“Please Lis, they prefer to be called the ‘living impaired’.” – Bart Simpson

Typically there are three segments to a Treehouse of Horror episode.  (Discounting the opening with the monsters at the Halloween party, which was pointless filler if ever there was such a thing.)  The first segment was basically a chase scene that had no jokes.  The second segment was another zombie segment (that also had a chase scene that had no jokes).  The third segment was a bizarre musical theater number that had, quite literally, nothing to do with Halloween with the exception of Kang and Kodos being in the audience.  They couldn’t even be bothered to produce three Halloween segments.  There was one truly scary moment though, Al Jean was credited as Al “20 More Years” Jean.

So, even though it was only 2/3 of a Halloween episode (and Zombie Simpsons at that) it was billed as a full one and those tend to do well in the ratings.  I’m setting the over/under at 9.5 million viewers and, as always, I’m hoping for the under.

Update: The numbers are in and at 8.59 million viewers the under has it handily.  This also makes XX the least watched Treehouse of Horror ever, by almost two million viewers.