After Rainier fires Kirk Van Houten from his household staff, Bart recommends hiring Marge, Homer, Lisa and Maggie as the family's new servants.

As they are enjoying the perks of living in a rich family's home, Kirk suddenly returns and asks to be let in.

When Marge lets him in, Kirk abruptly runs to the kitchen and reveals a hidden passageway to a basement bunker, where his family has been living.

After the brawl, the Simpson family are the last ones standing in the badly damaged Wolfcastle house with a pile of corpses now in the living room.

In a parody of the artwork of Edward Gorey,[9] Vincent Price reads a scary bedtime story to Maggie about how Bart is doing his usual pranks and mischief.

He begins with each month and how he creates trouble for everyone first starting off with January where he puts worms in Homer's waffles.

Before Vincent can get to December, Maggie strangles him with her Phonics frog string and presses the buttons (R-I-P) and then goes to sleep.

[11] Marcus Gibson of Bubbleblabber gave the episode an eight out of ten stating "Overall, the 32nd 'Treehouse of Horror' special continues the show's tradition of scaring and tickling our funny bones.

It may not reach the heights of the earlier 'Treehouse of Horror' specials, but it's an enjoyable set of creepy mini-stories that'll put every Simpsons fan into the Halloween spirit this year.

This has nothing to do with cancel culture, heightened sensitivities, or political stances, all of which should be exempt in the creation of any horror comedy satire.

They should be spit balls, thrown with malicious intent, and close enough on the inside to make the batter back off in fear.