If it was meant as a joke, then it doesn’t land, but if it was meant to be serious, then it’s even worse. Why aren’t you laughing? Em seguida, a ação retorna à história real. The Others didn’t even bother to come up with a pun-name, which is somehow worse than a bad one. He added: "This is Tom Hanks saying if you see me in person, please, please leave me be.". Embora os nomes rapidamente tornaram-se mais tolos do que assustadores, tem havido uma grande variedade de créditos especiais, a partir de nomes simples, como "Bat Groening" para os complexos como "David²+S.²=Cohen²". Instead of letting Homer wrap his long fingers around Bart’s neck and leave it as a visual gag, they have to have Homer exclaim that he’s nature’s choking machine. Bart & Homer’s Excellent Adventure is just plain boring. Fans of the animated series are set be entertained by the chilling episode – the first sequence appears to be a parody of Toy Story while the second will be a horror spoof of Spider Man: Into the Spider-Verse. They throw in the world’s most basic Dr Phil cameo, and then end the whole thing on another ‘Homer eats someone’ gag, only now it’s institutionalised. Sometimes. 679215 Registered office: 1 London Bridge Street, London, SE1 9GF. Desperately Xeeking Xena is definitely the weakest of the three segments. [33] Filmes de ficção científica parodiados incluem The Omega Man,[34] E.T. ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No. So today, we’re running down the 10 worst ever episodes of The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror series. I even rolled my eyes at a couple of the jokes in here because of how dumb they were. The joke where Homer pulls a big speech to get people to fight back, only to be instantly shut down by the horde of dolphins staring at them in silence is utterly hilarious, but that’s the only good joke in the whole thing. The ‘Maggie did it’ punchline has been done before, and so much better, even on this very list. Instead, the joke is just dolphins killing people in generic and uninteresting ways. Highlights include the ways in which Homer almost dies, the way in which he actually dies, and the segment’s portrayal of Saint Peter. The opening segment of Ned doing evil-looking things only for them to turn out to be innocent is well done if a little cliche. We’ll cover some of the brilliance this has given us later on this month, but tonight, we look at the crap. This is one of the longer segments, at just under 10 minutes, so there’s a much broader scope when it comes to the plot. Also, there’s a bunch of terrible cockney accents, but I’m willing to overlook that, as I’m not petty. fans recently claimed that the show even predicted Hollywood legend Tom Hanks being diagnosed and isolated. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a fart joke. There just aren’t many jokes involved. [9] "Treehouse of Horror XX" incluiu o segmento "Não tem negócio como o do Moe", que foi o primeiro a ser musicalmente temático. They spoof the most famous scenes and vaguely hold onto the direction of the original plot. The joke that none of The Simpsons realises that Kodos’ plan is obviously evil gets overplayed, and then no-one even pretends to care when it gets put into effect. The Simpsons correctly - and shockingly - predicted Donald Trump would be America's president in an episode aired way back in 2000. A idéia para os "nomes assustadores" veio do produtor executivo Al Jean, que foi inspirado pela EC Comics, porque algumas das questões também utilizadas como "assustadores" nomes alternativos. After watching a 1997 episode of The Simpsons, theorists believed that the US animated sitcom predicted the 2014 Ebola outbreak. The ‘get in, get out’ pace was a good idea, and it would’ve worked if the jokes were anything worthwhile. That joke being ‘Homer eats someone’, and it’s not even funny. Great, who cares? In terms of content, its a nice trip down nostalgia road, and it’s nice to see a show acknowledge its roots, but there’s not much to enjoy in the way of laughs. It’s almost the perfect distillation of everything I dislike about modern Simpsons and an absolute failure of a Treehouse of Horror segment. 10 – Treehouse of Horror … Por exemplo, uma história sobre zumbis que atacam a cidade de Springfield, de repente é mostrado eles no espaço, observando os acontecimentos e rindo ostensivamente o sofrimento dos "terráqueos". For 5 minutes. I still wouldn’t go quite so far as to say this episode is a properly terrible one yet, but we’re definitely getting there. [15] Nos episódios VI e VII foram cortados pequenos pedaços sem diálogo, porque o episódio e os segmentos eram muito longos. ( Log Out / Comments are subject to our community guidelines, which can be viewed, The Simpsons will be back with their annual new Halloween special, The animated series pays homage to Toy Story and Spider Man, Viewers are in for a treat as they get a first look at the Treehouse of Horror special, The Halloween special usually consists of three self-contained segments, The Simpson family have been on a series of ghoulish adventures of the years, Fans think the final segment could be a parody comedy film Be Kind Rewind, The special episodes drop later this month, Viewers have been left stunned by the popular animated series eerily accurate predictions. NOTE: I haven’t yet seen Treehouse of Horror 30, as while it has aired in the UK already, it’s not available on-demand, so I won’t be including it in this ranking. Cada episódio é dividido em três segmentos narrando histórias assustadoras dos Simpsons pariodiando, satirizando ou criando histórias de terror. Most of the jokes got a good laugh out of me, and the plot moves at just the right pace to make things feel meaningful. Original Airdate: 5th November 2006Segments: Married to the Blob; You Gotta Know When to Golem; The Day the Earth Looked Stupid. Between the pop-culture references at the start and all of the plot stuff at the end, we don’t get much of technology going crazy, which is where I felt all the funniest stuff was. However, this should go to show just how much I hate Married to the Blob. In the Belly of the Boss is incredibly dull. Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), New on Netflix: The best series and films. School is Hell is all the proof you need that original ideas don’t work for these kinds of episodes. Over the years, the Treehouse of Horror segments have been a chance for the series’ animators to toy with different … I get the gruesome imagery they were going for, but it just feels a bit uncomfortable to look at. Everything else just hits all the beats parodies like this need to. G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad is the saving grace of this episode, and I’d honestly say it’s worth seeking this one out on its own. [4][5][6][7][8] Na ocasião, alguns episódios foram usados para mostrar uma animação especial, como "Treehouse of Horror VI" (segmento "Homer3"), em que um Homer animado por computador é mostrado em um ambiente não-animado. However, for one episode every year, those rules are thrown out of the window, and the writers go wild with crazy stories that are at least tangentially related to Halloween (sometimes). It’s not even slightly funny. Muitos segmentos são paródias de episódios de The Twilight Zone e segmentos inteiros são baseado em um único episódio. Bart being evil is a very played-out punchline, but I can appreciate that they tried to take it to its logical extreme here. This is not be the first time that viewers have been left stunned by the popular animated series eerily accurate predictions of major life events - apparently foreseeing everything from Trump's presidency to 9/11. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Original Airdate: 1st November 2000Segments: G-G-Ghost D-D-Dad; Scary Tales Can Come True; Night of the Dolphin. [10], Cada episódio do Treehouse of Horror é aberto com uma sequência de abertura especial introdutória. [11] Os "nomes assustadores" se tornaram uma marca registrada da "série" Treehouse of Horror, mas Al Jean decidiu retirá-las nos episódios "XII" e "XIII", mas depois de ouvir reclamações dos fãs, Jean decidiu trazê-los de volta. The Simpsons will return to CGI animation for Treehouse of Horror XXXI, the famed animated series’ annual Halloween episode.Having first aired in the second season back in 1990, Treehouse of Horror episodes have since become a beloved tradition for some fans. Then, because the writers just can’t help themselves, they go and make a satire of Hollywood remaking things, which is so unbelievably lazy and feels more like an excuse to pad the runtime. It looks like The Simpsons have been hitting the nail on the head with their scarily accurate predictions with other fans claiming that the series predicted Lady Gaga's superbowl halftime show and Prince's death. Life’s a Glitch, Then You Die is pretty much the definition of ‘alright’. The gimmick wears itself out almost immediately, and I don’t care for the big fight scene, but almost all of the banter between Marge & Homer got me laughing. ( Log Out / Tune in to the premier of Treehouse of Horror XXXI on Sunday, October 18th on Fox. As with any creative endeavour, there are bound to be missed, especially over the course of over 30 years. The cartoon has a tradition of ringing in Halloween with its annual Treehouse Of Horror spoof episodes - and for the 31st instalment, it pays homage to Toy Story and Spider Man. "The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited. Which should go to show you just how awful the other two segments are to drag this episode down to the worst. News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. The first half is spent setting up the kid’s downfall, but it’s not funny in the slightest. Not to mention, the ending doesn’t land at all. Married to the Blob absolutely terrible. [14] A regra não-oficial é que eles devem aparecer apenas em cada episódio de Halloween,[11] embora seja muitas vezes esquecidos e são adicionados no último momento, levando a algumas de suas aparições a serem curtas. The highlight of it is undoubtedly the Homer/Ned interactions which carry a large chunk of the segment. Making a joke out of your show’s flaws isn’t witty comedy if you do nothing to fix those flaws. Original Airdate: 7th November 2004Segments: The Ned Zone; Four Beheadings and a Funeral; In the Belly of the Boss. It’s a parody that has already been done so much better by Futurama. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Giving Sideshow Bob his own segment was the chance to go truly off the rails with his schemes, give him something really out there and horrifying. It feels terrified that no-one watching is going to have seen or remembered anything about E.T, so they make a point of having the characters more or less directly point out when they’re parodying famous scenes from the movie. Raramente os três segmentos têm qualquer tipo de conexão contínua dentro do episódio. So it’s a shame that very few of those jokes land. "The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episodes" [nota 1], também conhecido como "The Simpsons Halloween episodes" é um seriado particular cujo cada episódio é apresentado em uma temporada com duração de cerca de 6 minutos. It’s nothing exceedingly terrible, but I’m never going to go out of my way to watch it, or even really remember it. In the Na’Vi is the worst parody The Simpsons has ever done, plain and simple. Instead, the writers did their own thing with it. It’s a kind of story that needs some tension to properly work, but this is a Treehouse of Horror episode, we’re all fully aware that there are no stakes during this. Sure, these characters are pretty loose by this point, but he’s still a child. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material, visit our Syndication site.
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