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Time to die-iddly-ie!

Whatever you may think of The Simpsons at this stage of the show's existence, you have to admit that there is still some appeal in seeing each yearly installment of the Treehouse of Horror subseries. It doesn't matter if they're bad or not, it's just one of those traditions that endures, regardless of quality. Ever since the Homer Simpson Shining parody, and the time Marge inadvertently bore the child of one of the aliens (Kodos or Kang...whatever), I've been completely hooked on these episodes. Sometimes they disappoint, but even then, they're still usually the high water mark of a Simpsons season, whatever that means these days.

Pretty much every major show on TV is doing some kind of Halloween thing this weekend, except of course for The Walking Dead, for which every week is Halloween after a fashion. Let's get through this list, as it's a doozy!

	Fringe Friday at 9PM - FOX - This is the only show on TV that can mention something like "the threatening return of translucent shape-shifters" in its synopsis and not cause me to even bat an eye.
	Supernatural Friday at 9PM - CW - This week's episode is literally called "Slash Fiction." Do with that what you will.
	Chuck Friday at 9PM - NBC - Oh, right! Chuck! That's still a television show, apparently! And it's on Friday nights now! That, uh...that doesn't bode well...
	Grimm Friday at 10PM - NBC - Series Premiere. Finally, the fairy tale cop procedural I've been having nightmares about since that one time I fell asleep reading Little Red Riding Hood while Cop Rock was on in the background. Sadly, there's no musical element to this show, like in my dreams. One day...
	Thundercats Friday at 8:30PM - Cartoon Network - The only reason I'm mentioning this is because of the amazing synopsis this week. "A group of robot bears need help from the Thundercats." Robot bears! That is, without a doubt, the most casual mention of robotic bears in anything I've ever read. EVER.
	Zombie Apocalypse Saturday at 9PM - SyFy - Here is a SyFy original movie called Zombie Apocalypse. Presumably, it is about some manner of zombie apocalypse. You're welcome.
	The Simpsons Sunday at 8PM - FOX - Treehouse of Horror XXII features Flanders as a Dexter-like serial killer, and Homer finds his arm trapped under a boulder in a remote desert. As if the 127 Hours thing weren't obvious enough already, Aron Ralston actually guest-stars.
	Allen Gregory Sunday at 8:30PM - FOX - Series Premiere. Jonah Hill's new animated series about what happens when Stewie from Family Guy goes to grade school debuts tonight. Maybe it's funny?
	Family Guy 9PM - FOX - Kaitlin Olson guest-stars as Quagmire's sister, who turns out to be in an abusive relationship, so Quagmire, Joe, Bonnie, and the Griffins all decide to do something about it. Is it just me, or is that remarkably dark-sounding for a Family Guy episode?
	Once Upon a Time Sunday at 8PM - ABC - Apparently this debuted last week and I totally didn't notice. Right then. Moving on...
	The Good Wife Sunday at 9PM - CBS - Parker Posey guest-stars tonight. So that's something, I guess.
	Dexter Sunday at 9PM - Showtime - There are Doomsday Killers, and Dexter is still hunting them. How's this season been, folks? I feel like people are talking way less about this show than I'm accustomed to.
	Homeland Sunday at 10PM - Showtime - This has been picked up for a second season. I have literally no idea what a second season of this show would even look like.
	Boardwalk Empire Sunday at 9PM - HBO - I'm weeks behind here, people, so let's just pretend I know what's going on and acknowledge that everyone who would be watching this week was planning to do so, even without me mentioning it.
	15. The Walking Dead Sunday at 9PM - AMC - Sounds like this will be a full episode of Shane trapped in that high school, trying to escape the zombies. I. CAN'T. WAIT.

The yearly Treehouse of Horror episodes are the last good thing going for the Simpsons, in my opinion.

I used to like the Treehouse of Horror episodes but now they are among the worst episodes each season.

Actually, there won't be any Fringe tonight because of the whole baseball delay thing. It's been pushed back to next week.

Chuck is already on its last season there Alex, so that's why it has been relegated to Fridays. Also, Once Upon a Time is great, looking forward to the rest of the season.

sounds like a good weekend

Game 7, tonight, best World Series ever?

@FreakAche said:

Actually, there won't be any Fringe tonight because of the whole baseball delay thing. It's been pushed back to next week.

yup, literally just go off a call with WB about this. waaa waaaa.

@FinalDasa: The last 3 innings of game 6 was amazing to watch.

Absolutely loving Homeland. It has that methodically-paced-and-high-production-values feel I miss since Rubicon was cancelled.

But, like many people have said, extending it to a second season could be tricky, as either they do the 'big bad of the season' like 24 etc, or worse, choose to just not conclude the story like The Killing.

I can't believe you forgot to mention the world series tonight...obviously a detatched rangers fan

As Falcon said, Chuck is already going into its last season. If anything, the bad time slot makes it more likely that it'll be allowed to run its course. I still really enjoy Chuck, so hopefully this last season will round things out nicely.

I'm also really looking forward to a new season of Misfits. I only discovered this show a few weeks ago and rushed through its two previous seasons. Unfortunately, the 'mainest' main character has left he show, but I don't think it'll hurt the show too much.

Other shows I'll continue to watch are Merlin, Sanctuary, Dexter, Homeland, Pan Am and The Simpsons.

@shenstra: *Sanctuary bro-fist*

I know that I'm going on a Treehouse of Horror Marathon for this Halloween. Can't wait!

Sweet! The Robot Bears get introduced in this version of Thundercats? I'm there.

Between the action toons on Cartoon Network (Young Justice, Thundercats, Clone Wars), Grimm on NBC, and Simpsons, there's some good stuff here. Hopefully (crossing fingers for Simpsons and Grimm).

I will definitely be checking out Treehouse of Horror episodes on the 'net this weekend though:) I gotta see that Dracula spoof again, where Homer stakes Burns in the crotch X3

The Fucking Walking Dead, can't FUCKING wait to watch this next episode.

Chuck will get to finish it's run in it's own way so that is really nice.

Once Upon a Time is actually pretty damn good. But of course, unsurprisingly it isn't to Alex's tastes (or anyone on the Screened staff, I'd bet). Anyway, Sunday is bar-none the best day of television.

Got to love that Homeland.