Treehouse of Horror II
The Simpsons, season 3, episode 7. First aired October 31, 1991. 130 moments of about ten seconds each: open one for its frame, what happens and what's said.
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About the episode
After a haul of Halloween candy, Lisa, Bart and Homer each have a nightmare. In Lisa's, a monkey's paw from Morocco grants wishes that backfire until Ned Flanders uses it to drive off Kang and Kodos; in Bart's, he can read minds and reshape reality, and Homer ends up as a jack-in-the-box; in Homer's, Mr. Burns takes his brain to run a robot worker.
- Written by
- Al Jean and Mike Reiss; Jeff Martin and George Meyer; Sam Simon and John Swartzwelder
- Directed by
- Jim Reardon
- Guest stars
- Marcia Wallace as Mrs. Krabappel
- Production code
- 8F02
The synopsis is our own. Credits and guest stars from Wikipedia and the Simpsons wiki.
Every moment
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Marge Simpson stands alone in a spotlight on a stage before red curtains
“Hello, everyone.”
0:00–0:10 -
Marge Simpson stands alone in a spotlight against a red curtain on a stage
“Before last year's Halloween show, I warned you not to let your children watch.”
0:10–0:21 -
Marge Simpson stands in a green dress on a stage lit by a single spotlight in front of red curtains
“So please, tuck in your children and...”
0:21–0:33 -
No characters appear in this sequence; it is an animated Halloween title card
0:33–0:45 -
A small, partly visible yellow figure stands at the left edge of a snowy graveyard at night beside a tall…
“And to conclude this Halloween newscast Just on a scary note, remember,”
0:45–0:55 -
Over a pale, silhouetted backdrop, green credits for developers James L. Brooks, Matt Groening and Sam Simon…
“And to conclude this Halloween newscast Just on a scary note, remember,”
0:55–1:08 -
Two unnamed characters stand outside a house at night: a teen with a purple beanie, long brown hair…
“Trick or treat, man.”
1:08–1:18 -
Homer stands in a lit doorway holding a bowl of candy, first facing a bald, pale-skinned trick-or-treater…
“Hand over the candy, old dude, or we egg your house back to the Stone Age.”
1:18–1:28 -
Bart stands in a pink hallway while a small child in a green witch costume and a tall costumed figure…
“Did a good haul this year?”
1:28–1:39 -
Bart stands in a living room beside a brown couch while Lisa stands on the right, and a partly visible Homer…
“Would have gotten even more if Lisa could walk faster.”
1:39–1:50 -
Marge Simpson holds a black purse in the living room, then stands beside a doorway while Maggie, Bart…
“Now, children, you can have one piece of candy tonight and save the rest for...”
1:50–2:04 -
Lisa sits in a brown box in a living room cluttered with candy and snack wrappers, with Bart peeking…
“Oh, yeah. Three bad nightmares. I'd like to see that.”
2:04–2:18 -
Lisa stretches her arms high in bed with a wide smile as the scene shifts to a dusty street, where a figure…
“What a dump.”
2:18–2:30 -
Homer in a red fez, Marge with her tall blue beehive, Lisa, Bart in an orange shirt and red cap, and baby…
“Dad, that's Monaco.”
2:30–2:40 -
Homer stands at a bazaar-style stall holding a grey, withered monkey's paw while Mr. Burns wears a dark green…
“What is this thing?”
2:40–2:52 -
Homer in a red fez and white shirt and an old man in a grey turban, green robe and cigarette exchange a tense…
“behind every which lurks grave misfortune.”
2:52–3:02 -
Homer stands beside Marge, whose tall blue beehive is visible at the right edge, while Maggie…
“Ooh, Homer, where did you get that ugly thing?”
3:02–3:13 -
Homer, with Marge, Bart and Lisa at the bottom edge, is at Marrakesh Airport, where a woman in a red cap…
“Flight 7, Marrakesh to Springfield, now boarding.”
