![]() Thanks, Homer, for being a jerky father at the precise moment when a suitable stand-in for Scream was playing on your TV set. The appearance barely qualifies as a cameo (he’s briefly onscreen during Homer’s pitch to just let the television babysit Maggie), but since Ghostface references are comparatively scarce, we must take what we’re given and be grateful. A reasonable facsimile appeared in Home Away from Homer, a 2005 episode from the show’s sixteenth season. Since I’m limiting myself to one Simpsons pick, I may as well make it doubly hard by avoiding the Halloween episodes altogether. The Simpsons has spoofed more horror icons than I can remember, largely thanks to its Treehouse of Horror specials. Weird that both Crainiac and Fornicus saw Pinhead’s face-nails and thought, “I got it, CIRCULAR SAW BLADES! The obvious substitute!” In short, Tom and Jerry this ain’t.įunny-to-me thing: Around 25 years later, Pinhead would again be spoofed, this time with Fornicus from The Cabin in the Woods. In what I took as another nod to Hellraiser, any person these monsters frick with ends up as one of them, with grotesquely inhuman features and a certain bloodlust. I mean, the episode opens with the monsters threatening bullshit surgery on a forcibly restrained pizza delivery boy. It’s rough stuff for a kiddy cartoon, even if this particular kiddy cartoon was a little aged-up. (Even if he more closely resembles Butterball.) Speaking with the same eerie softness as real Cenobites, the three endeavor to turn human flesh into works of macabre art. The creatures are led by Crainiac, who’s clearly the Pinhead of the crew. (And now that I see how much “Pinhead and the Cenobites” makes them sound like a band, I understand why so few people who’ve written about Hellraiser chose the same wording.) There’s an unmistakable Hellraiser flavor in Deadliners, a first season episode about a trio of ungodly spirits - the Vathek - who seem pretty obviously inspired by Pinhead and the Cenobites. I’m far from an Extreme Ghostbusters expert, but if the rest of the series is anything like this episode, I want to eat it like cake. Freddy DeSpagetti is a total showstopper. The fork-and-spoon fingers and spaghetti strainer mask might be gags, but goddamn, it’s a great look!īest of all, his body is composed of what appears to be extra thick spaghetti, but is eventually revealed as an endless army of hideous alien snake things. like Freddie DeSpagetti! He’s joined by iffy imitations of Chucky and a Xenomorph, which reads like a plot description but is really just my hard sell for Monster Mash.įreddie’s meant to be humorous, but I can’t get over how cool he looks. The story is clever, with classic monsters like “Drac” and “Frank” (the good guys, here) being pushed aside for more modern manglers…. Monster Mash is kinda cute and certainly worth more than its perpetual placement in $5 DVD bins suggests, but make no mistake, Freddie DeSpagetti is the definitive reason to see it. It sounds goofy and it is, but it works amazingly well. ![]() Interestingly, in what was probably a side tribute but could also be read as a faux pas, Eddy’s introductory shot was punctuated by the “ki ki ki ma ma ma” sound from Friday the 13th!īased on: Jason Voorhees and Freddy Kruegerįrom the direct-to-everything movie, Monster Mash, here’s Freddie DeSpagetti, who combines Freddy Krueger with Jason Voorhees with motherfuckin’ PASTA. ![]() The plug is mercifully pulled before we see Eddy eviscerate a cartoon doe, but it isn’t long before he returns… in Plucky’s dreams, of course, much like the real Freddy Krueger would.Įddy was a pretty on-the-nose reference, with a voice that even seemed to mimic Robert Englund’s. During a first season episode, Buster and Plucky are at the tail end of a sleepover, but Plucky refuses to say goodnight until he’s watched all of the 42,000 horror videos they’d rented.Įddy Cougar starred in one of them, and if you could imagine a crossover between A Nightmare on Elm Street and Bambi, this was it. It’s common enough to see spoofs of old school monsters like Dracula and the Wolf Man, but what about the newer creeps? Actually, modern horror icons see homages more often than you might think!īelow: Five times a modern monster was spoofed in a cartoon.įreddy Krueger + an anthropomorphized cougar = Eddy Cougar, a one-and-done character from Tiny Toon Adventures.
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