In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.
A carol (Greene no. 315) which relates how St. Nicholas helped three dowerless girls employs, in stanzas 4-6, a type of incremental repetition in which each daughter speaks in turn […]
Richard Slobodin, W.H.R. Rivers, New York: Columbia University Press, 1978, pbk version, p. 21.
In 1648 he was again taken to the bar of the House, and for refusing to kneel or make any other obeisancies he was fined £1000 and his Hensol estate was sequestrated.
