I decided to wait until after this year's Halloween special aired for this video (doing the Richard & Lewis project in the meantime) and then that episode didn't even make this list. Bah, humbug. (Season 12 is next on the docket.)
The best thing about the Homega Man is how "Little Marge" misses the baseball in Homer's fantasy. And that Maggie is filed under "the rest" with the pets and the TV.
I totally agree, having that "miss" sound (no idea how to spell it as an onomatopoeia, any suggestions?) makes that quick gag very in-character for her, it's a very nice touch
Night of the Dolphin is weirdly one of the most memorable Treehouse of Horror episodes from when I was a kid, almost as much as all the segments from ToH 5. Something about the dolphin brutally murdering Kent Brockman with a beach ball is so surreal that it's permanently etched into my brain. The dolphins are legit one of the most menacing antagonists from these specials.
@@Grane1234 Yeah, the game has a ton of cool quotes with Bart and Lisa about having to fight the dolphins. I always think Night of the Dolphins is a classic segment, with its appearance in there.
I love the Island of Dr.Hibbert segment solely for Homer's song: "In the jungle, the creepy jungle, Homer rides a freak!" His ethusiasm just gets me everytime.
Oh gee, I've never heard of that one, I wonder why he's making it sound so *finds out it was the first special not directed by Bill Melendez*....yep, that'd do it.
@@AdamRossD I enjoyed it too. Fart jokes can be funny if done in the right way. The wrong way would be Rick and Morty where it's a constant barrage of burps and farts without meaning
@Freekazoid I know, but whenever there is a mistake in an episode, the answer is always "A Wizard did it" oder " I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Hell Toupee is in my opinion one of the best THoH segments done. Has some great Apu, Moe and Snake moments and is a very funny concept. Just how over the top and gruesome it can be adds to it greatly.
It's actually kind of suspenseful and eerie in a way so few episodes are. It has that "Who Shot Mr. Burns" mood the Halloween episodes rarely capitalize upon. Come on Real Jims, get with it! You'd rather see garbage like the clone one?
Hell Toupee is my favorite of the post-classic Treehouse segments. Snake is always a joy to watch, and the contrast between his and Homer’s demeanors works wonderfully. I also just love the scene where Chief Wiggum continues to drink his Squishy after he finds out Apu was stuffed in the Squishy machine, it crosses the line so far that it comes back around to being hilarious.
Totally - as a kid I always found Apu's death in this segment the most disturbing moment in the show's history at that point (more then Nightmare Cafeteria), but Wiggum's attitude really takes the edge off 😄
I'd have that at number one, didn't realise it was post classic, brilliant segment. The idea of Homer being possessed to murder his son is genuinely scary, and the jokes are great too- Homer doesn't get charged with Apu's murder because Wiggum can't pronounce his name.
"There's No Business Like Moe Business" not being included here is a crime, they could have easily gone for just a standard Sweeny Todd homage, but instead incorporated all of the theater elements that really make it memorable
Glad to see some ‘Homega Man’ appreciation! I don’t hear people talking about it a lot. That baseball scene is probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at any Simpsons joke ever.
No one’s mentioning Scary Tales Can Come True, I’m shocked - that Goldilocks scene where Bart and Lisa left her to get eaten by the three bears is one of my all time favourite moments, hands down
Hell Toupee and Reaper Madness were some of my first introductions to Treehouse of Horror as a kid, so I definitely feel a bit of a nostalgic connection to them.
3:48 I just spent the whole weekend rewatching as many treehouse of horror episodes as possible and I never noticed how many segments do this "multiple homers" bit until I saw them back to back (this segment, send in the clones, the spiderverse parody, the recent one with the homer virus, "heaven swipes right" for Homer in multiple bodies, and you could even count coralisa and the others for duplicating the whole family). I'm certain I'm forgetting one but this "throw multiple homers at the wall" angle is like their favorite modern Halloween trope (but honestly a lot of those segments are great so I can't complain)
i just want to say how much i like this channel. talking about the simpsons while nintendo music plays in the background pretty much encapsulates my childhood. i could listen to this channel all day
"i hear you can see barts hair peaking out of the trashcan or his shadow when he leaves his seat" thought you could sneak in a futurama reference unnoticed huh?
I really liked the “Clockwork yellow” segment all because of the crossover twist between Clockwork orange and Eyes wide shut, not a fan of shoehorn references to the other movies mid battle, but Alex and his droogs entering by mistake in the cult party is such a genius idea that wins me over. Makes me wish something like that existed between the original movies. And so glad “Oh the Places you’ll do’h” made it high into the list! Too bad for the black hole segment. Thanks for this Amazing video Jimms!
And they also had references to other Kubrick movies (and the "fake moon landing" myth), and the man himself at the end of the episode. It was a blast.
@@quenotedariayo I think the cherry on top is when Comic Book Guy makes a very esoteric Kubrick movie reference and admits even he can't remember what they're parodying.
I love how in recent years the Simpsons team keep pushing its animation style in strange new ways and the Treehouse of Horror episodes are a great place to see that art.
School is Hell from TOH XXV is one of my favorites. I especially love the ending and how I think it's one of the best Homer and Bart moments in the entire show.
Hell Toupee is such a great example of the power of good characterization. Even this tertiary character like Snake can be hilariously evoked without him actually being present.
My favourite post-classic segment is “Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die”, because I grew up after Y2K was an issue, so imagining a world where all the technology that’d been invented over the past century went haywire or outright murderous, terrified me. The world of Springfield goes to s**t, and that’s always fun to explore. It’s an obvious period piece of 90s Y2K hysteria, and the fact that the rockets at the end still work is a massive plot hole, but the premise alone carries it for me. Some favourites from the Post-Movie era include There’s No Business Like Moe Business, which feels more adult in its violence and tone, and Moefinger, the absolute gorefest that almost got the 600th episode BANNED down here in New Zealand.
I liked Life's A Glitch, Then You Die, and I was four weeks off my fifth birthday when 2000 came. I feel old... I remember the Sweeney Todd parody. I wish it had been played straighter, though, instead of a stage play. Maybe if Sweeney Todd didn't have a movie version out at the time or had a movie in the works that had failed to be made, but it didn't. But blood beer was a creative way to take it, especially with it being accidental.
