REALITY FLUX
A JACE KOSSMANN PRODUCTION

There is no couch or chalkboard scene for this is written as an imaginary movie.

(Live-action) 
An animator's board is shown with a blank sheet of paper. The 

ANIMATOR's hand draws Itchy and Scratchy. Only his arm and hand is 
shown. Off-screen, atonal music is played. 

SCENE (animated) 

ITCHY chases SCRATCHY with a crowbar through a park. SCRATCHY climbs a 
tree but ITCHY is already there. In terror, he jumps off only to get 
mauled by a group of vicious dogs. Afterwards, ITCHY pets them. 
Zoom-out. 

INT. SPRINGFIELD POLICE STATION-DAY 

LOU and EDDIE are watching "The Itchy and Scratchy Show". EDDIE changes 
the channel. BUMBLEBEE MAN shows up on the television set. He is 
punching a bunch of gangsters. EDDIE changes the channel again to 
something else with violence. 

EDDIE: Sometimes I wonder if this is the kind of stuff that got me into 
business. 

LOU: I agree with you there. 

CHIEF WIGGUM enters. He has a cheeseburger in his right hand. 

WIGGUM: Turn off the TV set. You have enough violence in your daily 
job. 

EDDIE turns off the TV. He and Louie look at CHIEF WIGGUM. 

WIGGUM: There have been reports of an armed robbery at 222 Ricardo 
Street. At least six men were involved, all wearing masks. They took 
about $30,000. One of them did sound like Fat Tony. 

LOU: That sounds like a real emergency, chief. 

EXT. CITY STREET-DAY 

CHIEF WIGGUM's police car slows down and stops. WIGGUM gets out with 
EDDIE. Three other police cars appear and stop behind WIGGUM's car. 
EDDIE and five other policemen join WIGGUM. 

WIGGUM: Guys, there's our first suspect. They look at ERIC BARKLEY, a 
man who looks exactly like Wayne Campbell but sounds just like Austin 
Powers. He is holding a mysterious black staff. It has strange red 
runes, a small glowing sphere at one end, and a hand strap. He also has 
a large backpack. Just above the hand strap are too buttons. He sees 
the police officers and is confused. 

LOU: Are you sure about this? 

WIGGUM: Look at him. He's got to be suspicious and is walking away from 
Ricardo Street pretty fast. 

EDDIE: He kind of looks like Mike Myers. 

The policemen approach ERIC. 

WIGGUM: Hold your hands up! 

ERIC: What have I done? 

WIGGUM: Stop the phony accent! Identify yourself. 

ERIC: My name is Eric Barkley and this is my natural accent. I was 
raised in Manchester. I demand to know what is going on! 

EDDIE grabs the staff while LOU attempts to handcuff ERIC. Instead, he 
is kicked in the groin. 

LOU: Ow! You're tough! 

ERIC escapes by running really fast. 

WIGGUM: We'll deal with him later. This staff could be a weapon of some 
sort. Let's take it back to the station to investigate it. 

LOU: Those runes look like they are from some ancient, forgotten 
language. 

WIGGUM: You mean like Latin? 

EDDIE: That's not forgotten. I learned it in college. 

INT-MEETING ROOM OF THE LEGITIMATE BUSINESSMEN'S CLUB 

FAT TONY, head of the local crime organization in Springfield, is 
smoking cigars with his partners in crime. 

FAT TONY: How's those new fireworks coming along? 

HENCHMEN: They're doing splendid. We'll making lots of neat cash. 

CHIEF WIGGUM and the other policemen enter. 

WIGGUM: Fat Tony, I believe that you were involved with the armed 
robbery on 222 Ricardo Street. 

FAT TONY: I don't know what you're talking about but I do have some 
cash. 

WIGGUM: Are you sure you don't remember doing anything on 222 Ricardo 
Street. 

FAT TONY: (worried) No, of course not. We were busy doing other illegal 
stuff. 

LEGS: I did see a man appear out of nowhere. 

FAT TONY: Will you please stop with that story? 

LEGS: But it's true. 

WIGGUM: Oh, really. Describe him to me. 

LEGS: He looked almost exactly like actor Mike Myers, as he appeared in 
"Wayne's World". 

WIGGUM: (changing tone) Did he have a strange black staff? 

LEGS: Yes, he did. 

EDDIE: We saw him too. He's kicks good and he can run pretty fast. He 
said his name was Eric Barkley. 

FAT TONY looks surprised. 

POLICEMAN: I think we should search this place. 

WIGGUM: Good idea. 

EXT-THE SIMPSONS' HOUSE-DAY 

ERIC runs to the Simpsons' house. He knocks on the door. HOMER enters 
it. The rest of the family shows up behind him. 

ERIC: Hi there. 

HOMER: Mike Myers? Why do famous people always show up in Springfield? 

ERIC: I'm not Mike Myers, Homer! I'm Eric Barkley, from Manchester. The 
police took some of my stuff because they think I'm connected to an 
armed robbery. Oh hi Bart and Lisa. 

LISA: How do you know who we are already? 

ERIC: I cannot say but I desire to stay with you for the next few days. 

HOMER looks at ERIC. He thinks to himself about ten seconds. 

HOMER: You seem like a nice guy. 

BART: You'll really like Mom's cooking. My friend Milhouse says that 
she cooks better then any other mom in Springfield. 

The Simpsons let him in. 

Zoom out. 

INT-GUEST ROOM 

MARGE is showing ERIC where he is going to sleep. ERIC takes a pen, a 
notebook, and some clothes out of his bag. 

MARGE: You can stay here for a few days. 

ERIC: Thanks. It looks very nice. Looks a little cheap but it would do. 

MARGE exits. ERIC looks around and starts writing. He hears someone 
coming and quickly puts the book back in. LISA enters. 

LISA: I understand that you're British. 

ERIC: By heritage, yes. Where I live, I get good television shows, good 
food, lots of good stuff. Sometimes I like to visit Hadrian's Wall. 

LISA: I've seen "Monty Python's Flying Circus" before. It was okay but 
my brother Bart doesn't always get the joke. 

ERIC: Oh yes, that show. It was good with all their silly antics and 
comic routines. (starts humming Monty Python music). 

LISA: Eric? 

ERIC: Yes? 

LISA: What I've wanted to ask was how you got here. 

ERIC: I ran here. 

LISA: I mean across the Atlantic into the US. 

ERIC: Before I can tell you, your family will have to help me get 
something from the police. A staff with strange runes. It has a glowing 
sphere at one end. When I first saw it, I was mystified, as if it were 
not meant to be touched unless one had some good gloves on. 

LISA looks at him, wondering if he's telling the truth. 

ERIC: (impatient) I'm sure you would want to look at it for curiosity's 
sake. 

LISA: Will you take me to England? 

ERIC: Of course I will. 

LISA runs out of the room with a smile on her face. 

INT-THE LIVING ROOM 

ERIC is reading a newspaper while the SIMPSONS are watching a drama 
series on television. 

ERIC: This is interesting. They're talking about Saddam Hussein but the 
group of (the Simpsons have his attention) genetic supermen who- 

HOMER turns off the television set. 

LISA: What supermen? 

ERIC: Nevermind. Let's play scrabble. 

HOMER: That's good. 

He goes to another room and returns with the scrabble box. 

SCENE BREAK 

They have already spent some time on the game. The board includes words 
such as obtuse, node, auroch, and radial. 

LISA: Wow, Eric really is one smart guy. 

ERIC: I know that. It so happens that I have a pretty high-paying job. 

MARGE: What do you do? 

ERIC: I'm sort of an interviewer hired by a group of special people. I 
cannot reveal who exactly I'm working for but I think you can trust me. 

HOMER: Game's over. Let's watch some more television. 

ERIC: Actually, I really should watch some TV. 

BART: Everyone should watch TV at least once per day. 

HOMER turns the television back on. 

ERIC: (to Marge) What time and channel is the hit sitcom Jerry here. I 
find it to be a very fascinating satire. 

MARGE: Jerry? You must be talking about Seinfeld. Reruns are on at 
7:00. 

ERIC: Oh, that's right, reruns. What about new episodes? 

HOMER: There haven't been any new episodes since Seinfeld ended its 
nine-season run in 1998. 

ERIC: (looks surprised at first) I guess I forgot about that. 

INT-LISA'S ROOM-NIGHT 

BART and LISA are talking to each other. 

LISA: I'm starting to get very suspicious about Eric. He does have his 
charm and sense of humor but he barely tells us anything.

BART: He told me lots of cool stuff like info on movies and sports. I 
learned quite a lot about that game they named the insect after. 

LISA: I know he seems cool to you Bart but do you know what I think? 
Eric's a spy, sent by some powerful organization sent here for unknown 
reasons. 

BART: Relax Lis, even if he was a spy, I don't think he'll hurt us. 
He's a perfectly cool guy, I'm a cool guy, we must have some mutual 
respect for each other. 

INT-MR. BURNS' BEDROOM 

BURNS is sleeping with his bear, Bobo. Something approaches him. A 
close-up of his face is shown. 

BURNS: (talking in his sleep) Money, money, for my honey. 

YOG-SHOTHOTH'S VOICE: (very low, accompanied by thunder) You are the 
human creature known as Charles Montgomery Burns. I see you as somewhat 
more intelligent then most of your kin and a very useful tool. I am 
Yog-shothoth, creator and destroyer of worlds. The Ancient Ones cast me 
into the dark miserable Void tens of thousands of your years ago. 

BURNS: Smithers, who is this mysterious voice, Smithers, Smithers? He's 
not here so I- 

YOG-SHOTHOTH'S VOICE: You are dreaming! Your companion is not able to 
help you. I told you who I am and you must believe me. Either you will 
worship me or I will destroy your mind. 

BURNS: What would you give me? Can you do something about my personal nature for I am weaker then a one-year-old. 

YOG-SHOTHOTH'S VOICE: I shall make you immortal and give you an 
invincible army. I'll replace the workers at your power plant with 
golems of the toughest possible metal. 

BURNS: I shall be your eternal worshipper! You surely like me as I like myself. Can you show your face? 

YOG-SHOTHOTH'S VOICE: (short pause) You shall see me but I am of a reality greater then that of your own where you are a mere two-dimensional image whose world was originally drawn by a human of a higher reality. There are those in that reality whom you were inspired by. Greed and egomania are two of my favorite human emotions. 

MR. BURNS' DREAM 

BURNS is trapped on a piece of "real paper" floating in space. 
Everything in the background is three-dimensional. He sees a giant moving form that looks as if its surface was boiling. It is emitting an eerie green light, leaving a strange expression on BURNS' face. 

BURNS: Ex-cellent. 

