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Thursday, October 15, 2020

Halloween: The Simpsons : Three Random Tree House of Horror Segments

Halloween  

    It's funny that I haven't done really anything "The Simpsons" related on this blog,  Here's how this is going to work : we are taking 3 Simpsons Halloween segments since the series divides its Halloween episodes in to three different segments.  But we aren't using one episode, instead a cross section of segments are being picked.  In this post we are taking one segment from Tree House of Horror V  (Simpsons Halloween Special V) (from season 6)  , then a segment from  Tree House of Horror VIII, and one from Tree House of Horror XIX. And talking about them. If this does well, or I think I liked it, may do more in the future, if not, then well that happens a lot here.

     
                The reason for not doing one special as a whole is to allow for a nice cross section and one of the ideas was to go and grab a segment from after season 10 as well.  (Spoilers in this post)

 

            "Simpsons Halloween Special V" - Segment 3: Nightmare Cafeteria (Season 6, Episode 6)

              This is a truly classic Halloween special from "The Simpsons"  the segments all are memorable and fun.  It's hard to just pick one segment from the episode, but we did.  I picked this one because, it knows how to use the Halloween episodes being non-canon for all the fun.
     
             All three segments also worked in a running gag of Groundskeeper Willie getting hit by an ax and killed. 

             This segment  starts with school with having too many kids and not enough money, and not no kids and too much money. Including a lot of kids being in detention and thanks to budget cuts: not enough good food. Due to a revelation after Jimbo knocks sauce on the lunch lady, Principal Skinner gets an idea, that idea being to turn troublesome students into student lunch. (literally)  The episode out right tells you that's happening.  
  
        Skinner starts making up reasons for kids to go to detention. Lisa, being Lisa, kind of wonders what's going on.. One of my favorite lines is Marge telling her kids who worried about being eaten, to just stand  up and say don't eat me. The amount of students have dropped and there are kids being raised for meat.  Willie tries but gets killed completing that gag.The funny part about this segment is that it's aware of what usually happens to main characters in these sort of things. Millhouse dies in the comically large blender.  Bart and Lisa end up falling in.  It was all Barts dream , making you think that everything is fine, and then a random fog turns every one inside out and they dance with blood and the dog attacking Bart.  
          
          This segment is pretty fun. I like how blatant Skinner is in telling the teachers they are eating students, and they don't seem to mind. Marge treating the situation in a light way instead of horror gives it an air of funny horror. The idea that main characters survive is killed then the episode surprises the viewer with a dance number with inside out Simpsons is funny and the strangest thing in sight.  The whole episode is fun, and this last segment brings up a great showing.


              "The Simpsons Halloween Special  VIII"  - Segment 1 : The HΩmega Man (Season 9 , Episode 4)  


                This segment gives us  Homer is the last man on Earth, thanks to the French nuking Springfield.   So most of the segment is Homer left to his own devices. He's having fun  (including not wearing clothes)  until he finds out some people didn't die, they became mutants.   He makes it home after running from the mutants and finds out his family is still alive.  The episode tries to do a heartwarming  ending , then Marge, Bart, and Lisa shoots the mutants.   
         
                 This segment has a lot of quick jokes and gags.It fits Homer well how he would act if the world ended and he was the last guy on Earth  We get a Wacky Races like car , and chase is funny. I like the ending an it's try of being a happy ending and going into them just blasting them away with shotguns.  (Take that peaceful co-existence!) 

        
         More after the Jump 

            "Treehouse of Horror XIX" - Segment 3: It's the Grand Pumpkin, Millhouse (Season 20, Episode 4) 

                As someone who loves Peanuts  it's fun to have a Peanuts themed segment.  It parodies the the Peanuts specials "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".  Milhouse is dressed like Linus and he's going to see the Grand Pumpkin. Charlie Brown is dressed like Charlie Brown. It follows the special in parody for much of the special.  I like how they made the backgrounds feel the same way. 

     Unlike, the special, in this segment , the giant pumpkin shows up. Milhouse feeds him pumpkin bread and this makes it mad because duh. He doesn't like that pumpkins are used for Halloween. A giant turkey comes in and kills the pumpkin.  Then of course, the turkey finds out they eat turkey, and it ends with Marge saying goodbye. 

          It's a fun take on the Peanuts with that Simpsons style.  Of course it being a Simpsons Halloween episode, it does have to have a little violence. It's a fun segment. It is funny that Marge ends with saying if you think this is treading on a beloved special because  it's not really shocking or anything more a standard thing of with Peanuts parody.  We just get stock Peanuts jokes because everyone does the stock gags.

             That's our look at 3 Simpsons Halloween segments.  Tune in next time, when we find out this can of tuna is actually people, but the end of the world happened because Pumpkins and Turkeys  finally  rose up. 
    
             

        

               

             

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