Treehouse of Horror - S02E03

The Simpsons celebrate Halloween for the first time, and Andrew and Thom revisit the episode that launched one of the show’s longest-running traditions.They make their way through all three stories—“Bad Dream House,” “Hungry Are the Damned,” and “The Raven”—while talking about haunted-house movies, childhood fears, psychological horror, and why this first Treehouse feels almost tame compared with the increasingly elaborate installments that would follow.Along the way, they revisit Kang and Kodos’ very first appearance, debate the Simpsons’ judgment when accepting food from mysterious aliens, and take another look at the episode’s unexpectedly faithful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven,” narrated by James Earl Jones. A segment that didn’t do much for them as kids turns out to be one of the episode’s biggest surprises when viewed again as adults.It’s Halloween on Evergreen Terrace: cursed houses, suspicious cookbooks, classic literature—and the beginning of a Simpsons tradition that would become almost a show unto itself.