Best post-classic Halloween
ac-man:
But yeah, it was a very nice surprise after the dullness of the last THOHs and the best since the IX. None of the stories failed to me; obviously not all of them had the same level but they were enjoyable and the worst one was at least pretty good.
First of all, the beginning with Homer voting was hilarious ("Six votes for president McCain"
). Also, the introductions for the three segments were awesome and a good idea that should be exploited in later Halloweens. The one for the third segment was absolutely amazing, I think there are not more than five scenes in the whole Jean era that had me roaring with laughter as this one did.
Untitled Robot Parody was hilarious. The visual gags at the transformations got me in stitches throughout the whole segment, and the ending was also very funny. I only disliked the scene with Abe; although it didn't last too long I thought that joke was very very unsimpson-ish.
9/10
How To Get Ahead In Dead-Vertising was the worst story of the episode and it still was enjoyable. Surprisingly I didn't have problems with the gore and violence of the segment, and ultimately liked them (i. e. Krusty's death should have bothered me and I found it amusing). There were some dull jokes and the dead celebrities invading the Earth was not a very good idea but it was still consistently funny, with Lincoln, the murders and some other lines. Nothing outstanding, but a good act overall.
8/10
And
It's The Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse was the crown jewel. I absolutely LOVED it, from the hilarious animation to Milhouse as a main character to the lots of jokes during the whole plotline (Homer taking pleasure in sticking his knife in the pumpkin, Milhouse offering pumpkin bread to the Grand Pumpkin and the i-pod at the party to take three examples; there were some other great lines from Milhouse, Homer, the Pumpkin, Nelson and Marge). With
Send In The Clones from
THOH XIII, it's the best Halloween segment since
The Homega Man. And I didn't know anything about
Peanuts when I watched it.
10/10
9/10 therefore and finally a solid Halloween at all. Quite underrated if you ask me, I don't know how this one could be even compared with the things aired in previous seasons.