What is your favorite Simpsons Halloween segment?

[Annie-Xmas]

I just love the one about the vampires that
ends with the spoof of the Peanutes Christmas
show, complete with Milhouse at the piano and
Santa's Little Helper doing his Snoopy dance.

What's yours, all you Teeming Million Simpsonites?

[Eutychus]

Gotta be the one with the ending sequence featuring the computer-generated Homer.

[KneadToKnow]

The one where Homer's broken toaster sends him back and forth through time.

Marge: "A donut? What's that"
Homer: "Ahhhh!" :runs away:
Marge: :sees donuts falling from the sky: "Oh, it's raining again."

[Revtim]

That's a tough choice, but the one that comes to mind is where Homer is going back in time killing ancient animals trying to get his world back to it's original state.

[Ruffian]

Meanwhile, my favorite Halloween segment has to be James Earl Jones' reading of "The Raven." It's from one of the earliest Halloween specials, and left a strong impression on me. I realized then that not only is this a damn funny show, but a surprisingly intelligent and literate one.

"Never more!"

[Una Persson]

Well, my favorite quote from a Simpsons Halloween episode is :

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"

[DeathLlama]

I've gotta agree with Knead (and Rev). The donut/time machine one left me howling. And my dad (not exactly known as a big Simpsons watcher) was right there laughing heartily with me. Mmm...family moment.

[KneadToKnow]

Originally posted by Ruffian
"Never more!"
:D Thanks to that skit, I now say "nevermore" exclusively in sing-song Bartspeak:
[Nancy Cartwright voice]
"Nevermore! Nevermore! Nevermore!"
[/Nancy Cartwright voice]

[AETBOND417]

Those are all classics. I also wanted to mention the spoof on The Shining (or is it The Shinning? :D).

::Elevator doors open and a wave of blood spills out::

Burns: Hmm, that's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.

[jb_farley]

Bart: Dad, you killed the zombie Flanders!

Homer: He was a zombie?

and

Lisa: Dad, we did something very bad!

Homer: Did you wreck the car?

Lisa: No.

Homer: Did you raise the dead?

Lisa: Yes.

Homer: But the car's OK?

Lisa: Uh huh.

Homer: Alright then.

finally

Clerk: We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread. We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call Frogurt... Take this object, but beware, it carries a terrible curse!

Homer: That's bad.

Clerk: But it comes with a free Frogurt!

Homer: That's good!

Clerk: The Frogurt is also cursed.

Homer: That's bad!

Clerk: But you get your choice of topping!

Homer: That's good!

Clerk: The toppings contain potassium benzoate.

(pause)

Clerk: That's bad.

Homer: Can I go now?

[pepperlandgirl]

Yesterday, the Halloween special with the psycho Krusty doll was on TV, and I had the TV on just as me and my BF started to mess around.
Finally we had to turn the TV off because I was laughing so hard that I couldn't concentrate on uh...other stuff. ;)

[Snooooopy]

Originally posted by AETBOND417
Those are all classics. I also wanted to mention the spoof on The Shining (or is it The Shinning? :D).

::Elevator doors open and a wave of blood spills out::

Burns: Hmm, that's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.



Groundskeeper Willie: You've got the "Shinning"!

Bart: Isn't it the "Shining"?

Groundskeeper Willie: Quiet, boy! D'ya want to get SUED?

I had never seen "The Shining" before I saw the Simpsons parody, although I knew enough about the movie to sort of get some of the jokes. I had never seen "The Omega Man" before seeing the Simpsons parody either. That was a good parody, too, especially when the nuclear missile heads straight for the comic-book nerd, who had been walking down the street avidly analyzing Aquaman. His dying words: "Uh-oh, wasted my life ... "

[Giraffe]

Damn, jb_farley -- you quoted my favorite lines from my favorite episode. Curses!

That episode (Halloween 3?) has got to be the best. Bart dressed like the guy from Clockwork Orange, Homer as King Kong, and (I just remembered) the funniest lines ever uttered in a Simpsons episode:

Bart: "Wow, a talking Krusty doll!"
Grandpa: "That doll is evil, I tells you. Evil! EEEEEEVVVVVIIILLL!!!"
Marge: "Grandpa, you said that about all the presents."
Grandpa: "I just want attention."

[kasuo]

Originally posted by KneadToKnow
The one where Homer's broken toaster sends him back and forth through time.

This is definitely a fave.

Homer remembering his dad giving him sound advice during his wedding day.

Grandpa Simpson: "Now remember Homer, if you ever travel back in time, make sure not to touch anything as it might change the future."

