These comments are pretty bad. It’s called “Flanderization” for a reason. It’s based off of the simpsons. So him complaining about the Simpson’s being reduced to one character trait (Bart = bad Homer = dumb) is a serious issue that a lot of people have with the series and the change of writers.
Reminds me of how people critique teen titans GO. How everyone just became a clown in that show whereas they had relatively unique traits in the original show. And same as the simpson, I think the later iterations are a lot better than people say they are, even better than the original in places, it’s just the quality varies a lot more that the older stuff.
I disagree on one of your points, being that they are out of character. If you watch old Treehouse of Horror, their personalities have always been stretched a bit, to be honest, like when they watched Willie die and didn't care, or when Lisa (the rationnal one) guessed that Mr Burns was a vampire. (Sorry for mistakes, english isn't my first language).
Ok so let's go through how Lisa discovers that Mr Burns is a vampire. At the start of the short, they're watching a news story about a local peasant being found dead, drained of his blood. She notices that they're being fed blood, which even in this reality, would be pretty weird, so she scarpers with Bart. Then they stumble upon his hidden vampire lair, where she sees 'Yes I am a vampire' sat on a lectern, followed by vampires chasing after her. So she adjusted her views to the reality in which she lived. That's pretty in-keeping with a rationalistic mindset
Yeah I think the whole episode is an ironic joke after ironic joke. The spider and him almost breaking the forth wall. The farts to speak because of it's the one kinda thing you don't want to do loud and to be heard. The 2nd spider that doesn't paralyze but gives him super powers and don't heal him. I like this one a lot personally.
Also the music during the fight in the last skit....you watch avatar? It's okay the movie but the soundtrack not the best for certain scenes and I think they caught that too as irony.
I'm not defending modern day Simpsons but Homer once bought a rock from his daughter to keep bears away. He once got his arms stuck in a vending machine only because he didn't think of letting go of the food he was stealing from it. He didn't know the number for 911. He's always been stupid. And even though I do agree it was an exaggeration, I thought the joke of him biting off the wrong arm to be funny.
The first one was actual a smart move by Lisa convinving homer that the rock keeps tigers away because there are obviously no tigers around. In reality there are people that might do things that are illogical to us because in their world view it serves a purpose and the correlation of two things ( Example: Lisa has the stone and there are no tigers around) is enought toi prove their point. It´s entirely different from Homer biting first his arm off and than it´s leg which would at least be funny the first time but not two times in a row. Also gore humor should at least have consequences and not result in Homer magically sewing his Limbs back to his body.
For me, the wrong limb joke was a little bit funny in Happy Tree Friends, a little less funny in Scary Movie 4, and in Simpsons it was *eyeroll*. I too thought it was lazy and poorly executed.
The joke about the pickle ice cream is cuz during pregnancy, there's a common idea of women craving pickles and ice cream. The idea is basically, "pickle flavored ice cream".
the man/woman who wrote that is bad and should feel bad. the punishment for such an unfunny joke should be to never allow them to write anything again.
I can second that, when my mom had my second sister, for some reason she had pickles with her burgers, which was strange because she doesn't like pickles otherwise
@PartySlime76 But the thing is he never claimed otherwise. He was simply saying that Bob became their enemy in that episode. And I think the treehouse of horror episode is post season 16.
But then again, if you've seen The Simpsons you'll know that Homer is barely active on episodes with Sideshow Bob, hell Sideshow Bob even saved his life once. So he's not really Homer's enemy, and he has plenty of them.
And not even funny spoofs. Literally there was pardory of the stranger things and they didn’t even try to make it funny. The only good one was “not IT.” And “death tone” because both are clever and death tone was animated by the creators of the anime. (I think)
They started becoming more fantasy back around when I really just stopped watching. Seeing this it seems like they've just completely stopped caring about it.
So true. I actually wasn't allowed to watch Tree House of Horror 1 as a child, because my mother thought the short with the murder house was too disturbing. Now you wouldn't even know it was the Halloween episode if the opening didn't explicitly say so.
Amazed they didn’t do a Krusty as IT before the movie version came out. Still hoping for a THoH of Doctor who investigating why no one ever ages in Springfield even as time passes.
Well, I mean it's not smart is it? It's common sense. Homer's stupid and even the stupidest person I know would not bite off their own arm because they had to wait 20 minutes. And trust me I know some pretty stupid people
Eh, it's easy to see that The Simpsons isn't as good as it used to be. But, the caveat is that what The Simpsons used to be is a show that produced Last Exit To Springfield, which is arguably one of the greatest animations ever created and easily the best episode of any animated show to date. The show is still good, but it isn't the same show that produced masterpieces anymore. It doesn't really need to be either, since no other animated show has managed to top the episodes in the legendary season 2-9 run. BTW, I would consider 'What's Opera, Doc?' to be the greatest animation ever produced. Nothing else has ever managed to top it, which is impressive considering that it's only 7 minutes long. It's timeless, anyone at any age from any background can enjoy it, and it's absolutely perfect. It's the only cartoon that I feel can't be criticized because it is completely flawless. Everyone should watch it at least once to understand just how good animation can be.
I agree that the fart one is horrid, but you're way too critical of the first one. In the intro, you praise that the Treehouse episodes can be extravagant, overemphasize characters and situations and just generally try silly stuff. Yet those are the exact things you criticize in the first story. Characters acting illogical, continuity issues et cetera. Also, I don't think the fact that another show has done a joke before necessarily devaluates it. If you come up with a good joke, but then see that another show that maybe 5% of your audience has seen has used it before, are you supposed to just throw it in the trash?
I think the problem he had mainly was how much the short seemed to rely on fart jokes, which kind are like to comedy like what jumpscares are to horror. And it only took until the last 30 seconds to do something much more creative and off-the-wall with the Spiderman parody. I mean, come on, even I thought there were some wasted potential in that regard.