He starts laughing ominously. 

INT-SIMPSONS' GUEST ROOM-NIGHT 

ERIC wakes up as if he had a nightmare. 

ERIC: Crikey! I've been followed! 

INT-SIMPSONS’ KITCHEN-DAY 

ERIC is with the Simpsons having breakfast. 

HOMER: Today, I'm taking a break from work. 

ERIC: Really? Sounds like a good opportunity to go the bar, eh? 

HOMER: Yes, I would say so. Do you want to come a long? 

ERIC: I think that would be a very good idea. 

HOMER: Wait, don't Englishmen get drunk all the time? 

MARGE: That's Irishmen! 

LISA: But those are just stereotypes. I'm sure that there at least some 
Irish people who are non-alcoholic. 

ERIC: I'm one quarter Irish! Legend even says I'm part leprechaun." 

HOMER: Leprechauns? Well, I'll think you'll enjoy being at Moe's. 
Sometimes my friend Barney talks about leprechauns. 

INT-MOE'S BAR 

ERIC and the usual barflies at the bar receiving drinks from MOE. 

ERIC: And then she goes, "That's not a television set, that's a microwave!" 

Everyone laughs. 

LENNY: This guy's way really cool. 

CARL: I agree. He definitely is an intelligent speaker. 

HOMER: You know, my daughter got another A in math. It's always good to have such a little genius in the house. 

CARL: (not paying attention to HOMER) So, what are very good pick-up lines that they use in England? 

ERIC: Hey dame, let's meet at the Chesterfield. 

MOE: I better right that down. 

HOMER:(to Moe) Moe, why are Carl and Lenny talking to Eric so much? 

MOE: I guess that its because of Eric's charisma. Besides, we've never had a real Englishman here before. 

ERIC looks at his watch and appears distressed. 

ERIC: Sorry guys but I have to leave. You are all worthy citizens of Springfield, proud descendents of freaks or whatever your old stories are. I mean, some of the people here have blue hair! Now I need directions to Springfield Elementary School. I need to talk to Bart and Lisa as soon as possible. 

INT. POLICE STATION-DAY 

CHIEF WIGGUM is eating a cheeseburger at a desk. Nearby, LOU is on the telephone with his wife while holding ERIC's staff. 

LOU: So what's happening on your favorite soap opera, Karen's Children? (pause) Really? 

Cut to MRS. LOU on the telephone. 

MRS. LOU: James has finally come out of his coma and is prepared to tell who the real murderer of Dr. Scott is. I think it is his brother-in-law Dirk. 

Cut to LOU talking at the Police station. 

LOU: Yeah right. I'd like to see proof that it was that lousy wimp Dirk! (presses button on staff) 
The sphere at the end of the staff starts glowing. Without warning, LOU disappears leaving behind electrical sparks. WIGGUM watches the scene in pure horror. 

WIGGUM: Oh no! It's the rapture! Why did I take that $1,250,000 bribe from Fat Tony? 

LOU reappears a few seconds later. He is in pure shock. 

LOU: Holy sweat. It really was Dirk. I could have sworn that he didn't have enough time to get there but I didn't realize that he had a black helicopter. How did I get into my wife's favorite soap opera anyway? 

WIGGUM: Thank God the rapture's over. Are you all right because you're speaking in pure gibberish? 

LOU: I'm telling you, I was there. I saw that deed take place. 

WIGGUM: You need some rest. 

LOU: I agree. 

INT. BURNS' OFFICE-DAY 

MR. BURNS is sitting at his desk. SMITHERS, his sycophant, enters. 

BURNS: Smithers, I have made a deal with a being called Yog-Sothoth. He is all-powerful and I desire to be all-powerful so don't you think we're in the same club. 

SMITHERS: I'm not really sure about that. Exactly what is Yog-Sothoth? 

BURNS: He was once the ruler of the Elder Gods in another reality but he had enemies just like I have enemies. He appeared to me last night asking me to be his eternal worshipper. I think you also would make a great servant of Yog-Shoggoth. 

SMITHERS: I don't think that's a really good idea. This sounds like some kind of creepy cult gibberish. (sees BURNS's eyes go red) Actually...sir...I (enters zombie state) yes my master. 

SMITHERS bows down to BURNS who continues his laughter. 

INT-SPRINGFIELD ELEMENTARY's CAFETARIA-DAY 

BART is talking to MILHOUSE at the cafeteria while eating lunch. 

BART: My sister thinks he's a spy but he's gotta be cool. He gave me 
lots of cool advice about bullies. 

NELSON, the bully, enters. 

NELSON: That's my seat! 

BART: Oh really? Well... 

He is interrupted by the voice of PRINCIPAL SKINNER. 

SKINNER: (o.s.) Bart and Lisa to my office please. 

BART: You can have it! 

He leaves immediately. 

NELSON: So Milhouse, did you do anything exciting last night. 

MILHOUSE: I sure did. My mom went out on a date and left me with my babysitter, Laura Powers. 

NELSON: Oh yeah, both Bart and Jimbo say she's hot. 

EXT-FRONT OF SPRINGFIELD ELEMENTARY 

BART and LISA see both ERIC and HOMER in front of HOMER's car. 

HOMER: I'll leave you with the kids. I have to report at the plant. 

HOMER drives off in his car. ERIC looks at BART and LISA with a serious look. 

ERIC: You need to find the black mystical staff I told you about earlier. If the police catch me, bring it to Dr. Frink. He may understand the way it works. Whatever you do, don't press the buttons unless you really need to. 

BART and LISA: (in unison) We won't, Eric! 

ERIC: Good. 

Both kids watch ERIC run off in the distance. 

EXT-POLICE STATION-DAY BART and LISA see what looks like a black pole with buttons on it in the dumpster. BART takes it out to see that it indeed is the staff ERIC was talking about. They see WIGGUM and EDDIE coming towards them. 

WIGGUM: It's the Simpson children, always getting into trouble. 

EDDIE: Actually, most of the time it's just Bart who gets into trouble. 

WIGGUM points his gun at the Simpson children, who are both holding the staff. Nervously, BART presses one of the buttons. They disappear along with the staff. 

EDDIE: Whoa, that is pretty strange. 

EXT-SPRINGFIELD STREET-DAY 

FAT TONY is in his limo with LEGS when he spots ERIC running. 

LEGS: That's the guy! That's the guy! 

FAT TONY: I've never seen any one run so fast. 

ERIC is running away from the limo. He sees them and runs into an alley. FAT TONY and LEGS get out and run after him. In the alley, 

WIGGUM and his officers are in front of him. 

WIGGUM: Stick your hands up! 

ERIC: Okay, I admit that I was involved in the robbery. It was my job to hide the weapon. 

LOU: Did you hide it in some kind of soap opera dimension. 

ERIC: I swear I didn't do that. 

WIGGUM: Let’s take him in for questioning. We'll have to use the lie detector. 

EXT-NUCLEAR POWER PLANT-DAY 

HOMER drives over to the power plant. All of the regular employees, 
including LENNY and CARL are there. He gets out to talk to his friends. 

HOMER: Hey, why aren't you guys working? 

LENNY: We can't. Mr. Burns fired all of us in exchange for walking 
statues. He called them titanium golems. I feel that something really 
bad is going on. 

CARL: He said that he's turning the nuclear power plant into a temple \
of Yog-Shoggoth. 

HOMER: Yog-Shoggoth? Who is that?

CARL: Maybe you should get you little daughter. I bet she would know. 

INT-ERIC'S APARTMENT-DAY (live-action) 

In the room are LIVE-ACTION BART and LIVE-ACTION LISA. The "real" BART appears to be 22 while his sister appears to be 20. Both of them have light blonde hair in familiar hair styles. BART, still holding to the staff, wakes up. 

BART: (mature voice) Holy cow! 

LISA wakes up. 

LISA: (mature voice) Bart, are you all right? Your voice sounds different. 

BART: I'm perfectly fine, Lis. This is actually kind of cool here. (looks at Lisa with surprise). 

LISA: We have peach skin, five fingers, and no overbites. 

BART: You look like you should be in Playboy. 

LISA: You look like you should be a Hollywood actor. 

BART: I must have gone through puberty in less then a few hours. 

LISA: I'm an eight-year-old girl in a twenty-year-old body. 

BART: When I pressed the button, I was wondering where Eric Barkley came from. I was hoping that I could find answers there. 

LISA: This must be his apartment. 
She looks out the window and the cars are moving so that the driver would be going forward on the left side of the road to his perspective. 

LISA: We seem to be in Great Britain. 

BART looks out of the window. BART: You're right. You know, I've come to realize something. Up to a minute ago, we were... 

LISA: Cartoon characters, in a cartoon world. This is a world more real then anything we could have dreamed off. (looking at BART with surprise) You didn't notice that until just now? 

BART searches around. He sees newspapers, photos, and an IBM-style 
computer. 

LISA: I would say that I'm now five and a half feet tall. You're just a few inches taller. 
On a table in front of the television set, she sees a TV Guide. LISA picks it up. 

LISA: Bart, look at this! 
At this moment, BART is at a refrigerator. He comes over to where LISA is. She gives him the TV Guide, which has a picture of the Simpsons on it. It is more then a year old. 

BART: This can't be right. This issue is from when Mom was still 
pregnant with Maggie. She wouldn’t have been born yet unless someone in 
this world can see into the future. 

LISA: Bart, I’ve read the articles in the TV Guide and there was a 
cartoon show about us since about 1990. We clearly haven’t aged during 
the run of the show, which explains why we have aged. You are now 22 
while I am about 20 because this is how old we would have been had we 
aged real-time. Every time there is a new season, our memories get 
reedited so we wouldn’t be aware of it. The fact that we are from a 
cartoon show explains various other things. We are fictional characters from a critically acclaimed animated television series who somehow were 
taken out of our home reality and now exist in the flesh. 

BART: Whoa, cool. When are we on next anyway? 

LISA: According to a more recent TV Guide, we should be on channel two 
at 7:00. This is Britain so we would be watching BBC. In the United 
States, we’re on Fox Television, believe it or not. 

BART: Fox? I would have expected us to be on MTV or something similar. 
At least we're not on CBS. 

They look around some more. LISA finds a large photograph and a 
collection of audio tapes. She shows them to BART who's really 
surprised. He looks at the photograph first. It has a caption which 
says "Wold Newton Family reunion 1995." 

BART: Some of these people look like famous actors and actresses but I 
think I see Eric Barkley. One of these guys is blue-skinned and looks 
like the X-Men character Hank McCoy or "Beast". 

LISA: What is also strange is that these audiotapes have labels saying, 
"The Best of Dr. Frasier Crane, America's Favorite Radio 
Psychiatrist." 

