[WEEK 4] treehouse of horror watchthrough!!

okay this ones about to get crazy y'all.... in regards to scheduling, that is. i think i mentioned in the intro post that i wanted to keep episodes from the same season together, so.. this is the result of that... anywho, same ol' shenanigan, you understand.. if not, feel free to go back and read the previous weeks' posts! otherwise, let's just hop right in!

this week's episodes were...

day 1 - treehouse of horror XXV

1. school is hell: i love bart and lisa's little demon designs?? how cute! another point to the bart and devil counter... additional point to the bart and pecora counter (seems to be bovidae in this instance).. i think it's a conceptually fun segment, but another case where the execution is kinda middling to me? there's some silly jokes, like burns' hell portal, and the tormented parents in the crowd at the grad ceremony. but otherwise idk some of the humour was a little stilted to me? it's whateva idk.. GUARDS ARREST THAT TEACHER
   
   
2. a clockwork yellow: should i watch a clockwork orange..?? maybe. a fun concept again! a couple jokes tickled me, like the long sped up footage of homer just doing anything while marge sits there.. i also thought there was some cool shots in this one (some of which are probably taken from the original film i imagine?), like the shot where they pull out the "home invasion" card and then hop burns' gate, that one was neat :0 i also loved the 60s fashion! there were some cool elements here and there, otherwise not much else to add alas :p
   
   
3. the others: what a fun concept! my dad read the episode description and went "ooh!" at this segment. i love seeing the older simpsons style emulated in the modern day, it's so neat.. twister head mention!! i also liked the slightly different voice direction for the older simpsons, a good detail... i think the actual plot is, a little flimsy? maybe i'm just not a fan of spousal jealousy stories like this? there were a few zingers i enjoyed though, like classic homer using the toaster as a blunt object weapon?? whats. the word. i frogot, anyways, and willy.... eating the kids for stew?? hello?? crazy work, speaking of crazy work i must mention the armada of simpsons families in different styles, that is very silly... some of them are a little scary... but still, very fun.. also i am burdened with knowledge due to Cartoon Enjoyment, so it's a lot of haha i know that reference! also hey!! it's the short(s) where they take a family photo!! but, new!! neato!

day 2 - treehouse of horror XXVI + halloween of horror

1. wanted: dead, then alive: remember when they first killed a kid onscreen... a cherished memory for many i'm sure. anyways the pattern's back! but it's one kid over and over and over again! it's. it's little funny. love you bart, but it's a little funny. and i love sideshow bob, always a pleasure to have him around. it's actually kinda surprising it took them this long to do a sideshow bob segment? maybe there was a thing about it back in the day that they decided to let go of (like the killing kids onscreen thing lol)? unsure. actually fun fact when i first watched this during my 2020 watchthrough, i had not watched most of the simpsons at that point (tbh still haven't, but i've watched much more now) so i, did not know who sideshow bob was and i thought part of the joke was that this random guy wanted to kill bart for no reason?? oh you sweet summer child.. you'll soon learn... anywho, a fun one!
   
   an aside, but yesterday i was on tumblr dot shit, and i was roaming the simpsons tag, you know how it goes, and i saw some neat fanart of this episode by vapefeare that had some neat implications, which she explained a bit in the tags, ("bob altered bart irreversibly over the course of the thoh and then bart altered bob irreversibly at the end") and idk i just thought that was cool! i like when people find meaning in stuff, even if it's "sillier" stuff :)
   
   
2. homerzilla: this ones, fine, i guess? it's pretty disjointed i feel like? which affects the pacing a lot. idk.. there's also stuff to be said about some of the humour in this one.. like... i feel like we regressed a little here, like we're making sushi is gross jokes and doing, frankly half-assed fake "asian" accents? if you're gonna do the accents - go big or go home, man. don't put your audience in is this insensitive limbo. i want sushi now sorry that's an aside. yumby. anyways, amongst other things, there's a weird energy to this one that i'm not sure i love. to be kind, i like. the outfits, generally. retro rural japan moment. alliteration. and my favourite line in this one is probably "what the hell does that mean, grandpa-san?" because it's so stupid and delivered in such an absurd way that i think i just have to laugh. also the ex-husband grumple thing is a bit funny, no clue what the context for that bit is.
   
