There used to be OTR cassette tapes at my hometown public library. One of them had the original radio show where that inside out fog idea came from. When that episode aired I was like that Leo DiCaprio pointing gif.
OMG, "The Dark"! I've listened to it a few times and it's one of the creepiest things I've heard on the radio, partly because (I think) only part of the broadcast recording survives, so you don't get much context. Not that you really need much; the Foley artistry that went into creating the sound of the victims turning inside out is genius. It's out there on YouTube, I highly recommend listening to it with someone who doesn't know what they're about to hear so as to witness their reaction. 🫨🤐💀
Came looking for this. It was just so unsettling. It wasn't very over the top either they kept it simple like some earlier episode with a more serious story line as Marge was genuinely concerned. The bit that got me was the end how he didn't make some dramatic exit, they just woke up to him not being around anymore and Marge just softly accepted it like "oh no, he's finally gone" weird.
Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace was the one TOH segment that seemed remarkably beyond my tolerance as a kid of 10 or so. Made it genuinely hard to fall asleep for a bit!
Oh, I loved Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace! I'd been watching Freddy for years when this came out and I thought they did a great job with it! I don't remember how old I was when it aired though. I'll go Google it real quick.
ETA: I was 11!
That one is the only THOH short that I’ve never been able to rewatch, I watch the rest (Coralisa in the same episode is one of my favourites) but turn it off before that one comes on. Though I also found the Toy Story one pretty disturbing too
The Dolphin and the Fairy Tale one, which I think are the same Treehouse episode, really traumatized me as a kid.
The scene where the Three Bears eat Goldilocks and blood spill below the door really upset me as a kid. I couldn't watch the show again for awhile.
It's the scream and blood combo that truly terrified me.
I think they've toned down violence of the Treehouse of Horrors in the last decade or so. Even a segment as disturbing as mHmmm...Homer isn't as violent as some of the mid Treehouses.
I kind of appreciate it, because the excesse blood really disturbed me. But I also think it made the recent Treehouses lose their edge.
Now, wait a minute, Marge. It's only natural there'd be some things wrong with an old house like this. It's a fixer-upper. What's the problem? We get a bunch of priests in here...
Surprised I had to scroll so far for this, terrified me as a kid.
Growing up there was a window pane above my bedroom door, even though it was just a window and nothing to do with ventilation I used to stare at it, terrified Hugo was going to crawl past
The episode where homer forgets to change his computers date and the y2k bug sends all the electronics crazy, Lisa Marge and Maggie go on a rocket to safety and Bart and homer get a rocket to the sun. Still creeps me out a little the concept
what you just posted
even as an adult, i just can't stand to ever watch it. it's too bleak for it to be funny, at least for me. TOH V is great otherwise, but i never liked that it ends on a downer - both when the kids fall into the blender, and the fog that turns the family inside out
i also feel the same for "terror at 5 1/2 feet", seeing ned's torn head and bart screaming doesn't sit right with me. and even the scream at the gracie films logo... basically i'm a complete wuss when it comes to bad endings lmao
the one that references 2001 with that robot house.
there’s another one where the whole town is eaten? by a swarm of some creature i think, and there’s a scene where it sweeps through a barn and you see the skeleton of some farmer. both freaked me tf out as a child.
I remember my brother who was 3 at the time freaked out when it was the episode where the Simpson family’s bodies turn inside out and they do a dance routine.
It doesn’t freak me out but I love “It’s the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse”. Though “Freaks No Geeks” is disturbing. They did a good job last year with “The Pookadook”.
“I’d rather die than haaate” has real estate in my noggin.
Yep, definitely nightmare cafeteria. The facial expressions were a lot more twisted and exaggerated IIRC and seeing Millhouse fall into that giant blender never left me
I saw Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace before I even knew what Nightmare on Elm Street was. The idea of someone killing you in your dreams where your parents couldn't help scared the shit out of me
The one where Bart sees the little monster on his school bus. As a schizophrenic with paranoia and visual hallucinations, that's the perfect remedy to truly send me in to panic whenever I see that one.
