Treehouse of Horror XI

"**Treehouse of Horror XI**"
"Treehouse of Horror XI"
The Simpsons episode
	"Into the oven with you!"
Episode no.	Season 12;
Directed by	Matt "Groening" Nastuk
Written by	Rob LaZebnik (part 1); John Frink and Don Payne (Part 2); Carolyn Omine (Part 3)
Original air dates	November 1, 2000
Episode chronology
	The Simpsons season 12
	List of episodes

"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, This was the first of the forced Treehouse of Horror season openers, a tradition which would continue until 2004. It was also the first Simpsons episode to have lowercase closed captioning.

Opening Sequence

A spoof on The Munsters, with Homer as Herman Munster, Marge as Lily Munster, Lisa as Marilyn Munster with a book on copyright law, Bart as Eddie Munster, and Abe as Grandpa Munster. As they are at the front of their mansion, an angry mob of townspeople confront the Simpsons. They stabbed Marge and Grampa in the chests, set Homer's body on fire, and set a leghold trap on Bart's head with blood spilling. Then they shower off, leaving Lisa, who walks away from the carnage. The intro was done in black-and-white and the Simpsons theme was done similar to the theme of The Munsters.

Plot

G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad

Homer reads his horoscope at breakfast, where it states that he is going to die today (and someone from work will compliment him). Marge's horoscope says that her husband will die, much to her horror. Homer mocks the horoscope and dances around, until he gets a serious paper cut on his wrist which slices through an artery. Later in the driveway, a bolt of lightning strikes a nearby tree, which almost crushes the car, narrowly missing him. Homer dismisses this and pulls out of the drive. Continuing his route to work, a wrecking ball tractor knocks down the globe of the restaurant Planet Springfield, which collapses on the passenger side of Homer's car, but doesn't even touch him. He dismisses this and carries on. As he drives, a pickup truck in front of him hits a pothole, flinging a pickaxe directly at Homer and logging it into his head. He dismisses it again, a little incoherently this time.

At work, Lenny compliments him... on the rattlesnake that is biting his arm. At home, Marge tells him to finish his broccoli. He does so reluctantly, but broccoli is apparently toxic. While examining Homer, Doctor Hibbert says that Homer died of broccoli poisoning, as it is one of the most toxic plants on earth ("it tries to warn you itself with its terrible taste"). When Homer floats to Heaven, St. Peter informs him that he hasn't done one good deed in his entire life (strangely, this is incorrect). The only way for Homer to enter Heaven is if he does one good deed on Earth within the next 24 hours.

While Marge and the kids grieve over the loss, Homer appears (in ghost form) and sarcastically eats the same piece of broccoli and is poisoned again. He goes back to Heaven, where St. Peter tells him he will now have 23 hours left. He appears before Marge that night, looking for good deeds. 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 for good deeds to perform. He sees Agnes Skinner trying to cross the road and grabs her just before some Boy Scouts can help her across, but she struggles too much and falls to her death on the road. He then sees Bart being bullied by Nelson, but when he tries to scare Nelson off, he gets bullied himself in the same way.

Later, as he sits dolefully at the steps of the City Hall with only one minute left to do a good deed, a baby's pram slides down the steps and Homer catches the baby just in time, as the carriage explodes after being hit by a car. Confident that he will get into Heaven this time, he goes to St. Peter who appologises to him because he was reading and did not witness Homer's act of charity and sends Homer to Hell. As soon as he arrives, the Devil bullies him just as Nelson did earlier. He shuts Homer up when screams because he will wake up John Wayne.

Scary Tales Can Come True

The Simpsons are a peasant family living in a pumpkin cottage, with Homer as the village oaf. When Homer is fired and they can't afford food, he tosses Bart and Lisa into the woods. There they encounter their older brother and sister, at least what's left of them. Lisa admits that Marge and Homer were not good parents. Lisa, using her book of Grimms' Fairy Tales, guides them through the forests' many dangers. She steers them away from a bridge, under which a troll (Moe) lives(and complains about not getting anything). They go into the house that is inhabited by the three bears (who are out on a picnic). Bart samples the porridges and cleverly mixes the hottest and coolest porridges and eats the mixture, sarcastically mumbling "well this doesn't take a genius". Later the bears return home and Bart and Lisa make their escape, Bart wedging the door shut with a chair on the way out. Lisa then remembers that Goldilocks was in the house, who is then trapped inside and the bears tear her apart (we can see that blood comes out).

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...(Homer unsucessfully tries to make Marge forget them by tricking her to have sex). As he searches for them in the forest, he encounters Rapunzel in her tower, who mistakes him for a knight and asks him to rescue her. She lets her hair down for him to climb, but he is too heavy and rips her hair right off of her head. Homer hides the hair in a bush and whistles away.