Scientists figured out y2k was going to be a problem in our world way ahead of things and figured out a solution (switching to a different system, that will stop working in another couple of decades), it's not a plot hole if the scientists of the Simpsons universe were ignored. Just had enough resources for two rockets to be made with Unix time!
@@jamiewhite6397 look up “Unix epoch bug”, though the fix is moving from a 32-bit integer to a 64-bit integer and most computers have done that in the last few years or will be doing it before 2032. But it’s still true that the system they switched to has that problem, it’s just not necessarily the one we still deal with anymore (which is just an implication - their comment can also be read as “another few decades from the Y2K patch” which is 100% true, while the bug is now merely one decade away from the present).
*Don’t Have a Cow, Mankind has one of my favourite Convos* 😂 Marge: I can’t shoot (zombie) Helen! She’s Lisa’s godmother! Apu: You can apologize in hell! Hehe The “Bart being the cure” thing is cool too tho
Jims, let me just say that your content feels so great, so amicable. I binge seasons 1-9 regularly and it's so great to engage in content that where myself and the content creator know the subject material intimately.
The 2022 Treehouse of Horror rules for many reasons, but especially for giving us an evil Marge. Marge never gets to be the truly creepy main villain - unless you count the head vampire thing or the Other Mother or that time she watched Homer sleep (which I don’t) and 2022 finally let her be evil, hurrah! Sidenote, the animation of the Death Note demon thing genuinely freaked me out
I love School Is Hell because it uses the horror setting as an excuse to completely flip the classic Bart and Lisa dynamic. Bart being a straight A+ student in demon school is so in line with all of the references over the years like Devil Flanders going' "Hey, Bart." or him turning out to be the evil twin instead of Hugo and saying "Oh, don't look so shocked."
My favourite treehouse of horror episode is the one from season 11. And my favourite segment is I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did. The whole bit with homer and ned's dead body on the roof is hilarious.
It’s been a while since this video but I ADORE Hell Toupee. It’s legitimately one of my favorite segments of all time and that includes the classic era.
These Halloween segments are always so crazy and wild. I appreciate your hard work on this favorites list. There’s more than a few segments that I personally feel that I need to review for myself sometime soon. I haven’t rewatched a lot of the TOHs past season 15 in a long while. I’m going to check these out again. Thank you for your recommendations!
II thought Be Nine, Rewind was inspired by Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2 U, but I haven't seen Russian Doll, so maybe that's the same concept. The Terror of Tiny Toon is my favorite on this list. Itchy and Scratchy interacting with Bart and Lisa, and I&S being horrified that Bart and Lisa find their violence funny, it all just feels fresh.
Night of the Dolphin was pretty memorable for me, if only for the fact that there was an entire level dedicated to it in 2007's The Simpsons Game. I'm also really nostalgic towards Season 13 so seeing Treehouse of Horror XII get a mention via House of Whacks makes me happy.
I personally love these (not in order and out of this list): - "House of Whacks" (underrated and it's one I really enjoyed) - "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" (another top tier segment; really funny and I even remember seeing it before I started regularly watching the show) - "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" (I love BTTF, "The Way We Was" is one of my favorite episodes of the show as a whole, and it's really well executed) - "The Others" (really good concept, unique, and enjoyable) - "Hell Toupée" (unique and fun) - "Reaper Madness" (could've done a bit more indeed, but I still liked it) - " The Island of Dr. Hibbert" (probably would be my #1 in this type of list, it wouldn't beat "Lisa's Nightmare," "Bart's Nightmare" or any of Treehouse of Horror V segment but it's up there) - "Send in the Clones" (actually a good segment) For me (out of this list) I don't enjoy: - "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (especially since it's yet another zombie apocalypse, pretty generic overall: "The Homega Man" is honestly the only decent zombie apocalypse segment imo)) - "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" (tbh, I'm a longtime fan of Peanuts, but I didn't really like this segment. I don't like the pumpkin character; actually in general the second half is why I don't like it) The rest on the list are in the middle for me. "B.I. Bartificial Intelligence" is also a segment I enjoyed but sadly this list didn't include. "Married to the Blob," "You Gotta Know When to Golem," "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," "E.T., Go Home," (even though I like E.T) "In the Na'vi," and "Geriatric Park" are by far the worst segments imo (in no order).
I see a lot of hate for married to the blob, but IMO is a really good segment. It plays off homer’s gluttony and elevates it to is maximum horrifying extreme! Similar to “hmm homer” And seeing Kang and Kodos in a menacing way and winning in the day the earth looked stupid is really great!
One thing I disagree with is your statement that “Night of the Dolphin” made dolphins scary. Nah, dolphins are already scary in real life. Also, Hell Toupee is one of my favorite Treehouse of Horror segments.
Agreed. Dolphins are basically unapologetic rapists. Dolphns are incredibly intelligent, yet when it comes to the drive to procreate, their first choice is often rape. And interspeices at that. It's psychologically frightening on top of normal frightening, when you realize that the common difference between Dolphins and other animals, barring primates, is their intellect, yet this is what they choose to use it for. Rape. Somehow, the closer an animal is to human, the more prone to calculated, premeditated rape it tends to go. And that's the scariest thing ever.
Hell Toupee scared me as a kid fr fr and I'll never forget "You said something about a hot meal? 💀" one of my all time favorite jokes treehouse of horror or not 👌
Animal Sprigfield is a fun part of "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", but it also has some legitimately good jokes. I still love the "Let's eat Maggie..." joke. It's a little wierd that they gave Lisa the line, but I think it works and is one of the only chances Lisa had to have an "older sibling" kind of moment instead of kind of just being a babysitter for Maggie. Also, that's the same ToH with "Send in the Clones" and I even think the middle segment "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms" was a solid segment. Treehouse of Horror XIII was really good. But, I think it was also one of, if not, the earliest ToH I watched, so maybe it's just me.
2 Simpsons vids tackling THOH in a single day? What is this Christmas? I kid, I kid. I just came from Lydia's 2 hour death count vid. Great vid as always Jims. There's so much fun in these THOH segments over the last 30+ years
I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer but I do feel Treehouse of Horror is even more inconsistent than your average post classic season. That being said there's a lot here from even the thumbnail alone that I remember really enjoying. Nice to see all 3 segments from 26 being on the list, that was a great year though having never seen a Clockwork Orange at the time meant the middle one was mostly lost to me.
