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"Treehouse of Horror XVI" was the fourth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons, as well as the sixteenth Halloween episode. The episode aired on November 6, 2005, six days after Halloween in the US. It first aired in Australia on February 28, 2006 at 7:30pm.

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Synopsis

[Spoiler warningSpoiler warning]: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Opening segment

In the opening, using an accelerator-beam, Kang and Kodos hope to speed up a World Series baseball game to air The Simpsons. Things later go sour, and the baseball stadium is drawn in to a specific point where the gravity is high. Afterwards the stadiums' surroundings are drawn into this point and then the whole city of Springfield, then Earth's oceans, the whole Earth, the solar system, numerous galaxies and finally God is drawn into this singularity, a form of a Big Crunch. Kodos says to Kang, "Smooth move, space-lax! You've destroyed the totality of existence." Kang replies, "It's okay. I'll just leave a note." The note says: "Treehouse of Horror XVI".

B.I.: Bartificial Intelligence

In a parody of the film A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Bart ends up in a coma after attempting to jump from the roof to the swimming pool at Spinster Arms Apartments. In an effort to cope with the loss of their boy, the family takes in a robotic boy, named David, who quickly proves to be a better son. Later, Bart is found to be alive. He escapes from the hospital and seeks to plot revenge on David, and in the end, he cuts both Homer and David in half. Eventually, Homer, who no longer has his legs, now has to be fused with David's legs.

The end of this segment concludes with a short parody of The Exorcist featuring a possessed Homer.

Survival of the Fattest

Homer, Lenny, Carl, and the rest of the gang come to Mr. Burn's mansion to go hunting. Unbeknownst to them, they are the prey to be hunted. Homer manages to survive the night as his friends are killed, but Burns closes in on him. Just as he is about to shoot, Burns and Smithers are both knocked out with frying pans by Marge, who then hits Homer for being away from home for eighteen hours and not calling.

This segment is a parody of The Most Dangerous Game, a 1923 short story by Richard Edward Connell.

I've Grown a Costume on Your Face

The citizens of Springfield dress in their Halloween costumes for a costume contest. A wicked witch also entered, and won. But after revealing that she isn't wearing a costume, and is really a witch, she is disqualified and her prize is taken away, and in revenge, turns everyone into the actual characters that their costumes are. The only person who can reverse the spell is Maggie, who was actually dressed as a witch, and now really is one. Unfortunately, Maggie turns the people of Springfield, including guest star Dennis Rodman, into pacifiers with their normal heads.

The episode is very similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Halloween", in which most of the residents of Sunnydale don cursed costumes that transform them into what they are dressed as. It is also similar to the classic Twilight Zone episode The Masks in which four greedy heirs are turned into monsters by the hideous masks each wears at their benefactor's behest, Halloweentown and The Fairly OddParents Halloween special ("Scary GodParents") in which Timmy Turner wishes that everybody's Halloween costumes were real. The episode is also similar to an issue of the Simpson Comic Bartman, in which an Itchy and Scratchy brought to life through Alien technology create a nuclear explosion which turns the Simpsons into costumed Super-Heroes.

The title is a reference to the song "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" from My Fair Lady. It is also an allusion to a song that Bart and Sideshow Bob sing in Bart's room in the episode "The Great Louse Detective", Season 14.

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Broadcasting Information

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