Horville ' s Hut of Horrors ( Ewoks episode ) " Horville ' s Hut of Horrors " is the sixteenth episode of the of " " . Written by Paul Dini and directed by Dale Schott , the episode originally aired on ABC on November 15 , 1986 . Plot summary . It was Wicket ' s favorite season : the time of the Bright Tree Fête had arrived and the warriors ' overnight trip was not far off . Wicket and Kneesaa gathered sunberries for Shodu , which Wicket hoped was the last thing he had to do before he could enjoy the carnival . But Wicket was let down ; his mother asked him to take his sister Winda to the tumble bunny show . She did , however , give him a bribe ; if he did this , Shodu might let him go on the overnight trip with the warriors . So Wicket begrudgingly took Winda to the show , and there ran into Teebo and Latara , both of whom were forced to take their younger siblings too . But Wicket backed away from the woklings ' show , and was instead interested in another attraction : Horville ' s Hut of Horrors . Enticed by Horville ' s spooky spiel , Wicket very much wished to witness the horrors . And yet , Kneesaa reminded him of his mother ' s deal . So Wicket took a quick vote by show of hands to determine which show the Ewoks would see . But despite those favoring Horville ' s Hut being in the minority , Wicket declared the vote to be a landslide in their favor . Assuring Kneesaa that the woklings would have a good time , Wicket and the septet of Ewoks entered the hut . The Hut of Horrors left the older children shaken up and the woklings traumatized to the point of tears . Wicket realized that because of the trouble he would be in with his mother , she would certainly not let him go on the warriors ' trip now . But then , as they often did , an idea came to Wicket : they would have a sleepover at his hut for the woklings , who would forget about the horrors they had witnessed because of the amount of fun they would have . But the evening didn ' t go quite as planned ; Wicket couldn ' t keep the woklings entertained , and so they continued to cry . When Wicket ' s family came home , Weechee talked about the time he had taken Willy to see the Hut of Horrors , and Shodu remarked on the nightmares Willy had had afterward . Worried that the woklings would suffer the same fate , Teebo retrieved a machine of Logray ' s which would supposedly extract bad dreams from the woklings and store them within itself . That night , the nightmare machine ran while all the Ewoks slept , but a faulty leg on the device ' s tripod gave out and the machine collapsed and fell right near Wicket ' s bed , " releasing " the bad dreams into his own mind . Wicket experienced a most bizarre nightmare . In his dream , Wicket was pursued by Horville , then fell , then rode a balloon - creature up into the sky , was taunted by Kneesaa , laughed at by woklings , kicked around by tumble bunnies , eaten by a monster , condemned by his mother , and chained up as an attraction at Horville ' s Hut . Finally , Shodu woke Wicket from his nightmare . Realizing his cover was blown , Wicket confessed to his mother that he had taken the woklings to the Hut of Horrors , not the tumble bunny show . Shodu decided that he would not be allowed to go on the warriors ' trip this year , because he instead had something else to do : take over the tumble bunny trainer ' s job and host ten tumble bunny shows himself .