Can't sleep... clown'll eat us... Welcome to WatchMojo and today we’re counting down our picks for the funniest and most memorable segments from “The Simpsons”’ series of episodes for Halloween.
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00:00But mom...
00:01No buts!
00:02You march right back to that school,
00:04look them straight in the eye and say,
00:06don't eat me!
00:07Okay...
00:09Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:10and today we're counting down our picks for the funniest and most memorable segments
00:14from the Simpsons series of episodes for Halloween,
00:17Treehouse of Horror.
00:18It's true, we are aliens.
00:20But what are you going to do about it?
00:22It's a two-party system.
00:24You have to vote for one of us.
00:27Number 30, House of Wax.
00:30Marge upgrades the Simpson home to an Ultra House 3000,
00:33which turns it into a fully automated smart home so she no longer has to do any housework.
00:38It comes with a voice assistant,
00:40and Marge selects the voice of Pierce Brosnan for the Ultra House.
00:43I'm doing this because he was Remington Steele.
00:46He was Remington Steele, wasn't he?
00:48Yes, I was, Marge.
00:50And thank you for selecting me.
00:51Well, hello, Pierce.
00:53At first, everything is great because it's able to make the family's favorite meals,
00:57cleans up, and draws Marge a bath.
00:59The Ultra House develops an obsession with Marge,
01:02and attempts to kill Homer in order to be with her.
01:05They're able to disable it, and unfortunately for the Cybertronic Ultra Bot,
01:09it ends up with Patty and Selma.
01:11Looking for this?
01:14No, not in there.
01:16Pierce Brosnan as the Ultra House is the highlight of the story.
01:20He is the perfect mix of classy and creepy.
01:26Maggie is not from this world,
01:28as we learn about two years prior that Marge was abducted by Kang and Kodos
01:33where she was artificially inseminated.
01:35Look behind you.
01:37Insemination complete.
01:39Really? That seemed awfully quick.
01:41What are you implying?
01:42Nothing, nothing.
01:43The aliens come to the Simpson home to take possession of Maggie,
01:46where, of course, an argument breaks out.
01:48Bart suggests there's only one way to resolve a predicament this bizarre.
01:52The Jerry Springer Show, of course.
01:54In typical fashion, Kang and Homer fight.
01:57When an audience member calls out Kang for being a deadbeat father,
02:00he vaporizes her along with the rest of the audience.
02:03I got a question for that gross thing, whatever it is.
02:05Homer.
02:06Nah, the green dude.
02:07If you're that baby's daddy, where you been at?
02:13You know, somebody needs to learn your green ass some responsibility.
02:17Unsurprisingly, nothing was resolved,
02:19and Kang and Kodos are tricked into trying to eliminate every politician.
02:26Bart and Lisa are exposed to x-rays and gain superpowers.
02:30They become the crime-fighting duo of Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl.
02:33Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl!
02:36He's a human rubber band and she's a hookin' pearl!
02:40At a convention, actress Lucy Lawless is kidnapped by comic book guy's villain persona, The Collector.
02:46Seeing her only as the character Xena, The Collector wishes to make her his bride.
02:51Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl enter the scene to save the day,
02:54but thanks to The Collector's working phaser, they're captured.
02:57It's now up to Lawless to save Bart and Lisa,
03:00which she does by going full Xena mode and kicking The Collector's ass.
03:04Come here, you.
03:06Xena needs Xex.
03:13Got your limbs!
03:16Ow!
03:19You tricked me!
03:20There's excellent humor throughout the segment,
03:22especially seeing the other people The Collector has captured.
03:28During a visit to Marine World, Lisa frees the dolphin Snorky.
03:32Go on! Swim to freedom! Go!
03:34Although she was well-intentioned, Snorky turns out to be the leader of dolphins,
03:39and they're out for murderous revenge against humans.
03:42Speaking to the residents of Springfield,
03:44Snorky reveals that dolphins used to live on land,
03:47that ages ago they were pushed into the ocean by early humans.
03:50He declares that all humans must go live in the ocean.
03:53Wait! Stop!
03:54We can outsmart those dolphins.
03:56Don't forget, we invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws,
04:00peel-any-shrimp, the glory hole, and the pudding cup.
04:03I'm not gonna let a few hoop-jumping tuna munchers push me around!
