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* CallBack: This isn't the first time that [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXVIII Maggie was shown using demonic powers]]. (Though in the aformentioned example, Maggie's powers were justified because she was under Pazuzu's influence).

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* WomenAreWiser: [[ExaggeratedTrope To the point they]] [[NinetyPercentOfYourBrain develop psychic powers]] the boys lack, apparently.
--> '''Lisa:''' Girls are afraid to use them because then we're called "unfeminine". We needlessly lost a lot of good witches in Salem.
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* HighTechHeaven: After been bought out by Google, heaven is full of smart electronics now.
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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen". He replaces it with a poster for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Racecar]], and when he sees it in the mirror, he shouts "Aah, palindrome!"

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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen". He replaces it with a poster for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} [[Franchise/{{Cars}} Racecar]], and when he sees it in the mirror, he shouts "Aah, palindrome!"
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.

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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.

!!End Credits
* ClipShow: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5EVaCPeWjM A mosaic]] of the past 666 episodes are shown at the same time.
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* ElectiveMute: The other cleaning lady (who's supposed to be the one to fall for an alien) turns out to be this because she can't stand talking to Selma.
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* UnrelatedInTheAdaptation: Maggie isn’t the biological child of Homer and Marge, but one they adopted after Homer ignored her obviously demonic presence.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Homer trades his secondborn son for Maggie ignoring that shes evil. She would later kill him and Marge.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Homer trades his secondborn son for Maggie ignoring that shes she's evil. She would later kill him and Marge.

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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen". He replaces it with a poster for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Racecar]], and when he sees it in the mirror, he shouts "Aah, palindrome!"


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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen". He replaces it with a poster for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Racecar]], and when he sees it in the mirror, he shouts "Aah, palindrome!"
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Homer trades his secondborn son for Maggie ignoring that shes evil. She would later kill him and Marge.
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The 30th Treehouse of Horror features a demon Maggie, a mission to rescue Milhouse from another dimension, dead-Homer's spirit trying on some new bodies for size and Selma finally finding love in an unlikely place - the alien in the basement.

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* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Downplayed. While it's definitely meant to be the 80s, the cultural references are from throughout the decade, leaving Chief Wiggum [[LampshadeHanging to ask what year it's supposed to be]].
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* NoSell: Zig-zagged. Burns seemingly survives a finger snap from Kang's "Infinity Gauntlet" knock-off, only to be knocked out/killed by a thrown can.

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* NoSell: Zig-zagged. Burns seemingly survives a finger snap from Kang's "Infinity Gauntlet" [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame Gauntlet]] knock-off, only to be knocked out/killed by a thrown can.
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* WantedASonInstead: Marge gives birth to a boy, much to Homer's disappointment since he fears him growing into another Bart. This prompts him to exchange the baby for Maggie, despite Dr. Hibbert warning him "she tested positive for evil". After Maggie kills Dr. Hibbert, Homer responds with, "Still better than a boy."

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* WantedASonInstead: InvertedTrope. Marge gives birth to a boy, much to Homer's disappointment since he fears him growing into another Bart. This prompts him to exchange the baby for Maggie, despite Dr. Hibbert warning him "she tested positive for evil". After Maggie kills Dr. Hibbert, Homer responds with, "Still better than a boy."
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* ReferenceOverdosed: To TheEighties -- everything from the VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Atari game to New Coke.
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* ExorcistHead: Maggie makes her stuffed animals' heads twist around.
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* MythologyGag: The arcade machine Bart plays is called ''[[VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants Space Mutants]]''.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Jimbo, Shauna, and Kearney hang themselves because of Maggie.


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* DeathOfAChild: After Homer takes over Moe's body, it turns out that Moe is now in Maggie's body, which only means that Maggie died at some point so Moe can live in her body.
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* NumberOfTheBeast: Ned shows the Simpsons the "Mark of the Beast" on Maggie's head -- a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-shaped birthmark. He then realizes he was showing them the wrong mark, and shows them a 666 on her head. At the end of the sequence, the full mark is revealed to read "Episode 666 (or 667 if Fox rescheduled)".

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* NumberOfTheBeast: Ned shows the Simpsons the "Mark of the Beast" on Maggie's head -- a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-shaped birthmark. He then realizes he was showing them the wrong mark, and shows them a 666 on her head. At the end of the sequence, the full mark is revealed to read "Episode 666 (or 667 if Fox rescheduled)". Doubles as BitingTheHandHumor.
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* WantedASonInstead: Marge gives birth to a boy, much to Homer's disappointment since he fears him growing into another Bart. This prompts him to exchange the baby for Maggie, despite Dr. Hibbert warning him "she tested positive for evil".

