Treehouse of Horror VIII
The Simpsons, season 9, episode 4. First aired October 26, 1997. 133 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 Mayor Quimby insults France, a French neutron bomb kills nearly everyone in Springfield, and Homer enjoys the empty town until mutant survivors hunt him. Next, a matter transporter Homer buys from Professor Frink lets Bart trade heads with a fly. Finally, Marge is accused of witchcraft in 1649 and proves a real witch, and when Maude Flanders buys off her child-eating coven with treats, trick-or-treating is born.
- Written by
- Mike Scully; David X. Cohen; Ned Goldreyer
- Directed by
- Mark Kirkland
- Guest stars
- Marcia Wallace as Mrs. Krabappel
- Couch gag
- Electrocution
- Production code
- 5F02
The synopsis is our own. Credits and guest stars from Wikipedia and the Simpsons wiki.
Every moment
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A red book with a green spine titled THE SIMPSONS and the code 5F02 is held up by a yellow hand at the right…
0:00–0:04 -
A one-off character, an older man with grey hair, a brown jacket and a green tie, sits at a blue desk…
“No.”
0:04–0:14 -
A grey-haired man in a brown jacket and tie sits at a desk with a nameplate reading "FOX CENSOR" and reads…
“I think we can do without the crack pipe.”
0:14–0:24 -
A grey-haired man in a brown jacket and green tie sits at a desk with a nameplate reading "FOX CENSOR"…
“And thanks to my prudent editing, tonight's special Halloween show has been rated TVG.”
0:24–0:35 -
A grey-haired man in a brown jacket and green tie, labeled FOX CENSOR on his desk, sits at a desk with a red…
“This means there will be no raunchy NBC-style sex or senseless CBS-style”
0:35–0:45 -
A grey-haired man in a brown jacket and green tie sits at a desk labeled FOX CENSOR, where a disembodied hand…
“Jiminy Christmas!”
0:45–0:55 -
Marge Simpson stands in the living room beside the couch, and Lisa runs in from the left with her arm raised
0:55–1:06 -
Kent Brockman sits at a desk on a TV screen beside an inset picture of a police officer and a hippo
“And that's how an heroic hippo became a deputy.”
1:06–1:17 -
Kent Brockman sits at a desk on a teal-backed television screen framed in purple, reading from a sheet…
“Stupid hippo. This just in,”
1:17–1:29 -
Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and Maggie sit together on the brown couch in the living room, with Homer…
“Stupid frog. We now go live to City Hall for Mayor Quimby's response.”
1:29–1:41 -
Marge sits on a brown couch holding Maggie, with Lisa in her red dress and pearls and Bart in his orange…
“Homer, you know how unpredictable the French are.”
1:41–1:52 -
Homer and Lisa Simpson sit side by side on a brown couch in the living room, Homer holding a can with a blue…
“That's not gonna protect us from anything.”
1:52–2:02 -
Homer stands outside a purple bomb shelter with a radiation-symbol door and a sign reading BOMB SHELTER…
“Now this baby is called the Withstandinator.”
2:02–2:15 -
Homer Simpson enters a dim storeroom with bunk beds, water jugs, and shelves of green canned goods…
2:15–2:17 -
Homer stands in a fallout shelter stocked with green cans labeled STEAK and BEANS, a boombox, folded blankets…
“Blankets, radio, oh, a Gary Larson calendar.”
2:17–2:30 -
Mr. Burns sits at the head of a long table in a dark suit with a purple sash and red tie, smoking a cigar…
“Sacre bleu!”
2:30–2:43 -
A man in a dark suit and purple sash stands at the head of a glass table flanked by officers in brown…
“Ready. M.”
2:43–2:54 -
A white rocket with a red nose cone blasts off from a launch tower against a bright blue sky, trailing blue…
“What the hell was that?”
2:54–3:06 -
Two green, slimy one-eyed aliens with fanged mouths, drooling, sit at a control panel inside a blue…
“This is Ensign Kang reporting a cigar-shaped object moving at tremendous speed.”
