“Treehouse of Horror XII” is the first episode of "The Simpsons"' thirteenth season.
 Because of Fox’s contract with Major League Baseball’s World Series, the episode first aired on the Fox Network in the United States on November 6, 2001, nearly one week after Halloween.
 It is the twelfth annual "Treehouse of Horror" episode, consisting of three self-contained segments.
 In the first segment, a gypsy puts a curse on Homer, which puts everybody he cares about in danger.
 In the second segment, which is a parody on both "" and "Demon Seed", the Simpson family buys a new house, who falls in love with Marge and attempts to kill Homer.
 In the third and final segment, which lampoons the "Harry Potter" franchise, Lord Montymort attempts to capture Lisa, a skilled magician, in order to drain her magic powers.
"Behind the Laughter" is the twenty-second and final episode of "The Simpsons"' eleventh season.
 It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 21, 2000.
 In the episode, which is a parody of the VH1 series "Behind the Music", the Simpson family are portrayed as actors on a sitcom, and their dramatic inner turmoil and struggles are detailed.
 Told in a narrative format, the episode tells a fictional story of how "The Simpsons" began.
"Lost Our Lisa" is the twenty-fourth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series "The Simpsons".
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 10, 1998.
 The episode contains the last appearance of the character Lionel Hutz.
 When Lisa learns that Marge cannot give her a ride to the museum and forbids her to take the bus, she tricks Homer into giving her permission.
 After Lisa gets lost, Homer goes looking for her and the two end up visiting the museum together.
 The episode is analyzed in the books "Planet Simpson", "The Psychology of the Simpsons: D'oh!
", and "", and received positive mention in "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide".
"Das Bus" is the fourteenth episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> ninth season.
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 15, 1998.
 In an extended parody of "Lord of the Flies", Bart, Lisa and other children from Springfield Elementary School are stranded on an island and are forced to work together.
 Meanwhile, Homer founds his own Internet company.
 It was written by David S. Cohen and directed by Pete Michels.
 Guest star James Earl Jones narrates the final scene of the episode.
"The Otto Show" is the twenty-second episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> third season.
 It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 23, 1992.
 In the episode, Bart decides that he wants to become a rock star after attending a Spinal Tap concert, so Homer and Marge buy him a guitar.
 He shows the guitar to Otto the bus driver, who plays it and consequently makes the children late for school.
 Racing to Springfield Elementary, Otto crashes the school bus and is suspended until he can get his license back.
 Bart, who respects Otto, invites him to move in with the Simpson family.
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize-winning British author William Golding.
 The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves.
"The Great Louse Detective" is the sixth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television sitcom "The Simpsons".
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 15, 2002.
 In the episode, the Simpson family wins a free spa weekend, and Homer is nearly killed when a mysterious figure locks him in a sauna.
 Chief Wiggum decides to hire someone who can think like a murderer in order to find the mystery assailant.
 Bart's mortal enemy Sideshow Bob is sent to live with the Simpsons so he can help find Homer's attempted killer, who turns out to be the son of a man whom Homer drove to insanity.
 Since airing, the episode has received generally positive reviews from critics, though it has been cited as not being as good as some other Sideshow Bob episodes.
 The episode's title is a parody of the 1986 Disney animated feature "The Great Mouse Detective".
"Moonshine River" is the first episode of "The Simpsons"' twenty-fourth season.
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 30, 2012.
 In the UK and Ireland, the episode aired on Sky 1 on 24 March 2013 with 1,295,000 viewers, making it the second most watched program that week.
 The episode has ten guest stars, Ken Burns, Zooey Deschanel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anne Hathaway, Maurice LaMarche, Don Pardo, Natalie Portman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Al Roker and Sarah Silverman.
 Deschanel, Gellar, Hathaway, Portman and Silverman reprise their roles as Bart's previous love interests, Mary Spuckler (from "Apocalypse Cow"), Gina Vendetti (from "The Wandering Juvie"), Jenny (from "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"), Darcy (from "Little Big Girl") and Nikki (from "Stealing First Base"), respectively.
 This is the second episode in which the Simpsons go to New York City, the first episode being "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson".
 The title is a parody of the 1961 Academy Award-winning song, "Moon River".
"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase" is the twenty-fourth episode of the eighth season of "The Simpsons".
 It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 11, 1997.
 The episode centers on fictional pilot episodes of non-existent television series derived from "The Simpsons", and is a parody of the tendency of networks to spin off characters from a hit series.
 As such it includes references to many different TV series.
 The first fictional spin-off is "Chief Wiggum P.I.", a cop-drama featuring Chief Wiggum and Seymour Skinner.
 The second is "The Love-matic Grampa", a sitcom featuring Moe Szyslak who receives dating advice from Abraham Simpson, whose ghost is possessing a love testing machine.
 The final segment is "The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour", a variety show featuring the Simpson family except for Lisa, who has been replaced.
"Pip" (also known as "Great Expectations") is the fourteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series "South Park".
 The 62nd episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 29, 2000.
 The episode is a parody and comedic retelling of Charles Dickens's 1861 novel "Great Expectations", and stars the "South Park" character Pip, who assumes the role of Pip, the protagonist of the novel, who is his namesake.
 "Pip" features no other regular characters from the show.
 The story is narrated in a live action parody of the anthology television series "Masterpiece Theatre", with the narrator played by Malcolm McDowell.

Question: The Simpson's episode "Das Bus" is a parody of a novel by what author?
Answer: William Golding