Top 20 Worst Treehouse of Horror Segments
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Segments Featured (THOH # in parentheses)
Wiz Kids (12)
Four Beheadings and a Funeral (15)
In the Belly of the Boss (15)
You Gotta Know When to Golem (17)
Untitled Robot Parody (19)
How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising (19)
War and Pieces (21)
Master and Cadaver (21)
Tweenlight (21)
The Diving Bell and Butterball (22)
In the Na'Vi (22)
Freaks No Geeks (24)
Homerzilla (26)
Telepaths of Glory (26)
Dry Hard (27)
Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers (29)
Geriatric Park (29)
Danger Things (30)
Bong Joon Ho’s 'This Side of Parasite' (33)
Nightmare on Elm Tree (32)
Music Selections:
0:37 "Cerebral" (Plants vs. Zombies) by Avaris
• Plants vs. Zombies OC ...
1:49 “Ground Zero” (Final Fantasy IX) by halc
• OC ReMix #3209: Final ...
2:54 “Bossa de Moga” (Monster Hunter Tri) by Jamphibious
• Bossa de Moga - OC ReM...
4:04 "Last Breath, First Breath" (Phantasy Star IV) by djpretzel
• OC ReMix #509: Phantas...
5:09 “Doppelganger” (Super Dodge Ball) by Chrono
• Chrono - Doppelganger ...
6:16 “Like a Dream” (Dark Souls II) by RoeTaKa
• OC ReMix #3119: Dark S...
7:32 “Intoxica” (Donkey Kong Country 3) by Radiowar
• OC ReMix #2549: Donkey...
8:45 "Farewell, Beloved Ones" (Pokemon Red) by Danilo Ciaffi
• Pokémon Red Version OC...
10:04 "Tribute to the Master" (Street Fighter II) by Malcos
• Blood on the Asphalt: ...
11:24 “In Bayshire” (Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Duel Transer) by Radiowar
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: Duel T...
12:35 “Memoriam” (Final Doom) by Dj Redlight
• OC ReMix #1163: Final ...
13:52 “The Prodigal Son Returns” (Castlevania) by Mustin
• 19 Simon Belmont Castl...
15:16 "The Dark Rebirth: 1983" (Amnesia: The Dark Descent) by Mike Norvak
• Amnesia: The Dark Desc...
16:17 "Kindle the Soul" (Dark Souls) by RoeTaKa
• Dark Souls ReMix by Ro...
17:35 "Hallownest Below the Wastes" (Hollow Knight) by Justin Thornburgh, Chromatic Apparatus, & Dewey Newt
• Hollow Knight OC ReMix...
18:57 "Cathedral of Carnage" (Heretic) by Ghetto Lee Lewis
• Heretic ReMix by Ghett...
20:23 "Eighties Ate My Zombies" (Zombies Ate My Neighbors) by Mike Norvak & Fernito
• Zombies Ate My Neighbo...
21:39 “A Daring Escape” (Mega Man 3) by Jago
• OC ReMix #2343: Mega M...
23:00 "Ghosts of the Marble Hall" (Super Mario World) by CrimsonZeal
• OC ReMix #896: Super M...
24:23 “Numbness & Knives” (Silent Hill 2) by HoboKa
• Silent Hill 2 OC ReMix...
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I think this might be my first Worst list I've ever done on the channel. After I gushed about Season 33, The Simpsons was due for one of these 😛
You're just getting in touch with your roots. Remember in the 90s when H. W. Bush criticized the Simpsons for being relentlessly cynical and suggested the Waltons as an alternative? Man, this show has come a far piece.
I felt the title felt refreshingly negative for your channel. But then I remembered that you can be that way - there are the alligator rants, after all.
id like to see more! it was very interesting
Jim - I love your channel. But I can watch 20 years of awful Simpsons just to understand these videos!
Maybe you should do a few more!
(Hans Moleman voice) “I remember Master & Cadaver”
No one’s gay for Master and Cadaver
You were probably saying Boo-urns at 21:12 too.
Remember when he thought he was Bart..."calbunga dude" and homer kept kissing his head lol.
18:25 Front facing Millhouse looks like fresh meme material
I loved it
While I'm not a fan of "Untitled Robot Parody", it is the most recent Simpson episode with a funny line that stuck with me.
