While the Itchy & Scratchy Show on The Simpsons was inspired by an old cartoon ... and we're not talking about Tom & Jerry.

In the "The Simpsons" episode "The City of New York vs ... Barney has to refuse. He is in Hell. When driving his drunken friends home, Barney finally snaps. He drops everyone off, then goes ...

Read through this Simpsons “Treehouse Of Horror” list ... and “Four Beheadings And A Funeral,” a From Hell parody, turns out to be exactly as forgettable as its source material.

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And fans who dropped out of The Simpsons years ago may be pleasantly surprised – or, hell, maybe horrified! – by what they’re able to discover. Call it the d’oh/woohoo! theory of TV.