| | Credits | |

Writer: Donick "I Still Know What You Did Last Summer" Cary, The Bride of Liechtenstein and David S. Coffin (Donick Cary, Larry Doyle and David X. Cohen)
Director: Steven "Demon" More (Steven Dean Moore)

Regular Voices:
? as Homer, Barney, Krusty, Itchy, Poochie, Kodos
Ghouly Kavner as Marge
Nancy "Killer Actor" Cartwright as Bart
The Canker as Lisa
Yank My Area as Snake, Apu, Moe, Chief Wiggum, Dr. Nick Riviera and Lou
Harry (Dead Till 2005) Shearer as Jason Voorhees, Announcer, Brockman, Scratchy, Dr. Hibbert, Kang, Maggie and "Dracula Got His Groove" announcer

Guest Voices:
Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger
Ed McMahon as Himself
Jerry Springer as Himself
Frank Partipilo as Himself (uncredited)

Special Guest Appearance:
Regis Philbin as Himself
Kathie Lee Gifford as Herself

Other Voices:
Tress MacNihlist as Lady in Audience

| | Synopsis | |

"Hell Toupée"
On his third strike, Snake is sent to the electric chair and vows revenge on those who were there when he was caught (Apu, Moe and Bart). After the electrocution, Snake's organs are save for transplants and Homer is the beneficiary of his hair. Soon after, the hair begins to exact Snake's revenge.

"The Terror of Tiny Toon"
Marge takes the batteries out of the tv remote control to keep Bart and Lisa from watching the Itchy & Scratchy Halloween special. Bart substitutes them with plutonium and then he and Lisa are zapped into the TV and find themselves characters in the cartoon where the violence is real.

"Starship Poopers"
When Maggie's first tooth is a fang and when she looses her legs which are replaced by tentacles, Marge confesses that the alien, Kang, is Maggie's real father. To settle the dispute on what's best for Maggie's future, the Simpson's as well as Kang, go on The Jerry Springer Show.

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| | Tricks and Treats | |

Traditions - PUMPKINS: Bart has a jack-o-lantern full of blood that he uses to paint "The Simpsons Halloween Special IX" on his classroom blackboard.

Spooks - Toupée: Homer receives a hair transplant from Snake after he is executed by electric chair. Soon the hair has a mind of it's own and takes revenge for Snake.

Costumes - Krusty dresses up as a vampire to host his Halloween show. Krusty: "Hey, hey, tonight I'm going to suck! ... Your blood."

Quip - Krusty: "Okay, get ready for the violentest, disemboweling-est, vomit-inducingest 'Itchy & Scratchy' Halloween special ever!"

Quip - Marge: "Sorry, but if I let you watch some of these gruesome Halloween cartoons, I'd be a pretty lousy mother."

Costumes - Maggie dresses up as a pirate.

Traditions - TRICK OR TREATING: Marge asks Bart and Lisa to go out with her and Maggie but they decline. A bit later we see Scratchy trick or treating at Itchy's house.

Traditions - PRANKS: Bart doesn't want to go trick or treating this year because it would interfere with his egg-tossing plans. He has a carton of 6 eggs and they are labeled: Lisa, Skinner, Flanders, Dad, Dad, Dad. Bart: "It's too early-I need to work under the cover of darkness."

Quip - Marge: "Oh, Homer you're not going as a hobo again?" Homer: "Going where?"

Costumes - Scratchy the cat dresses up as a skeleton when he goes candy begging.

Traditions - PUMPKINS: After knocking on Itchy's door, Scratchy receives a trick when Itchy turns his decapitated head into a jack o' lantern complete with a burning candle.

Spooks - Itchy & Scratchy: Bart and Lisa are sucked into an episode and find themselves running for their lives from the cat and mouse rivals who team up for this special occasion.

Traditions - Aliens: Homer discovers that an alien is actually Maggie's father and the two go head-to-head for the right to raise her.

| | Dialogue To Die For | |

Brockman (grave): "...and the fluffy kitten played with that ball of string all through the night. (Brightens) On a lighter note, a Kwik-E-Mart clerk was brutally murdered last night."

