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The Treehouse of Horror story "Homer Cubed" rips off Twilight Zone's "Little Girl Lost"

posted 10 months ago by [deleted]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)

Pure plagiarism.

[–] Kowalski (58920) 10 months ago

ARE YOU NEW?

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

I'm new to the Twilight Zone, yes. Never ever watched the seasons in full until a few weeks ago.

[–] Satan2016 (23457) 10 months ago

2006 episode review: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1522838/?ref_=tt_urv

[–] strntz (10870) 10 months ago

One person's plagiarism is another person's satire...

Treehouse skewered several TZ episodes to great effect. Probably half of Treehouse stories were satires of either TV shows or movies. Two of my favorites are the HAL9000 (voiced by Pierce Brosnan) and The Shining (or the Shinin' according to Groundskeeper Willie)

[–] TheLonelyOne86 (225) 10 months ago

Don't most Treehouse of Horror stories just retell other freaky/scary stories from a Simpsons point of view? It's kind of their thing. "The Shinning" (Yes, it's spelled wrong, that's how they pronunce it as a joke), "The Raven", that one with the gremlin on the side of the bus, and numerous others.

[–] MrMovie (845) 10 months ago

Has to be a troll

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

Don't be rude.

[–] MCguy (949) 10 months ago

An obvious troll.

[–] [deleted] 10 months ago

I didn't know, OK? I'm 50 and I only just started watching TZ. I either missed it or wasn't interested back when I was younger.

[–] MCguy (949) 10 months ago

At 50, you should know many, if not most, episodes of The Simpsons make cultural references, especially on the Treehouse of Terror episodes.

[–] Cac1981 (331) 10 months ago

Exactly, trolls gonna troll.