(okay, it's more of a paraphrase than a quote)

[Green Bean]

Originally posted by Anthracite
Well, my favorite quote from a Simpsons Halloween episode is :

"Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!"

I'll second that. In fact, I have often thought of taking that line as my sig. But I rarely use my sig, so I never bothered.

[jb_farley]

anybody else notice that with the advent of the "Killer Advertising" episode, the halloween eps haven't been quite right?

[Diesel]

i'd have to go with "Attack of the 50ft. Eyesores" where Homer upsets a statue of Lard Lad by stealing his giant donut.

Homer- (answers the door to see Lard Lad) Oh, umm, you probably want your giant donut. Well......... Flanders has it.(Lard Lad walks away and Homer shuts door) He came to life. Good for him.

(Smashing is heard next door followed by footsteps towards the house. Doorbell rings. Homer answers to see Lard Lad)

Flanders- (Running down the street behind Lard Lad) HELP ME LORD!

[Mockingbird]

The beginning of the Halloween episode from a few years ago where there was a disclaimer about the content of the show was hysterical. First the pompous announcer says what will not be on the show: violence, swearing, and gore and that the show was like a Y7 rating, which appeared in the corner of the screen. Then he got stabbed. Rating went up. Then he swore. Then a bunch more stab wounds and the rating went to 666. Damn funny and a good stab at the tv ratings crap.

[MaxTheVool]

Three words:



Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, forbidden donut


But my favorite has to be "Bart Simpson's Dracula", beginning with the intro (they're dogs. And they're playing poker!!!) straight through the happy fun slide to "We have to kill the boy" "Grandpa, how did you know he's a vampire?" "He's a vampire?" and "This cape is giving me a rash"


Honorable mention to the time when the family goes on Jerry Springer... Marge saying "I'm so (beeep) embarassed" kills me every time

[Malarky]

My favorite is the episode when the zombies that Lisa and Bart accidentally raised from the dead were wondering around looking for fresh brains to eat...

Zombies: Brains! Brains!

Knocks on Homer's head, which emits a hollow sound

Zombies: Brains! Braaains!

And who could forget...

BLAM! BLAM!

Lisa: Dad! You shot Zombie Flanders!

Homer: He was a zombie?

[LateComer]

"Oh no, he's got a board with a nail in it!"

How to cook Humans.
How to cook for Humans.
How to cook Forty Humans.

When Mr. Burns puts Homer's brain into a robot body to create the perfect worker. Of course Homer's robot just sits around eating donuts. Mr. Burns has a hysterical death scene in this one and I believe that this is the one that ends with the parody of The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant as sitcom.

[Typo Negative]

My fave is 'Bart Simpson's Dracula'

Bart: "Hello, mother. Hello, father. I missed you during my uneventful absence."

Mr. Burns: "More victims for my ever-growing army of the dead"!
Mr. Smithers: "Sir, you have to let go of the button".

[Tretiak]

King Homer the King King spoof is not the best episode (that depends on the day of theweek, how much sleep I got...basically it changes cuz there are so many good oones). But it did have quite possibly the best linein any Simpsons episode. When Burns decides to take Marge on the ship to Ape Island Smithers replies:

"Sir, Women and seamen don't mix."

And I DID vote for Kodos!

[Mr. Blue Sky]

"Marge, the doll's tring to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!"


"Guess who Fat Boy!"

"You will die slowly, your stomach will swell, your intestines will rot and boil, your eyes will burst, and some horrible stuff, and possibly your brains will come out though your nose."

"It chose to destroy itself rather than live with us. We can't help but feel a little rejected."

[Max Torque]

No one's mentioned "Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace", with Groundskeeper Willie as Freddie Kruger?

"Brrrr....lousy Smarch weather!"

Also, even though I didn't care for most of the "Maggie was fathered by an alien" story, the bit on the spaceship was killer funny. Paraphrased:

(Marge's voice-over) "They used powerful confusion techniques."

Kang: "Look behind you!"

(Marge turns; Kang zaps her very quickly with some kind of beam)

Kang: "The impregnation is complete."

Marge: "Really? That seemed awful fast...."

Kang: "What are you implying?"

Marge: "Nothing! Nothing!"

[Kupek]

Oh, come on spooje, you left out the best part!

Burns: "More victims for my ever-growing army of the dead!"
Smithers: "Sir, you have to let go of the button."
Burns: "Son of a b-- [Burns lets go of the button]"

Gotta love when Homer sneezes in the toaster time traveling one, and all animal dies off, and he says the understatement of the eon: "That's gonna cost me."