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* WantedASonInstead: Marge gives birth to a boy, much to Homer's disappointment since he fears him growing into another Bart. This prompts him to exchange the baby for Maggie, despite Dr. Hibbert warning him "she tested positive for evil". After Maggie kills Dr. Hibbert, Homer responds with, "Still better than a boy."
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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen".

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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen". He replaces it with a poster for [[WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} Racecar]], and when he sees it in the mirror, he shouts "Aah, palindrome!"
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* SdrawkcabName: Homer puts a [[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Nemo]] poster in Maggie's room. When he looks in the mirror, he sees the character's name spelled as "Omen".
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Demon!Maggie uses her powers to tear apart the church, causing falling spires to impale Ned, Homer and Marge, spelling out the "X X X" in this year's TOH.
* IronicDeath: Strangled by his own stethoscope, stuffed into a baby incubator and flash-fried...not Dr. Hibbert's best day at the office.
* {{Irony}}: Ned said he was going to have to dig three graves, implying it would be Maggie and his slacker-transformed sons, only for him, Homer and Marge to end up dead after Demon!Maggie goes on a rampage.


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* GrievousHarmWithABody: When he's caught escaping, Kang bites off Smithers' head and spits it at Burns, dazing him enough for Kang, Selma and Homer to get away.


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* NoSell: Zig-zagged. Burns seemingly survives a finger snap from Kang's "Infinity Gauntlet" knock-off, only to be knocked out/killed by a thrown can.

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* WantedASonInstead: Marge gives birth to a boy, much to Homer's disappointment since he fears him growing into another Bart. This prompts him to exchange the baby for Maggie, despite Dr. Hibbert warning him "she tested positive for evil".

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* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The "Over Under" has the early ''Series/TheTracyUllman'' versions of Bart and Lisa.

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* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The "Over Under" "Over-Under" has the early ''Series/TheTracyUllman'' ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' versions of Bart and Lisa.


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* FormerlyFit: Homer is reincarnated in the body of a football player, which Marge is excited about. Unfortunately, the following morning, Homer has eaten so much the body is now as fat as the original Homer; to top it off, he instantly loses his hair, leaving him as bald as original Homer as well.


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* BizarreAlienSexes: Kodos hooks up with lesbian Patty, claiming that they have thirty sexual identities.


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* PopCulturePunEpisodeTitle: The title is a pun on ''Film/WhenHarryMetSally''.

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* NumberOfTheBeast: Ned shows the Simpsons the "Mark of the Beast" on Maggie's head -- a WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-shaped birthmark. He then realizes he was showing them the wrong mark, and shows them a 666 on her head. At the end of the sequence, the full mark is revealed to read "Episode 666 (or 667 if Fox rescheduled)".
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Maggie's eyes glow red when showing her demonic nature.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheOmen1976''.




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* ChalkOutline: After Milhouse is abducted, the police make outlines of his inhaler and [[BringMyBrownPants the massive pee stream he left behind]].
* MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The "Over Under" has the early ''Series/TheTracyUllman'' versions of Bart and Lisa.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Series/StrangerThings''.




!!When Hairy Met Slimy

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\n* DisneyOwnsThisTrope: Heaven was bought out by Google.
* TheCameo: One of the prospective bodies Homer looks at is [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Professor Farnsworth]].
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/HeavenCanWait1978''.

!!When Hairy Met SlimySlimy
* InterspeciesRomance: Between Selma Bouvier and Kang.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Selma calls Homer to help her free Kang with the prospect of her moving to another galaxy. Homer immediately appears next to her.
* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheShapeOfWater''.
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* GeniusBonus: [[WesternAnimation/Futurama Prof. Farnsworth]] among the possible candidates that Homer could use as a replacement body. In ''Film/HeavenCanWait1978'' (and the film that it's a remake of, ''Film/HereComesMrJordan''), Joe Pendleton (the character that Homer is spoofing in this segment) takes over the body of a businessman surnamed Farnsworth.

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* GeniusBonus: [[WesternAnimation/Futurama Prof. Farnsworth]] among the possible candidates that Homer could use as a replacement body. In ''Film/HeavenCanWait1978'' (and the film that it's a remake of, ''Film/HereComesMrJordan''), Joe Pendleton (the character that Homer is spoofing in this segment) takes over the body of a businessman surnamed Farnsworth.
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* GeniusBonus: [[WesternAnimation/Futurama Prof. Farnsworth]] among the possible candidates that Homer could use as a replacement body. In ''Film/HeavenCanWait1978'' (and the film that it's a remake of, ''Film/HereComesMrJordan''), Joe Pendleton (the character that Homer is spoofing in this segment) takes over the body of a businessman surnamed Farnsworth.
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Season 31 Episode 666

Original airdate: October 20, 2019

!!Opening sequence

!!Danger Things

!!Heaven Swipes Right

!!When Hairy Met Slimy

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