That's a good point but a few seasons later, Sideshow Bob did help Homer find out who was trying to kill him so...Idk. I think Homer might hate Sideshow Bob to an extent because he does love Bart. But I also think Homer is pretty okay with Bob since he tried to kill Selma and did save Bart and Lisa from Bob's brother (Cecil, I think his name is??) and -again- did save Homer's life. Bob is a very complicated character at times for sure.
homer chewing off his arm because he can't wait 20 minutes for candy is not out of character (except maybe for that frosty chocolate milkshake guy who would sell his tv for therapy). remember the sandwich? the sugar? the real homer being the first to chase a giant donut if a cliff? dr. phil?
and homer occasionally knows words, he doesn't know he knows until he says it because of his brain damage. he's always liked to think that he carries himself with a certain, quiet dignity
You’re reviewing a treehouse of horror episode as if it were canon. Dude, the entire Simpsons family turns into vampires and tries to kill Bart in Treehouse of Horror IV. Please elaborate on how this breaks the character of family members not killing eachother in the main series. Except for you know, Homer’s fatherly abuse of strangling his son
> Dude, the entire Simpsons family turns into vampires and tries to kill Bart in Treehouse of Horror IV. Vampires eat people, don't be tricked by all the pro-knife ear propaganda going around like Twilight. And maybe Marge decided it was just time to turn her family so they could stay together forever. Casting helps a ton - Groundskeeper Willie, vengeful angry scottsman that he is, works perfectly as Krueger. If it were Lisa playing the part, it wouldn't be as congruent or as funny. But Zombie Simpsons has much deeper issues than just their tendency of never adhering to character. As has been pointed out millions of times: Simpsons always held vapid celebrity culture in contempt. Zombie Simpsons holds it in worship. It's become a complete inverse of what it once was on everything.
Episodes being non-cannon is not a excuse for throwing out basic character traits to make bad jokes. It's incredibly lazy and if you need to change a character to make a joke work its not a good joke.
but.... yeah bad terms... a CANNON episode where bart hangs out with maggie the bit where the hair styels change one of them is sideshow bob and maggie gets scared plus homer is scared and goes "AHHH..... SIDESHOW BOB"
I know the comics don't count as Canon but there was one storyline in The Simpsons comics that showed Sideshow Bob's younger brother Cecil deciding to kill Lisa because he felt that he needs to be considered as big of a psychopath as his older brother I am because he didn't want to kill Bart because he didn't want people judging him for just copying what his brother did he decided to do the next best thing
To be fair when you say side show Bob isn't homer's enemy but bart's I can understand why people could see sideshow Bob as homer's enemy when Bob tries to kill bart homer's only son.
You said at the start the treehouse eps are non canonical, but then moan about inconsistency in character personalities between the normal series and the treehouse episodes? Ok bruh Hahahaha
Could they have done The Simpsons version of The Shining with Homer being his usual family loving self? No, they had to make him somewhat like Jack Nicholson's character in order for it to make any sense as a short. The fun of Treehouse of Horror is that you never know what you're gonna get from the plot or the characters. It's the shows chance to go a little crazy with the realism aspects that normal episodes possess. I'm completely fine with character inconsistencies in this, easy-going, easy viewing cartoon, as long as it's fun to watch. Don't read too much into a show in which the majority of characters have bright yellow skin. @@cosmicx5227
I think even then, there's still a point where these things just don't work. Yes, the treehouse of horror episodes may not be restrained by the show's canon, but there's still only so far you can go before it end up collapsing in on itself.
@@TheNayinator Except the plot of that short is the hotel is manipulating Homer into acting that way, just like what happens to Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining. He's not just randomly acting like that for no reason. In fact, it starts out with Homer acting in his self before the hotel manipulates him, just like the earlier haunted house in the Treehouse of Horror.
BirdsElopeWithTheSun I am not upset. You may like whatever you do as far as I am concerned. I just don't think people has seen Avatar after 2012. I did and it is increadibly boring with uninteresting characters, plot and message.
@@sirnilsolav6646 Then explain how its bad? Im not saying its a masterpiece, since Avatar was basically just a *Our 'enemy' isnt so bad and my commander is wrong but still wants to kill them so im in a mental conflict* storyline is overused as hell in movies, but how wasn't it good? It had one of the most amazing visuals TIL this day, an interesting premisse of a different planet, cool fighting scenes, and relatively good acting. Even if the forced lovestory between the main and the female Avatar was annoying, and i generally disliked the design of the ''Avatar'' creatures. Still, all in all a really great movie.
I used to say that the lvl of homer's stupudity reached such an absurd point that it no longer looks like normal stupidity, it looks like some high on drugs stupidity, something I've only seen in a Gantz manga character
This one misses the mark for me. The criticism feels very knit picky while giving early Simpsons too much credit? I love early Simpsons but even back in the early days there were episodes or jokes where the characterization felt off.
The sawing off the wrong limb joke had been done over a decade ago in one of the Scary Movies where they made fun of saw by having a dude cut off the wrong leg when he was imprisoned by Jigsaw.
You said in the beginning that the treehouse of horrors episodes are just for experimenting and not that serious. But you complain about Homers stupidy in the episode, which doesent make sense since it doesent effect the normal storyline. What im trying to say is that your to critical and cant really just enjoy the jokes in the episode.
The point of most of the parodies of the previous ToH were that the Simpsons were actually the characters they were. When Homer became insane in the "Shining" Parodie he went predator on Marge and the kids with his Homer personality. He didnt became temporarily smarter or dumper to fit the joke. Same goes for every other Parody. Here Homer is really dumb, even compared to peter Griffith, 1. first biting his wrong arm of 2. Biting his Leg off afterwards and 3. somehow confused a bag of Candy with a bag of Vegetables. And changing everything to make somehow dumb jokes working isnt experimenting but arbitrariness. I wonder how people cant get the criticism behind hit.
OK yeah I was gonna respond to this but NewCoastRadio basically hit the nail on the head. Yes, as I said the halloween episodes are designed to experiment by putting the Simpson characters in whacky situations that you couldn't have in a standard episode due to it breaking the show's cannon universe. BUT, although the setting itself could be widely different from the show's norm, the characters themselves have to remain consistent, so that we see how they would legitimately react to it. Otherwise it defeats the purpose of putting them into a strange environment to begin with. The only time you can allow exception to this is when a character has to be purposely altered to fit the plot of a parody, such as Homer playing the crazed Jack Nicholson in the Shining, or for a more exaggerated example, Homer playing the role of King Kong in Treehouse of Horror 3. So going to the example in this short, yes you can put Homer in the crazed situation where he is faced with the choice to bite off his own arm, but we need Homer to still act as Homer from the show. And I don't believe the classic Homer we know would be so willing to bite off his arm so quickly without the slightest hint of fear or second thought, let alone accidentally biting off the wrong limb…. Twice.
the paralyzed homer one could easily be a regular episode. Just end it with either him being miraculously cured, or just end it with saying it'll be worn off by next week.
Don’t worry, it isn’t. At worst it’s a one-off thing for that segment and that segment alone- and at best XXII came out in 2011. If it was the main joke then, it sure ain’t now.
