# Simpsons Halloween Special **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 7, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943 "2001-11-07T03:49:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tsugumo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@Tsugumo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tsugumo)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/41 "2001-11-07T23:50:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny Angel \* > **Not a fan of [classic television](http://www.netreach.net/~sixofone/), I take it. Personally, I thought that episode was hillarious.** Curses! The one example I’m able to think of on the spot and it turns out it really IS just a reference I didn’t get, heh…and of course now I can’t think of anymore off the top of my head. I remember thinking the episode where Ned’s wife dies was like…unresolved, I guess, at the end. I haven’t seen the episodes recently enough to come up with any better examples now, so just ignore this, heh… - Tsugumo ---
**Author:** ![Tajiri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71c47a/32.png) [@Tajiri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tajiri)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/42 "2001-11-08T00:03:45Z")
Who cares if the Simpsons sucks now??? FAMILY GUY returns tomorrow night!! Without a doubt the smartest, funniest show on TV today! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/43 "2001-11-08T02:33:42Z")
Now I get it, _you guys_ are the ones responsible for the Comic Store Guy’s catch-phrase. I shoulda guessed. I loved Bart drowing in his cereal while the leprechan danced on his head. The psychotic Pierce Brosnan AI peeping at Marge in the bath was beautiful. So _nyah_. ---
**Author:** ![HoldenCaulfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/22d042/32.png) [@HoldenCaulfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoldenCaulfield)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/44 "2001-11-08T03:35:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 23skidoo \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by HoldenCaulfield \* > > \*\*I love the new episodes, and like the weird, random humor. Just my taste I guess. > > > > Anyway, I wanted to point out that when Homer attracted all the bunnies with the Trix, the last one in the hole had one ear, a la Binky from _Life in Hell_.\*\* > > Bongo’s the one that only had one ear. \*\* And I’m the one that has only one brain. I read Life in Hell much too scarce and much too long ago to remember. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/45 "2001-11-08T08:16:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > IMNSHO, last night’s was the absolute worst of all the Halloween episodes. It was just absolutely, atrociously bad. Sheesh, Phil, you are a crabby bastiche. > [@](#): > > First of all, bring back the “Treehouse of Horror” title. Well, I’m with ya there, not that it means much of anything (and certainly nothing to whine about). > [@](#): > > Second of all, the leprechaun wasn’t funny in _This Little Wiggy_, and it wasn’t funny last night. No, I take that back–it _was_ funny in the other episode. It was just stupid last night. Well, I’ll have to disagree vigorusly – sheesh, you fit right in with the nebbishes on alt.fan.simpsons. > [@](#): > > Carl and Lenny talking about the leprechaun was funnier than the actual leprechaun. That was pretty funny, actually. But I bet you just enjoyed the blasphemy, ya Satanist, you! > [@](#): > > Third of all, I bet Opal didn’t like it either. I’d bet she did, but then I don’t think I care enough. > [@](#): > > Fourth of all, the vomiting frog stopped being funny after the first time it vomited. But hey, if it’s unfunny twice, it must be really unfunny after the 2+nth iteration, so let’s go for it! I’ll agree that that was far overdone – but hey, let’s see the script you wrote so we can all critique it. I’m sure there’d be no plodding bass – er, plot lines. > [@](#): > > Bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad. The season premiere had better be a lot funnier than this turd was. \*\* "Mama’s so glad I ain’t on the dole … " Note : Quoting disaster repaired. Good to see you back, Bob! Careful of the invective, though.- E. [Edited by Eutychus55 on 11-08-2001 at 04:37 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/46 "2001-11-08T08:21:16Z")
Well, I certainly managed to muck up the quoting on that last reply. But y’all knew what I meant … ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/47 "2001-11-08T08:49:25Z")
It’s a kind of concrete poetry. I like the turd at the end. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2001, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/48 "2001-11-08T14:14:49Z")
Gah, Bob, don’t lump me in with the a.t.s. wieners! (Good to see you back, BTW.) Most of them think the show stopped being funny back in 1992 or so, or at least around the time of the Frank Grimes episode–which happens to be one of my favorites! I just really haven’t gotten as many laughs out of the last two seasons’ worth of the show as I have all the seasons before it. Hell, maybe I _am_ jaded. And you, sir, are worse than Hitler! BTW, “Let’s see the script/song/movie/whatever” you wrote is a non-starter as an argument, I’m afraid. I notice people only break it out when others _dis_agree with something they like. If we must all be creative artists or working in Hollywood before we can criticize Hollywood’s output, this forum is going to die quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/49 "2001-11-10T11:03:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pldennison \* > \*\*Gah, Bob, don’t lump me in with the a.t.s. wieners! (Good to see you back, BTW.) Most of them think the show stopped being funny back in 1992 or so, or at least around the time of the Frank Grimes episode–which happens to be one of my favorites! > > I just really haven’t gotten as many laughs out of the last two seasons’ worth of the show as I have all the seasons before it. Hell, maybe I _am_ jaded. And you, sir, are worse than Hitler! > > BTW, “Let’s see the script/song/movie/whatever” you wrote is a non-starter as an argument, I’m afraid. I notice people only break it out when others _dis_agree with something they like. If we must all be creative artists or working in Hollywood before we can criticize Hollywood’s output, this forum is going to die quickly. \*\* Oh, it’s all good, Phil, and it’s good to see you, too – but as you are a beloved yet CPP, I figgered I’d bust yer chops just for old times’ sake. And you’re right, the “where’s your script” line was a cheap shot. I agree that the show has declined a bit, but I still think it’s damned funny – I dunno, kinda like how “Some Girls” was no “Sticky Fingers,” but I still like it a lot. And I agree that the Frank Grimes episode was an outstanding one. And I don’t care about starting sentences with “and” here. Pope Bob "Or Grimey, as he liked to be called … " ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/50 "2001-11-10T14:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*A so-so Simpsons episode is still miles better than 'most anything else on the teevee . . . > > I did laugh out loud a few times, as when Bart was pulling things out of the hole: “Fairy . . . elf . . . gnome . . . **Katie Couric**. . . nymph . . . Ah! Leprechaun!” > > And I was so glad that Smithers FINALLY got to eat Mr. Burns. \*\* I just didn’t get it. Was it a use-a-celeb-at-random, or was there some deep meaning that went right past me? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943/51 "2001-11-19T19:11:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mahaloth \* > \*\*Worst. Haloween Special. Ever. \*\* Most inane spelling error \ever\. To those who feel that the show isn’t good anymore… DON’T WATCH IT. Go watch Touched In The Head By An Angel or some other drivel like program. If you don’t like something, why support it by watching? Or is it just an opportunity to bitch and be pretentious as you’ve been with the show since it was on Tracey Ullman and thus are the arbiters of what the show SHOULD be and how pathetic everyone else is who doesn’t agree with you? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/simpsons-halloween-special/91943.md?page=2)