When she opened her eyes again, that haddocky smell would be gone!

Her features had been crudely handsome, too, like Millie's, but booze had splodged their outlines.

The second segment is one of the most audacious and ambitious in “Treehouse Of Horror” history, and not just because it’s in black and white. It’s a parody of King Kong that works spectacularly well because Homer isn’t just ape-like and simian on the inside: he’s ape-like and simian on the outside as well, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine the rage-filled man-child as a giant ape with serious anger-control issues.

This would show that neither we have erred in reading the date nor the engraver has misengraved it.