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Gravity Falls: Summerween
Reviewed: 10/29/2017
Basically Christmas In July, Only With A Halloween theme.
Okay; I find this to be redundant: It's Gravity Falls' version of Halloween that takes place in Summer with Jack-o'-melons and lots of trick-or-treating. Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on the fun, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper’s whole outlook on the evening changes. The night gets even more complicated when a monster that Dipper accidentally insulted makes them fulfill his candy quota by the night’s end or else he will eat them. I mean; Gravity Falls is Halloween year round; so why do a celebration in the middle of June? Must be Scumbag Stan's doing. So; how does this episode fare? Let's rant on shall we...?!
Summerween is written by Zach Paez, Michael Rianda and Old Man McGucket. Storyboards were done by Matthew Braly, Neal F. Graf and Alonso Ramirez Ramos; while direction is done by John Aoshima. Animation is done by Digital Emation Inc.
Episode opened with Stan parking his car in a handicapped parking spot BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (sunset); and then jumping the barrier. While the parking lot is completely empty to boot. Everyone gets out as they are at the Summerween Superstore; which I have seen before in Dartmouth when it was a year round halloween store. I see one pentacle within ten seconds as Dipper is confused about this Summerween stuff. It's basically Halloween in the summer time; and celebrate it twice a year. Once in October and once in late June. Dipper is not impressed about carrying a calendar in Stan's pocket and Mabel feels that this is unnatural; but Soos throws in free candy to this mix and this is enough for the kids to run in the store with a wheelbarrow to the costume aisle. Mabel is wearing a fake disguise, just to be Mabel. Soos pushes down on a skull in the bowl that talks and a Summerween Superstore worker who has dark skin, dark brown hair pulled up into a ponytail with a bright red elastic band, and wears a matching red shirt blows Soos off, ordering him to stop this stupidity. She also wears a pair of skull earrings and a black apron with a jack-o'-melon on it. Voiced by Grey DeLisle by the way. Soos no sells and orders her to make the skulls less hilarious. Umm; stop it, it's not your property, Soos! Stan of course makes a baby cry on the back of a woman like a meanie, while carrying a barrel of fake blood, which is about to leak. Since it's fake, it's perfectly all right by BS&P standards. Dipper and Mabel knock over some jack-o-watermelons (Oy vey) and crumble into a heap laughing. Soos continues to push on skulls as the worker is at the counter with the transmitter to inform someone to call the police to have them ejected from the store. Stan runs in and throws a smoke bomb right into the worker's eyes. No male on female contact? What, no male on female contact? All the "babyfaces" run out with the stuff as Mabel asks Stan if he paid for this and Stan claims that he did.
And of course we discover who Brad Buttowski's teacher was because the worker gets fifty dollars in Stan Bucks. The worker officially hates this holiday as the car backs into an inflatable watermelon and destroys it, along with the power poles tumbling down. The car drives away stage right and WE HIT THE OPENING~! We return as the Mystery (S)hack has decorations on it; and it looks generic, outside of a stylized cross grave. An owl is hooting as Mabel is so excited by this Summerween thing as Dipper, Mabel and Soos are in the living room setting up costumes. Soos is dressed like a lucha libre wrestler as Dipper and Mabel slap skin because they are going to get the most candy and biggest stomach ache ever, in that order. Soos cannot believe how pumped up these two are. I cannot believe that you loved wrestling so much there, Soos. Mabel and Dipper claim that they are the kings of trick or treating as they show off a photo book of Halloween memories, including them being dressed as cute cats, salt and pepper shakers; just to show how salty Dipper was in the third grade. Oh; and they were zombies with fake blood and gore I should note in the sixth grade. Anyhow; Soos proclaims that they should be careful out there because it's a night of ghouls and goblins. No ghosts? Or is Gravity Falls thinking that a ghost is really a KKK member in disguise? Soos brings out a flashlight, turns off the lights and shines it because there is the Summerween Trickster~! The DA-DA-DAAAA music is so off key here as Mabel is confused. Soos explains that the Summerween Trickster eats children who don't have the Summerween spirit. Considering that this is Gravity Falls; this is somewhat believable. Dipper claims that there's nothing to worry about because they have Halloween spirit to go around. Dipper and Mabel eat some candy in the bowl Soos has, and they hate it. Hmmm; I wonder if Dipper was the one who wrote that National Post article on molasses candy from Kerr? Oh wait; Stan is el-cheapo on candy, my mistake.
