Bart Super Fun Happy Slide I Know I Really Shouldn t but When Am I Gonna Be Here Again
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- "Mmmm ... forbidden donut."
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"Treehouse of Horror 4" is the fifth episode of season 5 of The Simpsons and the eighty-sixth episode overall. Information technology is too the fourth installment in the Treehouse of Horror series and consists of three parts. It originally aired on October 28, 1993. The episode was written by Conan O'Brien, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath and Bill Canterbury and directed past David Silverman.
Contents
- 1 Synopsis
- ii Plot
- 2.1 Opening sequence
- ii.two Wraparound part one
- 2.iii The Devil and Homer Simpson
- 2.iv Terror at 5 1/ii Feet
- 2.five Wraparound part two
- 2.6 Bart Simpson'southward Dracula
- 2.7 Title Cards
- 3 Production
- 4 Reception
- 5 Gallery
- six References
Synopsis [edit]
- "When Homer announces he will sell his soul for a donut, the Devil, bearded as Ned Flanders, shows upwardly to have him upwardly on the offering. Second Human action, while riding to school, Bart believe he sees a malevolent gremlin on the side of the bus. And terminal human activity, Mr. Burns is Dracula, in a spoof of Francis Ford Coppola's vampire film."
Plot [edit]
Opening sequence [edit]
The camera zooms into a graveyard showing various tombstones and the Simpsons home. The Simpsons intermission the flooring and sit on the burrow every bit zombies.
Wraparound part ane [edit]
Bart's seen walking around a room with paintings in calorie-free of Rod Sterling's Night Gallery and tries to introduce the prove simply Marge and Maggie interrupt telling Bart to tell the viewers the show's scary, but Bart ignores, and we lookout the first role.
The Devil and Homer Simpson [edit]
Homer beingness force-fed donuts in Hell, much to his happiness
Homer falls asleep at work, dreaming of a donut fashion show. When he wakes up to get one to eat, he finds out from Lenny and Carl the remaining donuts were already eaten, with some being thrown at Grampa Simpson. Homer declares that he'll sell his soul for a donut, causing the Devil (in the class of Ned Flanders) to announced. Subsequently signing a contract, Homer'due south given his donut, with the provision that as soon as he finishes it, the Devil volition ain his soul. However, Homer finds a loophole: if he doesn't finish the donut, he'southward prophylactic. Homer openly mocks this loophole, to which the Devil promises he'll go to Hell eventually. Ane evening, Homer goes downwards to the kitchen, and, without thinking, eats the concluding of the donut.
As expected, the Devil comes to take Homer'south soul, but Lisa asks him to hold a trial. The Devil agrees. However, Homer must spend the day in Hell being severely tortured. Aside from existence chopped into pieces, a demon in the Ironic Punishment Division tried to torture Homer past feeding Homer all of the donuts in the world (this program backfires when Homer gleefully keeps eating, much to the confusion of the demon). Back on Earth, Marge already has the trial area fix and hires Lionel Hutz to defend Homer.
The Devil and Hutz barter on specific terms before the trial begins: The Devil agrees to Hutz's asking for bath breaks, and Hutz agrees the Devil can cull the jury. The Devil'southward jury includes Bridegroom Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon (still alive at the time), John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard the Pirate, John Dillinger, and the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers. The Devil gives the show of the contract Homer signed, pledging his soul for a donut. Lionel Hutz counters with the definition of a contract co-ordinate to the lexicon, stating it as something unbreakable. Realizing he put his foot in his rima oris, Hutz asks to be excused to the bathroom. When he doesn't return immediately, Marge finds the bathroom window open, and Hutz long gone.
Equally the judge prepares to judgement Homer, Marge shows the jury a photo album showing their wedding day, where Homer'due south having eaten the unabridged wedding block sent him to the emergency room. On the dorsum of a photograph, nevertheless, it is revealed in a statement of love to Marge that Homer had pledged his soul to her. This causes the jury to declare Homer's bargain with the Devil void as Marge owns Homer's soul. Withal, the Devil is unwilling to let Homer best him. With a zap of his power, the Devil turns Homer'southward head into a donut. The side by side morning time, Homer can't terminate eating parts of his head. Every bit he decides to go to work, Lisa cautions him to stay home ... considering continuing outside the firm is the Springfield Police Section, waiting to savor his donut caput with their morning time coffee.
