Honestly, this is such a perfect coincidence that you’d think there had to have been years of planning that went into making it happen. The Simpsons has officially ticked over to episode number 666 overall, and in true late-October fashion they celebrated with a Treehouse Of Horror Halloween episode.
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Somehow the stars aligned on The Simpsons episode scheduling, which not only meant the 666th episode fell in October, enabling them to lean right-the-hell in and make it a Treehouse of Horror, but that it also just-so-happened to be the 30th overall Halloween special, making the 666th episode an XXX event.
The episode parodied Stranger Things, The Shape of Water, The Omen, and Heaven Can Wait, of all things, and the opening sequence of the episode featured yet-another knowing nod towards the show’s FOX network overlords.
Today, Satan. Tune in to @FOXTV now to be horrified! #TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/n2rO0BTx5D
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) October 21, 2019
But the real gem of the day came from FOX themselves, who posted a montage featuring a small snippet from every Treehouse of Horror that preceded it. There’s some absolute belters in there, I tell you what.
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(And no, those aren’t three kisses) pic.twitter.com/gJbj1pP12v— FOX (@FOXTV) October 20, 2019
“What the hell are you smiling at” is one of those absolutely perfect Simpsons gags. A rip-snorter of a line.
Say what you want about The Simpsons lasting this long and continuing on into the foreseeable future, but if the long game of all of this was to have the 666th episode coincidentally land near enough to Halloween for them to pull this off, then honestly? Probably worth all the effort.
Probably.