"Treehouse of Horror XVII" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season, and the seventeenth Treehouse of Horror episode. In "Married to the Blob", Homer eats green extraterrestrial goo he mistakes for a marshmallow and morphs into a rampaging blob with an insatiable appetite; in "You Gotta Know When to Golem", Bart steals a Golem, a legendary monster from Jewish folklore, and brings it to life; and in "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid...
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"Treehouse of Horror XVII" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' eighteenth season, and the seventeenth Treehouse of Horror episode. In "Married to the Blob", Homer eats green extraterrestrial goo he mistakes for a marshmallow and morphs into a rampaging blob with an insatiable appetite; in "You Gotta Know When to Golem", Bart steals a Golem, a legendary monster from Jewish folklore, and brings it to life; and in "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" a fake radio broadcast convinces the residents of Springfield that they're in the midst of an alien invasion. It was written by Peter Gaffney and double-directed by David Silverman and Matthew Faughnan. Dr. Phil McGraw and Sir Mix-a-Lot guest star as themselves, Richard Lewis and Fran Drescher guest voice as the male and female Golems, respectively, and Maurice LaMarche provides the voice of Orson Welles. In its original run, the episode received 10.43 million viewers.
The episode begins with a parody of Tales from the Crypt, with Mr. Burns...
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