04:08A fight occurs between the two sides,
04:10and just when it looks like Homer and company will be victorious,
04:13we cut to everyone floating in the ocean.
04:16We can't help but feel bad for Lisa for causing the downfall of humanity.
04:24Bart and Lisa get transported into an episode of Itchy & Scratchy
04:27after Bart uses a piece of plutonium to power the TV remote.
04:31The cat-and-mouse duo do not take kindly to Bart and Lisa laughing at their antics,
04:35and decide to teach them a lesson.
04:37Why are you laughing?
04:38Hey! They're laughing at your pain!
04:44That's mean!
04:46Let's teach them a lesson!
04:48Bart and Lisa now have to run from Itchy & Scratchy trying to kill them.
04:51It isn't until Homer comes to watch TV that they're saved.
04:55That is, until Itchy & Scratchy break out of the TV,
04:58only to be domesticated.
05:00An interesting mix of the zany cartoon logic
05:03with the more grounded world of Bart and Lisa provides a lot of laughs,
05:06and the fun cameo of Reaches and Kathy Lee does not hurt.
05:09I'm telling you, this cilantro really gives it a zing!
05:13Reach, there's no cilantro in it!
05:14What?
05:15Oh!
05:15God!
05:16And Allah, this soup is out of control!
05:19No!
05:20My... my eyes! My beautiful eyes!
05:22Number 25.
05:23Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores
05:26Homer arrives at Lard Lad Donuts and asks for a colossal donut.
05:30Unsatisfied with receiving one that's regular-sized,
05:33he comes back later to steal the one held by the Lard Lad statue.
05:36I got your donut, Lard Lad!
05:38And what are you gonna do about it?
05:41After being struck by lightning,
05:42the statue comes to life along with other advertising mascots.
05:46They begin attacking the town,
05:48and Lard Lad comes to Homer to get his donut back.
05:50Marge suggests that by Homer returning it,
05:53the madness will end.
05:54It doesn't,
05:55and it isn't until Lisa and Paul Anka sing a jingle
05:58to stop people from paying attention to the mascots,
06:00thereby losing their powers.
06:01To stop those monsters, one, two, three,
06:04here's a fresh new way that's trouble-free.
06:07It's got Paul Anka's guarantee!
06:11Guarantee void in Tennessee!
06:13Just don't look! Just don't look!
06:16There are tons of sight gags to keep you entertained throughout.
06:22In 1649 in Springfield,
06:24the town is conducting witch hunts.
06:26When trying to figure out who else is a Bride of Satan,
06:29Marge pleads with everyone to stop,
06:31leading people to think that she is a witch.
06:33She's the witch!
06:34Yeah!
06:35She's the witch!
06:36I was just about to accuse her.
06:37This is crazy! I'm not a witch!
06:40Ha!
06:41Then how come your laundry is always much whiter than mine?
06:44Well, I've heard enough.
06:45Burn her!
06:46At her trial, she reveals herself to be one.
06:49Now, as an outcast,
06:50she joins Patty and Selma,
06:52and the three decide to eat the town's kids
06:54after getting the idea from Maude Flanders.
06:56When they show up at the Flanders' home,
06:58Maude is able to convince them to eat gingerbread kids instead.
07:01This gives them the idea that they should scare people
07:04into giving them treats every year.
07:06Scaring people into giving us treats is fun.
07:09We should do this every year.
07:11This is a fun little reworking of how the Caramel Cod,
07:13er, we mean Halloween, came about.
07:18Tensions rise between Springfield and France
07:21after Mayor Quimby tells an off-color joke about the French.
07:24After refusing to apologize,
07:26the French president launches a nuclear missile at the town.
07:29We will show those stupid Americans who looks like the frog, eh?
07:33Everyone is seemingly dead except for Homer,
07:36who was in a bomb shelter when the blast hit.
07:38He does what any of us would do if we were the last person alive,
07:41such as going to the cinema and dancing naked in a church.
07:44However, not everyone died.
07:46Some people were turned into mutants.
07:48When they discover Homer alive,
07:50they want to eat his skin.
07:52Running from them,
07:53Homer returns home to find his family survived
07:55and they kill the mutants.
07:57My family and I share your vision for a better—
08:00Now!
08:02And now!
08:05Now!
08:06Hmph!
08:06Friends with mutants, right!
08:09Now that's the marge I'm married.
08:13The overall tone is dark,
08:15but with so many funny lines, you will hardly notice.
