# How many simpsons halloween episodes are remakes from the twilight zone **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 29, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-simpsons-halloween-episodes-are-remakes-from-the-twilight-zone/823659 "2018-10-29T04:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2018, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-simpsons-halloween-episodes-are-remakes-from-the-twilight-zone/823659/1 "2018-10-29T04:22:06Z")
The talking Tina doll/clown without pity The stopwatch that halts time. Little girl lost (who walks through a wall into another dimension)/homer in 3D The episode where the gremlin attacks the school bus To serve man Bart has mental powers and can create reality at will. The little people/lisa’s tooth ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-simpsons-halloween-episodes-are-remakes-from-the-twilight-zone/823659/2 "2018-10-30T20:43:54Z")
I’m sorry no one jumped in on this question, but many of those are based on older tropes. With Wikipedia giving the plot for episodes of both those shows, the correlation could be written out … and then Tropes will let you know, the provenance is actually different. At least TV Tropes allows you to close out Anime/Manga, in which case, everything from Shakespeare to the Bible has been done as an anime or manga, first, in the mid-1980’s ---
**Author:** ![Arkcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Arkcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arkcon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-simpsons-halloween-episodes-are-remakes-from-the-twilight-zone/823659/3 "2018-10-30T20:48:43Z")
- The talking Tina doll/clown without pity - Actually an ABC movie of the week about a Zumbi doll, as related by [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com), assuming it wasn’t purged. \* The stopwatch that halts time.\* The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything. Pam Dawber strips in silhouette. Yikes, I was 12, may have lost consciousness for a minute. \*Little girl lost (who walks through a wall into another dimension)/homer in 3D The episode where the gremlin attacks the school bus To serve man Bart has mental powers and can create reality at will.\* You got those correct. _The little people/lisa’s tooth_ Simpsons did it. I mean, South Park did it. I mean, Star Trek Voyager. I mean, Dragon’s egg. [Dragon's Egg - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg) ---
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[I’ve Grown a Costume on Your Face](https://simpsonswiki.com/wiki/Treehouse_of_Horror_XVI) ---
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> [@Arkcon](#): > > - The talking Tina doll/clown without pity > - > > Actually an ABC movie of the week about a Zumbi doll Actually [both](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E5TreehouseOfHorrorIII): > [@](#): > > The “murderous doll” plot is specifically based on the The Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”, hence the lines “My name is Krusty, and I love you very much” and “I’m Krusty the Klown and I don’t like you.” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-simpsons-halloween-episodes-are-remakes-from-the-twilight-zone/823659/6 "2018-10-30T21:42:39Z")
> [@Arkcon](#): > > _The little people/lisa’s tooth_ > > Simpsons did it. I mean, South Park did it. I mean, Star Trek Voyager. I mean, Dragon’s egg. [Dragon's Egg - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg) I mean, [Theodore Sturgeon.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosmic_God) And of course the Bart story is from _It’s A Good Life_ by Jerome Bixby.