History Recap / TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI

* WickedWitch: One is seen flying on her [[FlyingBroomstick broomstick]], amongst the ghosts chasing the Simpsons kids.

* MythologyGag: The entire segment involves Bart dying at the hands of Sideshow Bob, who later finds out that life is meaningless without his ArchEnemy around, and discovers that the only thing that made him happy in his life was killing Bart; so he creates a Reanimator machine and brings his ArchEnemy back to life to kill him over and over again. This plot is kinda similar to ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode "The Tears of a Clone".

* OfCorpseHesAlive: Bob hides the evidence that he killed Bart from Principal Skinner and Bart's father Homer, the latter by having Bart's body watch ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' and smile, and by showing Homer the tattoo on his (Bob's) back that says "I ♥ Bart" with a HeartSymbol.

* ReferenceOverdosed: Hoo boy! There's a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] in this segment. They are: ''Literature/{{American Girl|s Collection}}'' (which Bob references as Milhouse's wallpaper); Vaslav Nijinsky (ballet dancer and choreographer also referenced by Bob); the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' franchises (when Bob murders Bart with a HarpoonGun in a gruesome way... and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX takes a selfie with the corpse and uploads it on social media]]); ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' ("Tell my father... he's... fat..."); Website/{{Facebook}} (here known as [[BlandNameProduct Fiendbook]]); WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Elmer Fudd in ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' (also referenced by Bob); ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' (when Bob carries Bart's corpse to his house where he plays and drinks with it); ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' (Bob has Bart's corpse watch the show); ''[[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker: Going Sane]]'' (when Bob tries living a normal life by taking up poetry class after killing Bart, only to realize that [[VictoryIsBoring life just isn't the same without Bart around]]); ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'' by Creator/TSEliot (lines are recited by Bob); Website/{{Google}}, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, and Website/{{Twitter}} (which the social media-obsessed students use); ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' (which Bob claims Eliot is the author of); ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (which said students reference); Snapchat; White Zinfandel (a dry-to-sweet, pink-colored blush wine, which Bob compares Bart to); ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' (when Bob goes to Springfield's University's Black Arts Building for the ingredients for the Reanimator); ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' (which Bob references as a frog); ''Film/ReAnimator'' (when he creates the aptly named machine used to resurrect Bart); Lucky Charms (in which its leprechaun mascot is one of the ingredients used for the machine); ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (when Bob makes a whack at Bart with a sledgehammer, and Bart keeps replying that he's still not dead, forcing Bob to bludgeon him in fury until his (Bart's) guts spill out); and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''[='=]s AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' (Bart's DeathMontage).

* BodyInABreadbox: Parodied: When Bob returns home after attending Springfield University as a professor, he opens the wall compartment near a portrait... and reveals Bart's corpse, which he has stuffed in there, now standing as his trophy.

* AndShowItToYou: After impaling Bart with a HarpoonGun, Bob adds insult to injury and twists it further by yanking the projectile from Bart's chest, ''ripping out his heart as he does so!'' Bonus points as Bart sees the hole in his chest, then looks at Bob holding his heart as he utters out his FamousLastWords before dying.

* FamousLastWords: Bart, after Bob pulls the spear projectile and his heart out of his chest:
-->'''Bart:''' [-Tell my father...-] [--he's...--] [---fat...---] ''[dies]''

* IfIDoNotReturn: Parodied: After Bart is impaled and gets his heart yanked out, he knows that he's dying and won't come back home, so he tells his ArchEnemy his FamousLastWords: "Tell my father... he's... fat..."

* KilledMidSentence: Subverted: Bart uses his parodied KissingInATree chant on Bob, but before he gets to the "G" part in "S-U-C-K-I-N-G", Bob fires a spear projectile on him, impaling him. It doesn't faze Bart, at first, and he keeps talking until he falters. And when Bob yanks the projectile and the heart out of Bart's chest, he finishes his FamousLastWords before dying.

