where Homer goes at night. Flash to Homer in his top secret bathroom getting sent on a mission to kill Kent Brockman. Brockman has found the gully where Mr. Burns has been dumping electricity to jack up prices. Homer makes a lame excuse why he’ll have to come home late something about monkeys and the zoo and Marge makes says she’ll be home late too. She’s flipping over wheelbarrows in case it rains.
Across town at the big Springfield Tuxedo Owners salute to Kent Brockman, Homer has set up his sniper’s perch in some construction across the street. He takes aim but as he’s about to pull the trigger a blonde woman steps in and kills Brockman herself. Homer, angry he won’t get paid fires some random shots into the crowd and the blonde nails him with some throwing stars. One of his shots knocks off the blonde’s wig and it’s Marge. Homer races home and Marge has made him a killer lasagna that he can’t help eating anyway. They draw guns and there’s a huge shoot out that destroys the house and kills Grandpa. Homer says he’ll keep doing the hits and Marge should stay home with the kids. The only problem is that Marge gets $50,000 per hit while Homer only gets to keep whatever is in the target’s pockets at the time of death. Chief Wiggum shows up because there was an call from an anonymous neighbor-ino about an elaborately choreographed, high-octane ultra fight and Marge takes him out even though he would have taken a bribe. Homer loves watching Marge kill so it turns into a high-octane snuggle. Back at the therapist’s office everything is great…except they aren’t at a therapist’s office. They are in the office of Seymour Skinner who called them to discuss Bart’s misbehavior on the school bus. Marge and Homer both pull guns and take him out. He wants to be remembered on pizza Fridays but they refuse his last request.
Heck House finds the kids trick-or-treating at Agnes Skinner’s house but she spits in their buckets since she doesn’t “do” Halloween. They agree to trick her and go on a pranking spree that leaves the town devastated. Homer gets spider pig stuck on his head and Flanders agrees to scare the kids into behaving. Flanders turns the chuch into a haunted house that lures the in the kids. His lame sketches and props have no affect on the children. He prays for the power to scare the children and he’s turned into the devil who sends the kids to hell. He ties the kids up and shows them how Springfield is rife with the seven deadly sins. The kids are scared straight but Flanders sees us off by telling us that for watching Fox we’re all going to hell and that includes FX and Fox Sports and the newest devil’s portal The Wall Street Journal.
Another great Halloween outing. 5 stars out of 5.