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"Treehouse of Horror IV", ep.5(86) of S5 (October 28, 1993).

Happy Halloween!

THOHIV may be my favorite THOH of all, if only for artistic direction (artistic direction of all of first 5 seasons is gorgeous, of course). And not just THOHs back then were on point in parodying horror tropes (and some of absurdity of it), the stories also feel conceivable as something the characters would concoct on their own. Well, maybe, Bart has made up all of it alone, but he appears to be observant about his family’s psychologic aspects. Naturally, Homer is going to imagine his flawless, religious neighborino as the Devil himself, and his frightening boss as a bloodsucker. And the road to school for Bart definitely would feel like the path to some impending doom about to dawn on him.

"The Devil and Homer Simpson" is my favorite short segment of THOH, probably. Not just the story unexpectedly concludes with heartwarming sentiment of Homer’s soul being permanently owned by Marge (aww), it doesn’t end here, but offers not one, but three gags to cap the thing on: Homer’s punishment of being turned into donut creature, him apparently having learned nothing from it and processing to consume his own self (in his defense, it may be hard to learn any lesson when your head is filled with dough), and the house being besieged by police force under premise of simply craving some donut… creature, the end here. (I guess, there is some moral about rationality of law and order in the human and underworld, but maybe there’s not.)

Anyway, I think, it’s appropriate to put Donut Homer together with all these feisty monsters, for his gluttony is, perhaps, scariest thing of all. And I assume, it’s what Bart would do too.

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