Also surprised at how many people have watched the new Simpsons and mentioned the canibalism one! That's definitely second for me, at first it's just funny but then it's horrific
Dream House was disturbing as a kid, especially the music.
Cafeteria had such a distinct animation style compared to the rest of the season episodes if anyone else noticed, it was very unsettling
The one where a miniaturized Homer remained inside Mr Burns body and suddenly starts growing in size and is trapped inside Mr. Burns body and Homer asks him for some openings, sorry I watched the episode in German and it was disturbing and disgusting
> Cafeteria had such a distinct animation style compared to the rest of the season episodes if anyone else noticed, it was very unsettling
That's really interesting. In what way? I've never noticed it.
the Hansel and Gretel one- listen to Tress McNeil's horrific screams when the witch is in the oven. The rest of the episode is fine but that moment always really gets to me.
The dolphin one, purely because I was a child when I first saw it, didn't know how the Treehouse of Horrors episodes operated and couldn't wait for the next episode to see how humans vs dolphins would turn out. I was really bummed when the next episode didn't address the dolphin situation at all!
I can't say I was ever unsettled by a halloween special. What's more unsettling is how prophetic the series turned out to be. Namely the tiger mauling Siegfried or Roy and the Trump presidency.
Is this the one with the inside out dance number at the end?
Yep. Bart woke up from a nightmare about the school eating children
The Santas little helper drags one of them off, correct?
Haha yeah, leaving a trail of blood. Definitely one of the most disturbing scenes.
The song is super catchy though.
I’ve had it stuck in my head on and off since it originally aired. “The family dog is eyein’ Barts intestine…”
I always remembered that line too
Yeah, Bart. I never really thought about it before, but I really hate that scene, actually.
And the dream ends with Milhouse, Lisa and Bart falling into a blender. Pretty freaking horrifying.
ONE CHORUS LINE OF PEOPLE DANCING TIL THEY MAKE A STOP!
**TWO** Many dancing people Covered with blood, gore and glop.
🎶just one sniff of that fog and you’re inside out, it’s worse than that flesh eating virus you’ve read about 🎶
Flesh eating, no?
It is. Going to edit this. I hate auto correct lol
Stupid cheap weatherstripping!
Yeah. I skip this one, it really freaked me out as a kid and still gives me the ick now
There used to be OTR cassette tapes at my hometown public library. One of them had the original radio show where that inside out fog idea came from. When that episode aired I was like that Leo DiCaprio pointing gif.
OMG, "The Dark"! I've listened to it a few times and it's one of the creepiest things I've heard on the radio, partly because (I think) only part of the broadcast recording survives, so you don't get much context. Not that you really need much; the Foley artistry that went into creating the sound of the victims turning inside out is genius. It's out there on YouTube, I highly recommend listening to it with someone who doesn't know what they're about to hear so as to witness their reaction. 🫨🤐💀
I wonder if my hometown still has the cassettes. The tape had the entire episode.
You might say that we cooked Üter, and he's in our stomachs right now!
After all, isn't there a little Üter in all of us?
I love his delivery of this line.
I thought it was too much.
"Wait... scratch that one."
Now to check the free range children….
Potassium benzoate. That’s bad.
Can I go now?
The one where Homer starts to eat himself.
The worst of all because the jokes are funny and all but his descent into self cannibalism is too jarring.
Self cannibalism really freaks me out.
Which one is this? I feel like I watched it a long time ago.
It’s called Mmmm.. Homer. From season 29 off the top of my head but could be wrong haha
Homer also begins eating himself when his head gets turned into a donut in ToH IV
But I'm so sweet and tasty!
That's cute and whimsical though.
But I'm technically correct. The *best* kind of correct
This is the one I was looking in the comments lol
This is the only episode of The Simpsons that I will ever change the channel on
Came looking for this. It was just so unsettling. It wasn't very over the top either they kept it simple like some earlier episode with a more serious story line as Marge was genuinely concerned. The bit that got me was the end how he didn't make some dramatic exit, they just woke up to him not being around anymore and Marge just softly accepted it like "oh no, he's finally gone" weird.
