(upbeat music) Ladies and gentlemen, we are here. It is the final episode in the treehouse of horror bracket that Mike put together. And we have got all four one seeds left. Let's get right into it. This is boozy bracketology. We believe in strong drinks, strong opinions, and chronic champions. And tonight we're doing all three of those. Let's meet the contestants. No, nay, the panelists tonight. First up, St. Petersburg, Florida. Will Evelyn, my friend. How you doing? What are you drinking? - Hi, I'm Will Evelyn. He may remember me from such podcasts as boozy bracketology treehouse of horror, round of 32, and boozy bracketology sweet 16 and a lead eight. Oh no, that's coming up now. Anyways, I'm Will Evelyn, and this is the most I've had to drink on a Monday in a while. We're at the finish line. I found a bottle of bourbon that's got a little horse on top. I'm gonna have some of it. It's a Blayton single barrel. Let's see if it gets a pop sound. There we go. Pour a little bit out. All right, cheers, fellas and ladies. Let's finish it. - Will, what letter is on that bottle top? - It is an N as in November. Do you need it? - I only have two bottle tops. So I have no idea what. - No, I mean, if you want it, you can have it. - I think I prefer to keep it and do it myself. It's gonna take me the rest of my life 'cause for some reason, Blayton does everybody wants. It's because of those damn bottle tops, by the way. Nevermind, all right. - That's good. - Next up, Mike Montsponts with Alabama. How you doing? What are you drinking, sir? - We had a podcast for you this October, but it was far too terrifying. So we just threw together something about the Simpsons. Enjoy. No, no one? All right, fine. That killed with the fans of the wraparounds in Simpsons, trials of four or four. Anyway, it was what best I could come up with on short notice. I'm doing well, Chris, other than failing utterly at making Simpsons references. I brought with me the Juice Raster, Juice Raster. Juice, yeah, we've had a few beers tonight. Juice Raptor, Hazy IPA from the Monday Night Brewing Company out of Atlanta, Georgia. Very tasty, Hazy. I'm going to enjoy it. And some of these choices, spoiler alert, are going to be really brutal. And I don't really know which way I'm gonna go on a couple of them. So I can't wait to see how this turns out. - I can't either, but I think Sarah knows where this is gonna go. Sarah, my friend, how you doing? What are you drinking? - I'm the one not drinking alcohol and I'm making the worst decisions. - Yeah, by saying yes, I'll be on this podcast. I agree. - Yeah. - One foot in front of the other. - Okay. I'm good, Chris. I'm good. Thank you so much for having me. I'm sticking with water to get through these last soul-crushing decisions. - Yeah, we got seven picks left. I couldn't make those picks without St. Petersburg's own Ann and my friend. How you doing? What are you drinking? - Oh, I am now switching to water so that I can function tomorrow. So we're definitely on the water train at this point. But I do wish we were going to Candy Apple Island. That's all I can say. - Ann, I'm hoping by your switching to water, you're telling me that you don't work for Boeing, right? - Or do I? - That would explain a lot. - All right, last but not least, Chris Brewer, my friend. How you doing? What are you drinking? - Yeah, I'm doing good. You guys are probably sick of hearing but I am still drinking Devil's Paintbox. I bought a four pack and this is, I'm officially going to kill it on this round here. Sadly, the rookie that I am, I already popped this fourth can. So, you know, there's your pop. - But cheers to us. - Great sound. - I love it, I love it. My turn. Little core pop there for Yellowstone bourbon out of Lebanon, Kentucky, a hand pick, part of their hand pick collection for our friends over at Sunshine Liquor here in Palm Harbor, Florida, a really strong facing bourbon. It was not planning on drinking that much but I guess I'm going to. It's really strong facing bourbon but it's got a really unique finish to a lot of strong oak and some real good pepper on this. So, cheers everybody. - Cheers. - Yes. - If you like a high rye content, that's a really good bourbon to go with. All right, enough for me, let's hear from our panelists will we're going to start with you. The one seed from the top left quadrant of the bracket, treehouse of horror number five, which features the shinning, time and punishment in nightmare cafeteria, taking on the two seed treehouse of horror number two featuring the monkey's paw, the Bartzonian if I only had a brain. - All right, man, we're in the thick of it. It's, these are all going to be tough decisions. I won't blame anyone really for picking things I don't like except the whole to grudge forever. - We talked about these so many times already, so it almost feels redundant, but there's still great bits we, I'm sure we haven't brought up. I will always love Willy calling it the shinning and not the shining. Bringing in such a beloved character in the season six was so great. I really love the kids getting eaten in the third segment of episode five. I love when Jimbo is like scrubbing the pot from the, like he's scrubbing, he says it's hard to scrub the pot from the inside when you keep spilling meat tenderizer on me. (laughing) And then they shut the lid and he goes, oh great, now I gotta work in the dark. I always love that bit so much. Two is really great. We've talked about it a lot. Homework infusing Marrakesh for Monaco. I love the guy complaining about buying an $18 T-shirt when like nowadays I would love to buy an $18 T-shirt. One of my all time favorite quotes is from the second episode when at the end of the episode, Homer screams and Marj says, "Did you have a nightmare home?" "Did you have a nightmare home?" And he goes, "No, Bart bit my leg." (laughing) "No, Bart bit me and I don't know why." It always makes me laugh. Why do kids always bite adults? They're all little idiots. Ah, this is such a tough choice. I think I gotta give it to the monkey, Paul. I'm going number two. - Number two's got its first