BART: Really? This is getting surreal. 

INT-POLICE STATION-DAY 

CHIEF WIGGUM, with EDDIE and LOU, are talking to ERIC who is strapped to a lie detector. 

WIGGUM: Tell us what happened to the Simpson children. 

ERIC: I don't know for sure but there are possible places where they ended up. 

The lie detector dings. 

ERIC: I really suggest you find Homer and Marge Simpson because I need to speak to them. 

The lie detector dings. 

ERIC: If you get me out of this chair, I'll tell you the entire truth no matter how strange or bizarre it may sound. 
The lie detector dings for the third time. 

WIGGUM: God, you beat the lie detector, didn't you? 

EDDIE: Perhaps he is telling the truth. 

WIGGUM: You think he's probably telling the truth? That sounds crazy to me. 

ERIC: Wiggum, don't you remember the Itchy and Scratchy Trial? Roger 
Meyers, Jr. mentioned you as a rip-off cartoon character? 

WIGGUM: Yes he did. How did you find out about the trial? 

ERIC: I saw it on television. Where I came from, you're a fictional 
character on a cartoon television show. 
The lie detector still dings. CHIEF WIGGUM is becoming convinced. 

WIGGUM: Eric, I can't argue with the lie detector so I will set you 
free. 

ERIC: That's good because I'm tired of being treated like a criminal. 

WIGGUM frees ERIC from the chair. The pone rings nearby. 

LOU: The phone is ringing! 

WIGGUM: It is? Maybe they'll tell me something about what happened on 
Ricardo Street. 

ERIC: I'm sorry but there are a lot of more important things right now. 
Not listening, WIGGUM picks up the phone. 

WIGGUM: Springfield's finest. (pause) What? (pause) Yeah, so? (pause) 
Where was it coming from? (pause) You've got to be kidding me. (pause) 
We'll be there soon. Just send Homer and Marge Simpson to the police 
headquarters. There is someone here who needs to speak with them. 

ERIC: Me? 

WIGGUM: Well, actually I was thinking...wait a minute. How do you know what's going on? 

ERIC: I can explain everything once I get to talk to Mr. and Mrs. Simpson. 

INT-ERIC'S APARTMENT-DAY 

BART is sitting on the couch watching The Simpsons on television. LISA is looking through a phone book. He is drinking some beer. 

LISA: (noticing BART) Bart! I don't think you should be drinking! 

BART: Why not? Right now, I'm 22 years old. Don't be so square. 

LISA: I know that but you're legally 10. 

BART: Yeah I know Lisa but I don't feel 10 for some reason. 

LISA: What do you mean? 

BART: You know what I mean. I'm having those thoughts in my head after looking at some... 

LISA: I get the picture! Besides, I looked up the names in Eric's address book. 

BART: Really? Does he have a number for that Beast guy. 

LISA: No but he has a number for a Lady Lara Croft. 

BART gulps his beer. 

LISA: And I think we saw a woman who resembled Angelina Jolie in the family reunion picture. 

This really surprises BART. He turns of the television set and looks at the address book. 

BART: Holy cow! We invited a cousin of the Tomb Raider unaware. Maybe we're in a movie universe. 

LISA: That wouldn't make sense because the X-Men character Beast did not appear in the movie The X-Men. 

BART: Then we must be in a comic book universe. 

LISA: I don't think that Dr. Frasier Crane is a comic character. 

BART: Perhaps he is in another universe where he sets up an alternate identity as costumed superhero. 

LISA: According to here, in case of an emergency where Eric is trapped in another universe, we should call Editor Richard Torkelson. 

BART: Let's do it. 

INT-TORKELSON'S OFFICE-DAY 

The London Times editor, RICHARD L. TORKELSON, is sitting at a desk, reading a paper. A female employee, JESSICA, enters. He notices her. 

TORKELSON: What now, Jessica? It better be something important. 

JESSICA: It is. A young man named Bart is on the phone. He is calling 
from Eric's apartment and says that he has an important message. 

TORKELSON: A young man named Bart? Did he sound a tad bit like a 
middle-aged woman by any chance? 

JESSICA: No, he didn't. Why? 

TORKELSON: Oh nothing. Just something regarding Eric's latest assignment. 

JESSICA: What is this top secret project you're working on? 

TORKELSON: Look Jessica, I told you that you wouldn't understand it. 
Lots of strange mysterious things occur every single day. Besides, 
where's my coffee? 

INT-SPRINFIELD POLICE STATION-DAY 

Both HOMER and MARGE have arrived in the station. They are with ERIC and WIGGUM. 

HOMER: First, tell me what happened to our children! 

ERIC: They most likely entered another plane of reality, distinct from 
this one. Hopefully they will figure out a way to return. 

HOMER and MARGE stare at him blankly. 

WIGGUM: My lie detector indicated that he was telling the truth 
earlier. 

HOMER: This all sounds crazy to me. It sounds like he's gone on an acid 
trip. 

MARGE: I am starting you wander why we trusted him in the first place. 

HOMER: (to ERIC) You think I'm stupid-stupid, don't you? I may be 
stupid, but I'm not stupid-stupid. 

ERIC: Listen up Homer! Trillions of trillions of universes exist. This 
has been proved by quantum physics and evidence from research in other 
universes. Some of these universes are fictional to people in other 
universes. You are fictional in my universe because I've watched you in 
several episodes of the Simpsons television show. I'm sure that there 
are many persons which are real in my universe but fictional like 
yours, like MacGuyver. I come from a universe where the heroes of 
classic literature, pulp fiction, and many TV shows and movies actually 
lived. 

HOMER: So if I sent Patty and Selma to your universe, they'll find the real MacGuyver and never return. 

ERIC: Of course you would but I don't think he would enjoy it. From what I know, they aren't the best women in the world. 

HOMER: There's no argument there. 

ERIC: I was hired by the Banzai Institute because they somehow 
discovered that I was the right person for the job of finding universes 
like yours to explore. Hopefully, your children are where I'm from and 
are capable of returning home with the trans-reality device. 

HOMER: Wait a minute. I'm still not sure you're telling the truth. 

ERIC: When Mindy Simmons started working at the nuclear power plant, you were sexually attracted to her. 

HOMER: I've already confessed that to my family. You probably got that from Bart. 

ERIC: A vision in your head had Mindy naked in a giant clam with two of your coworkers as little angels flying around her. 

MARGE: Homer! How could you? 

HOMER: How did you know? Is there some conspiracy going on? 

ERIC: I told you! You are fictional in my native universe. They showed you actually having a vision in an episode. 

HOMER: They showed a woman naked on television? I'm going have to go into your native world and tell the writers to stop showing my dirty thoughts. 

ERIC: Then you'll have to search for each and every universe where you are a fictional character. I don't know how many that would be but I estimate at least two thousand. 

HOMER: At least two thousand? 

ERIC: Yeah, I know. It kind of your mind weird. 

HOMER: It sure does. 

ERIC: Okay, I need to go to go to your house and hope that it's safe. Invite all of your friends and the former members of the vigilante group from when the cat burglar struck Springfield. 

WIGGUM: Why are you trying to reorganize the vigilante group? You better have a good reason. 

ERIC: I have reason to believe that Springfield is in mortal danger and right now, I'm the only one who knows how to defeat the unspeakable horror which threatens the lives of its residents. 

WIGGUM: So the problem is not just Mr. Burns?

ERIC: The true problem is your universe has been invaded by an unwanted visitor and we need to find every possible way to defeat it before it causes great harm.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT-DAY

Thousands of Springfieldians are outside the plant, wandering what is going on. Both CARL and LENNY are together in a very nervous mood. Large clouds appear out of nowhere, circling above the towers.

CARL: I don't know what's happening but this is not good man.

LENNY: No kidding. This looks like something from Ghostbusters. I just don't want any giant marshmallow men walking around. I hate that stuff.

EXT-ERIC'S APARTMENT BUILDING IN LONDON-DAY 

BART and LISA are standing outside. An expensive-looking car stops in front of them. MR. TORKELSON exits to talk to the two.

TORKELSON: Hello there, I'm Editor Richard Torkelson. I believe we talked on the phone.

LISA: Yes we did. It's so good you can come because we really need answers.

TORKELSON: If you get into the car, I'll explain everything.

All three get into the car. TORKELSON drives off towards the London Times Building.

TORKELSON: As you may have guessed, there are plenty of universes and 
realities. I learned this five years ago from two men from the Banzai 
Institute, which is located in the United States. They asked me as 
Eric's employer to allow him to go on a special mission. They offered 
us both roles in what they called Project Amber.

BART: Was it like the Quantum Leap?

TORKELSON: Not really. It was my job to send Eric on special missions 
to do research and interviews in other universes when the Times. I 
served as the contact between the Banzai Institute and Eric Barkley.

LISA: Eric mentioned to us something about genetic supermen being 
involved with Saddam Hussein. What exactly was it?

TORKELSON: In this universe, Hussein was an ally of Khan Noonien Singh, 
the leader of a group of genetically altered humans who attempted to 
take over the world. Singh himself was great at taking over governments 
and whole countries. His schemes were the chief cause of the Eugenics War which led to the deaths of tens of millions and the destruction of many beautiful cities in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Fortunately, Britain and its many allies won the struggle. The war ended in 1996 and a ban has been placed on genetic engineering.

BART: Do you know anybody who got lots of body damage from the war? My grandpa lost two toes in World War II.

LISA: The story he told us was that he was in the Battle of the Bulge and a grenade landed on his foot.

BART: Wait a minute, Khan was from Star Trek. Are you from a TV show?

TORKELSON: No and I'm glad. I'm not very interested in your television shows which are only cartoonish versions of better ones in some other universe.

BART: Thanks for clearing that up for us but exactly what is the Wold Newton family anyway?

TORKELSON: In the year 1795, near the humble village of Wold Newton, 
two coaches were passing by when a meteorite suddenly landed in the 
vicinity. The pregnant women in the coaches, among with their husbands, 
were affected by the radiation. Their descendents, who inter-married 
with each other, formed what is now called the Wold Newton family. It 
includes not only Eric Barkley but Sherlock Holmes, James Bond, Tarzan, 
and many other famous figures who may have appeared as fiction in your 
world.

BART: Tarzan! That means that in this world, there really is some weird 
guy running around in a leotard.

LISA: (ignoring BART) So exactly how does Eric Barkley fit in?

TORKELSON: He's the only known male love child of Sir Austin Dangerfield Powers, who works for the Ministry of Defense. If you look up Powers in Burke's Peerage, you will find that he is a descendent of Sir William Clayton, brother to Tarzan's great-grandfather.