3:06–3:16 -
A man in a purple suit with a blue tie leans out of a window of Springfield City Hall, his tie blown sideways
“I'll bet I get blamed for this.”
3:16–3:20 -
Comic Book Guy stands on a city sidewalk in front of a bakery-style shop window, holding a stack of trading…
“But Aquaman?”
3:20–3:31 -
A heavyset, unnamed cartoon man with a bald brown-haired crown, a scraggly beard and a blue shirt fills…
“Oh, I've wasted my life.”
3:31–3:32 -
Homer Simpson appears at a bunker door marked with a radiation symbol, holding a jar with a spoon, after…
“You call that prime rib?”
3:32–3:45 -
Homer Simpson sits behind the wheel of a pink car on a town street, with a blue-haired man in a red shirt…
“It's green, moron!”
3:45–3:55 -
Homer stands on a street beside his pink car with its hood up, then faces a green van where a skeleton-like…
“Maybe a little friendly punching will move your ass.”
3:55–4:03 -
Homer stands in a street among wrecked green and pink cars and sprawled skeletons, including a skeleton…
“Jeez, what's with all that dust? Oh my god.”
4:03–4:13 -
Homer stands in a deserted street littered with scattered body parts and dark puddles, with a green car…
“Everyone's gone!”
4:13–4:16 -
Homer stands in the foreground on the left, crying and gesturing with his hands while he speaks, with tears…
“Little Bart.”
4:16–4:25 -
Homer Simpson is shown in a green-tinted setting, first throwing his hands up and covering his face…
“And the rest.”
4:25–4:35 -
Homer Simpson kneels on the pavement beside a green minivan in a suburban street, first covering his face…
“No, no, no! I can't just wallow in sadness.”
4:35–4:44 -
Homer Simpson first stands on a yellow pole in an empty street littered with skeletons, a crashed green van…
“I'm the last man alive.”
4:44–4:54 -
Homer Simpson sits among skeleton-like moviegoers in a dim theater, first stuffing his mouth with popcorn…
“Oh, Spade. Why did you put Farley in charge of the bees?”
4:54–5:03 -
Homer Simpson sits in a movie theater full of skeletons, first grinning with eyes shut and clutching a drink…
“Oh, Spade. Why did you put Farley in charge of the bees?”
5:03–5:15 -
Homer dances on a wooden church pew beside a blue boombox as stained-glass windows, red carpet, and rows…
“Whoa! Good God, yo!”
5:15–5:28 -
Homer stands shirtless behind a wooden ledge in front of red and purple stained-glass arches while a group…
“Hey, what the hell's going on? Where'd you get those cloaks?”
5:28–5:34 -
Homer stands before a stained-glass window, pulpit, and potted plant while hooded figures in black robes…
“Silence! You're talking too loud.”
5:34–5:47 -
Several hooded figures in black robes with pale, lumpy faces stand in a dim, wood-paneled room lit by a torch…
“You're mutants? We don't like the word mutants, Homer.”
5:47–6:00 -
Homer stands in a red-carpeted hall with stained-glass windows and candelabra as a mob of hooded figures…
“You want me? Come and get me! Get her!”
6:00–6:13 -
Homer hurries along a purple-lit street at night and reaches a grey pickup, then a skeletal driver in a black…
“A coffin!”
6:13–6:24 -
Homer Simpson is driving a grey car while robed, hooded figures climb over it and hang from its sides, one…
“Die, you chug-faced goons!”
6:24–6:35 -
Homer Simpson grips the steering wheel of a grey car at night, glancing sideways at two long-haired elderly…
“Die, you chug-faced goons!”
6:35–6:46 -
Homer Simpson drives a grey hearse-like car through a quiet suburban street at night, with a dark purple sky…
“It's safe at last.”
6:46–7:00 -
Homer stands in a pink hallway with a purple door, staring wide-eyed and gaping while hooded figures in black…
“Homie, is that you?”
7:00–7:10 -
Homer stands in a pink living room with Lisa in her red dress, Bart in his orange shirt, and baby Maggie…
“Oh, come here.”
