That’s the same thing I thought as well. It seems that Reverend Lovejoy becomes Catholic when the jokes require him to be- when Marge started getting addicted to wine he gave Holy Communion to Marge which caused others to comment on it, and Homer used the wine cups to serve beer after he took over the church; yet Lovejoy has also gotten in a fight with a Catholic priest and attempted to convert Bart back to Presbylutheranism after he became a Catholic (not to mention that his church sign once said he was proudly welcoming pissed-off Catholics).
The Simpsons writers nowadays (and for a good few years) seem to think that an identifiable cultural reference is in and of itself funny. This is not so. Like those Epic Movie-type parodies, endless, unfunny, unsubtle references do not make for good comedy.
I didn’t like it, and erased it before my daughter would see it. Normally the Hallowwen episode are among the best, this one just wasn’t…
Lutherans take communion, although it’s less clear what the host represents.
Officially converted to it ten years ago. Still not clear. Avoid discussions with Wife, who converted from Methodism, because we’d burn each other at the stake before we were done, except it’s me arguing for Consubstantiation and her for Transubstantiation. :rolleyes:
Tons of angels-on-a-pin fun: Fox's Book of Martyrs
Added too late: I know better than to go with, “It’s all symbolic.” This is how one remains married for 30-some years.
I’ll admit to having seen only eighteen out of the twenty (not last year, or the year before) but this was by far the worst Halloween episode yet.
Baptists and Presbyterians also take communion. (At least they do in my Mom’s and my Granny’s churches.) It wasn’t at all strange to me that Rev. Lovejoy reacted that way.
Yes, Communion (“eating the body and blood of the Savior”) is a Christian thing, not just a Catholic thing—a commemoration of the Last Supper (see 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Luke 22:14-20). But there are significant differences between denominations (including between Catholics and various kinds of Protestants) over how it is celebrated, how often it is celebrated, and what the meaning of “is” is: Are the bread and wine the body and blood of Christ in a metaphorical or symbolic sense, or in some more literal, metaphysical sense?
Those weren’t zombies! Didn’t you see the “28 days later” caption, well, 28 Days Later had no zombies, so neither did that parody!</zombie elitist rant lol> Anyway, it was kinda short and seemed a lot more rushed than it should’ve been. Maybe they should’ve just had 2 stories this year and given this some more time. I did like Apu as the Road Warrior type, and if they hadn’t ruined it by overexposure in the commercials, the “to the panic room store” line would’ve been worth a chortle.
Hitchcock one, nothing really wrong with it, but did it really need to be in B&W to be a Hitchcock parody? Also, something really seemed off with the B&W, like there was a hint of color coming through at the edges or something. Probably a consequence of whatever tech they’re using to make the show these days, as in the past they’ve done B&W segments that didn’t have this distracting aura about it.
I did not get the third act at all. It’s a play, right? But there were video inserts and stuff too? Wha? So it’s not a play? And why was it a play anyway? Was this parodying some movie I’ve never seen or something?
Glad I’m not the only one to notice Mrs. Frankenstein in the opening. Then again, this isn’t the first time he’s had a different bride than from the famous movie.
Overall, not that great a Treehouse. Mildly disappointing.
Apu himself posed the question to Butch Patrick- if his father was a Frankenstein and his mother was a vampire, how come he was a werewolf?
To add onto what others have already said, I think you may be confusing the doctrine of transubstantiation (that the eucharist literally and completely transforms into the body of Jesus) with the doctrine of the Real Presence (that the body of Jesus is somehow present in the eucharist). Clearly the former is subsumed by the latter. Many Christian denominations, including Lutherans (and presumably the Presbylutherans of the Simpsons universe) adhere to the Real Presence doctrine, but not to transubstantiation. Lutherans in particular believe that the eucharist does indeed transform into the body of Jesus, but (paradoxically) that it also remains bread. They seem to want to have it both ways. 
He transubstantiated.
Um, the episode was okay. I prefer the three-story format because if one is not going anywhere, a new story will be there in a minute or two.
Butch Patrick: maybe he was bitten by a werewolf?
Maybe it’s something that skips a generation like male pattern baldness.
My votes:
Opening bit: Okay, but seemed a bit too much like filler.
First act: Great. Loved it. Not sure it is THoH themed, but a lot better than most of their recent THoH bits. The part with the paper cutter was dragged out just the right amount. Silliness is good.
Second act: Pretty nice. Covered too much previous ground. But, it’s the XXth THoH. Got to expect Yet Another Zombie sketch. Ralph and everybody seemed back to normal at the end but Homer was still in the portable cage. Seemed he would have been first to drink the soup. Maybe the townsfolk figured that once they had him locked up, best to just keep him that way.
Third act: What were they thinking? Kill it with fire. Ugh. When a Simpsons musical bit goes bad, it really goes bad. Like [del]Mary Poppins[/del] Shary Bobbins bad.
Blasphemy! Sharry Bobbins rocked!
Now the Evita parody–that completely blew!
Not that surprising really. A Frankenstein isn’t a heritable trait. It’s a constructed man. So the wad Fred is shooting is made up from what ever Testicles the Ol’ Doc found on the shelf. My guess is just for fun he used one from a werewolf, and one from a normal man(explaining Marylin)
Marylin wasn’t actually Herman & Lily’s daughter; she was their niece. The rest of your explanation makes perfect sense though.
I have an alternate, if more mundane explanation. Lily’s brother, Lester, was a werewolf. Cite, under the Lily Munster heading. Eddie could have come by the werewolf gene from Lily’s side of the family.