@@JimboRustles Theres this weird thing I do where I watch things and then enjoy them, and if I'm feeling particularly wacky I go back and watch more things like it
Hell Toupée is one of my absolute favorites. Part of it may be nostalgic as it often ran in reruns while I was in college when my friends and I would have smoke secessions with local Fox affiliate showing an hour of Simpsons reruns from that era daily but I also think it honestly holds up comedically.
I think what I like about the others the most is the fact the show actually shows the Ullman family dead underground on multiple occasions and after that segment aired they didn't do it again, I thought that was a neat touch
I don't know if you would count it as a segment or more of just an opening, but I really liked the Pazuzu segment. The way the toys off themselves in the background, the lullaby, Homer ordering it by accident because he thought it was pizza, and then thinking a statue would be a good gift for Maggie. Plus Pazuzu sounds like such a goofy name, I thought it was made up by writers as a joke to name an evil entity something that doesn't sound intimidating. Then I realized that was the actual name of the demon from the Exorcist.
I feel like someone thought up the idea of the Homer being paralyzed short but someone else who had no clue what the original guy wanted ended up writing it. The idea of Homer Simpson being trapped in his own head while the world goes on around him could be a horrifying and hilarious concept, seeing Marge trying to wake him with donuts and beer, being completely unaware she's just tormenting him, Bart growing bored with toying the sculpture of a man, not realizing inside Homer is absolutely BUILDING with rage, Lisa, Grandpa, and Maggie bonding with him for once and him being unable to express his true feelings. Hell, just adding a ticking clock element with Hibbert wanting to pull the plug or some disaster about to happen and Homer being the only one who knows about it.
I think one of the first simpsons episodes i ever watched in full was the one with the grand pumpkin, so I was really delighted to see it here. it's not my favorite, but it holds a nice place in my heart. i always love coming back to the halloween episodes year after year. last october i watched one episode per day since it was the 31st year of halloween specials and it was such a blast. idea for next year's simpsons halloween video: ranking the wraparound non-segments. i dont even know if there's much to say on most of them but youve already covered all the actual segments now
Will say I’ve always been fond of the segment mr and mrs simpsons as I always found Homer and Marge being secret killer agents such a nice idea and the way they just go all in for the fight scene between them is hilarious great jokes and the ending is neat
I'm not a fan of it but at least 90% of the audience is clear on what is being parodied, as opposed to the Be Nine Rewind one he's so fond of, where basically no one gets what is being parodied. For that reason that one is a huge failure.
I think that, as w/the series as a whole, the cut-off for "classic" ToH makes sense (though I'd say ToH VIII deserves a spot if we divorce it from the S2-8 Golden Age boundaries) due to the lack of consistency which creeps in after that, but also I understand folks who are more generous due to how many absolute bangers still pop up which you'd swear were Golden Age segments. I'd say VIII is great (Homega Man, Fly vs. Fly, and Easy Bake Coven) but then IX, whilst having Hell Toupee and Terror of Tiny Toon, finishes w/Starship Poopers, which I don't hate but can also agree it's the first truly bad segment. X and XI are all killer, and whilst I do think there's a noticeable drop-off after those, XII - XV still give us House of Whacks, Send in the Clones, The Island of Dr. Hibbert, Reaper Madness, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, and the Ned Zone. In conclusion, S9-16 Simpsons is a land of contrasts.
the problem with "Treehouse of Horror" sequences, is that the Simpsons Writers very quickly after a decade or so of doing them, ran out of Halloween horror themed stories, and so its just basically been reduced to your annual movie-parody episode, that rarely ever have to do with Halloween itself.
This Halloween im planning to watch every treehouse of horror. Im planning to watch them backwards, ending with the first one, because i think i will be disappointed if i go in series order. Now i have a few in particular to look forward too
I've been watching them in series order and I've actually been having a lot of fun! Sure, they don't hold up to the classic era but they've gotten a lot more experimental (at least with the art styles) recently, so it's been less of a steady decline and more of a dip in the middle and finding new reasons to appreciate the ones I didn't grow up with or haven't seen in years
there is one segment that will stand out for me above all others in their Treehouse series, and that is their version of Terror at 30,000 Feet. The creature on the plane creeps me out SO MUCH! I would have to think beyond this one to articulate other segments to mention.
Great list. Only addition I would have is Mmm… Homer purely for how grotesque it is. I’ve never been shocked or scared from a tree house. Except for that one!
Althought you didn't talk about it, I appreciate "A Clockwork Yellow" being one of the 4 honorable mentions. I really enjoyed that one and I'm not even that familiar with Kubrick films. The part with the Shmoo statue in particular really made me bust a gut and I can't properly explain why.
Pretty good list, and as always a fun countdown. I am one of those who doesn't care for Night of the Dolphin, but most of the others here are ones I really liked. In terms of what I would put on my list, some that you didn't include that I would have would be Freaks No Geeks, Easy Bake Coven, and I've Grown a Costume on Your Face. It was awesome to see others I really like on this list like Terror of Tiny Toon, The Homega Man, Island of Dr. Hibbert, Oh the Places You'll D'oh, It's the Grand Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and Coralisa. In all honesty Coralisa was the highlight of Treehouse of Terror 29 while the rest of it was forgettable to me. Great list as always, and I am really looking forward to the Season 12 retrospective and countdown.
I don't know how unpopular this opinion is, but I'm not that big of a fan of "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" BECAUSE of "The Way We Was" and its for one particular reason: Artie Ziff. Marge didn't end up with him because he tried to take advantage of her and even ripped her dress. It had nothing to do with Homer and her "settling" for him (a line in this episode i really don't like). Bart being shown to be Artie's kid is hard to get past because I have to wonder about that car scene. Did it even happen? Did Artie actually get his way? Hell, there was a follow-up episode to this that only strenthened that Artie is lecherous, which really makes me side-eye this episode. Its interesting how they got so many background details from that episode down but didn't remember one of the plot elements. Idk maybe im thinking too much on it, but they remembered Artie was a character here, so...
The problem with Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure is that it feels like the writers don't remember that Marge wouldn't have married Artie either. Need I remind people of the dress incident?
