Simpsons, "House of Whacks"

The Simpsons. Fox-TV, 6 Nov. 2001. Season 13, # 270. "House of Whacks" mini-episode of "Tree House of Horror XII" (vt "Halloween Special XII"). Jim Reardon, dir. Joel H. Cohen et al., script. Features Pierce Brosnan as his own voice as a Voice of the Ultrahouse 3000 (sic: Brosnan's voice is one of the options for the voice of the house).

TV Tome citation: "The family home obtains an upgrade, the Ultrahouse 3000, a computer that will do everything for them. Everything is going great until the house falls in love with Marge and tries killing Homer.". Note also a SalesBot, two briefly derisive service robots, and the temptation, "You'll Never Do Housework Again!" Part of the humor is the modeling of the Ultrahouse brain on both HAL 9000 in 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (film) and on Proteus in Demon Seed as both film and novel (all listed under Fiction and Drama).

(RDE, 13/I/02)