It's a perfectly cromulent word.

The Treehouse of Horror episodes have always had pretty long openings, though. I think it works better there than in the normal episodes for that reason — plus the four-act structure they switched to leaves them with an extra bit of episode anyway that's not long enough for a full-fledged segment.

Plus monkey costumes are pretty terrifying.

It always seems kind of weird that they didn't actually get around to doing Hitchcock (at Halloween, that is; obviously there are references in some regular episodes) until TOH XX, and there it was Strangers on a Train.

Considering when E.T. came out, I think people in their thirties are exactly the right age to enjoy that the most!

What a legitimately good episode! It's nice to see that after almost 30 years the show can still surprise us — maybe it helps that this is the first time they've done an in-continuity Halloween episode? It's always great to see the kids acting like normal kids, and Homer and Marge's parenting in this episode felt…

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Going out to commit…certain deeds

The movie that dares to depict sometimes seeing peacocks and sometimes NOT seeing peacocks!

So it's proactive?

And it pinkens your teeth while you chew!

She also had a major storyline in "Homer Alone" (which they showed on FXX this afternoon).

Plus vomit is almost certainly not the grossest bodily fluid ever to be unloaded into it.

Well, they could have made it clearer.

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God rest his smutty soul

Ore-GA-no? What the hell?

I thought at first that she'd turn out to have been involved in stealing the smoker, given her anti-meat sentiments and the fact that pretty much nobody else on the show would be likely to buy all-natural peanut butter.

I think the first use (I believe they point it out in the DVD commentary) is Marge's warning during the opening of Treehouse of Horror V, where she says that Congress won't let them show the episode so instead they're showing the (fictional) "1947 Glenn Ford film 200 Miles to Oregon," followed by a B&W live-action…

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There's enough slime for everybody!

Doesn't this family know any songs that aren't commercials?

Especially if it's a teenage girl. The teenage-girl-did-it rule even trumps the most-famous-guest-star rule most of the time.