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Zombies of Dial "Z" for Zombies (The Simpsons)
This segment of the 1992 Simpsons Halloween episode has Bart raise the dead of Springfield by accident while trying to resurrect a cat. He and Lisa reverse it with a counter-spell from the library. The segment refers to several earlier zombie films and to Thriller.1
First appeared
1992
Aired 29 October 1992Source work
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror III (1992)
Al Jean, Mike Reiss and others (Fox)Made in
USA
What causes it
Sorcery
Bart reads from a black magic book while trying to bring back the family's dead cat.How you become one
The spell misfires and raises the bodies in the human cemetery next door.
Weak spots
- a counter-spell sends them back to their graves
When did it first appear?
Ancient world
Middle Ages
1500 to 1899
1900 to 1967
1968 to 1999
2000 to 2009
2010 to today
1992Aired 29 October 1992
field notes
What the sources say
1
Among the risen is a zombie William Shakespeare1
2
Ned Flanders turns up as a zombie1
3
The segment refers to Night of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead, Pet Sematary and Thriller1
4
The episode was the highest-rated Fox show of its week1
5
IGN voted it the second-best Treehouse of Horror segment in 20061
Sources
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