In common with all the previous Halloween episodes of The Simpsons, the program is made up of three self-contained stories; "Reaper Madness", "Frinkenstein" and "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off". In the first story (which is similar to the March 21, 2000 episode of Family Guy called "Death is a Bitch"), Homer Simpson becomes the new Grim Reaper after he kills the old one. The second story is a spoof of Frankenstein, in which Simpsons regular character Professor Frink brings his dead father (voiced by Jerry Lewis) back to life. In the final story, based on a 1963 episode of the Twilight Zone called a "A Kind of Stopwatch", Bart Simpson acquires a stopwatch that really stops time.