vote, Mike. - See, I actually, I would say of this round, this is the easiest choice for me. I said before, it's not nothing against two, but I think two is the weakest of the original stretch. The first two segments are pretty good. The third one always kind of fell a little flat to me whereas five is just wall to wall greatness. So many great bits, like just even the throwaway lines, like let's go check on the free range children. And you say, like you look outside, you say like the big kids walking around and during nightmare cafeteria. So I love when Homer sneezes and all the dinosaurs are like in time and punch, he goes, oh, this is going to cost me. And then he comes back and it's like this, like perfect utopian house, but then he learns, then he finds out that there's no such thing as a doughnut. And so he runs and then it starts raiding doughnuts. There's so many great gags and fire. Like it's, and that's not even to talk about the shinning. Hmm, that's odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor. It's all, it's all so good. All of the jokes land. The segments are all have genuinely creepy moments. And it's just, it's an absolute blast. It's a go to for me. I think two is very good. It just doesn't hold a candle to five. Five gets my vote here. Five's got its first vote. Let's go over to Sarah. I pretty much want to say exactly what Mike said, but in a girl voice and a little less eloquent. Five, this one wasn't a tough one for me at all. It was an immediate five. Pretty much for all the things Mike said. The no TV, no beer makes Homer go something, something. I use that gift more like more than anyone should at my office all of the time. So yeah, this is five for me. It's a weird thing to text you on a page was born, but I'll take it and go to you. Yeah. And go to you. Oh, yeah. This one's also probably one of the easier ones of this round for me. The muggy's paw is fantastic. It's fabulous. The Bartzone is great. However, there is not a bad moment in episode five in my opinion. I haven't talked about the shinnen that much because that segment is something that will live in infamy in my brain forever. And there's just so much like burns taken away, the beer and the TV and Smithers being like, do you think all the previous caretakers going insane and murdering their families as you do this? And burns is like, perhaps we, if we come back and everyone slaughtered, I owe you a coke. And then that joke is used in multiple, like where he's like, oh, you a coke to Smithers is moved, used other times. So it's just kind of this episode for me is highly quotable and highly influential for further what to do right. So I'm going to have to keep five going. Five has got its third vote. It is moving on. Chris, did we get this one right? No, no, we did not. But it's a good thing you voted for five because I was going episode two all the way on this one. Will to finish that quote, you know, no, Bart bit me, Bart, you were crushing me. I tried to scream, but my mouth was full of flab. And then Homer getting up to go to the bathroom, got a shake to do off the lily. I mean, it's just great. I mean, no, I mean, five is good too. I mean, Willy getting the axe and all three of the episodes was the right, you know, that's, I mean, it's fine. Episode two is the number 42nd overall Simpsons. So you guys did just vote out the meaning of life, but hey, whatever, my vote goes to the meaning of life. Episode two. Ooh, excellent deep cut. Yeah, for sure. Episode two does pick up a second vote. It's not enough though. Episode five moves on to the final four. Mike, you're kicking us off with this next one. The one seed tree house of horror number 33 that features the Pooka Duke death tome and the Simpsons world takes on tree house of horror number three clown without pity, King Homer and dial Z for zombies. It is the old school versus the new school. Take us away. Ah, you had to make me go first on this one. This is a genuinely difficult match because it's nostalgia versus a an episode that I've really only seen twice. I saw it when it originally aired and I rewatched it for this bracket and it is genuinely good. The 33 is genuinely good. It is every single segment hits. It hits well. It does what it does well. We've spoken at length about the animation and the second one, which is great. And I'm not even generally a huge fan of the anime style of animation, but when it's done in that context, I think it works so incredibly well. I love that the death demon's name is Steve Johnson. Like it's just so funny. Like, and I love like when she wrote Steve Johnson in the death tome, how many Steve Johnsons died? I just kind of want to know that. Like it's just a question. And then the whole Simpsons world bit, it's a great Westworld bit, but it also just works in the context of being able to at this stage in the Simpsons how many references they can cram in. And they're all done in a way that both tickles nostalgia, but it also is clever at the same time. It's incredibly well done. Three is a stone cold old school classic. There's so many great things. When all the zombies are crawling back into their graves and the two John Smiths mate and he's like, are you, I'm John Smith. Are you John Smith, 1892? Oh, my mistake, like there's that type of shit. It's a lot of fun stuff. At the end of the day, I think that as much as I do love King Homer, I think it's the weakest segment of the six. And that by the narrowest of margins makes me go, I think I have to give it to 33 here. And if you had told me two weeks ago that I would have voted against three, which is one of my all time favorites, I would have been flabbergasted, but 33 is a tremendous accomplishment. I think it deserves to move on. 33 has its first vote, Sarah. I'm actually gonna second that. Would you again surprise us the heck out of me? In the Pooka Duke, Julie Kavner's voice has changed over time, but I feel like her voice changing and that it has made it infinitely creepier. Just that alone. Like it really caught my attention. The death tone when it started, I was like, oh, great, anime, yay. And then it turned out I love that one. I was as 33 surprised the hell out of me, but I really like it and I'm ranking it in my top tree house supporters. So I'm with you, Mike. I don't know if you meant, when you were talking about this earlier, when I was like, just do it, 'cause it seems weird, but 33 gets my vote. - 33 gets a second vote, and... - Oh, it is really, really, really close. 