6. James Earl Jones As The Narrator In "Treehouse Of Horror"
James Earl Jones has provided his voice -- arguably the most recognizable in all of entertainment -- to The Simpsons on several occasions (three of which were actually in this very episode's three vignettes), but never with better effect than when he narrated Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven." While Homer and Bart took on two speaking roles in the piece and delivered the dialogue, the rest of the words fell to Jones. The thing about "The Raven" -- one of the English language's greatest poems -- is that acting it means overacting it. It's written in such a way that the lines give themselves a specific cadence, and they simply need to be read to flow like music. Jones understands this, and his delivery is brilliantly understated. Not only was it a great segment on The Simpsons, but it's a masterful reading of an American classic.
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