The Treehouse of Horror
Back in the 1990’s “The Simpsons” creators conjured up a series of Halloween Specials. Spooky themed episodes of the Simpsons called “The TreeHouse of Horror”. They were animated scary stories told in the Simpson Family TreeHouse and had a horror, supernatural or science-fiction theme.
The Raven
“The Raven” based on the famous poem by Edgar Allen Poe was the third episode of these. In this episode Homer Simpson is the lead character in this hilarious animated version of The Raven.
There is an an introduction by Lisa with most of the narration and storytelling by American Actor James Earl Jones who sets the mood perfectly with his atmospheric voice. Homer quotes lines from the poem and interjects doing part of the narration himself.
Who is The Raven?
In this case it’s Bart Simpson! He is depicted as the Raven and is driving Homer to distraction. Lisa and Marge are depicted as Seraphims.
I recently wrote about “The Raven” and featured animations, some really great musical renditions of the poem and amazing Artwork by Abigail Larson.
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) is one of the most famous poems ever written. It is internationally renowned for it’s musicality, stylised language and supernatural haunting ambience.
I won’t detail the whole of this Simpsons animation. You can watch it for yourself! Prepare to be horrified.
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Loved their Halloween specials!
Yeah so funny. Think that was my favourite one. Did you have a favourite? 🙂
I love watching them as a child while handing out treats lol
Cool 🙂
Still love the Simpsons, I always enjoy their specials.
Yeah they’re always good. 🙂
I love the Tree House of Horror specials and the Raven episode was my favorite!! One of the things on my bucket list is to be able to recite The Raven in it’s entirety by heart. I can still recite whole Dr Seuss books from when the kids were little but haven’t mastered this poem…..
I remembering learning poems at school. But not recently! I’m sure if you put your mind to it you could do that. 🙂 Tree House of Horror was brill.
those were some classic simpsons’ episodes
My favourite Simpsons….👻👻👻
I loved this episode. LOL. Homer really gets annoyed with that raven! Haha. Great post!
Yes it’s an absolute classic! 🙂 Ha. If you like THE RAVEN you might like my other post about it as well. Has lots of cool animations. 🙂
https://supernaturalhippie.com/2019/08/01/the-raven-poem-by-edgar-allen-poe-musical-adaptations-animations-rap-version-readings-artwork/