Chief Wiggum: "Homer Simpson, you're under arrest for the murders of Moe Szyslak and Apu Nahasa...pasa...Aw, just Moe. Just Moe."

Homer: "Oooh, how are Bart and Lisa gonna get out of this one?

Marge: "Aw, somebody's in love." [picks up Scratchy] "That means you'll have to be neutered."

Homer: "Look Marge, Maggie lost her baby legs."

Homer: "Is there anything you can prescribe, doctor?"
Hibbert: "Fire -- and lots of it!"
Marge: "Oh, that's your cure for everything."

Homer: [opens door to find Kang and Kodos standing there] "Hello -- oh great. Mormons."

Kang: "Congratulations. You have been selected for our cross-breeding program."
Kodos: "To put you at ease, we have recreated the most common spawning locations of your species. You may choose either [as Kodos lists the choices, he highlights a mock-up of each one] the back seat of a Camaro, an airplane bathroom, a friend's wedding, or the alley behind a porno theater."
Marge: "I absolutely refuse to go along with this...but since I have no choice, I'll take the alley."

Marge: "Really? That seemed awfully quick."
Kang: "What are you implying?"
Marge: "Nothing, nothing."
Kang: "Whoa, wow, look at the time. I'd love to stay but I have an early meeting tomorrow. You're a super girl, though. I'll call you sometime."

Homer: "You intergalactic hussy! How could you!" [covers his face and cries, then looks up] "Was he better than me?"

Marge: "I'm so f-[bleep]-ng embarrassed."

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Wiggum: "Now that's what I call a bad hair day."
[Everyone but Marge laughs]
Marge: "May I remind you that two people are dead and ... oh, wait, I just got it."

| | Pop! Goes the Culture | |

Freddie: "I don't get it, they should be here by now."
Freddy Krueger is the wise-cracking supernatural serial killer from the Nightmare on Elm Street series. As of 2004 there have been 8 films in the series and Freddy himself has become a very popular pop culture icon.

Jason: "Ahh, whatta you gonna do?"
Jason Vorhees is the killer from the Friday the 13th slasher film series. Jason terrorizes the area in and around Camp Crystal Lake where he drowned as a boy. As of 2004 there have been 11 movies in the franchise.

Episode: Credits - Executive Producer DAVID "WATCH FUTURAMA" Cohen
A plug for the then new series created by Matt Groening. Futurama (1999-2003) was set in New New York City in the year 3000.

Episode: Credits - Supervising Producer RON "THE ONE-HEADED MAN" HAGUE
This is a spin on the infamous 'One-Armed Man' who was the villian of The Fugitive novel, 1947 film, 1963-1967 ABC TV series, 1993 movie starring Harrison Ford and the 2000-2001 CBS TV series.

Episode: Credits - Supervising Producer DONICK "I KNOW WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER" CARY
I Know what You Did Last Summer is the 1997 film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Ryan Phillipie and Sarah Michelle Geller about a group of teenagers who accidentally kill a man and a year later suffer the consequences.

Episode: Credits - Written by DONICK "I STILL KNOW WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER" CARY
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer is the 1998 sequel starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr and Brandy. This time they are still suffering the consequences but it is set on an island.

Episode: Credits - Written by THE BRIDE OF LIECHTENSTEIN
This is a parody of the title of the 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein is a sequel to the 1931 film, Frankenstein. In the movie, Dr Henry Frakenstein is forced by his monster to create him a mate. Liechtenstein is also the name of a tiny country near Switzerland.

Episode: Credits - Producer BRIAN "I'M DATING AN AXE-MURDERER" SCULLY
This is a play on the title of the 1993 movie, So I Married an Axe Murderer, directed by Thomas Schlamme starring Mike Myers, Nancy Travis and Anthony LaPaglia. It's about a man who meets and marries the woman of his dreams then begins to suspect that she is Ms. X, a woman who kills her husbands.

