History Recap / TheSimpsonsS27E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXVI

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: While grading his students' essays, Bob wonder what this "Series/GameOfThrones" his students keep referencing is. His ignorance is likely due to the time he spent in prison.

* BondOneLiner: Bob, after he beats up Bart to a bloody pulp [[DropTheHammer with a sledgehammer]]:

* DeathMontage: PlayedForLaughs. Poor Bart gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by a HarpoonGun and then [[AndShowItToYou gets his heart ripped out of his chest]]; [[DropTheHammer gets whacked with a sledgehammer not once]] [[AmusingInjuries but many times]] [[RasputinianDeath in the manner of]] ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''; [[BoomHeadshot gets his head blown clean off with a gun]]; [[FedToTheBeast fed to a lion]]; SquashedFlat by a steamroller, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill then folded into a paper plane before being thrown into a]] DeadlyRotaryFan, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill then picked up and]] [[BurnBabyBurn tossed into a cremation furnace]]; handed a [[ShockinglyExpensiveBill shockingly expensive electric bill]] for the Reanimator that induces a HollywoodHeartAttack; [[ImMelting liquefied into juice]] (which has happened offscreen); and [[LudicrousGibs hacked into pieces with an axe]] (also happened offscreen). And he gets revived each time he gets killed only to become a cosmic punching bag.

!! Tropes associated with the opening:

!! ''Wanted: Dead, then Alive''

!! ''Homerzilla''

A parody of ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}''; the grandfather of the Simp-san family frequently sacrifices a doughnut to a giant sea monster to keep it at bay. When he dies and no more donuts are sent, the monster comes to shore and wrecks the city.

* TakeThat: To the two American remakes of ''Godzilla'' (mostly the [[Film/{{Godzilla1998}} 1998 version directed by]] Creator/RolandEmmerich [[note]]which also featured ''Simpsons'' cast members Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer and Nancy Cartwright[[/note]], down to the shortening of the title to "[[Film/GodzillaFinalWars Zilla]]"), and to the upcoming ''Franchise/StarWars'' film ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', which Comic Book Guy says he wanted to get a good seat for, and which he believes "will stink to high heaven!" Oh, and PETA for the lizard burgers.

!! ''Telepaths of Glory''

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

* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/{{Chronicle}}''.

* ShoutOut: When Milhouse falls into the hole, [[WesternAnimation/IceAge Scrat]] is seen running after his acorn in the background. Also, Milhouse shouts, "Everything's coming up Milhouse!", which is a parody of the song title "Everything's Coming up Roses" from ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'', and the way he summons moai statues of himself is a reference to the Tartaros Arc of ''Manga/FairyTail''. When Bart and Lisa go down the hole to save Milhouse, ''[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Fred Flintstone's car]]'' can be briefly seen.

To WesternAnimation/BugsBunny by Elmer Fudd![[note]]Apparently he hasn't watched ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc'' or ''[[WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck Rabbit Rampage]]'' (the non-lethal version), both involving Elmer's victory over Bugs.[[/note]]

It contains the following segments: Sideshow Bob finally kill Bart, then revives him when he realizes that the thrill of defeating his mortal enemy is gone in "Wanted: Dead, Then Alive"; Homer once again plays a famous movie monster (see "King Homer" in "Treehouse of Horror III") in "Homerzilla"; and "Telepaths of Glory", a ''Chronicle'' parody where Bart, Milhouse, and Lisa gain powers from a strange hole.

* 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); ''JustForFun/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).

* ILoveNuclearPower: How Lisa and Milhouse get their powers.