History Recap / TheSimpsonsS8E1TreehouseOfHorrorVII

** The micro universe naively worship Lisa like a god and shrink her to converse with her on how to deal with Bart. Too bad they didn't think through that shrinking Lisa would render her helpless to stop her brother, nor did they think of inventing a devise to ''unshrink'' her afterwards. The segment ends with them grovelling before a rightfully grouchy Lisa.

* VirusAndCureNames: Lisa invents the [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinking device]] called a "debigulator", and the device that reversed it was called a "rebigulator".

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Homer believed "Citizen Kang" would have a different ending had Kodos won: "Don't blame me; I voted for Kodos!"

** After Bart, Lisa, and Maggie first encounter Hugo, they flee in terror. We see three porcelain vases and hear their muffled voices, making us thing that's where they're hiding, but then they come bursting out of the closet.

** After their first encounter with Hugo, the episode cuts to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie all apparently hiding in vases, but then reveals that they were hiding out in the closet instead.

* GenderReveal: Despite having an apparently male voice and being physically indistinguishable from Kang, [[BizarreAlienBiology Kodos is apparently female]].

* WholePlotReference: The ''Genesis Tub'' segment is a reference to the ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E93TheLittlePeople The Little People]]". This plot would be referenced too in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode [[Recap/SouthParkS6E7SimpsonsAlreadyDidIt "Simpsons Already Did It"]] where the characters point out that Cartman bringing a bunch of "sea men" alive in an aquarium is similar to the plot of this Simpsons Halloween episode.

* TranslationTrainWreck: "Clinton" starts his speech with one, as Kodos is unfamiliar with baseball or any of Earth's sports. As a result, he tells voters that as a young boy, he dreamed of being a ''baseball'' (as opposed to a baseball player, which wouldn't have connected to his speech at all either, but at least would have made sense as a sentence). Of course, nobody in the audience is bright enough to realize how nonsensical this is.

* OfferingAnotherInYourStead: When Homer first sees Kang and Kodos aboard their ship, he fearfully states: "Don't eat me! I have a wife and kids! Eat them!"

* ArbitrarySkepticism: "The Genesis Tub" involves a scientist shrinking Lisa down with a device he calls "the De-Bigulator." When Lisa suggests returning her to her original size, the scientist dismisses the idea of a "Re-Bigulator" as completely laughable.

* AbusiveParents: Homer and Marge's solution to Hugo being "evil" is to lock him up in the attic and feed him fish heads once a week. Once Bart turns out to be evil, they do the same to him.

** Bart is thrown into the attic after discovering he's the evil twin.

This year's tales of terror include Bart meeting his long-lost {{Siamese Twin|s}} who lives in the attic and has gone insane, Lisa becoming a goddess to a small civilization she created out of a tooth, some cola, and Bart zapping her with static electricity, and Homer trying to stop Kang and Kodos from posing as UsefulNotes/BillClinton and UsefulNotes/BobDole and running for U.S. President.

** "Citizen Kang" ends with the Rigelian alien race enslaving the Earth.

** In the birth flashback, it looks like Dr. Hibbert is bisecting Bart and Hugo but really he's cutting up two pieces of legal documents apart so that Homer and Marge can both sign them.

** After taking the form of Dole and Clinton, Kodos declares they'll have to [[DeadlyEuphemism dispose]] of Homer, and seemingly activates a massive laser cannon. Homer finds himself staring down the barrel...which promptly sprays him with rum.

-->'''Lisa''': I believe they prefer to be called "ConjoinedTwins".
-->'''Dr. Hibbert''': And hillbillies want to be called "[[LessEmbarrassingTerm sons of the soil]]", but [[ForcedMeme it ain’t gonna happen]].