08:21Snake gets busted for smoking in the Quickie Mart,
08:24resulting in him getting the death penalty
08:25since it was his third strike, legally speaking.
08:28The penalty for strike three is death.
08:31Ho-ho, you'll never make it stick, dude.
08:34Will too,
08:35cause this place is full of witnesses.
08:37Before he gets sent to the electric chair,
08:39he swears revenge against Apu, Moe, and Bart.
08:42Homer receives a hair transplant from the recently deceased Snake
08:46and becomes possessed by Snake's spirit,
08:48using Homer's body.
08:49Snake is able to kill Apu and Moe,
08:52but when it comes to killing Bart,
08:53Homer's consciousness fights back
08:55and he rips Snake's hair from his head.
08:57The kid's gotta die.
08:59But I love my son!
09:01More than a lush head of hair?
09:05Don't make me choose!
09:07Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
09:08Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
09:11No!
09:13Aaaaah!
09:15Things get even more ridiculous when the hair goes after Bart
09:18and is only stopped after a lengthy shootout from police.
09:25At a yard sale,
09:26Homer buys a transporter set for 35 cents from Professor Frank.
09:29Two bucks, and...
09:32Did only transports matter?
09:36Well, uh...
09:38I'll give you 35 cents.
09:40So!
09:40He uses it to do various tasks around the house
09:43and warns Bart not to use it as the consequences can be dire.
09:47While Bart's trying to use it late at night,
09:49Snowball 2 and Santa's Little Helper both go through it
09:52and they become mixed together as a two-headed creature
09:54and a two rear-ended creature.
09:56Bart gets the idea to enter the transporter with a fly,
09:59thinking it'll give him superpowers.
10:01Instead, his head is swapped with the fly's.
10:04With help from Lisa, he's able to get his body back.
10:07Not only is this an excellent parody of the fly,
10:10but also, don't mess with Homer's machine.
10:12Homer, what are you doing?
10:14Something I should have done a long time ago.
10:17I'll teach you to mess with my machine!
10:22Though it may look pretty dated now,
10:24the three-dimensional computer animation in this segment
10:26was revolutionary in 1995.
10:29In addition to the graphics,
10:31the premise of this segment is extremely memorable.
10:33It follows Homer as he stumbles upon
10:35the fabled third dimension behind his bookshelf.
10:38I never looked behind this whatchamacallit case before.
10:40Heh heh heh heh heh.
10:42Huh?
10:43It's filled with Easter eggs,
10:44including the library and pond from the video game Myst
10:48and a code that spells out Frank Rules.
10:51The final moments when Bart fails to save Homer
10:53and he ends up in our world
10:54is one of the series' few forays into live-action.
10:57Aaaaaaah!
10:59Ow!
11:00But it's likely the most clever.
11:02Oh, what?
11:03Oh!
11:10There you are, my man.
11:11And a dollar for yourself.
11:13A buck.
11:15I'm glad there's a curse on this place.
11:17Huh?
11:17Back in 1990,
11:18the very first Treehouse of Horror
11:20opened with this send-up of haunted house movies.
11:23In the segment, the Simpsons move into a new house,
11:26complete with bleeding walls
11:27and a vortex into another dimension.
11:29Hey, pretty slick.
11:31The family initially works with the horror cliches
11:34that come with the new digs.
11:35You must kill them all.
11:37But after an evil voice encourages them to attack each other,
11:40they decide to confront the disembodied spirit of the house.
11:43Are you trying to keep us from getting close to you?
11:45Maybe even loving you?
11:47Leave me alone.
11:48Don't talk to her like that.
11:50Hey, listen, lady.
11:51Well, don't call me lady.
11:52Once the spirit realizes how annoying the Simpsons are,
11:55it chooses to destroy itself
11:57rather than spend another moment with the dysfunctional family.
12:00The segment's hilarious and memorable ending
12:02was only the beginning of decades' worth of TV's best Halloween specials.
12:06Wow.
12:07Bitch you!
12:08It chose to destroy itself rather than live with us.
12:11You can't help but feel a little rejected.
12:13Number 18.
12:14Dial Z for Zombies.
12:16Pretty as a picture.
12:20It's not uncommon for Bart's mischief
12:21to cause trouble for the residents of Springfield.
12:23But among his most troublesome moments
12:25is the time he accidentally resurrects the town's dead.