Episode: Credits - Producer JULIE "BRIDE OF MIKEY" THACKER
Bride of Chucky is the 1998 film written by Don Mancini and directed by Ronny Yu. Starring Brad Dourif, Nick Stabile, Katherine Heigl and John Ritter, it is about yet another resurrection of the Chuckie doll but this time he finds a mate to kill with.

Episode: Credits - Supervising Director JIM "RE-ANIMATOR" REARDON
Re-Animator is the 1985 movie written and directed by Stuart Gordon, it is a parody of an H.P. Lovecraft story about a med student, his girlfriend and his roomate's bizarre experiement in re-animating the dead.

Episode: Credits - Produced by J. MISSING MENDEL, MY BONNIE LIES OVER A DEAD GUY
This is a play on 'My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean' which is a traditional Scottish folk song that was also recorded by the Beatles.

Episode: Credits - Produced by "THE RAVEN" SIRKOT
The Raven is a famous poem by Edgar Allen Poe there is also a 1963 movie with the same title directed by Roger Corman that is a tounge-in-cheek version of the same poem.

Episode: Credits - Animation Executive Producers LOLEE "BUGOSI" ARIES
This is a spoof on the name of the actor, Bela Lugosi (10/20/1882 - 9/16/1956) who got his start on stage in Europe performing in several Shakespearean plays. He became most notably known for his portrayal of Dracula in a stage production of Bram Stokers classic vampire story, building on that role, he starred as Dracula again for Todd Brownings 1931 film. When Lugosi died, he was buried in his full dracula costume as per his request stated in his will.

Episode: Credits - Executive Story Editor SELMANIMAL
Manimal is a 1983 crime/sci fi TV series about a British college professor who has the ability to transform into any kind of animal he chooses and uses his power to assist police in solving unusual crimes.

Episode: Credits - Post-Production Coordinator RICHARD "TEXAS CHAINSAW" CHUNG
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a 1974 low budget horror film directed by Tobe Hopper. The movie is about a family of cannibals in Texas, one of them, Leatherfae, uses a chainsaw on his victims. Billed as being based on a true story, it is not factual events but loosely inspired by serial killer Ed Gein who like Leatherface, wore human masks. There have been three sequels and the 2003 remake.

Episode: Credits - Dialogue Sound Editor NORMAN "BATES" MACLEOD
Norman Bates is the demented killer in Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1960 horror film, Psycho. Played by Anthony Perkins, Norman was mentally abused by his mother and developed multiple personality disorder. One of his personalities is his mother who he murdered and then kept and perserved her body. When he assumes her personality he dresses in her clothing, wears a wig and kills people.

Episode: Music - As Chief Wiggum enters the Kwik-E-Mart
The cheesy music sounds a lot like the music from the 1984-1989 TV series Miami Vice starring Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas.

Ed McMahon: "Tonight on Fox, from the producers of 'When Skirts Fall Off', and 'Secrets of National Security Revealed', it's, 'World's Deadliest Executions'."
This parodies specials that Fox has run, such as disaster specials 'When [insert disaster here] Happens' or 'World's Deadliest [you get the point]' about tornado's, police chases, etc. and their other specials about exposing magic secrets in 'Secrets of Magic Revealed'.

Ed McMahon: "Making his first appearance on our show, heeeere's Snake!"
This mimic's Ed McMahon's famous line from The Tonight Show "Heeeeeeere's Johnny". The Tonight Show is NBC's late night talk/variety show, it is the longest-running entertainment program in American television history.

Marge: "Wow. If your fly weren't open, you'd look just like Roger Moore."
Roger Moore (born 10/14/1927) is an English actor who is most notably known for his portayal of James Bond in his 12 year and 7 film run as 007.

Marge: "It's almost as if he's killing from beyond the grave." Lisa: "I told you capital punishment isn't a deterrent."
The 1989 film Shocker written and directed by Wes Craven is about a serial killer who uses the electricity from the electric chair that killed him to come back from the dead and execute his vengeance.

