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While building a giant robotic laborer to replace human workers, Burns searches a graveyard for a human brain to implant in the robot.

In Homer's nightmare, Homer becomes a grave digger after Mr. Bart restores Homer's human form and they share a warm moment, causing Bart to wake up screaming. Marvin Monroe says Bart is desperate for attention from his father, Homer spends quality time with his son. As Homer creeps into the house trying to surprise him with a blow to the head, Bart transforms Homer into a jack-in-the-box. When Homer refuses to turn off a football game so Bart can watch The Krusty the Clown Show, Bart transports him to the football stadium in place of the ball for a field goal kick. In Bart's nightmare, Springfield lives in fear of Bart's omnipotent powers, including the ability to read minds, magically move objects and turn living things into grotesque forms. With all the wishes used, he gives the paw to his neighbor Ned, who wishes for the aliens to leave and transforms his home into a castle. Determined to make a harmless wish, Homer demands a turkey sandwich, but the turkey is dry. Horrified by the wasteful wishes, Lisa wishes for world peace, but aliens Kang and Kodos enslave the defenseless Earth. Bart wishes for the Simpsons to be rich and famous, but the public soon tires of the family's antics and ubiquity. Despite this, Maggie is granted the first wish: a new pacifier. While he, Bart and Lisa argue, Marge pleads with them to heed the vendor's warning and not use it at all. In Lisa's nightmare, Homer buys a cursed monkey's paw that will grant its owner four wishes.

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The episode was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special and Alf Clausen for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series.Īfter eating too much Halloween candy, Homer, Lisa and Bart have nightmares.

The episode received positive reviews, and in 2006, IGN listed the third story as the eighth best Treehouse of Horror segment. In its original airing on Fox, the episode had a 12.1 Nielsen rating and finished the week ranked 39th. The episode contains numerous parodies and references to horror and science fiction works, including The Twilight Zone, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Thing with Two Heads and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 'Treehouse of Horror II' was the first episode that employed the 'scary names' idea, in which many of the credits have unusual names. The episode is presented in a similar format to the previous season's ' Treehouse of Horror' and contains several similarities to the previous episode, such as Marge's opening warning, the tombstones in the opening credits and the appearance of the alien characters Kang and Kodos. The episode was written by Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jeff Martin, George Meyer, Sam Simon and John Swartzwelder while Jim Reardon was the director.

Burns attempts to use Homer's brain to power a giant robotic laborer. In the second part, which parodies the Twilight Zone episode ' It's a Good Life', Bart is omnipotent, and turns Homer into a jack-in-the-box, resulting in the two spending more time together. Jacobs's short story The Monkey's Paw and The New Twilight Zone episode ' A Small Talent for War', Homer buys a Monkey's Paw that has the power to grant wishes, although all the wishes backfire. In the first segment, which was inspired by W. It is the second annual Treehouse of Horror episode, consisting of three self-contained segments, told as dreams of Lisa, Bart and Homer and is the only Treehouse of Horror episode to date where each segment name is not stated inside the episode. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 31, 1991. ' Treehouse of Horror II' is the seventh episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. 7th episode of the 3rd season of The Simpsons ' Treehouse of Horror II'

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