History Recap / TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII

* AndThisIsFor: Marge turns Lou and Eddie into Princess Tiana and a snowman respectively for pushing her off a cliff.

* ActuallyAGoodIdea: The Witch Sisters comment that Maude's idea of them eating their children is a great idea that they shouldn't pass up.

* AndThisIsFor: Marge turns Lou and Eddie into snowman and a princess for pushing her off a cliff.

* ForcedTransformation: As part of her revenge, [=WitchMarge=] turns Wiggum into a giant gopher, Eddie into a snowman and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Lou into a fairy princess]].

** [=WitchSelma=] comments that the brew needs more [[{{Theatre/Macbeth}} eye of newt]] while her sister complains that she always says that.

* NumberOfTheBeast: During the pre-title sequence, each time the Fox Censor gets stabbed by the rating box, the rating increases, and when he finally dies, it reaches 666. Afterwards, the EpisodeTitleCard is shown ''[[CouldntFindAPen with his blood]]''. The last two aren't real ratings, of course. The ''actual'' rating for this episode was TV-PG.

* NumberOfTheBeast: During the pre-title sequence, each time the Fox Censor gets stabbed by the rating box, the rating increases, and when he finally dies, it reaches 666. Afterwards, the EpisodeTitleCard is shown ''[[CouldntFindAPen with his blood]]''.

** In the first story Bart uses the Transporter to merge with a Fly.

* TooDumbToLive: Bart trying to fuse with a fly, since if it didn't swap their heads like the 1958 version of The Fly, he would have ended up like Seth Brundle. [[SlowTransformation And nobody wants to end up like Seth Brundle...]]

* KarmaHoudini: In "Easy-Bake Coven," Marge cast all sorts of curses on the village, sparked a massive witch hunt that got many innocent (if unpleasant) women killed, then proceeded to eat several children with her sisters before onto candy. At no point do any of them answer for their crimes.

* NoodleIncident: What exactly was the "frog's legs" joke Mayor Quimby made that pissed off the French enough to make them nuke Springfield? We don't know, but Kent Brockman thought it was hilarious.

** In "Easy Bake Covern" it seems like the Flanders saved the town from the witches by unwittingly starting "Trick or Treat". Marge then later notes it was only a shame they got full on so many kids ''before'' they went to the Flanders' house.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In "Easy Bake Covern", Marge is pushed off a cliff as a test if she is a witch (with the obvious outcome that she will die either way). Only she turns out to be an actual witch, to which everyone is shocked and openly never suspected (they just wanted a witch trial that day). She terrorises them as payback, unleashing nasty transformation curses on Wiggum and the other officials in particular.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: In "Easy-Bake Coven", Wiggum's statement that Marge will "fall to an honorable Christian death" if she isn't a witch is presented as a bit of InsaneTrollLogic, but this attitude actually ''is'' consistent with how real-life witch hunters reasoned on both sides of the Atlantic. As they saw it, it was safer to just kill anyone suspected of being a witch, since you'd be ridding the world of a demon if the accusation was true, and if they were innocent then they'd be sent to heaven as a martyr.

* BaitAndSwitch: At the end of "Fly vs. Fly", after Bart and the fly are turned back to normal via the transporter, Homer decides to pick up a fire axe and does "something [he] should have done a long time ago"...

* TooDumbToLive: Bart trying to fuse with a fly, since if it didn't swap their heads like the 1958 version of The Fly, he would have ended up like Seth Brudle. [[SlowTransformation And nobody wants to end up like Seth Brundle...]]