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| Should've read the nutrition facts, he's full of so much saturated fat... sodium too. |
As Homer and Bart get into a physical scuffle while carving pumpkins, Professor Frink interrupts the program, showing the weak of will that they can use TiVo to skip the more gruesome parts. He demonstrates, but the fast forwards speeds up on him, showing spoilers for the three segments of the episode. Frink, realizing his colossal error, uses his remote to fast forward himself to death as punishment.
War and Pieces
Marge doesn't like Bart and Milhouse playing violent video games, so she has them play board games instead. After going through several legally okay knock offs of popular board games, The two uncover an odd board game called Satan's Path. Bart takes a turn, but suddenly the game in a Jumanji-like fashion takes all the other board games and incorporates them into real life, creating somewhat humorous situations across town. Lisa tells them they need to complete the game to turn everything back to normal, so the two head out onto a Battle
Individual Score: +0.6
Master and Cadaver
Homer and Marge are on their second honeymoon, having taken a boat out into uncharted waters. Before they can start doing it, though, a man in a rowboat hurries his way over to their boat in a panic. As Marge tends to the man, Homer becomes rather jealous. The man, Roger, reveals that he was the chef of a business boat, but his employer attempts to inject one of Roger's pies with poison. Roger tries to stop him, but is knocked out by a soy sauce bottle. When he comes to, he finds the other businessmen in the boat poisoned to death. He gets off the boat but rows for days before coming across Homer and Marge.
Still a bit upset, Homer talks to Marge privately, suspicious that it was Roger who poisoned that pie. Marge doesn't believe him, but Roger pops by to give them a random pie. Homer throws it out and, sure enough, the shark that eats it dies. Marge is now convinced as well and Homer goes by a "him or us" mentality to kill Roger. Using Marge as a distraction, Homer knocks Rogers out with a sail and pushes him off the boat, believing him dead. Marge isn't happy about it, but what's done is done.
Later, the two come across another boat, the same one Roger had described earlier. It turns out, after inspecting the boat, that Roger's story was true. Marge is now panicking as she's responsible for an innocent man's death. Just then, Roger appears, having survived the murder attempt, but Homer grabs a harpoon gun and kills Roger for real. The other business men come to, having apparently been made aware of the poison and took antidotes which still left them unconscious for days apparently. Still, Homer wants no witnesses and kills all of them as well, and to complete his rampage, he kills a spying seagull as well. Marge can't deal with all of this murder and the guilt of said murder, and decides to eat the poisoned pie, leaving Homer to grieve the loss. Then it turns out the story was just something Maggie had imagined while playing in the bathtub.
Individual Score: +0.8
Tweenlight
At school. Lisa becomes smitten by a new student, Edmund (voiced by Daniel Radcliffe). The kid saves Lisa's life by preventing several vehicles from running into her. He then swoops Lisa away from the public eye, where Lisa learns Edmund is a vampire which she thinks is totally cool. She invites Edmund over for dinner, and he's forced to bring along his nosy father, Dracula. As Dracula entertains the Simpson family with his Dixieland Jazz, an annoyed Edmund takes Lisa away. Marge forces both Homer and Dracula to grab their respective children before anything goes wrong.
The two chase their kids to a church tower, where Lisa is more than willing to let Edmund bite her. Dracula comes in just in time to stop them, but when Lisa tells Dracula she'll embrace and promote the real vampire culture, Dracula is more than willing to let Lisa become one. However, Lisa then learns that vampires stay the same age, and she isn't willing to stay eight forever. Edmund, though, is overwhelmed with bloodlust, but Homer arrives to stop him, but Dracula also defends his son. As the two fathers bond over their similarities, Edmund makes another run at Lisa. Homer comes between them, willing to sacrifice himself. Both Edmund and Dracula drink Homer's blood, but its so saturated with fat they both die from, I dunno, fat poisoning or something. Homer turns into a vampire, but learns the hard way that he's too fat to fly as a bat, and falls to his death. Lisa is particularly unmoved by all of this.
Individual Score: +1.0
Quick Review
Its back to average for the Treehouse of Horror. The segments got better as they went along, but none of the segments were really all that great. The first one was too jumpy, relying on sight gags and references that didn't pan out. The next segment was pretty decent for what it was and that last segment was pretty good considering it was somewhat of a Twilight parody. In all, its a decent episode, not the worst Treehouse of Horror, but not that good either.
Final Score: 7.3
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