I decided to wait until after this year's Halloween special aired for this video (doing the Richard & Lewis project in the meantime) and then that episode didn't even make this list. Bah, humbug. (Season 12 is next on the docket.)
The best thing about the Homega Man is how "Little Marge" misses the baseball in Homer's fantasy. And that Maggie is filed under "the rest" with the pets and the TV.
I totally agree, having that "miss" sound (no idea how to spell it as an onomatopoeia, any suggestions?) makes that quick gag very in-character for her, it's a very nice touch
I love the Island of Dr.Hibbert segment solely for Homer's song: "In the jungle, the creepy jungle, Homer rides a freak!" His ethusiasm just gets me everytime.
Night of the Dolphin is weirdly one of the most memorable Treehouse of Horror episodes from when I was a kid, almost as much as all the segments from ToH 5. Something about the dolphin brutally murdering Kent Brockman with a beach ball is so surreal that it's permanently etched into my brain. The dolphins are legit one of the most menacing antagonists from these specials.
@@Grane1234 Yeah, the game has a ton of cool quotes with Bart and Lisa about having to fight the dolphins. I always think Night of the Dolphins is a classic segment, with its appearance in there.
Oh gee, I've never heard of that one, I wonder why he's making it sound so *finds out it was the first special not directed by Bill Melendez*....yep, that'd do it.
@@AdamRossD I enjoyed it too. Fart jokes can be funny if done in the right way. The wrong way would be Rick and Morty where it's a constant barrage of burps and farts without meaning
Hell Toupee is in my opinion one of the best THoH segments done. Has some great Apu, Moe and Snake moments and is a very funny concept. Just how over the top and gruesome it can be adds to it greatly.
It's actually kind of suspenseful and eerie in a way so few episodes are. It has that "Who Shot Mr. Burns" mood the Halloween episodes rarely capitalize upon. Come on Real Jims, get with it! You'd rather see garbage like the clone one?
@Freekazoid I know, but whenever there is a mistake in an episode, the answer is always "A Wizard did it" oder " I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Hell Toupee is my favorite of the post-classic Treehouse segments. Snake is always a joy to watch, and the contrast between his and Homer’s demeanors works wonderfully. I also just love the scene where Chief Wiggum continues to drink his Squishy after he finds out Apu was stuffed in the Squishy machine, it crosses the line so far that it comes back around to being hilarious.
Totally - as a kid I always found Apu's death in this segment the most disturbing moment in the show's history at that point (more then Nightmare Cafeteria), but Wiggum's attitude really takes the edge off 😄
I'd have that at number one, didn't realise it was post classic, brilliant segment. The idea of Homer being possessed to murder his son is genuinely scary, and the jokes are great too- Homer doesn't get charged with Apu's murder because Wiggum can't pronounce his name.
"There's No Business Like Moe Business" not being included here is a crime, they could have easily gone for just a standard Sweeny Todd homage, but instead incorporated all of the theater elements that really make it memorable
No one’s mentioning Scary Tales Can Come True, I’m shocked - that Goldilocks scene where Bart and Lisa left her to get eaten by the three bears is one of my all time favourite moments, hands down
Glad to see some ‘Homega Man’ appreciation! I don’t hear people talking about it a lot. That baseball scene is probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at any Simpsons joke ever.
"i hear you can see barts hair peaking out of the trashcan or his shadow when he leaves his seat" thought you could sneak in a futurama reference unnoticed huh?
Hell Toupee and Reaper Madness were some of my first introductions to Treehouse of Horror as a kid, so I definitely feel a bit of a nostalgic connection to them.
I love how in recent years the Simpsons team keep pushing its animation style in strange new ways and the Treehouse of Horror episodes are a great place to see that art.
My favourite post-classic segment is “Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die”, because I grew up after Y2K was an issue, so imagining a world where all the technology that’d been invented over the past century went haywire or outright murderous, terrified me. The world of Springfield goes to s**t, and that’s always fun to explore. It’s an obvious period piece of 90s Y2K hysteria, and the fact that the rockets at the end still work is a massive plot hole, but the premise alone carries it for me. Some favourites from the Post-Movie era include There’s No Business Like Moe Business, which feels more adult in its violence and tone, and Moefinger, the absolute gorefest that almost got the 600th episode BANNED down here in New Zealand.
I liked Life's A Glitch, Then You Die, and I was four weeks off my fifth birthday when 2000 came. I feel old... I remember the Sweeney Todd parody. I wish it had been played straighter, though, instead of a stage play. Maybe if Sweeney Todd didn't have a movie version out at the time or had a movie in the works that had failed to be made, but it didn't. But blood beer was a creative way to take it, especially with it being accidental.
Scientists figured out y2k was going to be a problem in our world way ahead of things and figured out a solution (switching to a different system, that will stop working in another couple of decades), it's not a plot hole if the scientists of the Simpsons universe were ignored. Just had enough resources for two rockets to be made with Unix time!
