


The Halloween special and CatDog

"Many love The Simpsons Halloween episodes, as they mix the best elements of popular culture with the show's witty humor. However, the eighth Halloween special foreshadowed one of the most memorable animated series of the 1990s and 2000s: 1998's CatDog. The special premiered a year earlier, in 1997, and in one of its segments, Bart alters the DNA of his pets, fusing them into a half-dog, half-cat: just like the premise of the Nickelodeon series."