33 is fantastic. It kind of gave me new hope for, hey, let's, you know, 20 more years. Let's do this thing. - Let's go. (laughs) - I'm actually kind of glad that there were two votes for 33 thus far because I feel better about wanting to give three, the vote on this one. I just have an endless amount of quotes that come from episode three. I mentioned in my opening kind of the, I want to go to Candy Apple Island, and they're like, well, what do they have there? And it's like, it's still apes, but they're just not as big. (laughs) They're just, I, there are ones multiple times I'll save one that make me laugh out loud in King Homer and Clon with Pity. And then Dial Z for Zombies starts with like, from A Apple to ZZ, bro, Babies First Pop-Up book is just like that. Doing his book report on a book made for preschoolers is like my youth and awesome to them. Yeah, most of it, he read, he read most of it. 26 pages of alphabetic adventure. I can't, I can't feel good without voting for three, especially since 33 has some love right now. Like, they're both fantastic. So three for me. Three has its first vote. Chris, going to you. Oh, boy. Yeah. I mean, 33 is, it's great. I mean, it's well written, it's well animated, the Westworld, Mike, you hit it on the head, the fact that Simpsons have just so much material that they can put into that. And it, yeah, be clever and be funny. Anne was very nice to let, to save my favorite quote from Clon with, without Pity when, when Homer's getting choked out by, by Krusty and he goes rolling in and says, you know, oh, Marge is the clown starting to kill me and the Toaster's been laughing at me. Like, hi, I knew it was coming and I'm still laughing. This day, to this day, I make that reference to my wife, except I'll say, oh, the air fryer's been laughing at me and she doesn't get it, but it's, it's not me up every time. I think if I let it go through, I think I know where Will's going here. This is an old school versus new school. But I, and honestly, 33, the three segments are better than episode three's, but I can't vote against Clon without Pity. So episode three gets my vote. - It's two to two. You have one buzzer beater for this entire episode. If anybody wants to use here to sway Will now is the time to do that. No buzzer beater? - I don't know. I don't think I can sway him. I think I know where he's going. - Is this the end of zombie episode 33? (laughing) - Time to find out, Will, take us home. - Oh man, I love and hate this position. It's a lot of fun. There's so many damn good quotes. I don't know what to pick. I love that you brought, Michael, that you brought up Steve Johnson. Those of you who haven't seen the anime, Shinagami's name is Ryu. Like, I don't know where they got Steve Johnson from, but it makes me laugh. As a fan of Death Note, it makes me laugh so hard. And then Bart being the good person in this, and Lisa being the kind of sadistic evil main character, is such a good twist of Fates. Three is so, so good. I brought it up in the first episode, but the fuck it is also cursed. - That's bad. (laughing) - You get a choice of toppings. - That's good. - That's good. - And so we're so stupid. He's like, the toppings contain potassium benzoate, and over just silent and he's like, that's bad. (laughing) - You know what I'm gonna know? - So it really is. It's old versus new. I'm obviously much newer than some of our contestants. Newer to life, I mean. They kept saying they know what I'm gonna choose. They're probably right in thinking that I'm going to choose 33. I love that I'm picking it. I think it's exciting as a Simpsons fan to be picking something that's so much newer than all the classic shit that we all love and adore. But they did such a good job, and I have to applaud it and keep it in the running. So 33 is my vote. - 33 gets the vote. It is moving on to the final four, and we're moving on. Sarah, we're trusting you. Trusting is a strong word. Trusting is not what we're doing, but Sarah, we're gonna ask you to start this one off. You have got the one seed from this portion of the Bracket Treehouse of Horror number four that features wraparounds, the Devil and Homer Simpson terror at five and a half feet in Bart Simpson's Dracula, taking on the two seed Treehouse of Horror six, two classic episodes, featuring a tack of the 50 foot eyesores, Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace and Homer three. - You're right, trust is a strong word. I will make this short and sweet, and I'm curious to see how this plays out. I don't really know how it will. I know how I wanted to. The friggin' pet boys with falling over with their giant heads is gonna get me every time I brought it before, and I will continue to laugh every time I see it. I'm gonna vote for six, and let you guys decide the rest. - Short and sweet is not just her personality. It's a way of life for Sarah Bales, and going to you. - Oh, four over six, man. This is tough. They tear up five and a half feet, Dracula, Devil, and Homer Simpson, mmm, forbidden donuts. They are all incredibly quality, and then a tack of the 50 foot eyesores, and Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace and Homer are all incredibly good quality in their own right. I think because of Lionel Hudson, Phil Hartman, and the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers, I am going to go with episode four. It's a Conan O'Brien. That's my, honestly, I gotta bring back up Conan O'Brien. It's 'cause Conan wrote it. I gotta go with four. - Four's tied it up one-to-one, Chris. - Yeah, I think my favorite part in four is Blackbeard. R, it's some type of treasure map that the guys catch us at. - Ah, you can't even read. He's, ah, but no, I mean, really, this isn't