Homer: Hmm. Is there something different about the kitchen?
Toaster transforms into the word "No"
Homer: Well, the toaster's never lied to me before.
Toaster laughs at him in TOH3, results in time travel in TOH5, and is an alien robot. Simpsons Mysteries on the Simpsons toaster when?
Abosfucklingloutley. I'm a huge transformers guy and I don't like that episode but that joke is great.
Would had been a little funnier if instead the toaster popped out a slice of toast with 'No' written in burn marks.
That and "Look, you have made the nacho machine cry!" are the jokes I remember from time to time. Trans-Clown-O-Morphs was a much better homage to Transformers.
I like the Boxing day joke
The main issue with Tree House of Horrors is that they are now such direct parodies that there is no room for subversion. The old Tree House of Horrors did parody right-you did not have to know the source material to enjoy it.
They also tended to be parodies of Twilight Zone episodes (30 minute episodes that condense well... and were often based on short stories), classic horror/sci-fi films, or specific tropes. In recent years they've changed it to just general parodies of recent films. That makes it feel more like a second-rate Mad parody.
I don't think they even go that much for horror anymore.
Honestly, the Homer eating himself segment is so visceral to me, it’s one of my favorites because it creeps me the hell out. I know it’s bad writing but good god is it disturbing
The Stephen King story it was based on is fantastic writing. One of his most gruesome tales
Honestly I really like it too
As a donut, or does he do it again?
Causing even eating his donut head gives me the jibblies.
@@tyrant-den884 Oh no, there's a whole segment in which Homer cooks and eats himself. It starts with a finger, then a whole foot, etc.
@@youdbettertube yeah, it's too creepy though. The old episodes, such as the TOH segment where Homer picked at his donut head, were just better and they came with funnier jokes, such as with Homer and his donut head, Chief Wiigum's outside saying "don't worry boys, he's gotta come out sometime"
To be fair to Wiz Kids, luckily stumbling into the solution is something Harry was known to do in the early books. I saw the Enchanted Shin as an amusing enough heightened parody of that trope.
Yeah the movies went on and painted a much different picture of what Harry was like in that regard, he was not as competent and well in control of the scenario and had more dumb luck on his side than anything. That cannot be said about Harry in the early films.
I didn't know that Wiz kids was made before the first Harry Potter movie and I watched the episode pretty recently and wondered why it was so off. Now I know lol.
Good point, actually. I still enjoy the segment, regardless. Honestly, I think distancing itself from being a straight parody helps it in the long run.
bro has a stilted way of talking
@@imperfectly_megan Came out just before the first movie, but the first four books had already been published; so the writers had quite a bit to go on if they quickly read the books before writing.
You know what would have worked for the Stranger Things parody?
The Simpsons debut _in_ the 80s. They should have harkened the style of the episode back to the first series. The same character models, backgrounds, etc. It would have added a nice dimension and possibly more fodder for parody. Especially as a real 80s show lampooning one *trying* to be 80's.
I genuinely appreciate that you can write a "negative" view on all of these things but still remain informative and just as entertaining.
I always wondered why they just straight up put Harry Potter in their Harry Potter parody. That explanation actually makes sense.
I love Four Beheadings and a Funeral if for no other reason than the last line delivery.
“Daddy I had the craziest dream”
“Ralphie, you’re stiiiiiill in it”
Always get a laugh out of me
And it also brought us the best character in the series: Simon Stoolowitz.
@@MontyMoleLoreMaster so iconic!
I will be honest, while Simon Stoolowitz is easily an S tier scene and character, the rest of the segment was nowhere near as good. Yet again, it could be just because Simon Stoolowitz is probably the best Treehouse of Horror character (and overall Simpsons character to).
yeah i remember watching as a kid
The ‘Krusty in wood chipper’ moment was a pretty gnarly death scene.
And the Prince death is not in good taste now.
Correction: The part in Homerzilla "making fun of Godzilla 2000", wasn't making fun of Godzilla 2000, it was poking fun at Godzilla 1998, the American remake that's often panned for barely being a Godzilla movie. Godzilla 2000 was the first in the Millennium era made by Toho, the original Japanese creators/owners of Godzilla. Also I love the Gamera cameo in that segment.
And it also wasn't making fun of "Hollywood remake culture," it was making fun of the fact that there are so many Godzilla movies.