BART: So that's why he looks like Mike Myers! (to Lisa) What's Burke's Peerage?

LISA: A series of volumes relating to British genealogy and heraldry, especially among important aristocratic families.

TORKELSON: I can see that you are familiar with Austin Powers.

BART: So far, he's been the lead character of two movies, both of them pretty funny.

INT-SPRINGFIELD NUCLEAR POWER PLANT-DAY 

Burns is looking out of a window. Smithers, still under his control, enters.

SMITHERS: Sir, we now have 3,420 tons of carbon-14. We also have 2,190 
tons of sodium-23, 2,030 tons of oxygen-15, and 1,560 tons of 
potassium-40. All are fully radioactive isotopes. I believe that the 
produced nuclear waste to be shipped to Springfield Meadow.

BURNS: Excellent. Have you remembered the proper spells? The ritual 
needs to be finished by sundown. SMITHERS: I remember them fully well 
but just in case, we have Eidetic Edward. (to doorway) Bring him in!

Two golems bring in EIDETIC EDWARD, a man in his forties.

BURNS: On what day of the week was John F. Kennedy shot, what 
temperature was it in Springfield, and what did you have for breakfast 
that day? 

EDWARD: (without pause) It was a Thursday, fifty-nine degrees at noon, 
and I had corn flakes with orange juice and fresh melon. I remember a 
lot of stuff.

BURNS: Then read this!

He gives EDWARD fifty pages of spells in an ancient, forgotten 
language.

EDWARD: No, you can't make me!

BURNS does his eye hypnosis trick again. EDWARD doesn't resist and 
falls for it.

EDWARD: (reading) Nek'ku rh'lorrh d'kl'sem gash...

INT-DR. FRINK'S LAB-DAY

ERIC is with DR. FRINK, HOMER, MARGE, WIGGUM, and LOU.

FRINK: What you've told me is a very interesting story, n'hay. The
scientists of this world have pondered the same thing from time to time
never found any proof yet of alternate realities yet. Can you explain
to me the part about the quantum shift? I would like to know what it
feels like.

ERIC: The staff creates a quantum field around itself and the user. It
analyzes the user's needs and transports him to the place he wants to
go to. When a person is transported, he or she is usually converted to
an energy wave. The user doesn't materialize until he or she has
reached the desired reality. It has a sphere at the end which contains
oz particles which are native to only a few universes. These oz
particles have special abilities that seem to transcend each reality.

FRINK: Really? You mean like that transporter from Star Trek but more
futuristic?

ERIC: I would guess so. I've only seen the show a few times as it does
not exist in my native universe but we do have many similar shows. One
is Babylon 5 which is extremely popular among science fiction fans,
including a few of my friends.

WIGGUM: I still don't understand. Do these oz particles come from the
Land of Oz. I liked that movie.

LOU: I think they just named it after the place.

ERIC: From what I heard, it is named after the place although I have
been to an Oz universe where oz particles are common.

WIGGUM: So I'm right then because oz particles originate in the Land of
Oz.

LOU: Actually, I'm technically right because Eric said that their
presence in the place is not the main reason why their called oz
particles.

WIGGUM: I hate it when you're right.

MARGE: Exactly what has been going on at the nuclear power plant?

HOMER: What I would like to know is, who is the new safety technician
in Sector G-8?

ERIC: I hope it is a golem who works as hard as you do.

HOMER: Gee thanks. (realizing) Hey, wait a minute, are you implying
something?

ERIC: That was just a simple joke. I still have respect for you.

FRINK: Right now, I need to confirm your extradimensional nature. Do
you mind if I use my high-powered quantum scanner?

ERIC: Not at all.

INT-SECRET ROOM AT THE LONDON TIME-DAY

The room has a desk, a phone, and is filed with cabinets. A woman,
KATHRYN FREYNDLICH, in a dark suit is waiting for TORKELSON. There is
also a black man, DANIEL MUSANGE, dressed in casual clothes. TORKELSON
arrives with BART and LISA.

TORKELSON: BART and LISA, I would like you to meet Kathryn Freyndlich,
from Section Zero of the United Nations, and Daniel Musange, from the
Banzai Institute and probably one of the most intelligent men alive.

MUSANGE: Greetings. I thought it was very unlikely that cartoon
characters can be brought into our reality without any bad side effects
but I'm glad to be proved wrong.

FREYNDLICH: (Russian accent) We've been worried about Eric but are glad
you have the staff but I don't think we should go looking for him yet.

MUSANGE: It seems that someone here was working for the wrong side.
Torkelson's secretary received a very strange letter with co-editor
Henry Dengler's handwriting. He was the only person working here,
besides both Eric and Mr. Torkelson, who knew about Project Amber.

TORKELSON: Really, what does it say? 

MUSANGE: The letter is written in R'ylethian, the language of the Elder
Gods. Only a very few humans, including myself, are capable of
translating it. (reading) "My work here is finished and the Great Ones
will return. The lesser universes will be conquered for they are free
from the Enemies of the True Gods. Only then will my master, Yog
Shoggoth, return to his once great glory. All hail Yog-Shoggoth. All
hail Carlos Rahngardt and the Neo-Aryan Race."

FREYNDLICH: Rahngardt is the Führer of the Neo-Aryan Occultist Union.
He is a servant of the Yog-Shoggoth, a powerful enemy of the Ancient
Ones, who are on the side of humanity despite Rahngardt's propaganda.

MUSANGE: Section Zero has been searching for him but has not yet found
him. We have very little idea of where he is. The Neo-Aryans are group
of genetically engineered humans from South America, created by exiled
Nazi scientists. In general, he is a very dangerous man.

BART: Can anyone explain what is going on? Who are the Elder Gods, and
who's Yog-Shothoth?

FREYNDLICH: A race of extraterrestrial beings who migrated to Earth.
They use humans for malevolent purposes and have minds that are nearly
incomprehensible to most people.

MUSANGE: They of course are devoted to destruction.

BART and LISA look at each other.

LISA: I hope Eric's all right.

BART: Well, he is the son of Austin Powers.

INT-FRINK'S LAB-DAY 

ERIC is sitting down. His arm is surrounded with a metal armband connect by wire to FRINK’S computer. 

FRINK: According to these readings, Eric Barkley has a different cosmic
signature then ours, nn-hey. It's only noticeable at the quantum level
but it shows. It seems that the oz particles interact with their
counterparts in other universes. The rules of quantum mechanics do
support the idea that photons in each quantum reality interact with
photons in adjacent universes. 

ERIC: Your statements are very true Professor Frink. I was given a very
interesting explanation of how my staff works. Its crystal bubble
contains oz particles. When charged, they can move from one reality to
another, along with whatever they are physically bonded to at the
quantum level. A small computer reads the user's thoughts and sends the
oz particles to the appropriate destination. 

HOMER: But why have you changed to your present form? 

ERIC: I'm not sure about that. 

FRINK exits and reenters with what looks like a futuristic space gun. 

ERIC: What's that? 

FRINK: This is my own quantum adjustment disruptor. 

He fires a beam at ERIC, who temporarily looks like a realistic
depiction of Mike Myers. When FRINK finishes pressing the gun, ERIC
goes back to his "Simpson" form. 

ERIC: Please don't do that again. I find it rather painful. The
transformation is easier when one is unconscious. 

MARGE: Wait a minute. When you were exposed, why didn't he become more
real, visually? 

FRINK: Probably has something to do with the basic fabric of this
reality.

ERIC: Now it's time for some action. Sometime within the next few
hours, a dark necromantic ritual will start and a hostile force will
arise. I suggest that we call all former members of Springfield’s
vigilante group and bring them here. It is time for the fight for
Springfield to commence! Frink, I may need your wacky experiments to
stop whatever supernatural entities that show up thanks to Burns’
meddling with (change tone) Things Man Was Not Meant To Meddle With.

WIGGUM: You mean Code 790?

ERIC: Does it include using forbidden magic and making pacts with
deadly forces to take over Springfield?

LOU: Yes it is but I don’t remember the last time there was a case of
Code 790.

WIGGUM: Then look it up in the records. Just in case, I want to take a
good look at the writings of Jebidiah Springfield’s bastard son, Joseph
Springfield.

LOU: Yes sir.

He exits while ERIC looks at WIGGUM with curiosity.

ERIC: Pardon me but how would the town founder’s kid’s writings help
with this case? The guy must have been dead for at least a century.

MARGE: Actually, they have strange stories about that. Some say he
still roams the world, unable to die, due to a deadly curse.

FRINK: I do remember reading that Joseph Springfield was known to go
into trances ever since he bumped his head when he was a baby. During
these strange trances, he would channel the minds of spirits telling
him about the future.

ERIC: That’s happened to me before whenever I got drunk. This pink
elephant spirit would appear to me and tell me predictions of the
future. Unfortunately, he only spoiled the endings of movies that
weren’t even out yet.

WIGGUM: He foretold that two children belonging to the most beloved
family in Springfield would leave this plane of existence more then a
century after his father’s death. This would be followed by the most
dark-minded person in Springfield making a pact with an
ultraterrestrial being leading to the greatest peril Springfield has
ever seen. Something tells me it’s going to happen soon but I don’t
know why.

ERIC: You silly moron! The Simpsons are the most beloved family in
Springfield, Bart and Lisa have gone to some other universe, and Mr.
Burns has clearly made a deal with some terrifying entity not of this
dimension. I think that is what Joseph Springfield was referring to.

WIGGUM: You really think so? I guess we are in trouble.

ERIC: But there’s still hope. You just need to get those vigilantes and
I will aide you. I know I will eventually win because it’s in my blood
to overcome the odds and find a way to victory.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD MEADOW-DAY

MR. BURNS, SMITHERS, and EDWARDS are leading the golems across the
grass and flowers to the top of a hill. The golems are all carrying
toxic waste containers. When BURNS stops on the hill, the golems dump
the toxic waste all over the meadow. Dark clouds form over them. BURNS
speaks to the golem leader who looks like HOMER.

BURNS: Hurkor, are you sure that we have all of the right ingredients?

HURKOR: [golem-speak, subtitled:] Yes of course master. Can we have
some steelnuts?

BURNS: Of course you can.

HURKOR: [golem-speak, subtitled:] Mmmm…steelnuts.

SMITHERS hands boxes of metal doughnuts to the golems. They all eat them.

BURNS: Now it is time for the ritual to start. Smithers!

Without hesitation, SMITHERS extends his right arm and starts reciting
the spell. BURNS laughs maniacly with the voice of YOG-SHOGGOTH joining
him. KENT BROCKMAN is speaking in front of a camera, giving the news.