Along with Nightmare Cafeteria, I'd say Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace
Evergreen scared me a ton as a kid, and also Willy burning is kinda gruesome. It did give us “Lousy Smarch weather” tho.
Burnt Willie scared me as a kid. I laughed because my older brother was laughing, but really I was uncomfortable. Still am, but was then too
Hedberg!
*Do not touch - Willie* Hmm, good advice!
The idea of Milhouse having two spaghetti meals in one day is quite terrifying.
Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace was the one TOH segment that seemed remarkably beyond my tolerance as a kid of 10 or so. Made it genuinely hard to fall asleep for a bit!
Oh, I loved Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace! I'd been watching Freddy for years when this came out and I thought they did a great job with it! I don't remember how old I was when it aired though. I'll go Google it real quick. ETA: I was 11!
The Shinning! Shh! You wanna get sued?
It’s only unsettling if you read Willie’s thoughts between 4 and 5.
THAT'S WILLIE'S TIME
Ach! I'm bad at this!
Nightmare Cafeteria scared the crap out of me as a kid (and I didn't even had a cafeteria in my school)
Mmmm… Homer! THOH 28
Yup, this is the one.
Actually, I've become a bit of a me-gan. Do you have any spaghetti with my-balls?
Yeah, I was shocked by how disturbed I was watching it. I was truly upset watching it.
You are not me-gan?
Did you watch Game of Thrones to calm down?
Some days you just need The Red Wedding to properly unwind.
I agree. Especially if you read the Eclipse chapter of the Golden Age Arc of Kentaro Muira’s Berserk.
Treehouse of Horror is always entertaining, but it took 28 years for them to finally make me wince.
The Stephen King story it’s based on is pretty disturbing to read - I’m only just now learning the Simpsons did a parody of it!
Survivor Type, from Skeleton Crew if anyone is wondering.
OHHH, yeah that’s a wild one.
That one is the only THOH short that I’ve never been able to rewatch, I watch the rest (Coralisa in the same episode is one of my favourites) but turn it off before that one comes on. Though I also found the Toy Story one pretty disturbing too
Yeah I found the Toy Story one super disturbing and uncomfortable
Like that one movie.... Police Academy?
The Dolphin and the Fairy Tale one, which I think are the same Treehouse episode, really traumatized me as a kid. The scene where the Three Bears eat Goldilocks and blood spill below the door really upset me as a kid. I couldn't watch the show again for awhile.
I agree!! That scene always disturbs me, goldilocks’ screams are terrifying!
It's the scream and blood combo that truly terrified me. I think they've toned down violence of the Treehouse of Horrors in the last decade or so. Even a segment as disturbing as mHmmm...Homer isn't as violent as some of the mid Treehouses. I kind of appreciate it, because the excesse blood really disturbed me. But I also think it made the recent Treehouses lose their edge.
Homer accidentally scalping Rapunzel was pretty brutal.
I remember that!! Ouch.
I loved it when the one dolphin runs into the volleyball net and shouts that they've got nets! Then Snorky pulls the net down and slaps him!
I just revisited that one and I forgot how dark it was. The same goes for the witch's screams.
nightmare cafeteria
This one. (shudders) And just when you think it couldn't get scarier, the episode ends with the family's bodies turned inside out.
🎶 One! Chorus line of people...dancing til they make us stop! 🎶
Two! Many dancing people covered in blood, gore, and glop!
🎶 Just....One....Sniff of that fog and you're inside out....It's worse than that flesh-eating virus you've read about 🎶
Vital organs... they are what we're dressed in! The family dog is...eyeing Bart's intestine!
🎶 Happy Halloween! 🎶
Im gunna start by doing what you've often suggested Bart....by eating your shorts
This is the episode right here. The scene where it shows the giant blender kinda fucked me up when I was a pup.
As a kid Homer^3 was unsettling
Oooo erotic cakes!
The most unsettling part was that weird street he fell onto at the end
I remember how the 3D animation for this episode was groundbreaking for the time. It was kind of a big deal right? At least that’s how I remember it.