* ReferenceOverdosed: Hoo boy! There's a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] in this segment. They are: ''Literature/{{American Girl|s Collection}}'' (which Bob references as Milhouse's wallpaper); Vaslav Nijinsky (ballet dancer and choreographer also referenced by Bob); the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' franchises (when Bob murders Bart with a HarpoonGun in a gruesome way... and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX takes a selfie with the corpse and uploads it on social media]]); ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' ("[[FamousLastWords Tell my father... he's... fat...]]"); Website/{{Facebook}} (here known as [[BlandNameProduct Fiendbook]]); WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Elmer Fudd in ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' (also referenced by Bob); ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' (when Bob carries Bart's corpse to his house where he plays and drinks with it); ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' (Bob has Bart's corpse watch the show); ''[[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker: Going Sane]]'' (when Bob tries living a normal life by taking up poetry class after killing Bart, only to realize that [[VictoryIsBoring life just isn't the same without Bart around]]); ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'' by Creator/TSEliot (lines are recited by Bob); Website/{{Google}}, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, and Website/{{Twitter}} (which the social media-obsessed students use); ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' (which Bob claims Eliot is the author of); ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (which said students reference); Snapchat; White Zinfandel (a dry-to-sweet, pink-colored blush wine, which Bob compares Bart to); ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' (when Bob goes to Springfield's University's Black Arts Building for the ingredients for the Reanimator); ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' (which Bob references as a frog); ''Film/ReAnimator'' (when he creates the aptly named machine used to resurrect Bart); Lucky Charms (in which its leprechaun mascot is one of the ingredients used for the machine); ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (when Bob makes a whack at Bart with a sledgehammer, and Bart keeps replying that he's still not dead, forcing Bob to bludgeon him in fury until his (Bart's) guts spill out); and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''[='=]s AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' (Bart's DeathMontage).

* VocalDissonance: After Bob shoots Bart with a HarpoonGun, Bart's voice quivers a bit while telling him he's (Bob) made "some... stupid... mistake"; but when Bob pulls the projectile and Bart's heart out of his chest, and he (Bart) collapses onto the floor, his weak 10-year-old boy's voice slips into a dying grownup woman's voice as he barely utters out his FamousLastWords before he dies.

* {{Mondegreen}}: The lyrics of "The Soul Candy Song" say, "He'll chew your juicy insides, / ''Masticate'' you till you're pulp". Of course, with the zombie Frank Grimes chewing Bart's soul like gum, it could be easier for those listening to mishear it as [[ADateWithRosiePalms the other m-word]].

* DeathIsCheap: The re-animation machine Bob creates easily brings Bart back to life with no ill effects every time Bob kills him, no matter how severe his body was damaged.

* BullyingADragon[=/=]TemptingFate: Bart [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice learns this the hard way]] when taunting Bob with a "YouWouldntShootMe" while writing an "X" on his forehead with blue chalk, and using a "[[KissingInATree Sucking in a Tree]]" chant when confronted with a HarpoonGun in the music room.

'''Treehouse Of Horror XXVI''' is a WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror Halloween episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and the fifth episode of the 27th season.

!! Tropes associated with the opening

* AcquittedTooLate[=/=]DeathByCameo: Snake Jailbird. Lisa mentions in the family's search for Bart that Snake was tried and executed for Bart's murder, though she knew that Snake had nothing to do with it, and that it was Bob all along.

%% * BloodierAndGorier: Of course it happens!

* TheBadGuyWins: So what would happen if Sideshow Bob finally killed Bart? This segment provides an answer.

* IAintGotTimeToBleed: Played with: After Bob impales Bart in the chest with a HarpoonGun, Bart seems unfazed and shrugs it off as if it was nothing... at first. Then he [[OhCrap suddenly realizes he's dying]], and Bob points it out further by pulling the spear projectile ''{{and|ShowItToYou}}'' [[AndShowItToYou his heart]] out of his chest. Ouch!

* ReferenceOverdosed: Hoo boy! There's a lot of [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] in this segment. They are: ''Literature/{{American Girl|s Collection}}'' (which Bob references as Milhouse's wallpaper); Vaslav Nijinsky (ballet dancer and choreographer also referenced by Bob); the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' franchises (when Bob murders Bart with a HarpoonGun in a gruesome way... and [[VideoGame/MortalKombatX takes a selfie with the corpse and uploads it on social media]]); ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' ("[[FamousLastWords Tell my father... he's... fat...]]"); Website/{{Facebook}} (here known as [[BlandNameProduct Fiendbook]]); WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and Elmer Fudd in ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' (also referenced by Bob); ''Film/WeekendAtBernies'' (when Bob carries Bart's corpse to his house where he plays and drinks with it); ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' (Bob has Bart's corpse watch the show); ''[[SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker Joker: Going Sane]]'' (when Bob tries living a normal life by taking up poetry class after killing Bart, only to realize that [[VictoryIsBoring life just isn't the same without Bart around]]); ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'' by Creator/TSEliot (lines are recited by Bob); Website/{{Google}}, Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}, and Website/{{Twitter}} (which the social media-obsessed students use); ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' (which Bob claims Eliot is the author of); ''Series/GameOfThrones'' (which said students reference); Snapchat; White Zinfandel (a dry-to-sweet, pink-colored blush wine, which Bob compares Bart to); ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' (when Bob goes to Springfield's University's Black Arts Building for the ingredients for the Reanimator); ''Magazine/TheNewYorker'' (which Bob references as a frog); ''Film/ReAnimator'' (when he creates the aptly named machine used to resurrect Bart); Lucky Charms (in which its leprechaun mascot is one of the ingredients used for the machine); ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' (when Bob makes a whack at Bart with a sledgehammer, and Bart keeps replying that he's still not dead, forcing Bob to bludgeon him in fury until his (Bart's) guts spill out); and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''[='=]s AnimatedAdaptation of ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' (Bart's DeathMontage).

