The Simpsons: Every Treehouse Of Horror Ranked Worst To Best
23. XIII. Send In The Clones; The Right To Creep And Scare Harms; The Island Of Dr. Hibbert
This eighth addition to the series had one good segment - the mind-bending Island Of Dr Hibbert - and two far poorer ones. But this was around the time when everyone was starting to question whether The Simpsons really had longevity (ridiculously, it turns out), so maybe it's just hindsight that robs them of their lustre.
The first segment - in which the horror is the idea of the Earth being taken over by multiple Homer Simpson clones - unfortunately, Michael Keaton's Multiplicity (which seems to have been the source for this) is far better and far funnier. The other - a precious anti-gun statement (at least I THINK it is) about the dangers of zombies with guns rising if we give up our right to bear arms - is a little too silly even for a Halloween special.
And while the final one seems to have been made solely to turn the Springfielders into animals (and to gift us the sight of Homer miking a weirdly gender-swapped Ned Flanders cow), it's still pretty fun.
Incidentally, it makes no sense that it would be Hibbert and not Dr Nick who would go for amateur genome splicing. That's pretty much him all over.