Review:The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror XXII”

In this season’s spooky special: Homer gets his arm caught in a boulder in an isolated canyon(c’mon Joel Cohen….really?). He’s also paralyzed, but can communicate via natural gases. Mountain climber Aron Ralston provides his own voice. Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse are in deep space, transformed into one-eyed avatars and caught up in planetary warfare after Bart falls in love. And Ned Flanders is transformed nightly into a cold-blooded vigilante.

SPOILERS BELOW!

 

Right off the bat, Bart Simpson probably has one of the best halloween costumes ever. But, when Marge confiscates the kid’s candy, she comes up with the brilliant idea to send the candy with Homer to dispose of it properly only for him to dive off of a cliff. He comes up with a tasty way to free himself, only to be fooled by the greatest prankster in the world, BART! THIS! Was just the couch gag!

The Diving Bell and the Butterball was the first story of our trilogy. And in it we get a back story on how Homer gets paralyzed in probably the funniest way possible, apparently the Spider-Man treatment doesn’t work…yet!  Evidently, Homer is still able to communicate with the help of his noxious fart fumes. Lisa, being the bitch that she is, finds a way to turn Homer’s farts into that of a sort of an alphabet.  Welp, then Homer gets bitten by yet ANOTHER spider, this one radioactive which causes Homer to become Marvel’s Number #1 web-crawler.

Next story, we see Ned Flanders who apparently is an instrument of God, but as a bringer of death! For one, he has a kick-ass sword collection. Only to find out that God is actually his next door neighbor Homer! After a hysterical killing of Patti and Selma, Ned finds out he’s been fooled and breaks into Homer’s house for revenge but not before God, Maude, and the Devil all get their due.

Last story is an Avatar spoof but they aren’t blue lame avatars you see in the movies, instead in this realm the avatars are aliens as seen in previous Treehouse of Horror stories. Bart then runs int0 a local lady who takes a liking to him, and ends up getting raped pretty much. And guess what? Now she’s preggo!  Like the movie Avatar, Pocahontas, and whatever other movies Avatar ripped off, Bart wants to stay as an alien and joins the fight against his former human counterparts.

Overall, this was a great entry in the Treehouse of Horror pantheon, all three acts had a lot of laughs, and surprises along the way.