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[[David Mirkin]] deliberately placed more graphic violence in the episode due to complaints about excessive violence in the show. The episode features [[James Earl Jones]] as the voice of an alternate universe [[Maggie]] (his second appearance in a Simpsons Halloween episode), and a recurring joke where [[Groundskeeper Willie]] is struck in the back with an axe in every tale when trying to help someone. | [[David Mirkin]] deliberately placed more graphic violence in the episode due to complaints about excessive violence in the show. The episode features [[James Earl Jones]] as the voice of an alternate universe [[Maggie]] (his second appearance in a Simpsons Halloween episode), and a recurring joke where [[Groundskeeper Willie]] is struck in the back with an axe in every tale when trying to help someone. | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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=== Marge's Warning === | === Marge's Warning === | ||
While [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] is giving her warning, she receives a note saying that Congress won't let them show this year's Halloween episode because it's so scary, so they insist on showing a black and white film. The film is cut off and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]]'s voice is used in radio waves to tell us that he's controlling the programming, and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] ruins the mood by trying out funny noises with the radio waves. | While [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] is giving her warning, she receives a note saying that Congress won't let them show this year's Halloween episode because it's so scary, so they insist on showing a black and white film. The film is cut off and [[Bart Simpson|Bart]]'s voice is used in radio waves to tell us that he's controlling the programming, and [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] ruins the mood by trying out funny noises with the radio waves. | ||
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"Treehouse of Horror V"
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Episode Information
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- "''Ach, I'm bad at this.
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"Treehouse of Horror V" is the sixth episode of sixth season and the fifth episode in the Treehouse of Horror series. It premiered on October 30, 1994, and features three short stories called The Shinning, Time and Punishment, and Nightmare Cafeteria. The episode was directed by Jim Reardon and written by Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, David Cohen and Bob Kushell.
In The Shinning the Simpsons become caretakers at Mr. Burns' mansion. Deprived of television and beer, Homer becomes insane and tries to murder the family; after finding a portable TV set, he returns to normal. In Time and Punishment, Homer repeatedly travels back in time and alters the future; upon failing to restore the future, he settles for a reality close to his own. In Nightmare Cafeteria, Principal Skinner begins using students in detention as cafeteria food; when Bart and Lisa are about to be slaughtered, Bart realizes it is a dream (but is then attacked by fog which turns people inside out).
David Mirkin deliberately placed more graphic violence in the episode due to complaints about excessive violence in the show. The episode features James Earl Jones as the voice of an alternate universe Maggie (his second appearance in a Simpsons Halloween episode), and a recurring joke where Groundskeeper Willie is struck in the back with an axe in every tale when trying to help someone.
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Plot
Marge's Warning
While Marge is giving her warning, she receives a note saying that Congress won't let them show this year's Halloween episode because it's so scary, so they insist on showing a black and white film. The film is cut off and Bart's voice is used in radio waves to tell us that he's controlling the programming, and Homer ruins the mood by trying out funny noises with the radio waves.
The Shinning
In a parody of Stanley Kubrick's 1980 horror classic The Shining starring Jack Nicholson in the leading role. the family gets invited to Mr. Burns' summer cottage to look after it while he goes away. While outside, Bart starts to annoy Willie and reads his thoughts. Willie tells him that he has the shinning and says he should use it to call him if his dad starts to go loopy. Mr. Burns and Smithers cut the cable and take all the beer away, causing Homer to go crazy. He goes to the bar where Moe, as a ghost, tells him he'll give him a beer if he murders his family. Bart calls Willie to help, but Willie gets an axe in the back by Homer. Homer is ready to kill them until Lisa finds Willie's mini-TV in the snow. Homer calls his family to sit in the snow with him and they freeze while watching.
Time and Punishment
For some unexplained reason, Homer gets his hand jammed in the toaster, and breaks it trying to get it off. Homer attempts to fix it, and the modifications to the toaster turn it into a time machine. Homer travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, but realizes that touching anything will impact the future. When he kills a mosquito, he returns to find that Flanders is the unquestioned lord and master of the world.
After escaping his "Re-Nedifacation" (a proccess that includes a glass of warm milk, a lie down, and a lobotomy), he goes back to the time of the dinosaurs in hopes to change the future, back and ends up killing a fish. He returns only to find that Bart and Lisa are giants.
His third attempt to change the past succeeds in him wiping out all the dinosaurs by sneezing. His return to the present presents him with a perfect family , along with the news that they are rich, own a Lexus and that Patty and Selma are dead. Homer is content, but much to his terror, nobody in this world has heard of donuts. As he frantically leaves, donuts begin to fall from the sky.
Now completely upset, Homer goes on a rampage and destroys anything in the past that he can. The future ends up changing multiple times, before Homer finally stops and returns to the present. Everything appears to be normal, until the family start eating a meal with their lizard tongues. Homer decides it is close enough.
Nightmare Cafeteria
Principal Skinner is worried that the detention hall is becoming overcrowded and Lunchlady Doris is being forced to serve Grade F meat in the cafeteria. Skinner discovers a common solution to both problems: eating misbehaving children. The first student such is Jimbo Jones who is served as "Sloppy Jimbos". Üter is then sent to detention and made into a German meal called "Üterbraten". Bart and Lisa figure out what the teachers are doing, but one by one, the kids are gradually eaten away. Eventually Bart, Lisa and Milhouse are the only students left and they decide to escape. Skinner and the other teachers corner them on a ledge above a giant blender. Willie tries to save them, but Skinner kills him. Milhouse, Bart and Lisa fall into the blender. Bart wakes up to find this was all a dream, but a mysterious fog seeps in through the window, turning the family (and Willie) inside out. They all begin to do a musical number about being turned inside out, at the end of which Santa's Little Helper drags Bart offstage.
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