3:13–3:25 -
Homer is held at gunpoint by a mustached, red-haired police officer in a peaked cap with a star, who grins…
“Don't shoot, don't shoot, they're souvenirs!”
3:25–3:35 -
Inside the pink-walled Simpson living room, Bart at left and Lisa at right lean in toward a grey, clawed…
“No, Bart, peace on Earth. X-ray specs. Peace on Earth.”
3:35–3:47 -
Maggie clutches a grey, long-fingered monkey's paw with dark spiky hair while sitting on the family's red…
“Bart, don't flake out on me. That monkey's paw's gonna make our dreams come true.”
3:47–3:59 -
Homer holds baby Maggie, with her pacifier and blue bow, at a window while a long white limousine passes…
“Ooh, a luxury car! Good, baby!”
3:59–4:10 -
Bart holds up a black-cuffed grey hairy hand in a pink room, first wide-eyed beside a window with purple…
“Okay, no more fooling around. Pa, this is Bart.”
4:10–4:20 -
Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and baby Maggie appear first with Homer clutching a bundle of cash in a glass-walled…
“Woo-hoo!”
4:20–4:31 -
A tuxedoed maître d' with grey hair and a moustache stands at a wooden podium marked The Gilded Truffle…
“I'm terribly sorry. I have absolutely nothing until June.”
4:31–4:38 -
A lavender-haired woman in a pink dress with a pale blue collar stands in a formal banquet room with red…
“Homer, maybe fame and fortune aren't as bad as they say.”
4:38–4:49 -
Bart gapes beside a stranger with glasses and a blue shirt who holds up a mint-green tee printed…
“18 bucks for this?”
4:49–5:01 -
Bart is held up by a dark-haired woman in a white coat beside a billboard reading "GET A MAMMOGRAM, MAN!"…
“Oh, is there anything they won't do?”
5:01–5:08 -
Homer Simpson first sits in a close-up on a dark red couch in a pink-walled living room, hand raised…
“Come to think of it,”
5:08–5:21 -
A grey-haired man in a brown suit and red tie, with a grey moustache, and a blue-haired man in a dark blue…
“Uh, sorry about the Falklands, old boy.”
5:21–5:30 -
Krusty the Clown appears with a police officer in a cap, a dark-haired man in overalls and bow tie, and two…
“I won't be needing these anymore.”
5:30–5:41 -
Marge with her tall blue beehive, Lisa in her red dress, and Ned Flanders in his green sweater lead a line…
“Come on people now, smile on your brother,”
5:41–5:54 -
No regular characters appear; tiny figures form a large peace sign on green land within a blue globe…
“everybody get together, try to love one another right now.”
5:54–6:01 -
Two green, lizard-like alien invaders with large fanged mouths and dripping saliva stand in a pink-and-purple…
“Foolish humans.”
6:01–6:09 -
Two green, one-eyed alien creatures with long curved necks and blue collars sit side by side…
6:09–6:19 -
A shirtless, muscular man with wild hair, who looks like a statue, stands on a pedestal beside a huge blue…
6:19–6:30 -
Herb stands in a street lined with pink brick buildings and a parked pink car, then ducks his head and shuts…
“Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons.”
6:30–6:42 -
Kang and Kodos, the green tentacled aliens, menace a dark-haired man in a green sweater and blue suspenders…
“I'm a baker now. They conquered us with a club.”
6:42–6:54 -
Bart leans toward a blue round table in a purple-cabinet kitchen while holding up a Springfield Shopper…
“Geez, now we're slaves. This paw sucks.”
6:54–6:59 -
Homer Simpson stands in a kitchen with purple cabinets and a shelf of colored books, holding a black…
“I wish for a turkey sandwich on rye bread with lettuce and mustard.”
6:59–7:12 -
Homer takes a big bite of an oversized sandwich with lettuce, tomato and mustard in a purple kitchen, chewing…
“Hey!”
