THE SIMPSONS
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
Last month, the long-running Treehouse of Horror franchise of The Simpsons completed three decades of annual installments, presenting Treehouse of Horror XXX, in which the individual segments poked fun at Stranger Things, The Shape of Water, and Heaven Can Wait. Today, Fox inaugurates what may be a new holiday tradition of anything-goes anthology Simpsons stories, this time built around Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s the first Thanksgiving of Terror, whose official poster promises “A spine-tingling, stomach-stuffing Turducken of Terror!” And don’t refer to it as the first annual Thanksgiving of Terror, because it can’t be. Nothing establishes itself as an annual event until it takes place for at least two years. My journalism teacher back at the University of Florida taught me that, in the same class he taught us not to use the phrase “very unique,” because unique means one of a kind, and requires and accepts no qualifier. But I digress…