#treehouse of horror iv

[classic-simpsons]

🎃 HALLOWEEN 2023 🎃

05.05 | Treehouse of Horror IV

[icemankazansky]

Some of the most iconic books-that-were-made-into-movies-like-a- bunch-inspired horror villains from The Simpsons

Treehouse of Horror

@pscentral event 20: antagonists

[fruitcage]

[nerds-yearbook]

On October 28, 1993, the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror IV" aired. The wrap-around segments were done in a parody of the "Night Gallery" anthology series with Bart in the position of Rod Serling. The three segments were "The Devil and Homer Simpson" (based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster"), "Terror at 5 1/2 Feet" (based on the Twilight Zone episode and movie segment "Terror at 20,000 Feet" with Bart taking the William Shatner/John Lithgow role), and "Bart Simpson's Dracula" (based on various vampire tales, in particular "Bram Stroker's Dacula", "Nosferatu" and "The Lost Boys".) This episode marked the last episode with Conan O'Brien as a writer and the first appearance of exchange student Uter. ("Tree House of Terror IV", The Simpsons, TV Event)

[ringo-stalin]

[spockvarietyhour]

[heliphantie]

"Treehouse of Horror IV", ep.5(86) of S5 (October 28, 1993).

Happy Halloween!

THOHIV may be my favorite THOH of all, if only for artistic direction (artistic direction of all of first 5 seasons is gorgeous, of course). And not just THOHs back then were on point in parodying horror tropes (and some of absurdity of it), the stories also feel conceivable as something the characters would concoct on their own. Well, maybe, Bart has made up all of it alone, but he appears to be observant about his family’s psychologic aspects. Naturally, Homer is going to imagine his flawless, religious neighborino as the Devil himself, and his frightening boss as a bloodsucker. And the road to school for Bart definitely would feel like the path to some impending doom about to dawn on him.

"The Devil and Homer Simpson" is my favorite short segment of THOH, probably. Not just the story unexpectedly concludes with heartwarming sentiment of Homer’s soul being permanently owned by Marge (aww), it doesn’t end here, but offers not one, but three gags to cap the thing on: Homer’s punishment of being turned into donut creature, him apparently having learned nothing from it and processing to consume his own self (in his defense, it may be hard to learn any lesson when your head is filled with dough), and the house being besieged by police force under premise of simply craving some donut… creature, the end here. (I guess, there is some moral about rationality of law and order in the human and underworld, but maybe there’s not.)

Anyway, I think, it’s appropriate to put Donut Homer together with all these feisty monsters, for his gluttony is, perhaps, scariest thing of all. And I assume, it’s what Bart would do too.

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my Spooktober Filmfest...The Simpsons: Treehouse Of Horror IV (1993) on classic DVD 📀! #tv #television #comedy #sitcom #animation #horror #thesimpsons #treehouseofhorror #treehouseofhorrorIV #90s #dvd #spooktober #halloween #october

[elnerdo19v2]

@mi-pink-hole your pink hole 🍩

[quietsimpsons]

[tawneybel]

Heya, what do you think of AM (Allied Mastercomputer)? Listening to his voice on the audiobook and gameplay rlly stirs me good. Apparently it's the author's voice because it's how he envision AM to sound like. What would he be like with a certain/favorite fem reader?

Stop, stop. That’s too sexy. I already want a four-way with HAL 9000, Proteus IV, and Ultrahouse. I dunno how that’d work, but I want it. Stupid sexy AIs. 

I’ve read the short story before! *checks out the game on YouTube* Huh. Harlan Ellison sounds distinct, but much more basic than I imagined AM would sound. Going to listen to the audiobook now.

Writing about a supercomputer who hates everyone but the reader sounds fun.

[zithcavooris]

I wanna draw some more monsters for Halloween, so enjoy this demon guy

[puphoods]

did u know u can go on to wikipedia dot org and go to the page for list of simpsons episodes and find which season was airing when u were born and which episode released closest to your birthday and if youre lucky itll even be a good one

[earthwyrrm]

i love halloween 😻🎃 my favorite tradition is to watch all of the simpsons treehouse of horror episodes (+thanksgiving of horror)

[mymyforthesky]

I mean this in the best way possible

craving pathetic wet old women characters. where is the feminism

[ray-norr]

Inktober 2024:

Demon: So you like donuts, eh?

Jenny: Uh-huh.

Demon: Well, HAVE ALL THE DONUTS IN THE WORLD!

later

Jenny: Mmm. More.

Demon: I don't understand. James Coco went mad in 15 minutes.

(Simpsons Treehouse of Horror IV)