Lisa: "Of course -- the transplant! Somehow Snake's hair must be controlling-" Marge: "Oh, please, Lis, everyone's already figured that out."
Eric Red directed the 1991 film Body Parts which is about a man who has the arm of an executed death row inmate grafted onto his body when he looses his arm in a car accident. The arm soon becomes possessed by forces he can not control.
Episode #83 of the Twilight Zone, 'Dead Man's Shoes', is about a man who is possessed by a dead criminal after wearing his shoes.
A 1986 episode of Amazing Stories (which was created and produced by Steven Spielberg) also had the title of 'Hell Toupee' and was about a toupee made from the hair of a french murderer who uses it's wearers to go on a killing spree.

Apu: "Snake? But you're dead!" Homer: "I know you are, but what am I?"
This is one of Paul Reuben's many infamous catch phrases as Pee-Wee Herman from his children's show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse that aired on CBS from 1986-1991.

Homer: "It's Hammer time, snitchy."
"Hammer Time" is a lyric from MC Hammer's famous 1990 smash hit, 'U Can't Touch This'. It is also a quote that is synonymous with the singer as it was a tagline he used many times.

Episode: Scene - Maggie picks up Snake's toupee, holds it over her shoulder and sucks her thumb.
This pose is much like that of Linus from the Peanut's comic strip who holds his blanket over his shoulder and sucks his thumb. In fact, Linus is the one who coined the term "security blanket".

Episode: Act II Title - Terror of Tiny Toon
This title parodies the title of the 1938 film, The Terror of Tiny Town directed by Sam Newfield about an evil gunslinging midget who comes to terrorize the good people of Tiny Town.

Bart: "Hey Lis, we're characters in a cartoon!" Lisa: "How humiliating."
The Purple Rose of Cairo is a 1985 film directed and written by Woody Allen starring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels. It is about a film character who walks off the theater screen and into the real world.
Another Jeff Daniels movie, 1998's Pleasantville is about a brother and sister who are sucked into their TV right to a 1950's black and white sitcom where everything is seemingly perfect. It also stars Tobey Maguire, Reece Witherspoon, William H. Macy and Joan Allen.
1992's Stay Tuned directed by Peter Hyams, starring John Ritter is about a couch potato named Roy who unknowingly sells his soul to the devil for a satellite system. Roy and his wife wind up getting sucking into the system and are trapped in the cable TV version of hell.
In segment three of the Twilight Zone's 1983 movie, Nancy Cartwright plays a little girl named Ethel who gets sucked into a very violent cartoon.

Episode: Scene - Title of the Itchy & Scratchy Episode, Candle in the Wound
This is a spoof of Candle in the Wind which is Elton John's 1973 song about Marilyn Monroe and 1997 re-write in remembrance of Princess Diana. This song is the best-selling single of all time.

Episode: Scene - Homer changes the channel to 'Live with Regis & Kathie Lee'
When Homer switches networks, Lisa and Bart along with Itchy and Scratchy drop into an episode of Live with Regis and Kathie Lee which ran from 1989 to 2000 when Kathie Lee Gifford left the show. Regis now hosts with Kelly Ripa. While Regis is more known for the talk show circuit, Kathie Lee is known for being Frank Gifford's wife, Carnival Cruise Line and sweatshop made clothes.

Kathie Lee: "That's it! I'm going home! Dom DeLouise can interview himself."
Dom Deluise starred in the films Blazing Saddles (1974), Cannonball Run (1981) and Spaceballs (1987). He was also the host of the TV show Candid Camera from 1991 to 1992.

Episode: Act III Title - Starship Poopers
This title and the logo for it is a spoof on Starship Troppers, the 1997 movie starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Myer and Denise Richards. Its about a futuristic battle between alien bugs and humans.