BROCKMAN: This is a tense moment as the beautiful Springfield Meadow
seems to be suffering yet another exploitation from Mr. Burns. This
time, he seems to be doing something but no one at this time knows
precisely what it is he’s doing. The only reason I’m here is that this
is interesting news about something bad happening and bad news is
always good for the ratings. The police have been alerted of this
moment just a few minutes ago but whenever they approach Springfield
Meadow, something bad seems to be happening their cars. They usually
have unexplained car accidents and the drivers often behave like they
are drunk. It is not known if this is related to whatever Mr. Burns is
doing.

One of the golems sees BROCKMAN and walks up to the camera.

BROCKMAN: (noticing the golem) Mr. Statue or whatever you are, can you
explain what is going on.

GOLEM: [golem-speak, subtitled:] That tasty food the pimple-faced
fleshy is holding looks delicious. Can I have a bite?

BROCKMAN: Sorry but I can not understand you. Hable espanol?

GOLEM: [golem-speak, subtitled:] Sí, señor. Hablo español muy bueno.
Soy un golem y trabajo para Sr. Burns.

The GOLEM then approaches the camera and starts eating it.

INT-SECRET ROOM AT THE LONDON TIMES-DAY
The two Simpson kids are with FREYNDLICH and MUSANGE. The four are
dressed in Ghostbusters gear and all holding the staff. 

TORKELSON is in front of them.

MUSANGE: In order for this to work, we must all concentrate on the
universe where this particular Bart Simpson is from, not one of those
alternate universes where those Halloween of Horror episodes take
place.

FREYNDLICH: I know, the ones with Kang and Kodos.

BART: In my reality, Kang and Kodos are characters from a silly
Saturday morning show on TV.

MUSANGE: It doesn’t matter, just concentrate on the universe where you
originated. If this works, we can save Eric Barkley, and if possible,
your universe.

LISA: I’m starting to fell a bit scared. Me and Bart have never had to
deal with some horror that doesn’t obey the rules of our universe.

MUSANGE: That’s one of the reasons why I’m coming with you. If I can
understand the laws of physics in your universe, I may figure out a way
to expel Yog-Shoggoth and whatever horrors he unleashes. Remember, your
universe has never met anything like Yog-Shoggoth so you need an
outsider who’s seriously studied this kind of stuff.

BART: Why would a physicist like you study so much dealing with the
occult?

MUSANGE: Because what is usually associated with the occult is related
to the eerie realm of physics that was poorly understood until recently
in the 1970’s and 1980’s. I learned it easier then others because of my
own special mental capacity. I have an IQ of at least 200 in five
different fields. 

FREYNDLICH: Being a Woman in Black, I’ve had my own special training. I
know twenty-different methods of expeling or destroying a servitor of
an Elder God. In my sophomore year, I was trained for these kinds of
scenarios.

MUSANGE: That’s nice but I’m the big genius here. I am the first person
born in poverty in Nigeria to illiterate parents to graduate from
Oxford University with a Ph.D. in Physics.

BART: How did you do that?

MUSANGE: I was discovered by a Man in Black and he adopted me because I
am just so damn smart.

BART: Oh, you’re like Lisa.

TORKELSON: Well, many of Eric’s family members think like Lisa and they
are heroes.

LISA: I think I am ready to go to my homeplane. My mind is concentrated
on helping my universe and family.

BART: Me too.

FREYNDLICH: My mind has already been focused. It’s easy when you’ve had
training from a master Zen Psychologist.

MUSANGE: The state of my mind is concentrated on one goal so I shall
press the button.

He does so. The four disappear with the staff. TORKELSON watches them leave.

INT-THE SIMPSONS’ HOUSE-NIGHT

ERIC is standing in front of HOMER, SKINNER, APU, BARNEY, MOE, WILLY, FRINK, LENNY, and CARL. They are all dressed in uniforms with
futuristic machine guns. MARGE is standing nearby, next to a tray with
cookies.

ERIC: (concluding) …and Springfield will be a safe place to live in
once again.

MARGE hears a knock on the door and opens it. WIGGUM enters with LOU.

LOU: I checked the records and the writings. It mentioned that a
“prophet” from the ultraterrestrial’s world would appear and instruct
nine men in fighting the force that threatens them. After that, a
righteous officer of the law would come in with the chief constable and
describe what he read the writings. In fact, I am saying exactly what Ihad read earlier right now. Funny, isn’t it?

WIGGUM: I alerted the mayor and if I understand the prophecy correctly,
I’m supposed to turn on the TV set to watch the mayor’s announcement.

HOMER: Then turn it on. We don’t have all day.

WIGGUM turns on the TV set. MAYOR QUIMBY appears to make a statement.

QUIMBY: Burns is a terrorist, I repeat, a filthy no-good terrorist. I
should have noticed it but I was distracted by his offers of large
money. In response, I am burning all possessions I bought with his
filthy no-good money.

MARGE: I can see why Lisa wanted us to vote for him in last election.

QUIMBY: As of this moment, two Army platoons and five Air Force jets
will arrive to combat what ever menace Mr. Burns is bringing to
Springfield. He must stopped or I will be surely thrown out of office
for failing to end this madness. Meanwhile, I have learned that Mr.
Burns’ creatures are golems, not walking statues. They are beings made
of inanimate which have been brought to life like Pinocchio. I would
like thank Comic Book Guy, who has memorized the entire Dungeons and
Dragons Monster Compendium, for correcting anyone who refered to these
golems as walking statues.

FRINK: If that is true, then Frankenstein’s monster must be a golem. I
always thought him as a biological android.

APU: Perhaps he is both.

WILLY: That Dungeons and Dragons Monsters Compendium is so inaccurate.
The creatures from the legends my father told me were badly
misportrayed just like Shrek acts nothing like a real ogre.

MOE: Oh, you should get a life. I don’t care about what Scottish
stories you got from your dad because many of the game designers are
professional researchers. They take the creatures from all the best
fantasy garbage that’s out there.

APU: I must object that their rakashas are not like the ones I read
about as a youth.

LENNY: Well, that’s because your childhood books were G-rated. They
never got down to the gorey or spicy stuff. My Bible stories book for
elementary schoolers never mentioned what was going on in the Song of
Solomon.

HOMER: I know. That’s the only book of the Bible Flanders won’t read to
his kids. They would have to wait until they’re thirteen. Of course,
they have probably already read it any way.

ERIC: (turning of the TV set) Who cares about some stupid Compendium?
According to most dictionaries I’ve read, a golem is “an artifically
created humanoid supernaturally endowed with life.”

LOU: That’s funny. The writings never mentioned the nine men getting
into a fight after learning of the mayor’s message to the town.

SKINNER: A prophecy can’t always be completely accurate, even if it
were done by an expert psychohistorian. Hasn’t anyone here read Isaac
Asimov’s Foundation novels.

WILLY: No.

LOU: No.

HOMER: No.

MARGE: No.

APU: No.

WIGGUM: No.

LENNY: No.

CARL: No.

FRINK: Yes. Asimov was one of the best science fiction writers of the 20th century.

BARNEY: I didn’t because it didn’t have any magic robots or fairies in it.

Electricity suddenly appears around the room. MUSANGE, FREYNDLICH, BART, and LISA appear in cartoon form in the middle of the room. 
MUSANGE is holding the staff which has stopped glowing. The people in the room have mixed reactions.

HOMER: Bart! Lisa! We missed you.

ERIC: My staff. Now I can return to my home reality once I'm done preventing Mr. Burns from taking over the world with the help of whatever evil force he has made a deal with.

LOU: Funny, the writings didn't mention that they would appear this earlier. They are supposed to come back when the effects of the dark ritual has already started.

ERIC: Perhaps they have.

MUSANGE: Eric Barkley, it's me, Daniel Musange. The evil being is either Yog-Shoggoth or powerful servitor assuming his form.

ERIC: I don't think it is the real Yog-Shoggoth but it is deadly enought to destroy Springfield under the right circumstances.

BART: Mom, Homer, we have something cool to tell you. Eric is the love
child of Austin Powers.

ERIC: You can tell that I inherited his handsome looks and his mojo,
which I've learned to control over the years.

LISA: I hope you were in control when you were talking to me yesterday.

ERIC: I was, I was. By my family's standards, I am a very cool cat if
you know what I mean.

APU: Judging from your accent, you are British? Do you know any Indians
who've immigrated to Britain in the past few decades.

ERIC: They are a growing minority and I can tell you, I'm no Archie
Bunker when it comes to you guys. I already have a fondness of Indian
food.

WILLY: He's already told me that's he's part Scottish.

ERIC: And part Irish, and part German, and part Hindu.

APU: Really? I'm part English because back in 1912, one of my great
grandparents married a woman who was born in London. Their child was a
girl who chose to stay in India.

ERIC: I guess that means I can call you brother.

MUSANGE: Excuse me, there is something wrong with the staff. It seems
to be suffering a shortage of oz-particles. We may not be able to
return our universe.

LISA: You mean you're stuck here?

ERIC: I guess so. I wonder what's wrong.

FREYNDLICH: Most likely a part of Yog-Shoggoth's influence. We may be
already in trouble right now.

ERIC: If this is a servitor or a former one, someone's probably aiding
in my homeplane. Who do you think it is?

FREYNDLICH: We believe we know. It appears to be Carlos Rahngardt, 
member of the Neo-Aryan Occultist Union. I know that you won an
international journalism award for your report on them.

ERIC: Yes I did. That was back four years ago, shortly before I was recruited for Project Amber.

FRINK: (to FREYNDLICH) I hope that you are a scientist from Eric's world because I'm a scientist from this one, n'hay.

MUSANGE: Actually, I'm the scientific genius here. Exactly what is going on here anyways.

LOU: We are the Springfield Justice Fighters.

WILLY: Organized to fight all wretched scum and villainy.

BART: That's cool.

LISA: The vigilante group is back? I guess that right now it is okay.

WIGGUM: Are these guys mentioned in the writings?

LOU: If I remember correctly, it said that the children would show up with a wise man and a woman warrior.

MUSANGE: I'm not exactly wise yet. Just learned and experianced. When I discover the Theory of Quantum Gravity, I'll be wise

FREYNDLICH: Wait a minute. What writings mentioned this?

LOU: The complete works of Joseph Benjamin Elijah Springfield, bastard
son of Jebidiah Springfield, founder of this great town. They mentioned
what is going on right now on pages 45-49. Soon, the "prophet" will
start a journey to the Brazil of his world by finding a horseless
carriage in the Springfield Badlands not far from what will one day be
known as Mount Carlmore.

CARL: It has a carving that looks just like me except for the skin tone
of course.