The kids go to a gingerbread house where a witch named Suzanne(Crazy Cat Lady) invites them inside and the kids go in unsuspecting. Soon 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. Bart asks Suzanne why she should clean up... it's not like she has any friends. Suzanne retorts that she has a boyfriend named George Cauldron, which sounds untrue as she is looking at her cauldron when she says the name. Lisa laughs and taunts Suzanne, saying "Maybe he can fix me up with Ed Ladle! Ha ha!". Suzanne grabs her and takes her toward the oven. But Homer shows up (eating the gingerbread house). Suzanne zaps Homer repeatedly, changing him into several mix-and-match creatures(broomsticks for arms, a fish head, donkey ears, and chicken legs). Suzanne tries to stuff him in the oven as Homer smells fish but relizes it was himself. Finally, he manages to push her into the oven and locks her in there. As she dies, Homer reverts back to normal (or so we think at the time). But, his legs did not revert back. At that moment, George Cauldron shows up for a date with Suzanne. Homer tells him that she should be ready in about 20 minutes, slowly turning up the heat and chuckling.

Later, the family is eating supper. Marge says that although they are poor, they will never go hungry again, thanks to Homer. We see that Homer's bottom half is still a chicken. At first, we didn't see his legs. He lays an egg with great difficulty so that Bart can have seconds.

The Night of the Dolphin

Lisa goes to Marine World, a SeaWorld-like park where she takes pity on a sad-looking dolphin called Snorky. Lisa wants Snorky to go back to the sea, where he is revealed to be the king of the dolphins, who resents humans for forcing him to do silly tricks (like a common seal!) and plots to take over the world. The army of dolphins begin their war on the surface by attacking Springfield, approaching a beach and killing their first victim - Lenny - by repeatadly hitting him with their noses. Lenny had been out by himself for some drinking and night swimming (a winning combination!). Soon after, Captain McCallister is suddenly ripped in half by the dolphins. Squeaky Voiced Teen has his head bitten off at the Krusty Burger drive-thru. Grampa Simpson also gets swallowed whole by a dolphin while trying to make a phonecall. Kent Brockman is reporting on the murders when the dolphins get the cameraman. He claims it is "Intelligent Italians" instead but murmurs killer dolphins in the background. One of the dolphins gets a beach ball and bounces it off Kent's head repeatadly, smashing his head into a wall, spraying blood everywhere. After Mayor Quimby speaks Willie is impaled through one of the dolphins and Snorky goes up to the podium and is revealed to be able to speak English. Snorky then tells Springfield that ages ago dolphins were inhabitants of land, until the ancestors of the human race banished the dolphins to the sea. Snorky then declares war on humanity on the grounds that dolphins are the rightful land dwellers and they seek to get revenge on humans. The humans tried to attack the dolphins, but the dolphins were tough. After a successful fight, the humans are banished to the sea as the dolphins were. Lisa, on the couch floating on the sea with her family, feels guilty for releasing Snorky in the first place so that the dolphins can doom mankind, but Marge says to her that it's just an adjustment. Krusty and other people drown spelling "THE END?", and their corpses are seen floating by the Simpsons' couch, causing Marge to rethink her statement.

Epilogue - Kang and Kodos

After the last story, the two aliens, Kang and Kodos, complain that they have been left out of the Halloween special. Suddenly, the phone rings, and Kodos answers it. It is from Old Navy, asking if the Rigellians can do a commercial for them. Kang simply shrugs, saying "Ehh, work is work."

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) and "The Untouchables"
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 as Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Bears, Rapunzel, among others.
Alex Albrecht sometimes makes a weird noise in the podcast Diggnation. In episode 95 (recorded April 26, 2007), he accredited the noise to the witch in this installment of Treehouse of Horror.
The scene in 'Night of the Dolphins' where there are lots of dolphins in the street staring at the humans parodies Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.
The scene in which Lenny is killed by dolphins is a parody of the opening scene of Jaws.
- A continuity error occurs later when Lenny is seen alive during the humans vs. dolphins fight scene.
The title is a parody of George C. Scott's The Day of the Dolphin (1973).
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.
Lisa (as Marilyn) clutching a book titled "Copyright Law" in the opening sequence is likely a reference to Universal's infamous litigiousness in protecting their property "The Munsters."
When The Three Bears walk back into their house they are humming the tune Teddy Bears' Picnic.
This is considered to be one of the most violent Tree House of Horrors particularly due to its vast presence of blood and many sequences containing violent deaths
Home mentions that humans invented the glory hole.

External links

{Reaper Madness at Youtube}[1]