Homer: "This little piggie went to Kwik-E-Mart, this little piggie went nuts, this little piggie went surfing and this little piggie went--oohhh, Marge! Maggie lost her baby legs!"
This is a Homerized variation of a classic nursery rhyme. It's exact origins are unknown but it was first published in 1728. The most common lyrics are:
This Little Piggy went to market
This Little Piggy stayed at home
This Little Piggy had roast beef
This Little Piggy had none
and This Little Piggy went wee wee wee all the way home!

Episode: Plot - An alien is actually Maggie's real father.
The TV series Soap also had a plot with this theme. That show ran from 1977-1981.
The 1993-2002 sci-fi hit series The X-Files also delt with aliens fathering babies.
The 1998 movie, My Stepmothter is an Alien aslo delt with parental alien issues. This film was directed by Richard Benjamin and the cast included Dan Aykroyd, Kim Basinger, John Lovitz, Alyson Hannigan and Seth Green.

Episode: Scene - Marge knits a baby jumper with tentacle legs.
There is also a scene towards the end of the 1991 Addams Family movie where Morticia Addams (played by Anjelica Huston) knits a tentacle legged baby outfit.

TV Announcer: "We'll return with 'How Dracula Got His Groove Back'..."
This parodies the title of the 1998 film, How Stella Got Her Groove Back which stars Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs and Whoopi Goldberg and was directed by Kevin Rodney Suliivan.

Alien Ship Announcer: "Warning! Warning! Prepare to be abducted!"
This is spoken in a similar tone as the robot from the Lost in Space TV series (1965-1968) and the 1998 movie. His famous line is "Danger, Robinson family, Danger!"

Kang: "And now she must return home to Rigel 7, where she will be guaranteed a lucrative civil service job-for life."
Rigel 7 is a planet in the Star Trek universe.

Jerry Springer: "Homer, how'd it feel to learn your baby was fathered by a drooling space octopus?"
The Simpsons family and the aliens appear on the controversial day time talk show, The Jerry Springer show, topic: My Daddy's a Space Monster! Since the show first aired in 1991, it has progressively gotten trashier and each week the guests stories seem to get more and more scandalous. They are also famous for their knock down drag out fights which they have to censor carefully now and they notorious for nudity-not that anyone would ever want to see the majority of these people naked.

Jerry Springer: "Now hold on Kang, you can't bully my audience with your fancy ray gun."
Once in the comic strip Ernie an alien character went on Jerry's show and zapped him as well as his audience. This comic strip was created by B. Grace and is now called Piranha Club.
Aliens also zap an entire audience in the all star 1996 movie Mars Attacks directed by Tim Burton and featuring Jack Nicholson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Natalie Portman Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Danny Devito and Martin Short.

Bart: "Don't forget Ken Starr!"
Ken Starr is a lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the Whitewater land transactions by President Clinton and later the Monica Lewinsky scandal. In early 2004 he was appointed dean of Pepperdine university's School of Law.

| | Goofs, Gaffes and Nitpicks | |

Electrocution would have destroyed the organs of Snake's that were used for transplants. Plus, electrocution victims must have their heads shaved before heading to the chair.

The screwed up papers (one brown, one white) beside Bart's waste paper basket "magically" swap places.

When Homer is trying to kill Bart, he breaks open the door, later on, the door is normal again, then broken, then normal ...

Maggie's "baggie" turned from blue to white between the time Homer entered Bart's room and when Marge did.

In Terror of Tiny Toon, on various shots Marge's dress changes shades of green drastically.

Lisa and Bart would rather stay home and watch Itchy and Scratchy than go trick-or-treating?

Homer's "tulebox" disappears after Bart gets the plutonium piece.

Homer goes from his grungy hobo attire to suddenly wearing his regular clothes and being clean shaven.

Regis exclaims "My eyes, my beautiful eyes!" However, we see that the soup comes nowhere near his eyes.

Bart pulls the marker out of nowhere.

The blood that splatters on Bart and Lisa disappears in the next shot.

Bart's shirt changes green for a minute.

Lisa has no nose at one point.

