My 10 Favorite Simpsons Treehouse of Horror shorts
Being 32 (33 the day after Halloween) I grew up watching the Simpsons. It was a cultural phenomenon that younger people might not really understand. With the years passing the Simpsons went down in quality and now it really is a shell of its former self. The show was genuinely hilarious for probably the first 10 or so years. Along with the great humor, they had awesome Halloween specials, starting in season 2. I have fond memories of watching these and I really wanted to go back and pick 10 of my favorites, in no real order.
1. Nightmare Cafeteria (Treehouse of Horror V, season 6): The school is killing students and serving them for lunch. Bart and Lisa try to prove it and fight the teachers/staff off.
Principal Skinner: I’ve got a GUT feeling Uter’s around here somewhere hahahahaha, after all isn’t there a little Uter in all of us? hahahaha… hahaha, in fact, you might even say we just ate Uter, and he’s in our stomachs… right now! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!… Wait, scratch that one.
2. Clown Without Pity (Treehouse of Horror III, Season 4): It is based off the Twilight Zone episode “Living Doll”. Homer buys Bart a talking Krusty doll from a voodoo shop, and it tries to kill Homer. The scene where homer buys the doll is one of my favorite moments in the entire series:
Storekeeper: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
Homer: That’s bad!
Storekeeper: but it comes with a free frogurt!
Homer: That’s Good!
Storekeeper: the frogurt is also curse
Homer: oh, that’s bad
Storekeeper: but it comes with your choice of topping!
Homer: That’s Good!
Storekeeper: the toppings contain potassium benzoate
Homer: …(confused)
Storekeeper: that’s bad
Homer: can I go now?
3. The Devil and Homer Simpson (Treehouse of Horror IV, Season 5): Based on the “Devil and Daniel Webster”. Homer sells his soul to the devil, played by Ned Flanders for a donut, but once Homer finishes the donut the Devil owns his soul. Of course Homer finishes the donut and gets taken to hell. While in hell his punishment is to eat all the donuts in the world, which Homer does and wants more.
[Homer being force fed all the donuts in the world in hell, with only a few left]
Homer: MORE!
Demon: I don’t understand it. James Coco went mad in fifteen minutes!
4. Terror at 5 ½ Feet (Treehouse of Horror IV, Season 5): Based on the Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”. Bart sees a gremlin tearing apart the bus on the way to school, but no one believes him.
Bart: Otto, you’ve got to do something. Thers a gremlin on the side of the bus!
Otto: [looks over and sees Hans Moleman in an AMC Gremlin] No problem-o Bart dude! I’ll get rid of it. [runs Moleman off the road]
Hans Moleman: No! Oh, no. I just made my last payment. [car slowly comes to a stop, tapping against a tree. Hans sighs in relief and the car explodes].
5. Time and Punishment (Treehouse of Horror V, Season 6): Homer accidentally creates a time traveling machine from a toaster and totally screws up everything.
Homer: don’t panic! Remember the advice your father gave you on your wedding day.
Grandpa’s in Flashback: If you ever travel back in time, don’t step on anything. Because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine.
Homer: Right. As long as I stay perfectly still and don’t touch anything, I won’t destroy the future! [mosquito lands on Homer]
Homer: Stupid bug! You go squish now! [smashes the mosquito]
Homer: GASP! But that was just one little insignificant mosquito. That can’t change the future, right? Right?
prehistory creature: I don’t know.
6. The Shinning (Treehouse of Horror V, Season 6): Based on the movie “The Shining”. Homer gets a job at Mr. Burns’ country estate and he goes mad. Bart discovers he can communicate telepathically with Groundskeeper Willy.
Bart: [with chainsaw] Hey! I found a shortcut through your hedge maze.
Willy: Why you little…[thinking] No, no go easy on the wee one. His father’s going to go crazy and chop em all into haggis!
Bart: what’s haggis?
Willy: [gasps} Boy…you read my thoughts! You’ve got the Shinning!
Bart: you mean “Shining!”
Willy: Shhh! You wanna get sued?! Now look, boy: if your dad goes gaga, you just use that…SHIN of yours to call me and I’ll come a runnin’. But don’t be reading my mind between four and five. That’s Willy’s time!
7. Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores (Treehouse of Horror VI, Season 7): A lightning storm causes giant advertising mascots to come to life. Lisa saves the day with the help of Paul Anka.
Homer: [answers door sees Lard Lad] Hello? Yes? Oh. Heh Heh. If you’re looking for that big donut of yours, um…Flanders has it. Just smash open his house. [closes door] He came to life. Good for him! [footsteps, crunching, footsteps coming back. Doorbell rings]
Flanders: HELP ME LORD!
Homer: I told you! Flanders has it. Or Moe. Go kill Moe!
Marge: Homer, just give him the donut! Once he has it, that will be the end of all this horror.
Homer: well….OK. If it’ll end horror.
8. Citizen Kang (Treehouse of Horror VII, Season 8): Aliens Kang and Kodos kidnap Bill Clinton and Bob Dole and assume their identities in order to take over the United States.
Homer: [Marge gets whipped by an Alien whilst building a temple as a slave] Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos!
9. Homer³ (Treehouse of Horror VI, Season 7): Base on the Twilight Zone Episode “Little Girl Lost”. In attempt to hide from his sister in laws, Homer ends up falling into another dimension behind the bookshelf.
Dr. Hibbert: Homer, this is your physician, Dr. Julius Hibbert. Can you tell us what’s it like in there?
Homer: Um, it’s like, uh… did anyone see the movie Tron?
Dr. Hibbert: No.
Lisa: No.
Chief Wiggum: No.
Marge: No.
Bart: No.
Selma: No.
Chief Wiggum: No.
Ned Flanders: No.
Selma: No.
Professor Frink: No.
Reverand Lovejoy: No.
Chief Wiggum: Yes. I mean, I’m a-I mean, no. NO.
10. Bart’s Nightmare (Treehouse of Horror II, Season 3): Based on the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life”. Bart has magical powers he uses to get his way. Bart turns homer into a Jack in the Box.
Football Announcer: the kick is up… it’s looking good… oh the ball turns into a fat bald guy!
Homer: AAAAAHHHH!!! OOF!
Football Announcer: It’s no good, and you know what we say every time something strange happens, it’s GOOD that Bart did that, it’s very good!