Oh, and "But no calling between 3 and 4--that's Willy's time!"

[conway]

I love the one where Willie appears in all the kids' dreams and tries to kill them.

Homer reads the sign above the thermostat:

"DON'T TOUCH -WILLIE", Homer says "Don't touch Willie, good idea," and cranks the thermo and fries Willie to death.

[vandal]

The segment where Homer keeps time traveling and ends up in different parallels when he returns to Springfield.

Homer: Can I get a donut?

Marge: What's a donut?

Homer: Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Meanwhile, it's starts raining donuts. Hilarious, I tell ya!

[jb_farley]

Guy: Where we goin'?

Carl: Ape Island.

Guy: What do they got there?

Carl: A giant ape.

Lenny: I wish we were going to Candy Apple Island.

Guy: What do they got there?

Carl: Apes, but they're not so big.



sorry if I completely trashed that one. memory is a fallible creature indeed.


jingo baby

[rowrrbazzle]

Originally posted by KneadToKnow
The one where Homer's broken toaster sends him back and forth through time.

Marge: "A donut? What's that"
Homer: "Ahhhh!" :runs away:
Marge: :sees donuts falling from the sky: "Oh, it's raining again."

My other favorite moment from that episode was showing how the house changes as Homer changes the past - at one point it became the Flintstones house!

[cmkeller]

I've got to second (actually, this is probably sixth or seventh) the "time toaster" vote. Grandpa's wedding-day advice, the raining donuts...man, that one was funny from beginning to end.

[Siddhartha Vicious]

I love the one where Skinner and the teachers at the school start eating the kids.

Skinner: You might say that we just ate Uter!

Man, I almost befouled my pants when he said that.

And, later, when Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse, Bart tries to reassure them, stating that, since they are the main characters, nothing can happen to them.

Then, Milhouse falls into the food processor.

[Kyla]

Also in the Kodos and Kang Run For President episode:

One of the aliens (sorry, forget): Abortions for all!
crowd: boo!
Alien: Abortions for none!
crowd: boo!
alien: Abortions for some, little American flags for all!
crowd: yay!

Oh, and the great line "We must go upwards, not backwards, sideways, not forwards, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"

I can't believe no one has mentioned the episode where Homer is sent to Hell for eating the Soul Donut. "Mmmm...soul donut..."

Maybe I'm weird but my favorite part about the Evil Krusty Doll episode is Homer sitting in the bath singing "my baloney has a first name, it's H-O-M-E-R, my baloney has a second name it's H-O-M-E-AHHHHH!" (That's when the Krusty Doll leaps out of the bathwater with an axe.

[Zenster]

The "Toaster Episode", is called Time and Punishment and is derived from a short story in the Ray Bradbury anthology, Golden Apples of the Sun, where the world's most famous hunter goes back in time to shoot a dinosaur and changes the timestream by stepping on a butterfly.

I am so happy to see that everyone is voting for my favorite Halloween episode. It is absolutely superb, without a doubt. The references ranging from the Flintstones to 1984 are most excellent.

Definitely the all time classic.

Forbidden soul doughnut is a close, but not too close, second.

[Falcon]

Toaster one is good, as is the Shinning. My favorite line: (which I heard long before I saw the ep in reruns)

Homer: "No beer, no cable makes Homer...(mumbles)
Marge: "Go crazy?"
Homer: "Don't mind if I do!"

Also from the same ep (I think): "Can't kill family now.....eating."

[Mac Guffin]

I gotta go with the Homer squared episode. The one with the wall vortex that takes him into the 3rd dimension. Actualy I look forward to the Holloween episodes most of all. I think they do their best work there.

[Kamino Neko]

Originally posted by Zenster
The "Toaster Episode", is called Time and Punishment and is derived from a short story in the Ray Bradbury anthology, Golden Apples of the Sun, where the world's most famous hunter goes back in time to shoot a dinosaur and changes the timestream by stepping on a butterfly.

That would be 'The Sound of Thunder' - probably the single best time travel story ever written.

[John Corrado]

Homer selling his soul for a donut is probably my favorite.

Flanders: "...and Richard Nixon!"
Nixon: "But I'm not dead yet!"
Flanders: "Yes, but you still owe me. BIG time."
Nixon: "Oh, all right."


"Jeez, James Coco went insane after three hours of this!"

[mrblue92]

"Oh no, he's got a board with a nail in it!"That one's my fav. "I wish I had a monkey's paw."