@@jamiewhite6397 look up “Unix epoch bug”, though the fix is moving from a 32-bit integer to a 64-bit integer and most computers have done that in the last few years or will be doing it before 2032. But it’s still true that the system they switched to has that problem, it’s just not necessarily the one we still deal with anymore (which is just an implication - their comment can also be read as “another few decades from the Y2K patch” which is 100% true, while the bug is now merely one decade away from the present).
i just want to say how much i like this channel. talking about the simpsons while nintendo music plays in the background pretty much encapsulates my childhood. i could listen to this channel all day
I really liked the “Clockwork yellow” segment all because of the crossover twist between Clockwork orange and Eyes wide shut, not a fan of shoehorn references to the other movies mid battle, but Alex and his droogs entering by mistake in the cult party is such a genius idea that wins me over. Makes me wish something like that existed between the original movies. And so glad “Oh the Places you’ll do’h” made it high into the list! Too bad for the black hole segment. Thanks for this Amazing video Jimms!
And they also had references to other Kubrick movies (and the "fake moon landing" myth), and the man himself at the end of the episode. It was a blast.
@@quenotedariayo I think the cherry on top is when Comic Book Guy makes a very esoteric Kubrick movie reference and admits even he can't remember what they're parodying.
School is Hell from TOH XXV is one of my favorites. I especially love the ending and how I think it's one of the best Homer and Bart moments in the entire show.
Hell Toupee is such a great example of the power of good characterization. Even this tertiary character like Snake can be hilariously evoked without him actually being present.
My favourite treehouse of horror episode is the one from season 11. And my favourite segment is I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did. The whole bit with homer and ned's dead body on the roof is hilarious.
The 2022 Treehouse of Horror rules for many reasons, but especially for giving us an evil Marge. Marge never gets to be the truly creepy main villain - unless you count the head vampire thing or the Other Mother or that time she watched Homer sleep (which I don’t) and 2022 finally let her be evil, hurrah! Sidenote, the animation of the Death Note demon thing genuinely freaked me out
It’s been a while since this video but I ADORE Hell Toupee. It’s legitimately one of my favorite segments of all time and that includes the classic era.
I love School Is Hell because it uses the horror setting as an excuse to completely flip the classic Bart and Lisa dynamic. Bart being a straight A+ student in demon school is so in line with all of the references over the years like Devil Flanders going' "Hey, Bart." or him turning out to be the evil twin instead of Hugo and saying "Oh, don't look so shocked."
Jims, let me just say that your content feels so great, so amicable. I binge seasons 1-9 regularly and it's so great to engage in content that where myself and the content creator know the subject material intimately.
I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer but I do feel Treehouse of Horror is even more inconsistent than your average post classic season. That being said there's a lot here from even the thumbnail alone that I remember really enjoying. Nice to see all 3 segments from 26 being on the list, that was a great year though having never seen a Clockwork Orange at the time meant the middle one was mostly lost to me.
@@JimboRustles Theres this weird thing I do where I watch things and then enjoy them, and if I'm feeling particularly wacky I go back and watch more things like it
I personally love these (not in order and out of this list): - "House of Whacks" (underrated and it's one I really enjoyed) - "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" (another top tier segment; really funny and I even remember seeing it before I started regularly watching the show) - "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" (I love BTTF, "The Way We Was" is one of my favorite episodes of the show as a whole, and it's really well executed) - "The Others" (really good concept, unique, and enjoyable) - "Hell Toupée" (unique and fun) - "Reaper Madness" (could've done a bit more indeed, but I still liked it) - " The Island of Dr. Hibbert" (probably would be my #1 in this type of list, it wouldn't beat "Lisa's Nightmare," "Bart's Nightmare" or any of Treehouse of Horror V segment but it's up there) - "Send in the Clones" (actually a good segment) For me (out of this list) I don't enjoy: - "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (especially since it's yet another zombie apocalypse, pretty generic overall: "The Homega Man" is honestly the only decent zombie apocalypse segment imo)) - "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" (tbh, I'm a longtime fan of Peanuts, but I didn't really like this segment. I don't like the pumpkin character; actually in general the second half is why I don't like it) The rest on the list are in the middle for me. "B.I. Bartificial Intelligence" is also a segment I enjoyed but sadly this list didn't include. "Married to the Blob," "You Gotta Know When to Golem," "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," "E.T., Go Home," (even though I like E.T) "In the Na'vi," and "Geriatric Park" are by far the worst segments imo (in no order).
I see a lot of hate for married to the blob, but IMO is a really good segment. It plays off homer’s gluttony and elevates it to is maximum horrifying extreme! Similar to “hmm homer” And seeing Kang and Kodos in a menacing way and winning in the day the earth looked stupid is really great!
Night of the Dolphin was pretty memorable for me, if only for the fact that there was an entire level dedicated to it in 2007's The Simpsons Game. I'm also really nostalgic towards Season 13 so seeing Treehouse of Horror XII get a mention via House of Whacks makes me happy.
Animal Sprigfield is a fun part of "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", but it also has some legitimately good jokes. I still love the "Let's eat Maggie..." joke. It's a little wierd that they gave Lisa the line, but I think it works and is one of the only chances Lisa had to have an "older sibling" kind of moment instead of kind of just being a babysitter for Maggie. Also, that's the same ToH with "Send in the Clones" and I even think the middle segment "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms" was a solid segment. Treehouse of Horror XIII was really good. But, I think it was also one of, if not, the earliest ToH I watched, so maybe it's just me.