@@georgeschweikert8768 Highly doubt it since Matt Groening is a big fan of the original Japanese films, don't see why he would make fun of them. The reboot being titled, "Zilla" also gives it away since Toho bought the rights to that version, renamed it Zilla and killed it off in Final Wars.
😳 that movie does not exist,it was a mass hallucination in 1998.
And that is the end of that story🔫
I hope someone got fired for that blunder
It was making fun of the trash Godzilla remake from 2014
Actually Simpsons has done a decent Apple joke:
"Eat up, Martha."
Also I think the first 2 Mapple episodes where quite decent, they just did too much Mapple stuff later.
Halloween Segments always had one that wasnt as good as the others but it was usually not by much. As time went on however it became harder to say which segment was worse in a halloween special since they lost a lot of scariness and a lot of interest.
They usually had very creative out of the box episodes, but nowadays it‘s just lazy movie parodies
I hated when they dropped the horror aspect of you know, The Treehouse of *Horror* , and just started using them as an excuse to parody whatever was popular at the time.
I remember being genuinely frightened by some of the early treehouse of horror episodes when I was a little kid lmao
I suppose even the fifth (I think) treehouse of horror had nightmare cafeteria, which was still classic simpsons level good and led into the memorable credits sequence afterward, but is still competing against The Shinning and Time and Punishment, which might be two of the best treehouse of horror segments. In my opinion, at least.
Hating on the internet. Weird.
Dang, I had no clue Wiz Kids predated the Harry Potter movies, even by just a little bit.
Hey, it's "The Simpsons". That's what they do.
@@kittycatmeowmeow963 but they usually hit all their parodies 2 years too late
They predicted Harry Potter
I was surprised by that. I think it came out at a time when I didn't have TV, so when I got to it later, they were on like HP5 or something.
It feels like they didn't read the books either, or they just thought there was nothing good/well known enough to parody. It's an awful segment, number one contender for me.
The one thing I love about in the Belly of the Boss is Mr. Burns hysterically understated "well. That hurt like hell."
A fully negative Simpsons video from you? Fascinating!
I think Danger Things would've worked so much better as a 22 minute episode instead of just a Treehouse of Horror segment.
Or even a two-parter, like the Fargo parody
They really need to turn the Treehouse of Horror episodes into one horror/Halloween themed episode. If "Halloween of Horror" and "Not It" can win over critics and those who have long given up on The Simpsons, then, maybe there's something to it.
I honestly enjoyed the Harry Potter segment. It wasn’t as heavily parodied in media at that point in time so I think it was more novel the year it came out. Thanks to that segment, I now say “ohhh my enchanted shin” every time I whack it on the coffee table
The enchanted shin is a funny Deus ex Machina. I also like Krusty's terrible "Wailing Wall" pun for some reason.
The best segment in that ToH is still House of Whacks, though.
It’s one of my favorites 😢
@@MrDukeTang bro the harry Potter episode was fire 🪄
@@MrDukeTang me too top 10 or 5 best treehouse horror 👻 episode it was brilliant
@@MrDukeTang he's not a real Simpsons fan. Because any person that love the Simpsons would put the harry Potter episode at a high standard
It’s fitting that Telepaths of Glory has a compelling first half and a boring second half, because Chronicle has a really solid first two acts and then completely falls apart in the final act when it tries to do the whole OTT superhero battle in a city and makes the stakes way too big. I blame Max Landis.
Legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen, not even the Simpsons could salvage it.
@@yannickgrignon2473 I wouldn’t quite go that far; Dane Dehaan almost saves the first two thirds for me. Unfortunately once they have him kill Michael B. Jordan’s character the film takes a nosedive. It goes from “How would kids handle having these superpowers in a somewhat more grounded setting with no supervillain?” To “Fuck it, let’s make Dane Dehaan the villain and have a big battle in a city like every other superhero film.” The found footage gimmick also wears very thin by the end.
ALSO, DON'T KILL OFF MICHAEL B. JORDAN!
I know killing off Michael B. Jordan worked out in The Wire, Fruitville Station, Black Panther...wait a minute.
@@GeriatricFan1963 They also didn't explore more of the alien artifact they found in exchange for the final fight. The film was great up until that point
“Trees are not scary” is something the writers should’ve learned from The Happening.
Edit: This whole video I was going “wait which one was that” at the titles, and then after seeing the screenshots I was like “oh yeah I remember that one”, since I binged them all last year. This was a nice reminder that these segments existed without me having to actually watch them all again.
Unless you're Evil Dead seriously after watching that movie as a kid i nnever trusted a tree ever again
Snow White disagrees
@@jackpower4065 Exactly.
Once you see a tree take advantage of a girl, you would want to think twice about going into woods.
What about Huarns and Ents?
"Trees are not scary"
Just want to add: Neither are eggs.
A complete history of Shelbyville please
I thought you said squidbillies.
the spider verse parody should've been about each tree house of horror takes place in an alternate universe, like the actual cannon simpsons traveling the universe, its universe just happens to be a tree house of horror.
Especially the CGI Homer from Treehouse of Horror VI.
My god you’re right
@@Exeggutor_Enjoyer thank you
Your so right that would have been cool.
See, I would have swapped out 10 or 9 with that parody because it’s so freaking by-the-numbers that it’s boring. At least with the parody of Parasite you can mine a lot of content from its terribleness and make CZcams videos, blog posts, and clickbait articles all based around dissecting all the many things wrong with it. But when somethings so bland and inoffensive that you have nothing really to say about it, than all you are doing during rewatch is wonder how it could have better if it had taken another direction.
And to be honest, The Golem segment was always one of my favorites because, much like the Krusty and Rabbi Kristoffsky episodes, it always felt so authentically Jewish that even a guy raised in a secular household could relate to it. I didn’t think the Golem was too mopey, all he did since waking back up was kill and do a bunch of empty childish pranks, I would’ve gotten philosophical and dour too after doing a lot of that.
I really enjoy Wizz Kids, but something interesting is that I never knew it actually predated the first movie, so as a kid I was always confused as to how their Harry Potter parody barely resembled the films I'd seen.
Before I knew the parody predated the films, I was under the assumption that they couldn’t go too close to the actual thing for legal reasons so they just kept it very off brand.
In a way, I end up liking it more for going in a more original route than just parodying it bit by bit like most modern Treehouse of Horrors do.
Wiz Kidz was brilliant I loved it 🪄🖤
@@luismarioguerrerosanchez4747 I also prefer when the Treehouse episodes take a concept and put a spin on it, instead of purely being scene for scene.
The white blood cell dancing with Maggie was the cutest/best part of that fantastic voyage segment
Smithers being a snake named Slithers lives in my head rent free.
He also eats Burns's corpse wtf
@@kanna-san.Its what snakes do.. plus, he wants Burns "inside him", if you want a layered joke.
I love the jokes in the main series where Bart is shown to have psychic powers, but then the two times they give people psychic powers it's lisa? I guess Bart did have the premonition of the bus crash, and got to be the monster in the "good life" parody, but still....
He had the Shinning
I agree with the top spot. I also think it might be a good idea to include the season/year of release when you show the episode's title just for more information for the viewer
You know how you can automatically tell that the Harry Potter episode is a parody of the book and not the film? No movie uniforms. Because as fans of the books should know, there are no red and yellow ties or Gryffindor symbols on their robes. They are solid black (or here, solid red). They wear hats too although even the books seemed to forget this after a while.
I honestly like the film uniforms.
@@thomasraines1396 agree, the houses having different colors made them more unique
@@persian338 yeah.
The first film had the students wearing hats (the Gryffindors threw them up in the air when they won the House Cup), but the hats disappeared in the second film and weren’t used again.
@@FletcherReedsRandomness Well yeah of course they disappeared, they threw them up in the air! That's first degree hat abandonment.
Agree about Homerzilla, way too confused about what it’s trying to be. On a fanboy level, my biggest gripe with that segment is that they didn’t do the most obvious thing ever and have Homerzilla battle King Homer. Would it be blatant, nonsensical fanservice? Yes. But the show has been on 30+ years and the least they can do is pander to my nostalgia
Blatant, nonsensical fanservice would also absolutely fit the "Hollywood rehashing of old ideas" theme
I don't really follow Simpsons anymore but I always come back to this channel. The editing in these videos are so good
Typical modern Simpsons Halloween joke:
Step 1: Character gets killed or fatally injured.
Step 2: Said character or another character says something mundane about it.
