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The Simpsons episode
"Treehouse of Horror XI"
Episode no.	249
Prod. code	BABF21
Orig. Airdate	November 1, 2000
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Writer(s)	Rob LaZebnik (part 1) John Frink and Don Payne (Part 2) Carolyn Omine (Part 3)
Director	Matt "Groening" Nastuk
Chalkboard	none
Couch gag	The Simpsons appear dressed as The Munsters.
SNPP capsule
Season 12 November 1, 2000 – May 20, 2001
Treehouse of Horror XI A Tale of Two Springfields Insane Clown Poppy Lisa the Tree Hugger Homer vs. Dignity The Computer Wore Menace Shoes The Great Money Caper Skinner's Sense of Snow HOMR Pokey Mom Worst Episode Ever Tennis the Menace Day of the Jackanapes New Kids on the Blecch Hungry, Hungry Homer Bye Bye Nerdie Simpson Safari Trilogy of Error I'm Goin' to Praiseland Children of a Lesser Clod Simpsons Tall Tales
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"Treehouse of Horror XI" is the first episode of The Simpsons' twelfth season, as well as the eleventh Halloween episode. The episode aired on November 1, 2000, one day after Halloween.

1 Opening Sequence
2 Synopsis
3 Cultural references
4 Quotes
5 External links

[edit] Opening Sequence

A spoof on The Munsters, with Homer as Herman, Marge as Lilly, Lisa as Marilyn with a book on copyright law, Bart as Eddie, and Abe as Grandpa Munster. As they are at the front of their mansion, an angry mob of townspeople confront the Munsters, killing everyone except Lisa, who walks away from the mob and the carnage. The intro was done in black-and-white and the Simpsons theme was done similar to the theme of The Munsters.

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad

Homer reads the horoscope at breakfast, where it says that he is going to die today (and someone from work will compliment him). Marge's horoscope says that her husband will die. Homer mocks the horoscope and dances around, until he gets a serious paper cut on his wrist which slices through the artery. Later, in the driveway, a bolt of lightning strikes a nearby tree, which falls close to the car, missing Homer by inches. Homer dismisses it. As he drives, a pickup truck in front of him hits a pothole, which causes a pickaxe to fly directly at Homer and embed itself in his head. He dismisses it again, a little incoherently this time.

At work, Lenny compliments him... on the snake that is biting his arm. Finally, at home, Marge tells him to finish his broccoli. He does so reluctantly, but he chokes on it and dies. Dr. Hibbert, later while examining Homer, says that it is a case of "death by broccoli", since broccoli is the biggest cause of death. When Homer goes to Heaven, St. Peter tells him that he hasn't done a good deed for quite some time now. The only way for Homer to get to go to Heaven is if he does a good deed sometime within the next 24 hours.

While Marge and the kids grieve over Homer, his ghost appears and chokes on the same piece of broccoli. He goes back to Heaven, where St. Peter informs Homer he will now have 23 hours left. He appears before Marge that night, looking for good deeds, but when she asks him to clean the garage, he declines, saying that he only wants to get into Heaven, not run for Jesus.

He flies around town looking to perform good deeds. He sees Agnes Skinner trying to cross the road and grabs her just before some Boy Scouts can get to her, but she struggles too much and falls to her death on the street. Then, he sees Bart being bullied by Nelson. When he tries to scare Nelson off, he gets bullied himself in the same way.

Later, as he sits dolefully at the steps of City Hall, with only one minute left to do a good deed, a baby's carriage slides down the steps and Homer catches the baby just in time, as the carriage goes and explodes after being hit by a car. Confident that he will get into Heaven this time, he goes to St. Peter, who informs him that he was not paying attention, so Homer has to go to Hell, where the Devil bullies him just as Nelson did.

[edit] Scary Tales Can Come True

The Simpsons are a peasant family living in a pumpkin cottage, with Homer as the village oaf. When food gets scarce, Homer tosses Bart and Lisa in the woods. There they encounter their older brother and sister, at least what's left of them. Lisa, using her book of Grimms' Fairy Tales, guides them. She steers them away from a bridge, under which a troll (Moe) lives. They go into the house that is inhabited by three bears (who are out at the moment). Bart samples the porridges and mixes the hottest and coolest porridges and eats the mixture. Later the bears return home and Bart and Lisa make good their escape, Bart blocking the door with a chair for good measure. However, Goldilocks (who was sleeping in the "just right" bed) is trapped inside and the bears tear her apart.