Soos grabs some lips and tells them to quiet their discontent; because the trickster might hear them. Dipper grabs the bowl and leaves, telling Soos that his cape is caught in his fly on the way out. Which is why I wear jogging pants. So Dipper throws candy out of the window as we hear noises outside, and then the doorbell rings. Stan is ordering Dipper to give the cheap candy to the customers, so I'm more shocked that Stan would be willing to give out freebies in Summerween, knowing how much of a scumbag Stan can be. So Dipper takes the bowl and opens the door; scared to death now...Oh wait; it's Wendy holding hands with Robbie again who is wearing a skeleton frame hoodie as Wendy is here to get her jacket as Dipper bumps into stairs. So we exchange notes about trick-or-treating as Dipper hides the album behind his back and declares that trick or treating is for babies, he guesses; because he's insecure. Wanna bet this brings out the trickster of doom. Wendy then proclaims that Tambry (again from The Inconvenincing) is having a Halloween party that is going to be off the chain because Tambry's parents are out of town for the night. Robbie shows Dipper the orange paper which contains two rules: Not S&P Approved and no photos better end up on-line (a dig on BS&P; so we'll never see this party) as Dipper looks at the paper as the party is at 9 PM. Wendy and Robbie enter a Mystery Machine-equse van as Wendy looks like Daffney and Robbie looks like a heelish Shaggy Rogers. Robbie blows off Dipper and Wendy elbows him for that; so yes, even Wendy thinks Robbie is a jerk, in a subtle way. Wendy wants Dipper to meet her at 9 PM as the van speeds off. Dipper looks at the paper and photo album and sulks, wondering what to tell Mabel. We get a wolf's howl as we head inside with Mabel dressed up like Strawberry Shortcake Bowl Of Jam, Candy dressed up as a candy, Grenda dressed up like a butch witch and Stan dressed up as a vampire. So he's now a scumbag leech. AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummm...
Candy is so sweet, she could eat herself. Of course, Stan is confused as to why Brenda has a deep voice and this annoys Grenda, what a shock that is? Stan twirls his cape and bails as Candy asks about Waddles. Mabel claims that Waddles has some important meetings to attend and here comes Waddles in a business suit. Your pig is not going to wear that! Waddles goes to Mabel and Mabel picks him up and does some promos about filing documents and curly tails. Grenda asks about Dipper's costume and Mabel calls it amazing. Dipper comes out...and, he's supposed to be dressed up like a peanut butter jar, because it fits with the motif Mabel was supposed to be shooting for. However; Dipper comes out in a normal outfit and everyone questions this. So the guise of this is: Dipper is faking illiness and claims that the candy has poisoned him, which considering the razor blade in apples thing; this is kind of dumb. Speaking of dumb; who in their right mind uses lit candles on the steps? This would have been more convincing if Dipper had been coughing and selling it the whole time instead of just walking down the steps looking fine. Mabel is so not buying this crap and accuses him of throwing out his Halloween spirit; as a knock is on the door. Dipper answers the door and there is a giant ass scarecrow with a toothy happy face on his face. Oh, Robbie; you sly dog, you! It's not him, sadly. Dipper blows him off and slams the door. Yip; it's the Summerween Trickster everyone (Jeff Bennett) as Mabel asks why he slammed the door. More knocking on the door as Dipper blows off this again and slams the door. Mabel blows him off and answers the door as the ST is pissed off and proclaims that they will pay for this with their lives. Mabel claims Dipper has come down with a case of the grumpy-grumps; and loves the costume. So a short, chubby boy with rosy cheeks, fairly long lashes, and buck teeth named Gormey appears and introduces himself. He has light brown hair, and is seen wearing a pirate costume for Summerween consisting of a black eyepatch, a red bandana, a dark brown vest, torn shorts, and sandals.
