The Simpsons: Every Treehouse Of Horror Ranked Worst To Best

Homer being the Grim Reaper should have been a lot better than Reaper Madness actually delivered, and it might have something to do with the fact that Family Guy did the idea first and better. There's also a touch of unwelcome sentimentality in the plot that has no place in horror unless it's a lead-in to promiscuous sex that itself earns the characters a bloody death. Know your horror, kids.

The Frinkenstein segment too should have been a lot better: it finally united Professor Frink with the man who inspired his voice - Jerry Lewis - but the delivery of the idea of Frink reviving his dead pop for some Pet Sematary-style hi-jinx didn't quite deliver. Nice watershed talent moment though.

And again, the final segment that sees Bart and Millhouse order a time-controlling stopwatch from the back of a comic that actually works is a solid idea, but it's just a little unevenly executed.