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

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

Pure plagiarism.

[–] Kowalski (76257) a year ago

ARE YOU NEW?

[–] [deleted] a year ago

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

[–] Satan2016 (25572) a year ago

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

[–] strntz (12458) a year 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 (246) a year 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 (902) a year ago

Has to be a troll

[–] [deleted] a year ago

Don't be rude.

[–] MCguy (1169) a year ago

An obvious troll.

[–] [deleted] a year 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 (1169) a year 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) a year ago

Exactly, trolls gonna troll.

[–] Carrot (1708) 7 months ago

By God, you're right...and Airplane is just a ripoff of 1970s disaster movies! I am appalled!