Absolute Joy! 'Simpsons Halloween Special XVII S18 Ep4' leaked!
Go, do not stop, directly onto Bittorrent or Youtube and use the text in my headline to find the seventeenth Treehouse of Horror Simpsons Special. I'll keep any 'spoilers' to a minimum here - enough to let you know I've seen it, not so much as to spoil the surprises.
It looks like some got ahold of a review copy of the episode - studios sometimes send out tapes or DVDs for review purposes to media outlets - and now it's online for all to watch and enjoy.
Over it's almost twenty-year run, the Simpsons has had its ups and downs, and the years around the turn of the century were, in my humble opinion, a low point, but ths show is back and doing astonishingly well. I'm guessing some fresh blood in the writers' room combined with whatever other factors I'm not privy to have combined to bring the show back to top form.
The special had me laughing out loud, from the opening scene with Moe, to the cutting political satire over the current US quagmire.
They did simple things, but did them so well that they were outrageous. A great mix of lowbrow and especially deep humour to be found.
I'm so glad I got to watch the episode that I'm positively gushing - so I'll stop writing now because reading about other people's adoration for this or that gets nauseating pretty quickly if not done well.