12:29The show's large cast of characters is played to hilarity here,
12:32as we see how various Springfield citizens react to the zombies,
12:35from Groundskeeper Willie's apathy to Ned Flanders' politeness.
12:39I'm feeling a might peckish.
12:41Mind if I chew your ear?
12:46Dad, you killed the zombie Flanders.
12:49He was a zombie?
12:50Kang and Kodos even make a cameo to laugh at the human's plight.
12:53Soon the human race will wither and fall,
12:56like the earth plums we have seen on the observer scope.
13:02It's all about the characters in this segment.
13:05Even the reanimated corpses of George Washington, Einstein, and Shakespeare.
13:09Wait, why would any of them be buried in Springfield?
13:13Is this the end of zombie Shakespeare?
13:16Number 17.
13:17The Thing and I.
13:24Aaaaaaah!
13:27The Simpsons has been on the air since 1989,
13:30so the writers were bound to resort to an evil twin plot twist eventually.
13:34As it turns out, Bart was born with a conjoined twin,
13:37and Homer and Marge have been keeping him hidden in the attic all these years,
13:41subsisting on a diet of fish heads.
13:43Hugo is actually one of the series' best one-episode characters,
13:46thanks to some fine voice work by Nancy Cartwright.
13:49I went mad after they tore us apart,
13:51but I'll be sane once I sew us back together.
13:54In fact, he even took the top spot on WatchMojo's list of TV evil twins.
13:59Ultimately, this treehouse of horror segment comes to a close with a brilliant twist.
14:04It turns out Bart was the evil twin all along.
14:07Come to think of it, does that really surprise anyone?
14:09Oh, don't look so shocked.
14:11Number 16.
14:12Bart Simpson's Dracula.
14:14When the Simpsons travel from the quaint town of Springfield to the terrifying state of Pennsylvania,
14:19they realize something is off about Mr. Burns.
14:22Well, if it isn't my good friends the...
14:24Simpson family master.
14:26Simpson, eh?
14:27After some digging, Lisa and Bart discover he's a vampire.
14:31What's exceptional about this episode is how neatly each character slides into the story.
14:36Burns is the villain, Lisa's the investigator, and Homer is oblivious.
14:41Take that, vile fiend!
14:46Uh, Dad? That's...
14:48This segment is also full of great visual gags.
14:51Mr. Burns' shadow doesn't match his movement,
14:53vampire dentures fall out,
14:55and a secret switch reveals a laundry room.
14:58Overall, this vampire parody is a great example of how animators and writers can make a classic spooky tale feel fresh.
15:04Okay.
15:05Ah! Super fun happy side!
15:07No, Dad!
15:08Oh, I guess kill...
15:09Number 15.
15:10Life's a glitch, then you die.
15:12As 1999 came to a close, everyone was concerned about Y2K,
15:16which was an event where computers would supposedly stop working in the new millennium.
15:20Must have been hard debugging all those computers, eh, Homer?
15:24Doing what now?
15:24While this was a non-issue in real life,
15:27this segment asks what would happen if Homer caused this worst-case scenario.
15:30Oh, no. It's happening.
15:34What ensues is a series of grim but uproarious deaths all over the world caused by malfunctioning machinery.
15:40Hey, this note's broken!
15:42It's got a computer chip in it. Everything does.
15:45As the Simpsons navigate the apocalyptic hellscape,
15:48we're treated to a handful of late 90s cultural references and jokes.
15:51I am... the, uh, piano genius from the movie Shine.
15:56Uh-huh. And your name is?
15:58Uh... Shiny McChime?
16:00Although some of these gags are a bit dated today,
16:03they help make the episode into a charming and fun time capsule of the last gasps of the decade.
16:09Number 14.
16:10Stop the world, I wanna goof off.
16:13Bart's pranks nearly caused the end of the world again in Treehouse of Horror 14.
16:17To restart time, click watch again.
16:22What the?
16:23Lisa, that's a filthy habit.
16:25When he and Milhouse buy a time-stopping watch,
16:28they're able to cause chaos all over town.
16:31When their misdeeds attract an angry mob,
16:33they freeze time and accidentally break the watch.
16:36Everyone but the two kids are left frozen.
16:38Things are stuck like this forever.
16:40Well, I couldn't be happier.
16:42I'm the second coolest kid on Earth.