Well the thing is that Bart entered the time period just as Homer and Marge first met, so really she wouldn't really know who else to marry since she knew Artie Ziff for over a decade at that point of her life and Bart prevented Homer from having her.
*Well.. this is indeed a strange and disturbing collection. Some of these I completely forgot were from season 8+, especially Hell Toupee and the Terror of Tiny Toon. Great list. Hey, isn’t reaper madness a little like that family guy episode with Norm Macdonald as death? Even has Homer taking death’s place because the town is now rid of it and all that.*
I had Hell Toupee and The Terror of Tiny Toon recorded on a VHS as a kid, they're burned into my memory. I was always fascinated by the nuclear batteries, for some reason I wanted to eat them. Reaper Madness might be my favourite ToH segment along with the Frinkenstein segment. In fact, ToH XIV might be my personal favourite ToH episode, I even like the intro.
Interesting picks. I would have had Dial M for Murder as the top one, myself. Such a great homage to the classic Hitchcocks. Hell Toupee is pretty great, too. So absurd, but also very violent and creepy.
I overall really like the Treehouse of Horror's from season 10-15, just so many of them, even the good ones have some really bad lines. Like, I love "The Island of Dr. Hibbert" But when Mr. Burns is revealed, the exchange of "It's Mr. Burns" "But with a fox attitude!" is so painfully bad. The kind of bad, the show used to make fun of, but now they just do as lame attempts at humor. Equally bad was from "Reaper Madness" with Marge's "Run like the wind" line. It was just a flat, boring joke. A segment that was left out, that I did like was "Frinkenstein." It was fun and decently violent, and it was nice to have Jerry Lewis as Frink's father. I thought that was fitting.
I absolutely love the Hell Toupee part it actually goes fully in and is quite graphic like Apu's legs sticking out of the squishee machine and Moe having his heart ripped out like i was shocked when i first watched it
When I saw that palm tree at 17:22 I could've sworn it looked just like Sideshow Bob, but then I went back to take a second look and I guess not. I thought I caught an Easter Egg there.
Dial M For Murder was my childhood trauma. I didnt even watch the simpsons as a kid but my friend showed me that episode when it came out and it legitimately shocked me because i never considered a cartoon could get so violent and dark
I decided to wait until after this year's Halloween special aired for this video (doing the Richard & Lewis project in the meantime) and then that episode didn't even make this list. Bah, humbug.
(Season 12 is next on the docket.)
Your videos are always great!
Love your vids Jim, when I cant find something to casually listen to I come to you.
Your Vids are always so comfy RealJims!! Your by far my go to Simpsons reviewer!
It would be pretty cool if Disney+ gave you the option to customize segments
@@mister62085 yes
The best thing about the Homega Man is how "Little Marge" misses the baseball in Homer's fantasy. And that Maggie is filed under "the rest" with the pets and the TV.
I totally agree, having that "miss" sound (no idea how to spell it as an onomatopoeia, any suggestions?) makes that quick gag very in-character for her, it's a very nice touch
@@alexneill130 whoosh?
@@Nahasapasa I think "Whiff" is more fitting
I swear the simpsons has done "the rest" jokes over 3 times already. I had a simpsons comic as a kid and that joke was on the cover
I cant tell if thats a compliment or not for Maggie. Being compared to pets sucks, but tv? Homer really loves her
Night of the Dolphin is weirdly one of the most memorable Treehouse of Horror episodes from when I was a kid, almost as much as all the segments from ToH 5. Something about the dolphin brutally murdering Kent Brockman with a beach ball is so surreal that it's permanently etched into my brain. The dolphins are legit one of the most menacing antagonists from these specials.
It is definitely one of the most memorable post-classical era of Treehouse segments, even got an entire level dedicated to it in The Simpsons game
For me, I preferred the post-ending scene with Kang and Kodos complaining about being left out of the show.
I forgot to listen, what was the sixth segment in his list?
@@tf2godz the game is the only reason I remember the killer dolphins
@@Grane1234 Yeah, the game has a ton of cool quotes with Bart and Lisa about having to fight the dolphins.
I always think Night of the Dolphins is a classic segment, with its appearance in there.
I love the Island of Dr.Hibbert segment solely for Homer's song: "In the jungle, the creepy jungle, Homer rides a freak!" His ethusiasm just gets me everytime.
I sang that during the Lion Sleeps Tonight scene of The Lion King in theaters.
I’m so honored to be referenced in this one.
Even if it was after a reference to “It’s A Mystery, Charlie Brown.”
Gotta take what you can get.
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Oh gee, I've never heard of that one, I wonder why he's making it sound so *finds out it was the first special not directed by Bill Melendez*....yep, that'd do it.
In defense of the Homer farting segment, it makes you appreciate every single other segment more.
Literally the episode that made me stop watching new Simpsons. I sat through that one and Dial N For Neddy, but tapped out during the Avatar parody.
I have no defense for that segment, but my 6yo and 9yo laughed so hard during it they were in tears.
@@AdamRossD I enjoyed it too. Fart jokes can be funny if done in the right way. The wrong way would be Rick and Morty where it's a constant barrage of burps and farts without meaning
@@RegretfulDeadMan dial d for diddly (btw its actual kinda good)
"Desperately Xeeking Xena" is the best and most quotable post-classic segment.
I have here the only working Fazer,it was fired only once to keep Shatner from making another album.
Didn't work Shatner can't be stopped 🤣
I mean, this is the one that "A wizard did it" comes from. I still see that used in response to inconsistencies in shows/movies all the time!
@@youcouldbelisteningtomusic442 Either that or "I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
@Freekazoid I know, but whenever there is a mistake in an episode, the answer is always "A Wizard did it" oder " I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Lisa: Wait... Xena can't fly!
Xena: I told you, I'm not Xena - I'm Lucy Lawless!
Hell Toupee is in my opinion one of the best THoH segments done. Has some great Apu, Moe and Snake moments and is a very funny concept. Just how over the top and gruesome it can be adds to it greatly.
It's actually kind of suspenseful and eerie in a way so few episodes are. It has that "Who Shot Mr. Burns" mood the Halloween episodes rarely capitalize upon. Come on Real Jims, get with it! You'd rather see garbage like the clone one?
@@brentandrew2419 It’s his opinion, dummy.