close for me either. It's episode six. I mean, the Nightmare on Elm Street, Willy killing that kid with his tongue is terrifying, terrifying. And I don't know if you guys are Nightmare on Street fans, but to me that it reads to Nightmare on Street 3, The Dream Warriors, which to me is, I mean, this is a different discussion. But, yeah, and then just the, yeah, it's episode six. That's it, episode six. - I wanna go back and have a Nightmare on Elm Street discussion. I'd love to know where that conversation was going 'cause I want in. That's a conversation for a different podcast though. - I think three is the best Nightmare on Elm Street. - Oh, we will beg to differ, sir. But you are not wrong, it's top two, maybe top three. All right. - Chris is a new Nightmare guy. - I love new Nightmare. You're not gonna get me to vote against the original unless it's the best '80s horror movie bracket. In which case, I did, sorry, Turner. All right, we, he still pissed about that, by the way. - A bet. - We are moving on. Our next pick here goes to Will. - All right, I can't tell if like me wanting Mike to be the tiebreaker is like making me vote a certain way. I don't have a choice yet. Oh, as we've said, like we keep talking about like how good these episodes are. I will always be a fan of the advertising mascots, the pet boys, all of them. Like, it's just so much fun. One thing was like that mine swayed me to six, but like four, the ending of four is like that Peanuts Christmas ending. And I always thought that was kind of like weird. Like, all of a while, I don't think I, maybe there's a reason for it and it went over my head, but it kind of got lost on me. I love when they're doing the trial thing and Lionel Hudson, the ever amazing attorney at law, was like, I've watched Matt talk in a bar last night. The sound wasn't on, but I think I got the gist of it. Oh, it's such a classic like Lionel Hudson throwaway line that was just really, really funny. God damn it. The 3D home apart as a kid watching that was just so amazing. I'm like, what is this technology? This is so cool. And that might be it. I think I'm going to go with four. That's going to be my pick. It's two to two. It's going to Mike. Buzzer beaters are still live. Anybody want to try and swam one way or another? Mike, they're putting this in your somewhat capable hands. Ugh, guys are killing me. This is a tough, tough matchup. Will you say it? You quoting that line about Lionel Hudson made me think of something that my dad said to me one time where I told him like that I thought almost famous was one of my favorite movies. And he said, oh, yeah, I watched it on the plane one time. I didn't have my headphones in, but I'm pretty sure I got the gist of it. Like it's exact same thing, right? So that's really funny. Is that what popped into my head? Gosh, this is okay. These are legitimately, these are six of the best segments of the, that we have to discuss in Treehouse before. Devil at Homer Simpson, we've talked about it length. The, you know, bringing back the jury of the damned, including Richard Nixon, who at the time wasn't dead yet. Which is hilarious. I didn't know that. That's hilarious. When he says it in the, in the show, he goes, wait, but I'm not even dead yet. He died like a year later. So it's fine. But, ah, Tarot five and a half feet, which is only the weakest segment because of the strength of the other two. It is still an amazing, like thing. And it introduces us to Uter. I'm pretty sure that was the segment that introduced Uter, which is amazing in itself. And Dracula, which is just like fantastic part. Oh, super happy fun slide. I really shouldn't. But what am I gonna be here again? I'm pulling the lever and sliding right down. Oh, if it isn't little boy and, and Homer with the, oh, yo, Mar, Mar you and your, or Lisa, you and your stories. Bards of vampire, beer, kills, brain cells. No, let's all go back to that building thingy where our beds and TV is like four has so many great stuff. They're, and they're, ah, shit. I think I already taught myself into it. There is a lot of great stuff in six as well. We talked about a link. All the advertising icons, Kent Brockman being killed by the big statue of himself is great. The pet boys thing has been mentioned. The only reason I know who Paul Anka is is because of that episode. Right. Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace is great. Homer cubed is really cool because of the technology. You know, it's got, it's got some of those, it's got some great moments. But overall, I think that the higher highs are in four as great as the Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace is. That last five percent of it, where it's just like, will it getting off the bus? It doesn't know how to end itself. I think hurts it a little bit. And as much as, you know, as much as it's cool to see Homer in the real world. And you know, ooh, erotic cakes and all that kind of stuff. Ah, you're both so good. This is this, this by all rights should be a final four matchup. I, it's not and I have to give it to the one seat here. I have to give it to four. Treehouse of horror four picks up the win. It's moving to the final four. Time to see what it'll be going up against Chris. We're going to ask you to kick us off here. You have the one seat treehouse of four or seven featuring the thing and I, the Genesis tub and Citizen Kang taking on the three seed, the OG treehouse of four or one featuring bad dream house. Hungry are the damned and the raven. Yeah, I can be pretty short and sweet on this one. Last, last round one versus eight is very easy. Episode one copy and paste. Episode one to me is just far superior over seven. So that gets my vote. Episode one has its first vote will. Oh, this is fun. One is, I mean, is the original. It's so good. We talked a bit about before how like, you know, the stories being told are like real ghost stories being told and you get, you like Homer being in a tree at the end and like, you know, being so scared. All the kids are like the same shit. Homer's like so scared in the tree. It's so funny. I will