The Simpsons (TV Series)

Treehouse of Horror (1990)

James Earl Jones: Moving Man, Serak the Preparer, Narrator

Quotes 

• Narrator : Quoth the raven...

  Bart : Eat my shorts!

  Lisa Simpson : Bart, stop it! He says, "Nevermore", and that's all he'll ever say.

• Moving Man : A buck? I'm glad there's a curse on this place.

• Narrator : Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer...

  Homer : Sir...

  Narrator : ...said I...

  Homer : ...or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; / But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, / And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you.

  Narrator : Here I opened wide the door.

  Bart : This better be good.

  Narrator : Darkness there and nothing more.

  Homer : Huh?

  Bart : You know what would've been scarier than nothing?

  Lisa Simpson : What?

  Bart : Anything!

• Serak the Preparer : Here you go, earthlings. Take all you want but eat all you take.

  Marge Simpson : Oh, thank you very much, Mister...

  Serak the Preparer : To pronounce it correctly, I would have to pull out your tongue.

• Homer : Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!

  Narrator : ...I shrieked, upstarting...

  Homer : Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! / Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! / Leave my loneliness unbroken!-quit the bust above my door! / Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!

  Narrator : Quoth the Raven...

  Bart : Nevermore.

  Homer : [quietly]  Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door.

  Narrator : Quoth the Raven...

  Bart : Nevermore!

  Homer : Why you little!

  Bart : Uh-oh!