Meanwhile, Marge admonishes Homer for throwing out the kids, when they could have just as easily sold them. She tells him to get them back or else... As he searches for them in the forest, he encounters Rapunzel in her tower, who asks him to rescue her. She drops her hair for him to climb, but he is too heavy and rips her hair right off.

The kids go to a gingerbread house where a witch invites them inside and the kids go in unsuspecting. Suddenly, Lisa is in chains, sweeping up the house and Bart is being fattened up with candy.Lisa tells Bart to stop basting himself with butter. Lisa asks the witch why she should clean up... it's not like she has any friends. The witch retorts that she has a boyfriend, George Cauldron, which sounds a bit made up as she is looking at her cauldron when she says the name. Lisa laughs and taunts the witch, angering her "Maybe you could hook me up with Ed Ladle". The witch grabs her and takes her toward the oven. But Homer shows up (eating the gingerbread house). The witch zaps Homer repeatedly, changing him into several mix-and-match creatures. Finally, he manages to push her into the oven and lock the door. His hands revert back to their normal state. At that moment, George Cauldron actually shows up for a date with "Suzanne". Homer tells him that she should be ready in about 20 minutes.

Later, the family is eating supper. Marge says that though they are poor, they will never go hungry again, thanks to Homer. We see that Homer's bottom half is still a chicken. He lays an egg with great difficulty so that Bart can have seconds.

[edit] The Night of the Dolphin

Lisa goes to Marine World, a SeaWorld-like park, where she takes pity on a sad-looking dolphin, Snorky. Lisa wants Snorky to go back to the sea, where he is revealed to be the king of the dolphins. The army of dolphins begin their plot killing Springfield's residents, approaching on a beach and getting their first victim. Snorky can speak English, and he says dolphins lived on the land until humans drove them onto the sea, where they suffered for millions of years. They tried to return to land with little success. After a fight, in which Lenny ( an error occurs later on when Lenny is seen in the Dolphins vs humans scene , Captain McCallister, and many others are killed, the dolphins decide to drive the humans to the sea.

[edit] Cultural references

The scene in which a baby's carriage is sliding down the steps is a parody of a famous scene of a Russian silent film The Battleship Potemkin (1925).
The title and plot of G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad is inspired by the Bill Cosby film, Ghost Dad.
The plot of Scary Tales Can Come True is mostly based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, and references other fairy tales.
Night of the Dolphins parodies Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
The scene in which Lenny is killed by dolphins is a parody of the opening scene of Jaws.
The title is a parody of Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955), George C. Scott's The Day of the Dolphin (1973) and the zombie-movie Night of the Living Dead.
When the witch looks at her cauldron and says her date's name is George Cauldron, it references the Brady Bunch episode where Jan made up a boyfriend named George Glass after looking at a glass of water.

[edit] Quotes

[edit] G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad

Homer: (Floats back down into the dining room, sees the broccolli) "Hmmm, what was I thinking?" (Eats the broccolli and dies, floats back to heaven.) "I tried the broccolli again."
St. Peter (sighs) "You have 23 hours left."

Homer: Hey! Who cut out "Beetle Bailey"? I need my Miss Buxley fix.
Marge (holding a pair of scissors and the strip): I don't like you ogling her! Why don't you read "Cathy"? She's hilarious.
Homer Eh. Too much baggage.

Homer: (after a tree is struck by lighning and almost falls on his car) Hehe... stupid horoscope!
Homer: (after the Planet Hollywood globe falls on and crushes half of his car) Hehe... stupid horoscope!
Homer: (after a pickaxe flies out of a truck and stabs him in the head) Hehehe... loopid bloropope!

Lenny: Homer, if I may compliment you...
Homer: Yes? Go on.
Lenny: That is one handsome rattlesnake you got biting your arm there.
Carl: Yeah, that's quite fetching. But, uh, aren't you worried about the deadliness?
Homer: Nah, he'll get tired of biting in an hour or so. (shaking his head) Snakes: nature's quitters.

Homer: That horoscope was wrong. Nothing happened except for the paper cut, the pickaxe in the head, the rattlesnake bite and the testicle thing.

Dr. Hibbert: (examining Homer's body) Hmm. Another case of broccolli related death.
Marge: But I thought broccolli was...
Dr. Hibbert: Oh yes. One of the deadliest plants on Earth! Why, it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste. (laughs)

St. Peter: Homer, settle down. I'll give you a chance to get into heaven. You have 24 hours to go back and do one good deed.
Homer: I'm sorry, I didn't get the number of hours or good deeds.