always talk about the Hugo bit. It's one of the treehouse of horror bits that like sent out to me the most as a twin. When Homer goes to feed Hugo, he's singing a song and it's like, he's like fish heads, fish heads. That's got to be a Dr. Demento like reference, right? I don't know if anyone remembers Dr. Demento old radio show. Yeah. Yeah. Fish heads, holy, holy fish heads. I assume that's what it was, but it always really struck me as a lot of fun. I love Bob Dole being called mumbly Joe. That's very, it feels very current with Joe Biden. I don't know, I'm going to go seven here. I love seven, the bits really speak to me and it helps maybe cause some more turmoil with our group and I want some real head to head competition here. So let's see who the next panelist chooses. It's tied up one to one. The next pick here goes to Mike. Oh, man. Yeah, I think this is, this is a tough one. I think this is a, it's a good matchup. I think seven has a lot of great, it's all three, great segments, all six great segments, seven has all three great segments and one has all three great segments. I, you know, when I think of the thing and I, and Bart's evil twin, it's funny how at the time, I didn't somehow didn't see the twist at the end that Bart was going to be the evil twin. Wait a minute, his scar is on the wrong side. Like it seems so obvious, but at the time I was like, oh, I didn't see that coming. So it's great. I do think the Genesis tub is really good, especially. It was the same kind of thing. I was like, wait a minute. There's no way Lisa's going to end up still shrunken and stuck in the thing. Nope, nope, that's exactly what happens. And Citizen Kang, we've talked about it length. Oh, but the original is just so, so good. It was so ingrained. I saw it. I was what, nine years old? I know I'm aging myself, but it was genuinely creepy, but also genuinely funny, especially, and you know, you didn't have any concept at the time. You couldn't go on the internet and be like, what is this a parody of? So you didn't have any concept of like, oh, it's a, you know, it's a parody of the Twilight Zone. So it's like how to, how to serve, how to cook four people, how to cook for 40 people. Like all of that stuff, like all of that was really, really fun. Like the Kang and Kodos, that whole segment was great. The Raven, again, I owned, I actually owned a book of poems that featured the Raven. And after that, I was just fascinated by poetry for a while, like, legitimately. The Simpsons got me into poetry because of that. For that reason, can I vote it over seven? I mean, it's an early episode. I think that they're still finding the footing that they would, they would kind of latch on in the next couple episodes. But I still think overall, because of the frame story and because of somebody mentioned like the Homer sitting outside listening and being like absolutely terrified at the stories the kids are telling, even though they're just laughing like, oh yeah, whatever. It's just, we're just telling stories, whatever. Is a really great joke. Treehouse 4.1 is a classic. I think it deserves to move on over seven. I'm gonna give it my vote. - The three seats up two to one. Next picky goes to Sarah. - And I'm not gonna do this, I do this on purpose for you. I honestly was going seven all the way. I will say it now. I've been waiting, but I think sevens, probably my favorite out of all of them. We brought up the fish heads. Like I still notice her until you finish your fish heads when Bart traded Hugo places. I love it. So I was going episode seven this whole time. I was curious what Mike was gonna do, but this is all you. I don't think there's a wrong answer because it is one, it is the OG. So that's all you. - Well, with that, it is tied to two to two. And for those astute listeners, you'll notice me unintentionally went out of order that time, which is a fortuitous turn for Anne. So does anybody want a lot of buzzer to try and sway her one way or another here? - I can't believe I'm saying this, but I genuinely trust Anne to make the right decision here. - Someone that you just met four hours ago, Anne, it's over to you. - I'm a good judge of character, what can I say? Or bad, pick a pick. - I mean, I think Sarah's right. There's no wrong answer here. We're in the best of episodes, honestly. And I do very much appreciate episode one with what it started with it launched. There are some fantastic lines in it. I literally know the majority of the Raven, as Mike has said, because of this episode. However, abortions for some miniature American flags for others, I got to go with episode seven. - Hell yeah. Episode seven, the one seed is moving on to the final four. That means our final four is all one seeds. - Oh, whoop, whoop. - Who was the last time that happened in a real NCAA bracket? - Never. - Never? - No, no, it happened back in like 2012 or 2013. - Why did you ask if you knew the answer? - Exactly, I just asked. - Smart, smart ass. - Yeah, yeah, you're fine. It happened one time. I remember that. - It happened at Bandcamp. All right, we are moving on. Andy, you're actually going to lead us off on this one. The first of the final four matchups. Treehouse of horror number five, that if you don't remember featured the shitting, time and punishment in nightmare cafeteria, taking on Treehouse of horror 33, the Pukiduk death tome and Simpson's world. - I have been saving this quote because I was worried when it came down to episodes like this, how the heck do you choose? And there is a scene in the Shannon where Marge is like, oh, I'm gonna walk up to this type road and see, you know, the window into Homer's soul. And it's a fantastic scene in the shining. And it is just a stellar gag of her walking up and the typewriter just says, "Feeling fine." (laughing) And I like tears come out of my eyes every single time. And I was hoping episode five would go to the finals and I would like to see it there. So in this one, I'm going with episode five. Five's got its first vote. We're gonna bring the next pick to Chris. - Yeah. I mean, everything's got nostalgia is just kicking me