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[BruceLeeRoy]

Wow I haven't seen Simpsons since the 90s and I didn't catch like half of those references or characters. Like who the hell is that guy who was writing on the wall next to Bart supposed to be?

This stuff makes me feel soooooo old.

 

[SmokyDave]

Heh, that was cool. Not quite Banksy cool, but cool.

 

[Ithil]

Well it looks like he had a lot of fun making that.

 

[Epcott]

That opening is probably longer than a treehouse segment.

Yeesh.

 

[Metalmarc]

So much greatness


Cthulhu lives

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Amazing, just amazing!
As other people have said, the best thing to come out of the simpsons in years.

 

[Shig]

The Homer evolution couch gag is my favourite one by far.

Would have been better if it was cut short with the Homer-fish getting sat on by Homer, in reference to this scene.

I'm not a fan of the over-long couch gags. A couch gag should be a punchy exclamation point to the show's opening, not an additional twenty paragraphs.

 

[Moff]

pretty good.
made me want to watch an episode again, I used to adore this show, but I havent seen a single one since season 10

is it worth it?

 

[Zen_Arcade]

pretty good.
made me want to watch an episode again, I used to adore this show, but I havent seen a single one since season 10

is it worth it?

Seasons 11 and 12 have some good episodes. Past that don't even bother.

 

[The Main Event]

Woah, that was amazing. Too bad it doesn't reflect the overall product at this moment

 

[Various Artists]

Wow really awesome. I love Del Toro.

 

[ToxicAdam]

Whoopty do, a bunch of movie references. Wasn't that the shit people used to bag on Family Guy for?

 

[hwalker84]

Was pretty cool. A lot of the easter eggs are lost on me since I don't watch the show anymore.

 

[Soule]

That was actually really cool, hypnotoad brought it to new levels of greatness.

 

[depths20XX]

Everyone says that Simpsons has sucked for the last 10 years. So who is even watching it?

You never hear anyone talking about it anymore. Is it just getting by from people leaving the TV on that channel or something? There has to be some people that still enjoy it.

 

[Talon]

I lost it on Hypnotoad.

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

That was pretty cool.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Was I really the only one not thinking much of it? Just a bunch of "Yeah I got that reference, heh!".

 

[Liberty4all]

Awesome.

 

[Kinyou]

The Homer evolution couch gag is my favourite one by far.

I really like the music in that one. Especially those synthesizers at the end

 

[No_Style]

It's poetic
http://i.minus.com/ijGTL1bmOSwsI.png

And sad

Also a recycled joke which again is sad. But I forgot which episode where they used that the first time.

Ask, I am one of the few who continues to watch the show.

 

[ЯAW]

Was I really the only one not thinking much of it? Just a bunch of "Yeah I got that reference, heh!".

Yup, not to mention I'm not really big fan of these extended couch gags, they should be small jokes, nothing else.
I'm still going to watch the episode. I don't even know why I bother anymore. I guess it would just feel odd not to watch Simpsons once a week.

 

[Like the hat?]

So is treehouse of horror actually going to have horror again, or will it just be completely pointless movie parodies?

 

[Hypereides]

That's pretty good. I liked it.

One of the better simpson intros I've seen in a long time.

 

[MilesWebber]

Wow I haven't seen Simpsons since the 90s and I didn't catch like half of those references or characters. Like who the hell is that guy who was writing on the wall next to Bart supposed to be?

LOL

Stephen King?



Marge - Re: Horror

 

[Professor Renegade]

Fucking incredible. I think I saw Gort from The Day The Earth Stood Still.

 

[BearChair]

So I caught references to all of del Toro's movies in there. The Cronos one made me especially happy to see.

But I didn't see a reference to The Devil's Backbone. I had to have just missed it right? He references everything else he's done.

 

[Nerdkiller]

So is treehouse of horror actually going to have horror again, or will it just be completely pointless movie parodies?

There's Going to be a Dr. Seuss based sketch, but the other two will be strictly horror based.

 

[Nakazato]

That was great

 

[sn00zer]

Everyone says that Simpsons has sucked for the last 10 years. So who is even watching it?

You never hear anyone talking about it anymore. Is it just getting by from people leaving the TV on that channel or something? There has to be some people that still enjoy it.

Ive watched a few recent episodes and I found them funnier than Family Guy, Cleveland show, or Bob's burgers, but since they arent as good as the old Simpsons everyone thinks they are shit instead of just not being as good as the old Simpsons

 

[Host Samurai]

Was awesome but lack of Freddy, Jason, Myers & Leatherface prevented it from being EPIC

 

[illmatic22]

Better than anything The actual show+family guy have done in years

 

[GulAtiCa]

That was awesome.

 

[grumpy]

Hypnotoad!

 

[mantidor]

Amazing.

Lol at the ADD generation, treehouse couch gags are always on the long side, you people... And being so chockful of references, it was awesome.