Television remote controls do not have a "exit" button.

Homer and Marge are disproportionate to each other at the end of Terror of Tiny Toon.

Jerry Springer's voice says "ladies and Gentlemen, meet KANG," but his animated mouth obviously says, "KODOS".

The line about Ken Star was obviously added after animation.

| | Creep Show | |

Robert Englund, as you know, plays Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm St. and Freddy Vs. Jason films. He has also been in Urban Legend (1998), Wishmaster (1997), The Mangler (1995) and many other horror and thriller films.

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Blackboard: Bart paints "Treehouse of Horror IX" on the blackboard with a blood-soaked brush. He keeps his blood refills in a plastic jack-o-lantern bucket normally reserved for Halloween treats.
Garage: Bart slips on his skateboard and breaks his neck, Lisa drives into Bart on her bike and is thrown off into the wall where she gets stuck. Then Marge and Maggie drive Homer into the wall, killing him.
Couch: Freddy and Jason are sitting there asking themselves where the Simpsons are then they turn the tv on.

The original version of 'Hell Toupée' had Troy McClure host Snake's execution, but due to the untimely death of Phil Hartman who provided the voice of McClure, the sequence was redone and Ed McMahon became the replacement. The Troy McClure version has never been aired on TV.

Things Itchy & Scratchy shot out of their cannon: Inanimate carbon rod, Four knives, Axe, Two arrows, Rocket, Bomb, Chattering teeth, Stick of dynamite and a Gun.

Watch the silly shadowing when Bart and Lisa jump into the police car.

In the original script for 'Starship Poopers', Homer uses an on-screen menu and Lisa tells him to push Exit. That menu was never animated, which is why the nonexistent exit button was added to the remote.

More Crazy Halloween Credits:

Created by RAT GROENING
Developed by VEINS HELL BROOKS, MATT GROIN INJURY, SAM "SAYONARA" SIMON
Co-Executive Producer AL "I MURDERED MIKE REISS" JEAN
Co-Producer MORTIFIED TONY MARTIN
Co-Producer OMINOUS CAROLINE OMINE
Consulting Producer JAUNDICED JACE RICHDALE
Consulting Producer FEROCIOUS FRANK MULA
Consulting Producer DAVID "BURNING" STERN
Consulting Producers TOM G-G-G-GAMMILL, AXE PROSS
Consulting Producer DECADENT DAVID MIRKIN
Consultant TRIPLE ADMIRAL JOHN SWARTZWELDER
Produced by COLIN "I'M DEAD" LEWIS
Produced by HEINOUS RICHARD RAYNIS
Executive Producer MIKE "INSERT SCARY NAME" SCULLY
Executive Producer VEINS HELL BROOKS, BRAT GROENING, SAM "SAYONARA" SIMON
Animation Producer mike@wolfman.den
Animation Executive Producers KING GHOUL
Executive Consultant "WRETCHED" RICH MOORE
Executive Story Editor DR. DOYLE & MR. LARRY
Executive Story Editor TIM "MILDLY UNNERVING" LONG
Associate Producer DOMI "JUNK IN THE TRUNK" BRO
Music Decomposed by SHEER TERROR CLAWS-SON
Casting by BONITA THE VEGETARIAN BUTCHER
Editors BRANDON SHELDON BRIDGE, DIABLO DON BAROZZO
Animation Co-Producer JOEL "JUMP SHIP" KUWAHARA
Post-Production Coordinator DR.EVIL
Dialogue Sound Editors BOBBY "THE SCARY MONK" MACKSTON, TERRY RODHAM GREENE
Tune Tanglers ME CRIED SLASH, BLOB CREATURE
Sound Effects Editor SIVART F. SREWOP
Re-Recording Mixers RUSTY "BLADE" SMITH, BILL FRANKENFREESH
Creative Consultant BAT GROENING
Executive Creative Consultant VEINS HELL BROOKS

| | Music | |

THEME: Danny "HELL"fman
SCORE: Danny "HELL"fman