Best "Treehouse of Horror" Segment (Seasons 2-16)

what was the first UFO one?

impossible but first instinct for whatever reason was the shinning so voted that

the raven for me

what was the first UFO one?

'hungry are the damned'.

my instinct was 'bart simpsons's dracula'. but maybe i'll have take this SERIOUSLY and rewatch them (up till viii, anyway).

Shinning just over Monkeys Paw.

difficult choice, but I think I'm going to have to go with this one:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sTGIC-qIMmU/SQsS_XTMTPI/AAAAAAAAA2Y/tnrQg2QMRyA/s400/treehouse10.JPG

"Don't blame me...I voted for Kodos."

Don't feel qualfied to vote since I never saw any of the later ones. The titles are funny though. What is "the fight to creep and scare harms" a play on?

i think night of the dolphins is the most recent of these i can remember watching and loving

Inclined to vote for Homer³, because it was such an insane thing to experience the first time around. And because I use "Watch it, coney!" in daily conversation.

really really love 'the monkey's paw,' espec the last line.

Homer³ maybe isn't the funniest but i love the ending so much i voted for it

^^^^

haha yeah "oooh, erotic cakes!"

Christ I cant even decide this. Citizen Kang has some awesome bits like "when I was a child, I dreamed of being a baseball" and "twirling, twirling towards freedom!" thing. HomerCubed was great for its tech at the time of course (and Emmy awards).

The Shinning is my instinctive answer as it was always my goto but, god theres so many good bits.

OH MY GOD I"VE ONLY JUST GOTTEN THE HELL TOUPEE JOKE WTF

The Shinning

"Time and Punishment!" It gets handicapped by appearing in the same episode as "The Shinning," but just edges it out for me. Amazing from start to finish, from "Dad! Your hand is stuck in the toaster!" to "Eh, close enough!"

Runners-up are probably "Clown Without Pity" and "The Devil and Homer Simpson."

Bah I mustn't have posted my comment, which was yeah, Time & Punishment - I dearly wish that "Homer realises his hand is still stuck in the toaster" was a more easily referenceable trope.

The Devil and Homer Simpson is my sentimental favorite. There are probably better TOH segments, but I love Homer selling his soul for a doughnut.

"Terror at 5½ Feet" gets my vote. TOH IV is the strongest single episode from front to back.

I dearly wish that "Homer realises his hand is still stuck in the toaster" was a more easily referenceable trope.

It is in my house! Danger is often pointed out in the kitchen with "Dad! It's in there again!"

TOH IV is the strongest single episode from front to back.

I should rewatch that one - I thought it wasn't all that*, so I'd pick ToH V.

*"not all that" for a ToH obviously >> most of the first 8 seasons full lengths >> full-lengths since.

actually I mean specifically Terror at 5 1/2 Feet as not all that, there.

For later-season (well, "middle-season" now) THOH, "G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad" is pretty great. It's at least extremely quotable:

"Snakes . . . nature's quitters."
"Ploopid florablope!"
"I'm pretty sure she was going to be the next Hitler!"
"I'm just trying to get into heaven; I'm not running for Jesus."

"Time and Punishment!" It gets handicapped by appearing in the same episode as "The Shinning," but just edges it out for me. Amazing from start to finish, from "Dad! Your hand is stuck in the toaster!" to "Eh, close enough!"

The rain of donuts, after Homer leaves, is the saddest moment in the whole series.

"Terror at 5 1/2 Feet" introduced Uter, one of the greatest "should've only been on once" characters.

Other highlights from TOH IV:

-- Homer with his specs at the donut fashion show ("a vision in raspberry creme")
-- Bart greeting Satan/Flanders with a disaffected "Hey."
-- "Look at this stuff I picked up at the marina! It was just sitting in some guy's boat."
-- Dracula Burns' shadow doing yo-yo tricks
-- "Quick, we have to kill the BOY!" "How did you know he's a vampire?" "He's a vampire? Aaaaaaah!"

now let's get back to that building thingy, where our beds and tv... is.

"Mom! You're the head vampire?" "I do have a life outside this house, you know."

Bart seeing the switch that turns the stairs into a slide: "I know I shouldn't, but when am I going to be here again?"