16:44This sci-fi premise is milked for all it's worth.
16:47Bart and Milhouse live with no rules and do whatever they please with their fellow Springfieldians.
16:52Fortunately, they learn how to fix the watch by completing eight one-hour lessons.
16:56Unfortunately for the kids, it takes them 15 years to get through them all.
17:00Acting natural and...
17:05To repeat what I said a moment ago, you are so dead.
17:09Number 13.
17:10Bart's Nightmare.
17:11Also known as the Bart Zone.
17:14In yet another Twilight Zone spoof,
17:16this story imbues Bart with godlike powers.
17:18A truly terrifying concept.
17:20Every day, same old cat.
17:23I'll make it more interesting.
17:29The entire town is forced to bend to his every whim or be horribly punished.
17:33Bart's scary world is full of great comedic touches.
17:36Well, it's still on.
17:38346 consecutive hours.
17:41Krusty is on 24 hours a day.
17:43The history book is adjusted to reflect Bart's test answers.
17:46And Homer is occasionally turned into a jack-in-the-box who struggles around air conditioning.
17:51Homer, I see you agree with my theory.
17:53I'm not nodding. It's the air conditioning.
17:54This episode also features a heartwarming sequence
17:57where Homer and Bart bond and mend their relationship.
18:01But as soon as the father kisses his son,
18:03the entire story is hilariously revealed to be one of Bart's nightmares.
18:07Thanks, boy.
18:08I love you, Dad.
18:10I love you, son.
18:19Although Lisa is the most well-behaved member of the family,
18:23her smarts can occasionally get her into hot water.
18:26Stupid Bart.
18:27Case in point, this tale,
18:29in which she accidentally creates a micro-society while trying to ruin soft drinks for everyone.
18:34One of them is nailing something to the door of the cathedral.
18:38I've created Lutherans.
18:39After her small society quickly evolves into a technologically advanced city,
18:43tiny scientists shrink her down to their size.
18:46The de-bigulator worked!
18:49Hail Lisa!
18:52They treat Lisa like a god and see Bart as the devil.
18:55Look, the destroyer! He returns!
18:58Unfortunately, the tiny people can't make their god big again.
19:01Lisa may end up trapped in a prison of her own making,
19:04but hey, at least she has her worshippers.
19:06Although it's one of the most bizarre treehouse tales,
19:09its strange premise makes the story stick with you long after the first watch.
19:13Shouldn't you people be groveling?
19:16And bring me some shoes.
19:21Dad! Your hand is jammed in the toaster!
19:24Dad!
19:27Inspired by Ray Bradbury's short story, A Sound of Thunder,
19:30this segment isn't the scariest of the series,
19:33but it's filled to the brim with pop culture references and one-liners.
19:37Look at that!
19:38I'm the first non-Brazilian person to travel backwards through time!
19:42Correction, Homer. You're the second.
19:44That's right, Mr. Peabody!
19:46Quiet, you!
19:47Homer just can't seem to get his hand out of the toaster,
19:49which causes him to travel to prehistoric times and alter the course of history,
19:54just as his father warned him not to on his wedding day.
19:58Once again, painting Flanders as an amiable villain is a dynamic choice,
20:02as are Homer's various reactions to the altered realities.
20:05Tragically, he misses out on a world where it rains doughnuts.
20:09James Earl Jones returns to cameo as Maggie,
20:12but beyond that, there's just so much to love about this segment.
20:21Eh, close enough.
20:25You like doughnuts, eh?
20:27Uh-huh.
20:28Well, have all the doughnuts in the world!
20:31Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
20:33Homer's fatal flaw will always be his love of doughnuts.
20:37When he sells his soul for one, it's up to the rest of the family to save him from the Devil,
20:41who appears in the form of Ned.
20:43But just because Flanders is the Prince of Darkness doesn't mean he's any less charm-diddly-arming.
20:48You're wide behind won't save you this time!
20:51Hey, Bart.
20:51Hey. Wait!
20:52The Devil and Homer Simpson is certainly one of the more horrific segments in the show's history,
20:56but it actually has a surprisingly sweet ending,
20:59in which Marge saves Homer with the power of love, sort of.
21:02Eh, we find that Homer Simpson's soul is legally the property of Marge Simpson and not of the Devil.
21:08No.
21:09He still pays a hefty, though delicious, price when his head is transformed into a doughnut.
