# Best. Simpsons. Halloween. Short. Ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 6, 2003, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005 "2003-06-06T04:02:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![nickannan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bcef8e/32.png) [@nickannan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nickannan)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/81 "2003-06-09T14:08:28Z")
i thought the ‘first non-brazilian person to travel through time’ was a reference to ‘where in time is carmen sandiega’ a kids learning cd rom (and cartoon) [http://www.thereviewzone.com/whereintimeiscsd.html](http://www.thereviewzone.com/whereintimeiscsd.html) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/82 "2003-06-09T15:52:20Z")
> [@](#): > > I thought this was in the Simpson Encyclopedia, but it may not be. I had heard it somewhere official, however. It IS, but I’m taking the word of the writers (the people who would actually know) above that of the people who wrote the Encyclopedia. > [@](#): > > twirling, ever twirling to our doom Freedom, actually. Twirling towards freedom. 😉 The “chalk-faced goons” were Edgar and Johnny Winter, who hold the distincion of being likely the only famous albino rock stars. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/83 "2003-06-09T15:56:39Z")
“Time and Punishment” is definitely my favorite of the bunch. Of course, how can this thread continue any further without noting that a Simpson’s Halloween episode gave use the anti-French insult “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” which has entered the common lexicon since the Bush-Saddam saber-rattling began last fall. ---
**Author:** ![TigoleBitties](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cab0a1/32.png) [@TigoleBitties](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TigoleBitties)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/84 "2003-06-09T16:34:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\*Fear not, **SuperNova** , “The Devil and Homer Simpson” with the forbidden soul doughnut remains one of my favorites as well. When the Devil introduces the jury of the damned, there’s the entire lineup of that losing sports team on it as well. Gotta love stuff like that. > > The automatic doughnut feeding machine that is unable to torture Homer is fricking fabulous. It’s all so good. \*\* Treehouse of Horror 4 ranks as my top Simpson Halloween ep simply because it had both this one and my other favortie Bart Simpsons’s Dracula. (BTW to let you know Zen…The ‘losing sports team’ were the 76’ Philadelphia Flyers otherwise know as the Broad Street Bullies. They were notorious for their goon squad fights and racked up the most penalty minutes ever as a team that year. They did pretty well that year but it was more through intimidation rather than hockey talent.) Oh and I love how James Coco supposedly went insane after 15 minutes on the doughnut feeding machine. Another vote for Bart Simpson’s Dracula. A classic spoof of a lot of vampire lore and containing the still classic: Homer: “Kill my boss?!? Do I dare live out the American Dream?” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/85 "2003-06-09T17:05:47Z")
It’s just too hard to pick a favorite segment because so many of them are good in different ways. My favorite introduction on the other hand is: Homer: They’re dogs… **AND THEY’RE PLAYING POKER!!** [insane laugh] Oh and the funniest tombstone in the openning is “Casper the Friendly Boy”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/86 "2003-06-09T17:16:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course, how can this thread continue any further without noting that a Simpson’s Halloween episode gave use the anti-French insult “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” which has entered the common lexicon since the Bush-Saddam saber-rattling began last fall. Yes, duly noted. Given Dan Quayle’s stated views on The Simpsons, it’s rather amusing that a line from the show played such a prominent role in our foreign policy. 🙂 Although I’m just waiting to be hit with Le Bomb now. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/87 "2003-06-09T17:20:30Z")
No votes for “Nightmare Cafeteria”? “Oh, relax, kids. I’ve got a ‘gut’ feeling Uter’s around here somewhere. After all, isn’t there a little Uter in all of us? In fact, you might even say that we just ‘ate’ Uter and he’s in our ‘stomachs’ right now! Wait, scratch that one.” ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/88 "2003-06-09T18:19:00Z")
“There’s no mystery about Groundskeeper Willie - he simply disappeared! Now let’s have no more curiosity about this bizarre coverup.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/89 "2003-06-09T20:06:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\*Of course, how can this thread continue any further without noting that a Simpson’s Halloween episode gave use the anti-French insult “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” which has entered the common lexicon since the Bush-Saddam saber-rattling began last fall. \*\* Actually, incorrect. The ethnic slur Mayor Quimby stood by in _The Homega Man_ involved “frog’s legs.” It was Groundskeeper Willie, substitute French teacher, who in a non-Halloween episode told the class, “Bonjourrrrrrrrr, ya cheese-eatin’ surrender monkeys!” However, aforementioned short _did_ give us a line (cut in syndication) that I often repeat for no reason: “Ah, Farley, why did you put Spade in charge of the bees?” ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/90 "2003-06-09T20:21:58Z")
Right you are. The line in the Halloween episode was about frogs. Mayor Quimby said “I stand by my ethnic slur” shortly before the French launched Le Bombe at Springfield. Of course, after agreeing to destroy it, they shared a maniacal laugh, and their throats puffed out like bullfrogs. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/91 "2003-06-10T01:15:19Z")
**Time and Punishment** _Best Vignette Ever_ and **Dial Z for Zombies** _“Flanders was a Zombie?”_ My all time favorite episode is the one where Homer goes to work for Frank Scorpio. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/92 "2003-06-10T03:04:43Z")
Re: cheese-eating surrender monkeys. :o Oops. Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/93 "2003-06-10T13:10:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Captain Blunty \* > \*\*I love the Halloween Special where Mr Burns is a vampire (can’t think of the name). > > Homer: “Oh Lisa, you and your stories. ‘Bart is a vampire. Beer kills brain cells.’ Now let’s go back to that building… thingy… where our beds and tv… is.” > > Brilliant. 😃 \*\* Lisa: No Dad, wait. That’s blood. Homer: Not just blood. FREE BLOOD. That’s the episode that ends with the take-off on the ending of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” With Milhouse on the piano and SLH dancing. The Newark Star Ledger once did a story on “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and stated “The Simpsons parodied it in one of their Christmas specials.” :wally ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/94 "2003-06-11T07:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Frank Scorpio I hope you don’t live on the East Coast, because it was taken over by _Hank_ Scorpio. That was a very funny show - I love the Denver Broncos practicing on the Simpsons’ lawn. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/95 "2003-06-11T10:48:30Z")
I think you got all my favorites, but I want to add a few great lines. From the election episode. Homer: Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos The one where Flanders is the Devil Bart: I’d sell my soul for a (some kind of car, forget which) Bart: Nah, forget it. Marge: Bart! Stop teasing the devil! By the way, did anyone know that Kodos is a girl. Well at least, the first time they appear, Kang introduces her as “my sister Kodos”. This may have been contradicted later. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/96 "2003-06-11T15:58:57Z")
No, Kodos is still Kang’s sister. I think it may’ve been referred to multiple times, actually. They only show up in the Halloween specials anyway (and the one clip show). ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005/97 "2003-06-25T03:39:49Z")
**Zenster** I had my CPR requalification exam today, made me think of you immediately! The instructor handed me the removal mouth for the dummy and all I could think of was the episode where Homer is chopped into pieces… and his mouth and lips were one piece! OMG! I am holding Homer Simpsons lips! ewww On the up side it did make me relax enough to fly through the exam! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-simpsons-halloween-short-ever/180005.md?page=4)