7:10–7:16 -
Three gaunt, pale-faced hooded figures in dark robes stand close together against a pink background…
“Kinda brings a tear to your eye socket.”
7:16–7:25 -
A group of hooded figures in dark robes with pale, sore-marked faces stand together under purple umbrellas…
“Ain't that always the way you get nuts with the skin-eating?”
7:25–7:33 -
Ned Flanders stands among several pale hooded figures in dark robes with bloody wounds on their faces…
“Yes, I do.”
7:33–7:42 -
Marge stands beside a shirtless Homer in blue shorts in their pink-walled hallway, with a grandfather clock…
“That sounds beautiful, Ned. And let me just say,”
7:42–7:52 -
Marge with her tall blue beehive, Homer, Lisa and Maggie stand together in the arched doorway of the house…
“Hmm.”
7:52–8:02 -
Homer stands in the open front doorway of the Simpson house with one arm raised, while Bart, Lisa and Maggie…
“So, who wants to steal some Ferraris? I do, ladies!”
8:02–8:11 -
Against a blue sky with drifting clouds, the title card "FLY vs FLY" appears, its letters shifting from white…
“Wow, look at all these gadgets.”
8:11–8:19 -
Lisa and Bart stand among a cluttered backyard of gadgets, including a brain in a glass tank…
“Wow, look at all these gadgets.”
8:19–8:33 -
Bart holds a pair of striped mood socks at a sunny outdoor junk stall, then lifts them up and dangles them…
“Hey, Einstein, how much for the mood pants?”
8:33–8:45 -
A bespectacled man with neat light-brown hair, wearing a white lab coat and blue bow tie, stands outdoors…
“Nice try, Floyd, but you were designed for scrubbing, and scrubbing is what you shall do.”
8:45–8:49 -
A bespectacled man in a white lab coat, pink trousers and bow tie stands with his arms folded beside a blue…
8:49–8:59 -
Homer stands beside a grey matter transporter booth with a $2.00 price tag, while a thin man with glasses…
“I take it from that little impressed noise that you are interested in purchasing that”
8:59–9:09 -
Homer stands beside a grey matter transporter booth with a $2.00 price tag, rubbing his chin, then folding…
“matter transporter, sir. Um, two bucks?”
9:09–9:18 -
Homer stands outside on a sunny street with a thin man in a white lab coat, blue bow tie, round glasses…
“Well, uh... I'll give you 35 cents. Sold.”
9:18–9:28 -
Homer, Marge with her tall blue beehive, Bart in his orange shirt and Lisa in her red dress stand in the pink…
“This mountain of stairs used to make bedtime a grueling chore.”
9:28–9:41 -
Homer sits on a brown couch in a pink living room with his mouth open and eyes wide, while a grey rounded…
“Man, how'd I ever live without this thing?”
9:41–9:50 -
Homer appears in a pastel kitchen beside a grey dome-shaped robot with a receipt-printing slot…
“Oh, man, that's good.”
9:50–10:00 -
Homer, Marge and Bart are in a pink living room beside a grey transporter pod
“Oh, my, no!”
10:00–10:11 -
Homer Simpson stands in the living room beside a grey Krusty-style doo-wacky machine with a tall glowing…
“Sorry, but this is a highly sophisticated doo-wacky.”
10:11–10:22 -
Bart Simpson enters a kitchen carrying Snowball II and later holds a dollar-sign money bag
“Okay, Cat, now if this works, your next trip will be to the bank vault.”
10:22–10:34 -
Bart stands in a kitchen with pink cabinets and a checkered floor
“Oh, cool.”
10:34–10:45 -
Bart Simpson kneels on a checkered tile floor in the family's laundry room, beside a bookshelf and a washing…
“Twice the pit and none of the mess.”
10:45–10:54 -
Bart Simpson first stands in a living room with a speaker and shelves, then appears against a plain blue…
“Hmm.”
10:54–11:06 -
Bart Simpson first stands smiling and fidgeting in a kitchen before stepping into a white tubular machine…
“Oh, I'd be stupid not to do this.”