7:12–7:26 -
Homer Simpson is first seen in the kitchen with purple cabinets and a checkered floor, holding a small dark…
“Oh, foe, the cursed thing!”
7:26–7:38 -
Homer Simpson stands behind a wooden picket fence on a suburban street while Ned Flanders faces him…
“Yeah, but I gotta warn you that this thing is the...”
7:38–7:44 -
Homer and Ned Flanders stand on a suburban sidewalk in front of pink and purple houses
“Oakley-dokley.”
7:44–7:53 -
Ned Flanders stands on a suburban sidewalk in front of a pink house, waving a grey glove-like hand puppet…
“Well, I guess my first wish is to get rid of those awful aliens.”
7:53–8:01 -
Two green, one-eyed aliens with tentacle-like fangs, one wearing a jeweled gold crown and a pink sash…
“Run, Kodos!”
8:01–8:11 -
A green, lizard-like alien with a golden jeweled crown and a "King of the Earth" sash over a blue belt sits…
“That board with the nail in it may have defeated us.”
8:11–8:21 -
Two green-skinned alien heads with single eyes and reddish tufts peer out of a small rectangular window…
“Soon they will make a board with the nails so big it will destroy them all.”
8:21–8:32 -
Ned Flanders is hoisted into the air by a crowd of neighbors waving pink flowers, including a wrinkled old…
“Hey, Homer, this little thingamajig really works great.”
8:32–8:43 -
Homer stands in a backyard with his arms crossed and a scowl, a wooden fence and a house behind him…
“I wish I had a monkey's paw.”
8:43–8:54 -
Lisa and Bart are in a dim bedroom at night
“I had a bad dream.”
8:54–9:06 -
Lisa lies in bed under a blue blanket in her bedroom, smiling and then grinning with wide eyes, while Bart…
“Thanks, Bart.”
9:06–9:11 -
Krusty the Clown pops out of a telephone-shaped stand with a coiled cord, placed on a red-star pedestal…
“Presenting for your consideration, Springfield,”
9:11–9:22 -
Mr. Burns grins in the foreground on a Springfield sidewalk, while Marge in her tall blue beehive…
“The people of Springfield have to make sure they think happy thoughts and say happy”
9:22–9:34 -
A man in white overalls and a cap walks at the left of a sidewalk beside a brick storefront…
“things, because this particular monster can read minds and,”
9:34–9:46 -
Marge, Maggie and Lisa sit at a blue-draped dining table with Homer's back to the viewer, while Bart walks…
“And did I mention that the monster is a ten-year-old boy?”
9:46–9:56 -
Lisa sits at the kitchen table spooning cereal from a bowl while Maggie sucks on a red pacifier nearby
“Morning. Good morning, dear.”
9:56–10:09 -
Bart Simpson first appears in a close-up, smirking with half-lidded eyes, before the scene shifts to Snowball…
“Oh, there, that's better. Much better.”
10:09–10:16 -
Marge Simpson stands at the left of a kitchen and later walks across it holding a fire extinguisher…
“Oh, there, that's better. Much better.”
10:16–10:27 -
Marge holds a red-and-white bottle in the kitchen while Homer sits eating from a bowl at the table as Bart…
“Okay.”
10:27–10:37 -
Bart stands in the aisle of a red school bus beside Otto, the bus driver with long curly black hair, a grey…
“Hi, Otto. Move over, I'm driving.”
10:37–10:48 -
Marge with her tall blue beehive, Grampa, Lisa and other passengers are thrown about and grip their seats…
“Quit riding the brake, Otto. Give it some gas, man.”
10:48–10:58 -
Two police officers in blue uniforms ride silver motorcycles marked POLICE along a street, one of them…
“Hiya, Bart!”
10:58–11:10 -
Mrs. Krabappel stands before the blackboard holding a test paper while Milhouse in his blue cap and glasses…
“America was now discovered in 1942 by some guy.”
