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* [[Abnormal Limb Rotation Range]]: Happens to Homer to parody ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' in "Treehouse of Horror XVI".
* [[All Just a Dream]]: A few stories end with it being revealed to be a dream or fantasy of one of the characters. The "Treehouse of Horror II" stories were explicitly set-up as nightmares that Lisa, Bart, and Homer have as a result of eating too much Halloween candy. {{spoiler|Though Homer's leads into a [[The End
** "Nightmare Cafe" from the fifth episode features this ending.
* [[An Arm and A Leg]]: In the cold opening of TOH XXII, Homer does this to ''most'' of his limbs {{spoiler|after his arm gets trapped under a boulder,}} in a direct parody of [[One Hundred and Twenty Seven Hours (Film)|Aron Ralston's plight]] - This ends in total [[Nightmare Fuel]]...
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* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: Hugo's scene and everything else listed here.
** Oddly, clips from these episodes ''show up'' in [[Clip Show]] episodes...
* [["Close Enough" Timeline]]: A story from "Treehouse of Horror V" ends with everything normal, except for people having long, forked, prehensile tongues. Homer [[Trope Namer|names the trope]] by saying this line.
{{quote| ''"Eh, close enough."''}}
* [[Contrived Clumsiness]]: Bart uses the "My finger slipped" excuse when Lisa's science experiment turns into a miniature civilization.
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** The toppings contain potassium benzoate. <ref>That's ''bad''.</ref>
*** And the doll {{spoiler|wasn't even cursed, despite coming from an occult curio shop run by a strange Chinese man. The doll had a "good/evil" switch on its back that someone flipped on "evil"}}.
* [[Double
* [[Downer Ending]]: A lot of TOH shorts have these...
* [[Evil Twin]]: Hugo {{spoiler|is a subversion. Bart turns out to be the evil twin}}.
{{quote| {{spoiler|Bart}}: "Oh, don't look so shocked."}}
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Scratchy (the [[Four Legs Good, Two Legs Better|bipedal]] [[Funny Animal]] cat) and Snowball II (the normal quadrupedal cat) show up together in "Treehouse of Horror IX" segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon". The two cats are at [[Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism|such differing levels of anthropomorphism]] that [[Furry Confusion]] ensues. As Scratchy is male and Snowball II is female, this also inverts [[Humanoid Female Animal]] hard.
* [[Genre Anthology]]: Parodies of [[Night Gallery]] and other horror related TV shows were common.
* [[Halloween Episode]]: [[Played for Laughs]]... [[Nightmare Fuel|Mostly]]
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: Happens to Bart and Lisa in TOH XX ''or'' TOH IIX...
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Subverted when Apu holds off the [[Ptitleteza 1 ple|zombies]]. The family leaves thinking he sacrificed himself, while Apu complains that they were supposed to wait for him to get back.
* [[He's Got a Weapon!]]: In one of the early episodes, Kang runs past in the background yelling, "He's got a board with a nail in it!" He's being pursued by Moe, who does indeed have a board with a nail in it.
** They were actually outmatched, seeing as [[It Makes Sense in Context|they had just conquered Earth with only a slingshot and a baseball bat]].
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: A number of the stories revolve around many people being ''eaten''. These include portraying Homer as a man-eating giant blob (and as a parody of [[The Blob]]), and another episode where due to budget cuts and the rise in delinquent students, the staff decides to use the bad kids as a new food source.
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{{quote| Snorky: ''[in high pitched voice]'' [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue|Snorky ... talk ... man ...]] ''[clears throat and reverts to deep male voice]'' I'm sorry, let me start over. Eons ago, dolphins lived on the land. Then your ancestors drove us into the sea, where we suffered for millions of years. I, King Snorky, hereby banish all humans to the sea!}}
* [[Self-Deprecation]]: In one segment, D-list celebrities are going to get shot into the sun. Tom Arnold voices himself here and proves to be a good sport.
* [[Shout
* [[Smart People Know Latin]]: In the parody of ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'', Nerd and [[TV Genius]] Martin is seen [[Asleep in Class]] dreaming about conjugating Latin verbs.
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: In ''Bart Simpson's Dracula'', when Bart and Lisa are running up the stairs to escape Burn's vampire minions. Bart comes across a lever for a "Super Happy Fun Slide". He lampshades he knows its a trap, but figures what the hey and pulls it. ("When am I gonna be here again?") Leading to him sliding back down into the vampire lair, getting captured, bitten and turned. Homer nearly does the same thing later in the episode, but Lisa stops him.
* [[Take Me Instead!]]: Homer offers himself to a zombie horde so that his family can escape. He's ultimately rejected, as he doesn't have a brain for the zombies to eat.
** Inverted in another episode: "Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them!"
* [[Take That]]: ''XXI'' contains one directed at the [[Tabletop Game]] ''[[Mouse Trap]]'', in which a parody called "[[Parody Names|Mouse Catch]]" is referred to as "the game so lame no one's ever finished it".
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