Thanksgiving of Horror is the 670th episode overall and the eighth episode of the 31st season of the American animated television programme The Simpsons. On November 24, 2019, it aired on Fox in the U.S. Rob Oliver was the show’s director, while Dan Vebber wrote the script.
At the 72nd Writers Guild of America Awards on February 1, 2020, Dan Vebber’s script for this episode earned the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation. The episode was nominated for an Emmy 2020 for an exceptional animation program.
The Plot of Episode 8: Thanksgiving Horror
A Thanksgiving version of Treehouse of Horror looks at the holiday’s past, present and future. Turkeys are slaughtered by pilgrims on the first day of Thanksgiving. Homer buys an A.I. based on reality-hating Marge, an already dangerous space mission to escape a doomed Earth gets worse when Bart’s attempts to replicate cranberry sauce turn him into a sensitive monster.
In the introduction, Marge informs viewers that there will be two episodes of Treehouse of Horror this year due to the “impending terror of everything”. Homer complains of not knowing when to dine on Thanksgiving, while Kang and Kodos appear dressed as seventeenth-century settlers and declare they intend to take over the world.
A-Gobble-Ypto
In an Apocalypto parody, the Simpson family and some other Springfield residents are depicted as turkeys, while others are shown as pilgrims. After Marge lays an egg, she goes hunting for Thanksgiving dinner, and Homer is one of the captive turkeys; Bart escapes but follows them to their settlement. Several turkeys are killed in blood, but panic sets in when the turkey version of the grandfather keeps running around with his head down.
In confusion, Bart rescues Homer and reunites with their family, but they are chased by Agent Wiggum until a bear kills him. The egg then hatches to reveal a Turkish version of Maggie. Seeing some pilgrims eating turkey, Homer notes that times will be dark for them as Thanksgiving becomes a new human tradition.
The Fourth Thursday After Tomorrow
White Christmas, a spoof of the Black Mirror Special, to help Marge cook Thanksgiving while the Simpsons host a dinner party for several of her friends, Homer orders an A.I. with all her memories, who appears as the protagonist of this story. Marge gets jealous when the A.I. proves to be better at leading the family than her. She decides to delete them after the holidays. KI Marge finds out and, after cooking a huge, delicious meal that benefits Marge, tries to escape to the internet.
She is nearly crippled by Marge but persuades Maggie to help her, showing that she is a better mother than Marge herself. He also reveals to guests that he cooked the meal before escaping, precipitating Marge’s social appreciation. Things get worse when Homer tries to comfort her, and she accidentally reveals herself as a robot, much to Marge’s horror. Now free, the A.I. decides to spend some time in various places on the internet, starting with Etsy.
The Last Thanksgiving/The First Blarg-sgiving
To mock The Blob, Alien, and Life, years after the destruction of Earth, children are awakened from hibernation on a spaceship to work before landing on their new planet. Bart and Milhouse try to make Thanksgiving dinner, but they only find a can of cranberry sauce, which Bart tries to duplicate and accidentally brings to life. The creature, made of gelatin, eats bones and soon kills all the children except Bart, Lisa, Milhouse and Martin, the latter betraying the others before allowing himself to be killed. Milhouse decides to befriend the monster but is instead pushed aside by it, leading Bart and Lisa to trick it into freeing Milhouse and throwing themselves into a large box. The two release the can come into space, but it resists and damages the ship, causing it to crash into a nearby planet.
Homer, Marge, Maggie, and Santa’s little helper join Bart and Lisa, but not Snowball II., who died after his cryopod failed long ago; only the creature has arrived on their new planet. Fortunately, humans are aided by some native aliens, who turn the monster into food and end up with an alien version of the first Thanksgiving. Lisa then says that the beast has fortunately found its true purpose: to be fed to others since the title has been renamed “The First Blarg-giving”.
