The Simpsons: 15 Modern Episodes You Need To Watch

"Honey, I’m your dad. I’ve lied to you more times than there are stars in the sky but I gotta be straight - this is real. But you can’t let fear shut down your brain because between the two of us you’ve got the only good one" - Homer Simpson

While the annual 'Treehouse of Horror' episodes have provided a lot to love in recent years of The Simpsons, it was when the show took a brief departure to tell a different Halloween story that it truly shone. After Homer unwittingly gets three seasonal Halloween workers fired from Apu’s popup Official Halloween Headquarters , the thugs end up trapping Homer and Lisa in their house with malicious intent, much like the plot of a classic Horror movie.

As the best and most emotionally resonant partnership on the show, the Homer and Lisa storyline once again throws up more gold, with the quote above standing as one of the best summaries of the relationship between the two characters. It's an episode which brings back the heart that so many people love about classic episodes like 'Lisa's Substitute' or 'And Maggie Makes Three' but which the show has often lacked in recent years.