The Simpsons Halloween: Treehouse of Horror XV

Treehouse of Horror XV features Ned having the ability to predict death, Lisa solving a murder case in Victorian London, and the Simpsons trying to save Maggie when Mr. Burns unknowingly swallows her.

Treehouse of Horror XV opens with Kang and Kodos starring in a fictional sitcom called Keeping it Kodos. While preparing to have their boss over for dinner, they are cooking dishes containing members of the Simpsons family. The boss arrives and eats so much that he bursts, which ends up setting Bart free. The boss is pleased with the meal and winds up giving the aliens a promotion. Afterwards, Bart comments that he has no family left which makes Kang and Kodos decide to adopt him. A vintage sitcom theme plays as the credits roll and the three sketches of Treehouse of Horror XV begin.

The Ned Zone

In a parody of the Stephen King book/movie The Dead Zone, Ned gets a nasty hit on the head and goes to the hospital. While there, he touches Dr Hibbert and has a vision of him falling to his death. When this vision and several others like it end up coming true, he realizes that he can see future events, death in particular. Later when asked by Homer to touch him, Ned has a vision of himself shooting Homer.

Shocked at what he sees, Ned lies to Homer about the vision and tries to avoid that scenario (despite Bart and Lisa acting nonchalant about it). But Homer eventually hears about it and laughs it off To prove a point, he even has Chief Wiggum give Ned his gun to point at him, while Homer slaps the barrel. Desperate to avoid making the vision come true, Ned throws the gun away into his wood chipper.

Relieved at how he avoided the vision, Ned hugs Homer out of joy and sees another vision. The new one shows Homer pressing a button to blow up the Nuclear Power Plant, which levels Springfield in a giant mushroom cloud. Terrified at how he’s changed the future for the worst, Ned tries to persuade Homer to stay away from work. He agrees to never go back starting tomorrow since that day is Lenny’s birthday and they have ice cream cake.

Ned goes to the Power Plant and desperately looks for Homer. Finding him, Ned frantically warns him to not press the core destruction button. But the microphone he yells it through is scrambled because of static and it sounds like Ned is telling him to press the button. When it looks like Homer is about to do it, Ned grabs a security guard’s gun and shoots Homer. But while dying Homer collapses and hits the button with his tongue and causes the foreseen nuclear explosion. Going to heaven, Homer meets God who gives him his lost Frisbee back.

Four Beheadings and a Funeral

In Victorian London someone called the Mutton Chop Murderer (a parody of Jack the Ripper) is killing prostitutes with unusual swords. In response, Scotland Yard’s eel pie loving Inspector Wiggum challenges Master Detective Eliza Simpsons and her sidekick Dr. Bartley (Bart) that she can’t solve the case.

Getting a clue from a cockney version of Marge in the form of an exotic bloody dagger, Eliza takes it to a local exotic items merchant (Comic Book Guy). After informing her that it’s part of a set called the Seven Swords of Osiris, the merchant goes to check his records to see who bought it. But while doing so he winds up getting stabbed by another sword in the collection and the assailant flees through an open window. But Eliza takes his ledger and sets out to find the swords’ owner. It turns out they were sold to C. Ebenezer Burns (Mr. Burns), an industrialist who makes coal out of babies.

Arrriving at an opium den called Mao’s, Eliza and Dr. Bartley are directed to him by the proprietor (Moe). Ebenezer Burns tells the two of them that he sold the swords to a fat man with sideburns. Noticing a man nearby who matches the description (Homer), Eliza and Dr. Bartley chase him which winds up with him running straight into Inspector Wiggum, who happens to be there as it’s the only way he can get Ralph Wiggum to go to sleep.

Eliza and Dr. Bartley take pride in having caught the murderer before stumbling onto another body(Selma) stabbed with a sword of Osiris. Taking out the sword, Eliza smells the handle and goes to the gallows where the man with mutton chops is about to be hung for the murders. She interrupts the proceedings and tells everyone that the sword handle she found was covered in the smell of eel pie. Lou also reveals that Inspector Wiggum has mutton chips he kept hidden beneath his hat, exposing him as the murderer.

In response, Wiggum reveals that he wanted to come up with a case even Eliza couldn’t solve. He also tries fleeing in a hot air balloon, but the balloon gets punctured when Kang and Kodos fly by in a steampunk style ship. But it turns out the entire thing was an opium induced dream of Ralph’s.

In the Belly of the Boss

Professor Frink invents something that can shrink objects down to a tiny size. While demonstrating it at the Invention Expo, Maggie crawls into a giant pill that is shrunk to the size of a normal pill and is swallowed by Mr. Burns.

The entire Simpson family boards a vessel that is also shrunk down to a tiny size and flies inside Mr. Burns to rescue Maggie. Not surprisingly, Homer doesn’t follow Professor Frink’s instructions which leads to the ship getting stuck in Mr. Burns’ heart. They manage to dislodge the ship and get to Maggie in time, but with her extra weight one of them must stay behind in order to save the others. Homer grudgingly volunteers, but is cheered up when he finds a giant marshmallow that he wastes no time in eating.

Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie come out safely and resume their normal size, while Homer resumes to his normal size from inside Mr. Burns. But Mr. Burns is confident that everything can be worked out and Treehouse of Horror XV ends with Homer and Mr. Burns dancing to “I’ve Got You Under My Skin.”