in the kneecaps telling me, how can you even think to vote against the shinning? But I think I am. I just think episode 33, I know it's newer, but it's just, if I had to sit down and somebody said, you can only rewatch one of them right now, I'm watching episode 33. So for that reason, 33 gets my vote. - 33 is tied it up. - Well, Chris, that was beautiful. It's fucking nuts. Like I feel like I don't know like after me, we have some of our older contestants. - Whoa. - Jesus. (laughing) - Come up with it, man. - Damn. - So I won't be surprised if we go OG on this one. It's really tough. I mean, no matter what, any bracket you pick, getting down to the final four is a really hard choice. I love both of these episodes. The end of episode five, Homer's blaming the stupid cheap weather stripping for the outside out gas coming into the house. I feel like that's me. Like my house is probably like that. I'm not surviving with the goddamn gas. When Homer's chopping into the rooms and he's like, "David Letterman." And then Grandpa shows up, he's like, "Hi, I'm Grandpa." "Hi, David, I'm Grandpa." Like, I think that bit's so funny. - But goddamn do I love 33. I don't know what to do. I'm thinking 33. I'm doing it. - 33 is up two to one, Mike. - I'm Mike Wallace. I'm Morley Safer and I'm Ed Bradley. All this inane, you already did that on 60 minutes. (laughing) - Okay. - Gosh, I mean, yeah, 33 again. Wonderful recent Treehouse of Horror episode. There's a reason it was a one seed against a bunch of the other OGs. But to me, and you can call it nostalgia if you want, but it just cannot hold a candle to it to five. Like I will still sometimes say, "Come children, "let us bask in televisions, warm, glowing, warming glow." (laughing) I have legitimately said that to my children. And the way that episode five ends, you alluded to it about the fog that turns everybody inside out. That's the way that they cut away from the final episode because Bart and Lisa are standing at the top and Millhouse has just fallen back into the blender. And Bart is like, "Well, nevertheless, "I'm sure that something will come along "to save the two subs and children as they fall." And it turns out it was a dream. And he was like, "Wait, except there's this fog "that turns everybody inside out. "Oh, it's coming through the window." And then it goes to a chorus line parody. Like it's so brilliantly out of left field. 33 has some tremendous gags in it. And it is an excellent modern episode. It's got fantastic animation. It's some genuinely creepy stuff. The way that Maggie uses in the Pukiduk episode, the way that Maggie uses some of the stuff in the house, I don't wanna take anything away from that. I was pleasantly surprised at how great that episode was. And it still hold up on rewatch. But to me, this is still five. I certainly can't put it away here. And what I can do is put it into Sarah's capable hands. I don't know about that, but before we get to Sarah, there's buzzer beaters abound. Anybody want one? Oh, Sarah, someone needs one. I can't be the only one that she uses when this whole bracket. Sarah, it seems like they trust you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, and, and. - There it comes. - It's an audio mirror, man. - I mean, Sarah, it's the shinnen. You have the shinnen. Just read my mind. Just read my mind. That's my buzzer meter. That's my buzzer meter. I rescind Ann's buzzer meter. Sarah Ann has made her plead. It's over to you. - So you went out of order and now I have to make this decision. Thanks a lot, Jake. - Your life is unfair. - Chris, close down my hole. - Guys, this is gonna blow your minds. This is strange. So this, I've always voted for 33. And going into the round, I was voting for 33. I think it's brilliant. Like Mike said, not these guys talking about five though, has like, it warmed my cold, cold heart. I forgot how much I did love five. So it's a strange predicament 'cause they both belong to be here. At the end of the day, do I think an old school one is going to win? I do. Episode 33, it was phenomenal, but you guys talked me into it and you didn't even know you were doing it as we're going through. I love them both. I've got to go five. - You don't. She did. - I'm old. I don't know if you know this is not old. You reminded me a lot. - I'm old. - All right. - I think you've cracked a joke about her being old. She'd have seen your side of things. - That's my fault. - Oh, it's going to be cool in about 33. I'm like, I'm young and hip. That episode slacks. - Oh, that should about you warming my heart. Like that's a whole thing. - We didn't even mention Mr. Peabody. I should have thrown Mr. Peabody in as my buzzer reader. - Chris is so mad. We've gone off the rails. - I know. - I'm probably the oldest out of us five. And I still voted for the 33 because it was better done episode, but that's all right. - I appreciate that, Chris. All right, Chris hosts. I'm so sorry. - Mm-hmm. - We are on our knees in contrition. - All right. (laughing) - Chris is like, "Wow, you didn't sign up for that." Okay. - Surrender now. All right. (laughing) - Wrong show. Treehouse of Horror 5 is moving out of the championship game. Time to find out what it's going to face. Well, we are going to start with you. I don't know why, but two one seats here. Treehouse of Horror number four that featured wraparounds, the devil and Homer Simpson. Terror at five and a half feet in Bart Simpson's Dracula. Taking on Treehouse of Horror 7 that featured the thing and I, the Genesis sub and Citizen Kang. - Oh boy, okay. So we've said, I've said before, I do like the classic intro for number four with the couch gag. I mean, Simpson's couch gag named two things to go better together. You can't. Those are so perfect. And then doing a Halloween couch gag is so, so good. I'll say again, I think the Peanuts Christmas ending is as weird as hell. I don't get it. It's, I mean, like you're like, oh, that's funny. Their Peanuts character is doing a Christmas song for Halloween. And I will say, you know, God damn it, this is so hard. Going back to, I'll go back to seven real quick with