Grey DeLisle voices Gormey by the way; and the ST grabs him and eats him alive. Well; that was direct. ST proclaims that there is only one way to avoid this fate and that is to collect five hundred pieces of candy by the time the last jack-o-melon light goes out, he will let them live. Dipper calls getting 500 pieces of candy impossible; but ST don't care. Treat or DIE! ST jumps up and crawls on the roof as Dipper realizes that he is screwed and must go trick-or-treating after all. Fade to black and then return with Candy wondering who this guy was and Mabel proclaims that the legend Soos talked about it is true. Geez; it's Gravity Falls, when will these kids learn? Grenda shakes Dipper like Papercut Peterson as Soos comes out. Candy brings out her cellphone to show that the ST is real and Soos calls them being in crazy bonkers trouble. Mabel claps her hands on a bale of hay and we get a meeting. Mabel's pep talk is absurd as usual, as she calls the ST a cursed, bloodthirsty holiday monster, and this isn't a bad thing. Grenda then admits that she peed her pants as Mabel proclaims that they have messed with the wrong crew and with all their abilities combined, including Soos' whatever, they'll get 500 pieces of candy and have fun doing it. Well; that shouldn't be hard, I mean; 100 pieces of candy per person seems a lot more doable, unless ST starts moving goalposts like a Nintendo Switch hater. Everyone cheers and walks to the streets, except for Dipper of course. For someone who has brains, he sure has Male Genius Syndrome down to a T. And insecurity issues; since he's still faking an illness and still wants to go to a party we are not going to see. Mabel sums it up nicely and drags Dipper away stage right anyway. Jump cut to Stan putting on vampire fangs, which makes him a blood sucking cad like Huey Duck; only more scummy. Stan loves this as he heads to the door and we see five kids walk in towards the camera. One of them is dressed up like a solider. The one in a pink bunny rabbit costume rings the door bell and out comes Stan to address the kids.
Suddenly; Stan is in acute pain and his face melts off to reveal a skull; which causes all but the Solider Kid and the Mummy Kid to scream and bail in a panicked frenzy. Stan takes off the skull mask to reveal that it's all special effects. This would have been funnier if all the male kids ran and the female kids just stood there. So; to all the MRA guys out there: You are liars if you think women never get embarrassed or humiliated by a man in DTVA. Get over yourselves, you sexist scumbags! Stan is shocked that Solider Kid and Mummy Kid are still there wanting candy; so he restorts to the old Z-grade staple of fake blood and pulling out weiners out of his pants, to imply that he's pulling out his intestines. Neither kid is fooled; because they clearly watch too many Z-grade movies since two years old. HAHA! Solider Kid is voiced by Joshua Rush and according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!): Rush was ten months old when he first appeared in a local television special, and then several ads and catalogs shortly thereafter. By age 21⁄2, he had the uncanny ability to identify cars by logo and body style, and was soon featured on the KHOU morning news in a segment on how to raise "smart kids."[1] Before working on Heroes, Rush appeared on Private Practice. His film credits include Blue Boy, The Journal, and Mindsight, and he played Carlos in the Baby Jamz: Daily Lessons and Jamz Sessions children's video with Solange Knowles. He has also acted in commercials for Space Center Houston and Safeco Insurance, and a video e-card for AmericanGreetings.com.[2] In 2009, Rush appeared on The Jay Leno Show as the "Super Duper Nanny Son." The same year he also appeared on Medium as Tanner Campbel, the boy in the banana costume, and on Criminal Minds as Ronny Downey. Rush's first major television role came in 2009 when he was cast on Heroes. He played Zachary Quinto's character Gabriel Gray at a young age. This recurring role was part of a major plot point in season three.
