Simpsons - Treehouse of Horror XX -- OAD 10/18/09

At first I thought this was last year's episode since it was airing before Halloween. I'm glad they started doing that.

My Tivo cut off the very beginning so I only saw from the point the 4 real monsters showed up at Homer's.

The criss cross episode wasn't that great. The 28 days later was better (I liked seeing Mole Man's head squished) and the musical episode was God awful.

In other words, a typical Treehouse of Horror episode.

 

They've changed the baseball postseason schedule -- in years past, there were no free Sundays in October. (It helps that Fox is no longer carrying all the League Championship Series games.)

I did enjoy the cold open; thought "Dial M for Murder..." was the best of the three actual stories.

 

What little bit of the cold open I saw was funny. Sadly, Tivo didn't catch it on time, or they started a few seconds early. Tivo tends to do that with Simpsons.

I loved all the stories, honestly, though the zombie bit was more humorous than the others to me.

 

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That's why you should add a 1 minute pre-pad to The Simpsons..

 

I did that this season and it helped a lot.

I liked Criss Cross up to a certain point and then it just got weird. The 28 days later, same thing. Up to a point it was good and then the last few minutes it lost me. The Moe Musical was sad from start to finish.

 

The funniest line was an ad: Where Mr. Burns intros the Christmas Carol trailer saying "It's the story of a fine businessman who's hounded into acting nice by three socialist ghosts."

 

I usually don't like the TOH episodes. This was no exception.

 

and the music was from PSYCHO...

 

North by Northwest music in there too. Who doesn't like Bernard Herrmann?

Anyone reminded of the FG episode "North by North Quahog"

 

That may be the part that referenced the movie "Spellbound".

 

Yeah, "Simpsons" has been starting at 7:59:30 for years. Maybe even decades.

 

Hmm if Herrmann was in every episode I might watch more often.