ERIC: How am I supposed to do that?

LISA: Perhaps we should go over there. If we can't defeat Burns and his
new master soon, you would have no way of finding the Neo-Aryan
Occultist Union.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD MEADOWS-NIGHT

All the GOLEMS are standing still as the nuclear waste starts to form
into the bodies of large creatures. SMITHERS is continuing the spell.

SMITHERS: Hm'naj toro nai...(breaks out of hypnosis) sir, I can't do it
anymore. I can't remember how it ends.

BURNS: (not noticing what has happened to SMITHERS) Fine, Edwards will
finish it.

EDWARDS: Ku'rai tee r'ju'dak...

SMITHERS: Sir, I recommend that I go back to the nuclear power plant.

BURNS: Fine, a golem will escort you.(to a GOLEM) Broot!

BROOT: [golem-speak, subtitled:] Yes, master.

BURNS: I want you take walk Smithers back to the power plant. I don't want anything that might endanger us to happen.

BROOT: [golem-speak, subtitled:] As you wish.

EXT-NEAR MOUNT CARLMORE-NIGHT

The Simpsons, MUSANGE, and ERIC arrive. They see a 1957 Thunderbird car parked near Mount Carlmore. On the windshield is a brown envolope that says "To Eric, from Percival of Amber." ERIC opens it to find a key and a note that says, "The manual is in the front seat."

ERIC: Percival of Amber? Is Amber some kind of place that's home to a special group of world-jumpers?

MUSANGE: I believe I know what Amber is. It is an alternate reality
whose inhabitants believe that it is the real world and all others are
mere shadows. From what I understand, there was a major War a few
decades ago between the people of Amber and the forces of Chaos. The
descendents of the first King of Amber are basically world-jumpers.

ERIC: Really? I thought the name sounded familiar. Of course you've
already explained to me about the realm of Chaos and the formation of
universes but I didn't completely understand it.

BART: So, are you going to take this car for a nice spin?

ERIC: This car is my only way of returning to my universe. I will go but I will go alone and nothing will stop me.

He opens the door and reads the manual.

ERIC: According to this, once the car reaches 88 mph, it crosses over to another reality that is close to this one but it only works at certain points in space. To leave here, I would need to find a cliff in the vicinity with a large red circle on it.

HOMER: I've seen that before. From what I heard, it's thousands of years old.

LISA: The local Indians have no idea who put painted the big circle but they seem to have a few superstitions about it.

ERIC: They may be more then superstition. I believe that it can be used to go into another plane of existence. (to the Simpsons) Goodbye, I'm leaving on a journey to the Brazil of my home reality.
He takes off and heads down the road.

MUSANGE: Let's go back the house. I want to see how Freyndlich is doing with those Justice Fighters. They may not be much but apparently they are the best we got.

INT-BURNS' OFFICE-NIGHT

The GOLEM BROOT enters with SMITHERS.

SMITHERS: You stand guard while I look for my night glasses. Master Burns insists on keeping them in his special safe hidden behind the shelf. In order to get into the safe, I may have to get naked for security precautions so please look away.

BROOT: [golem-speak, subtitled] That's okay with me.

He stands by the door as SMITHERS moves the shelf, takes of his work clothes to reveal a pink jumpsuit, and opens a trap door. After crawling inside, he closes the door. BROOT stands there not suspecting anywthing.

BROOT: [golem-speak, subtitled:] You doing okay, Mr. Smithers?

SMITHERS does not answer. BROOT becomes worried so he looks inside and opens the trap door. He sees a dark hidden passageway but is too big to get inside.

INT-SIMPSONS' LIVING ROOM-NIGHT

The JUSTICE FIGHTERS, SIMPSONS, FREYNDLICH, and MUSANGE watch KENT 
BROCKMAN'S news on television.

BROCKMAN: This just in, a large clear unbreakable dome has appeared
enveloping Springfield and seperating us from the rest of the world. It
is 4.3 miles tall and about 13.5 miles in circumference. Even more, we
can't send or recieve any long-range broadcasts. Chief Police Officer
Wiggum believes that Mr. Burns is making a deal with a hostile being
from another universe. We will now go to-

The image of BROCKMAN is replaced by the image of MR. BURNS in front of
an army of large insect-like creatures and humanoid monsters carrying
strange weapons. Everyone in the living room looks with horror.

WILLY: He's in Springfield Meadow!

MR. BURNS: Yog-Shoggoth is your new master. You will worship him or you
will die. Follow me and you will be my aides in conquest of the planet.

MUSANGE: I think I know what is going to happen right now. Justice
Fighters, follow me to Springfield Meadow.

EXT-CLIFF NEAR MOUNT CARLMORE-NIGHT

ERIC BARKLEY is driving towards the strange symbol on the cliff. He
takes brief looks at the speedometer. Within a minute, the car
disappears through the cliff.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD MEADOW-NIGHT

BURNS is making a speech in front of his troops. He does not notice a
group of cars arriving.

BURNS: Go my troops (they start leaving). Go purge Springfield and
destroy those my master has found impure and unworthy.

As many leave, one humanoid warrior points his finger. BURNS looks
behind him. The JUSTICE FIGHTERS, along with MUSANGE and FREYNDLICH in
Ghostbuster gear arrive on the scene.

FREYNDLICH: Mr. Montgomery Burns, we know that you have made a deal
with Yog-Sothoth and I have equipped these men with-"

BURNS: Attack, my minions!

The remaining warriors fight the JUSTICE FIGHTERS who activate their
proton chargers. Meanwhile, scenes of monsters going down Springfield
are shown.

INT-FLANDERS' HOUSE

FLANDERS is watching television with his boys. A doorbell ring is
heard. He opens it to find one the humanoids next an insect.

HUMANOID WARRIOR: You are obsessed with a false god who is a parody of
Yog-Sothoth. You will die.

FLANDERS: (running out back door with boys) The Antichrist is in power
boys. Good thing we know the drill.

INT-ANDROID'S DUNGEON

COMIC BOOK GUY is hiding as two warriors are reading some comics.

HUMANOID WARRIOR 1: This man seems to be distributing propaganda
against the true gods.

HUMANOID WARRIOR 2: He is also a fat slob so he must be destroyed at
once!

COMIC BOOK GUY: (o.s.) I'm not a fat slob! (the two warriors look
around) Worst customers ever.

The JUSTICE FIGHTERS are fighting many of the insects and humanoids.

The insects fire energy beams from their antenna while the humanoids
use their hands as weapons. They observe that the creatures seem to
keep regenerating.

LENNY: This is no fair! These monsters keep coming back.

MOE: I once saw a movie just like this. It's at the tip of my tongue
but I don't know what it was called.

MUSANGE: Hey, where did Mr. Burns go?

BARNEY: He went back to the nuclear plant where Homer works.

FRINK: Oh my God! Yog-Sothoth was using the nucler plant! (to MUSANGE)
Didn't you see that he feeds primarily on energy?

MUSANGE: You're right. Yog-Sothoth seems to be feeding on the energy.
As long as he has access to the power plant, he can control things in
this universe.

MOE: Then where did he get the golems?

FREYNDLICH: He must have got them from his own reality!

MUSANGE: Okay. I guess that for now, me, Homer, and Frink should get to
the nuclear plant as quickly as possible. We may need to shut down the
plant to decrease Yog-Sothoth's ability to revive these creatures.

INT-NUCLEAR PLANT-NIGHT

BROOT is still in MR. BURNS' OFFICE. BURNS comes with EDWARD.

BURNS: Where's Smithers?

BROOT: [golem-speak, subtitled:] He had to go into a room that you can only reach by a secret passageway here.

BURNS: You idiot! That was the escape route which means that he is no longer under my control. (to EDWARD) which means that soon you will break away from my power. I won't let that happen.

EDWARD: What is it that you wish me to do?

BURNS: (to another golem) I want this man killed!

Two golems drag EDWARD away. He screams.

YOG-SOTHOTH'S VOICE: Smithers has broken away but we no longer need him.

BURNS: What? He memorized the spell which means that he can figure out how to undo it.

YOG-SOTHOTH'S VOICE: I never like Smithers anyway. His sexual desires disgust me.

BURNS: How is that?

YOG-SOTHOTH'S VOICE: You fool! He is sexually attracted to you and sees nothing wrong with living a homosexual lifestyle.

BURNS: (to KARAK, another golem) Karak! Do you think Smithers is one of those homos?

KARAK: [golem-speak, subtitled] What does Yog-Sothoth say?

YOG-SOTHOTH's VOICE: Yes, he is a homosexual.

KARAK: [golem-speak, subtitled] Yog-Sothoth's never wrong.

Suddenly BURNS experiences flashbacks from previous episodes involving SMITHERS and his behavior. He snaps back to reality after one about being kissed by his sycophant.

BURNS: He may be one of them queer types but he still is needed. No one knows this nuclear plant better then he does.

EXT-NUCLEAR PLANT-NIGHT
The plant is surrounded by many of the insects. MUSANGE, FRINK, and 

HOMER approach the building. HOMER finds SMITHERS behind a bush.

SMITHERS: Ahh! Please don't hurt me.

HOMER: Hello Mr. Smithers. What are you doing here?

SMITHERS: It's terrible. Mr. Burns is no longer the Burns that I fell in love with. He has become corrupted beyond belief by Yog-Sothoth, a strange being from another dimension.

MUSANGE: He is one of the Great Old Ones from my universe. I'm Daniel Musange from the Banzai Institute. I have come to help save Springfield.

SMITHERS: It is too late. Yog-Sothoth is ready to begin the metamorphisis.

MUSANGE: Metamorphisis to what?

SMITHERS: I do not know. I was under his control for hours without being able to create independent thoughts. Now, it is all of a blur.

FRINK: We are here to shut down the Nuclear Power Plant so that Yog-Sothoth would lose his power.

SMITHERS: Mr. Burns said that Yog-Sothoth is omnipotent. He helps Mr. Burns because he likes him.

MUSANGE: I'm afraid that is impossible. If we are talking about the true Yog-Sothoth, he would not need Burns. If we are talking about a lesser spirit taking the guise of Yog-Sothoth, he is not omnipotent.

HOMER: But you said that it was Yog-Sothoth.

MUSANGE: I did that for lack of a better name. For now, we are calling it Yog-Sothoth.

SMITHERS: Mr. Burns said that Yog-Sothoth was once the ruler of Elder Gods but was overthrown by his enemies and cast into the Void.

MUSANGE: I believe that is a lie! Whatever we are dealing with, it decieves humans for its own purposes.

SMITHERS: I guess so. I just want the old Burns back.

HOMER: The old Burns?! He wasn't all that nice to me with the name
calling and using me for his own advantages. He even ran over my own
son at one time.