Step 3: Writers hope someone in the world thinks it's funny.
As a huge fan of Transformers, I can say it felt really lame. Just about anything good that was done better elsewhere, like with bit with the sex toy robot was done better on Robot Chicken. Plus, the bit where the robots don't know why they're fighting seems pretty dumb since that's something that's always been a big thing. Both sides have major ideological differences with the Decepticons wanting to conquer and expand while Autobots want peaceful coexistence with resources also being a major part of their conflict. This is something that has been around since day 1 with the franchise. Still, I prefer this over the crappy bit from another episode the Simpsons did with "Transclownomorphs".
As for Diving Bell and the Butterball, I found the Spider-Man part made it worse. It had pretty much no build up and felt tacked on because the episode ran short. Not to mention that the jab at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark felt more like it was at the expense of the various members of the production that got seriously injured rather than at the show itself. If I'm in the mood for something taking a shot at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, I'll stick to South Park's version.
I hated Butterball because I thought it was making fun of an actual person
I really enjoy “Master and Cadaver,” I will admit that part of my fondness is because I’m a sucker for nautical tales, so any creepy stories on the high seas automatically have my interest. On top of that, I think the story does a good job showing why Homer and Marge are suspicious while also showing the guy’s overall innocence. It sets a mood and right now is the closest thing we get to a Ghost Ship story on the show. I guess the “Mutiny on the Bounty” sketch does this a little, but this segment is better at covering the overall vibe once Homer and Marge step onto that other ship. I think it all being in Maggie’s imagination is a bit of a fake-out, but it is fun to consider why Maggie’s imagination would go so dark. I don’t like the Clockwork Orange stuff though, especially since they do a longer parody of it only a season or so later.
Master and cadaver is fun
Also enjoyed it quite a bit, also because of the nautical angle
I remember I liked the circus freak segment back in the day. Kang and Kodos has a great cameo in that one. It felt natural instead of them being awkwardly thrown in somewhere for the sake of it.
That one actually made me laugh, but at the dumbest joke.
"You're fine unless Rabbit Ears hears and tells Big Mouth."
(Rabbit Ears tells Big Mouth)
Big Mouth: "WHAAAAAAT?"
My biggest problem with most modern Treehouse of Horror segments is that they’ll parody anything without even considering if the thing they’re doing a parody of is even remotely related to Halloween. Even the least interesting classic Treehouse segments were always on theme, but Avatar, Transformers, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (among others) aren’t exactly movies I would associate with Halloween.
And a lot of them have a smug, angry tone that turns me off
They even parodied James Bond. It was during that segment I asked out loud, “What does James Bond have to do with Halloween?”
As much as I like the movies up to and including The Spy Who Loved Me, it just get very out of place for what was supposed to be a Halloween special.
I would love a critical analysis of the non-Halloween anthology episodes. For a few years there, they did at least one every season, but I don't think they've done one in at least a decade at this point. Some of them were really good, and I got the feeling the writers were finding it harder and harder to stretch stories out to a full 22 minutes, so they leaned into anthologies to give themselves a break. Then... they stopped.
yes.
I was thinking about the non Halloween anthologies myself....
I thought they were pretty much all absolutely terrible. Definitely one of the signs of the Simpsons' decline.
TheRealJims: Trees aren’t scary.
Me: *eyes the first Evil Dead and Poltergeist warily*
Homer eating himself messed with my brain. It was the only time I considered turning the show off. I’ve seen every episode, but that’s the only one I will never watch again.
I like the Tweenlight segment. I'm a fan of classic monsters and liked Draculas involvement.
I agree. Tweenlight is a guilty pleasure of mine.
Geriatric Park was already a Naked Gun joke too. Not that the show needs to do anything original, but seeing a giant old dude crush somebody with his walker was funnier to me than elderly dinosaurs.
Trees can be scary, the Wizard of oz had a very creepy forest, but it doesn't work well when they are being more active. They work best as an addition not the main attraction
Evil Dead 2 has entered the chat
THOH is starting to just feel like a bunch of big sketches with barely anything to do with Halloween anymore.
To me, it's more like they're spoofing the recent popular movie everyone is talking about. I'm expecting next year's Treehouse of Horror to do an "Everything Everywhere All At Once" parody.
