In common with all previous Simpsons Halloween episodes, the program is composed of three self-contained stories; "Married to the Blob", "You Gotta Know When to Golem" and "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid". In the first story, which references the 1985 horror movie The Stuff and the 1958 horror movie The Blob, Homer Simpson transforms into a gigantic man-eating monster when he eats a gooey substance that he finds inside a meteorite. In the second story, which features the voices of the Jewish American performers Richard Lewis and Fran Drescher, Bart Simpson takes possession of a golem and orders it to do his bidding. The final story references both the panic caused by Orson Welles' radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds, which was broadcast on the day before Halloween in 1938 and led ma