THE SIMPSONS
Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET
I really feel old around this time each year – not because of my imminent birthday, but because The Simpsons serves up another Treehouse of Horror, an annual pre-Halloween treat which is now up to Roman numeral XXIII. I treasure these episodes as among the show’s most inventive, and they almost always have a MAD magazine-level tossaway sight gag that leaves me laughing, and smiling, for a long time. This year, as part of a quick playlet on the Mayan doomsday prophecies, takes us back in time and shows us street-level Mayan everyday life: including a storefront operation called – I love this – “Quetzal’s Pretzels.”