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<\/a>Parodying the Season 5 episode ‘Terror at 20,000 Feet’ of the original ‘Twilight Zone’, ‘Terror at 5 \u00bd Feet’ remains one of my favorite ‘Treehouse’ segments. Not only does it have funny one-off gags like Martin’s “Wang Computers” T-shirt and another unfair demise for Hans Moleman, it also captures the spirit of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ episode really well. It spoofs the scary monster outside plot, and it also tries to re-imagine the slow descent into madness as Bart gets crazier and crazier when he finds out that no one will listen to him. Plus, the gremlin in the episode is a much better-looking monster than the weird yeti thing that William Shatner faced on his plane.<\/p>\n9. ‘Clown Without Pity’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror III’<\/h5>\n
<\/p>\n I don’t think a winter goes by without me saying that line at least a couple dozen times. Most people look at me confusedly, but ‘Simpsons’ fans always give me a sly smile. This is one of the most memorable ‘Treehouse’ episodes simply because of how funny it turns out to be. As a take on the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ movies, ‘Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace’ has Groundskeeper Willie in the Freddy Krueger role, killing children in their dreams. I laugh every time a dead Martin gets wheeled out and the sheet inadvertently comes off to reveal his frozen, horrific face: “No, not into the kindergarten!”<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>Another ‘Twilight Zone’ episode gets a send up here. This time, it’s for the episode ‘Living Doll’. In the original, a sinister doll threatens to kill the father of the family because he’s not very nice. Here, Homer buys Bart a Krusty doll for his birthday, which turns out to be a homicidal maniac. No one believes Homer that the doll is trying to kill him. My favorite part of the episode has to be the end when the repairman comes to fix the doll and finds that it’s accidentally been set to its “Evil” setting.<\/p>\n8. ‘Time and Punishment’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror V’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>This is the only segment on my list that doesn’t really have a Halloween theme to it, but I love it so much that I had to include it anyway. After Homer mysteriously gets his hand stuck in his toaster not once but twice, he decides to fix the appliance. Instead, he accidentally turns his toaster into a time machine and travels back to a time when “dinosaurs weren’t just confined to zoos.”<\/em> So long as Homer doesn’t touch anything, everything from his present life should stay the same. But then he kills a mosquito, and gets transported back to a present day where Flanders is the new world overlord. Traveling back and forth through time, Homer finally ends up causing the extinction of the entire dinosaur species. There are many classic moments packed into this short segment, my favorite of which is when Homer falls down, squishes a prehistoric fish and then laments, “Oh, I wish, I wish, I wouldn’t have killed that fish.”<\/em><\/p>\n7. ‘Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror VI’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>“Lousy Smarch weather!”<\/em><\/p>\n6. ‘House of Whacks’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror XII’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>As a parody of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, ‘House of Whacks’ tells the horrific tale of how the Simpson family turns over the home to a completely automated system voiced by the suave Pierce Brosnan. They could’ve picked Matthew Perry, but that would have been even scarier. The house soon becomes enamored with Marge and is determined to kill Homer at all costs, luring him to his death with the aroma of “unexplained bacon.”<\/em><\/p>\n5. ‘Hungry Are the Damned’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror I’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>Ah, the very first ‘Treehouse of Horror’. The tradition has come a long way since this episode, but there’s one segment that really stands out. The Simpson family has been abducted by the aliens Kang and Kodos (who quickly became ‘Treehouse’ staples after this). Lisa is convinced that the aliens are trying to fatten them up to eat them. This episode contains one of the best ‘Simpsons’ gags of all-time. It’s so simple, yet it’s also unforgettable. Lisa finds a cook book titled “How to Cook Humans.” Everyone gasps, until one of the aliens blows off a little space dust to show that the book really says “How to Cook for Humans.” Then more space dust: “How to Cook Forty Humans.” Even more space dust: “How to Cook for Forty Humans.” That gets me every time.<\/p>\n4. ‘It’s the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror XIX’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>What starts out as a parody of ‘It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown’ quickly turns into a monster movie send-up. The Grand Pumpkin that Milhouse has been waiting for grows into a giant murderous gourd that attacks the school and eats people due to the revelation that people carve pumpkins for Halloween. The only way to combat the monster? A giant Tom Turkey (a symbol of Thanksgiving), of course. Tom Turkey kills the Grand Pumpkin, but after learning that humans eat turkeys on Thanksgiving, he begins devouring school children whole.<\/p>\n3. ‘The Ned Zone’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror XV’<\/h5>\n
<\/a>After getting bashed on the head with a bowling ball that Homer was using to get a Frisbee off his roof, Ned can see the future. In this spoof of Stephen King’s ‘The Dead Zone’, not only can Ned see the future, he can see when people are going to die. I love the hilariously creepy way that Ned’s visions are presented, and the way the segment quickly builds a mysterious story where Ned sees himself shooting Homer, but not knowing when or why it will happen. Homer desperately wants to know how he’ll die: “A naked girl avalanche?!”<\/em> Fun story aside, I totally forgot that this episode comes up with a completely different meaning for “WTF”: “What the Family Circus?”<\/em> Oh, Ned\u2026<\/p>\n2. ‘The Devil and Homer Simpson’ from ‘Treehouse of Horror IV’<\/h5>\n