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The opening is another John K. affair, where the zombified remains of Frank Grimes chase the Simpson kids back to their house, where the monster eats Homer's soul, or something.
Wanted: Dead Then Alive
Bart is easily lured to the school's music room, as part of a trap set up by Sideshow Bob. Bart taunts Bob, knowing how often the man has failed to kill the young boy. However, thanks to the lack of canon these Halloween episodes carry, Bob finally, successfully, and rather easily, pulls off the deed. Having finally killed Bart, Bob takes the boy's body back home with him as a trophy of sorts, easily avoiding the small attempt by Homer to figure out where Bart went.
His main goal in life completed, Bob decides to become a professor at a University. However, today's "educated" college kids do not mesh well with Bob at all, and he yearns for a time when Bart was alive so he could kill him all over again. Luckily, Bob is able to 'borrow' enough materials from his college that he's able to build a reanimation machine to bring Bart back to life, good as new. Thus begins a cycle where Bob kills Bart quickly, then his machine brings Bart back as good as new regardless of how badly Bob hacks or chops Bart up. Eventually, though, Lisa finds Bart by peeking in from the basement window, and the family goes in to rescue and reanimate Bart. Bob tries to stop them, but Homer knocks him out with a lamp, then chops his head off with the same, reanimated lamp. Bart then takes Bob's head and various other parts to reanimate Bob as a chimera sort of thing, which makes his job as a professor slightly more difficult.
Individual Score: +1.1
Homerzilla
In a rural, 1940's Japanese town, Abraham Simpson is mocked for sending a donut out to sea daily, as he does so to prevent the rise of a massive monster. One day, however, crazy ol' Abe dies, and nobody in his family believed his story so nobody carries on the tradition. Soon enough, a beast rises from the sea: Homerzilla. Causing havoc all around, Homerzilla destroys all.
It's revealed, though, that Homerzilla is just a film (evident by the Homer in the suit falling off the city set), and a group of modern movie executives plan on creating a modern Homerzilla. Two years later, the remake, 'Zilla, comes to fruition but with an uninteresting plot and product placements everywhere, the movie bombs heavily. The execs decide to dump all copies of the movie into the sea, which bumps into, and awakens, a Homerzilla sleeping within.
Individual Score: +0.5
Telepaths of Glory
Milhouse falls into a hole, with Bart and Lisa giving chase. The three land in cavern littered with nuclear waste which eventually explodes. When they awake, Milhouse and Lisa realize that they've been given telepathic powers which react to their intellect (which means Bart gets squat). As Lisa slyly abuses her powers, Milhouse goes full on madman with his, but is struck down mightily. As Lisa denies having anything to do with it, it's revealed Maggie, too, has powers thanks to sucking on a radioactive element of some sort. She uses her powers to do incredible things, like making French people nice. Then, the aliens lament being relegated to a simple cameo again and when the picture ratio drops to 4:3 as punishment, Kodos warns their overlords that this isn't Season 4 (don't worry, we know it isn't).
Individual Score: +0.4
Quick Review
Well, I really enjoyed the Sideshow Bob bit, a nice return for the Kelsey Grammar-voiced character after his last, very odd appearance. The Homerzilla bit started off very nicely, and the twist involved I had no problems with, but the comedy following the twist fell flat and held that segment back. The last segment was short, not that funny and got a little reference-happy at the end. In the end, its an improvement from last season, but its still one of the weaker Treehouse of Horror entries.
Final Score: 7.0
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