# Simpsons Treehouse of Terror XVII (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233 "2006-11-06T01:03:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/1 "2006-11-06T01:03:29Z")
The 17th Treehouse of Terror is on now. When was the last time it was actually on or before Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/2 "2006-11-06T01:18:03Z")
Sometime in the 90s, before Fox got exclusive postseason baseball. Wikipedia says 1999 with Treehouse of Horror X, airing on Halloween. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/3 "2006-11-06T01:21:31Z")
Was that really Fran Drescher? And how come the space blob didn’t have any effect on Homer? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/4 "2006-11-06T01:25:33Z")
Oh fuck! Treehouse of _Horror_ :smack: ! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/5 "2006-11-06T01:45:32Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] Was that really Fran Drescher? [/QUOTE] It sure diddly-iddly was! ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/6 "2006-11-06T02:32:25Z")
What does it say about me that I heard Maurice LaMarche and immediately thought of a first-season episode of _Animaniacs_? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/7 "2006-11-06T02:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=alphaboi867] And how come the space blob didn’t have any effect on Homer? [/QUOTE] Other than giving him an insatiable appetite for everyone and everything in Springfield? ---
**Author:** ![TristramAiblins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TristramAiblins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TristramAiblins)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/8 "2006-11-06T02:34:13Z")
Chief Wiggum: “How bout I punch you in the nose, bud?” Orson Wells: (meaningful pause) “Nosebud” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/9 "2006-11-06T02:37:03Z")
“What’s so great about this depression, anyway?” “I think it’s the sepia tone. It makes me feel all nostalgic.” ---
**Author:** ![JustAnotherGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@JustAnotherGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustAnotherGeek)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/10 "2006-11-06T02:37:26Z")
So… have I missed some episodes, or was that the single most political message I have seen on the Simpsons? (Don’t get me wrong, I loved it, but usually I see the Simpsons being fairly neutral on things like the Iraq war and terrorism.) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/11 "2006-11-06T02:37:38Z")
Great episode! Who did Orson Welles’ voice? It was spot on. I really loved the final scene. Very dramatic, punch-you-in-the-gut, “we’re not even trying to be funny - the war sucks.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/12 "2006-11-06T02:39:49Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Who did Orson Welles’ voice? It was spot on. [/QUOTE] Maurice LaMarche, who pretty much made a career out of it. Besides imitating Welles, he’s known for doing The Brain from _Pinky and the Brain_…which is pretty much imitating Orson Welles. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/13 "2006-11-06T02:42:37Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] Great episode! Who did Orson Welles’ voice? It was spot on. [/QUOTE] That was Maurice LaMarche. If you’ve ever watched an episode of _Pinky and The Brain_ (or _Animaniacs_ with a Pinky and The Brain segment) you’ve heard him do that exact voice for The Brain. That’s what I was mentioning up-thread. In the first season of _Animaniacs_ there was a Pinky and The Brain segment where Brain’s plan was to do an updated version of _War of the Worlds_ but on TV. Of course, it backfired as it was a comedy smash. Dang it, **mobo** beat me to it. He also did the voice of Morbo and the Big Brain on _Futurama_. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/14 "2006-11-06T02:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Dang it, **mobo** beat me to it. He also did the voice of Morbo and the Big Brain on _Futurama_. [/QUOTE] As well as Horrible Gelatinous Blob. Neither of which sound like each other, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/15 "2006-11-06T02:47:23Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Maurice LaMarche, who pretty much made a career out of it. Besides imitating Welles, he’s known for doing The Brain from _Pinky and the Brain_…which is pretty much imitating Orson Welles. [/QUOTE] Right down to the point of doing an episode of P&tB where Brain did a version of the infamous peas commercial. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/16 "2006-11-06T02:48:13Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Right down to the point of doing an episode of P&tB where Brain did a version of the infamous peas commercial. [/QUOTE] I don’t remember that one. And I thought I knew _Pinky and the Brain_. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/17 "2006-11-06T02:50:10Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] I don’t remember that one. And I thought I knew _Pinky and the Brain_. [/QUOTE] It was an Animaniacs short called _Yes, Always_. Brain is doing a voice-over session and failing, in a situation very similar to an old tape of Orson Welles doing a frozen peas commercial. “Original casting by: Bonnies on a Plane” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/18 "2006-11-06T02:51:43Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] It was an Animaniacs short called _Yes, Always_. Brain is doing a voice-over session and failing, in a situation very similar to an old tape of Orson Welles doing a frozen peas commercial. [/QUOTE] Oh, that one. Yeah, now I remember it. It always struck me as a very odd, if very funny, episode. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/19 "2006-11-06T05:43:57Z")
you mean these cllips? [Rosebud frozen peas]([http://lastnightontv.blogspot](http://lastnightontv.blogspot). com/) [Mrs. Pell’s Fishsticks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za3EuqU385k&mode=related&search=) [they’re even better…](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9d0xoCRL90&NR) ---
**Author:** ![TristramAiblins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@TristramAiblins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TristramAiblins)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233/20 "2006-11-06T06:08:17Z")
[Rosebud Peas](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA&mode=related&search=) - “Yes, Rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and green peaness.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-treehouse-of-terror-xvii-spoilers/379233.md?page=2)