I watched this episode for the first time yesterday, and during the "What do you think happens next?" trivia, I GENUINELY COULDN'T REMEMBER I knew the simpsons had gone downhill, but... jesus christ.
6:18 if you look at that venomous spider that paralyzes Homer you can see that it's a redback also known as the Australian black widow a very venomous spider that's known for paralyzing whatever it bites which means that the venomous spider got in someone's luggage and ended up in Springfield
The worst part about the Simpson since, I think season 10, but more prominently from season 16 and on, it’s that you can feel how they struggle to make you laugh, they drag the joke as long as they can, even when it’s not funny at all... I hate that... I just watch classic simpsons episodes because the “new”ones suck... too much. Also I’m from mexico and in season 16 the initial dubbing actors where replaced with new ones who make poor imitations of the previous actors (not their fault, but they are terrible) ...I think that makes the show even more pathetic.
I like where he makes a point of saying they play the same 5 seconds of music over and over again, and then proceeds to show us a clip of music which modulates the harmony within 7 seconds.
I agree. I am not a fan of modern Simpsons but even I thought that was funny. Nevertheless it's more of that random access humor Family Guy has rather than cleverly thought out, structured humor the Simpsons were known for. Still gave me a chuckle but there is a difference.
I think it's a reference to something actually as the same joke was used in the live action Cat in The Hat movie when what's his face fell into the twisted house and yelled "Judas Priest!" As he fell. So I think they were referencing something but no clue what.
While I agree that the quality of the writing in the Simpsons has tanked, I don't think the series ever had much in the way of consistency. I've been working my way through seasons 2 to 9 lately, just for old times sake, and it really does fluctuate a lot between Homer sometimes being too stupid for words and him actually being kind of clever depending on what the story of the week requires. To me, the Simpsons has no cannon. Nobody ages, sometimes the family has money, sometimes they don't. Bart's futures have shown him become chief justice of the supreme court in one episode and a wrecking ball operator in another one... the list just goes on.
I get what you mean with the out of character personality changes, the personalities change just to fit the scene. The changes aren't quite extreme enough to be considered a 'new take', but just a little off. A little uncanny and unfamiliar. You know a character is good when you can think 'what would 'x' do in this situation. With these characters, it's a shot in the dark.
Fun fact. The emergency services that Homer calls is actually voiced by Aron Ralston the actual climber who became stuck. Side note my grandma and grandpa live in Colorado and know Donna Ralston (his mom). When Aron first was rescued my grandpa was at the church they all go too when a friend asked him if he heard what happened to Donna's boy. Grandpa didnt realize what had really happened so didnt exactly care much until they saw the news and heard from Donna, big suprise then lol. She plays a good game of Euchre apparently.
Oh thank god I found another review channel that puts a lot of effort in there work (I’m not one myself) I’m happy I found you you do great work and I hope you keep it up
@@catalinamelo9932 no? What makes you think that that's the reason? I just strongly disagree with a lot of what he says and think he points out issues that aren't actually issues
I find it a bit odd that at the beginning of the video you praise the Treehouse of Horror episodes because they can show stories that are completely untypical for the Simpsons, but then you get upset that the characters are different than they normally are. If other stories can be told, the characters can also be changed.
i can forgive the out-of-character stuff, because to be honest, even in the best episodes, everyones just a bit more exaggerated. hell, characters have actually *died.* main characters and such. and, yeah. there was one instance where homer tried to kill his own family for being deprived of tv and beer. the exaggeration isnt the problem.
I honestly like The Simpsons up until season 27, after that it got kind of boring. For a show to keep my interest for that long, it must've been doing something right, but I agree, this episode wasn't that good. One of my favorite THOH from a later season has to be XXVIII, it just felt so much less lazy than the other newer ones.
Some of your earlier statements contradict your issues with the OPENING to the 22nd special. For example, you stated how these specials are usually exaggerated and set so where it doesn't have to fit with the rest of the shows such as having aliens or even maybe Homer being double stupid. Plus, it's the opening. These usually are pretty silly and over the top. Must I remind you the time where they basically were casually killing each other with the kids rolled up in a rub, Homer trying to beat them through it with an object while saying "Beat the lumps! Beat the lumps!" I haven't even watched the rest of the video yet, I just wanted to point out how this all came across since you seem to have a pretty strong opinion about openings.
It just used to be a way better show. Nowadays it seems like it tries to replicate family guy which also used to be significantly better. Sure there might be better episodes than others but the fact is that objectively the show is much worse than it used to be because everyone working on it has given up on putting effort into it because they know people will watch either way.
The writers don't realise the difference between pop culture references and Jokes. Just seeing these clips from this one episode really irritates me. How do they think this is Funny? How do they Not realise that simply putting a popular character/celebrity into an episode or Just Copying a popular film, Doesn't make a Joke?
"what was the point of homer biting off his limbs in the first place?" ... aww for the joke you just explained you weren't impressed with. Being a joke was the point. Your critism about Homer being too stupid for a tree house of horror episode is a little bit off the mark as well in my opinion.
9:50 - 10:00: You know what else is basic Simpsons knowledge? Homer caused the events of "Krusty gets Busted". He didn't know Sideshow Bob is the bad guy, but neither did Bart, before he realizes his dad found his weak spot. So really, Homer shares the same enemy with Bart. It's called a cruel irony.
The best part of this video is that you keep spamming how not funny the jokes are, but yours are so much worse. being vindicative and pretend everything is stupid isn't humor
The interesting thing about this episode is that you can convince somebody not to watch it with one sentence, "There's a segment about Homer getting paralyzed and he can only communicate through farting."
So the Diving Bell and the Butterball (the farting episode) is based of the movie and book the Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's the true story of a man who was completely paralyzed in a car accident but could still communicate through blinking his with his one remaining eye. He went on to write a book and stuff that's supposed to be really beautiful before dying not long after it was published....idk man it doesn't seem like the type of thing made for a treehouse of horror adaptation.
Easily one of the memorably worst ToH I ever saw. I remember getting older and realizing how much the quality of The Simpsons had sunk towards the end of season 22. When season 23 came out, I really disliked it, even though it had Holidays of Future Passed. ToH was one of the episodes from season 23 that really took the cake for me as being amongst the worst of the episodes of the season.
These comments are pretty bad. It’s called “Flanderization” for a reason. It’s based off of the simpsons. So him complaining about the Simpson’s being reduced to one character trait (Bart = bad Homer = dumb) is a serious issue that a lot of people have with the series and the change of writers.
