ORBzine - The Simpsons TV Review
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The Simpsons [Season 2, Episode 3]
Treehouse of Horror
Shown 31st October 2001 - Wednesday
The kids are in the treehouse telling horror stories. Homer sits on the branch outside, listening.
The Simpsons get abducted by space-aliens: Kang, Kodos and a third one [voiced by James Earl Jones]. The aliens give them
This is a wonderful version of the poem, narrated by James Earl Jones, starring Homer and with Bart as the Raven.
The Simpsons [Season 3, Episode 7]
Treehouse of Horror II
Shown
As always, we get a trio of terror tales:
Homer buys a magical monkey's paw that can grant four wishes. The family each get a wish, and oddly enough Lisa's is the most destructive.
In an alternate universe, Bart is a mind-reading monstrosity who rules Springfield with an iron will.
Mr Burns builds a robot that can do Homer's job. However, it needs a brain ...
The Simpsons [Season 4, Episode 5]
Treehouse of Horror III
Shown 2nd November 2001 - Friday
The anthology starts with Homer doing his Alfred Hitchcock impersonation and giving a disclaimer. Then the
Homer buys Bart a Krusty the Clown doll for his birthday. However, the doll is evil and wants to kill Homer.
In the 1930s, Mr Burns hires a ship to go to Ape Island and capture a giant ape.
Bart and Lisa try to bring pet cat Snowball back from the dead. However, they manage to unleash a horde of zombies on the town.
The Simpsons [Season 5, Episode 5]
Treehouse of Horror IV
Shown 11th November 2001 - Sunday
Bart gives us an introduction, set in an art gallery of horrors.
Homer sells his soul to Ned Satan Flanders in exchange for a donut.
Bart takes the bus to school. However, he sees a Gremlin on the side of the vehicle.
Peasants have been found dead, drained of blood. Only Lisa realises that a Vampire is responsible, and Mr Burns is the prime suspect.
The Simpsons [Season 6, Episode 6]
Treehouse of Horror V
Shown
The Simpsons [Season 7, Episode 6]
Treehouse of Horror VI
Shown
Giant advertising hoardings trash Springfield!
Bart has nightmares that Groundskeeper Willie is trying to kill him. This is an extended Freddy Kreuger parody.
The Simpsons [Season 8, Episode 1]
Hallowe'en Special VII
Shown 31st August 2001 - Friday
Homer is keeping a monster in the attic. It's Bart's evil siamese twin!
Lisa's school science project results in her creating a tiny civilisation.
Homer, out fishing, is kidnapped by the aliens Kang and Kodos. It's the year of the election race between Clinton and Dole, so when they tell Homer Take us to your leader BOTH leaders get abducted.
The aliens disguise themselves at the candidates. Their election campaigns are wonderful parodies of the real thing. American Democracy is a two-party system, where things will be the same no matter which one wins!
The Simpsons [Season 9, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror VIII
Shown 1997
There is a nuclear explosion. The survivors are mutants, and they're after Homer!
Homer buys a matter transporter off the Professor. Unfortunately, this wasn't a good idea. It actually works!
1649 CE, and Marge is accused of witchcraft.
The Simpsons [Season 10, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror IX
Shown 31st October 2001 - Wednesday
Homer gets a hairpiece, but it's possessed! It belonged to Snake, the crook, and He uses Homer to kill off the people he had grudges against.
Bart and Lisa accidentally get sucked into the television, and get chased by Itchy and Scratchy! Also, a certain other character pops up.
Maggie gets her first baby tooth, a fang, and sprouts tentacles. Yes, her father is the space-alien Kang! The only way to sort this out is ... to appear on the Jerry Springer show.
The Simpsons [Season 11, Episode 4]
Hallowe'en Special X
Shown 31st October 2001 - Wednesday
Kang and Kodos present the special at Century City, Los Angeles.
Marge accidentally runs over Ned Flanders. Homer tries to cover it up, like Weekend At Bernies. Someone knows what they did ...
Lisa and Bart get super-powers. They get their own TV show, Stretch Dude and Clobber Girl. The villain, The Collector, kidnaps Lucy Lawless from a Xena Convention!
