In the last Treehouse of Horror Simpsons episode I'll review among other Halloween and horror-related shows this October, the Simpson family gets bigger, Lisa gets smaller and politicians get scalier. The seventh Trehouse of Horror, part of the eighth season of The Simpsons, is a worthy addition to list of great Halloween TV.
The first story is a great concept. This show is about a family, so if you're going to write horror, it would be entirely appropriate to create a monster who's also family. Bart gets an evil twin- Hugo, who's been chained up in the attic for 10 years before finally breaking loose. But it turns out he's not the evil twin- Bart is. It's fairly fitting given our familiarity with the character. There are laughs in this episode regarding Homer and Marge's suspicious behaviour, Hugo's sewing hobby and Marge's preference for bottle feeding.
In the second segment, Lisa inadvertently creates life, microscopic men in a tub who regard her as god- but she's more interested in waffles. This is the least funny story of the episode, but it's always interesting to contemplate these kinds of religious questions. The third segment gives the aliens Kang and Kodos their first starring role since Treehouse of Horror I and II. It focuses on the 1996 US election, yet years later the jokes still work. We see rum being used as an alternative to killing, an abortion joke, and general odd behaviour from the candidates with almost no one really noticing. Future students of history should check it out if they're interested in 1996. But this episode will have broader appeal than that.
Happy Halloween.
The first story is a great concept. This show is about a family, so if you're going to write horror, it would be entirely appropriate to create a monster who's also family. Bart gets an evil twin- Hugo, who's been chained up in the attic for 10 years before finally breaking loose. But it turns out he's not the evil twin- Bart is. It's fairly fitting given our familiarity with the character. There are laughs in this episode regarding Homer and Marge's suspicious behaviour, Hugo's sewing hobby and Marge's preference for bottle feeding.
In the second segment, Lisa inadvertently creates life, microscopic men in a tub who regard her as god- but she's more interested in waffles. This is the least funny story of the episode, but it's always interesting to contemplate these kinds of religious questions. The third segment gives the aliens Kang and Kodos their first starring role since Treehouse of Horror I and II. It focuses on the 1996 US election, yet years later the jokes still work. We see rum being used as an alternative to killing, an abortion joke, and general odd behaviour from the candidates with almost no one really noticing. Future students of history should check it out if they're interested in 1996. But this episode will have broader appeal than that.
Happy Halloween.