Truth, it was my first segment and will always be in my top fifteen treehouse segments of all time
Hell Toupee is my favorite of the post-classic Treehouse segments. Snake is always a joy to watch, and the contrast between his and Homer’s demeanors works wonderfully. I also just love the scene where Chief Wiggum continues to drink his Squishy after he finds out Apu was stuffed in the Squishy machine, it crosses the line so far that it comes back around to being hilarious.
Totally - as a kid I always found Apu's death in this segment the most disturbing moment in the show's history at that point (more then Nightmare Cafeteria), but Wiggum's attitude really takes the edge off 😄
I'd have that at number one, didn't realise it was post classic, brilliant segment. The idea of Homer being possessed to murder his son is genuinely scary, and the jokes are great too- Homer doesn't get charged with Apu's murder because Wiggum can't pronounce his name.
"There's No Business Like Moe Business" not being included here is a crime, they could have easily gone for just a standard Sweeny Todd homage, but instead incorporated all of the theater elements that really make it memorable
Strange because I'm pretty sure he's mentioned that segment very positively in another review
Wait, that was meant to be Sweeney Todd?
Yes! That one is definitely one of my favorites. The musical numbers made it special compared to other Treehouse of Horrors.
@@doctortehe Homer's blood making beer taste better versus people's flesh making pies taste good.
Glad to see some ‘Homega Man’ appreciation! I don’t hear people talking about it a lot. That baseball scene is probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at any Simpsons joke ever.
I always loved Bart setting off the touchless faucets in the bathroom as he advances menacingly on Lisa in "Dial M for Murder" etc.
No one’s mentioning Scary Tales Can Come True, I’m shocked - that Goldilocks scene where Bart and Lisa left her to get eaten by the three bears is one of my all time favourite moments, hands down
The porridge gag always creases me up, too! Such a good segment.
@@SessVlogs This is why every other version has Mother Bear's porridge as too sweet instead of too cold.
I think it is exactly what real Jim’s says in this episode about hell toupeé. Good but no one talks about it, honestly it is pretty solid.
I COULDNT BE IN MORE PAIN!
@@BL-mf3jp I can’t help but read that in her voice 😂💀
Hell Toupee and Reaper Madness were some of my first introductions to Treehouse of Horror as a kid, so I definitely feel a bit of a nostalgic connection to them.
3:48 I just spent the whole weekend rewatching as many treehouse of horror episodes as possible and I never noticed how many segments do this "multiple homers" bit until I saw them back to back (this segment, send in the clones, the spiderverse parody, the recent one with the homer virus, "heaven swipes right" for Homer in multiple bodies, and you could even count coralisa and the others for duplicating the whole family). I'm certain I'm forgetting one but this "throw multiple homers at the wall" angle is like their favorite modern Halloween trope (but honestly a lot of those segments are great so I can't complain)
i just want to say how much i like this channel. talking about the simpsons while nintendo music plays in the background pretty much encapsulates my childhood. i could listen to this channel all day
"If your fly wasn't open, you'd look just like Roger Moore."
If you are fly?
@@georgehiscott700 The original comment said “If you’re fly…” so that’s why my comment.
"i hear you can see barts hair peaking out of the trashcan or his shadow when he leaves his seat"
thought you could sneak in a futurama reference unnoticed huh?
That was a Nightmare Before Christmas reference.
I really liked the “Clockwork yellow” segment all because of the crossover twist between Clockwork orange and Eyes wide shut, not a fan of shoehorn references to the other movies mid battle, but Alex and his droogs entering by mistake in the cult party is such a genius idea that wins me over. Makes me wish something like that existed between the original movies. And so glad “Oh the Places you’ll do’h” made it high into the list! Too bad for the black hole segment. Thanks for this Amazing video Jimms!
And they also had references to other Kubrick movies (and the "fake moon landing" myth), and the man himself at the end of the episode. It was a blast.
@@quenotedariayo I think the cherry on top is when Comic Book Guy makes a very esoteric Kubrick movie reference and admits even he can't remember what they're parodying.
I love how in recent years the Simpsons team keep pushing its animation style in strange new ways and the Treehouse of Horror episodes are a great place to see that art.
That bat-swinging joke, especially the whiff sound on Marge, is truly terrific
Hell Toupee is an absolute classic! It'd make top ten in my favourite segments of all seasons!
School is Hell from TOH XXV is one of my favorites. I especially love the ending and how I think it's one of the best Homer and Bart moments in the entire show.
Hell Toupee is such a great example of the power of good characterization. Even this tertiary character like Snake can be hilariously evoked without him actually being present.
In defense of "farting homer", the line "he has the proportional strength of a paralyzed spider" kills me every time. I think Carl says it.
My favourite post-classic segment is “Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die”, because I grew up after Y2K was an issue, so imagining a world where all the technology that’d been invented over the past century went haywire or outright murderous, terrified me. The world of Springfield goes to s**t, and that’s always fun to explore. It’s an obvious period piece of 90s Y2K hysteria, and the fact that the rockets at the end still work is a massive plot hole, but the premise alone carries it for me.
Some favourites from the Post-Movie era include There’s No Business Like Moe Business, which feels more adult in its violence and tone, and Moefinger, the absolute gorefest that almost got the 600th episode BANNED down here in New Zealand.
I liked Life's A Glitch, Then You Die, and I was four weeks off my fifth birthday when 2000 came. I feel old...
I remember the Sweeney Todd parody. I wish it had been played straighter, though, instead of a stage play. Maybe if Sweeney Todd didn't have a movie version out at the time or had a movie in the works that had failed to be made, but it didn't. But blood beer was a creative way to take it, especially with it being accidental.
Scientists figured out y2k was going to be a problem in our world way ahead of things and figured out a solution (switching to a different system, that will stop working in another couple of decades), it's not a plot hole if the scientists of the Simpsons universe were ignored. Just had enough resources for two rockets to be made with Unix time!
@@theMoporter where are your sources for the current system no longer working in a few decades
@@jamiewhite6397 look up “Unix epoch bug”, though the fix is moving from a 32-bit integer to a 64-bit integer and most computers have done that in the last few years or will be doing it before 2032. But it’s still true that the system they switched to has that problem, it’s just not necessarily the one we still deal with anymore (which is just an implication - their comment can also be read as “another few decades from the Y2K patch” which is 100% true, while the bug is now merely one decade away from the present).
