Treehouse of Horror 32: It's Zombie Simpsons. Literally seconds after watching the thing, I couldn't remember anything that happened. Except that there was skit in the middle about trees coming to life and running a muck that I did not like.
And I remembered that much only because it got me excited, thinking they were going to do another Nightmare on Elm Street parody. Which is something I remember without having to go back and skim it: "It all started on the 13th hour of the 13th day of the 13th month... the PSA was meeting about the school's misprinted calenders!" "Brr..... lousy Smarch weather... 'Do Not Touch - Willie', good advice!" Willie cleaning up his ashes after Homer murdered him by turning up the thermostat. "You've mastered a dead tongue lad, but can you master a
live one?" Principal Skinner not wanting the kids to see Martin's body, but the sheet comes off the cart and they start screaming at his twisted, agonized form.
Not It: Actually caused the neurons in my brain to form memories. It had a moment or two. Not funny moments, but creepy/visual moments.
Treehouse of Horror 33: The Babadook skit was weak, but the creepy book stuff at the start was nice. The Death Note skit had some really nice visuals on the book's kills, and had my favorite joke out of these episodes. (By Marge!) And I legitimately enjoyed the West World skit, almost all of it. (I could watch an entire season's worth of it.) It kind of reminds of fanworks like
Bartkira, a little bit, where they try to expand beyond the confines of the source material. If I hadn't started watching with this one I might have given up and assumed I'd been lied to.
It's nothing like it used to be, but it couldn't be. I'm looking forward to being totally whelmed by how technically watchable the upcoming Treehouse of Horror will probably be, which is a massive step up from the regular white noise it had become thanks to Al Jean. These last two episodes actually felt like they were something made within the last 13 years, which is a time and place that actually exists within our universe.
I started wondering if maybe humor is dead and I was asking too much. Like how The Onion used up all its source material when all the things it joked about became real? But then I clicked on a random
Solid jj video and realized no, comedy isn't dead.
The people making The Simpsons are just really really unfunny now. They're not Conan O'Brien.