21:14But, fun fact, that can be purchased as a costume in the Simpsons hit-and-run video game.
21:19Stop picking at it!
21:20Oh, but I'm so sweet and tasty!
21:24Number nine, Clown Without Pity.
21:26Take this object, but beware, it carries a terrible curse.
21:31Ooh, that's bad.
21:32But it comes with a free fro-gurt!
21:34That's good!
21:35The fro-gurt is also cursed.
21:37That's bad.
21:38This segment taps into one of humankind's most common fears,
21:41cursed frozen yogurt.
21:43The toppings contain potassium benzoate.
21:48That's bad.
21:48Krusty gives Chucky a run for his money in the evil doll department,
21:52when the killer Krusty doll comes to life and threatens to murder Homer.
21:57This one is full of memorable quotes, like Grandpa shouting that all of Bart's presents are evil
22:01and Homer's assertion that he's being mocked by a small appliance.
22:04The doll's trying to kill me and the toaster's been laughing at me!
22:07The segment's resolution epitomizes the show's brilliant but simple humor,
22:11as the doll's setting was set to evil instead of good all along.
22:15Hey, it's a smarter ending than most modern horror movies.
22:18Yep, here's your problem.
22:20Someone set this thing to evil.
22:24I love you, Homer.
22:25Number 8, Lisa's Nightmare, also known as the Monkey Paw.
22:29Since be-careful-what-you-wish-for stories have been around forever,
22:33it was only a matter of time before The Simpsons got around to tackling one.
22:36What is this thing?
22:38It is a monkey's paw dating back to a live and after life.
22:41It has the power to grant wishes to its owner.
22:43In one segment, Homer purchases a monkey's paw that grants the family four wishes.
22:48But every request backfires terribly.
22:51After Lisa wishes for world peace,
22:53her good intentions backfire when Kang and Kodos enslave the human race with a club and a slingshot.
22:58I can't get us with a club!
23:00Wish we'd saved an A-bomb or two.
23:01Move along, humans.
23:03What makes the episode stand out is Bart's wish for fame and fortune.
23:06Before, I was just bored with their antics and their merchandise.
23:09Now I wish they were dead.
23:10The Simpsons become so famous that the public becomes annoyed by their overexposure.
23:15This wish serves as the show's meta-commentary on its insane popularity at the time.
23:19The most tragic wish of all, though, is when Homer asks for a turkey sandwich.
23:24Turkey's a little dry.
23:26The turkey's a little dry?
23:28Oh, foul and cursed thing!
23:30What demon from the depths of hell created thee?
23:41This parody of A Nightmare on Elm Street
23:43sees groundskeeper Willie donning Freddy Krueger's iconic outfit
23:46and attacking the students of Springfield Elementary in their dreams.
23:49Willie vowed vengeance against the parents of Springfield
23:52after he was burned to a crisp during a PTA meeting on one cold day in Smarch.
23:57You'll pay for this with your children's blood!
24:01Pairing Lisa and Bart together always proves to be a recipe for a fun episode.
24:05And it doesn't get more fun than watching them take down a hot-headed Scottish serial killer.
24:10But, of course, it's Maggie who ultimately saves the day with her trusty pacifier.
24:14But not before Willie can get in one last scare?
24:24Kang and Kodos are among The Simpsons' strangest side characters.
24:27The oddball aliens made quite a splash with fans when they debuted in the first Treehouse of Horror.
24:32After abducting the Simpsons clan, they feed the family and show them immense hospitality.
24:40But, unfortunately, not HBO.
24:44The episode builds up a surprising amount of tension
24:47as Lisa questions what the aliens' plans are for her family.
24:50But the story all comes to a fittingly comedic ending
24:53when Lisa once again ruins the family's good time.
24:56Thirty years later, Kang and Kodos still make an appearance in every Treehouse of Horror.
25:01To this day, every Simpsons fan remembers this episode's cookbook joke
25:05as one of the series' very finest.
25:10Ah-ha!
25:11Ah!
25:13Wait, there's still more space dust on here.
25:18Ah!
25:19Number 5. Nightmare Cafeteria
25:21Considering how bad the student body is at Springfield Elementary on a daily basis,
25:26we understand why the staff would have a desire to get revenge against the kids.
25:29But who would have thought it would be so delicious?
25:32Oh, lunch lady, please do have another sloppy Jimbo.