   
3. telepaths of glory: telepathy oooooh! that's me going ooooh get spooked ah!! anyways this ones conceptually neat, and i think the beginning bit is quite fun! i like the mildly janky animated handheld camera movement, and the silly shenanigans of my kids i mean the kids, the genuine worry in "where are my owls??", and "it's a dress that boys can wear..." oh milhouse you sweet summer child.. it will be okay.. amongst other things! i think after the little montage it kinda loses momentum? i am tickled by maggie's use of her powers though.. the simpsons always makes fun of french people, and i find this funny.

day 3 - treehouse of horror XXVII

1. dry hard: hunger games based one! (i. admittedly. have not seen nor read the hunger games. and i pretended i did once to seem normal to my classmates when the films were still coming out. fun fact. they said something about peeta getting hijacked or something?? spoilers, if so. sorry. and i was like yeah haha that was crazy! i think they also asked me if i was team peeta or team gale because of course they did. and i said team peeta because that seemed to be the more popular one. but anyways i've heard it's good!) this ones fine? similarly to some other segments, i think this one has some weird pacing in areas? i know it's meant to be pretty quick, part of the joke is the abruptness in which the parts occur, and that bit is fine. but i feel like even the first part is kinda too quick for me to get into it? also probably helps to have seen the source material, but still. i like the costuming, and that skinner's version of an ostentatious capitol look is, i think the rumtumtugger makeup from cats?? incredible. (also haven't actually seen cats, i'd like to THE STAGE VERSION. NOT THE 2019 ONE. UNLESS I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY FUNNY.) but yeah. shrug. i liked burns' crazy moves.. pop off king...? also surprisingly few onscreen child murders. not none, but few.
   
   
2. bff r.i.p: i love a concept like this!! like okay it follows me by mlpstopmotion!! i know too many things. i am burdened with knowledge. (nah just kidding i love knowing random stuff) anyways, i like rachel's design, like yeah of course a little girl would make her imaginary friend like a slightly older girl (?) wearing the sort of outfit a small child would come up with, yaknow? also she gets some fun character animation here and there! like when she says "i came from your brain..", idk looks cool! also trucker lisa running over trees and shit is pretty funny. also liked the animation on lisa when rachel disappears and leaves "txt me" behind.. also fond of "i deliver little bags to guys inside. don't know what's in 'em, but they're sure glad to see me." and wiggum's relief after being shivved lmao?? and NO SNOWBALL NOOOOO sorry that was an emotional response, anyways i also liked the detail of lisa grabbing the iron with oven mitts on.. hell yeah safety first.. also r.i.p sergeant sausage.. or. i guess he's fine. but.. still..
   
   also fun fact there was a wee bit where my dad was squinting at the screen and then turned to me and said "is that...." and there was a silence and then a "...sarah silverman?" and i said yes because i'm pretty sure. but i actually don't remember for sure hold on. update, yes.
   
   
3. moefinger: another not very halloween-y concept, but i love a spy moment so much that i really don't mind. there's some pretty silly bits in this one, like the Wall of pickled eggs, and the song intro still going even after the fight.. also there's some like, kinda neat interactions in this one? like bart's "training", or bart missing nelson's heart ("haha, you missed my heart!") and opting to pull out his organs instead, which prompts nelson to go "atta boy." and then immediately collapse.. i don't know guys.. is this one kinda fire.. like there's some jokes that felt a little obvious or even cliché.. but i think it's so earnest and just fun to me personally that like.. idk man i like this one.. and it transitions nicely into the silly little outro sequence so.. two thumbs up from me!
   