[Heath Doolin]

the all time great line from "Vampires"

Lisa: You must kill Mr. Burns!

Homer: (Gasp!) Kill my boss! Do I DARE live out the American Dream?!

I got that one as my signoff for windows closing at my work :)

I crack up at the total belief in his voice that he will be able to live "the American Dream"

and come on...wouldn't you feel a little less bad killing a vampire that happens to be the one that doles out the orders?

[Ukulele Ike]

I'm casting my vote for the Forbidden Donut episode 'cause I'm a huge fan of Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Dan'l Webster." Also, having Flanders as the embodiment of the Lord of the Underworld ("Hey, Bart." "Hey.") is delightful.

John Corrado already quoted the best line in the episode (spoken by Richard Nixon) about four posts up (curse you, John Corrado!).

[Scribe]

Another vote for the ...Daniel Webster/forbidden donut story. But I did like the takeoff on the 1996 presidential election too.

[jb_farley]

Marge: Sorry, it's the only chair we've got left.

Bluebeard: Arrgh. This chair be high, says I.

and

Bluebeard: It appears to be some kind of tray-sure map.

Benedict Arnold: No it's not, you idiot. you can't read!

Bluebeard: Ay. Me debauchery was me way of compensatin'.

[Zenster]

Originally posted by Ukulele Ike
<snick> Also, having Flanders as the embodiment of the Lord of the Underworld ("Hey, Bart." "Hey.") is delightful. <snick>

It's always the one you least expect, Homer

Man alive Ike, we do need to have a serious drinking session sometime. The above exchange is my all time favorite toss off in just about any Simpsons episode ever. I actually meant to put it in my posting, but didn't.

[Malarky]

Concert director: Ok people, who ordered an orchestra? Possibly while stoned...Cyprus Hill, I'm looking at you!

Ok, it's not a Halloween episode...but it was SO DAMN FUNNI!!!:):D

[Ukulele Ike]

Originally posted by Zenster
[BMan alive Ike, we do need to have a serious drinking session sometime. [/B]

Love to. We can bash Bush while we're at it. You seem to be on the incorrect side of the continent, however.

[Kupek]

Smithers: I've always said women and sea men don't mix.
Burns: We know what you think.

Sorry, coudn't resist. From the King Kong spoof.

[Chocobo]

One of the better ones was the one where the aliens ran for president:

Clinton: "We must move forwards, not backwards, UPWARDS, not forwards, and forever twirling, TWIRLING towards freedom!"

But the best one had to be the Toaster Time-travel one. Since most of the good quotes have already been said, I'll put a few that haven't...

(Homer walks out of the basement and sees everything normal, with Maggie in the middle of the floor)
Maggie (in a James Earl Jones voice): "This is, indeed, a disturbing universe."

Homer: "Mustn't crush, mustn't kill...made it!" (SQUISH) "Oh...I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish..."

[Pergau]

I think the sight of a nuclear missle with the "Intel Inside" logo on it is one of the best sight gags in the Simpsons.

That said, I find the Halloween episodes a bit weak. I prefer the normal episodes.

[Seraphim]

From "Fly vs. Fly", when Homer is buying the matter transporter:

PROFESSOR FRINK: "Sold! But I must warn you this device carries a FRIGHTENINGLY high risk of CATASTROPHIC-"
HOMER: "I SAID I'll take it!"

Some others...

HOMER: "Take that Washington! [BAM!] Eat lead Einstein! [BAM!] Show's over Shakespeare!"


BURNS: "Nice work, Smithers. When we get back, I'm giving you a raise!" [CHOMP] "Oh, well."

Also, Corrado, the quote went like this:

FLANDERS: "...Lizzy Borden, Richard Nixon!"
NIXON: "But I'm not dead yet! In fact, I just wrote and article for Redbook."
FLANDERS: "Listen, I did a favor for you!"
NIXON: "Yes, master."

Yes, I've seen these episodes so many times I know'em word-for-word

[Opus1]

From "Fly vs. Fly", when Homer is buying the matter transporter:

PROFESSOR FRINK: "Sold! But I must warn you this device carries a FRIGHTENINGLY high risk of CATASTROPHIC-"
HOMER: "I SAID I'll take it!"


I like the line before that too:

Homer: Hmmm. Two dollars? And it only transports matter?

Yet more proof that the Simpson's is the greatest TV show ever, hands down.

[mouthbreather]

Homer: "Stupid bug, you! go! squish! now!" and then he starts housing all the bugs...



I'm not sure why that strikes me as so funny but it is one of my favorite moments on the show.