[Treehouse of Horror: XXXVI]

[classicswim]

 I missed the first 3 minutes because I was watching on a live channel stream for the first time with this tradition, annnndd I may have put on the wrong FOX channel when they all play that fucking OT garbage at the same time. Thus interchangeable.

That being said, what I did see of the first segment was just a couple stray huhs before it was over. The fact it just... ended like that within 2 minutes of me clicking (and no real jokes) suggests that they might not have tried too hard at the start. 

The show is getting more craftier with replicating the older look.

It’s interesting because the Krusty segment took place in ‘95 (7th season) and the segment looked like one of those ancient YouTube rips of a 2002 episode.

I’m not sure who on the modern staff got hyperfixated on this in the first place, but it’ll be interesting if this approach makes its way into Simpsons Movie 2.

Krusty segment with Idris was the relatively more acknowledgeable one. The show has toyed around with “Simpsons, but plastic” more than once already, so there’s not much for me to do besides stare at the screen.

No particular segment to me was joke heavy. They give you less and less to talk about every year so.. I don’t know. Maybe I’ll throw on an older Treehouse of Horror to watch so that I can laugh and actually feel some human construct emotion.

Comments

[matt_zimmer]

I really liked most of it. The Krusty segment was cool and well-animated, and the reason they keep making the Simpsons plastic is because it looks so damn great.

The first segment was a headscratcher though (why was it set in the 1970's and what was it parodying?) and the opening with Matt Groening felt toothless for its bothsiderism about "modern life".