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[Hobbestetrician]

I have been rewatching all the Treehouse of Horror episodes of The Simpsons in the lead-up to Halloween and wanted to start a thread about how great they are/were.

The Shinning is probably the format at it's absolute best, pitch-perfect parody of an all-time movie that has joke after joke.

The episode it is from, Treehouse of Horror V from Season 6, is also the best total episode with Time & Punishment and Nightmare Cafeteria both being phenomenal as well.

Other standouts for me are the inspired version of The Raven, The Devil and Homer Simpson, and Bart Simpson's Dracula.

What are your favorite segments/jokes?

 

[JinjoUnchained]

Frogurt, duh.

 

[SpaceWolf]

NEVERMORE.

 

[TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared]

Remember when I told Jimbo Jones I'd MAKE something of him one day?

Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass and served him for lunch?

 

[Escape Goat]

 

[smurfx]

Remember when I told Jimbo Jones I'd MAKE something of him one day?

Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass and served him for lunch?

this is my fav one as well.

 

[BlueBadger]

The Shinning and Edgar Allan Poe (the Raven) for sure. So good!

There's a lot that I really like, but those are my favourite two off the top of my head.

Remember when I told Jimbo Jones I'd MAKE something of him one day?

Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass and served him for lunch?

This was the one that sticks out to me as the segment that genuinely scared me when I was young and watched it for the first time. So it definitely does its job as a Treehouse of Horror segment.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

Probably the one where the school starts cooking and serving the students.

 

[Escape Goat]

"Dad! Your hands stuck in the toaster again!'

 

[Lucreto]

The Raven

To me it's the best segment in any Treehouse of Horror and one of the best segments in the Simpsons full stop. I watch it every Halloween. Halloween is basically a children's holiday in Ireland so I avoid it in general. For adults is an excuse to dress really badly and get blind drunk.


https://youtu.be/bLiXjaPqSyY

 

[NealMcCauley]

 

[Duress]

I like that's good/bad bit in the Krusty Doll story

 

[ThatStupidLion]

 

[lt519]

This year's spoof of Hunger Games and Mad Max was excellent. But it's gotta go the the shining one or nightmare.

 

[icespide]

I really like the 3D homer one

 

[Escape Goat]

I like that's good/bad bit in the Krusty Doll story

"Marge! The dolls trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!"

 

[Piston Hyundai]

That was one of the biggest red flags for me back in the day: Even the Treehouse of Horror segments were getting really stupid.

 

[rekameohs]

 

[Tudor]

Treehouse of Horror XII, Ultrahouse 3000. The Simpsons end up living in a crazed automated house voiced by Pierce Brosnan who falls in love with Marge and then decides Homer had to go.

I found it very amusing

 

[Myriadis]

That guy smacked the car so hard it changed color.

The 3D episode was a ToH episode, wasn't it? I love the idea of 3D being a scary and foreign concept to the others.

 

[Jims]

1. The Shinning
2. Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace
3. Time and Punishment
4. King Homer
5. Citizen Kang

Treehouse of Horror V is so great. Even Nightmare Cafeteria probably floats around the Top 10 segments they've ever done.

 

[Seesaw15]

 

[NealMcCauley]

That was one of the biggest red flags for me back in the day: Even the Treehouse of Horror segments were getting really stupid.

Personally I always thought the stupidity was part of the joke.

 

[jelly]

Good choices above so something different. The one were Marge gets Hal in the voice of Pierce Brosnon as the automated house system.

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Bad Dream House is creepy as hell. That one.

 

[unpopularblargh]

The Grand Pumpkin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c08ODTt1m8Q

"All pumpkins are racist. The difference is I admit it"

 

[RivalCore]

Older Treehouse of Horror are a goldmine of Simpson classic scenes.

 

[peanutbutterlatte]

DON'T MIND IF I DO

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Absolute classic that's more relevant than ever... xD

Spoiler

no I don't think "both sides are equally bad" but you gotta admit that was hilarious and on point at the time

One of the best one.

That was when I started cringing instead of laughing. Simpsons essentially lost me for good after that.

 

[BlueBadger]

Older Treehouse of Horror are a goldmine of Simpson classic scenes.

LMAO I totally forgot about this one.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

Older Treehouse of Horror are a goldmine of Simpson classic scenes.

This. Still brings a smile to my face.

"To the book depository!"

 

[AsylumBlue]

 

[User 479360]

Some of the ones posted in this thread, including the OP.

I also have a soft spot for when Homer creates all of his clones, then has to take them out to pasture.

I don't watch The Simpsons anymore, but I did PVR the Treehouse of Horror episode this year. I'd hoped it'd be good, but it. was. not.

 

[super-famicom]

"Flanders was a zombie?!" Is one of my fave scenes.

 

[friskykillface]

frogot scene always makes me laugh

but I have nightmare on evergreen street as my favorite one

"oh how you gonna get them? skeleton power?

 

[reelbigtink]

 

[GitarooMan]

I'm partial to the Raven. It just a great matching of visuals to voiceover. Homer's delivery of "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" is so great.

 

[User 479360]

 

[Marvie_3]

Homega Man

 

[wondermega]

Tree house V gotta be the best for me as well, however Time and Punishment might have got me the most. Near the end when the house kept changing in the exterior shot, I may have never laughed harder at any Simpsons episode..

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

That was when I started cringing instead of laughing. Simpsons essentially lost me for good after that.

Pretty much hated Night of the Dolphins with a passion. What a shit episode.

 

[Septimus Prime]

"I'LL TOUCH ANYTHING I FEEL LIKE!"

Second place, Homer^3.

 

[Bold One]

Frogut

 

[DeaconKnowledge]

For a Change of pace from glorifying seasons 3 to 8 and shitting on everything else..

The episode where Sideshow Bob finally kills Bart.

 

[Zepp Twofist]

Don't blame me I voted for Kodos

edit:

 

[GuyKazama]

Hm, It's Raining Again

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

The Shinning and Homer3 are genius. I think Homer3 was actually one of the first Simpsons episodes I saw.

The Homer clone bit in season 14 (?) I remember was one of the few episodes from that time that I still think is genuinely great. The part where they pan through the Homer clones and one is Peter Griffin gets me every time.

Hm, It's Raining Again

Oh man, I forgot about that one! Treehouse of Horror V was amazing from start to finish.

 

[Leeness]

Remember when I told Jimbo Jones I'd MAKE something of him one day?

Are you saying you killed Jimbo, processed his carcass and served him for lunch?

And yeah, Shinning, Time and Punishment and Nightmare Cafeteria were the best.

 

[LoveCake]

Mine is The Genesis Tub / Lisa Creates Life

 

[ghostjoke]

Another split vote for The Shinning and The Raven, with The Raven taking the edge if pushed because of James Earl Jones' voicework.