11:06–11:18 -
No recognizable regular characters appear; the scene shows a white Simpsons-style kitchen appliance, a tall…
11:18–11:19 -
Bart first appears as a tiny insect on a blue-and-white checkered floor near a bowl-like glass container…
“It worked!”
11:19–11:28 -
Bart Simpson hovers against a plain blue sky beside a dark blue wall edge, his eyes wide and his expression…
“Oh well, at least I don't have two butts.”
11:28–11:37 -
Bart buzzes across a pink wall, then is caught against a grey bug zapper in a purple-walled room where Homer…
“Ow!”
11:37–11:51 -
Marge, with her tall blue beehive and pink nightgown, Homer in light blue pajamas, and Lisa in teal pajamas…
“Mom, stop!”
11:51–12:04 -
Homer and Marge stand in a checkered-floor kitchen watching Bart, in an orange shirt and blue shorts, whose…
“I think she's right. The pants are a dead giveaway.”
12:04–12:10 -
Marge Simpson stands in a pink-walled room holding a broom and reacting with a series of worried, wide-eyed…
“Oh, well, he may be a horrible freak, but he's still my son.”
12:10–12:20 -
Homer, Lisa, Maggie, Marge and Bart sit around a blue-clothed kitchen table eating pancakes, with butter…
“So then Lenny says, as if.”
12:20–12:34 -
Marge stands at a kitchen counter pouring syrup from a bottle onto pancakes, while a figure in an orange…
“You want more syrup, honey?”
12:34–12:46 -
Homer and Lisa sit at a kitchen counter eating pancakes with syrup beside a coffee maker
“It'll turn up somewhere.”
12:46–12:59 -
Homer and Marge sit on a brown couch in the living room, with a small boy in an orange shirt and spiky hair…
“Okay, okay.”
12:59–13:13 -
Homer lies back on a brown couch with Marge beside him, while Bart flies through the air around them
“Mom, Dad, I'm the real Bart.”
13:13–13:24 -
Marge sits on a brown couch in a pink room, glaring as Homer in a white shirt and blue pants sits…
“Shoo, shoo fly.”
13:24–13:37 -
Bart chases a fly with a mesh fly swatter while Marge with her tall blue beehive and Homer in his white shirt…
“Get him, boy.”
13:37–13:50 -
Lisa sits at her desk in her bedroom at first, reading an open book beside a pink desk lamp, then turns…
“Bart, is that you?”
13:50–14:02 -
Lisa plays a saxophone in her bedroom, with a pink lamp, a heart-shaped mirror and purple curtains…
“Help me, Lise! That giant fly stole my body and now he's trying to kill me!”
14:02–14:13 -
Lisa stands crying in her bedroom by a mirror while Bart tumbles upside down through the air holding a round…
“Trying to kill me!”
14:13–14:25 -
Lisa is pinned by the wrists and then the jaw by a giant fly-headed creature in an orange shirt…
“Get my filthy hands off my sister!”
14:25–14:38 -
Bart wears a giant fly's head with mesh eyes and is first seen in a kitchen by a green stove…
“No, don't eat me. You don't know where I've been.”
14:38–14:48 -
Lisa presses a button on a boxy machine in the kitchen as a blue burst of energy erupts from a rounded metal…
“Hey, it worked! Well, we were lucky this time.”
14:48–14:59 -
Homer Simpson stands in a pink room beside a framed sailboat picture and a light blue refrigerator, glaring…
“But it's all too clear that some things in this universe aren't meant to be trifled”
14:59–15:06 -
Homer Simpson stands in a pink room gripping a red axe with a brown handle over his shoulder, grimacing…
“Something I should have done a long time ago.”
15:06–15:14 -
Homer swings a red axe at a grey Kwik-E-Mart-style jukebox-like machine with a paper slot in a pink living…
“I'm gonna chop you!”
15:14–15:26 -
A crowd of townsfolk in tall hats and white bonnets gathers in a gloomy 1649 A.D. village, with a man locked…
“You are all hereby found guilty of the crime of witchcraft.”