Hell Toupee scared me as a kid fr fr and I'll never forget "You said something about a hot meal? 💀" one of my all time favorite jokes treehouse of horror or not 👌
II thought Be Nine, Rewind was inspired by Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2 U, but I haven't seen Russian Doll, so maybe that's the same concept. The Terror of Tiny Toon is my favorite on this list. Itchy and Scratchy interacting with Bart and Lisa, and I&S being horrified that Bart and Lisa find their violence funny, it all just feels fresh.
Will say I’ve always been fond of the segment mr and mrs simpsons as I always found Homer and Marge being secret killer agents such a nice idea and the way they just go all in for the fight scene between them is hilarious great jokes and the ending is neat
I'm not a fan of it but at least 90% of the audience is clear on what is being parodied, as opposed to the Be Nine Rewind one he's so fond of, where basically no one gets what is being parodied. For that reason that one is a huge failure.
One thing I disagree with is your statement that “Night of the Dolphin” made dolphins scary. Nah, dolphins are already scary in real life. Also, Hell Toupee is one of my favorite Treehouse of Horror segments.
Agreed. Dolphins are basically unapologetic rapists. Dolphns are incredibly intelligent, yet when it comes to the drive to procreate, their first choice is often rape. And interspeices at that. It's psychologically frightening on top of normal frightening, when you realize that the common difference between Dolphins and other animals, barring primates, is their intellect, yet this is what they choose to use it for. Rape. Somehow, the closer an animal is to human, the more prone to calculated, premeditated rape it tends to go. And that's the scariest thing ever.
I think what I like about the others the most is the fact the show actually shows the Ullman family dead underground on multiple occasions and after that segment aired they didn't do it again, I thought that was a neat touch
I feel like someone thought up the idea of the Homer being paralyzed short but someone else who had no clue what the original guy wanted ended up writing it. The idea of Homer Simpson being trapped in his own head while the world goes on around him could be a horrifying and hilarious concept, seeing Marge trying to wake him with donuts and beer, being completely unaware she's just tormenting him, Bart growing bored with toying the sculpture of a man, not realizing inside Homer is absolutely BUILDING with rage, Lisa, Grandpa, and Maggie bonding with him for once and him being unable to express his true feelings. Hell, just adding a ticking clock element with Hibbert wanting to pull the plug or some disaster about to happen and Homer being the only one who knows about it.
*Don’t Have a Cow, Mankind has one of my favourite Convos* 😂 Marge: I can’t shoot (zombie) Helen! She’s Lisa’s godmother! Apu: You can apologize in hell! Hehe The “Bart being the cure” thing is cool too tho
Hell Toupée is one of my absolute favorites. Part of it may be nostalgic as it often ran in reruns while I was in college when my friends and I would have smoke secessions with local Fox affiliate showing an hour of Simpsons reruns from that era daily but I also think it honestly holds up comedically.
I don't know if you would count it as a segment or more of just an opening, but I really liked the Pazuzu segment. The way the toys off themselves in the background, the lullaby, Homer ordering it by accident because he thought it was pizza, and then thinking a statue would be a good gift for Maggie. Plus Pazuzu sounds like such a goofy name, I thought it was made up by writers as a joke to name an evil entity something that doesn't sound intimidating. Then I realized that was the actual name of the demon from the Exorcist.
The problem with Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure is that it feels like the writers don't remember that Marge wouldn't have married Artie either. Need I remind people of the dress incident?
Well the thing is that Bart entered the time period just as Homer and Marge first met, so really she wouldn't really know who else to marry since she knew Artie Ziff for over a decade at that point of her life and Bart prevented Homer from having her.
The Island of Dr Hibbert was one of the first Treehouse of Horror segments I saw and it's still one of my favourites. -It has probably slightly influenced me with the fact I've been a furry for almost a decade-
I’m not American, so the bat swinging gag flew over my head and never understood the reference. What made me laugh tho was Homer putting Maggie in “the rest” category along with the pets and TV 🤣
These Halloween segments are always so crazy and wild. I appreciate your hard work on this favorites list. There’s more than a few segments that I personally feel that I need to review for myself sometime soon. I haven’t rewatched a lot of the TOHs past season 15 in a long while. I’m going to check these out again. Thank you for your recommendations!
I absolutely love the Hell Toupee part it actually goes fully in and is quite graphic like Apu's legs sticking out of the squishee machine and Moe having his heart ripped out like i was shocked when i first watched it
I had Hell Toupee and The Terror of Tiny Toon recorded on a VHS as a kid, they're burned into my memory. I was always fascinated by the nuclear batteries, for some reason I wanted to eat them. Reaper Madness might be my favourite ToH segment along with the Frinkenstein segment. In fact, ToH XIV might be my personal favourite ToH episode, I even like the intro.
Interesting picks. I would have had Dial M for Murder as the top one, myself. Such a great homage to the classic Hitchcocks. Hell Toupee is pretty great, too. So absurd, but also very violent and creepy.
The Homega man episode legitimately scared me as a kid because it was the first time I was confronted with the absolute pants shitting realism of how Nuclear destruction can happen at any moment (despite the cold war having been over for years)
Great list. Only addition I would have is Mmm… Homer purely for how grotesque it is. I’ve never been shocked or scared from a tree house. Except for that one!