SMITHERS: He may seem bad but the new one is far worse! By the way, why
are you dressed like the Ghostbusters?

FRINK: We're the Justice Fighters! HOMER: Sworn to protect Springfield
from all evil.

EXT-SOMEWHERE IN BRAZIL-DAY
(live-action)

A car is shown driving down a highway. On close up, it is being driven
by ERIC BARKLEY in his flesh-and-blood form. Zoom-in to his face. He
picks up a cell phone and dials it.

ERIC: Oh hi Moira. It's me, your handsome warrior prince. I'm in South
America right now but please don't ask why. I just have to find my own
archnemeis. (pause) What's that? (pause) Beer cans? The place is a
mess? That must have been Bart and Lisa in the flesh. You can talk to
my boss about it. By the way, how's little John? (pause) That's good.
(pause) I don't have a staff right now but I've got something better! A
1950's sports car that can travel through alternate universes. Groovy,
isn't it?

The continue contiues down the road.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD HARBOR-NIGHT

Many of the Springfieldians are all quickly getting on boats. The JUSTICE FIGHTERS are leading them. FREYNDLICH is talking to FLANDERS.

FLANDERS: Isn't this the Apocalypse?

FREYNDLICH: Not exactly. I'm from another universe which is different
then yours in many ways.

ROD: Why would God spend his time creating different universes?

FREYNDLICH: I can't answer that question but I can tell you this. The
monsters chasing don't like salt water.

FLANDERS: Then why don't you just use salt water to destroy them?

FREYNDLICH: When we get on the boat, I'll be able to create an elixir
from the salt water that will destroy the monsters. I just have to
remember what I learned in chemistry class at the Academy.

FLANDERS: You don't need chemistry. You just need the Lord's guidance.

MILHOUSE: (on board the ship) Hey, aren't you a Ghostbuster?

FREYNDLICH: No, I'm a Woman in Black working for the United Nations in
a parallel universe.

OTTO: (near Milhouse) This sure seems like some of those comics I've been reading.

WILLY brings some of the other kids, including MARTIN PRINCE, to the ship.

MARTIN: Where do these monsters come from?

WILLY: They have been sent by one of the greatest evils in the multiverse: Yog-Sothoth.

MARTIN: That name sounds familiar. I believe that he is one of the
fictional deities created by H.P. Lovecraft in the 1920's.

FREYNDLICH: Where I come from, Yog-Sothoth is certainly real.

INT-NUCLEAR PLANT STORAGE ROOM-NIGHT

A secret passageway opens. SMITHERS, HOMER, FRINK, and MUSANGE enter.

SMITHERS: Okay, from here, we will have to fight the golems until we
get to the control room which is under deep security. The only two
people who know the password are me and Burns. Fortunately, Burns isn't
the type to remember the password to change the password. I however
have a very good memory so the only way to save the day is in my head.

HOMER: I recognize this place. Why are we in the storage room?

SMITHERS: I've decided that the best way to get the control room is
from here.

FRINK opens a door. He sees a long hallway. The room is filled with an
eerie blue light.

MUSANGE: Hmm..where is this light coming from.

HOMER: I don't know but I'm scared.

FRINK: We'll never find out unless we take a look.

MUSANGE: (taking out a scanning device) According to this..um...I'm
having trouble understanding the readings because it's not designed for
cartoon physics. (gives Frink the device)

FRINK: Jesus, Mary, and Glavin! About fifty meters away from us is some
kind of strange barrier. It continuously bounces of photons, neutrinos,
the works. It doesn't show what is behind the barrier.

MUSANGE: It may be dangerous, it may not be dangerous, but I think I
should have a look.

He walks down the hallway. The other three follow him until they see a
group of golems and start firing.

EXT-TOWN IN BRAZIL-DAY

ERIC is parking his car near a small house. BILL SEVEN, a man in his
late twenties, opens the door and sees ERIC with a look of recognition.

BILL: Eric! It's so great to see you. Things have been pretty great for
me since I got that job for the Brazilian government.

ERIC: Why do you like Brazil so much, Bill?

BILL: It's the Amazon rainforest. I've always wanted to live in this
dense community of life. I am in one with nature.

ERIC: That's very nice coming from a guy known for his genetic
experiments on endangered species.

BILL: I've been trying to protect them from human civilization.

ERIC: Whatever. Right now, I need your help. I need your a few of your
gadgets.

BILL: Really? What are you looking for now? Do you think a flying
dragon has gone south for the winter?

ERIC: This is more important. I am looking for a powerful being that
has taken the guise of Yog-Sothoth.

BILL: Yog-Sothoth? If this was the real thing, I would have known by
now.

ERIC: You won't believe this but I was in an alternate universe where
the hostile being I'm tracking down has invaded as a way of gaining
energy. Besides, I'm trying to save new friends of mine.

BILL: Whatever. You can come inside but I think that I should go with
you. I know this rainforest inside out.

INT-NUCLEAR PLANT HALLWAY-NIGHT

The four heroes have defeated the golems. FRINK notices that a
reflective blue wall of energy seems to be moving very slowly.

SMITHERS: What are we looking at?

FRINK: Well, I'm stumped.

While the others stand still, MUSANGE his hand through the wall of
energy, causing a ripple. He takes it out.

MUSANGE: You wouldn't believe this but I could feel my hand change
physically in ways I can't describe.

HOMER: What do you mean?

MUSANGE: Men, I suggest you put your heads through this shining field
of energy. Do not be frightened.

HOMER, SMITHERS, and FRINK put their heads through the wall of energy.
On the other side, the scene is live-action.

SMITHERS: Am I on drugs here?

HOMER: Well, it's pretty freaky.
They go all the way through the wall of energy. MUSANGE arrives.

FRINK: Exactly what has happened?

MUSANGE: I think that we are in a pocket universe right now. This is
obviously another stage in our enemy's plan.

HOMER: Well, we have to find the central control room. Right now, I
feel kind of weird.

A few more golems enter, followed by the live-action version of MR.
BURNS. He looks very ancient and senile.

BURNS: Smithers? I can see that you have returned. Who are these men
you have brought along.

SMITHERS: This is Professor Frink, Homer Simpson, and Daniel Musange.


BURNS: I recognize two of you but I do not recongize the black man.

MUSANGE: I am Daniel Musange from the universe where your new friend 
has come from. We believe that he is not the real Yog-Sothoth and may
be a tool of the Neo-Aryan Occultist Union.

BURNS: Blasphemy! None of this is true. I know that all of you men are
liars and frauds. My master has informed me that Smithers is a
homosexual.

SMITHERS: Yes I am but I will not love you as long as you are doing
such evil acts. It's just not working for our relationship.

BURNS: Silence! (sends lightning bolts at the proton chargers which
fall apart.

HOMER: Now he's like the Emperor from Return of the Jedi!

BURNS: Yes I am. (using hypnosis) Now you will obey and follow me.

SMITHERS: That's not working this time.

BURNS: Fine then. Golems, I want these four men to be put under
confinement until I have decided what to do with them.

EXT-THE RAINFOREST-DAY

ERIC and BILL are hiding the forest as they see four men in uniforms
carrying large brown cases.

BILL: Are you sure they're Neo-Aryans?

ERIC: I'm pretty sure. They seem to be moving quickly. I have a hunch
that Rahngardt is up to something.

BILL: It looks like its okay for us to follow now. Where did you get
that cool car anyway?

ERIC: I can't say but it sure does come in handy sometimes.

INT-SPRINGFIELD SHIP-NIGHT

MAYOR QUIMBY and his aides, including a few attractive interns, are the
last persons on the ship. QUIMBY, who is currently holding several
papers, spots WIGGUM.

QUIMBY: Chief Wiggum, it's me, the mayor.

WIGGUM: Thank god you're safe. I was worried that you got killed and
I'd end up being mayor. That's got to be the worst job I can have.

QUIMBY: I'm not here for you. I need to deliver the papers of Joseph
Springfield to Lisa Simpson.

BART and LISA enter.

LISA: I'm right here. (QUIMBY recognizes her)

QUIMBY: Oh yeah, the spikey-haired girl, besides the baby.

BART: Why do you want to see Lisa? Do you think she is some kind of
super-smart superhero?

QUIMBY: I've read the papers many times before and they state that you
possess the key to saving Springfield or at least part of it.

LISA: What do you mean?

QUIMBY: I have no idea. I wander if you have anything that may help.

LISA: Then give me the papers.

QUIMBY does so. BART and LISA look at them. The title page says, "The
Springfield Prophecies Dictated to Joseph B.E. Springfield From Those
Pesky Voices Inside His Head."

LISA: This looks really thick. How much time do I have?

QUIMBY: Apparently less then an hour.

As LISA begins to read, FREYNDLICH enters the room.

FREYNDLICH: Everyone, listen to me. I recieved a message from Musange
and it seems that the team in the Nuclear Plant hasn't made it to the
core. Furthormore, Mr. Burns is planning to turn Springfield into a
seperate pocket universe that works on the same principles as that of
my homeplane.

INT-LARGE CAVERN-DAY

Some Neo-Aryans, most of them Hispanic, are working near an underground
river. They don't notice ERIC and BILL rise out of the water. The two
are holding water-proof weapons. They hide behind a large canister.

NEO-ARYAN 1: [subtitled, Portugese] (to one of his fellow workers) Did
you hear something?

NEO-ARYAN 2: [subtitled, Portugese] I am not sure. (looks around)

NEO ARYAN 3: [subtitled, Portugese] I'll go look.

The third Neo-Aryan sees something behind the large canister. He
finally spots ERIC and BILL. They get up and display their guns. Two
security officers nearby respond and start firing. Most of workers
leave quickly. ERIC and BILL are victorious in the fight but four more
officers arrive with CARLOS RAHNGARDT, a man with gold hair and blue
eyes although he has slightly dark skin. A fourth Neo-Aryan is with
him.

NEO-ARYAN: These are the two intruders, Lord Rahngardt.

RAHNGARDT: (to BILL and ERIC) I recongize you too men. One of you is
journalist Eric Barkley, who is also an interdimensional traveller. You
should have stayed in Springfield so that you would me rise as a
demigod in a world that I can easily mold. The other is Bill Seven,
local protector of the rainforest and enemy of the True Gods from
birth.

ERIC: I want you to explain everything to me now before you succeed.

RAHNGARDT: All right you fool. A few weeks ago, one of my agents was in
London to infilitrate the London Times. My original attention was to
learn what they knew that was not revealed to the public. The agent was
a man with great psychic abilities and he discovered that you were able
to travel between parallel worlds. I realized that this was a chance to
serve Yog-Sothoth by sending a minor spirit after you that could mimic
the voice and behavior of my master. It shared a special bond with my
own mind so that I could observe what was going on. Right now, you have
little chance of saving Springfield because the metamorphisis has
begone.