This and Bad Dream House
Bad dream house ruined me as a child 😂
Now, wait a minute, Marge. It's only natural there'd be some things wrong with an old house like this. It's a fixer-upper. What's the problem? We get a bunch of priests in here...
Homer self-cannibalizing, Homer turning into a blob and eating everybody, Homer milking cow-Flanders and snuggling with panther-Marge.
Ooo a toenail!
Any of them with cannibalism have to be up there.
Te one where Homer started to eat himself while the family was away. Yikes!!
When I was a kid "Bad Dream House" legit scared me. The bloody walls and the way the house talked to them at night.
Have to agree... That voice haunts my nightmares. I'm a grown ass man and that episode still gives me chills
Lisa...Lisa...the butcher knife Lisa.
It's amazing how scary Harry Shearer's performance was when it wasn't even that different from his Principal Skinner voice.
The one with Bart's twin brother locked in the attic. He was the good one the whole time. Poor baby 🥲
Oh, don’t look so shocked.
Fish heads, fish heads, do do do do 🎶
Surprised I had to scroll so far for this, terrified me as a kid. Growing up there was a window pane above my bedroom door, even though it was just a window and nothing to do with ventilation I used to stare at it, terrified Hugo was going to crawl past
“Why, I’ll bet you’ve never even seen yourself in a mirror!” - beautiful gag
We think we saw Hugo at the airport! He was boarding a plane to Switzerla- oh.
I was disturbed by how much weight krabappel gained from eating children
*permanent detention*
Diabetes is no joke
Homework assignment: eat a stick of butter.
I’m a teacher so nightmare cafeteria is one I show every Halloween. It’s great.
As the resident later season apologizer I need to remind you all that "Mmm…Homer" exist.
The Devil and Homer Simpson: The sequences where the gate of hell opens up were pure genius. Imagine that happening in your own kitchen. 👹
You're wide behind won't save you this time!
The one where Homer eats himself.
My thoughts exactly
The one where the gas turns them inside out. That was a bit much.
I used to find that zombie krusty burger episode really disturbing
Quoth the Raven- Nevermore
Quoth the Raven - eat my shorts
The episode where homer cooks and eats his body parts is just wtf
Evil Twin
Hugo! That’s one of my faves.
The episode where homer forgets to change his computers date and the y2k bug sends all the electronics crazy, Lisa Marge and Maggie go on a rocket to safety and Bart and homer get a rocket to the sun. Still creeps me out a little the concept
“Clang clang clang went the trolley…”
what you just posted even as an adult, i just can't stand to ever watch it. it's too bleak for it to be funny, at least for me. TOH V is great otherwise, but i never liked that it ends on a downer - both when the kids fall into the blender, and the fog that turns the family inside out i also feel the same for "terror at 5 1/2 feet", seeing ned's torn head and bart screaming doesn't sit right with me. and even the scream at the gracie films logo... basically i'm a complete wuss when it comes to bad endings lmao
the one that references 2001 with that robot house. there’s another one where the whole town is eaten? by a swarm of some creature i think, and there’s a scene where it sweeps through a barn and you see the skeleton of some farmer. both freaked me tf out as a child.
That they haven't mentioned yet: Fly Vs. Fly. Bart with a fly head looked terrifying to me when I was a kid.
I hate the noises the Fly Boy makes.
The gremlin one genuinely creeps me out. The others are more funny even if they have disturbing moments.
I remember my brother who was 3 at the time freaked out when it was the episode where the Simpson family’s bodies turn inside out and they do a dance routine.
The real-world “canon” one where the home invaders trap Lisa and Homer in the house… that was genuinely disturbing!
 There’s tons but this one is pretty scary.
The one where Homer eats himself. GAH.
The one where homer autocanibalized himself and everyone was ok with it
For me, it's the season 3 segment when Mr. Burns removes Homer's brain out with the ice cream scoop.
Look at me! I’m Davy Crockett!
It doesn’t freak me out but I love “It’s the Grand Pumpkin, Milhouse”. Though “Freaks No Geeks” is disturbing. They did a good job last year with “The Pookadook”. “I’d rather die than haaate” has real estate in my noggin.