THANK YOU!
Reminds me of how people critique teen titans GO. How everyone just became a clown in that show whereas they had relatively unique traits in the original show.
And same as the simpson, I think the later iterations are a lot better than people say they are, even better than the original in places, it’s just the quality varies a lot more that the older stuff.
0:55 so we gunna ignore marge’s hair being a huge lump of meat on her head
I know! When I first saw that episode I was like WHAT THE!?!?!?
OMG I have never realized that!
Well, isn't there a conspiricy it is actually his head under that hair, and that she has bunny ears under.
eh, probably just a joke
And other times its a wig hiding rabbit ears and other times its just hair (god its eddsworld all over again
"Bart having an evil twin"
No, Bart _WAS_ the evil twin.
I was thinking that
#basicsimpsonsknowledge
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"Basic simpsons knowledge"... who is this guy?! He must be so fun at parties😅
He hasnt even done his research that well
Too crazy for boy’s town, too much of a boy for crazy town!
Probably didn't want to give away the twist. Yeah, it's not much of a twist but the episode treated it as one, sort of.
To be fair they often exaggerated homers stupidity for treehouse of horror
But that's the thing: there's no difference between modern (jerkass) Homer and the Homer we see in this episode.
TheTundraTerror not untrue
that is not fair, from 99 onwards they have been shit
Et Cogito Ergo Sum from 99 what? episodes
@@leephillips4402 I think he means from the year 1999.
Fun Fact: The guy on the phone in the beginning skit was the guy whose experiences the movie 127 Hours was based on.
Clark Griswold seriously? That’s pretty cool
Too cool to mention in a review, apparently.
That’s awesome
Also, he missed the obvious Psycho reference when Homer drives to the candy peak.
Wow, what a waste
I disagree on one of your points, being that they are out of character. If you watch old Treehouse of Horror, their personalities have always been stretched a bit, to be honest, like when they watched Willie die and didn't care, or when Lisa (the rationnal one) guessed that Mr Burns was a vampire.
(Sorry for mistakes, english isn't my first language).
At least back then stretching character personalities lead to some hilarity. Nowadays it doesn't.
the moment groening left the characters changed personality, that is reality kid
Ok so let's go through how Lisa discovers that Mr Burns is a vampire. At the start of the short, they're watching a news story about a local peasant being found dead, drained of his blood.
She notices that they're being fed blood, which even in this reality, would be pretty weird, so she scarpers with Bart.
Then they stumble upon his hidden vampire lair, where she sees 'Yes I am a vampire' sat on a lectern, followed by vampires chasing after her.
So she adjusted her views to the reality in which she lived. That's pretty in-keeping with a rationalistic mindset
Vive la France!!
@@charliedapotato7221 ? Je suis Suisse lol
0:54 That scene always creeped me out, not because of their skins turning inside out but rather Marge's entire hair being flesh underneath D:
I think Skinner not being there is the joke. Even though he’s not there, he’s blaming him anyway.
ok now that's the only actual funny scene in the whole episode but still you gotta look at it ironically
Yeah I think the whole episode is an ironic joke after ironic joke. The spider and him almost breaking the forth wall. The farts to speak because of it's the one kinda thing you don't want to do loud and to be heard. The 2nd spider that doesn't paralyze but gives him super powers and don't heal him. I like this one a lot personally.
Also the music during the fight in the last skit....you watch avatar? It's okay the movie but the soundtrack not the best for certain scenes and I think they caught that too as irony.
Yeah
What year is this
I'm not defending modern day Simpsons but Homer once bought a rock from his daughter to keep bears away. He once got his arms stuck in a vending machine only because he didn't think of letting go of the food he was stealing from it. He didn't know the number for 911. He's always been stupid. And even though I do agree it was an exaggeration, I thought the joke of him biting off the wrong arm to be funny.
The first one was actual a smart move by Lisa convinving homer that the rock keeps tigers away because there are obviously no tigers around. In reality there are people that might do things that are illogical to us because in their world view it serves a purpose and the correlation of two things ( Example: Lisa has the stone and there are no tigers around) is enought toi prove their point. It´s entirely different from Homer biting first his arm off and than it´s leg which would at least be funny the first time but not two times in a row. Also gore humor should at least have consequences and not result in Homer magically sewing his Limbs back to his body.
For me, the wrong limb joke was a little bit funny in Happy Tree Friends, a little less funny in Scary Movie 4, and in Simpsons it was *eyeroll*. I too thought it was lazy and poorly executed.
He's dumb because he has something lodged in his brain 🧠 #basicsimpsonsknowledge
A Treehouse of Horror classic had him sell his damn soul for a donut. Like...
But it wasn't original
The joke about the pickle ice cream is cuz during pregnancy, there's a common idea of women craving pickles and ice cream. The idea is basically, "pickle flavored ice cream".
Kind of sounds like an in-joke then, if that's the case.
the man/woman who wrote that is bad and should feel bad. the punishment for such an unfunny joke should be to never allow them to write anything again.
@@marvalice3455 you misspelled death
When my girlfriend was pregnant she had those cravings.... Lol
I can second that, when my mom had my second sister, for some reason she had pickles with her burgers, which was strange because she doesn't like pickles otherwise
Aw, yes. My favorite Halloween film.
*AVATAR.*
TheTundraTerror At least it makes more sense that parodying Dr Seuss.
I mean it is scarily bad
It's not that, the Treehouse of Horror specials allowed them to do movie parodies
But sideshow Bob became the enemy of the entire Simpsons family in the episode "The italian Bob"
@PartySlime76 No? No argument? Just saying no and expecting people to agree? Okay...
@PartySlime76 well I know that happened.
@PartySlime76 But the thing is he never claimed otherwise. He was simply saying that Bob became their enemy in that episode. And I think the treehouse of horror episode is post season 16.
Not canon so it is irrelevant.
True, but he still enemy to Bart.
I dunno about you, mate. But if a guy tries to kill my son then I think that's justification to declair them my enemy.
But then again, if you've seen The Simpsons you'll know that Homer is barely active on episodes with Sideshow Bob, hell Sideshow Bob even saved his life once.
So he's not really Homer's enemy, and he has plenty of them.
Yeah but there’s even been jokes of homer not having much of a hatred from bob even though he has tried to kill his son
Early Treehouse: Horror movie spoofs and homages. Or original stories.