@@kaitlyn__L That's actually really cool, I appreciate you finding that for me 👍
*Don’t Have a Cow, Mankind has one of my favourite Convos* 😂
Marge: I can’t shoot (zombie) Helen! She’s Lisa’s godmother!
Apu: You can apologize in hell!
Hehe
The “Bart being the cure” thing is cool too tho
Hell Toupee is such a good title, always enjoyed it too. A really solid segment! Always enjoy these videos 💙🙏🏻
Send in the Clones is golden age caliber. Glad to see it get love here.
"Bat swinging scene" kills me every time.
The terror of tiny toons has one of my favorite Homer lines Marge: You can't go as a hobo again!" Homer: "Going where?"
Jims, let me just say that your content feels so great, so amicable. I binge seasons 1-9 regularly and it's so great to engage in content that where myself and the content creator know the subject material intimately.
The 2022 Treehouse of Horror rules for many reasons, but especially for giving us an evil Marge. Marge never gets to be the truly creepy main villain - unless you count the head vampire thing or the Other Mother or that time she watched Homer sleep (which I don’t) and 2022 finally let her be evil, hurrah! Sidenote, the animation of the Death Note demon thing genuinely freaked me out
I love School Is Hell because it uses the horror setting as an excuse to completely flip the classic Bart and Lisa dynamic. Bart being a straight A+ student in demon school is so in line with all of the references over the years like Devil Flanders going' "Hey, Bart." or him turning out to be the evil twin instead of Hugo and saying "Oh, don't look so shocked."
This video was example another example of why Homer and Flanders are one of the series best uncomfortable character duos
I love the it’s a great pumpkin Milhouse segment so much. It’s so nostalgic
My favourite treehouse of horror episode is the one from season 11. And my favourite segment is I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did. The whole bit with homer and ned's dead body on the roof is hilarious.
I laughed so hard when Homer started with: "HI, Maude!.... diddly..."
All these long years watching the Simpsons, and I have never realized “Hell Toupee” was a pun!
I loved that Homer was going to push the core destruct button (knowing it would kill everyone) because Ned told him to.
It’s been a while since this video but I ADORE Hell Toupee. It’s legitimately one of my favorite segments of all time and that includes the classic era.
"Looks to me like he suffered a lot chief".
I love Hell Toupée
Jeeze Lou, how long are ya gonna let me enjoy this thing
Apu Nahasa... Moe. Just Moe.
I like when Teenage Homer asked grown-up Homer what happened, was I caught in a fire?
My favorite by far was "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" but "Hell Toupee" is up there as well.
"I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did" on season 11 is a great post classic treehouse of horror segment
On the subject of Homega Man, I definitely view seasons nine and ten as part of the classic era, so I was initially surprised to see it on here.
These Halloween segments are always so crazy and wild. I appreciate your hard work on this favorites list. There’s more than a few segments that I personally feel that I need to review for myself sometime soon. I haven’t rewatched a lot of the TOHs past season 15 in a long while. I’m going to check these out again. Thank you for your recommendations!
II thought Be Nine, Rewind was inspired by Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2 U, but I haven't seen Russian Doll, so maybe that's the same concept.
The Terror of Tiny Toon is my favorite on this list. Itchy and Scratchy interacting with Bart and Lisa, and I&S being horrified that Bart and Lisa find their violence funny, it all just feels fresh.
I've never even watched "Stop Time, I Wanna Goof Off", but the visual comedy is so strong I can get the gist of it just from the stills you've shown.
Night of the Dolphin was pretty memorable for me, if only for the fact that there was an entire level dedicated to it in 2007's The Simpsons Game. I'm also really nostalgic towards Season 13 so seeing Treehouse of Horror XII get a mention via House of Whacks makes me happy.
23:20 Oh! wow! an hommage to spellbound. Now that's a deep cut of hithcock.
I can get the points you made on Coralisa, but I love the idea that they just mesh together so well
I personally love these (not in order and out of this list):
- "House of Whacks" (underrated and it's one I really enjoyed)
- "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" (another top tier segment; really funny and I even remember seeing it before I started regularly watching the show)
- "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" (I love BTTF, "The Way We Was" is one of my favorite episodes of the show as a whole, and it's really well executed)
- "The Others" (really good concept, unique, and enjoyable)
- "Hell Toupée" (unique and fun)
- "Reaper Madness" (could've done a bit more indeed, but I still liked it)
- " The Island of Dr. Hibbert" (probably would be my #1 in this type of list, it wouldn't beat "Lisa's Nightmare," "Bart's Nightmare" or any of Treehouse of Horror V segment but it's up there)
- "Send in the Clones" (actually a good segment)
For me (out of this list) I don't enjoy:
- "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (especially since it's yet another zombie apocalypse, pretty generic overall: "The Homega Man" is honestly the only decent zombie apocalypse segment imo))
- "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" (tbh, I'm a longtime fan of Peanuts, but I didn't really like this segment. I don't like the pumpkin character; actually in general the second half is why I don't like it)
The rest on the list are in the middle for me. "B.I. Bartificial Intelligence" is also a segment I enjoyed but sadly this list didn't include. "Married to the Blob," "You Gotta Know When to Golem," "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," "E.T., Go Home," (even though I like E.T) "In the Na'vi," and "Geriatric Park" are by far the worst segments imo (in no order).
I see a lot of hate for married to the blob, but IMO is a really good segment. It plays off homer’s gluttony and elevates it to is maximum horrifying extreme! Similar to “hmm homer” And seeing Kang and Kodos in a menacing way and winning in the day the earth looked stupid is really great!
My favorite joke in Reaper Madness is Homer correcting God on which sister he sacrificed
Just a thought, if you ever do another top 20 video on treehouse of horror, you should do top 20 scariest treehouse of horror segments.
One thing I disagree with is your statement that “Night of the Dolphin” made dolphins scary. Nah, dolphins are already scary in real life.
Also, Hell Toupee is one of my favorite Treehouse of Horror segments.
Agreed. Dolphins are basically unapologetic rapists. Dolphns are incredibly intelligent, yet when it comes to the drive to procreate, their first choice is often rape. And interspeices at that. It's psychologically frightening on top of normal frightening, when you realize that the common difference between Dolphins and other animals, barring primates, is their intellect, yet this is what they choose to use it for. Rape. Somehow, the closer an animal is to human, the more prone to calculated, premeditated rape it tends to go. And that's the scariest thing ever.
