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Twilight Zone rocks! I was watching episode #91 "Little Girl Lost" (1962) and the story seemed very familiar. Why? The Simpsons parodied (or rather stole the plot line... much like how Family Guy rips off Simpsons). Little Girl Lost was parodied in Season 7 episode 6 (706), a segment of the annual Treehouse of Horror VI: Homer3. Homer does throw a reference to the Twilight Zone as he sticks his hand into the wall: "That's weird. It's like something out of that twilighty show about that zone." However, instead of recovering a lost girl in the 4th dimension, Homer (the 2D character) and later Bart fall into the 3rd dimension.

The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror VI: Homer3

Twilight Zone: Original Series: Little Girl Lost

Synopsis of Twilight Zone; Little Girl Lost

A couple, Chris and Ruth, are awoken by the distant whimpering of their little girl, Tina, and Chris slowly gets up to see what the trouble is. The dog in their yard begins to bark. Chris finds her bed empty, though he can hear Tina's plea for help. Looking around the room, he says, "I'm here, where are you?" The dog barks again in the back yard.

Chris crouches next to the bed while trying to talk Tina out from underneath it, where he thinks she is hiding. He looks under the bed only to find that nothing is there. Chris can hear Tina and she can hear him, but neither can see each other. He explains to Ruth that even though they can hear her, their little girl is no longer with them.

The dog is now barking incessantly. Chris calls his physicist friend, Bill, for help and opens the door to let the dog into the house. The dog runs into Tina's room as Ruth, still in the room, watches it go under the bed. She bends over calling it back, but becomes quiet when she sees that it has disappeared. She can still hear the dog's barking and Tina's voice.

Bill comes over and examines the wall behind the bed. He taps the wall and finds a portal to another dimension. He explains it by saying sometimes lines in our 3 dimensions end parallel with, rather than perpendicular to, the 4th dimension.

They try to call to the dog to guide Tina back, but that doesn't work. Finally Chris, despite Bill's warnings, leans into the portal and falls into the other dimension. Chris lands in a hazy, abstract place, where space and shapes are distorted, turning upside down and sideways. Chris sees Tina and the dog and tries to call them towards him, since he is standing right near the portal. On the other side, he hears Bill's voice telling him to hurry up. Finally he grabs Tina and the dog and is pulled back into the bedroom. Ruth takes the girl to another room.

Bill explains that Chris was actually only halfway in, despite Chris thinking he was standing up in the new dimension. Bill was in fact holding on to Chris the entire time. He was telling Chris to hurry because the portal was actually closing, and had Chris remained there for any longer than a few more seconds, he would have been cut in two as the portal closed with half his body in the other dimension. As Bill puts it to Chris, "Another few seconds, and half of you would been here, and the other half....."

Synopsis of Homer Cubed/ Homer in 3D

Patty and Selma visit the Simpson family and Homer, desperate to avoid them, looks behind a bookcase and enters an eerie new world in which everything is in 3D. Homer explores the peculiar area, being depicted as a 3D computer-generated character. Through the walls, he calls Marge for help. Marge calls Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Professor Frink, Chief Wiggum, and Dr. Hibbert to help Homer get out of the dimension, but they are of no help. Frink explains to the others that Homer is in the "third dimension". When Homer accidentally pierces the fabric of the space-time continuum by throwing a cone in the floor and creating a hole, the third dimension starts to collapse into a black hole, taking Homer and other objects closer to it with increasing force. Bart takes command and ties a safety rope around his waist, going into the third dimension to save him, despite Marge's objection. Homer falls into the hole as the universe collapses on itself but Bart ends up back in the house thanks to his safety rope. Bart tells Marge about what happened, much to Marge's dismay. Lovejoy assures her that Homer has gone to a better place, while Homer enters the real world. He lands in a dumpster and walks down the street as humans stare at him. Homer's fear of the real world soon subsides when he happens upon an erotic cake store and goes inside.

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