25:35That is good, right?
25:37In response to the overly crowded detentions,
25:40Skinner decides the appropriate solution is to kill the kids and serve them for lunch.
25:44In fact, you might even say we just ate Ooter and he's in our stomachs right now.
25:50Ah-ha-ha!
25:51The way the episode doesn't pull any punches with the subject matter
25:54and fully embraces its grim story
25:56makes it one of the darkest Treehouse tales of all time.
25:59Who knew school staff would make such disturbing villains?
26:02Well, other than Willie, at least he tried to save the kids.
26:05Well then, kids, I'm coming to rescue the lot of you.
26:09Ow!
26:11Ugh, I'm bad at this.
26:12Number 4. Citizen Kang
26:15Political satire and Halloween come together perfectly
26:18in the smart examination of the 1996 election that still holds weight today.
26:22Take us to your leader.
26:24Well, I guess you mean President Clinton.
26:26He usually hangs around Washington, D.C.
26:28Kang and Kodos decide to take the places of then-President Bill Clinton
26:31and presidential hopeful Bob Dole
26:34in the hopes of taking the highest office in the land.
26:36What's happening? Is it noon already?
26:39The greatest part of this is how easily the two aliens
26:42are able to woo voters with their nonsense.
26:44But is that really any different than real-life politics?
26:47Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
26:51Yay!
26:53It reaches the height of its satirical excellence
26:55when the pair is revealed to be aliens.
26:57But Kang is ultimately elected because it's a two-party system.
27:01Well, I believe I'll vote for a third-party candidate.
27:03Go ahead. Throw your vote away.
27:09Seems like that may not have been the right choice, though.
27:11Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
27:14Go!
27:18In a parody of the classic Twilight Zone episode
27:20Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,
27:22this segment sees Bart as the only school bus rider
27:25who's able to see the Gremlin terrorizing the vehicle.
27:28The Gremlin's taken off the wheel. Stop the bus or we're all gonna die!
27:32Despite taking place almost entirely on a bus,
27:35the pace never feels sluggish.
27:37The segment also manages to get in several cameos
27:40from adult characters to drop a quick joke.
27:42Most notable of these is poor Mole Man's awful but hilarious demise.
27:46No! Oh, no. I just made my last payment.
27:53While it might not be the most outlandish premise for a horror segment,
27:57what brings it this close to the top of the list
27:59is that it's full of gut-busting gags from start to finish.
28:03Ah, at least now I can get some rest.
28:08Idleweed Hollowback!
28:11Edgar Allan Poe is likely the most high-profile guest writer ever
28:15to have inadvertently written for The Simpsons.
28:17And it's a testament to the show's comic genius
28:19that it can make the work of this dark poet hilarious.
28:22Often here I flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter,
28:26in their stepless stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
28:29With Bart taking on the role of the titular raven
28:31and Homer as the unnamed protagonist,
28:33The Simpsons adaptation of The Raven takes a few artistic liberties
28:37while still being highly respectful of the source material.
28:45A fantastic guest spot from James Earl Jones completes the scene,
28:49which has since become a classic
28:51and helped get many students interested in poetry.
28:53Poe will be funnier than this never more.
28:59Floating on the floor shall be lifted never more.
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29:21Number 1. The Shinning
29:23No, not The Shining. Do you want to get sued?
29:26Treehouse of Horror has always been one of the best sources of horror parody,
29:30and this segment exemplifies that.
29:32When the family is isolated in a remote mountain hotel without TV or beer,
29:37Homer sums up the situation best.
29:39No TV and no beer make Homer something-something.
29:43Go crazy?
29:45Don't mind if I do!
29:48The icing on the cake is the very first in a series of gags
29:52that recur throughout the three segments of Treehouse of Horror 5,
29:55where Willie tries to save the day but is axed in the back.
29:58All right, loony, show me what you got!
30:02A respectful homage to Stanley Kubrick's work that's almost as iconic as its source material,
30:07this is The Simpsons at its scariest and smartest.
30:11Give me the bat! Come on! Give me the bat!
30:13Give me the bat, bat, bat!
30:16Ha, ha, ha! Scaredy cat!
30:21What's your favorite Treehouse of Horror story?
30:23Let us know in the comments.
30:25Wait a minute, Xena can't fly!
30:27I told you, I'm not Xena. I'm Lucy Lawless.
30:30Oh.
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