"The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XIX" is coming up this weekend (Sunday, Nov. 2 on FOX), and you can't shut me up about it. If you've never experienced the ghoulish delight of a Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" ("THOH") episode, allow me to school you, son.
The Simpsons' Halloween special (this is #19) traditionally airs just after Halloween, and is a treat for fans as well as the writers, who get to stretch the muscles in their sick brains and really push the envelope, adding a dash of extra-twisted into the special. A "THOH" episode usually has 3 vignettes, and generally parodies movies and TV shows, urban myths, and popular ghost-stories.
Check out this "THOH" Retrospective:
This series has given us Flanders as a werewolf, a zombie, the devil (twice), and a world dictator who spends all day lobotomizing people. They've even borrowed ideas from "Twilight Zone" episodes (e.g., "To Serve Man" and "Terror at 5.5 feet"). And their skewed versions of movies always leave me laughing.
But with over 50 stories in all of these "Treehouse of Horror" tales, there has always been one glaring gap in my mind... "Peanuts." "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" airs every year around this time, and it has never once been referenced in a "THOH" parody. Until now! Along with a spoof of "Mad Men" and another of the "Transformers" movie, "THOH" will have a story called "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse," and it looks fantastic. Not only will we see parallels between Bart and Charlie Brown, Lisa and Sally, and Milhouse and Linus, but we will finally get to see the elusive Pumpkin (a feat that Linus has never been able to accomplish, year after year). However, in true "THOH" style, it looks like the Pumpkin is upset with how humans have been treating his kind all of these years. I'm just saying... it may not be delivering the gifts Linus always prophesized.
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