A Halloween Temptation, A Horrifying Return

Running across not just a report the latest “Simpsons Halloween special” would have a segment “in anime style” but a clip of the animation was enough to turn my thoughts in a direction they hadn’t pointed in for quite a while. It’s been almost ten years since a report of “a quick sight gag of anime costumes” in a previous Halloween special reminded me how long it had been since I’d stopped watching The Simpsons and how I wasn’t bothered by that. This latest report, though, did get me thinking it had come in advance of the special. I went so far as to look in the TV guide that comes with my Saturday newspaper, note The Simpsons wasn’t being “simulcast” on a Canadian channel any more, and figure out where to tune into the American airing. (A few unfortunate thoughts about “the commercials being the really scary part” did come to mind along the way.)
( Into the vault of fear )