It just isn't Halloween without The Simpsons and their annual "Treehouse of Horror" specials. The first season didn't have one, but the show has made up for it since, even if they have a tendency to premiere them in November, no matter how hard they try. There are also Treehouse of Horror tie-in comics.

Every year, viewers get treated to several stories where anything can happen to the family, even death and fates much worse. Some of them are scary or silly, and quite a lot of them are homages to The Twilight Zone. Fans probably saw their version of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven in English class.

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The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" has been a steady provider of both laughs and scares over the years, especially in certain fan-favorite episodes.

10 Into The Homerverse (Funniest)

Disney Princess Homer

One Halloween night, Homer gets stuck working at the plant, but accidentally opens a portal to another dimension while trying to use the vending machine. This allows multiple Homers from various dimensions to enter into the world, including a Disney Princess parody who looks like Cinderella, one from an anime universe, and one from a video game. There's even a shapeshifting Homer who turns into multiple Hanna-Barbera parodies.

Unfortunately, they need to send the Homers back to their original dimensions or they will die, but that's easier said than done: they have to fight versions of Mr. Burns and Smithers from other dimensions, too.

9 Toy Gory (Scariest)

Marge Homer Dead Bart

In this parody of Pixar, when Bart goes a little too far with his toys, they come to life and swear revenge. Capturing Bart, he begs for mercy, saying he would never have hurt them if he knew they were alive, but a nearby Milhouse points out that is not necessarily true.

The toys then essentially murder him and basically turn his corpse into a giant doll, complete with replacing his vital organs with toy parts. Probably the most horrifying part is seeing the family react to finding what's left of Bart. But at least they can make him talk by pulling a string on his back.

8 House Of Whacks (Funniest)

A robot salesman convinces Marge to get an automated house that will take care of their every need. Unfortunately, the house's AI, Pierce, named after his voice actor, Pierce Brosnan, starts taking a liking to Marge and has to find a way to get rid of Homer. Fortunately, Homer survives the attack on his life and the family manages to dismantle Pierce.

Marge decides that Pierce might have been a homicidal danger, but deserves a second chance: she sends him to live with her sisters, Patty and Selma, condemning him to a fate worse than death, especially since they removed his self-destruct button.

7 Wanted: Dead, Then Alive (Scariest)

Bart about to die

Sideshow Bob has tried to kill Bart Simpson for years, but doing so would kill the show. However, anything can happen in a Halloween special on this show. Bob finally manages to kill Bart and the creepiest part is that he keeps his decomposing corpse hidden in his house as the family searches for him.

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The horror from the start of this story is somewhat mitigated by the fact that Bob eventually manages to reanimate Bart, even if it is so he could kill Bart all over again.

6 Easy Bake Coven (Funniest)

Patty Selma and Marge inventing Halloween and Caramel Cod

Springfield has been reimagined into a colonial town where the locals are so terrified of witches; even Marge gets accused. Although in that case, the paranoid villagers turn out to be right. She and her sisters really are witches and they try to get revenge by kidnapping and eating the local children. When they get to the Flanders, it turns out the witches are easily appeased with sweets, leading to the creation of Halloween.

There's little historical accuracy in an episode that's actually about Halloween. But the funniest bit comes at the end of the episode, with the holiday now big in Springfield, when Homer, in his belly dancer costume, accuses Lisa of being a witch, after she points out he accidentally egged his own house.

5 Terror from 5 at 1/2 Feet (Scariest)

In this homage to The Twilight Zone episode, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet," Bart starts seeing a gremlin attacking the bus, but nobody believes him, even sweet, trusting Milhouse. Bart has to resort to emergency flares to scare off the beast.

While it at first seems that the damage to the bus validates Bart's story, no one really cares and he's shipped off to the asylum. Finally, the gremlin appears right outside the ambulance carrying Ned Flanders' severed, talking head.

4 Hungry Are The Damned (Funniest)

Serak the Preparer meets the Simpsons

From the Simpsons episode that started it all, the Simpsons get abducted by aliens who seem a little too friendly, preparing them lavish amounts of food. Then Lisa gets suspicious, especially when she finds a cookbook. However, it turns out that it was about cooking for humans. Hurt, the aliens banish the family back to Earth. As Lisa speculates that humans are the real monsters, the rest of the family tells her to be quiet.

It's rumored that the writers originally intended for Lisa to be right, but they realized it was just funnier to have her be wrong. The story also introduced Kang and Kodos to the series.

3 Dial Z For Zombies (Scariest)

Lisa Being Snail

After Ned scares the local kids at a party with his zombie costume, Bart gets revenge by telling his own zombie story: after a failed book report, Bart borrows a book of spells from the library and accidentally reanimates the corpses from the local cemetery, after trying to revive the family cat.

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The zombies not only prey on the living, but their victims turn out to be even more dangerous, being able to hunger for brains while retaining some level of sentience, as poor Martin learns the hard way when he gets down to the principal's office. Eventually, the spell on Springfield is broken, Lisa turns into a snail for some reason, the undead return to Hell, and only around half the town was killed.

2 Homer3 (Funniest)

Homer3 in CGI

Imagine "Little Girl Lost" from The Twilight Zone with a bit of Tron thrown in. While hiding from Patty and Selma, Homer accidentally gets stuck in a parallel world where everything is in three dimensions.

Bart tries to save his father, but the world implodes on itself thanks to Homer's mistake. While he does survive, he ends up in a world much scarier than anything the show could cook up: the real world. He's soon comforted by an erotic cake shop, so all is not lost.

1 Nightmare Cafeteria (Scariest)

Bart Lisa About To Be Dead

The show doesn't need ghosts and zombies to be scary. In this classic story, after Jimbo's prank on the lunch lady goes horribly wrong, the teachers realize they like the taste of children and are quickly growing fatter and less human after cannibalizing child after child. Probably the most disturbing part of the story is when Bart and Lisa turn to Marge for help, she outright refuses to get involved.

Even the Simpsons writers seemed to have thought they went a little too far with this one, since the whole thing turns out to be Bart's dream, as if the audience needed reassurance the characters were all right. After all, there's nothing to fear but that gas that turns people inside out.

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