The killer line for me is Burns/Dracula's "Well, if it isn't little . . . boy!"

I think it's between Shinning and Time and Punishment for me; amazing that those were both in the same ep. Golden era.

What is "the fight to creep and scare harms" a play on?

― B'wana Beast, Monday, 15 October 2012 04:49 (9 hours ago) Permalink

You're evidently not an American right-wing gun nut.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Hah, I just remembered "Ahh, TV's warm glowing warming glow", which I have no interest in hearing isn't a worldwide reference (see also: "Teacher, mother, secret lover")

Hmmm . . . I think I may want to change my vote because this is some all-time Dan Castellaneta right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yGJGTjV2WE

The rain of donuts, after Homer leaves, is the saddest moment in the whole series.

And also a great facsimile of the tragic irony of a classic Twilight Zone episode. While still being about raining donuts.

is The Genesis Tub the one with the civilization which grows out of Lisa's fallen tooth? If so I vote for that one

"Wait, one of them is nailing something to the door of the cathedral. (Gasps) I've created Lutherans!"

is this the end of zombie shakespeare?

the starting line-up of the 1976 philadelphia flyers

which is the one where homer has a donut for a head and starts eating his own head?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_pqnsKWlpc

Another vote for Citizen Kang, though it could really be anything from II-VI. 'Bonerland' still makes me chuckle.

which is the one where homer has a donut for a head and starts eating his own head?

TOH IV: The Devil and Homer Simpson iirc

http://i.imgur.com/yDyfX.jpg

people who have figured out how to live imo

"But I'm so sweet and tasty."

And that one ends gruesomely with Chief Wiggum and the rest of the police outside the house, waiting to shoot, kill and eat Homer when he finally emerges.

What is "the fight to creep and scare harms" a play on?

2nd Amendment

this is tough - I voted for Kodos vs. it's raining again vs. no tv and no beer make homer go something something

http://everythingsimpsons.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/thohiii.png?w=655

"The kick is up! It's looking good! The ball is turning into a fat bald guy! "

MARGE
I'm sorry, Mr. Blackbeard. We're low on chairs, and this is the last one.

BLACKBEARD
Arr! This chair be high, says I.

I very often sing "Just Don't Look!" to myself for no reason when bored.

"he came to life! Good for him!"

I forgot all the great Lionel Hutz lines in "Devil vs. Homer", I really should've voted for that.

"Mr. Simpson, don't you worry. I watched Matlock in a bar last night. The sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it."

"... which is UN-BREAKABLE!"

Love grandpa's lead-in to "king homer," feel like I can relate.

Marge: "Grandpa, you've lived an interesting
life...."

Grandpa Simpson: "THAT'S A LIE AND YOU
KNOW IT! But I have watched a lot of
movies...."

i really only meant 'king homer' was weak by prime-era simpsons standards -- so still like better than 99 percent of everything else that's ever been on television.

co-sign on willie-as-krueger being creepy. willie as the skeleton is also kind of disturbing.

Had to go with Homer³ (love Frink and the Twilight Zone stuff)

'hmm...two bucks...and it only transports MATTER...'

http://simpsonswiki.net/w/images/thumb/7/7f/HowToCookForFortyHumans.jpg/240px-HowToCookForFortyHumans.jpg

"Oh no! Aliens, bioduplication, nude conspiracies! Lyndon LaRouche was right!"

"well if you can think of a better way to exchange long protein strands, I'd like to hear it!"

what the hell is this, some kinda tube

Could've chosen the devil/doughnut one, but it gets a demerit for not depicting the '76 Flyers in their proper sweaters, presumably for copyright reasons. (Even though they can apparently be referred to by name with no trouble.)

"Chief, that wasn't a monster, it was the captain of the high school basketball team."

"uh, yeah, he was turning into a monster, though."

Or even better:

"Those monsters are destroying everything and everyone we hold dear! And you kids should have jackets on!"

Favorite outtake/random-ass reference: pizza delivered to the Hutz/Devil trial by Jackie McLean's Pizza & Jazz.

Rewatched The Shining last night and couldn't help but hear some key punchlines throughout ... "Hmm, chili would be good tonight."

