Treehouse of Horror

Season 2, Episode 3, Aired
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In the backyard treehouse on Halloween, Bart and Lisa try to frighten each other by telling three scary stories.''''Bad Dream House''The family moves into a new house and eerie things begin to happen.''''Hungry Are The Damned''The Simpsons are abducted by aliens, Kang and Kodos, who seem to have plans on eating the family.''''The Raven''Lisa reads the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem.moreless
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  • The Simpsons begins its annual Halloween tradition with the first installment of the "Treehouse of Horror" series.

    9.5
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    By meathead704, Nov 09, 2011 Report Abuse
    The recent airing of the eighteenth episode of "Treehouse of Horror" made me want to go back to the beginning to see, what I believe, is the best episode in this long running series. The segments are very well written and very funny. I especially like how the first segment takes a well known horror story and does something strikingly original with it. The introduction of alien characters Kang and Kodos, who have become a staple of the "Treehouse of Horror" series, work well here too. The producers of this episode saved the best for last with the excellent telling of Poe's The Raven. Excellent.moreless

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  • First of the perfect horror episodes.

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    By jmbsonic555, Oct 17, 2011 Report Abuse
    In the backyard treehouse on Halloween, Bart and Lisa try to frighten each other by telling three scary stories. Bad Dream House The family moves into a new house and eerie things begin to happen.
    10 out of 10
    Hungry Are The Damned The Simpsons are abducted by aliens, Kang and Kodos, who seem to have plans on eating the family.
    10 out of 10
    The Raven Lisa reads the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem.
    10 out of 10

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  • the simpsons first tree house of horror

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    By cube2k8, May 04, 2010 Report Abuse
    this is the first tree house of horror for the show and it startes out like every tree house of horror with marge saying you should turn your kids away from the screen but it turns out its not that scary the first on has the raven never more story the second they get a ducketed by aliens and the third and the simpsons move into a new house and weird things start to happen 3 really well put togeather stories. prove to be a instant classic and the start of many tree house of horrors to come and the best is yet to come.moreless

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  • only treehouse of horror IN a treehouse!

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    By futuramarama, Apr 05, 2010 Report Abuse
    bart and lisa tell 3 scary stories in bart's treehouse:

    Bad Dream House- evil house that tells each member of the simpson clan to kill everyone else. B+

    Hungry are the Damned- We meet aliens Kang and Kodos, whom Lisa suspects of wanting to eat the Simpsons. Turns out she was wrong in the end. A

    The Raven- hard to explain, unless you are familiar with the raven. C

    the first one is good, second is better, third is weakest IMO. All are decent in their own ways- the first is actually scary, second introduces two characters, etc. Overall grade is a B-moreless

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  • very special for me anyway because I love Edgar Allen Poe!!

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    By ElvisRocks13, Sep 14, 2008 Report Abuse
    I liked this episode because they used the poem The Raven by Edgar. A. Poe. yes, it is true that back then people would have actually been scared by that poem because it was eerie but now, not so much. It is a good poem and I loved bart as the raven. If anyone doesn't know, the raven was haunting that man because he killed "the fair maiden whom the angels named Lenore" (quote, un-quote). The abduction by the aliens has been done often enough but in this one the aliens were like E.T. because they were good. my favourite part was the cookbook dusting. I don't recall much of the new house part though, but nothing was done wrong. I liked this Halloween Horror episode.moreless

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    • The hands of the wisps of smoke that cradle Homer's head have just three fingers and a thumb, like the Simpsons. Edit
    • The TV on the spaceship airs "The Itchy & Scratchy Show". Edit
    • In "Bad Dream House," tombstones from an Indian burial ground can be seen in the basement, they read as follows: Hiawatha, Cochise, Sitting Bull, Pocahontas, Crazy Horse, Not So Crazy Horse, Geronimo, Sacajawea, Mahatma Gandhi, and Tonto. Edit

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    • In Spanish, all the Treehouse of Horror episodes are known as "Especial de Noche de Brujas de los Simpsons." (Simpsons Halloween Special) Edit
    • In the Season Two DVD Commentary track, we learn Matt Groening wanted to take the cookbook joke one step further and have it read "How To Cook For Forty Humans & Then Eat Them." Edit
    • Opening Credit Tombstones: Ishmael Simpson, Ezekiel Simpson, Cornelius V. Simpson, Garfield, The Grateful Dead, Casper The Friendly Boy, Elvis, Your Name Here, Paul McCartney, and Disco. Edit

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    • Marge: I'm not going to live in a house of evil just to save a few dollars! Edit
    • Evil Spirit: Get out. Marge: What on earth was that? Homer: Probably just the house settling. Edit
    • (Lisa finishes reading The Raven.) Bart: Lisa, that wasn't scary, not even for a poem. Lisa: Well, it was written in 1845. Maybe people were easier to scare back then. Bart: Oh, yeah. Like when you look at Friday the 13th, part one. It's pretty tame by today's standards. Edit

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    • Friday the 13th: Friday the 13th is a classic horror movie released on 1980 by Paramount Pictures. Edit
    • Pallas: Pallas, also known as Pallas Athena is the greek god of wisdom and war, son of Zeus and Metis, one of the most famous gods of this mythology. Edit
    • Poltergeist The house in the "Bad Dream House" segment implodes in a fashion similar to the house from the 1982 movie Poltergeist. Edit

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