Terror at 5 ane/2 Feet [edit]
The Gremlin with Ned's head
Bart has a nightmare where the autobus crashes and wakes upwardly very paranoid. Bart and Lisa get on the motorcoach one rainy morning with Principal Skinner on the bus. Lisa informs everyone Bart'due south feeling upset this morning, and asks they act nice to him, causing everyone to laugh at him instead. Shortly after the ride starts, Bart notices a Gremlin on the side of the bus, damaging it. He tells Milhouse virtually it only Milhouse refuses to expect, in example he gets attacked by bullies. Bart then tells Otto near the Gremlin. Otto looks out the window to see Hans Moleman driving an AMC Gremlin and rams him off the road, killing him.
Bart sees the Gremlin once again and tells everyone. Anybody looks out the window only the Gremlin was hiding again. Meanwhile, in a UFO, Kang and Kodos laugh at the Earthlings getting panicked over a animal that doesn't exist, only to find a Gremlin ripping autonomously their transport. Back on the charabanc, Bart is told by Skinner to stop using his imagination and Skinner closes the window blind. Bart then opens the blind once more to encounter Groundskeeper Willie, who needed to get the bus after his mule refused to carry him. Milhouse gets weirded out by Bart'southward behavior and goes to sit down next to Üter Zörker instead. When Bart starts shouting about the Gremlin once again, he is tied to his seat by Willie and forced to sit next to Üter, who Bart befriends and asks to untie him.
Bart sees the Gremlin once more and grabs an emergency flare to throw out the window at the Gremlin, getting half sucked out the window in the process. Bart throws the flare every bit he is pulled in by Willie and Skinner, hitting the Gremlin and sending it into the path of Ned's machine. Ned decides to intendance for the Gremlin equally the motorbus finally reaches the school broken. Anybody realizes that Bart was telling the truth but due to his behavior, Bart was shipped off to the New Bedlam Rest Domicile for the Emotionally Interesting. On the way, the Gremlin attacked the ambulance, holding Ned's severed head.
Wraparound part 2 [edit]
"They're dogs! And they're playing poker!"
They originally had a story to become with the famous Dogs playing Poker picture (Homer'due south frightened at this painting), merely Bart said it was besides twisted and scary to prove on Idiot box. So they had to put a random story near vampires together.
Bart Simpson's Dracula [edit]
The Simpsons attack Lisa, as vampires.
The Simpsons are watching a news report on TV about a local peasant who was found dead with their blood sucked out through fang holes on them. The news and then goes on to report that Mr. Burns had bought out the Springfield Blood Bank. Burns then invites the Simpsons for a midnight dinner in Pennsylvania. There, information technology is obvious Burns is a vampire, but no one seems to believe Lisa. She and Bart discover Burns'south secret vampire lair where they find the book Aye, I Am a Vampire, proving that Burns is a vampire. Lisa escapes up the stairs again whilst Bart sees the lever that turns the staircase into a "Super Fun Happy Slide", pulling it confronting his meliorate judgement and sliding downwards to the bottom once again, only to exist captured by Count Burns. Lisa tells the rest of the family that Bart was captured and Burns is a vampire, but Burns and Bart show up, with Bart being turned into a vampire. The family refuses to believe Lisa and they go dwelling.
At home, Lisa is tormented by nightmares and, hearing something, opens her bedroom curtain and sees Bart, Milhouse, Martin, Ralph, and Janey, all vampires who are hovering in the air. Bart flies through her window violently, simply to be stopped past Homer and Grampa. Finally believing Lisa, Lisa tells the family unit that the simply fashion to cure Bart is to impale the head vampire, Count Burns. The family drives back to Burns' lair in Pennsylvania and Homer hammers a stake in Burns' heart and kills him but gets fired in the process. They and then become back abode thinking that everything is fine now. The next morning time at breakfast, Lisa finds the residual of the family are vampires. It turns out that Marge is the existent head vampire ("I do have a life outside of this business firm, you lot know"); the vampire family surrounds and corners a terrified Lisa ... simply and then stop suddenly. The whole family then happily wish the audience a Happy Halloween in a Peanuts-style ending, singing and with Milhouse playing a tiny piano like Schroeder.
