Treehouse of Horror (The Simpsons)

Treehouse of Horror, also known as The Simpsons Halloween Specials, is a series of Halloween-themed episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons, each consisting of three separate, self-contained segments. These segments usually involve the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting. They take place outside the show's normal continuity and completely abandon any pretense of being realistic, being known for their far more violent, more surrealism and much darker nature than an average Simpsons episode.

Why They Rock

 * 1) It has a great combination of dark nature and comedy.
 * 2) The writing for these episodes is very well-written and manage to be unique and different every single time.
 * 3) Tons of unforgettable, terrifying and/or funny segments including:
 * 4) *"The Raven"
 * 5) *"The Monkey's Paw"
 * 6) *"The Bart Zone"
 * 7) *"Clown Without Pity"
 * 8) *"Dial 'Z' for Zombies"
 * 9) *"The Devil and Homer Simpson"
 * 10) *"Bart Simpson's Dracula"
 * 11) *"The Shinning"
 * 12) *"Time and Punishment"
 * 13) *"Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores"
 * 14) *"Homer³"
 * 15) *"Citizen Kang"
 * 16) *"The HΩmega Man"
 * 17) *"I Know What You Diddily-Iddily-Did"
 * 18) *"Scary Tales Can Come True"
 * 19) *"House of Whacks"
 * 20) The opening segments are unique and interesting too, such as Guillermo del Toro's couch gag in Treehouse of Horror XXIV.
 * 21) Even some of the modern Treehouse of Horror segments are really good too, such as:
 * 22) *"Reaper Madness"
 * 23) *"Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off"
 * 24) *"The Ned Zone"
 * 25) *"Survival of the Fattest"
 * 26) *"I've Grown a Costume on Your Face"
 * 27) *"Mr. & Mrs. Simpson"
 * 28) *"Heck House"
 * 29) *"It's the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse"
 * 30) *"Don't Have a Cow, Mankind"
 * 31) *"Tweenlight"
 * 32) *"Dial D for Diddly" (despite the ending of this segment being insulting to fans of Maude Flanders and the Catholics).
 * 33) *"Bart and Homer's Excellent Adventure"
 * 34) *"The Others"
 * 35) *"Coralisa"
 * 36) *"Be Nine, Rewind"
 * 37) *"Nightmare on Elm Tree"
 * 38) *"Poetic Interlude"
 * 39) Lots of hilarious moments, such as:
 * 40) *The "How to Cook for Forty Humans" scene in "Hungry are the Damned".
 * 41) *Bart using his reality-warping powers to amuse himself in "The Bart Zone".
 * 42) *Homer killing historical zombies in "Dial 'Z' for Zombies".
 * 43) ** "Dad! You killed the zombie Flanders!" "He was a zombie?"
 * 44) *Homer getting scared by his own reflection in "The Shinning".
 * 45) *Homer's hand getting stuck in the toaster in "Time and Punishment".
 * 46) *Homer dancing naked in the church to Edwin Starr's "War" in "The HΩmega Man".
 * 47) The animation is fantastic as usual.
 * 48) Although many of the segments are parodies of movies and TV shows, some of them are original stories such as "The Thing and I", "Starship Poopers", "The Fright to Creep and Scare Harms" and "B.F.F. R.I.P.".
 * 49) There was even a Thanksgiving special of this series called "Thanksgiving of Horror", which was also a really good spin-off.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) There are some segments that are either unfunny, unpleasant, disturbing (but not in a good way), not scary or just boring such as:
 * 2) *"Terror at 5½ Feet" (depending on your view)
 * 3) *"Night of the Dolphin"
 * 4) *"Wiz Kids"
 * 5) *"Married to the Blob" (not to be confused with the Season 25 episode of the same name)
 * 6) *"E.T., Go Home" (mainly because of the infamous scene where Homer smothers Kodos with a pillow)
 * 7) *"Dial 'M' for Murder or Press '#' to Return to Main Menu" (depending on your view)
 * 8) *"Master and Cadaver" (depending on your view)
 * 9) *"The Diving Bell and the Butterball" (mainly due to using unfunny toilet humor)
 * 10) *"In the Na'Vi" (due to how it parodies Avatar two years too late)
 * 11) *"Freaks, No Geeks" (depending on your view)
 * 12) *"Dry Hard"
 * 13) *"Mmm... Homer" (due to the plot heavily featuring self-cannibalism. Granted, the idea of Home cannibalizing himself is scary as a concept. But the way it's presented was awful) (depending on your view)
 * 14) *"Intrusion of the Pod-y Switchers"
 * 15) Even though some of them are good, a few segments rely too much on being movie/TV show parodies rather than making a scary story.
 * 16) Treehouse of Horror XXII is the worst of the Treehouse of Horror episodes. Though there are some good and bad jokes, it's mainly bad due to the first segment relying solely on toilet humor (for context, Homer ends up paralyzed and could only communicate by farting constantly, that's the joke), the second segment (despite being the only good one from 2011's Treehouse of Horror) had a really insulting and dumb ending, and the third segment relied on dated pop-culture references to movies like Avatar (the episode was released two years after the movie stopped being relevant).
 * 17) *Treehouse of Horror XXI, Treehouse of Horror XXVII, Treehouse of Horror XXVIII and Treehouse of Horror XXIX, although none of the four are terrible, are considered the weakest of the good Treehouse of Horror episodes, as they have tons of problems that have become the norm of Treehouse of Horror XXII (though in terms of XXIX, it does have a ton of gore).
 * 18) While the beginning segments are amazing, Treehouse of Horror XXXI is extremely controversial due to the prologue relying on acting like a political left-wing agenda prologue without any reason. That caused many fans to 1 star bomb the episode on IMDb.com. Sure, this is a stinker prologue, but The Simpsons has made way worse episodes than this one.
 * 19) *The ratings got bumped to a 5.8/10 as of February 12th, 2021, which could be the fact that everyone calmed down after the backlash was over.