I’m very surprised that MMM... Homer is not on this list. It’s the episode where Homer ends up self-cannibalising and serves his body to everyone in town. It’s one of the most disturbing episodes of The Simpsons I have ever seen.
I think one of the first simpsons episodes i ever watched in full was the one with the grand pumpkin, so I was really delighted to see it here. it's not my favorite, but it holds a nice place in my heart. i always love coming back to the halloween episodes year after year. last october i watched one episode per day since it was the 31st year of halloween specials and it was such a blast. idea for next year's simpsons halloween video: ranking the wraparound non-segments. i dont even know if there's much to say on most of them but youve already covered all the actual segments now
Dial M for Murder is my #1 or 2 like yours, for the same reasons you listed pretty much. I think it’s one of the only Lisa and Edna interactions in the show
Hell toupee and the homega man are 2 of my favourite segments, the scene of snakes hair taking over homers brain is so unsettling and i'm a sucker for post apocalyptic stuff in general
Yeah send in the clones the best. Every time I see the scene of the homer clone holding ned's head by the window I burst out laughing. It's one of the funniest treehouse of horror episodes.
I decided to wait until after this year's Halloween special aired for this video (doing the Richard & Lewis project in the meantime) and then that episode didn't even make this list. Bah, humbug.
(Season 12 is next on the docket.)
Your videos are always great!
Love your vids Jim, when I cant find something to casually listen to I come to you.
Your Vids are always so comfy RealJims!! Your by far my go to Simpsons reviewer!
It would be pretty cool if Disney+ gave you the option to customize segments
@@mister62085 yes
The best thing about the Homega Man is how "Little Marge" misses the baseball in Homer's fantasy. And that Maggie is filed under "the rest" with the pets and the TV.
I totally agree, having that "miss" sound (no idea how to spell it as an onomatopoeia, any suggestions?) makes that quick gag very in-character for her, it's a very nice touch
@@alexneill130 whoosh?
@@Nahasapasa I think "Whiff" is more fitting
I swear the simpsons has done "the rest" jokes over 3 times already. I had a simpsons comic as a kid and that joke was on the cover
I cant tell if thats a compliment or not for Maggie. Being compared to pets sucks, but tv? Homer really loves her
I love the Island of Dr.Hibbert segment solely for Homer's song: "In the jungle, the creepy jungle, Homer rides a freak!" His ethusiasm just gets me everytime.
I sang that during the Lion Sleeps Tonight scene of The Lion King in theaters.
Night of the Dolphin is weirdly one of the most memorable Treehouse of Horror episodes from when I was a kid, almost as much as all the segments from ToH 5. Something about the dolphin brutally murdering Kent Brockman with a beach ball is so surreal that it's permanently etched into my brain. The dolphins are legit one of the most menacing antagonists from these specials.
It is definitely one of the most memorable post-classical era of Treehouse segments, even got an entire level dedicated to it in The Simpsons game
For me, I preferred the post-ending scene with Kang and Kodos complaining about being left out of the show.
I forgot to listen, what was the sixth segment in his list?
@@tf2godz the game is the only reason I remember the killer dolphins
@@Grane1234 Yeah, the game has a ton of cool quotes with Bart and Lisa about having to fight the dolphins.
I always think Night of the Dolphins is a classic segment, with its appearance in there.
I’m so honored to be referenced in this one.
Even if it was after a reference to “It’s A Mystery, Charlie Brown.”
Gotta take what you can get.
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Oh gee, I've never heard of that one, I wonder why he's making it sound so *finds out it was the first special not directed by Bill Melendez*....yep, that'd do it.
In defense of the Homer farting segment, it makes you appreciate every single other segment more.
Literally the episode that made me stop watching new Simpsons. I sat through that one and Dial N For Neddy, but tapped out during the Avatar parody.
I have no defense for that segment, but my 6yo and 9yo laughed so hard during it they were in tears.
@@AdamRossD I enjoyed it too. Fart jokes can be funny if done in the right way. The wrong way would be Rick and Morty where it's a constant barrage of burps and farts without meaning
@@RegretfulDeadMan dial d for diddly (btw its actual kinda good)
Hell Toupee is in my opinion one of the best THoH segments done. Has some great Apu, Moe and Snake moments and is a very funny concept. Just how over the top and gruesome it can be adds to it greatly.
It's actually kind of suspenseful and eerie in a way so few episodes are. It has that "Who Shot Mr. Burns" mood the Halloween episodes rarely capitalize upon. Come on Real Jims, get with it! You'd rather see garbage like the clone one?
@@brentandrew2419 It’s his opinion, dummy.
Truth, it was my first segment and will always be in my top fifteen treehouse segments of all time
"Desperately Xeeking Xena" is the best and most quotable post-classic segment.
I have here the only working Fazer,it was fired only once to keep Shatner from making another album.
Didn't work Shatner can't be stopped 🤣
I mean, this is the one that "A wizard did it" comes from. I still see that used in response to inconsistencies in shows/movies all the time!
@@youcouldbelisteningtomusic442 Either that or "I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
@Freekazoid I know, but whenever there is a mistake in an episode, the answer is always "A Wizard did it" oder " I hope somebody got fired for that blunder"
Lisa: Wait... Xena can't fly!
Xena: I told you, I'm not Xena - I'm Lucy Lawless!
