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{{Note credit|This is a fictional joke story written by BramStrokeher/Schizima for laughs. Don't take it seriously.}}
I feel the need to tell my tale because, in recent years, many people have been making claims that are unfounded or completely false regarding the
You see, during the time Simpsons creator Matt Groening surrendered greater creative control to James L. Brooks, Matt was going through a period of severe depression and alcoholism. He ultimately became much more further and distant among known cast members. As a former writer on the show, I will tell you that it soon became very difficult to communicate with Matt Groening by the time 1996 rolled around. 1996 was over 20 years ago, but it represents an important turning point because it is the time that Matt Groening stopped communicating with the writers and providing feedback on his famous comment cards. Instead, he would provide one or two sentences of feedback and abruptly stop communication as he seemed to have more pressing matters to attend to.
Many people
This episode was actually supposed as S9E1, or Season 9, episode 1. Strangely enough, it was pulled from the schedule within three months before it was ever supposed to air. Most people
Simpsons writers John Swartzwelder and David X. Cohen agreed to work on the episode as a joke, but abruptly quit as they were concerned
The studio took whatever had already been recorded and shipped the tape off to the Korean animators to animate the film. Groening had several sequences in the script held from both the cast and writers, for reasons that are today unknown.
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Now I should tell you, Matt Groening is well known for being a free mason, and many of the jokes and references in the episode relate to his love of freemasonry. My initial reaction from watching the tape was a mixture of shock, confusion and fear.
The episode starts the way most episodes do, except the pitch for the intro is way off. Groening preferred what he called a
Homer continues to bang on the door and Bart refuses to come out. Marge makes a very strange comment. She says
Homer is finally shown angrily breaking the door down and grabbing Bart. The shower silhouette shows Homer strangling Bart as he usually did, but the strangling was a lot more graphic and after some time
Homer closes the shower curtain and Lisa goes in and brushes her teeth. Homer suddenly starts screaming
Marge is shown carrying cleaning supplies into the bathroom and she turns the faucet on. Homer says
The family finally decides to pack up and go on vacation, but Homer decides to stop at
Homer begins to drink with the strange businessmen as they take out a briefcase and open it to reveal money. And then one of them begins to speak, but
The tape cuts to the sound of screaming- what sounds like Bart screaming
A voice mumbles
Well, the strangest thing is that the episode ends with a title card telling the audience to
Several screeners walked out shaking their head, thinking that this may have been a Halloween episode until the cursing, devil and graphic murder sequence was shown.
Well, the Simpsons creators tried to bury it. They hired a few fake web users named
Pieces of the episode have been leaked in audio, video and small snippets as part of the goal of making it seem like a group collaborative effort by the internet instead of a real conspiracy that was mocking the common man with identifiable signs and symbols. But
The third tape would normally go to Fox broadcasting for intensive review, but things
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