@@michaelstrong5383 it would be good if that was a feature length episode like Not IT but instead of involving the Simpsons it would be good if it starred Apu or Ned Flanders
@@michaelstrong5383 yeah I half expect them to make a nope parody or something
I'm a die hard transformers fan, and you're 100% right about " untitled robot parody" the writers of that episode didnt know anything about what they were parodying and as a result its joyless and unfunny
For me, the poodle is a reference to a book series starting with the first book, 100% wolf. The main character is a werewolf who on his first turn, wasn’t a wolf but a poodle. Not sure though, it’s a niche book
yeah, it's like *really* obscure. i'm pretty sure it only got more attention because of the movie-
i am so confused by the first sentence
@@michaelbarker6732 I was saying for myself I see the Milhouse Werewolf poodle as a reference to a book series called 100% Wolf. But because the series is Australian and I don't personally know anyone else who has read them, it was a bit niche.
@@tf9241 its not impossible but i think it might be more likely that a poodle is just a really unthreatening dog so both the simpsons and 100% wolf maybe made the same joke
@@michaelbarker6732 but you might be right. Just don’t hear much of the werewolf being a weredog instead. Only examples I can think of is 100% Wolf and my babysitters a vampire
The top pick always makes me smile but for a silly reason.
In the Star Trek episode "The Menagerie" Captain Pike is paralysed and can only communicate by beeping. Everyone acts as though he cannot ask for anything. Yet this Simpsons segment shows how, relatively, easy it would be.
Another awesome list!
I would love to see a list ranking some of the intros to THoH episodes. I feel like they get overlooked a lot but there are so many iconic ones!
Moe has no sizzle? Guess he's got a sizzle-lack.
I actually really enjoy Wiz Kids. As a kid I hated it because I was a big Harry Potter fan but I sort of appreciate that this like is more a vague genre parody and shows an alternate reality version of Springfield. In fact the only joke I don’t really like is the one with Harry Potter lol. It also is a good episode for Bart character writing wise he’s got some good lines in there
"PRANK BE UNDONE, DESTROY THE EVIL ONE!" *Zaps himself*
All great picks but the Mr. & Mrs Smith parody is a must have on any bad THOH segments!
the best part about #19 is the "what does gooble goo mean?" followed by "we dont know. gooble goo!"
My friend absolutely hates the one where Homer eats himself. Surprised that one was missing from your list.
That was the first segment I thought of when seeing the title of this vid!
My least favourite is the cannibalism one, but I understand it's pretty personal. There's just something so horrific and nauseating about it conceptually that I can't stand it. It's not the fun or interesting kind of disturbing and there are no jokes good enough to make it worth withstanding, it's just really gross and I kind of want to throw up just thinking about it.
Same
The hell cafeteria one where Skinner gets the staff to eat the students? That's my all time favorite!
Gave me nightmares for weeks as a kid.
@@Delightfully_Bitchy This feels weird to say, but not that cannibalism one. That one I'm actually fine with. It's a more recent one where Homer ends up accidentally eating his finger or something then finds it so tasty he keeps eating other body parts until eventually he's just a head.
@@WitchLunaEstrella oh.
#20 unlocked the memory of 'Immigration of the Body Snatchers' from the 'Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror: Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo' comic I had as a kid...
i've been waiting for this! love the spooky videos hope to see more
Geriatric Park? Oh, you have got to be kidding sir. First you think of an idea that has already been done. Then you give it a title that nobody could possibly like. Didn't you think this through...it was on the bestseller list for eighteen months! Every magazine cover had... one of the most popular movies of all time, sir! What were you thinking?
I mean, thank you, come again.
🤣
Believe it or not, Master and Cadaver will always be one of the most prominent Simpsons episodes in my mind. It was one of, if not the first episodes that I ever saw. It was a heavily edited video on CZcams around 2012ish, with distorted, sped up audio making everybody sound like one of the Chipmunks. I'm pretty sure the beginning was cut off as well. I still remember a line "my employer tried to inject it with poison" or something like that. Also, the radio nipple binoculars joke. It really stuck with me, and I clicked on the next video, which was the Fruit-Batman episode. I found it hilarious, and went down the rabbit hole. I have been a fan ever since, despite nobody else in my family liking it. :)
Surprised Multip-Lisaty didn’t make it on here, the only joke in that entire segment is Lisa talking in different accents
My only praise for it is that the animation is decent
thank u for taking the time to write up the captions, they’re very helpful :)
Commenting as I'm watching so you may address this later, but spot on commentary for 4 beheadings. I was initially upset by the pick for the list, my nostalgia greatly influencing my mood. But your comment on it being more of an anthology feel was so on the nose that it made me agree fully with your criticisms.