Hell Toupee is my favorite of the post-classic Treehouse segments. Snake is always a joy to watch, and the contrast between his and Homer’s demeanors works wonderfully. I also just love the scene where Chief Wiggum continues to drink his Squishy after he finds out Apu was stuffed in the Squishy machine, it crosses the line so far that it comes back around to being hilarious.
Totally - as a kid I always found Apu's death in this segment the most disturbing moment in the show's history at that point (more then Nightmare Cafeteria), but Wiggum's attitude really takes the edge off 😄
I'd have that at number one, didn't realise it was post classic, brilliant segment. The idea of Homer being possessed to murder his son is genuinely scary, and the jokes are great too- Homer doesn't get charged with Apu's murder because Wiggum can't pronounce his name.
I always loved Bart setting off the touchless faucets in the bathroom as he advances menacingly on Lisa in "Dial M for Murder" etc.
"There's No Business Like Moe Business" not being included here is a crime, they could have easily gone for just a standard Sweeny Todd homage, but instead incorporated all of the theater elements that really make it memorable
Strange because I'm pretty sure he's mentioned that segment very positively in another review
Wait, that was meant to be Sweeney Todd?
Yes! That one is definitely one of my favorites. The musical numbers made it special compared to other Treehouse of Horrors.
No one’s mentioning Scary Tales Can Come True, I’m shocked - that Goldilocks scene where Bart and Lisa left her to get eaten by the three bears is one of my all time favourite moments, hands down
The porridge gag always creases me up, too! Such a good segment.
@@SessVlogs This is why every other version has Mother Bear's porridge as too sweet instead of too cold.
I think it is exactly what real Jim’s says in this episode about hell toupeé. Good but no one talks about it, honestly it is pretty solid.
I COULDNT BE IN MORE PAIN!
@@BL-mf3jp I can’t help but read that in her voice 😂💀
Glad to see some ‘Homega Man’ appreciation! I don’t hear people talking about it a lot. That baseball scene is probably the hardest I’ve ever laughed at any Simpsons joke ever.
"i hear you can see barts hair peaking out of the trashcan or his shadow when he leaves his seat"
thought you could sneak in a futurama reference unnoticed huh?
Hell Toupee and Reaper Madness were some of my first introductions to Treehouse of Horror as a kid, so I definitely feel a bit of a nostalgic connection to them.
I love how in recent years the Simpsons team keep pushing its animation style in strange new ways and the Treehouse of Horror episodes are a great place to see that art.
My favourite post-classic segment is “Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die”, because I grew up after Y2K was an issue, so imagining a world where all the technology that’d been invented over the past century went haywire or outright murderous, terrified me. The world of Springfield goes to s**t, and that’s always fun to explore. It’s an obvious period piece of 90s Y2K hysteria, and the fact that the rockets at the end still work is a massive plot hole, but the premise alone carries it for me.
Some favourites from the Post-Movie era include There’s No Business Like Moe Business, which feels more adult in its violence and tone, and Moefinger, the absolute gorefest that almost got the 600th episode BANNED down here in New Zealand.
I liked Life's A Glitch, Then You Die, and I was four weeks off my fifth birthday when 2000 came. I feel old...
I remember the Sweeney Todd parody. I wish it had been played straighter, though, instead of a stage play. Maybe if Sweeney Todd didn't have a movie version out at the time or had a movie in the works that had failed to be made, but it didn't. But blood beer was a creative way to take it, especially with it being accidental.
Scientists figured out y2k was going to be a problem in our world way ahead of things and figured out a solution (switching to a different system, that will stop working in another couple of decades), it's not a plot hole if the scientists of the Simpsons universe were ignored. Just had enough resources for two rockets to be made with Unix time!
@@theMoporter where are your sources for the current system no longer working in a few decades
@@jamiewhite6397 look up “Unix epoch bug”, though the fix is moving from a 32-bit integer to a 64-bit integer and most computers have done that in the last few years or will be doing it before 2032. But it’s still true that the system they switched to has that problem, it’s just not necessarily the one we still deal with anymore (which is just an implication - their comment can also be read as “another few decades from the Y2K patch” which is 100% true, while the bug is now merely one decade away from the present).
@@kaitlyn__L That's actually really cool, I appreciate you finding that for me 👍
That bat-swinging joke, especially the whiff sound on Marge, is truly terrific
i just want to say how much i like this channel. talking about the simpsons while nintendo music plays in the background pretty much encapsulates my childhood. i could listen to this channel all day
I really liked the “Clockwork yellow” segment all because of the crossover twist between Clockwork orange and Eyes wide shut, not a fan of shoehorn references to the other movies mid battle, but Alex and his droogs entering by mistake in the cult party is such a genius idea that wins me over. Makes me wish something like that existed between the original movies. And so glad “Oh the Places you’ll do’h” made it high into the list! Too bad for the black hole segment. Thanks for this Amazing video Jimms!
And they also had references to other Kubrick movies (and the "fake moon landing" myth), and the man himself at the end of the episode. It was a blast.
@@quenotedariayo I think the cherry on top is when Comic Book Guy makes a very esoteric Kubrick movie reference and admits even he can't remember what they're parodying.
"If your fly wasn't open, you'd look just like Roger Moore."
If you are fly?