Current Treehouse: Spoofs of EVERY movie. Who cares if it fits the theme?
They’ve already done all the horror movies 🤣
@@stevesharpe3370 They could do modern horror movies and maybe even spoof some horror games while they're at it.
And not even funny spoofs. Literally there was pardory of the stranger things and they didn’t even try to make it funny. The only good one was “not IT.” And “death tone” because both are clever and death tone was animated by the creators of the anime. (I think)
You can tell Simpsons Treehouse of Horror has turned to shit when there's no horror involved in the shorts.
boldsign with the recent successes of Stranger Things and It 2017, you'd think they'd experiment with horror some more
true true true true i cant say how truuuuuuue
They started becoming more fantasy back around when I really just stopped watching. Seeing this it seems like they've just completely stopped caring about it.
@@antboyttt509 Hell I'd even settle for a Get Out parody.
So true. I actually wasn't allowed to watch Tree House of Horror 1 as a child, because my mother thought the short with the murder house was too disturbing.
Now you wouldn't even know it was the Halloween episode if the opening didn't explicitly say so.
I actually had to chuckle at "skineeeer!". I just have to whenever he says that line, no matter when or where.
Plus I do like to think Skinner was the one that built that Mech Chalmers I was using
“Homer would do the smart thing” Ok buddy
Lol
Gotta point though, this ain't Peter Griffin
Amazed they didn’t do a Krusty as IT before the movie version came out.
Still hoping for a THoH of Doctor who investigating why no one ever ages in Springfield even as time passes.
@@ironwoodnf Peter Griffin and Homer are both fucking retarded.
Well, I mean it's not smart is it? It's common sense. Homer's stupid and even the stupidest person I know would not bite off their own arm because they had to wait 20 minutes. And trust me I know some pretty stupid people
And the "Flanders doing things that turn out mostly normal" montage is itself a nod to the Dexter opening.
Finally somebody gets the reference
Steve: “But even homer isn’t meant to be on this level of stupidity.”
Steve, please give a warm welcome to Jerkass Homer
how hard is it to agree the simpsons have gone downhill? and yet i found so much to disagree with you about
I dont know? How hard is it?
Eh, it's easy to see that The Simpsons isn't as good as it used to be. But, the caveat is that what The Simpsons used to be is a show that produced Last Exit To Springfield, which is arguably one of the greatest animations ever created and easily the best episode of any animated show to date. The show is still good, but it isn't the same show that produced masterpieces anymore. It doesn't really need to be either, since no other animated show has managed to top the episodes in the legendary season 2-9 run.
BTW, I would consider 'What's Opera, Doc?' to be the greatest animation ever produced. Nothing else has ever managed to top it, which is impressive considering that it's only 7 minutes long. It's timeless, anyone at any age from any background can enjoy it, and it's absolutely perfect. It's the only cartoon that I feel can't be criticized because it is completely flawless. Everyone should watch it at least once to understand just how good animation can be.
What year was this came out the segment
I agree that the fart one is horrid, but you're way too critical of the first one. In the intro, you praise that the Treehouse episodes can be extravagant, overemphasize characters and situations and just generally try silly stuff. Yet those are the exact things you criticize in the first story. Characters acting illogical, continuity issues et cetera. Also, I don't think the fact that another show has done a joke before necessarily devaluates it. If you come up with a good joke, but then see that another show that maybe 5% of your audience has seen has used it before, are you supposed to just throw it in the trash?
I think the problem he had mainly was how much the short seemed to rely on fart jokes, which kind are like to comedy like what jumpscares are to horror.
And it only took until the last 30 seconds to do something much more creative and off-the-wall with the Spiderman parody. I mean, come on, even I thought there were some wasted potential in that regard.
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For someone moaning about "basic Simpsons knowledge" you'd think you would know the difference between "modd" and "Maude".
It's a joke because of RoDD and ToDD. Flanders kids get it?
Joni Hämäläinen I don’t think that was what he intended
that's just spelling, you utter sperg, it has nothing to do with the actual character
@@eLGiGaming he pronounces it wrong too though
He should conitinue (sic) this later.
Spelt “renowned” wrong when making note of how Homer’s English was good in the love letter.
Beautiful irony.
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I also wondered who 'Modd' is when he referred to Ned's wife. Isn't it Maude?
9:55 a nitpick, but in later seasons Sideshow Bob wanted to kill the entire family, not just Bart.
That's a good point but a few seasons later, Sideshow Bob did help Homer find out who was trying to kill him so...Idk. I think Homer might hate Sideshow Bob to an extent because he does love Bart. But I also think Homer is pretty okay with Bob since he tried to kill Selma and did save Bart and Lisa from Bob's brother (Cecil, I think his name is??) and -again- did save Homer's life.
Bob is a very complicated character at times for sure.
Steve reviews: THAT’S BASIC SIMPSON KNOWLEDGE
Also Steve reviews: Bart’s had an evil twin
Probably didn’t want to spoil the plot twist in case someone didn’t watch it
"a real spider would vet so mad if i did this" is actually a brilliant line for all the reasons you say it sucks
now that you explain the ep that line seems like the high point
How is stating the obvious brilliant?
@@fireflambe3736 The joke isn't that he's stating the obvious, it's that to us it's obvious, but he is so oblivious he thinks it's a fake spider.
@@Momo-qe2zk It was a real spider.
@@Toraryuko I meant fake spider, sorry.
homer chewing off his arm because he can't wait 20 minutes for candy is not out of character (except maybe for that frosty chocolate milkshake guy who would sell his tv for therapy). remember the sandwich? the sugar? the real homer being the first to chase a giant donut if a cliff? dr. phil?
and homer occasionally knows words, he doesn't know he knows until he says it because of his brain damage. he's always liked to think that he carries himself with a certain, quiet dignity
I immediately thought of the time he was "stuck" in two vending machines because he was holding on to the items he was trying to steal.
Yeah his intellect fluctuates, and that’s what’s funny lol
@@popehentai But then he at least waited for the fire department.
You’re reviewing a treehouse of horror episode as if it were canon.
Dude, the entire Simpsons family turns into vampires and tries to kill Bart in Treehouse of Horror IV. Please elaborate on how this breaks the character of family members not killing eachother in the main series.
Except for you know, Homer’s fatherly abuse of strangling his son
His point is also how terrible the humor is in this episode, he's correct about that.
> Dude, the entire Simpsons family turns into vampires and tries to kill Bart in Treehouse of Horror IV.
