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"Treehouse of Horror X" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' eleventh season, as well as the tenth "Treehouse of Horror" episode. The episode aired on Halloween (October 31st) of 1999, and would be the last "Treehouse of Horror" special to air either before or on Halloween until season 21's "Treehouse of Horror XX" in 2009, a full ten years later.
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Plot
In the opening scene, Kang and Kodos (without their helmets) introduce the show, with a live audience consisting of aliens. While they tell jokes, canned laughter is played, but the audience appear unamused.
The Simpson family sits on the couch, with Homer appearing as the jack-in-the-box from "Treehouse of Horror II", Marge as the witch from "Treehouse of Horror VIII", Bart as the half-fly mutant from "Treehouse of Horror VIII". Maggie is the alien/human mutant from "Treehouse of Horror IX" and Lisa is the victim of an ax murder. Lisa then asks what aliens have to do with Halloween, and Maggie, in a deep voice, says, "Silence!", and disintegrates her with a ray gun.
I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did
On a foggy evening with a full moon, The Simpsons are driving down a road until Marge accidentally smashes into a jogging Ned Flanders, killing him. The next day, Homer climbs to the top of his house with Ned's body, calling down to Maude in her front yard "Hey Maude! Look who's helping me clean the chimney! (a buzzard lands on Ned's limp head, pecking at him, but Homer brushes it away)" Maude replies "Oh, I'm so relieved! Whenever you go on one of your late night fog-walks I get so worried" Homer voices Ned, moving him like a puppet "relax, I'm fine, but when I do die, I don't want any autopsies!". Maude then goes indoors when her pies are finally done. At the same time, Homer throws Ned off the roof, whose corpse lands on the kennel, Homer mutters "Oh, she missed it!". Homer dumps Ned's corpse on his own porch and again imitates Ned's voice, this time saying he thinks he's having a heart attack. Homer hides, hears Maude's horrified scream, and leaves, satisfied their secret will never be revealed. Shortly after Ned's funeral (where Homer nearly gives the game away), the family finds the phrase "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID!" written in blood everywhere they go. They soon discover it is a mysterious cloaked figure that has been terrorizing the family. After a confrontation, the Simpsons flee their house, eventually discovering that Ned Flanders was their assailant. Ned was not killed by the accident and he tells them, by an incredible coincidence, he had been bitten by a werewolf moments before Marge hit him. As the clouds drift past the moon, its luminous light engulfs Ned's body and he transforms into a muscular werewolf. Flanders mauls Homer to death while the rest of the family flees in terror.
Desperately Xeeking Xena
Marge takes Bart and Lisa to Springfield Elementary, where Chief Wiggum is running a portable X-ray machine to inspect children's candy. Whilst inspecting his son Ralph's candy, he tells them what the candy really contains "safe, safe, razor blade, syringe, oh white chocolate!" As Nelson's extremely bulky pillowcase of goodies is being scanned, the X-ray machine explodes. The exposure to radiation gives Bart the ability to stretch his body like rubber and Lisa gains extraordinary strength. They become a superhero duo, calling themselves "Stretch Dude & Clobber Girl". In their first "adventure" (presented as if they had their own television series), Lucy Lawless (dressed as Xena) addresses fans at a science fiction convention. Professor Frink questions her about various inconsistencies in Xena, and her response to all of them is "a wizard did it". Comic Book Guy, who has styled himself as a villain called "The Collector", kidnaps her using a magnet to attract her metal breast plate. Lawless tries to remove the breastplate, but when hundreds of fans raise their cameras to photograph her breasts, she stops. He takes her to his lair, where he puts her in an aluminized PET film bag for "safekeeping" and imprisons her in a room of other similarly-captured celebrities such as Yasmine Bleeth (dressed in a red Baywatch swimsuit), Matt Groening (dressed in his trademark orange and yellow Hawaiian shirt), and Tom Baker (dressed as The Doctor). Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl burst into The Collector's hideout. Clobber Girl is stunned by a working phaser. The other shots miss Stretch Dude; however, he is knocked out when the phaser is thrown at him.
The Collector suspends the duo over a vat of Lucite, slowly lowering them into it. Lucy Lawless, still restrained, lures the Collector over by pretending to be attracted to him. When he's close enough she grabs his lips and attacks him with kung fu moves. The Collector grabs his limited edition double edged lightsaber from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and ignites the blades. Lucy reminds him that he has removed it from its original packaging. He backs away in horror and plummets into the vat, emerging to strike a dramatic death pose from Battlestar Galactica. Lawless flies Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl home to safety on her back. Clobber Girl points out that Xena can't fly. Lucy stresses that while Xena can't fly, 'she is Lucy Lawless!'
Life's a Glitch, Then You Die
On December 31, 1999, Dick Clark celebrates New Year's Rockin' Eve in Springfield instead of Times Square. Homer, the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's Y2K compliance officer, declares that he fixed every computer at the plant. Unfortunately, Homer didn't fix his own computer, which creates a computer virus that spreads across the world. Chaos breaks out as airplanes crash, appliances explode, malfunction, Nelson gets stuck in a copy machine as he's Xeroxing his butt, and the local McDonald's rolls its " 99 Billion Served" odometer back to zero, causing everyone to run screaming from the restaurant. Widespread looting begins and as the family roams the streets observing the damage, Krusty's pacemaker sets itself to hummingbird speed and he collapses in front of them. A letter in Krusty's pocket states that a rocket is being populated with humanity's "best & brightest" and will be launched in order to preserve human civilization on Mars. When they reach the shuttle, Homer attempts to bluff his way on board, but the armed guard recognizes Lisa as having a seat reserved on the craft as the spaceliner's proofreader. Lisa is only able to take one parent with her, and quickly chooses Marge, who brings Maggie along. Homer and Bart find a second, unguarded rocket and board just before it launches as nuclear weapons destroy the earth. They quickly notice that this spaceliner is filled with people such as Ross Perot, Dan Quayle, Tonya Harding, the Reverend Al Sharpton, Courtney Love, Spike Lee, Tom Arnold, Pauly Shore, Rosie O'Donnell and Dr. Laura and is set to collide with the sun, causing instant death. As O'Donnell and others sing "Clang, Clang, Clang", Bart reminds Homer that they'll be dead in five minutes. Homer's reply: "Not fast enough!". Homer and Bart eject themselves into the vacuum of space, where they sigh in relief as their heads swell up on-screen and explode off-screen.
External links
- "Treehouse of Horror X" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
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