The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror XIX" - Talkback [11/2]

Nelson: Take one more step and I'll cut your friend!

Grand P: That's a yellow pumpkin.

Nelson: You're racist!

Grand P: ALL pumpkins are racist, I just admit it.


I won't lie, I laughed at that one.
 
Most likely that was done to ensure that there was enough time for a good "Peanuts" parody.

Definitely agree that this was a much better special than last year's THOH.

BTW, did anyone else notice the Kudos and Kang cameo during the parody of the dance scene from A Charlie Brown Xmas? :anime:
 
The good: -The intro to the second segment. Very different style.
-The backgrounds for the Peanuts parody. They looked airbrushed, very cool.
-While I wasn't a huge fan of the second skit, at least it had an original premise. And the joke about John Wayne's films stitched together to make a sentence was pretty good.

The bad: -Everything else. Man, where to begin.

What was the point of killing Homer in the intro? It made no sense. If the machine was rigged to give McCain votes, logic would stand that it would let Homer press it as many times as he wanted, not only allow six and then suck him up. Just another excuse to kill a character for no reason, I guess.

The Transformers conclusion, with the robots realizing that they can work together to enslave the human race, has been done before on this show. And why was a Transformers skit part of a Halloween special? That's as big of a stretch as Disaster Movie's material. Oh yeah, Homer's "I got Seinfeld season 7 on DVD" comment wasn't funny, so why include it?

The dead celebrities skit had too much gore for my liking. While the Treehouse of Horror specials were never squeaky clean, I can't say they ever showed someone being ground alive while screaming. Even "Nightmare Cafeteria" never actually showed anyone being processed into food, and it was creepier for it. And Lincoln acting gay... why?

They barely took advantage of Peanuts for the parody aside from a rather bland "trombone noises for dialog" joke, the low budget dancing (which was only on-screen for about five seconds!), and a couple of the characters fitting the archetypes.

It WAS better than last year's, but that's not saying much. I still didn't laugh much at all, nor did the special have a spooky atmosphere. Remember THOH IV and V? Why can't modern specials be like that?
 
Gotta say that this Halloween special of the Simpsons was too fast, especially the first 2 parts in my opinion yet those where kinda meh anyway.

The only worth watching was the Peanuts parody and that's it, i mean what's up with the TF parody and the other one with Homer killing famous celebrities, Krusty's death was the only one that was cool but the others where too soft.
 
I don't know about the Dead-Vertising bit, but I agree that Transformers parody went by too fast. Of course, as I mentioned above, I can see the reason for that in the form of ensuring that the Charlie Brown parody gets a decent amount of story time.
 
I go with the Great Pumpkin one being the strongest skit of this years THOH. Transformers one was funny, the celebrity one just wasn't. To me for these THOH though, nothing for me can top "Treehouse of Horror V."
 
And yet that Halloween special ended with the gas that turned people inside-out immediately after so it's pretty much on that same level of gore as Krusty's death sequence. Though yeah, they could've toned that scene down a bit.

Like everyone said, a big step up this year but that's not saying much. The show needs to go on hiatus for a few years until they get writers that actually know how to write a good Simpsons episode.
 
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