I know that’s a typo, but it’s a really funny one.
Much like the rest of the show, a lot of the Treehouse of Horrors specials got real bad after season nine. I rather like the one where Bart raises the dead.
One of the best endings ever. Moe: “What is this, open mike night?” >BLAM< “Now to get me some caveman hookers!” MAN that killed me.
Bart and Lisa: Dad, we did something very bad!
Homer: Did you wreck the car?
B&L: No!
H: Did you raise the dead?
B&L: Yes!
H: But the car’s okay?
Man, that’s classic.
It’s too hard to pick one favorite segment. I will say, however, that I really like the one with Bart’s conjoined twin Hugo in the attic. The first part of the episode, when they hear sounds from the attic but before they know what’s going on, could actually give you the willies. And Hugo is a really creepy character.
Homer: “Bart’s doll is trying to kill me and the toaster’s been laughing at me!”
Love the vampire segment, with one of my all-time favorite Homer lines:
Homer: “Oh Lisa! You and you’re stories! ‘Mr. Burns is a vampire.’ ‘Beer kills brain cells.’ Now let’s go back to…(confused stare)…that building thingie…where our clothes and our furniture…is.”
The vampire one is one of my favorites.
Wiggum: We believe we are dealing with a supernatural creature, most likely a mummy. As a result, I’ve ordered the egyptian wing of the museum destroyed.
Homer: Boy, it sure was nice of Mr Burns to invite us to a midnight dinner at his big mansion in…Pennsylvania thunder clap
Grampa: Quick! We have to kill the boy!
Marge: How’d you know he’s a vampire?
Grampa: He’s a vampire?! Aaaaaaaaahhhh!!
And The Shinning…
Homer: Daaaaaavid Letterman!
Grampa: Hi David, I’m grampa!
And the classic “No TV and no beer make Homer something something…”
I don’t think anyone mentioned the “To Serve Man” episode. The ending to that one was great, where after the dust clears, the book ended up being titled How To Cook For Forty Humans.
On the subject of the “To Serve Man” parody, I have to mention that Futurama does a fantastic job of sending up Twilight Zone episodes with their little “Scary Door” shorts. If Futurama ever comes back in episodic form, I wouldn’t mind them doing a “Scary Door” episode every Halloween.
The best ep of the aughts has to be the one with all the Homer clones, by far:
“Anybody here remember the way back?”
<clone raises hand>
BLAM! [as Homer blasts him with a shotgun]
“Okay, does anybody else here remember the way back?”
<another clone raises hand>
BLAM!
And after the clones create more copies of themselves, we see several “mutant” Homers standing around in the background, including Peter Griffin.
They prefer to be called the living impaired.
Futurama already had their own attempt at an annual tradition with “Anthology of Interest” (You’ve watched it…you can’t unwatch it!) Since the show only lasted five seasons, they only did two, but there were some memorable stories, especially “Raiders of the Lost Arcade.” “Tremble in fear at our three different kinds of ships!”
Also, in recent years, The Simpsons has also tried to do a second, non-Halloween story show. There was “Simpson Bible Stories,” “Margical History Tour,” “Tales from the Public Domain,” the Christmas one, and there might have been others. I don’t know if “Trilogy of Error” counts.
I like the one where Pierce Brosnan played a super-computer that ran the household and had a serious crush on Marge, much to the detriment of Homer. (I believe he lost about half his brain during the course of the episode.)
“Hmm, the blood usually gets off on the second floor…”
Brockman: Senator Dole, why should people vote for you insted of president Clinton?
Kang: It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Brockman: Well, a refreshingly frank response there from senator Bob Dole.
Marge: I’m so bleeping embaressed.
“Kill my boss?”
D’Oh.
I watched Transformers last weekend.
\m/ it rocked \m/
The ending of the Burns vampire one, with the Peanuts Christmas parody, is one of the best all-time I-did-not-see-that-one-coming bits EVER!
A more recent segment that was excellent was “Reaper Madness” where Homer becomes Death (a case of the Simpsons actually copying FG!)
- Z is For Zombies.
Lisa: Dad. You killed the zombie, Flanders.
Homer: He was a zombie?
Although Family Guy didn’t make up that story either.
“We sell forbidden objects from places men fear to tread. We also sell frozen yogurt, which I call `Frogurt’!”
I love that scene.
Homer: What’s my name? What color is the sky? What of donuts? What?! For the love of God, tell me!
Marge: Homer, the sky is blue, donuts are plentiful, Friday is T.G.I.F. night on ABC. What’s gotten into you?
Those are some of my favorite FG episodes. Norm MacDonald Adam Carolla both did a great job. And Estelle whoever (George’s mother on Seinfeld) did a great voice of Death’s mother.
“Smithers Hand me that Icecream Scoop.”
“Icecream Scoop?!?”
“Damn it Smithers it’s not Rocket Science it’s Brain Surgery”
“I can see by that surprised sound you are interested in the Matter Transporter”
"$2.00 ? And you say it only transports matter eh? I’ll give you 35 cents.