   also an aside, but i've decided we are being very frank and honest on this day.. before this rewatch, i actually misremembered some details about how the little bart and nelson interaction goes? for a while now, i thought that bart actually does pull out nelson's heart after failing too before, and i also thought he did it with a like, wine bottle corkscrew for some reason? interesting the way your mind sorta fills in the blanks.. like i got the gist of it, but i fudged some details in my brainicles.. anyways, sorta funny that i misremembered it in that way because i think about that interaction... once a week.. (that's a lie i just wanted to reference john mulaney again) but i do think about it on occasion because nelson is one of my kids too and my kids are so special to me, we've established this, and if i keep talking i'm gonna start rambling about episodes like the haw-hawed couple and i'm gonna sound actually clinically insane so i'm not gonna do that rn...

day 4 - treehouse of horror XXVIII

1. the sweets hereafter: because wikipedia lists this as a seperate segment i guess i'm gonna do that too... (so if wikipedia jumped a bridge would you do it too?) bit funny in a very grim way, a particularly brand of edgy humour if that makes sense? which is like, fine idk.. the candy puns are mildly amusing.. i appreciate a butterfinger joke.. they, look horrifying to be honest, but yaknow.. such is the nature of 3D simpsons characters, especially when they're candy bars...
   
   also ain't this one (loosely) based on sausage party?? bad movie i watched it once don't do that to yourself it was bad
   
   
2. the exor-sis: maggie gor possessed... kind of silly i rock w it i think? couple amusing bits, like the amazon package, or the various spooky happenings around maggie's room. otherwise i don't have much else to add, tis a fine one.. and yet another point to the bart and the devil counter AND another point to the bart and pecora counter (cervidae in this instance)....
   
   
3. coralisa: i should rewatch coraline what a good movie dawg anyways, fun segment i think! the slightly unnerving 3D simpsons style kinda works here, plus the coraline/stop-motion stylization :) there's some like, slightly weird pacing in this one, maybe that's just me though? also homer wondering why the cat can speak in the "normal" world confuses me... mama how did homer know he could speak at all at that point.. to be fair i actually didn't notice that upon my first watch so.. whateva.. also these are just silly little nitpicks, either way, still a fun one! quite tickled by the drawing bart did of his family, it's cute and also would be slightly funny and horrifying to receive as a teacher. also nelson's mouth being zipped as a reference to "other" wybie is neat me thinks..
   
   
4. mmm... homer: perhaps controversial, but i kind of don't mind how gross this one is, it's a bit funny in a grim way.. you understand.. like don't get me wrong it's like viscerally grody, but idk it also kinda tickles me... perhaps i am Sick and Twisted in this way.. to the joker this segment is just a normal, segment, or something.. idk.. im tired sorry guyse.. anywho! couple funny bits, i like marge's very real like, freeze she does when she discovers what homer is doing.. i am also tickled by lenny only being concerned by horses being in the filler meat when, there are fully other guys in there..
   
   also i always find it like.. interesting? mildly distressing maybe? that if homer just waited a little longer, he could've avoided this entire situation and had a lovely meal with the flanders.. freaked up...

1. intrusion of the pod-y switchers: ah!! ipod!! this ones fine, there's some silly bits in here, like "thank god you're okay." also tickled by the tree's being chill with vegetarians in a, mildly unnerving way... my dad was doing some other stuff at the same time as this and i pity him for having an audio only experience of the trippy ass like transfering sequence.. though maybe not because he did get to hear dramatic music and then "you don't make friends with salad" and then the dramatic music returning, so.. whos to say..
   
   
2. multiplisa-ty: it's a split parody.. yay..... much to be said about split, i am not the first to have said this.. alas, because it's a pretty straightforward parody, i don't really like this one by proxy. it's just kind of the same shitty trope.. there's a couple jokes i liked.. like nelson's unreliable narration of what happened prior, and bart's little speech to lisa, and ..newspaper stack milhouse (?) tumbling into the pit in the background.. there's some amusing bits of dialogue here and there and i'm just personally fond of the dynamic between these characters in particular. so. a few wins.
   