After Heroes, Rush had minor roles on Parenthood, CSI: NY, and Special Agent Oso. In 2010, Rush began portraying a young version of Zachary Levi’s character Chuck Bartowski on Chuck. In this role, he worked with such actors as Scott Bakula and Linda Hamilton. Following his work on Chuck, Rush did ADR work on the Hallmark Channel movie "November Christmas", and commercials for McDonald's and GameStop. In 2012, Rush appeared as Turner Simmons in the feature film Parental Guidance, which earned him a Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actor Age Ten and Under in a Feature Film.[3] Secret Agent Oso is his DTVA debut and his most recent credit is Sex, Death & Bowling as Eli MacAllister. He has 33 Acting credits, 4 Self credits and 9 other credits (mostly ADR work for movies like Megamind, Puss In Boots, Dolphin Tale and Unstoppable among others) to his resume. Mummy Kid is voiced by Blake Bertrand who debuted on The Sarah Silverman Program in 2007 as a kid. Highlights: Shawn in Dance-A-Lot Robot, David Harris in House M.D., and a little boy in You Don't Mess With The Zohan. Gravity Falls is his DTVA debut and only appearance. Better Call Saul as Young Saul and Young Jimmy is his most recent credit. He has 17 Acting credits, and 3 other credits (This Means War, Ender's Game and The Conjuring) to his resume. Stan proclaims that they will be and that fake wound reminds me so much like the black knight from the Monty Python sketches. Stan covers himself and acts like Squidward. Cut to the water tower and a sky shot of Gravity Falls as we see Manly Dan and his siblings in viking gear as they are trying to use a battering ram to open a door which is already open. Durland and Bulbs are dressed up like the opposite of them basically. They act like total clowns as in the background, in come the babyface kids as Dipper is rolling a wheelbarrow as he asks why they cannot buy the candy. Mabel claims that it takes the fun out of the stips (death reference #2). Also; I betcha they don't have the thousand bucks to buy the candy anyway.
Dipper blows this off as we get death reference #3 and #4 for the episode as some trick-or-treaters are at Lazy Susan's house ringing the doorbell. Out comes Lazy Susan dressed up with a ball of yarn and with three cats. So yeah; they are not even pretending that this is Gravity Falls' version of Miss Lips from Fish Hooks. I'm half expecting her to crumble the top of doorways now. So the kids come in as Lazy Susan gets all the costumes wrong, except for Dipper's and that's only because he's in a hurry. So she gives out just four pieces of candy this time and none for Dipper Pines as revenge. HA! Everyone calls this loser candy as Mabel wants to step up the game and Dipper must be in costume now. Dipper is still no-selling this because he cares more about being eighteen years old and not acting his real age. So ST comes in and checks the candy, claiming that he has seen better and then climbs onto the roof, stealing a jack-o-melon and blows out the candle, reminding them that the clock is ticking before disappearing. Mabel sums that up as Dipper kicks a rock in disgust. Jump cut back to the Mystery (S)hack as the two kids in front of the house are chanting for candy. All while their candy bags are filled to the brim. Of course! Out comes Stan in his shirt and underwear claiming that the kids have won; and then he fakes a heart attack and Waddles literally comes out of his shirt. The kids don't sell this at all and want that candy as Waddles flops onto the ground and then walks away stage left. Stan then asks what scares them; and calls them freaks. Solider Kid brings out his cell phone and shows footage of cat footage, with a deformed woman screaming at the top of her lungs and this is enough for Stan to scream and run into the house, slamming the door shut, looking like he almost had a heart attack. Solider Kid's laugh is almost like Nelson Muntz I should note. Screamer Video On Solider Kid's Phone is voiced by Leo DeNar and I have nothing on him; which is a rarity in voice acting. Stan then looks in the mirror next to the door and wonders what the hell happened. Ummm; the world has past you by, that's what. I saw this in a Goof Troop episode somewhere, actually.