It's New Years Eve 1999, the run-up to Y2K. Unfortunately, Homer was the Y2K compliance officer at the power plant. Society breaks down, but the looting is stopped by the fact that every computer chip on earth is kaput. Homer and Bart sneak onto a space-ship with Tom Arnold and Rosie O'Donnell.
The Simpsons [Season 12, Episode 1]
Treehouse of Horror XI
Shown 31st October 2001 - Wednesday
The intro sees the Simpson family appear as another famous family, the Munsters!
Homer is fated to die. He avoids fate for most of the day, but eventually he snuffs it. However, he has to do a good deed before he can get into heaven.
Back in the Middle Ages, Homer loses his job as village oaf. He and Marge can't afford to keep the kids, so Bart and Lisa are cast out into the forest. Luckily, Lisa's book of fairy-tales happens to list all the horrible things they will encounter.
Lisa frees a dolphin from Seaworld. However, he is the dolphins' King and he wants revenge for his captivity.
The Simpsons [Season 13, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror XII
Shown
The Simpsons [Season 14, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror XIII
Shown
The Simpsons [Season 15, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror XIV
Shown
Homer becomes the Grim Reaper.
Prof Frink gets a Nobel Prize, and reanimates his dead father.
Bart and Millhouse get a watch that stops time.
The Simpsons [Season 16, Episode 1]
Treehouse of Horror XV
Shown 18th May 2006 [Thursday]
Flanders can see the future.
Victorian London - Lisa is Sherlock Holmes, hunting the Mutton-Chop Murderer.
Maggie gets miniaturised in a health-pill, which is swallowed by Mr Burns. The family get in a mini-sub to rescue her. Marge takes the Raquel Welch role, which means she gets a couple of gratuitous bikini shots!
The Simpsons [Season 17, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror XVI
Shown
Bart is hospitalised, so the Simpsons buy a robotic replacement named David - just like in A.I.!
Monty Burns invites his blue-collar slobs to a Hunting Weekend. He's going to play The Most Dangerous Game.
A witch gatecrashes the Springfield town fancy-dress contest. She curses everyone to become whatever they dressed as. Wasn't this used in Season 2 of Buffy?
The Simpsons [Season 18, Episode 4]
Treehouse of Horror XVII
Shown
The Simpsons [Season 5, Episode 15]
Deep Space Homer
Shown Deep Space Homer
NASA are dismayed with the low TV ratings for their space launches. They study sitcoms like Tool Time and Married With Children, then discover that they should send an average American up as an astronaut on the next shuttle mission.
Homer and Barney are recruited and trained, which allows some hilarious references Star Trek episode Gamesters of Triskelion. Even the Itchy and Scratchy segment is Scar Trek: The Next Laceration.
Homer gets to go into space, alongside guest-star Buzz Aldrin. Everything should be okay, as long as they don't land on that creepy Planet of the Apes ...
The Simpsons [Season 11, Episode 17]
Bart To The Future
Shown 19 Mar 00
Homer takes the family to a Native American Casino.
Bart bumps into the manager, who gives him a vision of thirty years into the future. Bart is an aging wannabe-Rockstar, while Lisa is the first heterosexual female President of the USA.
The Simpsons [Season 12, Episode 6]
The Computer Wore Menace Shoes
Shown 3 Dec 00
Homer sets up his own web pages, and uses the pseudonym Mr X to post rumours. Some of the rumours are too close to the truth for comfort, so he is drugged and wakes up on ... The Island.
Patrick McGoohan [ The Prisoner ] is Number Six [of course!], and Homer is Number Five!
The Simpsons [Season 15, Episode 15]
Co-Dependent's Day
Shown 21 Mar 04
Cosmic Wars comes out - a Star Wars: Phantom Menace . Bart and Lisa go to the Ranch to meet Randal Lewis [a hilarious mockery of George Lucas!]
Marge and Homer go to the nearby winery, which improves their marriage but they become Alkies. The 2nd half of the ep is about the consequences of alcoholism.
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