Trivia / The Simpsons S 11 E 4 Treehouse Of Horror X

• Awesome, Dear Boy:
  • Lucy Lawless jumped at the chance to be on the show, calling it her favorite experience guest-starring. She especially loved the speech where she mentions she was very tall for her age.
  • Dick Clark said similar reasons for his appearance in the third segment - saying it gave him the "biggest response" of anything he'd ever done.
• Creator Backlash: As heard on the DVD Commentary of this episode, the writers regret putting both Spike Lee and Al Sharpton on the rocketship being sent into the sun. In hindsight, they said they would have preferred to put New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner on the plane instead.
• Deleted Scene:
  • In "I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did", the Simpsons are driving and they smash into Lenny, Groundskeeper Willie, Carl, Grampa, and finally Patty and Selma.
  • In "Life's a Glitch, Then You Die", the Flanders get on the rocket to Mars.
• Fake American: A weird example. New Zealander Lucy Lawless fakes an American accent to play...herself. Maybe that's why everyone thinks she's the real Xena?
• Milestone Celebration: Since it was the tenth "Treehouse Of Horror" episode, the Couch Gag shows the Simpsons (except Lisa, who's wearing a simple axe-in-head costume) as various TOH characters: Homer as the jack-in-the-box in "Treehouse of Horror II"'s "Bart's Nightmare", Marge as her witch self in "Treehouse Of Horror VIII"'s "Easy Bake Coven" (albiet with her normal yellow skin rather than green skin like in the segment), Bart as the fly-headed hybrid from "Treehouse of Horror VIII"'s "Fly vs. Fly", and Maggie as Kang's mutant child in "Treehouse Of Horror IX"'s "Starship Poopers".
• Orphaned Reference: The Spooky Roller Disco in "I Know What You Diddly-Iddly-Did" was going to feature in the climax, as Homer would get chased inside.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The victim in "I Know What You Diddly-Iddly-Did" was supposed to be Grampa at first. Also the werewolf revelation only came about because the original writer left after finishing the first draft, and the last quarter of the segment had to be rewritten.
  • For the opening sequence to "Stretch Dude & Clobber Girl", the showrunners couldn't decide if Bart and Lisa would beat up Saddam Hussein or the Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini. They went with Saddam Hussein since he was always asking to be on the show.
• Write What You Know:
  • Donick Cary has Homer say "that's the end of that chapter" (which, coincidentally, is a call-back to "Homer to the Max") when he throws Ned's body into his house, because that's something he himself often says.
  • Tim Long wrote the Millhouse gag with his Halloween costume based on an experience he had as a child - where he asked for a Batman costume and just got a smock that said Batman on it.

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