   
3. geriatric park: very silly premise.. some amusing bits as well, like frink getting got by the other scientists lmao.. i generally like this one? though, i would argue this is another one of those where not much actually happens? which doesn't bother me too much, it's a light watch so to speak.. not much to dig into but like, sometimes that's okay.. idk..

1. prologue: another one i'm including as a segment because wikipedia lists it as such.. tis a neat concept! perhaps we need a maggie and possession counter... couple jokes that tickled me.. some.. less so.. not too fond of the shot of shauna, jimbo and kearney making out.. as brief as it is.. i. don't need to see that actually. anywho. disney joke is funny, always extra tickled to see those jokes while watching on disney+... also i like emo rod and todd
   
   
2. danger things: i haven't actually watched stranger things i should do that (the audience begins begging me not to, i imagine).. my dad watched the first season when it came out and liked it a lot.. anyways, tis a fine segment. tickled by the whole "not now milhouse, mommy and daddy are loud talking!" scene, also the amusing background happenings in the over-under, like classic lisa and bart walking around (twister head mention!!) and milhouse's leg skateboarding in the back... my girlfriend said she liked the idea of the leg learning how to skateboard from classic bart. hell yeah.. also i think lisa's accidental haircut is cute. also! a year ago or so i remembered the "we lost a lot of good witches at salem" joke, and i was like that's funny but i cant remember what episode its from... so i went and looked and then eventually deduced it was from this one and that's the story. yep.
   
   
3. heaven swipes right: this ones... fine. i guess. couple funny bits, like bart posing for a photo on homer's corpse. or yet another moment of god being like, an old rich dude, and heaven being sold out to google.. quite amusing.. otherwise, not much else to write home about.. it's. fine. some jokes really didn't land for me to be so haych.. it's whatever ┐(￣～￣)┌
   
   
4. when hairy met slimy: i haven't seen shape of water should i watch shape of water.. anywho, this ones also. fine. a couple bits tickled me.. like the actual movie protag signing that she just doesn't want to talk to selma. also tickled by how burns' body falls. there's also some fun character animation in this one! i like selma's outfit a lot too :) i, really don't care for the "32 sexual identities" bit.. it goes on for way too long i feel, and it's like, it's a little "attack helicopter" swag.. call me Woke, but it's just not my thing. otherwise, as i said, a fine one.

1. toy gory: the simpsons characters are still mildly horrifying in 3D sorry guys.. it's a bit funny.. anyways, this ones alright i spose! not a go to of mine, but it's got some amusingly grim bits that tickle me so.. such as "grandpa where's your scrotum?" "i think i left it in my other pants" (not grim i spose but still amusing), some jokes were a little stilted to me? like some of barbie i mean malibu stacy's lines were kinda predictable? but yaknow, whatever... good lord bart in particular looks so janky in 3D im sorry to keep harping on this but it's so funny i want one of those goofy lookin plushes of him someday... i've seen them around.. like antique shops and stuff.. so.. someday.. trust guys.. always trust.. i may have blinded you (/ref)
   
   
2. into the homerverse: the original spiderverse movie is so good i watched it quite late which is to say like in 2021 not that you can't watch movies after they've come out but still it was really good! and i should rewatch it at some point, and also watch the sequel which i haven't done yet oops... also fun fact when i was watching the first one and doc oc appeared i turned around slowly like a foreboding gay little doll like woah mama!! woman!! so that's great good for me happy pride. anyways. back to the simpsons. this ones also quite silly!! it's one where technically not much happens, but again i really don't mind. it's a fun enough premise that i enjoy it anyways. i like the mix of clear references to the actual movie spidermen that appear and some original ideas, like disney princess homer, whom i love i think she's awesome. also here comes dan castellaneta's awesome singing voice again hello!! anyways yah, not a #1 favourite but still fun! i think i've come to like it more and more as i've rewatched it idk
   
