Take that, Bart and Lisa.
“The Simpsons” greets every October with a “Treehouse of Horror” installment.
🎃’The Simpsons’ first ‘Treehouse of Horror’ episode aired 31 years in the past tonight, October 25, 1990, on Fox pic.twitter.com/Q0NLZQx29W
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Now, It’s “Household Man’s” flip to christen Halloween.
The “Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Cheater” Halloween Particular, streaming completely on Hulu beginning October 14, lets the Griffin clan grapple with seasonal tidings.
- Pumpkins
- Costumes
- Sweet
- Homicide…
The half-hour isn’t only a candy deal with for “Household Man” followers with not one however two superstar voice cameos. It arrives on the present’s twenty fifth anniversary.
It wasn’t alleged to be this fashion.
Fox canceled “Household Man” after simply two seasons earlier than the community gave the present one final probability for season three. The rankings didn’t perk up sufficient, and the Griffins bought their strolling papers.
That appeared like the top, however brisk DVD gross sales and Cartoon Community reruns gave the present a second (third?) lease on life.
Sequence creator Seth MacFarlane, who gives the majority of the voices, by no means regarded again.
The Halloween particular finds Joe (Patrick Warburton) coming into the city’s largest pumpkin contest. Peter and the gang intrude, as is their wont, organising a foolish confrontation.
Cue the superstar visitor voice.
In the meantime, Stewie’s plans for a duo costume – he’ll be Cher to Brian’s Sonny – collapses. The child’s Plan B has traditional horror roots and will spell doom for one key character.
Finish of not-really spoilers.
The episode is neither an immediate traditional nor signal of inventive slippage. It’s alternately foolish and good, with the knowledgeable vocal work illuminating even pedestrian yuks. Warburton’s Joe can wring a smile out of 1 crooked line studying.
As at all times.
Earlier this yr, MacFarlane stated there’s no motive to cease making new “Household Man” installments.
The present not upends the Tradition Battle apple cart. The present leans relentlessly to the Left, however it additionally will get away with some gags that might cripple different packages. Between the spry animation and killer vocal work, “Household Man” stays a sly, and reliable distraction.