The
Simpsons'
latest
Treehouse
of
Horror
episode
opens
with
a
familiar
joke
.
Lured
to
a
foggy
seaside
town
by
a
guidebook
titled
?
10
Places
to
Visit
____________________
You
Mysteriously
Disappear'
,
the
titular
family
discover
they're
to
be
sacrificed
to
an
ancient
ocean
god
(
?
Spongebob
?
!
?
asks
Homer
)
.
The
mythical
monster
Cthulhu
____________________
rises
from
the
deep
,
____________________
Homer
challenges
him
to
an
eating
contest
to
determine
his
family's
fate
.
Of
course
,
Homer
out
-
eats
the
giant
Lovecraftian
sea
creature
,
____________________
?
like
the
haunted
mansion
of
1990's
inaugural
Treehouse
,
which
sought
to
spook
the
family
____________________
ended
up
self
-
destructing
to
avoid
another
spend
another
second
in
their
company
?
the
Simpsons
are
often
more
beastly
____________________
whatever
is
meant
to
be
terrorising
them
.
