I will try to find how a few Simpsons wiki written the following facts I chosen. For once I won't be writing in my typical style. But I made sure majority of these facts are quite interesting. A lot of this I didn't even know prior to starting to write either. I am quite excited for Halloween after all.
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, also played a character in the "It's a Good Life" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Officially the third segment in that horror anthology movie. Which The Bart Zone directly parodying in the episode.
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The original Treehouse of Horror episode that's set in a treehouse predated Ernest Scared Stupid by one year. Which also had Ernest built a treehouse.
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Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart, also played a character in the "It's a Good Life" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Officially the third segment in that horror anthology movie. Which The Bart Zone directly parodying in the episode.
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According to episode writer Al Jean. The episode had obstacles including colors usage. 6 weeks left the episode was subjected to a complete overhauled in South Korea. Approximately changing 100 lines.
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When the episode originally aired former president Nixon was still alive. Following his passing six months later. At the time, reruns of the episode were altered removing Nixon's line of "I'm not dead yet." Suddenly making the Devil's response to that not make sense.
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The title Nightmare Cafeteria is based off the short lived TV series, Nightmare Cafe.
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The episode came out a year after ReBoot but a year before Transformers: Beast Wars. Both were animated by a Canadian animation studio named Mainframe.
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The first Treehouse of Horror episode to double as a season premiere.
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Technically, Homer's "That sounds like witch talk to me, Lisa" was correct because if Marge was a witch, then Lisa would be part witch (and in the witch trials, a girl like Lisa would likely be accused because she is a "free thinking" girl).
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The cough gag featured Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees sitting together five years before Freddy vs. Jason was released. Englund also reprised the role in that cough gag.
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Ironically, less than a month after the episode aired and featured Comic Book Guy as The Collector, another plot which involved an antagonistic collector who controversially collected valuable items would be shown in Toy Story 2. The collector in the film, identified as Al, also bore partial physical resemblance to Comic Book Guy as well. However, Al would not be in pursuit of a bride and was only shown obsessed with collecting a few highly valuable Woody's Roundup Gang toys, even going as far as to steal Woody after an offer to buy Woody failed.
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The original title of "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad" was Shoved By an Angel.
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According to the DVD commentary, Carolyn Omine (the segment writer) had a difficult time writing "Wiz Kids", because only about four of the show writers had read Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The rest of the writers didn't know of the book. Despite it's actual reception the author J. K. Rowling liked the segment.
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In the second segment, when the first Homer goes to the past, we would have seen Homer already since the future is not altered until somebody from the future goes back and alters it.
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The idea of a time-altering device that ends up breaking and freezing everybody (except for two people who continue to age normally{ was later done in "Meanwhile", the 2013 finale of Futurama.
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In the Gracie Films logo showed up Homer screams twice then when 20th Century Fox Television you can hear Homer screamed for the third time as soon as the episode ended.
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"I've Grown a Costume on Your Face" is similar to an issue of Simpsons Comics' Bartman, in which Itchy and Scratchy are brought to life through alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed superheroes.
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After Homer eats some fat German men at an Oktoberfest, he remarks "Must eat more fat people. Thank God I live in America."
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Maggie doesn't appear in any segment in the episode.
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The first Treehouse of Horror in which Kang and Kodos doesn't speak.
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The episode was meant to show Hans Moleman's head squashed by a tire, but Fox said that it was too graphic so the scene moves away into glasses and gums with teeth.
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The answer to the puzzle on the Consternation box is "A Board Game Rip-Off."
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Homer, Marge and Maggie do not appear in the "In the Na'vi" segment.
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When Bart comes back to the time travel car, Mr. Burns and Smithers are walking on the sidewalk.
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The "Dead and Shoulders" storyline of was previously used in the "If Only I Had a Brain" segment of "Treehouse of Horror 2". It also was used in the Futurama episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders."
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When the Pixar family of the Simpsons enter the house, CGI Homer is voiced by John Ratzenberger from any Pixar films.
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"Wanted: Dead then Alive" is one of the few Treehouse of Horror stories that's story- wise, isn't a parody or based on something in pop culture as it is centered around the idea of Bob successfully forfeiting his goal in murdering Bart.
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So far, this is one of the shortest titles for a Treehouse of Horror segment with six letters.
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The episode didn't air in Australia on 7mate due to the graphic scenes of cannibalism in "MMM...Homer".
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The last time Homer ignored a warning not to turn up a thermostat in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode was in the segment Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace from "Treehouse of Horror VI". In both cases caused the events of those stories to happen.
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Kodos is revealed to have "32 sexual identities", which also revealed that she has 32 different genders.
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Simpsons creator Matt Groening's other cartoon Futurama debuted a parallel universe in 2001, eight years before Family Guy's multi-verse which was featured in the 2009 episode "Road to the Multiverse." It also debuted 17 years before the multi-universes featured in the 2018 Spider-Man movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which "Into The Homer-verse" parodied.
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Kang breaks the fourth wall in the episode stating, "Hasn't there been enough death in this episode?"
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Other theme parks shown at the end of Simpsons World were Big Mouth Mountain, SpongeBob Sea, Futurama-Rama, Family Guy Town, Rick and Morty Universe, Bob's Burgers Land & South Park Park respectively. Every theme park shown was based on real animated sitcom shows.
1. Big Mouth
2. SpongeBob SquarePants
3. Futurama
4. Family Guy
5. Rick and Morty
6. South Park
7. Bob's Burgers
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This is the first Treehouse of Horror to get a "Viewer Discretion Is Advised" warning, because of all the blood in the episode.
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A brief cameo of the Raven from "The Raven" segment of the original Treehouse of Horror episode.
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