Treehouse of Horror XVI
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"Treehouse of Horror XVI" is the fourth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons, as well as the sixteenth "Treehouse of Horror" episode. The episode originally aired November 6, 2005, six days after Halloween in the US. 11.6 million tuned into this episode beating Family Guy which had 8.6 million.
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[edit] Plot
[edit] Opening segment
In the opening, using an accelerator-beam, Kang and Kodos hope to speed up a World Series baseball game to air The Simpsons, but end up destroying the universe (first the land, then the woods, then the sea, then the Earth, then many things of the solar system, then the galaxies, and then even God).
[edit] B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence
In a parody of the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, is the year 2010 and the kid Bart winds up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments. In an effort to cope with the loss of their boy, the family takes in a robotic boy, named David, who quickly proves to be a better son. As capabilities, it can make ice cream with his nose, make plushies with pants and even recalibrate the lights of the town to spell words. Later, Bart is found to be alive. He escapes from the hospital and seeks to plot revenge on David. However, Bart is dumped on a road by Homer, but Bart finds a group of old robots. He steals their parts and in the end, he cuts both Homer and David in half after becoming a cyborg. Eventually, Homer, who no longer has his legs, now has to be fused with David's legs. This segment ends up being a dream of Homer's, and he is just possessed by the devil, with a brief parody of The Exorcist.
[edit] Survival of the Fattest
In a parody of "The Most Dangerous Game", Homer, Lenny, Carl, Moe, Comic Book Guy, Principal Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie, John Frink , Blue Haired Lawyer, Chief Wiggum, Eddie and Lou, Apu, David Shutton, Cletus, Reverend Lovejoy, Sqeaky voiced teen, Barney, Krusty, Sideshow Mel, Kent Brockman, Dr. Nick, Kirk Van Houten, Mr. Largo , Charlie, Otto, The Sea Captain, Mayor Quimby, Superintendent Chalmers , Gil Gunderson , Bumblebee man, Luigi, The Rich Texan, Dredrick Tatum , The Yes-Guy, Disco Stu, Rainer Wolfcastle , Dr. Hibbert, Sanjay, Sam, Larry, etc. come to Mr. Burns's mansion to go hunting. Unbeknownst to them, they are the prey to be hunted. The hunt appears on TV, and Marge, watching from home, claims she should have known something was up when seeing the new TV Guide, which featured a picture of Burns and Smithers chasing Homer. Homer manages to survive the night as his friends are killed left and right, but Burns closes in on him. Just as he is about to be shot, Burns and Smithers are both knocked out with frying pans by Marge, who then hits Homer for being away from home for eighteen hours and not calling. The segment ends with Marge and Homer making love while FOX Sports Commentators watch.
[edit] I've Grown a Costume on Your Face
The citizens of Springfield dress in their Halloween costumes for a costume contest. Dr. Hibbert is declared second placed victor. The first place winner is a strange old witch. She is given the award and is asked who she is. She is therefore forced to admit that she is a real witch. Her reward is rescinded because she is not in actual costume. In anger, she turns everyone into their costumed characters and glides away on her broom. The only person who can reverse the spell is Maggie, who was costumed as a witch, and now really is one. Half the townspeople want to be turned back into their normal selves (those who were dressed in costumes of horrible monsters) while the other half wants to stay as they are (those whose costumes actually improved their lives, i.e. turning into Spider-Man). Maggie then turns them all, including guest star Dennis Rodman, into pacifiers with their normal heads.
The episode ends with a brief public service announcement on adult illiteracy presented by Dennis Rodman.
[edit] Cultural References
- Bart's stunt of jumping of a window and trying to fall into a swimming pool is a reference to the stunt that the Argentinian musician Charly Garcia tried to pull while he was drunk.[citation needed]
- The first segment's title is a reference to the movie A.I.: Artificial Intelligence.
- The dancing mannequin legs in the first segment are a reference to the music video for Herbie Hancock's "Rockit", which is used in the scene.
- The second segment's title is a reference to saying "Survival of the Fittest".
- The plot of the second segment is a parody of the short story "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell.
- The end of the first segment where Homer is possessed by the devil and is being excorcised is a parody of The Exorcist.
- Bart says in this episode that Homer gets to shoot animals and that he kills one bird and has to go to psychiatrist which is a reference to episode "Bart the Mother", although Marge then coments "he still thinks that hobo was a bird".
- The title of the final segment is a play on the song title "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. Its plot device is similar to the classic Twilight Zone episode "The Masks"; it is also similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Halloween" and the Goosebumps book The Haunted Mask (and its sequel, The Haunted Mask II).
- Apu turns into into R2-D2, saying "I am Apu-D2".
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