@@the-NightStar it makes me glad bonobos are all dtf all the time, or else maybe they’d be in on it too…
Hell Toupee scared me as a kid fr fr and I'll never forget "You said something about a hot meal? 💀" one of my all time favorite jokes treehouse of horror or not 👌
I appreciate the shout out to A Clockwork Yellow
Animal Sprigfield is a fun part of "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", but it also has some legitimately good jokes. I still love the "Let's eat Maggie..." joke. It's a little wierd that they gave Lisa the line, but I think it works and is one of the only chances Lisa had to have an "older sibling" kind of moment instead of kind of just being a babysitter for Maggie. Also, that's the same ToH with "Send in the Clones" and I even think the middle segment "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms" was a solid segment. Treehouse of Horror XIII was really good. But, I think it was also one of, if not, the earliest ToH I watched, so maybe it's just me.
Uhhh.... I Choose To Call This Episode "Treehouse Of Horror 13"
I think the reason the joke works so well is BECAUSE it's Lisa. The idea of eating her own sister is just so unlike her, it's hilarious
2 Simpsons vids tackling THOH in a single day? What is this Christmas? I kid, I kid. I just came from Lydia's 2 hour death count vid. Great vid as always Jims. There's so much fun in these THOH segments over the last 30+ years
Hell Toupee is great I always forget it isn't in the first 8 years
I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer but I do feel Treehouse of Horror is even more inconsistent than your average post classic season. That being said there's a lot here from even the thumbnail alone that I remember really enjoying.
Nice to see all 3 segments from 26 being on the list, that was a great year though having never seen a Clockwork Orange at the time meant the middle one was mostly lost to me.
"I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer"
... why?
@@JimboRustles Theres this weird thing I do where I watch things and then enjoy them, and if I'm feeling particularly wacky I go back and watch more things like it
@@JimboRustles Weirdo.
Hell Toupée is one of my absolute favorites. Part of it may be nostalgic as it often ran in reruns while I was in college when my friends and I would have smoke secessions with local Fox affiliate showing an hour of Simpsons reruns from that era daily but I also think it honestly holds up comedically.
I think what I like about the others the most is the fact the show actually shows the Ullman family dead underground on multiple occasions and after that segment aired they didn't do it again, I thought that was a neat touch
Was pleasantly surprised to see Send In the Clones ranked so high. It's hardly ever talked about but is one of my all-time favourite THOH segments.
Nice Job! I enjoy Homer in these Treehouse of Horror Segments, he's the MVP of the Treehouse of Horror.
My sister has gone on record saying sexy cat Marge turned her into a furry, 5 stars
School Is Hell was Definetly a FAVORITE of Mine
I don't know if you would count it as a segment or more of just an opening, but I really liked the Pazuzu segment. The way the toys off themselves in the background, the lullaby, Homer ordering it by accident because he thought it was pizza, and then thinking a statue would be a good gift for Maggie.
Plus Pazuzu sounds like such a goofy name, I thought it was made up by writers as a joke to name an evil entity something that doesn't sound intimidating. Then I realized that was the actual name of the demon from the Exorcist.
Pazuzu is a real demon. He's even actually the demon of the south-west wind.
I feel like someone thought up the idea of the Homer being paralyzed short but someone else who had no clue what the original guy wanted ended up writing it. The idea of Homer Simpson being trapped in his own head while the world goes on around him could be a horrifying and hilarious concept, seeing Marge trying to wake him with donuts and beer, being completely unaware she's just tormenting him, Bart growing bored with toying the sculpture of a man, not realizing inside Homer is absolutely BUILDING with rage, Lisa, Grandpa, and Maggie bonding with him for once and him being unable to express his true feelings.
Hell, just adding a ticking clock element with Hibbert wanting to pull the plug or some disaster about to happen and Homer being the only one who knows about it.
I think one of the first simpsons episodes i ever watched in full was the one with the grand pumpkin, so I was really delighted to see it here. it's not my favorite, but it holds a nice place in my heart. i always love coming back to the halloween episodes year after year. last october i watched one episode per day since it was the 31st year of halloween specials and it was such a blast.
idea for next year's simpsons halloween video: ranking the wraparound non-segments. i dont even know if there's much to say on most of them but youve already covered all the actual segments now
Will say I’ve always been fond of the segment mr and mrs simpsons as I always found Homer and Marge being secret killer agents such a nice idea and the way they just go all in for the fight scene between them is hilarious great jokes and the ending is neat
Great choice
I'm not a fan of it but at least 90% of the audience is clear on what is being parodied, as opposed to the Be Nine Rewind one he's so fond of, where basically no one gets what is being parodied. For that reason that one is a huge failure.
Homer trying to resist the lasagna then the camera immediately panning out to show him devouring it is hilarious.
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 agree
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 then he asks for seconds typical Homer
I think that, as w/the series as a whole, the cut-off for "classic" ToH makes sense (though I'd say ToH VIII deserves a spot if we divorce it from the S2-8 Golden Age boundaries) due to the lack of consistency which creeps in after that, but also I understand folks who are more generous due to how many absolute bangers still pop up which you'd swear were Golden Age segments.
I'd say VIII is great (Homega Man, Fly vs. Fly, and Easy Bake Coven) but then IX, whilst having Hell Toupee and Terror of Tiny Toon, finishes w/Starship Poopers, which I don't hate but can also agree it's the first truly bad segment. X and XI are all killer, and whilst I do think there's a noticeable drop-off after those, XII - XV still give us House of Whacks, Send in the Clones, The Island of Dr. Hibbert, Reaper Madness, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, and the Ned Zone.
In conclusion, S9-16 Simpsons is a land of contrasts.
the problem with "Treehouse of Horror" sequences, is that the Simpsons Writers very quickly after a decade or so of doing them, ran out of Halloween horror themed stories, and so its just basically been reduced to your annual movie-parody episode, that rarely ever have to do with Halloween itself.
I thought the Dolphin segment would be number 1. They cut that segment out when I had on demand.
Well, that's disappointing. But man, I miss the days when we had VOD instead of streaming services.
