The writing for these episodes is very well-written and manage to be unique and different every single time. Bart using his reality-warping powers to amuse himself in "The Bart Zone". Homer killing historical zombies in "Dial 'Z' for Zombies". You killed the zombie Flanders! Homer's hand getting stuck in the toaster in "Time and Punishment". The animation is fantastic as usual.
The second segment, "Desperately Xeeking Xena," follows Bart and Lisa as they develop superpowers after being exposed to an x-ray machine. The highlight of season 10's Treehouse of Horror is the segment "Starship Poopers," where Homer and Marge discover their darling baby Maggie is actually an alien. The title is a spoof of the Paul Verhoeven monster movie, Starship Troopers.
For season nine, The Simpsons bring the scares with witches, humanoid flies, and apocalyptic mutants. The third part, "Easy-Bake Coven," goes way to colonial Springfield, where Marge and her sisters live as a coven of broom-riding witches. After overindulging in Halloween candy, Lisa, Bart, and Homer are each haunted by disturbing nightmares. Lisa's dream, based on the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw," explores what happens when the Simpsons obtain a magic monkey's paw that grants them three wishes.
Is it cheating if you win a costume party dressed up as yourself? A wealthy man on his deathbed forces his greedy family to wear hideous masks, of his choosing, until the stroke of midnight, when he himself expires. Each mask represents the most unsavory aspect of the wearer, and leaves a lasting impression.
Good luck getting your deposits back on those costumes. The episode also starred Cloris Leachman as his mother, and her Mrs. The segment retains the iconic jack-in-the-box image from the source material, but mainly because it offers so many comic possibilities, and is a must-have on a rollercoaster. The nightmare of the title stems from Dr.
Just as the sequence is about to coast into something resembling feel-good closure, Bart wakes up screaming, keeping a happy thought. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox! House of Evil is the best place in Springfield for last-minute birthday gifts. The then-future Captain Kirk only had to deal with a gremlin, and a history of strange behavior. It is a perfect takeoff, hitting all the same beats, but occasionally with more frightening payoffs.
The closeup reveal of the gremlin at the airplane window in the Twilight Zone original is an iconic image. Seeing Groundskeeper Willie forced to take the school bus is more unsettling than what he had to do to his usual carpool. The Simpsons also includes a grislier conclusion, with the gremlin holding the severed head of Ned Flanders, including his spinal column, and still smiling. The Rigelian delegation picks up the Simpson family from a cookout for a greater feast on Rigel 4. To keep the humans engaged during the long trip, the aliens fulfill all their culinary desires, and leave an old book out for them to read.
On the season 3 episode of Twilight Zone , cryptographers work hard and long to decipher the title, but they are halfway through the third course before they realize they are reading a cookbook. Lisa, the most progressive member of the family, exposes her own family as a bunch of xenophobes.
Surely, there were monsters on that alien ship, and they over-ate and under-tipped. The very premise of the annual event is the telling of spooky tales in the limbs of an uncaring twig. Books are made from trees, and every member of the Simpson family has contributed to deforestation. Number Unlucky for some, but the thirteenth Treehouse of Horror shows that some of the magic was still there.
The imagery of the Island of Dr Hibbert is also very strong, but the second story not only glamorises gun violence, it also steals a premise from eleven years earlier. Two out of three ain't bad, though. Fittingly for such a big milestone, the 25th Treehouse of Horror works as a fine-tuned microcosm for the changing face of the Simpsons' Halloween anthology.
Parodies, again, are the name of the game and "A Clockwork Yellow" is one of their better efforts. Bart going to Hell, surprisingly, took this long — and it doesn't disappoint, with gruesome gags aplenty. A terrific effort all round. Following on from such a brilliant run of "Treehouse of Horror" episodes in the mid-to-late '90s, VIII feels like a slight letdown, but it's not without its moments.
Homer — at his most obtuse — carries "The Homega Man" and its paper-thin premise. He also gets the best moments in "Fly vs. Fly" and "Easy Bake Coven", but the former lacks Jeff Goldblum and the latter feels like, for better or worse, a more restrained Halloween effort after previous years shambled onto the scene.
A solid effort, if not a great one from The Simpsons' Golden Age. Probably the most disappointing of the early Treehouse of Horrors, though an average season four Simpsons episode is still better than most shows ever produced. The final segment, "Dial Z for Zombies" bring you guessed it, zombies into the Treehouse of Horror fore.
Except the shambling undead will be covered in far funnier and fateful Treehouse of Horrors further down the line. Season 13 really marked the point where the show reached such a downturn that it was seen as the end of many fans' love affair with the longest-running animated show in history. Gypsies curses, Pierce Brosnan playing a knockoff HAL, and a half-baked Harry Potter parody saved by the serpentine Smithers all come together to form an episode that is a bit all over the place thematically, but still proved the writers weren't and, frankly, still aren't as creatively bankrupt as many would have you believe.
A kinda meh Frink story aside, this is a great collection, and well worthy of a spot in the top Homer taking up the mantle of the Grim Reaper, and trying to fool God, is hilarious as it is dark. Milhouse and Bart getting a watch that stops time is perhaps the least scary Halloween story to date up to this point, but it still makes for a genuinely intriguing plot based around the subservient blue-haired best friend of Bart.
Fun fact: This is also the first Treehouse of Horror to use a "Treehouse of Horror" title card in the actual episode — and it's painted with Homer's blood. Not only is it a fitting tribute to The Simpsons Halloween canon, with neat spins on well-established narratives, it has some fantastic references for long-time fans of the show, too.
Simpson" is a parody that lets the action and Marge's chemistry with Homer do the talking, and "Heck House" is joyfully anarchic, finally shining a spooky light on Springfield's kids. Don't let the season fool you, this is just as good as the classics.
It's a sorry state of affairs that over half the show's output has been relegated to constant comparisons to its older, funnier brother, but "XV" proves it still has jokes and scary scenarios in abundance.
Burns through a shrunk-down ship is just as silly as you'd imagine. God bless Bonerland. The second serving of Treehouse of Horror mines its Twilight Zone influences to good effect as Bart's mind-bending powers steal the show with multiple alternative history test answers about the good ol' US of A. Homer's misuse of the monkey paw is only made funnier by the kicker that his last wish being a turkey sandwich, one that he curses for being a little dry.
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