the tiny, or tiny world that Lisa creates. I kind of don't think it gets enough credit. And I love, I think I like the Halloween episodes a lot because they tend to make Lisa the character that she's not and the rest of the show. She gets corrected. She's stupid or more stupid. (laughing) She's SMRT. But when, you know, Lisa's like, oh my God, I've created Life in Martis called and now she's like, Lisa, I mean, like there's breakfast. I have waffles and Lisa's like, waffles. And then she like runs upstairs, you know, like, waffles are her downfall. She's a real Simpson. I know Chris really hates King and CODOS. I don't know why he's such a xenophobe and hates, you know, these green people. I love them. And I think an episode that really shows off King CODOS who are not truly Halloween creatures I'm going for. I'm picking seven. If seven's got a first vote, Mike. - Yeah, seven does have a lot going for it. The King and CODOS segment of that is great. You make a lot of good points about the Genesis tub is fun, especially how the twist is. You think Bart's going to be all evil. It's like, no, he's just going to take credit for her science fair experiment and leave her shrunken in there forever. It is fun, but like, it's not going to surprise anybody. I didn't vote for seven over one. I do like seven a lot. I just think one is better. And I definitely think four is the episode of the Simpsons re-house of four that I'm going to go back to more. I just, I think it's got the better gags between the two. I think, and it honestly is just a little more scary than seven. I think, you know, I think, I know Ann has spoken about it. I think a couple have spoken about it. You want a little bit, the parody, you appreciate the parodies, you appreciate all that stuff, but you want a little bit of the horror to come with your tree house of horror. And I think four brings that more so than seven. All three of these have a certain degree of horror to them. I mean, even simple things like when Flanders as the devil like explodes into this giant guy thing, whereas you are not smarter than me. Like that's genuinely like creepy moment, right? I, four, I just, I've always loved four from start to finish, the Dracula segment has some genuinely creepy moments. And yeah, I get the, I get that the Peanuts thing. It does come a little bit of left field. And I did speak about, and yeah, they didn't really know how to end the nightmare segment. Okay, they didn't know how to think Dracula segment either, but doing a Peanuts parody, you're never going to go wrong with me personally, especially when you get Santa's little helper dancing on the piano while Millhouse plays it. Four is going to get my vote on an even it up. - Title one to one, Sarah. Seven, seven's my favorite one. So, seven. - Wow, so convincing. - Monica Geller is back. - I'm glad she's on my side. - I'm sorry. - Anne, going to you. - Ooh, okay, while I do think Citizen Kang is the main reason we all started doing impersonations of Bob Dole by speaking in the third person. I don't know if he did it to himself, but I swear it was the Simpsons that started this. So it is an incredibly iconic episode. I personally think that Dracula and Terror in five and a half feet are just a hair better as segments than the Genesis tub and the thing in eye. And plus that wrap around beginning for the night gallery. I absolutely love four and my favorite line from it. I is one that nobody's mentioned, which kind of blows my mind, is when Barton Lisa in Dracula's coffin chamber and she turns and goes, "Please, Bart, "I've seen your stupid shrimp." (laughing) - I don't know, and then he says, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like it's just the last thing "you're me too." - I think you're on criteria. (laughing) - The peanuts thing kind of makes me similar to the chorus line ending where the fog turns inside out. It's just a reverent, absurd ending that is still ridiculously funny and I am going with episode four. And it was tough, it was a hard one. I love Citizen King. - Episode four is tied it up. Another two to two match up. Before this goes over to Chris, buzzer beaters are out there. Anybody wanna try and sway him? - Chris, all I wanna say is I'm sorry. - I wish I did choose 33. (laughing) - Ooh, I like that. (laughing) - To hell of a play. - Here's the buzzer beater, Chris, it's over to you. Which one's one of the championship? - Well, you should kind of be sorry that you didn't choose 33. (laughing) Oh, here's the thing. So King and Kudos, that was just a bit. Of course I love the fucking aliens in the Simpsons. (laughing) My whole thing was to use it for episode one to get that through the first appearance. But of course episode seven beats episode one. So that throws that out the window. (laughing) Episode four has my, if not my favorite bit, my top three when Homer gets sent to hell and his punishment is to eat all the doughnuts in the world. (laughing) And any time somebody offers me or I'll take food off my kids' plates and I go, how, how, how? Like Homer's eating those goddamn doughnuts. (laughing) That's nostalgia and that sticks with me. I use that weekly on a weekly basis. The Genesis tub, I don't think that's really horror. We've been talking this whole time that these parodies should be horror. I know it's a Twilight Zone episode. Oh, God. And no, seven. Put it through. (laughing) It makes out of your field. Because it's Bill Clinton. (laughing) Yeah, it's for a bench for 33. No, well with that. We have our championship game two one seeds, Treehouse of Horrors number five that features the shinning time and punishment in nightmare cafeteria taking on episode number seven. The thing and I, the Genesis tub and Citizen Kang. And it's somewhat appropriate. We're going to end this starting with Mike. (laughing) Well, Chris, by all rights, this should have been the exact same debate that Star Wars fans have been having for the last 30 years. To share your four or number five. That was the mashup that we thought we were all building to. It didn't turn out that way, you know, that's okay. I get that seven