History Recap / TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Martin Prince dresses up as Calliope, the Greek muse of heroic poetry.

* AndThatsTerrible: PlayedForLaughs in the exchange between Homer and the House of Evil shopkeeper, who keeps introducing new pros and cons to his purchase ("...it carries a terrible curse!" "[[CaptainObvious That's bad!]]" "But it comes with a free frogurt!" "That's good!" "The frogurt is also cursed." "That's bad.") It ends with the shopkeeper having to explain that potassium benzoate, an ingredient in the frozen yogurt toppings, is bad after Homer blanks out on how to respond.

* AndThatsTerrible: PlayedForLaughs in the exchange between Homer and the House of Evil shopkeeper ("...it carries a terrible curse!" "[[CaptainObvious That's bad!]]" "But it comes with a free frogurt!" "That's good!" "The frogurt is also cursed." "That's bad.") It ends with the shopkeeper having to explain that potassium benzoate, an ingredient in the frozen yogurt toppings, is bad after Homer blanks out on how to respond.

* AndThatsTerrible: PlayedForLaughs in the exchange between Homer and the House of Evil shopkeeper ("..it carries a terrible curse!" "[[CaptainObvious That's bad!]]" "But it comes with a free frogurt!" "That's good!" "The frogurt is also cursed." "That's bad.") It ends with the shopkeeper having to explain that potassium benzoate, an ingredient in the frozen yogurt toppings, is bad after Homer blanks out on how to respond.

* AndThatsTerrible: PlayedForLaughs in the exchange between Homer and the House of Evil shopkeeper.

-->'''Homer:''' Don't you remember? He went golfing all the time, and it really bugged her.

-->'''Homer:''' D'oh!

-->'''Lisa:''' You said he went bowling.

** Speaking of canceled shows being shown as "dead" in a graveyard, one of the tombstones reads, ''Drexell's Class'', a live-action show that aired on FOX for a little while as a lead-out to ''The Simpsons''. That show had Dabney Coleman (among other things, he was the [[BadBoss sexist boss]] in ''Film/NineToFive'' and the voice of Peter Prickley on ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'') as the title character.

* AffablyEvil: Zombie Flanders in "Dial Z for Zombies" retains the affable attitude he had as a human, even cheerfully asking if he can chew Homer's ear.

** Later, the Krusty doll scares him out of the bathtub and he runs past Marge, Patty and Selma.
-->'''Patty''': [[FanDisservice There goes the last lingering threads of my heterosexuality!]]

Showman Mr. Burns hires a single white female (Marge Bouvier) to come with them on an excursion to Ape Island to find the mythical King Homer. There, the natives notice them because of Marge's protruding hair and she is offered in sacrifice to the ape, who takes a liking to her instead of eating her. However, Burns' crew knocks King Homer out and Burns puts him on Broadway.[[note]]If Homer was killed, he would have been cooked him into monkey stew for the Army.[[/note]]

* AnachronismStew: Washington, Einstein, and Shakespeare were all buried in Springfield, apparantly.

*** The spell that turns Lisa into a snail consists of names of 1970s TV detectives ([[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Kolchak]], Series/{{Mannix}}, Series/{{Banacek}}, [[Series/HawaiiFiveO Danno]]), and the spell to return zombies to their graves are the brand names of condoms (Trojan, Ramses, Magnum, Shiek), which, back then, was considered risque.

* FreezeFrameBonus: During the swirling newspaper gag announcing "Woman Weds Ape" (with the subheadline "Dick Cavett Born" featuring his ''adult'' picture), we briefly see a subheadline of "Creator/WoodyAllen Born" with a picture of him instead, meaning the writers were originally going to use that as the joke, but had to have it changed before the episode aired.

* PretendWereDead: Homer spots Barney eating an arm and exclaims "[[MistakenForUndead Barney, not you too!]" to which Barney replies: "I'm not a zombie, but hey, when in Rome..."

** On the newspaper Marge is holding with Mr. Burns' wanted ad, the one above can be seen asking for someone who "likes Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain".

!!"But the TROPES are okay...?:

* PretendWereDead: Homer spots Barney eating an arm and exclaims "Barney, not you too!" to which Barney replies: "I'm not a zombie, but hey, when in Rome..."

** On the newspaper Marge is holding with Mr. Burns' wanted ad, the one above can be seen asking for someone who "likes Pina Coladas and getting caught in the rain".

* AnarchronismScew: Washington, Einstein, and Shakespeare were all buried in Springfield, apparantly.

* PlotHole: Washington, Einstein, and Shakespeare were all buried in Springfield, apparantly.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Homer dresses in a toga to play Julius Caesar, but the sheet catches on a nail and he stands in his underwear in front of everybody. Well, he ''did'' say "Behold, mighty Caesar, in all his glory!"

* RealityEnsues: In "King Homer", Homer, playing the role of the ape, grabs Marge and tries to scale a building with her. But due to his bad diet, he barely even makes it a foot up the building before dropping to the ground, winded.

* StayInTheKitchen: Smithers avers that "women and seamen don't mix" while the crew is sailing to Ape Island with Marge in tow. Given what we [[StraightGay now know about Smithers]], this could be interpreted [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre another way.]]

* EvilLaugh: In Kang and Kodos' obligatory cameo appearance, they laugh at the thought of humanity being overrun by zombies. Bart also gets one for raising the dead.

* WouldHurtAChild: Or rather would ''eat'' a child. Not even the little Shirley Temple is safe from King Homer's voracious appetite, though he did briefly enjoy her singing.

* TakeThat: [[ItsPersonal A personal one]], at that. Three of the headstones in the pet cemetery read ''WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyDog'' and ''WesternAnimation/FishPolice,'' all prime-time animated shows meant to [[DuelingShows compete with]] (and were promptly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped by]]) ''The Simpsons''. Another one reads ''Drexell's Class'', a short-lived live-action series that was also curb-stomped by ''The Simpsons''.