Treehouse of Horror XVII

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"Treehouse of Horror XVII"
Episode no.	382
Prod. code	HABF17
Orig. Airdate	November 5, 2006
Writer(s)	Peter Gaffney
Director	David Silverman and Matthew C. Faughnan
Guest star(s)	Richard Lewis as the Golem Fran Drescher as the female Golem Dr. Phil McGraw as himself Sir Mix-a-Lot as himself Maurice LaMarche as Orson Welles
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Season 18 September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007
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"Treehouse of Horror XVII" is an episode of The Simpsons, It is the seventeenth Treehouse of Horror episode. Sir Mix-a-Lot, Dr. Phil McGraw, Richard Lewis, Fran Drescher and Maurice LaMarche guest star in this episode.

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Script change
4 Broadcasting information
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

[edit] Opening Segment

After a parody of the opening of Tales from the Crypt, Mr. Burns (as the Crypt Keeper) welcomes viewers to the show. He proclaims himself to be the master of "scare-amonies" to the delight of zombie Smithers. A bound Moe interrupts in protest and is killed in an iron maiden, his blood spilling onto the floor and spelling out "Treehouse of Horror XVII".

[edit] Married To The Blob

As Homer and Marge snuggle on the hammock, a meteorite falls nearby; burning off the top of Marge's hair in the process. Cracking open, it reveals a green goo resembling a melted marshmallow. Despite his family's objections Homer puts it on a stick and eats it. That night, his stomach rumbling from hunger, Homer eats all the food in the house. He also eats the cat and tries to eat Bart but is stopped by Marge. Now seriously fat, he walks around looking for food. Soon, Homer has become a massive blob, rampaging through the streets of Springfield eating all the fat people he can find. As Homer samples bus passengers like they were candy, Dr. Phil McGraw shows up with the Simpson family. He tells Homer to stop for their sakes. Homer ends his rampaging for fear of losing Marge and vows to use his insatiable appetite for more constructive purposes. Later, Mayor Quimby dedicates a new homeless shelter. The homeless people enter the shelter, only to find themselves in Homer's gut.

[edit] You Gotta Know When To Golem

At the end of an episode of Krusty's show, Bart goes backstage to complain about an acid-spraying Krusty alarm clock. There he finds the Golem of Prague, a creature from Jewish mythology. Krusty tells Bart that in the seventeenth century, the Golem was made of clay by a rabbi. The Golem would do anything written on a scroll and placed in his mouth. Now he works for Krusty. Bart steals the Golem by writing a command for him to come to his home at midnight, before Krusty starts rehearsing his "Desperate Houseflies" sketch. At midnight, the Golem shows up at the Simpson's house. From then on, Bart uses him to carry out his bidding (for example swinging Principal Skinner up and down like a yo-yo until he splits in half) until Lisa feeds the Golem a scroll reading "Speak". The Golem (voiced by Richard Lewis) reveals that he feels guilty about being used to commit heinous acts. To make him feel better, the Simpsons create a female Golem (voiced by Fran Drescher), and design her clothes using Play-Doh. The two are married by Rabbi Hyman Krustofski and the female Golem convinces Chief Wiggum not to press charges with the promise of pan-fried latkes, a Jewish delicacy.

[edit] The Day the Earth Looked Stupid

The population of Springfield, circa 1938, are fooled by Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast and believe the world has been invaded. A mass panic breaks out, and the citizens begin rioting and destroy the town. Then they lie in mud acting like animals because Marge said the aliens were looking for humans. So they do this all day until the next day, Lisa notifies the citizens that it was all a hoax and, angry at being fooled, the citizens of Springfield vow to not fall for such a trick again. Kang and Kodos decide this is the perfect time for a real invasion, and begin destroying what's left of the town. True to their word, the town does not believe that it's a real invasion, although Orson Welles begs them to do something. The segment ends three years later with Kang and Kodos looking over the ruins, mulling on what went wrong and why they weren't greeted as liberators as they rid Earth's weapons of mass disintegration during "Operation Enduring Occupation".

[edit] Trivia

The title of the third segment is reference to the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still which is also parodied by Futurama with the episode "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid."

[edit] Script change

At one point the script for The Day the Earth Looked Stupid called for Kodos and Kang to look over the smoking ruins of Springfield and say "This sure is a lot like Iraq will be." Fox network didn't have any objection to the line, but it was rejected by some of the writers as too obvious and was cut from broadcast.^[1]