That's it, im dling all the Treehouse of Horrors i can find.

"We offered you paradise. You would have experienced emotions a hundred times greater than what you call love. And a thousand times greater than what you call fun. You would have been treated like gods and lived forever in beauty. But, now, because of your distrustful nature, that can never be."

From the first one. I like the strange voice acting for the monsters in the earlier ones, it's very weird and emotive at times.

"That board with a nail in it may have defeated us. But the humans won't stop there. They'll make bigger boards and bigger nails, and soon, they will make a board with a nail so big, it will destroy them all!"

the devil/donut one was my favorite. not only hilarious but also kind of heartwarming in a lame way. but it features Flanders and Lionel Hutz.

Homer Cubed is definitely the strangest one to watch today. I loved that one too because one of my favorite videos as a kid was "Donald in Mathemagic Land" (which affected my life more than I care to admit) and this episode seemed to take a couple of cues from it.

I say "is this the end of zombie shakespeare?" way more than necessary

You can't lose with Danny Elfman doing these horror soundtracks!

which one has zombie shakespeare? cos i want to vote for that one

III

Time and Punishment, with the toaster. Only I fucked up and thought it was called The Homega Man and voted for that instead.

Homega Man at least has Homer responding to Edwin Starr's "Say it again!" with a polite "OK."

"Dammit Smithers, this isn't rocket science, it's brain surgery."

I think IX was the last one i watched. The stories and humor just kept getting lazier from VII on IMO, and the Jerry Springer Show bit in IX was the moment where i decided "OK, they are completely out of ideas". There's alot of subtle wit and biting pessimism to the early shows (TOH & in general) that got filed down.

Homega Man was pretty good, if only for the shot where Homer says "I can do anything i want!" and the camera zooms back through a couple of awkward zoom-outs. Often in these Halloween episodes you can see they went for a very cinematic look in spots like this. Moments that seem like they are cribbed directly from a movie or TV show, even if sometimes they are just loving pastiches.

Yeah, I love how the snap transformations in Bart's "It's a Good Life" Twilight Zone are clearly 1 or 2 inches off.

One more bump.

http://media.screened.com/uploads/1/15932/598632-simpsons3.jpg

"Did I say killer dolphins? I meant killer Italians"

That line alone makes that otherwise weak segment worthwhile.

I dunno, I also love the bit where the dolphins kill the SeaCaptain and then one is wearing his hat and pipe with "arrrrr" as a caption under it.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

i have to leave the house in 5 minutes and this is the toughest decision ever

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

word, i was the deciding vote. huzzah

Makes me sad that the last part of TOH IV -- which is practically as great as the two classic segments before it -- got scratched. But overall the results are very right.

the line that did it for me was maggie's "this is indeed a disturbing universe"

although "here's your problem, somebody set this thing to evil" is good enough that it should've received more than 2 votes
and grandpa's "the doll is EVIL i tell ya. EVIL! / i only want attention"

That maggie line was James Earl Jones, right?

Yeah, also he did "The Raven".

How did I miss this poll!

Anyways, I think I'd have voted for Time and Punishment anyways. Though Dial Z for Zombies is totally unrepresented here.

xposts:
http://heyuguys.co.uk/images/2010/08/James-Earl-Jones.jpg

YOUR WIFE IS QUITE THE DISH

So they got in Guillermo del Toro to do the credit sequence for this year's and A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtgYY7dhTyE

oh that's so good!! I wish he could do the whole thing :(

just rewatched the first one, I remember taping this back in the day but somehow had no memory of "The Bad Dream House". it's good! maybe I just didn't capture it for some reason - I still remember nearly every bit from the alien one. watching this as an adult I've come to realize The Raven is really impressive!! Dan Castellaneta does an incredible job reading the whole thing in the Homer voice and I like how it sticks close to the poem, which make the funny bits really good. never appreciated that as a kid!!

anyway Homer³ is probably the most memorable of these for me, I remember there being a zillion commercials for it and that kind of animation was pretty novel at the time. I also remember having a difficult time sleeping that night because of the ending, idk why but Homer entering the real world and getting all freaked out about it was really unsettling for reasons I can't really explain