11:10–11:20 -
Bart Simpson sits with his eyes shut and mouth open in a tall red throne-like chair, while a pale, older…
“Your attention, please. This is Principal Skinner.”
11:20–11:31 -
Mrs. Krabappel stands at the front of a classroom with her arm raised while pupils write at their desks…
“Hello, my honey.”
11:31–11:40 -
Moe stands behind the bar of his tavern, lined with bottles and a red telephone, holding a red receiver…
“Baby, my... I was tavern.”
11:40–11:53 -
Moe stands at the bar holding a red telephone receiver while Barney and a bald man in a red jacket lean…
“That's a new one.”
11:53–12:06 -
A blonde girl with pink bows and a pencil sits at a desk before a world map in a classroom, while Milhouse…
“Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey.”
12:06–12:17 -
Homer, Lisa and Bart stand in the pink living room beside a brown couch, under a framed sailboat picture…
“Please, please, please.”
12:17–12:26 -
Lisa sits on the red couch in the living room while Bart stands beside it, then drops down to sit…
“The kick is up. It's looking good.”
12:26–12:37 -
Bart Simpson stands in the foreground of a living room while Lisa sits on the brown couch at left
“And you know what we say every time something strange happens.”
12:37–12:44 -
Krusty the Clown sits before a red and orange polka-dot curtain on a television screen with a purple border
“Well, we're still on.”
12:44–12:56 -
Krusty the Clown stands in a red polka-dot backstage area, first clutching his face in his white-gloved hands…
“And all because of one little boy who won't let me stop.”
12:56–13:07 -
Bart is in the living room with a bandaged Homer, whose head is wrapped in white gauze
“Slowly, slowly, don't make a sound.”
13:07–13:21 -
Bart Simpson sips through a straw from a green bottle while pointing a finger in a living room with a pink…
“Then when he's least expecting it, bash his head in with his chair and a monster.”
13:21–13:34 -
Bart sits on a green couch in an office while a bearded, bald man in a white coat and blue tie holds a brown…
“You like attention, don't you, Bart? Do I ever?”
13:34–13:47 -
Marge Simpson sits on a chair beside a red jack-in-the-box with a star and crank, from which Homer's…
“turning your father into a jack-in-the-box.”
13:47–13:57 -
Bart Simpson stands with a heavyset bearded man in a white shirt and blue tie, who talks to him…
“I want you to spend some quality time with him.”
13:57–14:10 -
Homer and Bart first appear in a small boat on a purple water scene under an orange sky…
14:10–14:18 -
Bart rides an orange roller coaster car with a blond boy beside him while a clown figure with a tall hat…
“Good night, son. Good night, Dad.”
14:18–14:31 -
Bart Simpson lies in bed under an orange and purple blanket, with a green pillow behind his head and a blue…
“Good night, son. Good night, Dad.”
14:31–14:44 -
Bart lies in bed under an orange blanket while a figure with a huge spiky red mane and a red collar, Sideshow…
“You got it.”
14:44–14:57 -
Bart stares in shock in a close-up against a blue background, his mouth gaping open
“Mom, Dad!”
14:57–15:10 -
Homer lies in bed at night with Bart and Lisa squeezed in tight beside him under the blue blankets, the two…
“We both had nightmares. Can we sleep with you?”
15:10–15:21 -
Homer Simpson sleeps in bed with Bart beside him, then slumps asleep in a chair at a control panel with dials…
“Gotta go to work.”
15:21–15:32 -
Homer stands beside Principal Skinner, who wears an olive jacket and glasses, in front of a wall of security…
“Little do they realize their days of suckling at my teat are numbered.”
15:32–15:42 -
Principal Skinner appears wide-eyed and open-mouthed against a wall of library bookshelves
“Just to throw the fear of God into them.”
15:42–15:48 -
Homer Simpson slumps asleep in a swivel chair at a control panel in a dim, blue-grey control room, his feet…
“Attention, Homer Simpson.”
