The Simpsons: 10 Best Ever Treehouse Of Horror Stories
4. Dial Z For Zombies (Treehouse of Horror III)
If theres one thing you do not do when youre in a horror film and presented with something to read, you absolutely under no circumstances go ahead and read it out loud without being totally sure what kind of bad juju youre rustling up. You just dont. Not ever. Not even once. Generally, it brings about the end of humanity in some form or other. Bart learns this the hard way when aiming to resuscitate Snowball I but accidentally summoning the reanimated corpses of the entirety of Springfields municipal cemetery.
Theres something incredibly satisfying about watching Homer go the full Terminator on the zombies, especially Flanders (He was a zombie?). Aside from all that, any segment which features the phrase, Is this the end for zombie Shakespeare? is an absolute belter as far as Im concerned. The little nod to Alfred Hitchcock in Homers introductory wraparound is cracking too, as is his attempt to swear an oath on a book of carpet samples.