15:26–15:37 -
A crowd of Puritan-costumed townsfolk gathers in a grey, overcast village square, where a heavy man in a tall…
“I sentence you hags to be burned at the stake until you are deemed fit to re-enter society”
15:37–15:48 -
A crowd of Puritan-costumed villagers in bonnets, black hats and tall collars, some carrying torches…
“See you in hell Seymour goodbye mother”
15:48–15:59 -
A man in a tall brown hat, who looks like Homer, holds a flaming torch with wide eyes and an open mouth…
“If they're really witches why don't they use their powers to escape it sounds like witch”
15:59–16:12 -
Homer stands in a wooden balcony of a Puritan-style meeting house, first cheering with both fists raised…
“Brothers and sisters, there is still a witch among us.”
16:12–16:25 -
Chief Wiggum sits behind a wooden rail beside a man in a black witch hat with bones on it and a white collar…
“I accuse Goody Badwife. We killed her on Sunday.”
16:25–16:34 -
Bart stands in a wooden meetinghouse with the wrinkled old man in green, Lisa-like girl
“Bart, quit it! She put a spell on me.”
16:34–16:45 -
A stern man in a grey robe with a grey curly wig points an accusing finger while a crowd of angry townsfolk…
“She's the witch! Yeah!”
16:45–16:56 -
Milhouse sits in a wooden courtroom beside a red-haired man in a black cap and a brown-haired man in a grey…
“Oh, I've heard enough. Burn her!”
16:56–17:07 -
On a rocky cliff edge under a grey sky, a crowd of villagers in Puritan dress, including Homer and Grampa…
“Okay, here's how the process works. You sit on the broom and we shove you off the cliff.”
17:07–17:18 -
Homer, Bart, Lisa and Maggie stand among a crowd of costumed townsfolk on a rocky cliff under a grey, cloudy…
“If, however, you are the bride of Satan, you will surely fly your broom to safety.”
17:18–17:28 -
A caped woman in a tall white wig and black cloak holds a broom on a rocky ledge, while a small girl…
“Tough, but fair. Stop! Doesn't the Bible say,”
17:28–17:39 -
Homer and Bart stand among a group of Puritan-costumed townsfolk on a stormy, grey-skied scene, with a woman…
“Brothers and sisters,”
17:39–17:52 -
Homer stands in a crowd of townspeople in Puritan-style dress, with Bart in a white shirt and collar…
“Okay, now, let's not jump to conclusions, everyone.”
17:52–18:03 -
A green-skinned witch with a tall black beehive and a black cape fastened with a blue brooch flies…
“Well, I'll be a son of a witch. That's right.”
18:03–18:13 -
A green-skinned witch with a tall black beehive, a black cape and a broomstick, who is Marge's…
“Hey, you destroyed my turnip crop. No, that was gophers.”
18:13–18:26 -
Homer stands with Bart and Lisa among a crowd of pilgrim-costumed villagers and a man with a moustache…
“Oh, oh, oh!”
18:26–18:37 -
Bart, Ned Flanders, Homer holding baby Maggie in a white bonnet, and a woman with a tall brown hairdo cluster…
“Ah! They're in my hair!”
18:37–18:48 -
Two green-skinned witches with purple hair and tall black hats, Patty and Selma, stand in a dark cave…
“Hmm.”
18:48–18:58 -
Marge flies in on a broom through a dark cave-like space, then stands beside a bubbling green cauldron…
“Well, look who's here. If I knew you were coming, I'd have baked a cat.”
18:58–19:11 -
A green-skinned woman with a tall black hairdo and a broom stands in front of a dark blue backdrop, speaking
“So you finally left Durwood. His name is Homer.”
19:11–19:22 -
Ned Flanders stands in front of a grey plank wall beside a dark wooden post
“Yeah, that'll be the day. What's that, Ned?”
19:22–19:23 -
Ned Flanders stands beside a bonnet-wearing woman in a white dress and brown vest, both in front of a wooden…
“Yeah, that'll be the day. What's that, Ned?”