Sadly; we cut back to Mabel as Dipper returns, dressed up like a jar of peanut butter. What? I spoiled it for you. Too bad you didn't see this coming, considering that the Salt & Pepper costumes were a freaking clue! Everyone loves it but Dipper; but he can sod off! He let his Male Genius Syndrome write a cheque his kiddie ass cannot cash and he'll be responsible for six deaths if he continues to believe that trick-or-treating is for babies. Candy claims that she'll make it internet famous and Dipper panics. Never mind Candy is taking a selfie and Dipper is no where near Candy. Dipper wants to get this over with as it's 7:00 pm. Okay; here's a problem. It's supposed to be summer time; so 7:00 pm in late June, there would still be a lot of sunlight in the sky! Gravity Falls everyone. So we head to a wooden cottage owned by Bats Biker (from Headhunters) as Mabel and Dipper dance, dance, dance to their doom. HEEHEEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...TWINS~! Biker is crying and gives them treats. WE HIT THE MONTAGE~! Candy makes a joke about herself, again! Toby Determined gets a talking appearance (which scares the hell out of the babyfaces and Toby isn't even in costume. Would have worked better if they hadn't seen Toby until now) as a Frankenstein costumed guy blows out another Jack-o-melon. More denizen adults blow out jack-o-melons as more candy is thrown into the wheelbarrow. Toby puts on a mask; no one is fooled. HAHA! So after the montage, they have 499 pieces of candy in 90 minutes and everyone is happy. One more house to go and the slowest is a pair of wax lips. Oh come on, now. My lips are made of plastic. The kids all bail as Dipper is giddy about this being over. In comes Robbie and Wendy in their van; so Dipper hides the costume and wheelbarrow in the bushes. Okay, fine. So the van stops in front of the sidewalk where Dipper is and we make some more small talk about the party we aren't going to see since it's BS&P not approved, you see.
Dipper is no longer wearing his costume and sans his hat as Wendy waves to him and the van speeds off, just as Mabel notices Dipper waving. This is why you need to address those insecurity issues. Mabel suddenly realizes that Dipper was faking the sickness all along, so she wasn't in on the joke at all. Mabel gets on Dipper's case and throws candy in his face, much to the horror of the other kids. I should note that Soos left to get his truck. Mabel demands answers to why Dipper has stopped loving Halloween. Boy issues again, methinks? So she asks about the wheelbarrow and Dipper assures him that it's hidden behind the bushes, which is reasonable considering Robbie might try to steal the thing for his party. Or scumbag Stan stealing it and selling it. Sadly; he won't be able to because the wheelbarrow is dumped into a dumping site and a toxic river below as the candy is mostly gone. Mabel is angry and Dipper stammers like a stupid idiot as melons candle lights go out some more; leading to Old Man McGucket being the final dood to try to put his Jack-o-melon out near the junkyard. The kids all run in to stop it and we do the really offensive old man joke of McGucket using a horn to hear Dipper yelling at him to not blow out the candle. McGucket don't care and tries to blow it out; but Grenda headbutts him from behind like a heel and McGucket goes flying. Grenda grabs the jack-o-melon and it goes out. Grenda apologizes and McGucket bails by crawling on the cars. Sadly; McGucket is not the Summerween Trickster, because Gravity Falls is not Scooby Doo! Well; the old 1960's-1970's ones anyway. Here comes ST Johnny~! He does the knock knock joke and I was hoping he would say "who's there? Kids in the face!" That ends the segment fourteen and a half minutes in. If you ever want an example of insecurities harming and killing people; this episode is a mighty fine start to consider.
