Dial "M" for Murder or Press "#" to Return to Main Menu Homer tries to intervene as the wives begin to assault their husbands, only to be decapitated, and his eyes are then replaced with two red x's, the title of the episode then appears onscreen. They then go to an adult Halloween party thrown by Homer and Marge, but are soon confronted by their wives, who are angry that their husbands lied about going out to kill children tonight.
After they are teased by Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney, they get new, more modern costumes from a Halloween store.
Traditional horror movie characters such as Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, the Wolf Man, and Dracula roam the streets of Springfield on Halloween night. 1.4 There's No Business Like Moe Business.1.2 Dial "M" for Murder or Press "#" to Return to Main Menu.
An estimated 8.59 million viewers tuned in to watch the episode. This is the first "Treehouse of Horror" episode to air in the month of October since " Treehouse of Horror X" in 1999. This is the twentieth " Treehouse of Horror" installment, containing three self-contained stories: In "Dial 'M' for Murder or Press '#' to Return to Main Menu", Lisa is forced into a Hitchcock-esque murder scheme by Bart in "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind", Springfield is once again overrun by zombies thanks to Krusty Burger's latest sandwich and in the Sweeney Todd parody, "There's No Business Like Moe Business", Moe the Bartender bleeds Homer dry to create the perfect microbrewed beer. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 18, 2009. " Treehouse of Horror XX" is the fourth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.