19:23–19:36 -
A close-up of a green-faced woman with lavender scalloped hair and a grey jacket, possibly Patty or Selma…
“Mmm.”
19:36–19:43 -
Marge, Patty and Selma appear as green-skinned witches in black robes: Marge with tall dark hair and Patty…
“But a good idea is a good idea.”
19:43–19:55 -
Three green-skinned witches in pointed black hats and dark cloaks, one with a tall black plume, stand…
“Who is it? Wishes.”
19:55–20:07 -
Green-skinned witches in pointed black hats and dark cloaks, one holding a wooden broom and another…
“And look at this. Oh, please.”
20:07–20:20 -
Ned Flanders and a woman in a white bonnet and olive vest stand in a rustic wooden room with a red-beamed…
“Maud, do something.”
20:20–20:32 -
Marge and her sisters Patty and Selma walk along a blue path at dusk in front of a wooden house, Marge…
“They're boneless.”
20:32–20:44 -
Three green-faced witches in black cloaks and pointed hats, one with a tall black hairdo, walk along a snowy…
“Bye, witches!”
20:44–20:57 -
Three green-skinned witches stand against a dusky purple sky over dark water
“You know, scaring people into giving us treats is fun.”
20:57–21:09 -
Three green-faced witches in black cloaks and pointed hats ride yellow broomsticks across a purple hillside…
“Yarr, and that's the story of the very first caramel cod.”
21:09–21:15 -
An old white-bearded man in a black tricorn pirate hat and dark coat stands against a purple night sky…
“Yarr, and that's the story of the very first caramel cod.”
21:15–21:23 -
An old man in a tricorn hat sits on a rock by a lake at dusk, reading a book and smoking a pipe, before…
“And it wasn't long before this yearly custom became an annual tradition.”
21:23–21:36 -
Homer stands in the middle of a crowd of trick-or-treaters on a lawn in front of the Simpson house at night…
“Come on, give us some candy. Don't pretend you're not home.”
21:36–21:45 -
Homer stands amid a crowd in a village street of wooden cottages at dusk, with a torch-lit mob around him
“She's a witch! Get her!”
21:45–21:51 -
A mob of unnamed villagers, some in dark hats and white bonnets, carry torches and pitchforks down a moonlit…
21:51–22:01 -
No regular Simpsons characters appear; this is a black Treehouse of Horror style credits sequence with green…
22:01–22:11 -
No Simpsons characters appear in this moment; it is a black credits sequence with green text
“Thank you.”
22:11–22:20 -
The moment is a black closing credits roll in green lettering on a black background
22:20–22:30 -
A sequence of black end-credit cards with green text on a black background
22:30–22:40 -
Silhouetted audience members sit in rows of theater seats in a dark, blue-tinted cinema, with one large…
“To be”
22:40–22:51
Who's in it
Bart Simpson, Homer Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Marge Simpson, Maggie Simpson, Moe Szyslak, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Barney Gumble, Chief Wiggum, Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Mrs. Krabappel, Dr. Hibbert, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Nelson Muntz, Kent Brockman, Otto Mann, Ralph Wiggum, Patty Bouvier, Reverend Lovejoy, Selma Bouvier, Groundskeeper Willie, Santa's Little Helper, Lou, Eddie, Miss Hoover, Todd Flanders, Maude Flanders, Snowball II, Rod Flanders, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Kirk Van Houten, Luann Van Houten, Helen Lovejoy, Professor Frink, Agnes Skinner, Horatio McCallister, Comic Book Guy, Snake, Lionel Hutz, Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Sarah Wiggum, Herman Hermann, Cletus Spuckler, Blue-Haired Lawyer, Sherri and Terri, Mayor Quimby's Bodyguards, Kang, Kodos, Floyd, Chris Farley, David Spade, Edgar Winter, FOX Censor, French President, Johnny Winter, Mutant Burns, Mutant Julius Hibbert, Mutant Lenny, Mutant Mel, Mutant Ned, Mutant Seymour Skinner
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