Treehouse of Horror VI

I'd had vague memories about this episode from way back, primarily because of the third act with Homer stumbling into the third dimension (best CGI 1995 had to offer).

Couple of really good lines here, but it's mostly the 3D gimmick. And the middle segment turns out to be the weakest.

But the real laughter is in the opener, a terrific jab at commercial advertising - and Homer's gluttony. Just seeing Lard Lad run amok is worth the price of admission.

7/10

Even the lesser efforts are better than just about anything seen at the time. We have the giant commercial entities destroying Springfield after Homer steals a giant donut. Even when the things die, they fall on hospitals and orphanages. Then a Freddy Krueger reprise has Lisa falling asleep at the wrong moment. Finally, whoever thought of this is an utter genius. Recognizing that cartoons, like the Simpsons are in two dimensions, the writers have Homer enter the third dimension and face Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The conclusion is fantastic.

Not wishing to suffer a night of boring stories and horrid family activities with Patty and Selma, Homer scours the house for a hiding place and has to settle for a spot behind the bookcase after Bart, Lisa and the pets take the better ones.

But behind the bookcase is the doorway to another dimension, a place where shapes are extended beyond the 2 dimensions of the Simpsons universe, along the hypothetical 'Z-Axis'. This leads to Homer noticing things he has never been able to see before, such as his big belly and butt.

The place Homer is taken to is a massive grid-like universe, not unlike the movie Tron, where the stars shine brightly above and odd shapes and idiosyncrasies are in abundance. Among the many curious things Homer encounters is the library from Myst, which I thought was a cool reference. Also, the music as Homer wanders around in this mysterious place is very nice, it's a shame it never made it to any of the Simpsons CDs.

In the end, though Homer's own ignorance of quantum physics (he never read the book by that wheelchair guy) and despite Bart's rescue attempts, the universe collapses on itself and Homer falls into oblivion, or some place much, much worse...

...the real world. Well, at least he still has his erotic cakes.

It's hard to believe this episode came out before toy story. The producers of the simpsons were really on the cutting edge with this episode, both from a storytelling and technical perspective. The metacommentary goes beyond what you would expect from something this old and even in 2024 is still stands as one of the best episodes of the entire show.

If you look in the background of the third dimension world, you'll see lots of mathematical references and those are actually accurate. The raytracing is also pretty damn good for the era. Not to mention the shadow casting, particularly in the last scene. It's really incredible to think these guys managed to do that back in 1995.

Here come another 3 Halloween tales from The Simpsons

The First story is called Attack of the 50-Foot eyesores.

Homer goes to Lard Lad Donuts to get a "colossal doughnut." Upon realising that their colossal doughnuts are actually smaller than an ordinary one, he will get a colossal doughnut. That night, he steals the giant doughnut from the lard lad statue in front of the store. In a freak storm, Lard Lad and other giant advertising statues come to life to terrorise Springfield. Marge tells to give the Donut back and it be over, but it wasn't at all.

This okay story, I did have some of it funny but not all of it.

The next Nightmare on evergreen terrace Bart has a nightmare that Groundskeeper Willie is out to kill him. He is slashed with a rake, and the scratches are still on his body after he wakes up. When he goes to school he also find that half other kids were also attacked by Willie in their nightmares.

When Martin had filled test before time stated and teacher tells to sleep as he is get strangled to death by Willie in his dream. Bart and Lisa tell Marge about happen, Marge lets slip that got nothing to do with Groundskeepr Willie,T he Marge tells them the truth: Willie was set on fire in a furnace explosion and burned to death while the parents of the students did nothing. He told the parents he would get his revenge by killing the children in their dreams. Now Bart, Lisa and Maggie stay awake or die if they fall a sleep.

This fantastic spoof from A Nigthmare on elm street, I really like Santa little helper was talking in Barts dream was really funny.

Homer3 Marge is sister are coming dinner, most family hiding, even the animals are hiding underneath the rug, Homer goes be hide the bookcase only end in a third dimensional, Marge call everyone she could think of to help Homer but they useless. Homer makes a vortex that is sucking everything down and then Homer end up in our world.

I didn't really get story, I did't find that this funny, I did find the start of story but it not as good as other two stories