Suddenly, they’re not in Springfield. They’re in a pitch-black void filled with floating product placement from discontinued 90s brands: Butterfinger BBs, a crushed can of Buzz Cola, a talking Krusty doll whose voice box says only “You’ll never leave.”
Then a hand—black and white, like the Treehouse II gremlin on the school bus—reaches up and writes in fresh blood:
A child’s whisper—Maggie’s first and only line in 37 seasons.