Fearful Pranks Ensue

"Fearful Pranks Ensue"
American Horror Story episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 4
Directed by	Michael Uppendahl
Written by	Jennifer Salt
Featured music	"Heaven" by Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes "Commercial Joint" by Chaptabois "Sugarland" by Papa Mali
Production code	3ATS04
Original air date	October 30, 2013 (2013-10-30)
Running time	44 minutes
Guest appearance(s)
Angela Bassett as Marie Laveau Gabourey Sidibe as Queenie Josh Hamilton as Hank Foxx Alexandra Breckenridge as Kaylee Christine Ebersole as Anna-Leigh Leighton Jamie Brewer as Nan Alexander Dreymon as Luke Ramsey Riley Voelkel as Young Fiona Michelle Page as Young Myrtle Leslie Jordan as Quentin Fleming Robin Bartlett as Cecily Pembroke Ameer Baraka as The Minotaur Kesha Bullard as Cora Michael P. Cahill as Bartholomew Leslie Castay as Lanchester Rhonda Dents as Janet Savannah Desormeaux as Leslie Tyson Ford as Henry Dana Gourrier as Chantal Raeden Greer as Pauline LaLaurie Erica Michelle as Roberta Brian Oerly as Clifton Ashlynn Ross as Marie Jeanne LaLaurie Geraldine Singer as Elsa Tonea Stewart as Old Cora Jennifer Lynn Warren as Borquita LaLaurie
Episode chronology
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"Fearful Pranks Ensue" is the fourth episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on October 30, 2013, on the cable network FX. This episode is rated TV-MA (LSV).

In this episode, the coven is visited by the Council of Witchcraft after they are notified of Madison (Emma Roberts)'s disappearance. Angela Bassett and Gabourey Sidibe guest star as Marie Laveau and Queenie, respectively. This episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie.

Racial tensions ride higher than ever in New Orleans as new hope for equality arises with President John F. Kennedy in office. As a 15-year-old black boy named Henry rides his bike home from his first day at an integrated high school, three white men chase him down a narrow alleyway and lynch him. Back in Marie Laveau's (Angela Bassett) hair salon, his mother is an optimist with hope for a better life, to which Marie feels the opposite. After Marie and the boy's mother discover his dead body, she decides that retaliation is the key. That night, she performs a complex voodoo ritual that involves sacrificing snakes to call forth the dead bodies in a local cemetery. As Marie controls them with her mind, the zombies locate the men responsible for the murder and brutally kill them by eviscerating them alive.

Marie meets with Anna-Leigh (Christine Ebersole) and a truce is proclaimed between the Salem witches and the voodoo practitioners, ending a 10 year war between the two.

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