Banksy got away with his because it drove the point to the ground, hell there's a freaking unicorn used to open the CD holes, its satire is so over the top it stops being satire. this Ullman's Simpsons reference is much subtler.

 

[dark_inferno]

Probably the best opening from Simpsons.

 

[Mac the KNife]

Not as good as Banksy's, but very amusing.

 

[Pikawil]

But I didn't see a reference to The Devil's Backbone. I had to have just missed it right? He references everything else he's done.

Look at Homer at the couch.

 

[UberTag]

There a list yet of all the references?

Compilation of references included in the Guillermo del Toro couch gag from Reddit:

From Reddit:

"Pacific Rim" (Kaiju and Jaeger in background)
"Treehouse of Horror" (Lard Lad comes to life)
"Lord of the Rings"? (dragons w/ riders in background)
"The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad" (Wiggum cyclops)
"The Birds" (jungle gym) and Alfred Hitchcock
"The Shining" (chalkboard gag) and Stephen King
"Hellboy" (Groundskeeper Willie + Kroenen)
"Blade 2" (Homer's splitting jaw + Blade Carl)
"Simpsons" Tracey Ullman shorts (old sketches buried)
"Godzilla" (skeleton buried)
"Pan's Labyrinth" ('Pale Man' Mr. Burns)
"Cronos" (bug-machine thing)
"Mimic" (person-imitating Marge-bug)
"Phantom of the Opera" (Chaney skull-face)
"Phantom of the Opera" (Hammer version's mask)
"Phantom of the Opera" (Claude Rains version's mask)
(NO IDEA) (unknown Phantom mask)
"Phantom of the Paradise" (look it up, people)
"Treehouse of Horror" (tentacle-Maggie on wall)
Authors and Creations (Cthulhu + H. P. Lovecraft, Raven + Edgar Allan Poe, Illustrated Man + Ray Bradbury, "Omega Man" mutant (based on "I Am Legend") + Richard Matheson)
Universal Monsters collection (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolf Man, MutAnt from "This Island Earth," Mummy, Creature from Black Lagoon, Bride of Frankenstein, Invisible Man)
"The Car" (Maggie drives car)
"Piranha" (?) (Blinky eating Milhouse)
"The Twilight Zone" (Rod Serling pulled away by...)
"Lost in Space" (...robot)
"Hellboy II" (plant monster in background)
"Alien" (alien)
(NO IDEA) (lizard in suit spray-painting)
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1920 version) (cackling guy behind wall)
"Treehouse of Horror" (Kang and Kodos)
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (Hans Moleman's drawing)
"Jason and the Argonauts" (skeletons w/ swords)
"First Men in the Moon" (ship smashing into Kang and Kodos)
(NO IDEA) (green aliens in foreground)
"20 Million Miles to Earth" (alien with Brimley-stache in background)
"Freaks" (pinhead and man with no legs)
"The Day the Earth Stood Still" (robot and flying saucer)
"The Mummy" and "The Invisible Man" (already saw them, yes?)
(NO IDEA) (looks Ed Wood-y, though)
The Grim Reaper (many cameos throughout history)
"The Devil's Backbone" (Homer looks like ghost)
"Alice in Wonderland" (Lisa's fall, outfit, cards, mushroom)
"Futurama" (all glory to him)
"Pan's Labyrinth" again (ending sequence)

And some additional observations from NoHomers.net...

Some things I spotted:

• The squad gunning down the zombies is the SNPP Human Resources Dept.
• The three eyed crow from the intro is revealed to be enormous
• The billboard gag "Krusty Now Doing Funerals" is unchanged from the premiere of the HD intro
• Wiggum appears as the cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
• I assume the gag of the Ullman Simpsons being dead, along with the bones of Godzilla is a reference to the fact that they've recently rebooted the Godzilla franchise and gave the monster a redesign. Old Godzilla is dead just like Ullman era Simpsons.
• Maggie (actually Baby Gerald in disguise) rings up as "666"
• The hallway Lisa plays her sax out of features portraits from past THOH episodes: Alien Maggie from Treehouse of Horror IX, Island of Doctor Hibbert from Treehouse of Horror XIII, The Grand Pumpkin from Treehouse of Horror XIX, The Raven from the first THOH.
• The Universal Monsters chasing Springfield citizens include: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Creature, Metaluna Mutant from This Island Earth, Bride of Frankenstein, The Invisible Man
• Featured in the huge group shot near the end is Ro-Man of Robot Monster fame who appears in a cluster of bubbles (Robot Monster featured a bubble machine as a stupid sci-fi gizmo), real life sideshow freaks who appeared in the movie "Freaks" Johnny "The Half Man" Eck and Schlitzie (inspiration for Zippy the Pinhead)

Also, Season 26 is now official!

 

[Revolutionary]

Pretty great. They really love that "Tracey Ulman Show Simpsons buried under the house" gag though. The most recent episode I saw (maybe 2 years ago) had the same thing.