History YMMV / TheSimpsonsS20E4TreehouseOfHorrorXIX

* HilariousInHindsight: Lisa saying she's not dressed as a witch but as a Wiccan. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS21E7RednecksAndBroomsticks A later episode has her befriend actual Wiccans.]]

** The murder of Prince certainly qualifies,[[note]]Being stabbed to death with his guitar.[[/note]] being far less comedic than the murders of George Clooney and Neil Armstrong (so much so that the scene was cut in the UK). Krusty's death in the beginning is also less than pleasant, being knocked into a [[WoodChipperOfDoom woodchipper]], which chews him up while he futilely tries to escape.

* HarsherInHindsight: Homer killing UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong and Music/{{Prince}} as part of a comedic montage, after their deaths in 2012 and 2016 respectively.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: During the scenes in the pumpkin patch, a sound-alike of Vince Guaraldi's "Great Pumpkin Waltz" plays a couple of times. Which is unusual, given that the production staff was given permission to use some of Vince Guaraldi's actual ''Peanuts'' music, in examples of averting this trope (most notably "Linus and Lucy" during the opening sequence, and "Christmas is Coming" when the kids (and Kang and Kodos) are dancing ala ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' at the school Halloween party).
* UnfortunateImplications: The "Grand Pumpkin" segment [[http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/04/nelson-owes-milhouse-apology-for-gay-slur/ came under fire]] for Nelson casually using the word "gay" as an insult.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment has Rip Taylor, Music/{{Prince}}, and UsefulNotes/NeilArmstrong among the dead people attacking the party. Taylor would die in October 2019, Prince passed away in April 2016, and Armstrong in August 2012.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment has Rip Taylor among the dead people attacking the party, but Comic Book Guy points out that he’s not even dead. Taylor would die for real years later. Also: Music/{{Prince}} being one of the dead celebrities.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Nelson attempts to take a pumpkin hostage, and is horrified when The Grand Pumpkin reveals he's quite the racist. Cue the Pumpkin's [[AtLeastIAdmitIt counter-statement]] and Nelson's not-quite dying declaration that he'd rather die than hate. And then there's the Grand Pumpkin's last words: "Pumpkin segregation forever..."

** The murder of Prince certainly qualifies[[note]]being stabbed to death with his guitar[[/note]], being far less comedic than the murders of George Clooney and Neil Armstrong (so much so that the scene was cut in the UK). Krusty's death in the beginning is also less than pleasant, being knocked into a [[WoodChipperOfDoom woodchipper]], which chews him up while he futilely tries to escape.
** After Bart unwittingly reveals that humans eat turkeys, Tom Turkey takes revenge by eating the kids. And unlike The Grand Pumpkin, he has a working digestive tract.

* UnfortunateImplications: The "Grand Pumpkin" segment [[http://www.tmz.com/2008/11/04/nelson-owes-milhouse-apology-for-gay-slur/ came under fire]] for Nelson causally using the word "gay" as an insult.

* NightmareFuel: The above-mentioned murder of Prince certainly qualifies, being far less comedic than the murders of George Clooney and Neil Armstrong (so much so that a UK channel cut that scene, though it does leave a PlotHole as to how Prince ended up in Heaven during the sequence of the dead celebrities coming after Homer). Krusty's death in the beginning is also less than pleasant, being knocked into a woodchipper, which chews him up while he futilely tries to escape.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: During the scenes in the pumpkin patch, a sound-alike of Vince Guaraldi's "Great Pumpkin Waltz" plays a couple of times. Which is unusual, given that the production staff was given permission to use some of Vince Guaraldi's actual ''Peanuts'' music, in examples of averting this trope (most notably "Linus and Lucy" during the opening sequence, and "Christmas is Coming" when the kids (and Kang and Kodos) are dancing ala ''WesternAnimation/ACharlieBrownChristmas'' at the school Halloween party.)

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Nelson attempts to take a pumpkin hostage, and is horrified when The Grand Pumpkin reveals he's quite the racist. Cue the Pumpkin's [[AtLeastIAdmitIt counter-statement]] and Nelson's not-quite dying declaration that he'd rather die than hate.

* HilariousInHindsight: Now that Disney owns 20th Century Fox, it owns both ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' and the parody of it in this episode.

* HilariousInHindsight: Now that Disney owns 20th Century Fox, it owns both ''WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown'' and its best-known parody.
* NightmareFuel: The above-mentioned murder of Prince certainly qualifies, being far less comedic than the murders of George Clooney and Neil Armstrong. Krusty's death in the beginning is also less than pleasant, being knocked into a woodchipper, which chews him up while he futilely tries to escape.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment has Rip Taylor among the dead people attacking the party, but Comic Book Guy points out that he’s not even dead. Taylor would die for real years later. Also: Creator/{{Prince}} being one of the dead celebrities.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment has Rip Taylor among the dead people attacking the party, but Comic Book Guy points out that he’s not even dead. Taylor would die for real years later. Also: Music/Prince being one of the dead celebrities.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment has Rip Taylor among the dead people attacking the party, but Comic Book Guy points out that he’s not even dead. Taylor would die for real years later.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The second segment, "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising", is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others (Homer just breaks into his dressing room and stabs him with his symbol guitar) and there are Internet conspiracy theorists who think Prince's death was a murder.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: The second segment, "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising", is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others (Homer just breaks into his dressing room and stabs him with his symbol guitar) and there are Internet conspiracy theorists who think Prince's death was a murder.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: The second segment, "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising", is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others (Homer just breaks into his dressing room and stabs him with his symbol guitar) and there are Internet conspiracy theorists who think Prince's death was a murder.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: The second segment, "How to Get A-Dead in Advertising" is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others (Homer just breaks into his dressing room and stabs him with his symbol guitar) and there are Internet conspiracy theorists who think Prince's death was a murder.

* HarsherInHindsight: The second segment, "How to Get A-Dead in Advertising" is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others (Homer just breaks into his dressing room and stabs him with his symbol guitar) and there are Internet conspiracy theorists who think Prince's death was a murder.

* HarsherInHindsight: This episode is much harder to see after Music/{{Prince}}'s death, even more considering his death is far more cruel than the others.