The Simpsons annual Halloween extravaganza featured a closing act in its trilogy of terror that disturbed and chilled.
Homer slicing off his finger by accident, and then noticing his dismembered digit plumping up on the grill.
Hed go crazy on himself.
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Were the producers of this long-running animated comedy worried that a self-cannibalism segment was going too far?
Ive been worried at every stage that was it was going too far, deadpans Jean.
The big hurdle was when we read the script [at rehearsal].
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When things are severed, theyre clean.
When hes cooking his leg in a fry pan, you really dont see much.
It could have been much, much scarier.
And in the end, hes back in heaven.
It sounds like the man who voices Homer, Dan Castellaneta, gave it a non-severed thumbs-up.
They did not want to be associated with people eating their father, says Jean, laughing.
Instead, they opted to riff on a more classical religious hymn.
We have the original Hallelujah, which nobody owns.
Thats perhaps fitting, as this was one Treehouse segment that had everyone shouting, Oh, God!