Homer: (after trying to carry Agnes, but dropping her to her death) Uh, I'm sure she was going to be the next Hitler. Hello? Good deed done.

Nelson: Ha, ha! Your dad is dead! Mine's just in jail!

Homer: Did you see that? I did the deed! Open up!
St. Peter: Oh, I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking.
Homer: Hey, I thought you guys could see everything!
St. Peter: No, you're thinking of Santa Claus.
Homer: Well, I'll be damned.
St. Peter: I'm afraid so, yes.

'Homer(being tortured by devil):Oh god this really is Hell!Devil:Yes, now be quiet or you'll wake up John Wayne.John Wayne: I'm all ready up.

[edit] Scary Tales Can Come True

Marge: Son, I don't like you watching that fire. It's too violent.

Homer: No child will ever starve in my home. (Homer dumps Bart and Lisa in the enchanted forest) So long, kids! Enjoy your new home! Say hi to your other brother and sister!
Bart: "Other brother and sister?"
(Bart and Lisa scream as they find two skeletons that look just like them)
Lisa: Face it: they're not great parents.

Moe: (as a troll, scares away Bart and Lisa) Oh, jeez. I came on too strong again. I'm so desperately lonely.

Bart: Ouch! This porridge is too hot. (goes to next bowl) Brrr! This porridge is too cold. (looks at third bowl of porridge, then turns back) Well this doesn't take a genius! (pours the hot into the cold and eats it)

Homer: (after eating his way into the gingerbread house) Mmm... sugar walls.

Lisa: Father! You've saved us!
Homer: Save you, stuff myself with candy; it's all good.

Suzanne: (After Homer takes a bite out of a candy cane) Oh, that's a load-bearing candy cane! You clumsy oaf!

George Cauldron: Hello, I'm George Cauldron. Is Suzanne ready yet?
Homer: Almost. Just give her another 20 minutes. (Homer turns the oven to high, and he, Bart, and Lisa cackle)
George: But the concert's at eight.

[edit] Night of the Dolphin

Lenny: Mmmm. Alcohol and night swimming. It's a winning combination! (he is surrounded by dolphins with their fins showing swimming around him) Uh-oh! Sharks! The assassins of the sea! (the dolphins show their heads) Oooh. You're not sharks. You're dolphins. The clowns of the sea. (the dolphins strike Lenny with their noses) Ow! Ow! Hey, what's the gag?

Chief Wiggum: (inspecting Lenny's body) Hmm. Bottlenose bruises. Blowhole burns. Flipper prints. This looks like the work of rowdy teens. Lou, cancel the prom.

Captain McCallister: Arr. It begins. The dolphins are upon us. And only this old sea dog knows how to stop-
(The Sea Captain is attacked and killed by dolphins)
Dolphin: (in McCallister's hat and pipe) (squeaks, subtitles read "Arr! I'm the sea captain! Arr!")

Dolphin is waddling along, walks into volleyball net
Dolphin: Aaah! It's a trap! They'll kill us all!
Snorky pulls the net out of the way and slaps the other dolphin.

Mayor Quimby: People, please! We're all frightened and horny! But we can't let some killer dolphins keep us from living and scoring.

Snorky: (high childish voice) Snorky ... talk ... man ... (clears throat; speaks in adult tones) I'm sorry; let me start over. Eons ago, dolphins lived on the land.
Moe: What did he say?
Carl: He said years ago dolphins use to lived on the land.
Moe: Whaaaaaaaa?

Homer (after losing the fight to the dolphins): Hey, you gotta hand it to those dolphins. They just wanted it more.

Lisa: I kinda wish I hadn't freed their leader, and, you know...doomed mankind.
Marge: Oh, honey, I wouldn't say doomed. It's gonna be an adjustment, no question...

Kang: (after the end of "Night of the Dolphin") Can you believe it, Kodos? They left us out of the Halloween show!
Kodos: Are you certain the space phone is working? (Kang picks up the phone) Hang up! They could be trying to call!
Kang: I knew we should have given them a muffin basket.
(the space phone rings and Kodos answers)
Kodos: Kang and Kodos Productions. Uh-huh. Yes. Just a minute. (to Kang) Do we want to do a commercial for something called "Old Navy"?
Kang: Meh. Work is work.
(in the middle of a news broadcast about the wave of killer dolphins, which the dolphins interupt making throat cutting motions with their fins)
Kent Brockman: Uh, did I say Dolphins? I meant Italians! Grey, bottle-nosed, intelligent Italians.
Homer: Intelligent Italians? Something's wrong.