"Simpsons" Horror

I'm old enough to have really fond memories of the early years of "The Simpsons," back when it was so new and different and so was the Fox channel.

Now that my kids are older, I thought it might be fun to watch the annual Halloween "Treehouse of Horror" episode together. I tried it last year and they were just bored. We tried again this year, with mixed results. Well, the best result was when Emma turned to me and said, "This is just so disrespectful!" Yes, that was the idea always, that was the charm of the show.

But this year the show also skewed one of my favorite books, "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," morphing it into "The Diving Bell and the Butterball." Homer communicates only through farting. A much better review can be found here, and I agree with the writer, Tim Surette, that this was just bizarre, a bit of a horror all around. Sorry kids.