Not that big a price though. about as bad as the turkey sandwich Homer wished for being “a little dry”. For years Simpsons fans had the magic of the annual Simpsons Halloween special ruined by being too late. This year, finally that was fixed, but at the cost of it coming too early.

There have been 20 Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Halloween Specials, and unforgivably, 8 of the most recent ones were broadcast after Halloween. I was so mad at this recent history and so pleased with the series return to sanity that I went and looked up the original airdates for every single Simpsons Halloween special. I thought it would have been slightly more spotty, but no: as you can see, the “dark age” started in the year 2000 and lasted up until last year:

1. I · October 25, 1990
2. II · October 31, 1991
3. III · October 29, 1992
4. IV · October 28, 1993
5. V · October 30, 1994
6. VI · October 29, 1995
7. VII · October 27, 1996
8. VIII · October 26, 1997
9. IX · October 25, 1998
10. X · October 31, 1999
11. XI · November 1, 2000
    
12. XII · November 6, 2001
13. XIII · November 3, 2002
14. XIV · November 2, 2003
    
15. XV · November 7, 2004
16. XVI · November 6, 2005
    
17. XVII · November 5, 2006
18. XVIII · November 4, 2007
19. XIX · November 2, 2008
20. XX · October 18, 2009

OUTRAGEOUS! infuriating and unacceptable. at least this generation will not have to suffer the indignity of trying to get in the Halloween spirit up to a motherfkking WEEK after the god damn holiday, and at least the 3 stories were of a Halloween nature instead of the bullshit science-fiction/just weird nature of the crap that was fed to us during the dark ages…

This years episode is below: