YMMV / The Simpsons S 27 E 5 Treehouse Of Horror XXVI

• Fridge Brilliance: The monster killing Homer at the end of the Couch Gag makes a lot more sense when you remember that the monster burst out of Frank Grimes' grave...
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Bob, angrily at some students who know nothing about T. S. Eliot, laments that "I didn't think the author of Cats could be insulted further." Uh, about that...
  • The Box Office Bomb in the Foreign Remake of "Homerzilla", which is a Take That! to Roland Emmerich's 1998 adaptation of Godzilla, became this when Emmerich's Independence Day: Resurgence got hit with Sequelitis and, while bringing back its own budget, doesn't reach the record-breaking box office totals the original Independence Day film did.
  • Bob's unimpressed, almost disgusted reaction to one of his students referencing Game of Thrones in their essay is almost prophetic after the final season of said show completely tarnished its reputation and caused many people to view it in a much more negative light.
• Just Here for Godzilla: "Wanted: Dead, then Alive" is what more people remember than the other two shorts (one of which, ironically, is a parody of the Godzilla the trope mentions). The fact that "Wanted" is more Troperiffic than the other two helps.
• Nightmare Fuel: Bob killing Bart with a Harpoon Gun is one thing, but to see him rip out Bart's heart from his chest, disembowel him by pulling out his large intestine, leave him to rot as a corpse with flatulence, desecrate the corpse, bludgeon him with a sledgehammer, blow his head clean off with a pistol, and hack him into bits with an ax is just... way too much. Although Bart being revived and Bob getting his comeuppance by the end mitigates the horror to some extent, it still stands out as one of the most disturbing segments ever seen in a Treehouse of Horror episode, overlapping with Squick.
• No Yay: "Wanted: Dead, then Alive" features some subtext between Bob and Bart. Bob even decides to revive Bart because it brought him some excitement in his life. And yet, Elvis Costello's "Accidents Will Happen", played in the background of Bart's Death Montage, may be this, since the song implies to Bob to be a pedophile or a Memetic Molester taking revenge toward Bart. Perhaps the song is a bit too... unsettling. Well, that... and the "I ♥ Bart" tattoo on Bob's back and the necrophilia between both of them.
  Bob: And now, Bart, let's bring the old spark back to our special relationship.
• Tough Act to Follow: Many fans believe that the previous episode, "Halloween of Horror", was far superior to this one because it was the first canon Halloween episode.