School is Hell from TOH XXV is one of my favorites. I especially love the ending and how I think it's one of the best Homer and Bart moments in the entire show.
Hell Toupee is such a great example of the power of good characterization. Even this tertiary character like Snake can be hilariously evoked without him actually being present.
My favourite treehouse of horror episode is the one from season 11. And my favourite segment is I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did. The whole bit with homer and ned's dead body on the roof is hilarious.
I laughed so hard when Homer started with: "HI, Maude!.... diddly..."
"Bat swinging scene" kills me every time.
Hell Toupee is an absolute classic! It'd make top ten in my favourite segments of all seasons!
The 2022 Treehouse of Horror rules for many reasons, but especially for giving us an evil Marge. Marge never gets to be the truly creepy main villain - unless you count the head vampire thing or the Other Mother or that time she watched Homer sleep (which I don’t) and 2022 finally let her be evil, hurrah! Sidenote, the animation of the Death Note demon thing genuinely freaked me out
Hell Toupee is such a good title, always enjoyed it too. A really solid segment! Always enjoy these videos 💙🙏🏻
It’s been a while since this video but I ADORE Hell Toupee. It’s legitimately one of my favorite segments of all time and that includes the classic era.
This video was example another example of why Homer and Flanders are one of the series best uncomfortable character duos
I love School Is Hell because it uses the horror setting as an excuse to completely flip the classic Bart and Lisa dynamic. Bart being a straight A+ student in demon school is so in line with all of the references over the years like Devil Flanders going' "Hey, Bart." or him turning out to be the evil twin instead of Hugo and saying "Oh, don't look so shocked."
"Looks to me like he suffered a lot chief".
I love Hell Toupée
Jeeze Lou, how long are ya gonna let me enjoy this thing
Apu Nahasa... Moe. Just Moe.
I love the it’s a great pumpkin Milhouse segment so much. It’s so nostalgic
Send in the Clones is golden age caliber. Glad to see it get love here.
The terror of tiny toons has one of my favorite Homer lines Marge: You can't go as a hobo again!" Homer: "Going where?"
"I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did" on season 11 is a great post classic treehouse of horror segment
I like when Teenage Homer asked grown-up Homer what happened, was I caught in a fire?
I loved that Homer was going to push the core destruct button (knowing it would kill everyone) because Ned told him to.
On the subject of Homega Man, I definitely view seasons nine and ten as part of the classic era, so I was initially surprised to see it on here.
Jims, let me just say that your content feels so great, so amicable. I binge seasons 1-9 regularly and it's so great to engage in content that where myself and the content creator know the subject material intimately.
I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer but I do feel Treehouse of Horror is even more inconsistent than your average post classic season. That being said there's a lot here from even the thumbnail alone that I remember really enjoying.
Nice to see all 3 segments from 26 being on the list, that was a great year though having never seen a Clockwork Orange at the time meant the middle one was mostly lost to me.
"I'm an avid Modern Simpsons enjoyer"
... why?
@@JimboRustles Theres this weird thing I do where I watch things and then enjoy them, and if I'm feeling particularly wacky I go back and watch more things like it
@@JimboRustles Weirdo.
I appreciate the shout out to A Clockwork Yellow
I personally love these (not in order and out of this list):
- "House of Whacks" (underrated and it's one I really enjoyed)
- "Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off" (another top tier segment; really funny and I even remember seeing it before I started regularly watching the show)
- "Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure" (I love BTTF, "The Way We Was" is one of my favorite episodes of the show as a whole, and it's really well executed)
- "The Others" (really good concept, unique, and enjoyable)
- "Hell Toupée" (unique and fun)
- "Reaper Madness" (could've done a bit more indeed, but I still liked it)
- " The Island of Dr. Hibbert" (probably would be my #1 in this type of list, it wouldn't beat "Lisa's Nightmare," "Bart's Nightmare" or any of Treehouse of Horror V segment but it's up there)
- "Send in the Clones" (actually a good segment)
For me (out of this list) I don't enjoy:
- "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (especially since it's yet another zombie apocalypse, pretty generic overall: "The Homega Man" is honestly the only decent zombie apocalypse segment imo))
- "It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse" (tbh, I'm a longtime fan of Peanuts, but I didn't really like this segment. I don't like the pumpkin character; actually in general the second half is why I don't like it)
The rest on the list are in the middle for me. "B.I. Bartificial Intelligence" is also a segment I enjoyed but sadly this list didn't include. "Married to the Blob," "You Gotta Know When to Golem," "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid," "E.T., Go Home," (even though I like E.T) "In the Na'vi," and "Geriatric Park" are by far the worst segments imo (in no order).
I see a lot of hate for married to the blob, but IMO is a really good segment. It plays off homer’s gluttony and elevates it to is maximum horrifying extreme! Similar to “hmm homer” And seeing Kang and Kodos in a menacing way and winning in the day the earth looked stupid is really great!
Night of the Dolphin was pretty memorable for me, if only for the fact that there was an entire level dedicated to it in 2007's The Simpsons Game. I'm also really nostalgic towards Season 13 so seeing Treehouse of Horror XII get a mention via House of Whacks makes me happy.