   
3. be nine, rewind: i quite like this one too!! i actually initially thought it was based on happy death day because i'm three years old (again, not true) but apparently (according to wikipedia and it's source which i haven't checked yet as of writing) it's based on a show called russian doll which seems quite neat! perhaps i should give it a watch someday too! anywho, a fun concept with, again, grim but amusing execution... and i like seeing lisa and nelson team up in this one too! actually another fun fact for you folks, i used to not really understand why people were so interested in lisa and nelson's dynamic (particularly in romantic contexts) and to be honest i thought it was like, lowkey straight people nonsense... but this segment (along with a few other episodes, including rewatching the classic episode: a date with density) actually made me understand it! i'm not really an avid (looks at scribble on hand) nelisa shipper per say, but i don't know.. i just think they're neat:) also the music in this one is good, idontknow.. vibes.. various things.. don't know how to explain.. go watch it if you're curious! i enjoy smiels msmiles smiles smiles got it guys wow
   
   also while writing this section and researching what the ship name for lisa and nelson was i went onto . okay well first i was like let's go to the shipping wiki i'm sure they have a simpsons section which they did. but first when i searched i got the wikipedia article for shipping on the side, which makes sense. and i was like okay cool and then clicked on the shipping fandom wiki link and then i went hey wait a minute and backed up and i shit you not the primary image displayed on the article and when you search it for the Wikipedia Article Page For Shipping as like a Concept was MICKEY AND OSWALD FANART, LIKE FROM DISNEY. THAT'S SO FUNNY HELLO?? i love my little mickey fella because i'm a FREAK and SHILL (i'm not, disney's done bad shit we all know this) but wow.. beautiful.. well i guess it's weird. but i'm not about to incite shipping discourse on my silly simpsons blogpost rn.. anyways, there was also an image of some wiki-tan's i think? and various sections on specific fandoms including avatar the last airbender which is kind of awesome. and fucking tweek x craig like the south park episode was mentioned in the see also section. that's so funny. i've never sat down to watch south park (Actually i maybe did once cause it was on the tv but that's besides the point) and i know about that episode and the ship due to cultural osmosis and also my dear friend ash whom i'm putting on blast for that one (/lh). anyways. i didn't read through the whole article i just scrubbed it quickly.. back to the simpsons page on the shipping fandom wiki... i see the typical organized listical of like het ships, slash ships, femslash ships, etc. and i'm like cool let's go find the lisa x nelson one. and i did and it says nelisa and i go okay cool, and i click on it to open in a new tab, just to see if the article maybe could provide some new insights. yaknow. and i scroll through and click a few different ships actually. just out of curiosity. some i'm aware of, like bart x milhouse, aka barthouse, (though i forgot the ship name and was tickled to re-find out that it was barthouse) and some i had no clue were enough of a thing apparently to appear in this listical, such as lisa x blossom like from the powerpuff girls?? also known as lissom?? oh aka stands for also known as i forgot oops. anyways. so i click on one of the tabs i open and. nothing, just a like placeholder page with only a few ships listed. i go: okay, i guess this ones too niche whatever man. so i click on another tab.. this one too, huh? i click and i click and i click.. all of them, are apparently too niche to have an actual dedicated article.. (or the simpsons shipping fandom is not avid enough at the moment to create multiple designated articles with all the requirements on the shipping fandom wiki, which, yeah fair enough) so that was both amusing and a slightly disappointing point in my journey... anyways fair bit of femslash (mostly with marge) listed on there so that's fun.. despite even those mini articles being pretty barebones.. if anybody out here is passionate enough about simpsons shipping, you know what to do...

and that's all for this week!

boy i've been gettin busy these past couple weeks.. (admittedly so much so that i haven't proof read this one as of publishing, so apologies for errors) such is the nature of life and school and such :P thank you so much again for reading along thus far if you have! we're approaching the home stretch now.. i'm a bit sad to be getting close to being done for this year's rewatch.. but it was a fun ride! and still, i have another week to go... also i can just rewatch them whenever i want but shhh.... it's the formality... anywho! see you guys next week!! ~☆