The Simpsons: 10 Best Treehouse Of Horror Episodes

10. Treehouse XIII

Season 14 is by no means vintage Simpsons.

Six seasons since the golden age of The Simpsons had ended, the show’s decline was starting to become apparent. But this Halloween special holds up as one of the better of Springfield’s spooky anthologies, and is notable as having the only title card in any of the Halloween specials to refer to itself as a “Treehouse of Horror”.

Our first tale, Send in the Clones, is a strong story full of lovely sight gags, wherein Homer buys an evil hammock from the “hammock man” to create a swarm of Homer clones. The shot of Peter Griffin standing amongst the Homer Simpson clones still gets a chuckle, and the clones lacking belly buttons is a nice sci-fi detail.

The next tale, involving Lisa ridding Springfield of guns thus putting them at the mercy of zombie cowboys, is the weakest of the three, although the faux-moral that gun violence solves all problems is darkly amusing.

Finally is The Island of Dr. Hibbert, another decent story, packed with wonderful, anthropomorphic sight gags. Frink as a roast turkey, Ned as a half-man half-cow asking Homer to milk him, and Disco Shrew are but a few of the man-beast hybrids that populate Hibbert’s eerie island.

Oh yeah, and Homer shamelessly has sex with the cat-creature version of Marge. Very shamelessly.