Love the videos. Love hearing other people talk about something that means so much to me. Thank you!
You should do a Simpsons Mysteries about Maggie Simpson and her potential for evil. The show has often hinted how smart she is, even at just one year old. Or how Halloween specials will portray her as straight up evil sometimes. It would make for a good Halloween special on top of this treehouse of horror vid
I swear Gainax staff watched "Untitled Robot Parody" since an episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt "Trans-homers" hits many of the same beats, even the same ending twist.
Haha "Homers"
I thought "Trans-Homers" was aired before "Untitled Robot Parody"?
5:00 I think Rip Taylor's joke is pretty funny.
You're not dead!
Somebody better check my apartment! Woohooweehee
Pre-watch: praying the diving bell one comes first. Godawful.
Post-watch: NAILED IT!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who hated the "Transplant" joke in Nightmare on Elm Tree
Boo indeed my friend
And they had the gall to have that joke come from what is clearly supposed to be Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors.
It pained me to see that.
Love this video! Are there any Halloween segments that you think could do with a longer segment/full episode?
with regards to dry hard you articulated my thoughts on it when i first watched it perfectly.
I love the editing on this!
always giving the fans what we want! keep up the great work
Yes when it comes down to the Simpson Treehouse Horrors you have a lot of hits but you must confirm there has been misses.
many, many misses
I've been rewatching all the Treehouse of Horror episodes lately, and I forgot how weak most of the segments from the HD era have been.
Great top 20! Treehouse of Horror is usually incredible but when it's bad it's horrible. I mostly agree with your list but I'd add on "Mmmm Homer" too
"ive got you under my skin" and "goodmorning sunshine" always pop up randomly in my memory. I love when Burns sings
You know, I'm surprised Wiz Kids made it so high up. Maybe it's nostalgia talking from my own harry potter phase. But it felt like a decently creative kids magic segment. I think it coming out before the movies actually strengthened it too. I mean look at how many movie parodies made it on this list because they couldn't make them funny enough, at least it didn't just start quoting Philosopher's Stone at us. Instead we get "let's turn Springfield elementary into hogwarts and see what we can come up with." Though yeah enchanted shin is pretty dumb.
The Split parody and autocannibalism ones definitely deserve to be on here.
Good list, a couple of the teens-era ones I dont mind as much as you. I definitely saw number 1 coming a mile away
Wouldn't Lord Voldemont be a better joke?
When I was in Junior High, I found Master and Cadaver to be an incredibly memorable segment, purely due to the fact that I thought Marge looked unusually hot in that bikini. So take that for what it's worth, I suppose
I really enjoyed the music choice for this one
This kinda proves how great the TOHs generally are. Many of these are alright at least and Wiz Kids and Golem certainly don't belong on this list at all.
A lot of placements on this list I don't agree with, but I think you were spot on with the points you made. Good job!
Honestly, Simon Stoolowitz is probably now one of my new favorite Simpsons characters so thanks for showing me it.
“It’s time to rip em a new asshole”
I always lol so hard when he hard curses
As someone who didn't even like the actual Parasite movie, watching an incredibly shallow "parody" (if you can even call it that) of it that just ends in a random massacre was not thrilling at all. Not even for the novelty of seeing the Simpsons in the setting of a film I liked, since I didnt even like it to begin with.
Not to mention the obvious question: Why did they even do a parody of Parasite? it's the same thing I asked myself during the Kingsman and Hunger Games parodies. None of those movies are scary. Not even a little bit. So why even do a parody of them for a HALLOWEEN episode? Just to be topical, that's why. They should have, if at all, reserved them for just regular anthology episodes. I mean, they probably just added the bloody killings in them to justify it being in a halloween episode. However, when they did the "Bartman Begins" segment in "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times", they also added a lot of unnecessary blood and murder in that, so it's not even a good excuse to begin with.
