The Simpsons: Every Treehouse Of Horror Ranked Worst To Best

The 600th episode of The Simpsons deserved something special, and the convergence of the milestone and a Treehouse Of Horrors offered Fox a unique opportunity to pack in lots of their much-loved cultural references and cameos as well as escalating stakes that they knew would have no comeback.

The opening segment sees the mash-up of The Hunger Games, Mad Max and a nice timely Trump bashing that hopefully won't have the writers and animators all carted off to some grim gulag when he is elected and proclaims himself Fuhrer... Kudos to everyone involved for the Mr Burns Flashdance sequence. It's a very funny segment all-told.

The second segment sees Lisa's imaginary friend on a killing spree, and the crowning moments see Chief Wiggum utter the immortal line: "The only invisible killer I believe in is God!" and the revelation that Homer's imaginary friend is a giant sausage. It's also that rarest of things - a good Lisa episode, so that counts for double.

Moefinger is another Simpsons/Bond parody with shades of Kingsman as Bart is taken on as an apprentice. I have a bit of an issue with non-horror Treehouse Of Horror segments, so no matter how astute this is I can't get on board fully. There are some great puns in there though.

And it's brave of the show to self-reference in the musical number, talking up their ability to "churn out" 600 episodes and then running a crawl of all the “shows that were bad” over the show's history. At this point, they can do as they please.