Vampires eat people, don't be tricked by all the pro-knife ear propaganda going around like Twilight. And maybe Marge decided it was just time to turn her family so they could stay together forever.
Casting helps a ton - Groundskeeper Willie, vengeful angry scottsman that he is, works perfectly as Krueger. If it were Lisa playing the part, it wouldn't be as congruent or as funny.
But Zombie Simpsons has much deeper issues than just their tendency of never adhering to character. As has been pointed out millions of times: Simpsons always held vapid celebrity culture in contempt. Zombie Simpsons holds it in worship. It's become a complete inverse of what it once was on everything.
Garl Vinland while its not canon it’s beyond horrible writing for anything canon or not or hell simpsons or not.
@btamamura well yeah this is his channel giving his opinion, i thought that was pretty clear?
Episodes being non-cannon is not a excuse for throwing out basic character traits to make bad jokes. It's incredibly lazy and if you need to change a character to make a joke work its not a good joke.
Sideshow Bob is Homer enemy "That's what you get for framing krusty " in the episode that sideshow Bob kills Bart Homer says that after hitting him
@squillywilly Homer voted for Bob in the Mayor Election
@squillywilly would he care about bart.... recently he doesn't
but.... yeah bad terms... a CANNON episode where bart hangs out with maggie the bit where the hair styels change one of them is sideshow bob and maggie gets scared plus homer is scared and goes "AHHH..... SIDESHOW BOB"
in all my years i'd never thought of the simpsons as a fart joke dispenser
The whole simpsons family is bob's enemy...
I know the comics don't count as Canon but there was one storyline in The Simpsons comics that showed Sideshow Bob's younger brother Cecil deciding to kill Lisa because he felt that he needs to be considered as big of a psychopath as his older brother I am because he didn't want to kill Bart because he didn't want people judging him for just copying what his brother did he decided to do the next best thing
To be fair when you say side show Bob isn't homer's enemy but bart's I can understand why people could see sideshow Bob as homer's enemy when Bob tries to kill bart homer's only son.
Erm, it's Maude Flanders, not 'Modd'. #basicsimpsonsknowledge
it's a joke cause of rodd and todd
rhysepoos Sry had a really bad day
Lol
rhysepoos r/iamverysmart
GalaxyGuy 33 r/wooosh
I actually thought Chalmers randomly shouting "SKINNERRR," as he fell off a cliff, was funny
Like you said. Treehouse horror is not canon. It "Gives the writers creativity". As you said
this is so boring that I actually like the episode more now
I can’t believe he didn’t like the Flanders twist? If there’s one good part of the episode, it should be that. Personally memorable
I think I am more scared by the fact someone was willing to call out one of the Halloween special episodes you are a true beast
The only laugh I got out of this was when you wrote "his dead wife Modd". MODD? You may not be as big a Simpsons expert as you think.
You said at the start the treehouse eps are non canonical, but then moan about inconsistency in character personalities between the normal series and the treehouse episodes? Ok bruh Hahahaha
So... characters just stop being themselves just for the plot is ok?
Could they have done The Simpsons version of The Shining with Homer being his usual family loving self? No, they had to make him somewhat like Jack Nicholson's character in order for it to make any sense as a short. The fun of Treehouse of Horror is that you never know what you're gonna get from the plot or the characters. It's the shows chance to go a little crazy with the realism aspects that normal episodes possess. I'm completely fine with character inconsistencies in this, easy-going, easy viewing cartoon, as long as it's fun to watch. Don't read too much into a show in which the majority of characters have bright yellow skin. @@cosmicx5227
I think even then, there's still a point where these things just don't work. Yes, the treehouse of horror episodes may not be restrained by the show's canon, but there's still only so far you can go before it end up collapsing in on itself.
That isn't an excuse to make bad episodes
@@TheNayinator Except the plot of that short is the hotel is manipulating Homer into acting that way, just like what happens to Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining. He's not just randomly acting like that for no reason. In fact, it starts out with
Homer acting in his self before the hotel manipulates him, just like the earlier haunted house in the Treehouse of Horror.
>Thinking Avatar was actually a good movie
@Scooter
I haven't watched the Last Airbender, but I agree with you. However, that does not make Avatar, the blue Indians one, good.
>Being upset that someone likes a movie I don't
BirdsElopeWithTheSun
I am not upset. You may like whatever you do as far as I am concerned.
I just don't think people has seen Avatar after 2012. I did and it is increadibly boring with uninteresting characters, plot and message.
@@sirnilsolav6646 I don't think most people have watched Avatar since 2009
@@sirnilsolav6646
Then explain how its bad? Im not saying its a masterpiece, since Avatar was basically just a *Our 'enemy' isnt so bad and my commander is wrong but still wants to kill them so im in a mental conflict* storyline is overused as hell in movies, but how wasn't it good?
It had one of the most amazing visuals TIL this day, an interesting premisse of a different planet, cool fighting scenes, and relatively good acting.
Even if the forced lovestory between the main and the female Avatar was annoying, and i generally disliked the design of the ''Avatar'' creatures.
Still, all in all a really great movie.
I used to say that the lvl of homer's stupudity reached such an absurd point that it no longer looks like normal stupidity, it looks like some high on drugs stupidity, something I've only seen in a Gantz manga character
This one misses the mark for me. The criticism feels very knit picky while giving early Simpsons too much credit? I love early Simpsons but even back in the early days there were episodes or jokes where the characterization felt off.
The Treehouse episodes are out of canon so I don’t mind the characters being out of personality
Yep because there’s absolutely no reason why homer would be enemies with the guy who has been trying to murder his son
the good avatar movie would be a proper last airbender movie
The sawing off the wrong limb joke had been done over a decade ago in one of the Scary Movies where they made fun of saw by having a dude cut off the wrong leg when he was imprisoned by Jigsaw.
That dude was Dr. Phil I believe
@@BirdsElopeWithTheSun09 Oh yeah, that's right. I think it was him and Shaquel O'Neal locked in the Saw bathroom together for some reason.
Moostached Saiyan Prince Wow,you know it's gone downhill when they steal jokes from Seltzer and Friedberg.
You said in the beginning that the treehouse of horrors episodes are just for experimenting and not that serious. But you complain about Homers stupidy in the episode, which doesent make sense since it doesent effect the normal storyline. What im trying to say is that your to critical and cant really just enjoy the jokes in the episode.
Ikr it's really weird
The point of most of the parodies of the previous ToH were that the Simpsons were actually the characters they were. When Homer became insane in the "Shining" Parodie he went predator on Marge and the kids with his Homer personality. He didnt became temporarily smarter or dumper to fit the joke. Same goes for every other Parody.
