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2	Bart and Milhouse get trapped in a cursed board game in "War and Pieces," Homer and Marge's honeymoon trip on a boat gets interrupted by a castaway who may be a murderer in "Master and Cadaver" and Lisa falls for a preteen vampire called Edmund in "Tweenlight."
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5	!!Tropes:
6	* AffablyEvil: Dracula is a typical parent, despite the whole bloodsucking thing. He embarrasses Edmund while meeting Lisa's parents, and helps Homer chase down the kids when they run away.
7	* [[AllJustADream All Just a Bath Time Daydream]]: "Master and Cadaver" is revealed to be a daydream in Maggie's imagination.
8	* AsleepForDays: In "Master and Cadaver", Roger said that his boss and his partners were poisoned, just days prior to being rescued by Marge and Homer. However, they were vaccinated from the poison and just laid there for days until they were conveniently woken up by Homer murdering Roger.
9	* BreakingTheFourthWall: From "Master and Cadaver", when Homer becomes suspicious of Roger's story and baking prowess.
10	--> '''Homer:''' They should've called this one, "Recipe for Murder".\
11	'''Marge:''' [[AudienceWhatAudience What do you mean, "this one"?]]
12	* ContinuityNod: One of the board games is Ravenous Ravenous Rhinos from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E5FatManAndLittleBoy Fat Man and Little Boy]]".
13	* CrazyJealousGuy: Homer in "Master and Cadaver."
14	* CrazyPrepared: Roger's boss gave everyone an antidote because he knew their host would try to poison them. This allows them to at least survive up until Homer decides to LeaveNoWitnesses.
15	-->'''Homer:''' Looks like you've got a ''flare'' for avoiding death.
16	* DemotedToExtra: Kang makes an obligatory brief cameo with no lines as Selma's future hubby in a dating board game.
17	* {{Dracula}}: He is Edmund's father.
18	* DownerEnding:
19	** "War and Pieces" ends with Bart defeating the enchanted board-game, only to summon up a live version of hangman. Millhouse fails to guess the last letter, and both boys are hanged.
20	** In "Master and Cadaver," Marge and Homer learned that they tried to murder an innocent man, only for Homer to murder Roger and all of the people on the ship who were miraculously not poisoned because he wants to leave no witnesses. Marge can't bear the guilt and eats the poisoned pie, leaving Homer alone in a boat full of corpses.
21	** It's PlayedForLaughs, but "Tweenlight" concludes with Homer's HeroicSacrifice below being for naught, when he plummets to his apparent death after transforming into a heavy bat.
22	* DrivenToSuicide:
23	** After fast forwarding the special at the beginning and thus ruining it for the viewers, Professor Frink [[RapidAging fast forwards]] himself to death.
24	** Milhouse allows himself to sink into the ocean during "Battle Boat" because he was, in his words, tired of living. He's inexplicably fine again by the hangman game.
25	** Unable to live with her guilt for the deaths of the innocent people in "Master and Cadaver", Marge eats a poisoned pie.
26	* EpicFail: Homer protecting Lisa from getting turned into a vampire in "Tweenlight" is negated due to the fact that ''he'' is turned into one instead and when deciding to fly away after turning into a bat he instead plummets to his death due to being too heavy.
27	* EveryoneHasStandards: Lisa was excited at the thought of being a vampire, until she learns that it would make her [[UndeadChild eight years old]] ''[[LampshadeHanging forever]]''. Dracula and Edmund still won't let her back out of it though!
28	* {{Fanservice}}: Marge in a black bikini for almost the whole second story.
29	* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the end of "Master and Cadaver," Maggie dons a bowler hat and fake eyelashes for one eye a la Alex [=DeLarge=] from ''Film/AClockworkOrange''. Turns out it became a subject for a [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXV future Treehouse of Horror]] segment called "A Clockwork Yellow", and Maggie as she appeared in that ending makes an appearance.
30	* HeroicSacrifice: Homer himself in the "Tweenlight" segment. He sacrifices himself for Lisa, so the two vampires could suck on his cholesterol-filled blood (and not the good kind of cholesterol).
31	* HiddenDepths: Edmund is embarrassed when Dracula reveals that he is musically gifted.
32	* {{Irony}}: That's how Homer sees the idea of a cross being used to kill somebody.
33	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Marge is horrified that she and Homer caused the deaths of so many people, a shark and a pelican in "Master and Cadaver". She eats the poisoned pie, which in turn leads to Homer's moment as he cradles Marge's dead body.
34	* KubrickStare: By Maggie, of all people, disguised as [[Film/AClockworkOrange Alex [=DeLarge=].]]
35	* OurWerebeastsAreDifferent: Milhouse in the "Tweenlight" segment can turn into a were-''poodle''.
36	* ReferenceOverdosed: All the board games they play are a reference to real board games, even ''Consternation,'' which is a reference to the ''Series/{{Concentration}}'' home game.
37	* RomanticVampireBoy: Edmund is an intentional parody of this.
38	* SwordfishSabre: Homer uses a mounted swordfish to spear a random pelican.
39	* TakeThat: "Tweenlight" makes fun of almost every thing ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' has been building on.
40	* TemptingFate: Marge tells Bart and Millhouse to play board games since she thinks video games are too violent. The board game that Bart and Millhouse plays is much more fatal.
41	* TooDumbToLive: Millhouse thinking that the number "3" was actually a letter -- while playing a literal version of Hangman where if the players guess wrong, they ''get hanged.''
42	* VampireEpisode: The "Tweenlight" segment.
43	* WholePlotReference: All of the segments subtly lampoon modern movies: ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' for "War and Pieces", ''Film/DeadCalm'' for "Master and Cadaver" and (of course) ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' for "Tweenlight."
44	* WouldHurtAChild: The executioner has no qualms about hanging two ten year old boys when they lose a game of hangman.
45	* YankTheDogsChain: Bart manages to beat the board game "Satan's Path" and bring Milhouse back to life. [[TooDumbToLive Then he suggests they just play hangman]], a game that has ''no'' board game pieces. The board game brings it to life, and Bart and Milhouse are hanged when they lose.

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