Day: November 1, 2011

“Fine, then you tell one scarier.” – Lisa Simpson “Flashlight please.” – Bart Simpson Ever since its beginning, the Treehouse of Horror series has depended on parodying, satirizing, and outright stealing from movies, television shows, and other stories.  When The Simpsons was still itself that meant taking familiar ideas, themes and stories and remaking them in the style, language and irony of Springfield.  That sounds simple, but it’s an extremely delicate process.  They had to inject enough original ideas and twists to keep things from feeling stale or rehashed, while at the same time not changing the original source material…