Here Homer is really dumb, even compared to peter Griffith, 1. first biting his wrong arm of 2. Biting his Leg off afterwards and 3. somehow confused a bag of Candy with a bag of Vegetables. And changing everything to make somehow dumb jokes working isnt experimenting but arbitrariness.
I wonder how people cant get the criticism behind hit.
Yeah I was just about to write this
That's the point of criticism and sharing your opinion
OK yeah I was gonna respond to this but NewCoastRadio basically hit the nail on the head. Yes, as I said the halloween episodes are designed to experiment by putting the Simpson characters in whacky situations that you couldn't have in a standard episode due to it breaking the show's cannon universe. BUT, although the setting itself could be widely different from the show's norm, the characters themselves have to remain consistent, so that we see how they would legitimately react to it. Otherwise it defeats the purpose of putting them into a strange environment to begin with. The only time you can allow exception to this is when a character has to be purposely altered to fit the plot of a parody, such as Homer playing the crazed Jack Nicholson in the Shining, or for a more exaggerated example, Homer playing the role of King Kong in Treehouse of Horror 3.
So going to the example in this short, yes you can put Homer in the crazed situation where he is faced with the choice to bite off his own arm, but we need Homer to still act as Homer from the show. And I don't believe the classic Homer we know would be so willing to bite off his arm so quickly without the slightest hint of fear or second thought, let alone accidentally biting off the wrong limb…. Twice.
the paralyzed homer one could easily be a regular episode. Just end it with either him being miraculously cured, or just end it with saying it'll be worn off by next week.
*criticises fart joke* *Makes fart joke* 🤔💨
(B) Shame
Yeah, but his was funny
@@fireflambe3736 (X) Doubt
Jeez, I haven't seen Simpsons in years. It seems I'm not missing much if farting is the main joke now.
@Smalls A lot of times apparently.
@@phousefilms (annoyed grunt)
Don’t worry, it isn’t. At worst it’s a one-off thing for that segment and that segment alone- and at best XXII came out in 2011. If it was the main joke then, it sure ain’t now.
That looping music towards the end was actually from the couch gag for Tree house of Horror 20 (in that context it actually works really well)
3:23
I mean, looks like someone else isn't exactly *renowned* for having a strong vocabulary.
I watched this episode for the first time yesterday, and during the "What do you think happens next?" trivia, I GENUINELY COULDN'T REMEMBER
I knew the simpsons had gone downhill, but... jesus christ.
It's funny how the only Simpsons gag I laughed at was that small old school clip where Bart pretends to be god.
6:18 if you look at that venomous spider that paralyzes Homer you can see that it's a redback also known as the Australian black widow a very venomous spider that's known for paralyzing whatever it bites which means that the venomous spider got in someone's luggage and ended up in Springfield
Maybe it’s Australia’s revenge for what Bart did to their ecosystem.
@@MovieFan1912 ok i buy it
The worst part about the Simpson since, I think season 10, but more prominently from season 16 and on, it’s that you can feel how they struggle to make you laugh, they drag the joke as long as they can, even when it’s not funny at all... I hate that... I just watch classic simpsons episodes because the “new”ones suck... too much. Also I’m from mexico and in season 16 the initial dubbing actors where replaced with new ones who make poor imitations of the previous actors (not their fault, but they are terrible) ...I think that makes the show even more pathetic.
Not to mention they also did the "cut off the wrong limb" joke in the first Saw movie with DR. Phil lol
I like where he makes a point of saying they play the same 5 seconds of music over and over again, and then proceeds to show us a clip of music which modulates the harmony within 7 seconds.
6:20 you can't tell me the way he says squeeze squeeze doesn't at Least make you crack a grin.
Chalmers yelling skinner was honestly kinda funny. In a stupid kind of way and most likely not how the writers intended... but still pretty funny
I agree. I am not a fan of modern Simpsons but even I thought that was funny. Nevertheless it's more of that random access humor Family Guy has rather than cleverly thought out, structured humor the Simpsons were known for. Still gave me a chuckle but there is a difference.
I think it's a reference to something actually as the same joke was used in the live action Cat in The Hat movie when what's his face fell into the twisted house and yelled "Judas Priest!" As he fell.
So I think they were referencing something but no clue what.
I always thought he was yelling at Skinner because he design the suit causing his death.
While I agree that the quality of the writing in the Simpsons has tanked, I don't think the series ever had much in the way of consistency. I've been working my way through seasons 2 to 9 lately, just for old times sake, and it really does fluctuate a lot between Homer sometimes being too stupid for words and him actually being kind of clever depending on what the story of the week requires. To me, the Simpsons has no cannon. Nobody ages, sometimes the family has money, sometimes they don't. Bart's futures have shown him become chief justice of the supreme court in one episode and a wrecking ball operator in another one... the list just goes on.
The fact that they can do whatever they want in these episodes means that they can change their personalities since it isn't permanent.
I get what you mean with the out of character personality changes, the personalities change just to fit the scene. The changes aren't quite extreme enough to be considered a 'new take', but just a little off. A little uncanny and unfamiliar. You know a character is good when you can think 'what would 'x' do in this situation. With these characters, it's a shot in the dark.
Fun fact. The emergency services that Homer calls is actually voiced by Aron Ralston the actual climber who became stuck. Side note my grandma and grandpa live in Colorado and know Donna Ralston (his mom). When Aron first was rescued my grandpa was at the church they all go too when a friend asked him if he heard what happened to Donna's boy. Grandpa didnt realize what had really happened so didnt exactly care much until they saw the news and heard from Donna, big suprise then lol. She plays a good game of Euchre apparently.
Who the hell is modd? It’s Maude.
It's a joke because RoDD and ToDD. Get it?
@@JohnTavastian its not her name though. He doesn't make a Rodd and Tod joke in this video at all.
@@epicnamakuji when you say the name it sounds like modd that is the joke. Rodd, Todd, Modd. Don't get butthurt
@@JohnTavastian I get the joke, he just didn't make it in this video and so there was no reason for the mispronunciation and misspelling.
@@epicnamakuji look at 10:50 in the video. Your the one who is wrong here.
10:50 B. Because of all the detail and specifics
This joke isn't funny because it's been done before on a different show? You're kidding right?
