Two years ago, for The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween special, director Guillermo del Toro created a couch gag sequence densely packed full of cinematic and literary references. For this year’s installment, the show tapped Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi to animate this year's utterly bizarre and grotesque musical couch gag. (It's not the first lurid couch gag John K. has done for the show—he also did a shorter sequence for a 2011 episode that ended with Homer pouring a beer through a hole in his head.) Beginning with the Simpson children trick-or-treating in a graveyard, the zombie, monstrous corpse of Frank Grimes emerges to devour Bart's sinful soul. (Never mind that The Simpsons: Tapped Out mobile game has retconned Grimes' death into him simply being buried alive while in a coma.) The children escape back to the house, where Homer chastises their belief in ghosts—but Grimes gets the last laugh.
Simpsons Halloween Couch Gag Gets Ren & Stimpy Treatment
The legendarily bizarre John K. creates a grotesque musical tale that re-animates "Homer's Enemy."
