History Recap / TheSimpsonsS16E1TreehouseOfHorrorXV

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The alligators that attack Hans Moleman are drawn as resembling crocodiles, namely having the lower visible when the mouth is closed.

** When Ned tells Homer not to go to the plant due to the risk he could kill anyone, Homer still goes because as it's Lenny's birthday they are having Ice cream cake.

The Simpsons go on a "fantastic voyage" into Mr. Burns' body to save Maggie from being digested.

* FantasticVoyagePlot: The Simpsons [[AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent tour inside Mr Burns's body]].

* AdultFear: Marge has this reaction when she realizes that Maggie is missing, and more so that Maggie will suffer a slow death by either suffocation or hazardous acids in the area where she is.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Noticably, all characters voiced by Creator/HarryShearer and Creator/HankAzaria lack the posh and cockney accents the other British characters come with.

* DownerEnding: The Ned Zone ends with Ned killing Homer a fraction too late, and sending everyone in Springfield to heaven thanks to the nuclear meltdown.

* SkewedPriorities: Marge believed that Homer blew up the town just to get out of cleaning the garage.

* TakeThat: To Rosie O'Donnell. When Ned Flanders predicted her new musical would close after three performances, he commented he didn't need his power to see that.

* YouCantFightFate: In the process of trying to prevent his second vision of Homer pressing the core destruct button, Ned ends up fulfilling the first vision (that he would shoot Homer). Then the second vision comes true anyway when Homer manages to hit the button in his death throes.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Homer in "The Ned Zone", apparently. When Ned says that he just had a vision of him killing Homer, Bart responds with "In this neighbourhood, who hasn't?

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ned's attempts to avoid killing Homer and preventing him from destroying Springfield are what ultimately lead those events to happen.

%%* DancePartyEnding

* TooDumbToLive: Granted, most people wouldn't listen to a man talking about seeing the future. However it is taken UpToEleven when Homer doesn't even pause for thought when he thinks Ned is telling him to press the core destruct button. Not even when Ned tells him, even through the static interferance that it will kill everyone.

* TooDumbToLive: Granted most people wouldn't listen to a man talking about seeing the future. However it is taken UpToEleven when Homer doesn't even pause for thought when he thinks Ned is telling him to press the core destruct button. Not even when Ned tells him, even through the static interferance that it will kill everyone.

* {{Fanservice}}: Marge in third story. Before, she wonders why her swimsuit has to be so skimpy. Homer tells her that he appreciates it. After, when the white blood cells are eating her clothes she is stripped to her undergarments.

* OpiumDen: The Victorian segment excurses into an opium den operated by Moe. Mr. Burns is a customer.

* TheDeterminator: Homer persistently tries to press the nuclear destruct button, even as he is being shot.
* TooDumbToLive: Granted most people wouldn't listen to a man talking about seeing the future. However it is taken UpToEleven when Homer doesn't even pause for thought when he thinks Ned is telling him to press the core destruct button. Not even when Ned tells him, even through the static interferance that it will kill everyone.
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Homer in "The Ned Zone", apparently. When Ned says that he just had a vision of him killing Homer, Bart responds with "In this neighbourhood, who hasn't?"

* AdultFear: Marge has this reaciton when she realizes that Maggie is missing, and more so that Maggie will suffer a slow death by either suffocation or hazardous acids in the area where she is.

* DancePartyEnding

* TooDumbToLive: Granted most people wouldn't listen to a man talking about seeing the future. However it is taken UpToEleven when Homer doesn't even pause for thought when he thinks Ned is telling him to press the core destruct button. Not even when Ned tells him, even through the static interferance that it will kill everyone.

{{Foreshadowing}}: While Mr. Burns points to Homer when giving his description, he doesn’t actually identify him as the buyer, hinting that Homer is not the real killer.

* JerkAssHasAPoint: When everyone ends up in heaven (along with the garage), Marge tells off Homer for destroying Springfield just to get out of cleaning the garage. He had one job.

* NotHelpingYourCase: Homer in the second segment is found in an opium den, and it's revealed he bought Mr. Burn's prized sword. He actually is innocent of the crime. Then to escape the detectives, he starts tossing the addicts' bodies at them and run.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When he first finds out Ned is destined to kill him, Homer gives him a pistol, even slapping that, prompting Ned to say "Quit whacking my barrel!"

* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs, as Homer ends up [[spoiler: trapped inside Burns' body after regenerating to his normal size after he was unable to leave with the family. However, he mostly is upset over not having a ''mouth of his own to eat food'' and seems to be pleased when he and Burns dance to [[RefugeInAudacity "I've Got You Under My Skin".]])]]

* {{Fanservice}}: Marge in third story. Before, she wonders why her swimsuit has to be so skimpy. After, when the white blood cells are eating her clothes she is stripped to her undergarments.

Homer attempts to get a frisbee off his roof with a bowling ball. One of his attempts hits Ned Flanders in the head. Later, in the hospital, Dr. Hibbert informs Ned that he nearly died- of a brain tumor. The bowling ball actually saved him by knocking it out of his head. Hibbert shakes Flanders' hand, and Flanders sees a vision of Hibbert falling to his death. In the real world, he freaks out and pulls his hand away.

Hibbert sees how pale he looks, and opens the window to get Flanders some fresh air. The Simpsons come to visit, and Homer asks Dr. Hibbert to get his frisbee off the ledge. While reaching for it, Hibbert falls out the window. He realizes that this is going to hurt and injects himself with a painkiller. That done, he hits the ground and dies- in the exact manner that Ned predicted.

Ned reluctantly complies, and sees Homer being shot three times from behind- and the shooter is Ned Flanders himself. Flanders pulls away, terrified.

He later tries to move, but Homer doesn't believe that Flanders will kill him and ''does'' believe in TemptingFate. Homer gets Wiggum to give Homer his gun, and gives the gun to Flanders, urging Flanders to shoot. While Homer taunts Flanders, he sees a vision of Homer pressing a button at the nuclear plant- and causing Springfield to be destroyed. Flanders warns Homer, but he's unphased and goes to work anyway.

At this point, God interrupts and gives Homer "what he deserves"- his frisbee.

Lisa takes the ledger, and uses it to learn who bought the Seven Swords of Osiris, while a muttonchop-wearing shadow stalks them. She finds out that they were sold to one C. Ebenezar Burns, evil industrialist and opium addict. They find him in Mao's Den of Iniquity, which is run by Moe. He says that he once possessed the entire collection- but then sold them all to buy opium. Lisa asks who he sold them to. He says he sold them to a fat man with sideburns- like the one in a greatcoat and top hat right behind them.

The next day, Homer is about to be hanged for the actions of the Muttonchop Murderer. He pleads for mercy, saying that he's not a murderer. Wiggum is about to pull the lever, when Lisa shows up and tells him not to, as Homer is innocent. Her evidence? The blade used in the latest murderer smelled of eel pie- like the one Wiggum is eating at that very moment.

!!Tropes:

* BodyHorror: PlayedForLaughs, as Homer ends up [[spoiler: trapped inside Burns' body after regenerating to him normal size after he was unable to leave with the family. However, he mostly is upset over not having a ''mouth of his own to eat food'' and seems to be pleased when he and Burns dance to [[RefugeInAudacity "I've Got You Under My Skin".]])]]

** His vision of Hans Moleman's death is also his fault - his vision gives him such a shock, he drops him into the sewer where the gators feed on him.

* OrWasItADream: ''Four Beheadings and a Funeral'' ends with Ralphie telling his father that he'd just had the strangest dream- only to be told that he was still dreaming.

-->'''Ned:''' Homer, do not press the core destruct button!
-->'''Transmitted into the booth:''' Homer, (Static) press (Static) Destruct button!
-->'''Homer:''' Okay.
-->'''Ned:''' Don't do it! You'll kill everyone!
-->'''Transmitted:''' (Static) Do it! (Static) Kill everyone!
* ProfaneLastWords: There is a button in the nuclear power plant that can blow up the entire city. Ned Flanders shoots Homer to stop him from pressing the button but Homer ends up dying next to the button...only for his tongue to end up pressing it.
-->'''Ned''': Oh, you stupid, son of a-\\

* ShoutOut: The opening sequence, ''Keepin' It Kodos'', is this to many sitcoms of the [[TheEighties 1980s]], and the opening song (and closing credits) is the ''Series/PerfectStrangers'' theme song.