i rewatched this last night, and whilst it was not as awful, it was still really stupid.
opening: senseless violence. The Office parody would have worked a lot better if A. the frankenstein hadn't mentioned the show (it's not like it's a hard parody to get; i don't even watch The Office much and i would have gotten it without the frankenstein mentioning it), and B. if they used Simpsons characters and not random monsters (though i get why they did use random monsters, i still would have liked simpsons characters).
first segment:
this had a plot, yes, but it was mostly just made to make random jokes/gags about board games. the scene where bart and milhouse just keep naming different games over and over basically screams "we're making parodies of board games you all know and have probably played before! isn't it clever to do this!" the chief wiggum joke, as stated in the past, was stupid, the way he dies. it's a stupid chess joke. though i did like lou correcting him and his "i just got squashed. you think you could cut me some slack?" the rest of the segment was painfully stupid and as stated before in this thread, just an excuse to make lame board game jokes, none of which were really that amusing.
master and cadaver:
this had the best plot, i felt, but it wasn't executed well. there were like no jokes (outside maggie as alex, at the very end; no jokes in the actual story). Roger was an OK character, but i dunno. Homer walking off screen and on screen... this was like a 6-7 minute segment, and they needed a gag that lasted longer than usual? I know a lot of episodes these days have jokes like this, but you'd think they wouldn't have to drag moments longer in THOH segments, even little moments like this. Sorry, but Homer walking off screen, and walking back, 4-5 times (once with roller skates!) just isn't funny. It's lazy. These writers can make any joke go on longer than they needed. Like i said, the only laugh this episode got from me was the end with maggie as alex. Also, i know it's a THOH and not meant to be taken seriously, but why would Marge kill herself INSTANTLY after Homer killed all those people? There's no way Marge would condone suicide, is there? and it's so rushed. "I can't live with the guilt." again, i know the fact this is a THOH and not meant to be canon or taken seriously, but this bugged me for some reason. It just seems so unlike marge.
Tweenlight:
i liked daniel radcliffe in this, and it had some jokes that were good: ned on the table, homer at the end, the two vampires dying because of cholesterol in homer, "isn't it ironic? a cross being used to kill someone." milhouse as the poodle. It just didn't seem like something Simpsons should parody. Twilight? A lot of the fans who watch this know nothing about Twilight, and so a parody of it in a THOH segment would come across as... well, boring probably. But i liked it a little more than i did the first time i saw it. It's by no means great, but it wasn't as god-awful as i thought it was the last time.
This really isn't a great THOH by any means. I think last year I was just incredibly disappointed because it sounded like it could be great. My grade is now a 2.5/5. It's not great but it isn't as terrible as i believed it to be last year