The Simpsons Season 33 Broke A Major Halloween Tradition
Although The Simpsons season 33 broke a lot of new ground for the long-running animated sitcom, one of its biggest changes came in the annual Halloween special “Treehouse of Horror XXXII”. The Simpsons season 33 saw the series make a considerable number of changes to the show’s reliable formula. As a result, season 33 also saw The Simpsons earn better reviews than the television institution has enjoyed in some time, with many critics praising its invention.
However, despite The Simpsons recently improving, the showstill has a long way to go if the show wants to regain its once-formidable critical reputation. Season 33 still featured plenty of gags that fell flat, satirical barbs that didn’t land, and ambitious stories that didn’t work despite the show’s best attempts. In some cases, like the season 33 Halloween special, it could be argued that the ambition of The Simpsons got in the way of the show's potential success.
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The Simpsons Halloween special “Treehouse of Horror XXXII” (season 33, episode 3) saw the series break the mold in terms of its traditional story structure, a choice that was not an unqualified success. Unlike its predecessors, season 33's ‘Treehouse of Horror’ had more than 3 segments, a change that The Simpsons has tried to pull off before but which the series had never stuck with so definitively until this outing. While The Simpsons season 33’s retcons may have drawn more ire from viewers than this minor change, it was this restructuring of the show’s annual Halloween special that proved the series was willing to switch up even its oldest traditions and the experiment's results were only partially positive.
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