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Consists of the following episodes: In this annual trilogy of terror, Homer attempts to kill his family in “The Shinning,” Homer tries to fix a toaster and winds up altering the fabric of time itself in “Time and Punishment,” an… More >>
The Simpsons – Treehouse of Horror
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I live in a rural area, and have not bothered to get the set up necessary to receive satalite T.V. As a result, I have not viewed comercial television since 1989. During this time, many shows have come and gone without me seeing a single episode (To give you a perspective, the last program I regularly viewed on comercial television was M*A*S*H*). Anyway, to please my two pre-teen daughters, we have quite an inventory of VHS & DVD in our private library; literally hundreds of them. Anyway, I had heard about the Simpsons program and the reviews from friends and others were definitely mixed. Nevertheless, not wanting to be close minded, when I found this one on sale at a local store, I took a chance, and purchased it. Now, please understand, I don’t especially like crass humor; in fact, the only reason I knocked off a couple stars is because it is pretty crass and raunchy in some episodes- however not so terrible as to make me thumb down it entirely. Tell you what, IF you have never watched this show, I would say that it is not really appropriate for very young children; especially sensitive ones. There are some fairly scary scenes; TOO scary for the little ones- e.g.: people bursting into flames & dying, sexual inuendo- KINKY sexual inuendo. One character dies when Bart Simpson chops him in the back with an axe- which I think is definately NOT funny- sorry, brutal axe murder just doesn’t tickle my funny bone. There is one especially funny scene I will counter this with: the set up is a mock “Hogwarts” school of magic. Every kid is supposed to change a frog into a prince. One student is not so good at it, completely botching the spell by only achieving a partly transformed frog- it is a hideously mutated prince/frog thing. It’s just so stupid- the thing moans and begs to be killed, and goes around continuously barfing on everyone. You have to see it to believe it. It is just SO ludicrously funny; I thought I’d die from the stitches in my side…. and my older daughter- 11 1/2 years, ( the little stinker) follows me around doing this amazingly accurate imitation of the scene, which is just driving me to mad tears of laughter. So, anyway, in conclusion IF your kids are mature enough to handle some kind of weird stuff, and you are good at explaining why maybe something ought not be taken too seriouly, then go ahead, buy it. Stay away from it if your kids are of a sensitive and tender nature &/or just too young, OR if you can not abide this type of humor yourself- because, likely you will not like it. Good fortune to you, and Happy New Year!
Rating: 3 / 5
None of the treehouse of horror episodes are scary. This DVD was the best!
Rating: 2 / 5
this dvd should be 5 dollers and not ten.that was stupid but its true. they only have 4 episodes what the heck!they should release and 2 disc special edition of all the treehouse of horrors ever made and sell it for 25 dollers.then it would be SO much better
Rating: 2 / 5
A correction here, from the “first time Simson viewer”. My daughters informed me that it is NOT Bart who does the axe murder in one episode on this DVD. Rather, it is HOMER who goes nuts and chops another character to death. There, I stand corrected. Whew! All else the same, though.
Rating: 3 / 5
the treehouse of horror episodes are some of the best episodes in the entire series. I highly recommend any simpsons fan to get this DVD set.
Rating: 5 / 5