15:48–15:56 -
Homer Simpson sits at a control console in a dim, grey industrial room lined with gauges and dials…
“You're fired. We're what? We're sleeping on the job.”
15:56–16:05 -
Mr. Burns stands in a bookshelf-lined library with his fingers steepled, then walks with his thin assistant…
“Smithers, to the laboratory.”
16:05–16:18 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers, who wears glasses, a pink bow tie and a brown jacket, are…
“You know, Smithers, I've always despised the laziness of the common worker.”
16:18–16:28 -
Mr. Burns tugs at a large grey curtain while Smithers watches from the left
“Behold, the greatest breakthrough in labor relations since the Kato-9 tales.”
16:28–16:41 -
Mr. Burns grins in an extreme close-up against a dark background
“First we need a human brain.”
16:41–16:50 -
Bart Simpson sits in the kitchen in the foreground reading a newspaper held in both hands, his eyes wide…
“Hey, Dad, here's one.”
16:50–16:59 -
Bart Simpson reads a newspaper in a kitchen with a green stove, first with wide eyes and then grinning…
“Grave digger.”
16:59–17:11 -
Homer Simpson angrily digs with a shovel in a deep dirt grave while a red-haired man in blue overalls stands…
“Gah, what's the use?”
17:11–17:25 -
Mr. Burns and Smithers walk through a dark graveyard at night, carrying a shovel and a pickaxe…
“What corpse should we unearth, sir? I don't know.”
17:25–17:36 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers stand together against a dark blue night backdrop
“Smithers, get him out quickly. The stench is overpowering.”
17:36–17:49 -
A large, smooth yellow figure with dark outlines fills most of the scene, lying against a dark purple ground…
“Did you hear that, sir?”
17:49–17:54 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers, who wears glasses, a tan coat and a pink bow tie, stand in a dark…
“No, I didn't. Who is it?”
17:54–18:01 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers stand in a graveyard at night beside a bare, twisted tree
“Bad corpse.”
18:01–18:09 -
Mr. Burns and Smithers lean over Homer lying on a table in a blue-lit laboratory crowded with machinery…
“Excellent.”
18:09–18:18 -
Mr. Burns leans over a strapped-in, bald, heavyset man in a white lab setting while Smithers sits nearby…
“Smithers, hand me that ice cream scoop.”
18:18–18:31 -
Mr. Burns works in a cluttered blue laboratory, holding up a pink brain-like organ above Homer, who lies…
“Look at me.”
18:31–18:42 -
Mr. Burns stands in a laboratory in a beige robe beside a blue machine with a head of red hair, and he points…
18:42–18:53 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers in glasses stand at a workbench beside a blue mechanical claw
“Look, Smithers, a twitch.”
18:53–19:00 -
Mr. Burns is in a cluttered laboratory with his assistant Smithers, the thin man with glasses, peering…
“It's alive.”
19:00–19:10 -
A blue robot with a glass dome exposing a pink brain, glowing red eyes, and a colored button panel…
“I'm a badgie.”
19:10–19:21 -
A blue robot with an exposed red brain under a glass dome, red eyes, and ribbed purple arms, first seen…
“Sprinkles.”
19:21–19:31 -
Bart and Lisa sit side by side on the back of a brown couch in a living room with a colorful striped rug…
“Geraldo Rivera, Madonna, and a diseased yak.”
19:31–19:42 -
Lisa and Bart lean in toward each other in a dim room while Marge stands behind them in a pink top…
“What do you know? She's right.”
19:42–19:46 -
Mr. Burns kneels on a red tiled floor against a teal wall while a figure in a white coat stands at the right…
“It wasn't supposed to be this way.”
19:46–19:57 -
Mr. Burns grips the front of a grey turtleneck worn by Smithers and a large round gauge behind them
“Oh, Smithers, I was wrong to play God. Life is precious,”
19:57–20:09 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers, who wears glasses and has neat grey hair, stand in a grey-walled…
“Oh, come on. It's 11.45.”