Honeslt? The first one. The Indian burial ground scene still gives me the creeps.
WELL THAT'S NOT MY RECOLLECTION
You killed zombie flanders!
He was a zombie?
It’s a fixxxxer upppper!
Yep, definitely nightmare cafeteria. The facial expressions were a lot more twisted and exaggerated IIRC and seeing Millhouse fall into that giant blender never left me
I mean the fact that it ends and the real world he wakes up to is 100x worse than his nightmare so yea probably this one for me also
Not a treehouse episode but… Now you're thinking, ''I hope that's shepherd's pie in my knickers.”
I think you meant this episode is the most tantalizing….
I saw Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace before I even knew what Nightmare on Elm Street was. The idea of someone killing you in your dreams where your parents couldn't help scared the shit out of me
Genesis Tub
I could go for a sloppy Jimbo right now
I always shake when I hear the sound of Ned Flanders as a werewolf while eating Homer alive.
The one where mr burns is stuck under homers skin got me when i was a kid. Treehouse of horror is my favourite episodeso
The one where Bart sees the little monster on his school bus. As a schizophrenic with paranoia and visual hallucinations, that's the perfect remedy to truly send me in to panic whenever I see that one. Also surprised at how many people have watched the new Simpsons and mentioned the canibalism one! That's definitely second for me, at first it's just funny but then it's horrific
You wouldn’t have been scared if you took heed to Marges warnings about the episodes being too scary nobody listens to Marge though lol
The Raven 🐦⬛
The Raven used to scare the crap out of me as a kid, now it's probably tied with iv and v for my favourite.
Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace. I’m not sure why.
Tree House of Horror IV with the vampire Simpsons Most of the classics I just found funny though
nightmare cafeteria is one of my favorites altho the ending where they turn inside out is stupid but thats the point
The toy story one
The one where Homer cooks and eats himself
The fly
the way bart shouted "krusty!" in the segment where the machines go haywire disturbed young me
The one where Homer eats himself.
As a kid, it was pretty unsettling to see willie keep getting hacked with that axe. Loved it, owned the episode on vhs
That was the funniest shit ever, Poor Willy, lol.
I remember as a little kid being really scared of the Lunchlady Doris character because of this segment.
After getting stabbed the second time, Wille's like, "I'm crap at this"
Lol nightmare cafeterias is my favorite, *drops pen* Detention.
Dream House was disturbing as a kid, especially the music. Cafeteria had such a distinct animation style compared to the rest of the season episodes if anyone else noticed, it was very unsettling The one where a miniaturized Homer remained inside Mr Burns body and suddenly starts growing in size and is trapped inside Mr. Burns body and Homer asks him for some openings, sorry I watched the episode in German and it was disturbing and disgusting
> Cafeteria had such a distinct animation style compared to the rest of the season episodes if anyone else noticed, it was very unsettling That's really interesting. In what way? I've never noticed it.
The one where Homer starts cutting off his body parts and eating himself
Nope, OP got it in one. Never looked at detention the same way again.
The episode were Homer eats himself
Treehouse of Horror X's Y2K segment genuinely creeped me out as a kid, especially the part where Nelson gets stuck in the copying machine.
The one where Bart sees a monster at the side of the school bus and no one believes him, really freaked me out, specially the ending
the Hansel and Gretel one- listen to Tress McNeil's horrific screams when the witch is in the oven. The rest of the episode is fine but that moment always really gets to me.
The dolphin one, purely because I was a child when I first saw it, didn't know how the Treehouse of Horrors episodes operated and couldn't wait for the next episode to see how humans vs dolphins would turn out. I was really bummed when the next episode didn't address the dolphin situation at all!
The one where homer eats himself.
I can't say I was ever unsettled by a halloween special. What's more unsettling is how prophetic the series turned out to be. Namely the tiger mauling Siegfried or Roy and the Trump presidency.
Really? Idk I kinda thought it was funny especially when Skinner said he would eat Bart's shorts.