Animal Sprigfield is a fun part of "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", but it also has some legitimately good jokes. I still love the "Let's eat Maggie..." joke. It's a little wierd that they gave Lisa the line, but I think it works and is one of the only chances Lisa had to have an "older sibling" kind of moment instead of kind of just being a babysitter for Maggie. Also, that's the same ToH with "Send in the Clones" and I even think the middle segment "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms" was a solid segment. Treehouse of Horror XIII was really good. But, I think it was also one of, if not, the earliest ToH I watched, so maybe it's just me.
Uhhh.... I Choose To Call This Episode "Treehouse Of Horror 13"
I think the reason the joke works so well is BECAUSE it's Lisa. The idea of eating her own sister is just so unlike her, it's hilarious
Hell Toupee scared me as a kid fr fr and I'll never forget "You said something about a hot meal? 💀" one of my all time favorite jokes treehouse of horror or not 👌
II thought Be Nine, Rewind was inspired by Happy Death Day/Happy Death Day 2 U, but I haven't seen Russian Doll, so maybe that's the same concept.
The Terror of Tiny Toon is my favorite on this list. Itchy and Scratchy interacting with Bart and Lisa, and I&S being horrified that Bart and Lisa find their violence funny, it all just feels fresh.
Will say I’ve always been fond of the segment mr and mrs simpsons as I always found Homer and Marge being secret killer agents such a nice idea and the way they just go all in for the fight scene between them is hilarious great jokes and the ending is neat
Great choice
I'm not a fan of it but at least 90% of the audience is clear on what is being parodied, as opposed to the Be Nine Rewind one he's so fond of, where basically no one gets what is being parodied. For that reason that one is a huge failure.
Homer trying to resist the lasagna then the camera immediately panning out to show him devouring it is hilarious.
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 agree
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 then he asks for seconds typical Homer
My favorite joke in Reaper Madness is Homer correcting God on which sister he sacrificed
I've never even watched "Stop Time, I Wanna Goof Off", but the visual comedy is so strong I can get the gist of it just from the stills you've shown.
In defense of "farting homer", the line "he has the proportional strength of a paralyzed spider" kills me every time. I think Carl says it.
One thing I disagree with is your statement that “Night of the Dolphin” made dolphins scary. Nah, dolphins are already scary in real life.
Also, Hell Toupee is one of my favorite Treehouse of Horror segments.
Agreed. Dolphins are basically unapologetic rapists. Dolphns are incredibly intelligent, yet when it comes to the drive to procreate, their first choice is often rape. And interspeices at that. It's psychologically frightening on top of normal frightening, when you realize that the common difference between Dolphins and other animals, barring primates, is their intellect, yet this is what they choose to use it for. Rape. Somehow, the closer an animal is to human, the more prone to calculated, premeditated rape it tends to go. And that's the scariest thing ever.
@@the-NightStar it makes me glad bonobos are all dtf all the time, or else maybe they’d be in on it too…
I think what I like about the others the most is the fact the show actually shows the Ullman family dead underground on multiple occasions and after that segment aired they didn't do it again, I thought that was a neat touch
My favorite by far was "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" but "Hell Toupee" is up there as well.
School Is Hell was Definetly a FAVORITE of Mine
All these long years watching the Simpsons, and I have never realized “Hell Toupee” was a pun!
I feel like someone thought up the idea of the Homer being paralyzed short but someone else who had no clue what the original guy wanted ended up writing it. The idea of Homer Simpson being trapped in his own head while the world goes on around him could be a horrifying and hilarious concept, seeing Marge trying to wake him with donuts and beer, being completely unaware she's just tormenting him, Bart growing bored with toying the sculpture of a man, not realizing inside Homer is absolutely BUILDING with rage, Lisa, Grandpa, and Maggie bonding with him for once and him being unable to express his true feelings.
Hell, just adding a ticking clock element with Hibbert wanting to pull the plug or some disaster about to happen and Homer being the only one who knows about it.
I can get the points you made on Coralisa, but I love the idea that they just mesh together so well
Was pleasantly surprised to see Send In the Clones ranked so high. It's hardly ever talked about but is one of my all-time favourite THOH segments.
*Don’t Have a Cow, Mankind has one of my favourite Convos* 😂
Marge: I can’t shoot (zombie) Helen! She’s Lisa’s godmother!
Apu: You can apologize in hell!
Hehe
The “Bart being the cure” thing is cool too tho
I think Thanksgiving of horror was amazing. I love seeing turkey's perspective on the 1st Thanksgiving.
Hell Toupée is one of my absolute favorites. Part of it may be nostalgic as it often ran in reruns while I was in college when my friends and I would have smoke secessions with local Fox affiliate showing an hour of Simpsons reruns from that era daily but I also think it honestly holds up comedically.
I don't know if you would count it as a segment or more of just an opening, but I really liked the Pazuzu segment. The way the toys off themselves in the background, the lullaby, Homer ordering it by accident because he thought it was pizza, and then thinking a statue would be a good gift for Maggie.
Plus Pazuzu sounds like such a goofy name, I thought it was made up by writers as a joke to name an evil entity something that doesn't sound intimidating. Then I realized that was the actual name of the demon from the Exorcist.
Pazuzu is a real demon. He's even actually the demon of the south-west wind.
“Oh yaah tame it babay” lives rent free in my head
The problem with Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure is that it feels like the writers don't remember that Marge wouldn't have married Artie either. Need I remind people of the dress incident?
