"Send in the Clones" and "The Fright To Creep and Scare Harms" were listed as #8 and #9 respectively in "The A.V. Club" article, "'You said we'd be greeted as liberators!': 10 anxiety-reflecting Simpsons Halloween segments". It said "Season 14's "Treehouse Of Horror" is steeped in timely concerns, ripping inspiration from the headlines", noting that "Send In The Clones", in which Homer clones himself, "followed the U.S. Congress' second failed attempt to pass a comprehensive ban on reproductive human cloning." "The A.V. Club" also noted that The Simpsons reveled in zombie tales (in season four's Pet Sematary/Night Of The Living Dead hybrid, "Dial 'Z' For Zombies," and "The Fright To Creep And Scare Harms" from season 14") many years before it became the vogue again with "Walking Dead-mania".