--> '''Lisa:''' Milhouse has gone mad with power! Frankly, I thought it wouldn't take this long.

It contains the following segments:

--> '''Lisa:''' Milhouse has gone mad with power! Frankly, I didn't think it would take this long.

* MythologyGag: The entire segment involves Bart dying at the hands of Sideshow Bob, who later finds out that life is meaningless without his ArchEnemy around, and discovers that the only thing that made him happy in his life was killing Bart; so he creates a Reanimator machine and brings his ArchEnemy BackFromTheDead so that he can kill Bart over and over again a la ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker''. This plot is kinda similar to ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode "The Tears of a Clone".

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Bob bringing a HarpoonGun to Springfield Elementary's music room and shooting Bart with it feels kind of unsettling, yet reminiscent of UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} and most notably the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the latter of which left 20 children and six adults dead.

* BloodierAndGorier: Of course it happens! [[CaptainObvious Duh!]]

** The Homerzilla remake has him fighting [[Franchise/{{Gamera}} a flying turtle with fangs]].

* PersonalityPowers: Lisa notes that the telepathy powers are linked to intellect, which is why she and Milhouse have it and {{B|ookDumb}}art doesn't.

* ShoutOut: Grampa Simp-san at one time utters Franziska von Karma's "foolishly foolish fool" line from the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series.

The episode opens with a Kricfalusi-style animated short where the Simpson children are trick-or-treating before being set upon by soul-hungry spirits with a monstrous Frank Grimes among them. The spirits chase after the Simpson children to their house, with the Frank Grimes monster taking Homer's soul.

* ArtShift: Guest director Creator/JohnKricfalusi once again brings his unique look to the Simpsons.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: The kids are attacked by a 25-ft zombie Frank Grimes.

Then you're his favorite type!

* ShoutOut: Bart and Lisa wear WesternAnimation/HuckleberryHound and [[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Cindy Bear]] masks respectively.

* TitlePlease: This is the first halloween opening that does not show the "Treehouse of Horror" title.
* YourSoulIsMine: Zombie Grimes and the ghosts want to eat the Simpsons kids' souls. In the end, Grimes manages to eat Homer's.

* BlandNameProduct: At one time Bob takes a selfie with Bart's body during the "Largo al factotum" part and posts it on Fiendbook (parody of Website/{{Facebook}}); he even updates his status from "attempted murderer" to "murderer".

* BodyInABreadbox: Parodied: When Bob returns home after attending Springfield University as a professor, he opens the wall compartment near a portrait... and reveals Bart's corpse, which he has stuffed in there, now standing as a trophy.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The UK broadcaster of ''The Simpsons'', Sky, took exception to much of this segment and cut it to ribbons, with removals including most of Bob's initial killing of Bart, several of Bart's later deaths in the montage, Bob hiding the evidence from Skinner and the rest of the Simpsons and Bob's uses for Bart's corpse. This turns the story into an incomprehensible mess.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: Seconds before Homer revives Bart with the Reanimator, he points out that the animation for his dead son looks fine.

* CameBackWrong: Bart eventually uses this on purpose to get revenge on Bob, combining Bob’s severed head with a chicken and a pair of antlers before reviving him, thus turning him into an abomination.

* OfCorpseHesAlive: Bob hides the evidence that he killed Bart from Principal Skinner and Bart's father Homer, the latter by having Bart's body watch ''WesterAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' and smile, and by showing Homer the tattoo on his (Bob's) back that says "I ♥ Bart" with a HeartSymbol.