Title Cards [edit]
Production [edit]
Conan O'Brien put a lot of work into the wraparounds to pull the whole episode together.[ane] Greg Daniels and Dan McGrath wrote "The Devil and Homer Simpson" segment. They would ever write for the Halloween episodes together.[ii] The scene where Flanders the Devil goes from his giant monster form to nothing had a wink of the bodily Ned's face, which was suggested past Brad Bird.[iii] Scenes cut from the offset segment include a scene of Homer beingness bowled in Hell, and Bart pestering Flanders for a race automobile. Both of these scenes were afterward included in "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular".[iv]
For "Terror at 5 ane/2 Feet", David Silverman used both the William Shatner and John Lithgow's portrayals of Robert "Bob" Wilson in "Nightmare at xx,000 Feet" for Bart's mannerisms, but generally Shatner.[iii] A lot of piece of work was put into the pattern of the Gremlin to make him scary in the Simpsons universe.[5] Üter Zörker was originally fabricated as a one-off character, but became a recurring graphic symbol.[3]
"Bart Simpson's Dracula" was written by Neb Canterbury.[half dozen] The segment was visually based on the Francis Coppola version of Bram Stoker's Dracula.[3] The neon writing for the Underground Vampire Room was besides supposed to have an arrow on, but the animators forgot it.[4] They didn't have plenty money to get back and animate it in.[3] The scene where Bart and the kids are floating exterior of Lisa's window is inspired by The Lost Boys.[iv] A joke got cut where E.T. was flying through the sky with Elliot and the vampire children attacked them.[six] Dave Mirkin suggested the Peanuts-inspired ending to the episode.[four] Another scene that was cut had Homer open a coffin with a load of Christmas decorations in, which would and so announced in the final scene.[vii] The credits music took inspiration from both The Munsters and The Addams Family. The electric guitar was from The Munsters whilst the timing and the clicking was from The Addams Family.[3]
Reception [edit]
The episode finished 17th in the ratings for the week of It originally aired, with a Nielsen rating of fourteen.v. It was the highest-rated show on the Fox network that calendar week.[viii]
Every bit of September 2019, the episode has an viii.viii rating on IMDb[9] and a nine.1 rating on TV.com.[ten]
Gallery [edit]
References [edit]
- ↑ O'Brien, Conan (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror Iv", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season.
- ↑ Daniels, Greg (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror Four", in The Simpsons: The Consummate Fifth Flavour.
- ↑ three.0 three.i 3.2 3.3 3.four three.5 Silverman, David (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror 4", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Mirkin, Dave (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror Iv", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Flavor.
- ↑ Weinstein, Josh (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror Iv", in The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season.
- ↑ vi.0 6.1 Brooks, James L. (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror IV", in The Simpsons: The Consummate Fifth Season.
- ↑ Groening, Matt (2004). Commentary for "Treehouse of Horror Four", in The Simpsons: The Complete 5th Season.
- ↑ Moore, Frazier. "Prime-Time TV Ratings", Rocky Mountain News, p. 18D.
- ↑ IMDb - "Treehouse of Horror IV"
- ↑ Tv set.com - "Treehouse of Horror Iv"
| Treehouse of Horror series | ||
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| I • II • III • IV • V • VI • Vii • Viii • IX • Ten • Xi • XII • Thirteen • Fourteen • 15 • 16 • XVII • Eighteen • Nineteen • Twenty • XXI • XXII • XXIII • XXIV • XXV • XXVI • XXVII • XXVIII • XXIX • Thirty • XXXI • XXXII • XXXIII |
| ← Season 4 Flavour 6 → | ||
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| Homer's Barbershop Quartet • Cape Feare • Homer Goes to College • Rosebud • Treehouse of Horror Iv • Marge on the Lam • Bart's Inner Kid • Male child-Scoutz 'n the Hood • The Last Temptation of Homer • $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Dearest Legalized Gambling) • Homer the Vigilante • Bart Gets Famous • Homer and Apu • Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy • Deep Space Homer • Homer Loves Flanders • Bart Gets an Elephant • Burns' Heir • Sweet Seymour Skinner'south Baadasssss Song • The Boy Who Knew Likewise Much • Lady Bouvier's Lover • Secrets of a Successful Matrimony |
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