The Simpsons/Treehouse of Horror IV

Treehouse of Horror IV
Season 5, Episode 5
Airdate	October 28, 1993
Production Number	1F04
Written by	Conan O'Brien, Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Greg Daniels, Dan McGrath, Bill Canterbury
Directed by	David Silverman
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The Simpsons — Season Five

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Treehouse of Horror IV is the fifth episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons, and the eighty-sixth episode overall.

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Title Sequence

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Trivia

Allusions and References

• The Addams Family and The Munsters: The Simpsons' end theme is stylized a la the two situation comedies about unusual people, the former a macabre family and the later literally monsters, both which ran from 1964-1966.
• Bram Stoker's Dracula: "Bart Simpson's Dracula" is an obvious parody of both the title and film, about the legendary vampire who bites women for their blood.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas: The ending of the "Bart Simpson's Dracula" segment transitions into the main cast singing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," much like the kids did at the end of the Peanuts' Christmas special from 1965.
• "The Devil and Daniel Webster": The segment "The Devil and Homer Simpson" is a pun on the title of the Steven Vincent Benet short story, and its plot – a down-on-his-luck farmer selling his soul to the devil for more prosperous times, and is defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster (a famous 19th-century statesman) – is also used in this story (Marge defending Homer).
• James Coco: In "The Devil and Homer Simpson," the demon, with his comment, "I don't understand it; James Coco went made in 15 minutes!" is making a reference to an actor who received attention for his culinary talents and best-selling cookbooks.
• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: The 1937 Warner Bros. cartoon "Pigs Is Pigs" (not to be confused with an earlier fable), where a young pig who scoffs at his parents over his overeating has a nightmare where he is force-fed food until he grows morbidly obese, is the main inspiration for the scene in Hell, where Homer is strapped to a chair and force-fed doughnuts, growing a to huge size. (Unlike the young pig in the earlier cartoon, Homer thoroughly enjoys eating all the doughnuts, even when the demon operating the Ironic Punishments area runs very low on the doughnut supply and Homer asks for more.)
• Night Gallery: The 1970-1973 series by Rod Serling, which focused on stories of horror and the macabre, is the main inspiration for this episode. The Hall Of Paintings, used in the wraparound segments, is also taken from the show.
• The Twilight Zone: The segment "Nightmare at 5-1/2 Feet" – both title and basic plot (a gremlin-type creature trying to damage a multi-passenger form of transportation, which only one person whose sanity is in question, can see ... and that person may be right or wrong) – is taken from the fifth-season episode of the legendary science fiction TV series.
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Devil Flanders talks about the "soul doughnut" being "scrumdiddlyumptious," the same adjective used to describe particularly delicious varieties of candy in the original film adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's novel.