Hell Toupé was/is great!
Great list. These segments brought back great memories
Love watching this on Halloween! Makes me happy to enjoy my faves before marathoning it! 🎃
I’m glad these segments are getting talked about because even in the modern seasons there are some good segemnts
I liked the segments about the witch trials and the one with Bart switching heads with a fly. Rarely hear those brought up.
This Halloween im planning to watch every treehouse of horror. Im planning to watch them backwards, ending with the first one, because i think i will be disappointed if i go in series order. Now i have a few in particular to look forward too
I've been watching them in series order and I've actually been having a lot of fun! Sure, they don't hold up to the classic era but they've gotten a lot more experimental (at least with the art styles) recently, so it's been less of a steady decline and more of a dip in the middle and finding new reasons to appreciate the ones I didn't grow up with or haven't seen in years
I find it funny that home accidentally had sex with a giant cat very relatable 💀
I think Thanksgiving of horror was amazing. I love seeing turkey's perspective on the 1st Thanksgiving.
Great choices, a lot of those later ones I havnt seen but now I have something to look forward to late in the series.
there is one segment that will stand out for me above all others in their Treehouse series, and that is their version of Terror at 30,000 Feet. The creature on the plane creeps me out SO MUCH! I would have to think beyond this one to articulate other segments to mention.
Great list. Only addition I would have is Mmm… Homer purely for how grotesque it is. I’ve never been shocked or scared from a tree house. Except for that one!
Ned Zone is my number 1 Segment because the climax is on its own the greatest Treehouse of Horror Joke ever told.
God I love Treehouse of Horror.
Hell yea a Halloween vid from the best Simpsons channel
Althought you didn't talk about it, I appreciate "A Clockwork Yellow" being one of the 4 honorable mentions. I really enjoyed that one and I'm not even that familiar with Kubrick films. The part with the Shmoo statue in particular really made me bust a gut and I can't properly explain why.
Pretty good list, and as always a fun countdown. I am one of those who doesn't care for Night of the Dolphin, but most of the others here are ones I really liked. In terms of what I would put on my list, some that you didn't include that I would have would be Freaks No Geeks, Easy Bake Coven, and I've Grown a Costume on Your Face. It was awesome to see others I really like on this list like Terror of Tiny Toon, The Homega Man, Island of Dr. Hibbert, Oh the Places You'll D'oh, It's the Grand Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and Coralisa. In all honesty Coralisa was the highlight of Treehouse of Terror 29 while the rest of it was forgettable to me. Great list as always, and I am really looking forward to the Season 12 retrospective and countdown.
I don't know how unpopular this opinion is, but I'm not that big of a fan of "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" BECAUSE of "The Way We Was" and its for one particular reason: Artie Ziff. Marge didn't end up with him because he tried to take advantage of her and even ripped her dress. It had nothing to do with Homer and her "settling" for him (a line in this episode i really don't like). Bart being shown to be Artie's kid is hard to get past because I have to wonder about that car scene. Did it even happen? Did Artie actually get his way? Hell, there was a follow-up episode to this that only strenthened that Artie is lecherous, which really makes me side-eye this episode. Its interesting how they got so many background details from that episode down but didn't remember one of the plot elements.
Idk maybe im thinking too much on it, but they remembered Artie was a character here, so...
The problem with Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure is that it feels like the writers don't remember that Marge wouldn't have married Artie either. Need I remind people of the dress incident?
But it makes up for all its sins, and gets a solid C for the line "Crawl atop me to your doom!"
Well the thing is that Bart entered the time period just as Homer and Marge first met, so really she wouldn't really know who else to marry since she knew Artie Ziff for over a decade at that point of her life and Bart prevented Homer from having her.
I just love that somehow Brazilian Jujitsu is a thing, just saying makes me laugh
*Well.. this is indeed a strange and disturbing collection. Some of these I completely forgot were from season 8+, especially Hell Toupee and the Terror of Tiny Toon. Great list. Hey, isn’t reaper madness a little like that family guy episode with Norm Macdonald as death? Even has Homer taking death’s place because the town is now rid of it and all that.*
why is this comment bolded
@@irwinrudolf *just a habit of mine*
Yep. Family Guy aired that episode in 2000 while Simpsons aired theirs in 2003. A rare case where the Simpsons didn't already do it.
@@AdamRossD *Well, I guess Seth can finally get back at Matt*
Why this channel isnt viral? It's amazing!
Dial M for Murder feels like a homage itself to James Earl Jones reading _The Raven_ in the very first Treehouse of Horror.
I had Hell Toupee and The Terror of Tiny Toon recorded on a VHS as a kid, they're burned into my memory. I was always fascinated by the nuclear batteries, for some reason I wanted to eat them.
Reaper Madness might be my favourite ToH segment along with the Frinkenstein segment. In fact, ToH XIV might be my personal favourite ToH episode, I even like the intro.
Interesting picks. I would have had Dial M for Murder as the top one, myself. Such a great homage to the classic Hitchcocks. Hell Toupee is pretty great, too. So absurd, but also very violent and creepy.
I overall really like the Treehouse of Horror's from season 10-15, just so many of them, even the good ones have some really bad lines. Like, I love "The Island of Dr. Hibbert" But when Mr. Burns is revealed, the exchange of "It's Mr. Burns" "But with a fox attitude!" is so painfully bad. The kind of bad, the show used to make fun of, but now they just do as lame attempts at humor.
Equally bad was from "Reaper Madness" with Marge's "Run like the wind" line. It was just a flat, boring joke.
A segment that was left out, that I did like was "Frinkenstein." It was fun and decently violent, and it was nice to have Jerry Lewis as Frink's father. I thought that was fitting.
I absolutely love the Hell Toupee part it actually goes fully in and is quite graphic like Apu's legs sticking out of the squishee machine and Moe having his heart ripped out like i was shocked when i first watched it
It's actually more graphic than the film it's based on, Shocker
When I saw that palm tree at 17:22 I could've sworn it looked just like Sideshow Bob, but then I went back to take a second look and I guess not. I thought I caught an Easter Egg there.
Dial M For Murder was my childhood trauma. I didnt even watch the simpsons as a kid but my friend showed me that episode when it came out and it legitimately shocked me because i never considered a cartoon could get so violent and dark