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Simpsons Writers: “Apparently There’s A War Or Something Going On”

The final segment of the upcoming Simpsons “Treehouse of Horror” episode on November 5 will take a few not-so-subtle shots at the current conflict in Iraq as aliens Kang and Kodos (who are featured in every “Treehouse of Horror”) attack Springfield before the humans can get their hands on “weapons of mass disintegration”. The connection to the Iraq war is made obvious, and there’s even a line at the end in which a character evokes the actual Iraq debacle.

“Hey you know it’s been more than three years, maybe we oughta get around to acknowledging the war in some way” [TV Squad]