Treehouse of Horror/References

Trivia

 * This is the only Treehouse of Horror episode to have the Treehouse motif, despite the word "Treehouse" in the title of all Halloween specials.
 * This is the first time The Simpsons have a barbecue.


 * The tombstones at the beginning read from first to last, and left to right, in all caps: Ezekiel Simpson, Ishmael Simpson, Cornelius V. Simpson,, , , , Your name here, , disco and Violence on TV.


 * Paul McCartney's gravestone is a reference to the "Paul is dead" hoax of the 1960s.


 * "Bad Dream House" parodies a number of haunted house films. The opening image of the house shows that one side resembles the house from "The Amityville Horror" house. Much of the plot follows the events of the film "Poltergeist," such as a scary tree outside Lisa's bedroom, and the implosion of the house at the end a la The Fall of the House of Usher. The comparison to is also quite fair, although a much more obvious references is made in later episodes.


 * Bart, as the raven, knocks several Edgar Allan Poe stories off the bookshelf, including "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Purloined Letter."


 * The book "To Serve Forty Humans" is a reference to a Twilight Zone episode  where aliens greet humans with a book which translated means "To Serve Man," and solve all the problems of Earth. Curious Earthlings accept invitations of the aliens to see their homeworld and travel on their spaceships. One man accepts such an invitation, but is stopped by his coworker, who has properly translated the book and shouts, as he's getting on a spaceship, "It's a cookbook!"


 * Edgar Allan Poe is credited as a writer for this episode.


 * This is the only Halloween episode with the normal Gracie Films logo sequence; from Treehouse of Horror II it features a playing its jingle, and Treehouse of Horror IV onwards, a scream replaces "Shh."


 * This is the first Treehouse of Horror in which Kang and Kodos do not attempt to conquer Earth.


 * This is the first Treehouse of Horror not to have the cast's names changed due to Halloween (e.g. "Bat Groening" instead of Matt Groening).


 * The Indian Burial Ground under the house in "Bad Dream House" contains graves of:
 * Crazy Horse
 * Sitting Bull
 * Mahatma Gandhi
 * Pocahontas
 * Geronimo
 * Tonto
 * Sacagawea
 * Not So Crazy Horse


 * In "Hungry are the Damned," when the Rigellians are measuring the Simpsons' weight, along with Kang, Kodos, and Serak, there is a fourth unnamed Rigellian with them that does not appear for the rest of the episode.


 * This is the first appearance of Kang and Kodos and only appearance of Serak the Preparer.


 * In "Bad Dream House" the house chants, "Die, die, everybody die." This line and its cadence were later utilised in the 2008 direct-to-video horror film Trailer Park of Terror.


 * In "The Raven", Homer was reading Forgotten Lore, Vol. II.


 * The warning at the beginning was put in because the producers genuinely thought this episode was scary for younger viewers.