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Show runner David Mirkin thought the Treehouse of Horror episodes were the hardest episodes to do because the staff had to fit in all three stories in only 22 minutes. Mirkin said, "Things had to happen really fast. They're really just crammed with jokes and story beats and everything." [4]
XX" (2009) and each Treehouse of Horror episode since "XXII" (2011) has aired in October, with the exception of season 32's "XXXI" (2020), which was originally scheduled for October 18, but was postponed to November 1 due to the 2020 NLCS reaching game 7. This was the first time since "XXI" that a Treehouse of Horror episode aired in November.
Treehouse of Horror episodes typically consist of four parts: an opening and Halloween-themed version of the credits, followed by three segments.These segments usually have a horror, science fiction or fantasy theme and quite often are parodies of films, novels, plays, television shows, Twilight Zone episodes, or old issues of EC Comics.
A clip from the episode was shown during The Simpsons panel at Comic-con @ Home. [4] An extended clip was released during an interview with showrunner Al Jean. [8] The segment "Toy Gory", was animated entirely in CGI, which marks the first time the series has used that animation style since "Treehouse of Horror VI" in 1995. [9]
The "King Homer" segment is one of Matt Groening's all-time favorite stories from the Treehouse of Horror series. [4] Al Jean was also quite worried about this segment because it was the longest running black-and-white segment they had ever aired, and he thought that some people might be concerned that their televisions were broken. [2]
"Not It" (titled onscreen as "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It") is the fifth episode of the 34th season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 733rd episode overall. It aired in the United States on Fox on October 23, 2022.
Kurland praised the following sequence's plot structure as "the only horror-centric" part of the episode, but felt it was unfitting for a return of Sideshow Bob to the show. Kurland said that Treehouse of Horror series already has a recurring " 'multiple Homer' concept", therefore making "Lout Break" overdone. [9]
The episode's opening, conceived by film director Guillermo del Toro, is a mash-up of horror movies, science fiction films and TV shows, including all of del Toro's own films, ending with Lisa falling through the couch, dressed as Alice from Alice in Wonderland, and getting brainwashed by The Hypnotoad from Futurama, then happening upon a palace room in a send-up of the end of Pan's Labyrinth.