tek's rating: ½

Treehouse of Horror XXXVI (Season 37; Oct. 19, 2025)
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Review coming eventually.

Intro: A simple, black & white animation in which a family tries to escape the horrors of living in America these days, by watching "The Simpsons". Not a bad idea for a sketch, but it's too short, nothing interesting happens, so it's kinda "meh".

The Last Days of Crisco: Set in the 1970s (presumably just because the segment's title is a spoof of "The Last Days of Disco"), a monster made of grease (called a "fatberg" for no reason I can see) attacks Springfield, eating people or sucking out their fat. I suppose I found a few bits mildly amusing. (Some sites say this is a parody of both Jaws and The Blob.)

Clown Night with the Devil: A parody of Late Night with the Devil, in which we watch a found footage tape of Krusty's Halloween special from 1995. I thought this was a pretty neat idea for a parody, and I found the whole thing reasonably amusing, with plenty of bits that I liked. (At one point, we see twins Sherri and Terri wearing, I guess, shirts that said "Kang" and "Kodos". If they had more to their Halloween costumes than that, I didn't notice it. But it's not enough for me to consider that a Kang and Kodos appearance.)

Plastic World: Apparently a parody of the Mad Max franchise, though personally I also kinda got some Vesper vibes. In the distant future, the world has been buried in plastic. (I liked that some of the kinds of plastic we see are Halloween buckets, since this is a Halloween episode. I also liked that some of it was recycling bins, because that's just ironic.) Lisa leads a group of people who are searching for dirt they can plant seeds in, while Bart leads a group of raiders. And it turns out Homer and Marge have actually become plastic (I liked the animation style for that; they looked just like Simpsons toys, and it may have been CGI, I'm not sure.) Overall, I found the segment fairly amusing.


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