20:09–20:23 -
Mr. Burns and his thin assistant Smithers work over a stitched, yellow-skinned Homer strapped to a table…
“Oh, oh, oh, oh. Don't you quit your complaining.”
20:23–20:33 -
Mr. Burns first scowls and squints in a dim, rocky underground lab full of blue machinery, facing a boxy blue…
“And as for you, you clinking, cluttering,”
20:33–20:45 -
Mr. Burns lies on a pink metal table in a dark lab lined with blue machinery and coiled cables, while a lab…
“Every bone, shattered organs,”
20:45–20:58 -
Smithers first appears in a close-up, grimacing nervously, then crouches on hands and knees beside Mr. Burns…
“Smithers, I'm going to die. Sir, is there nothing I can do?”
20:58–21:09 -
Homer, Bart, Lisa and Marge are huddled together in a dim blue bedroom, tucked under a blue blanket…
“Did you have a nightmare, homie? Oh, Bert bit me.”
21:09–21:21 -
Mr. Burns has his head sewn onto Homer's bald, heavy body, with a stitched red seam visible at the neck…
“Perhaps you're wondering why you have two heads.”
21:21–21:30 -
Homer and a frail, hook-nosed old man with a bald crown and blue hair at the sides are pressed cheek to cheek…
“Well, my body was crushed, so I had my head grafted onto your, shall we say, ample frame.”
21:30–21:40 -
Over a black background, green dripping-style credits read "Executive Producers" followed…
“Or is it?”
21:40–21:49 -
Lisa eats cereal from a spoon while reading a newspaper, and Maggie in her blue bow sucks on a pacifier…
“Don't forget, Dad.”
21:49–21:59 -
Homer sits at the kitchen table with a fork and knife, and a thin, hooked-nosed Mr. Burns head sprouts…
“Oh, I hate having two heads.”
21:59–22:09 -
No regular characters are shown; the scene is a dark blue graveyard at night with leaning white tombstones…
“Thank you.”
22:09–22:20 -
A dark blue night graveyard with a bare tree and crooked tombstones
22:20–22:30 -
No regular characters appear in this moment; it is a dark blue graveyard scene with bare twisted trees, grey…
22:30–22:40 -
No recognizable Simpsons characters appear; this is a Halloween-themed credits sequence set in a dark blue…
22:40–22:51 -
Silhouetted audience members sit in rows of theater seats facing a blank screen in a dim, blue-tinted cinema…
22:51–23:00
Who's in it
Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Milhouse Van Houten, Barney Gumble, Grampa Simpson, Principal Skinner, Krusty the Clown, Ned Flanders, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Mrs. Krabappel, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Waylon Smithers, Mr. Burns, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Jasper Beardsley, Martin Prince, Patty Bouvier, Groundskeeper Willie, Selma Bouvier, Lou, Santa's Little Helper, Lewis Clark, Wendell Borton, Richard, Eddie, Snowball II, Jimbo Jones, Kearney Zzyzwicz, Sherri Mackleberry, Terri Mackleberry, Larry Dalrymple, Mayor Quimby, Nina Skalka, Helen Lovejoy, Adrian Belew, Sam, Agnes Skinner, Becky Shorter, Sophie Jensen, Buck-toothed boy, Girl with glasses, Long-haired girl, Boy with shades, Chuck Berger, Troy McClure, Smug Girl, Coward, Blue-Haired Lawyer, White-Haired Girl, Springfield bears, Marvin Monroe, Violet Bazaar, Brown-haired boy, Kang, Sylvia Winfield, Kodos, George Washington, Mr. Winfield, Johnny Carson, Old Dad, Babysitting Lady, Bill Dandy, Mr. Williams, Ed McMahon, Maitre D', Reverend Lovejoy's secretary, Rigellians, Bambi, Gordon, Monkey's Paw Salesman, Walt Disney, w:c:disney:Bambi's mother
Everyone who appears in it, from the Simpsons wiki. Every character