ERIC and BILL start exchanging fire with the officers while RAHNGARDT
leaves unarmed.

INT-RAHNGARDT'S COMMAND ROOM-DAY

RAHNGARDT is standing in front of a large gateway that resembles the
Guardian of Forever. A WOMAN in uniform is working at a nearby console.

WOMAN: A link has been established. Other side will open up in one
minute.

RAHNGARDT: Good, everything is going as planned. (sitting down in a
trance) Lee'karu tlyd Yog-Sothoth. Atkor h'rut... EXT-SPRINGFIELD SHIP
NIGHT

The various people aboard the ship see a large sphere of energy expand
from the Nuclear Power Plant. It soon fills up the dome. All scenes
within it are now live-action. Everyone has aged 12 years.

WIGGUM: Holy cow! I look heavy!

FREYNDLICH: I've just created a way of destroying them. I've created
these.

Everyone looks at several tubes filled with what looks like plain water
at first.

FREYNDLICH: Pour these on your clothes and they would most likely die
if they touch you. Hopefully, the creatures would know what is deadly to them. I'm going to the plant with Lisa.

They get into a boat and leave.

ROD: Dad, is this what Heaven is like?

FLANDERS: Probably, son. God has to be more real then our default state but I can't explain what is going on right now.

COMIC BOOK GUY: I've read comic books dealing with situations like these but I still cannot explain this.

BARNEY: (drunk) We're characters in a giant book and it is classical camp!

RALPH: Is it like summer camp?

INT-THE SIMPSONS' HOUSE-NIGHT

Both LISA and FREYNDLICH are searching through the house. LISA goes
into her bedroom and exits with a large box. FREYNDLICH is using a
scanner. As LISA opens the box, something inside glows.

FREYNDLICH: Bingo!

LISA: Why hasn't that behaved like this before?

FREYNDLICH: I have no idea.

INT-BURNS' OFFICE-NIGHT

A large wormhole opens up in the Office. Out of it jumps RAHNGARDT who
now has a blue-ish glow. His eyes are now full red. RAHNGARDT now
touches BURNS' head.

BURNS: Who are you?

RAHNGARDT: (very deep voice) An avatar of Yog-Shothoth. I have come to
begin my reign over this universe.

BURNS: (finally coming to his senses) You can't do that. Yog-Sothoth
promised me this world. In fact, I no longer like him. Smithers was
right about this being-

RAHNGARDT: Silence! You are a fool and should not be trusted. I command
the Golems now so you are useless.

BURNS falls down and becomes very weak. RAHNGARDT opens the door and
the Golems seem to recognize him. The wormhole soon reopens with ERIC
jumping out. He has a proton charger strapped to his belt.

BURNS: Who are you? Another servant of the master who's betrayed me.

ERIC: Is this the metamorphisis? The last time I was in Springfield, it 
was a cartoon.

BURNS: Yog-Shothoth did this so he could manifest himself. He claimed 
that he was not allowed to manifest himself in his universe but he 
could create his own pocket universe. That is what he told me.

ERIC: Really? My name is Eric Barkley and I have something.

He takes out a shining green rock.

BURNS: What is that?

ERIC: A strange rock found in the original Wold Newton meteorite and 
probably the source of my family's power. As long as I am holding it, I 
have a chance to defeat Carlos Rahngardt.

BURNS: Who?

ERIC: Carlos Rahngardt, the man who just entered this universe. Didn't 
the guy say anything about himself.

BURNS: He said he was an avatar and denied what I was promised.

ERIC: That sounds like Rahngardt, a liar and deciever.

BURNS: At least I have something in common with him. ERIC leaves and 
BURNS falls unconscious.

INT-CONFINEMENT ROOM

SMITHERS, HOMER, MUSANGE, and FRINK are still in the room. ERIC opens 
the door.

HOMER: Eric! You look really handsome like that.

ERIC: That's what they all tell me.

MUSANGE: You've made it!

ERIC: I have bad news. Rahngardt is on the loose and he has super-
powers. He can't leave because apparently he would be back to normal in 
my world and my friend Bill called the local authorites.

MUSANGE: First, we have to get to the control room to shut off the 
power. I'm sure that Rahngardt is still recieved his energy from the 
nuclear power plant.

FRINK: How did you get here?

ERIC: Rahngardt created a wormhole linking Springfield to my world.

EXT-SPRINGFIELD MAIN STREET-NIGHT

RAHNGARDT is walking around. Various people who haven't made it to the 
ships and have been spared look at him. They react with awe and fear.

DISCO STU: That man looks so groovy.

JIMBO: Who are you?

RAHNGARDT: I am Carlos Rahngardt, Führer of the Neo-Aryan Occultist 
Union and your new master.

LOUIE: What makes you think you're so tough?

RAHNGARDT points his finger to a store which explodes. He then uses a 
few gestures to bring the store back together. The townspeople talk to 
each other and bow down to him. FRENYDLICH and LISA arrive on the 
scene. LISA has something in her fist.

FREYNDLICH: Carlos Rahngardt, you are placed under arrest by Section 
Zero of the United Nations.

RAHNGARDT: That is impossible. Your jurisdiction surely does not extend 
here.

He smiles while ERIC enters with HOMER.

ERIC: Actually, you are wrong. This pocket universe is linked by a 
wormhole to my world and is currently dependent on it.

RAHNGARDT: Silence! I have full power.

ERIC: That's what you think. I successfully defeated your golems which 
was very easy for me. Smithers was freed and made it to the central 
control room. He should have turned off the power by now.

RAHNGARDT: But I still can increase power by stealing neural energy 
from the humans here. In fact, I think I will start now!

Everyone looks up as RAHNGARDT's size increases. When he is more then 
fifty feet tall, RAHNGARDT picks up LISA who quickly throws the shining 
object into RAHNGARDT's mouth. He then looks as if he is drunk and 
places LISA on the top of a building.

LISA: It worked!

Electric volts surround RAHNGARDT as he shrinks and turns to normal. 
Within seconds, the man is lying unconscious while the sphere 
surrounding Springfield shrinks.

MUSANGE: What the hell was that thing?

LISA: You would not believe it.

ERIC: After what happened in the past twenty hours, I'd expect you to 
expect anything.

LISA: That a hairlock with the gum on it that I removed because the gum 
would not come off.

ERIC: (looking surprised) I was not expecting that! Something must have 
turned that gum into a way of defeating RAHNGARDT.

A police car arrives and WIGGUM exits.

WIGGUM: What happened?

ERIC: I think we got rid of our enemy.

WIGGUM: Good. I just remembered, who was really behind the robbery on 
Ricardo Street?

HOMER: Beats me.

FREYNDLICH: At least we've got one thing solved. Soon, everything 
should be back to normal.


EXT-ROAD TO SPRINGFIELD-DAY BREAK

(animated) Many people are standing outside their cars as the energy 
sphere shrinks until it disappears. The people cheer and they drive 
along to the city.

INT-SPRINGFIELD MAIN STREET-DAY

Two TOURISTS see Lenny and Carl drinking beer.

TOURIST 1: Hey beer guys, what was it like inside the energy field?

TOURIST 2: I bet you got really scared.

LENNY: I don't know. I was going home from my job when suddenly there 
was this blue flash. The next thing I know, I'm walking down Lower 
Eastside. What's even stranger is that many records of what did happen 
disappeared. TOURIST 1: You don't remember anything?

TOURIST 2: We heard that this man named Monty Burns was declared a 
terrorist but then a dome was created and...

CARL: Sorry but we just don't remember that stuff. Whatever happened, 
it must have been very weird.

INT-THE SIMPSONS' HOUSE-DAY

HOMER is watching television. LISA comes running down the stairs.

LISA: Dad! My precious hairlock is missing. I'm refering to the one 
with the gum in it.

HOMER: Come on, it's not that bad. You're always losing stuff. Remember 
the time you lost your sax and Marge lost her necklace.

LISA: Dad, that was when the cat burglar was stealing everything.

HOMER: Relax, you will find it. I'm sure that you will.

A knock is heard on the door. HOMER opens it. He finds ERIC and MUSANGE 
with the staff outside.

HOMER: I think I recall seeing you two somewhere. Were you here 
yesterday?

ERIC: Yes I was. I believe that we met and learned much from each 
other, in a sense.

HOMER: Really? Did we discuss baseball teams who suck?

ERIC: No but it does not matter. What is the last thing you remember 
from two days ago?

HOMER: I had just go back from work, why?

MUSANGE: We were just wondering.

This causes HOMER to act paranoid.

HOMER: They sent you here, didn't they?

ERIC: Who are you refering to?

HOMER: A massive government conspiracy just like in the X-Files.

MUSANGE: Not quite but it is time for us to leave.

He gives HOMER a piece of hair with gum on it.

HOMER: Thanks very much.

MUSANGE: Then good-bye and hope you have a good time.

The men at the door leave. HOMER gives LISA the piece of hair.

LISA: Did you get this from the two men?

HOMER: Yes.

LISA: How did they get it?

HOMER: I dunno. Maybe they just needed that gum for some conspiracy 
project but let's forget all this.

EXT-SOMEWHERE NEAR CRATER LAKE, OREGON-DAY

(live-action) Several Springfieldians and animals from the town are 
walking around. FREYNDLICH and a PARK RANGER enter.

PARK RANGER: These are the people we found. They claim to be from 
another universe. There must be at least a thousand of them.

FREYNDLICH: I recognize these people. They are mostly harmless but 
please cover this up. I need to get them new ID's and jobs.

PARK RANGER: Whatever Ma'am.

INT-TORKELSON'S OFFICE-DAY

TORKELSON is working at his desk. ERIC enters.

ERIC: You wanted to see me?

TORKELSON: I just wanted to tell you that the folks at the Banzai 
Institute aren't sure quite what happened but whatever it was, I hope 
it was for the best.

ERIC: It still seems kind of strange now that there are two versions of every multicelled animal from Springfield. The versions in the Springfield universe don't remember anything and the versions in this reality have to find new identities. Maybe Fate just likes continuity, boss.

TORKELSON: If that's what Fate decrees, I cannot argue. I just want you 
to know that starting tomorrow, you are on vacation and just don't use 
that new car of yours.

ERIC: I'll be careful.

He closes the door. Zoom out to the door's image on a television set 
which is revealed to be an image on the last page of a book. The book 
is closed by the ANIMATOR'S hand. She then winks at the screen.

End credits