Well, Season 37 has begun — which means that the 36th Treehouse of Horror is arriving soon. One of the most important parts of The Simpsons' lore would be its "Treehouse of Horror" series. These ...

"Treehouse of Horror" is a yearly tradition in The Simpsons wherein a series of non-canonical short stories is depicted, usually parodying certain movies or TV shows. This tradition has been going on ...

Vignettes: “The Diving Bell and Butterball,” “Dial D for Diddly,” “In the Na’Vi” The episode also contains a moderately entertaining Dexter spoof where Homer convinces Ned to kill for him, as well as ...

The tail end of this era was undoubtedly the weakest as The Simpsons started to veer away from its Horror based parodies in exchange for just more straight movie parodies and takes. A Treehouse of ...

The Simpsons' annual Halloween episode, "Treehouse of Horror", is now “bloodier” than ever, but why did the writers take such a dark turn? In an interview with Cracked, Simpsons writer Mike Price ...

The start of the spooky Halloween season is a great time to be a fan of The Simpsons, and it’s the best time to go back through some of its major classics released over the decades. Each season of the ...

What is your hyper-specific TV pet peeve? Mine is that since the first “Treehouse of Horror” premiered in season 2 of The Simpsons, the roman numerals in the title of the annual Halloween episode will ...

…or Mike Nichols’ not-so-classic The Day of the Dolphin. Last year’s “Treehouse of Horror XXXV” was no exception, it featured comedic riffs on both Pacific Rim and the Tom Hardy blockbuster Venom. But ...

Bleeding Fingers principal composer Kara Talve and score producer Russell Emanuel were inspired by "Jaws" and more iconic horror influences for latest "Treehouse of Horror." Yes, that was a “Jaws” ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...