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TREEHOUSE OF HORROR XI
"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.
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.
Synopsis
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, 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.
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 take 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. Next thing you know, Lisa is in chains, sweeping up the house and Bart is being fattened up with candy. 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. 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 head and 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.
Night of the Dolphin
Lisa going 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, the dolphins decide to drive the humans to the sea.
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