The "Geriatric Park" segment should have been higher, honestly. I wanted a Jurassic Park parody for years, and when we finally get it, it's just that? Thinking about it, it's kinda like a poorly done version of "Dial Z for Zombies", in terms of basic layout and structure. Imagine if that episode spent more than half of its run time just doing setup before we get any zombie action, and then have it wrap up with like 2 minutes left. If they promise us dinosaur carnage, they should have actual dinosaur carnage for the majority of it. Such a disappointment of a good setup. Oh, and not to forget, Naked Gun did the "Geriatric Park"-joke first. And better.
"Freaks no Geeks" should not have been on the list, in my opinion. I think it's quite an underrated segment that does a good job capturing the old timey style of the time period and has so many fun designs for the different freaks. The callback to the previous segment with Bart still stuck to Selmas body was honestly really clever. The whole thing kinda reminds me of "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", where it's largely a style over substance kinda segment. That one has a more rushed and disappointing ending though, where Homer just randomly gives up and willingly becomes an animal. Here, the ending is at least inspired by the actual ending from "Freaks" and even though the How I met your mother gag is kinda dated, it does actually get a laugh out of me.
I always loved Wiz Kids, but you have brought me over to your way of thinking momentarily. It is definitely not a good parody of Harry Potter at all, but i still think it stands on its own as a pretty decent treehouse segment just because of the jokes and the novelty of it. One thing though, is that the part where Smithers eats Mr Burns is so hilarious to me that might just cloud my judgement.
If the book didn't require Nagini dies before Voldemort, I think I might just have preferred that to be in the source material too.
that would have been something for sure
The Harry Potter one should not have been on there, or at least not that high. Also, where is that terrible Mr and Ms Smith parody that has nothing to do with Halloween?
I'm no Transformers fan but I generally enjoy that segment! "Bestimus Mucho" and "It computes a little" gets a laugh out of me every time
This is quickly become one of my favorite CZcams channels to watch as I'm trying to go to sleep thank you for not having any sudden loud noises or obnoxious music It has become almost impossible to find a channel without those
Wasn't Geriatric Park in the Naked Gun 33⅓?
Guess you can say the number 1 spot ran out of gas in its attempts to be a halloween episode
I literally guessed your #1 immediately, purely because I knew it was so bad there is no way it would miss a top 20 worst Treehouse of Horror segments list.
Wizkids is solid. I actually prefer it avoided the cliches and just had fun.
Haven’t seen the whole thing yet but that Spiderman one where Homer farts the entire time better be #1
Edit: good.
I remember watching all the treehouse of horror episodes last year, and when I watched the "In the Na'vi" segment, I hot up from my seat and turned it off because I was really grossed out by the alien stuff. Worst segment imo
To be honest, the original Avatar was gross too. I didn't watch the movie because the blue aliens just look too creepy
The Simpson's writers pretty much ran out of halloween-horror material after the first decade. They then basically turned "Treehouse of Horror" into just movie parodies.
They was always movie parodies
Had a hell of a day today, this is just what I needed to unwind, thanks Jims
before going in I'm thinking Diving Bell and Butterball is #1 because its just so uncharacteristically not Simpsons with its fart jokes
How does it feel to be right?
The number one was a lock from the start. I have to say, though, I really like Master and Cadaver! Maybe it's just not being familiar with the source material, but I found it legitimately tense and intriguing. As it all comes out at the end, yes, it falls down a lot, but I enjoyed the first half enough to still remember it fondly.
Also agreed on how bad the decision was to make the Hunger Games segment abruptly switch into a Mad Max parody, but I do actually like both Homish and the ending. The former just seems like a good place to fit your Homer, within a side of some fun trope commentary, and the latter always gets me for some reason. I don't know, screw the audience plus nihilism doesn't seem like a winning formula, but it just works for me.
You've hit the nail on the head with the Harry Potter stuff, though. Just a waste of a potentially rich source material.
Curse you (in the best way possible) with your awesome Silent Hill music in the end. Ever since I heard it the first time on this channel I want Treehouse of Horror segements based on horror games so badly (like Silent Hill, Edith Finch, Resident Evil, Limbo etc.). Hearing it again just makes me want to have them more ;_;
AS a kid I adored the golem story! I love the concept and still do today.
Already seeing one of my favorites (the Sherlock parody) in the opening, heartbroken💔
No same. Mines tweenlight 💔