What year did this air
Oh thank god I found another review channel that puts a lot of effort in there work (I’m not one myself)
I’m happy I found you you do great work and I hope you keep it up
I feel like you aren't a very good critic tbh
he isnt
This
Why, because he doesn't scream out his words and leaves the criticism full of negativity? Oh dears.
@@catalinamelo9932 no? What makes you think that that's the reason? I just strongly disagree with a lot of what he says and think he points out issues that aren't actually issues
Homer is not a copy of Peter Griffin. Just the other way around.
Peter griffin is superior
@@benshapiro4625 I'm just saying but any show with a talking baby and dog that isn't for kids IS a complete joke
mimichu family is funny because of how dumb it is and not because it’s genuinely funny, change my mind
@@benshapiro4625 it's a children's show made for adults
@@themostbritishpersonalive868 it's an adult cartoon made for families.
I find it a bit odd that at the beginning of the video you praise the Treehouse of Horror episodes because they can show stories that are completely untypical for the Simpsons, but then you get upset that the characters are different than they normally are. If other stories can be told, the characters can also be changed.
Sideshow has tied up homer
Thought about killing him
And threatened his only son
And terrorised his whole family
𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵
say it with me now kids...
*ITS. A. JOKE.*
It's not funny.
Say it with me know kids...
BAD. WRITING.
I know, it's just not very funny.
i can forgive the out-of-character stuff, because to be honest, even in the best episodes, everyones just a bit more exaggerated. hell, characters have actually *died.* main characters and such. and, yeah. there was one instance where homer tried to kill his own family for being deprived of tv and beer.
the exaggeration isnt the problem.
I honestly like The Simpsons up until season 27, after that it got kind of boring. For a show to keep my interest for that long, it must've been doing something right, but I agree, this episode wasn't that good. One of my favorite THOH from a later season has to be XXVIII, it just felt so much less lazy than the other newer ones.
This comment section is awful, 50% of the comments are either about people being upset he called Avatar a good movie, or just straight-up insults.
Or missing the modd joke
The Girl Code was the episode of the Simpsons that made me stop watching it. It was even worse then the Ga Ga episode, IMO.
The newest treehouse of horror was bloody awful
I never even saw it because this show has gone down hill since season 8
*10
I don't see no blood
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Omg yeah that episode really sucked. The “jokes” were all so cringy
Ihe: the comment section on my videos are so bad
Comment section on this video: *H O L D M Y B E E R ! !*
Some of your earlier statements contradict your issues with the OPENING to the 22nd special.
For example, you stated how these specials are usually exaggerated and set so where it doesn't have to fit with the rest of the shows such as having aliens or even maybe Homer being double stupid.
Plus, it's the opening. These usually are pretty silly and over the top. Must I remind you the time where they basically were casually killing each other with the kids rolled up in a rub, Homer trying to beat them through it with an object while saying "Beat the lumps! Beat the lumps!"
I haven't even watched the rest of the video yet, I just wanted to point out how this all came across since you seem to have a pretty strong opinion about openings.
Dude you got obliterated in this comment section
THANK YOU! I cannot describe to you how much this special disappointed me! Good to see someone else expressing their hate for it!
I noticed you spelled Maude wrong. bAsiC SImPSonS knOWlDEDGE!!!!
3:20 - well duh, the term "flanderization" DOES come from Simpsons after all.
This feels way too nit picky and honestly super exaggerated
8:30 Bottom right corner, Flanders’ arm is cut off. Man, even now we can’t escape animation errors
Df?
I can't unsee it now...
How did I not see that before an SDS said I guess the animators don't care much for this short either
Jesus Christ, you must be REALLY fun at parties
Jesus christ, that's REALLY nice way to overgeneralize
Probably funner than someone who can't come up with an original insult.
"doesn't mean that is their entire personality" Exactly, everyone has something they criticise, still have fun with other stuff.
You’re overthinking the Simpsons way too much. When it comes on, sit back and relax, it’s not that deep.
@Justin Friedman I still love the Simpsons aswell, I think it's pretty much the same quality as the original.
Homer used to be much clever in older shows
The Simpsons didn't make it to the top of the entertainment industry in the 90s being not that deep.
Just because it's not "deep" doesn't mean it has to be pure shit.
It just used to be a way better show. Nowadays it seems like it tries to replicate family guy which also used to be significantly better. Sure there might be better episodes than others but the fact is that objectively the show is much worse than it used to be because everyone working on it has given up on putting effort into it because they know people will watch either way.
The Simpsons has been dead since 2001
The writers don't realise the difference between pop culture references and Jokes. Just seeing these clips from this one episode really irritates me.
How do they think this is Funny? How do they Not realise that simply putting a popular character/celebrity into an episode or Just Copying a popular film, Doesn't make a Joke?
"what was the point of homer biting off his limbs in the first place?" ... aww for the joke you just explained you weren't impressed with. Being a joke was the point. Your critism about Homer being too stupid for a tree house of horror episode is a little bit off the mark as well in my opinion.
9:50 - 10:00: You know what else is basic Simpsons knowledge? Homer caused the events of "Krusty gets Busted". He didn't know Sideshow Bob is the bad guy, but neither did Bart, before he realizes his dad found his weak spot. So really, Homer shares the same enemy with Bart. It's called a cruel irony.
4:41 - He's gonna need to see Winry for some automail.
I miss when they did legit horror related stuff in their Treehouse of Horror. Honesty the worse one has to be the Kingsmen one. Sooo boring
The best part of this video is that you keep spamming how not funny the jokes are, but yours are so much worse.
being vindicative and pretend everything is stupid isn't humor
The interesting thing about this episode is that you can convince somebody not to watch it with one sentence, "There's a segment about Homer getting paralyzed and he can only communicate through farting."
I like how triggered people get when they hear the Simpsons isn't really that good
So the Diving Bell and the Butterball (the farting episode) is based of the movie and book the Diving Bell and the Butterfly. It's the true story of a man who was completely paralyzed in a car accident but could still communicate through blinking his with his one remaining eye. He went on to write a book and stuff that's supposed to be really beautiful before dying not long after it was published....idk man it doesn't seem like the type of thing made for a treehouse of horror adaptation.
Always makes me happy seeing a new video from you man, love your content
I START EATING GARBAGE!
Easily one of the memorably worst ToH I ever saw. I remember getting older and realizing how much the quality of The Simpsons had sunk towards the end of season 22. When season 23 came out, I really disliked it, even though it had Holidays of Future Passed. ToH was one of the episodes from season 23 that really took the cake for me as being amongst the worst of the episodes of the season.