But it makes up for all its sins, and gets a solid C for the line "Crawl atop me to your doom!"
Well the thing is that Bart entered the time period just as Homer and Marge first met, so really she wouldn't really know who else to marry since she knew Artie Ziff for over a decade at that point of her life and Bart prevented Homer from having her.
I just love that somehow Brazilian Jujitsu is a thing, just saying makes me laugh
My sister has gone on record saying sexy cat Marge turned her into a furry, 5 stars
23:20 Oh! wow! an hommage to spellbound. Now that's a deep cut of hithcock.
The Island of Dr Hibbert was one of the first Treehouse of Horror segments I saw and it's still one of my favourites. -It has probably slightly influenced me with the fact I've been a furry for almost a decade-
i mean....the Marge cat though
Dial M for Murder feels like a homage itself to James Earl Jones reading _The Raven_ in the very first Treehouse of Horror.
I’m not American, so the bat swinging gag flew over my head and never understood the reference. What made me laugh tho was Homer putting Maggie in “the rest” category along with the pets and TV 🤣
Master and Cadaver is my favorite post classic segment.
"Wheres Doug? I miss Doug."
These Halloween segments are always so crazy and wild. I appreciate your hard work on this favorites list. There’s more than a few segments that I personally feel that I need to review for myself sometime soon. I haven’t rewatched a lot of the TOHs past season 15 in a long while. I’m going to check these out again. Thank you for your recommendations!
I absolutely love the Hell Toupee part it actually goes fully in and is quite graphic like Apu's legs sticking out of the squishee machine and Moe having his heart ripped out like i was shocked when i first watched it
It's actually more graphic than the film it's based on, Shocker
I liked the segments about the witch trials and the one with Bart switching heads with a fly. Rarely hear those brought up.
I had Hell Toupee and The Terror of Tiny Toon recorded on a VHS as a kid, they're burned into my memory. I was always fascinated by the nuclear batteries, for some reason I wanted to eat them.
Reaper Madness might be my favourite ToH segment along with the Frinkenstein segment. In fact, ToH XIV might be my personal favourite ToH episode, I even like the intro.
I’m glad these segments are getting talked about because even in the modern seasons there are some good segemnts
Ned Zone is my number 1 Segment because the climax is on its own the greatest Treehouse of Horror Joke ever told.
God I love Treehouse of Horror.
Interesting picks. I would have had Dial M for Murder as the top one, myself. Such a great homage to the classic Hitchcocks. Hell Toupee is pretty great, too. So absurd, but also very violent and creepy.
Great list. These segments brought back great memories
The Homega man episode legitimately scared me as a kid because it was the first time I was confronted with the absolute pants shitting realism of how Nuclear destruction can happen at any moment (despite the cold war having been over for years)
That muncher episode at the start when Krusty turns Into a muncher his eyes go black for a frame, something about pure black eyes Is really unsettling
This was the best thing to wake up to
The fact that Jasper is on a first name basis with death.
My favorite TOH segment is The Shinning. My brothers and I referenced it a lot growing up.
That was on his Classics list. TOH V is universally considered the best one.
Great list. Only addition I would have is Mmm… Homer purely for how grotesque it is. I’ve never been shocked or scared from a tree house. Except for that one!
I’m very surprised that MMM... Homer is not on this list. It’s the episode where Homer ends up self-cannibalising and serves his body to everyone in town. It’s one of the most disturbing episodes of The Simpsons I have ever seen.
I think one of the first simpsons episodes i ever watched in full was the one with the grand pumpkin, so I was really delighted to see it here. it's not my favorite, but it holds a nice place in my heart. i always love coming back to the halloween episodes year after year. last october i watched one episode per day since it was the 31st year of halloween specials and it was such a blast.
idea for next year's simpsons halloween video: ranking the wraparound non-segments. i dont even know if there's much to say on most of them but youve already covered all the actual segments now
Hell Toupee is great I always forget it isn't in the first 8 years
I'd dare say the clones one is better than a handful of classic segments, it's that awesome.
The one where Homer eats himself in XXVIII is one of my favourite ones after the classic era ended
Same here, In an era where the Halloween segments feel more like just movie parodies, a creepy and horror concept like that is really welcomed
Its def the most disturbing thoh segment
Dial M for Murder is my #1 or 2 like yours, for the same reasons you listed pretty much. I think it’s one of the only Lisa and Edna interactions in the show
Great choices, a lot of those later ones I havnt seen but now I have something to look forward to late in the series.
Hell yea a Halloween vid from the best Simpsons channel
Hell toupee and the homega man are 2 of my favourite segments, the scene of snakes hair taking over homers brain is so unsettling and i'm a sucker for post apocalyptic stuff in general
I love Dial M For Murder, or Press # to Return to the Main Menu
Nice Job! I enjoy Homer in these Treehouse of Horror Segments, he's the MVP of the Treehouse of Horror.
Love watching this on Halloween! Makes me happy to enjoy my faves before marathoning it! 🎃
WOW! Thumbs up for that DEEP Futurama reference👍🏼
Yeah send in the clones the best. Every time I see the scene of the homer clone holding ned's head by the window I burst out laughing. It's one of the funniest treehouse of horror episodes.
I love Hell Toupee, one of my fave Halloween segments