Treehouse of Horror

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P-code: 7F04
Episode Index: 02×03
Writers: John Swartzwelder (Bad Dream House); Jay Kogen, Wallace Wolodarsky (Hungry Are The Damned); Edgar Allen Poe, Sam Simon (The Raven)
Directors: Wesley Archer (Bad Dream House); Rich Moore (Hungry Are The Damned); David Silverman (The Raven)
Airdate: 25th October, 1990
Guest stars: James Earl Jones as The Moving Man, Serak The Preparer and The Narrator

Average Fan Rating: 3.7 (232 ratings, 30 reviews)

Plot Guide

(Full synopsis not yet completed)
Bart and Lisa exchange three horror stories:
Bad Dream House: The Simpsons move into a haunted house that turns the family against each other.
Hungry Are The Damned: Aliens kidnap the Simpsons.
The Raven: James Earl Jones narrates Edgar Allen Poe's classic tale starring the Simpsons.

Memorable Quotes

Lisa: (after the house implodes) It chose to destroy itself rather than live with us. You can't help but feel a little rejected.

Did You Spot...

• In "The Raven", the upside down shot shows the chamber door to be open, but in the next shot the door is closed.
• Maggie's head turning around in "The House of Bad Dreams" is a reference to "The Exorcist."
• Lisa and the aliens taking turns blowing the dust off of the book in "Hungry are the Damned" is based off of an episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "To Serve Man".
• The doll beside the box Bart was unpacking is Binky, the one-eared rabbit from Matt Groening's "Life In Hell" comic strip.

References/Parodies

• Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven": the actual poem is read in this episode (by James Earl Jones).
• The plot of "The House of Bad Dreams" is based on the horror flick "The Amityville Horror."
• The house the Simpsons move into in "Bad Dream House" resembles the house in Hitchcock's "Psycho".

Season 2 quick links

1. Bart Gets an F
2. Simpson and Delilah
3. Treehouse of Horror
4. Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish
5. Dancin' Homer
6. Dead Putting Society
7. Bart vs. Thanksgiving
8. Bart the Daredevil
9. Itchy & Scratchy & Marge
10. Bart Gets Hit By A Car
11. One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish
12. The Way We Was
13. Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment
14. Principal Charming
15. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
16. Bart's Dog Gets an F
17. Old Money
18. Brush with Greatness
19. Lisa's Substitute
20. The War of the Simpsons
21. Three Men and a Comic Book
22. Blood Feud