has, seven has three really good segments and I'm not trying to take that away from it. They are three really, really good segments. One classic in Citizen Kang and the other two really good. It's just going up against three classic segments. All three segments of five hit on multiple levels. They are funny. They work well as parodies. They work well as a little bit of creepiness factored. Time and punishment. Okay, maybe not so much the creepiness factor. But the other two absolutely have that creepiness factor to it. If the Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror, firing on all cylinders, I'm not going to throw any more references out there. I just think five by and large is the, honestly, if you would ask me, beginning of this bracket, name your favorite Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode. I probably would have said Treehouse of Horror Five with the shinning time and punishment and nightmare cafeteria. And so I'm not surprised it made it here and it's getting my vote. - Five has its first vote, Sarah. - Seven. (laughs) I'm okay with my decision on 33 because I still would have gotten seven. I love it. I know it's probably wrong. I think you're right. I think five is a more Halloween episode. I just love seven and I'm going to continuously vote for seven. There you have it. - Sarah's a really big fan of Brad Pitt movies I see. Next pick goes to Anne. - I think out of the Final Four, we could not have gone wrong with the ending bracket, honestly. I think any one of those I would have been happy with going and I would have slept soundly tonight. However, I will echo Mike's statement. If you asked me at the beginning of this, what is your favorite Treehouse of Horror episode? - I would have said episode five. - Episode five is up two to one. Chris, we're putting it away that easy or are we going to leave this over to Will? - I'm very conflicted here. (laughs) I pushed seven through and honestly just the whim. (laughs) - They are, they're all great. They're all great episodes, really. I mean, I knew Sarah wanted seven in, however, five. I mean, the shinning is the best segment. - I mean, Jesus Christ. I can't, how can we end this without letting Will make the final decision? (laughs) Will, how many? - He's gonna make 33. - Will, how many Simpson tattoos are on your body, sir? - Only one, but I do have a Simpson tattoo. I am the chosen one. - Does anybody, does anybody here have more than one Simpson tattoos on their body? So Will, you're gonna get the pick. I don't remember what the count was, I'm sorry, Chris, but whatever it is to tie it, that's what's in it. - It's seven here. - And a vote for seven brings it to a two to two tie. Going over to Will, your last chance for buzzer beaters and instead I've already used there. So Mike, Chris, it's over to you. (laughs) - I just wanna see what Will's gonna go on this one. - Will, choose our champion. - Oh, this is great. So in episode seven, I will say one of the funniest things about Kang and Kodos taking over as Bob Dole and Bill Clinton is that like to them, it doesn't matter who wins, right? Like they're still gonna, like one of them is still gonna be in charge. And like what does Kang say? It makes no difference which one of you vote for either way your planet is doomed. (laughs) And I feel like that's, like this is how our vote's gonna end no matter which way we vote. (laughs) We're not doomed. We're like, we're lucky to have all of this shit. - Right. - Especially when it comes to the elite eight and the final four and the championship round. God, I'm either making friends for life or creating new enemies. Sarah is, I never expected her to be such a fanboy for episode seven. And as far as Star Wars goes, I'm sorry, Tim Dipple, but seven is fucking trash. But when it comes to the Simpsons, I'm picking seven, seven is our winner. - Ooh. - Ooh. - And for the record, Tim Dipple, for some reason loves eight more than seven, so. - He likes all of it. It doesn't matter. - It's fine. - For the record, I love seven, eight, but okay. - All the sequels suck both. Twirling, twirling, twirling towards fear item. - No, but I will say, I really do love seven. I wasn't picking it to be contrarian or-- - Oh no, I getcha. - I really do love seven. I think it's, as a kid, I don't know, I love King and Koto's taking over the planet and that honestly that sticks with me the most that I've almost any tree has for a bit. - Well, all I have to say is don't blame me. I voted for five. I literally voted for Koto's. I did. - Gotta love it, gotta love it. Well, you know what? Treehouse of Horror episode seven is going to be your champion. And I know our panelists had a good time bringing it to you. I did as well. The thing in I, the Genesis tub, and more importantly, Citizen Kang are reigning supreme. Hey, listen, we hope you enjoy the show tonight. Next month, as we move into the month of November, we are back. We are entering closer to choosing what the best '80s movie ever made is. And the month of November, we saved these two for last because they're gonna be contentious and one of them is gonna break my freaking heart. We're gonna choose the best '80s sci-fi film and the best '80s adventure film. And from there, we'll be ready to crown or move into the tournament to determine the best '80s movie ever made. That's coming up in November only on the Boozy Bracatology podcast. We hope you enjoyed the show tonight. If you enjoyed it and you wanna support us, patreon.com/ptbbb is your home. For all of the content, the bonus content from the PTE Network of Shows. Support us there if you can, that'd be wonderful of you. Check the show notes for everything else. You heard us talk about it all already a lot. We're gonna end the show right here right now for the Boozy Bracatology podcast. I have been Chris. - I've been Will. - I've been Mike. - I'm Sarah. - Bye everybody. I'm Ian and I'm Chris. - We'll see you next month with the '80s movies until then have a good one. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) [BLANK_AUDIO]
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