After the commercial break; ST backs up the kids and Dipper swears that they had five hundred pieces of candy. But ST is like Nintendo Switch hater who sniffed out non-Sony games in his room mates room and it's time to go Persona 5 on them. Sadly; copyright prevents Disney from doing Nin10doUltra's spot...for the moment. Dipper throws the candy Mabel threw at him and ST absorbs it right in the neck. So we bail out of the junkyard into the street, somehow. ST grows into a six handed Octopedish monster and grabs everyone, with Candy and Mabel first. This would have been sexist and racist; except everyone got caught within seconds anyway. ST thinks he's won and in comes Soos and he MURDERS ST with his truck and pieces of him go flying. Apparently; Mabel bruised her elbow on the fall as Dipper is glad this is over and Mabel just gives him eye contact violence. Oh; and Mabel assures Soos that the monster is dead and it wasn't a hit and run. Whew; that was a relief, I guess. So everyone gets into the truck and we put on seatbelts...so we can be safe. Dipper actually has concern for Mabel but Mabel ignores him. Dipper talks about bandages at the shack; but Mabel don't care. She looks out the window and notices that the monster is reforming into the most henious monster with a happy face icon you can get here. So it crashes onto the roof of Soos' car and causes damage, which magically repairs itself on the next shot. Sigh. Swirly twirly action ensues as the monster smashes into another power pole. At least this vandalism was understandable, since the monster was partially responsible for causing it. So the truck turns right and crashes into the Summerween Superstore. The dust settles as everyone gets out and in comes the STM of doom as Dipper wants to hide. The monster stalks as the kids bail inside store shelves and Dipper whisper yells for everyone to stay quiet. I betcha Soos; the Latino dark skinned dood gets eaten first. Mabel blows off Dipper about caring about Wendy over the monster as Dipper finally confesses that he felt too old for trick-or-treating.
No; it's because you still cannot accept the fact that you cannot date Wendy because you are 12 years old. You are a child, act like one. Sure; adults are really stupid; but that's the ADULTS fault, not a child's. Stop this angle! Mabel points out that there aren't many Halloweens left to do this; because they aren't getting any younger and didn't realize that this might be their last one. Dipper feels bad...AGAIN! This act is getting old now; as the monster stalks and Soos has a Krackpotkin Plan as they dress up like skulls; with Soos as a gorilla. They shuffle hiding spots and the monster doesn't suspect a thing. Everyone bails to the entrance; but Soos stops at the skull bowl shelves. Why? Because he has to be eaten first silly; and they need to cover up this racism by making Soos look like a goddamned idiot; which makes it even worse! I shake my head in disbelief and it gets worse as they waste time with the thing being out of batteries. So Soos breaks out some batteries, again like a goddamn idiot and somehow the monster doesn't notice ANY of this! They did this for the sake of a cheap laugh and it ends up making the writers look like bigots. Nice going, guys! All this needed was Chris Savino and we would have Grenda and Candy being harrassed by Dipper throughout this dumpster fire of a scene. So, the skull finally does his joke, which is the only funny thing about all this as Soos calls it the voice of his generation. A dead generation because the monster finally comes out and eats him. Then out of nowhere, the other babyfaces run in with fake rubber weapons; and somehow, they work like real weapons; but this monster has fragilier skin than any human being on Earth; including Ric Flair's forehead! Grenda cuts off an arm and tastes the particle as it's salt water taffy and she thinks it's gross. Did she write the article on molasses candy from Kerr, I wonder? The shield has the Eye Of Providence on it. I should note that some of the background scenes in this episode look rushed; most so the scene at the river with the house on the top right. The monster is ticked off because they still don't get it as he takes his mask off and it's all loser candy.
So; the guise of this whole monster is this: This monster is the embodiment of all the candy kids and adults hate and throw away into the dump. Geez; if I'm Kerr's Candy; I'd send them haters the second Gravity Falls DVD and tells them to watch Summerween. And since this is Gravity Falls; it turned into the candy monster seeking revenge. Oh; I should also note that the monster candy has grabbed everyone again. He threatens to eat everyone and then everything I said about this being stupid is totally WRONG because the candy monster has a stomach aches and Soos breaks through the monster's stomach growling like a gorrilla. Wow! They actually found a way to make the "token dark skinned person" angle have an actual pay off. See; the "no death" rule works! Oh my god; it works! I need a drink. Seriously; I need one for Nintendo's finances tomorrow. The candy monster throws up jellybeans; which works so well considering the character, so I can accept the BS&P decision of no blood spray. The monster falls on it's back and candy sprays out. Soos offers candy to the kids and they no sell. The monster cannot believe that one person (Soos of all people) loves his candy and he feels at peace now as he literally cries tears of candy corn. Okay; this is really good, I cannot lie. Gorney pops out and proclaims that he has been traumatized, while completely no selling it. Poor dood; let's return to the Mystery (S)hack as the two kids are vandalizing the front area with toilet paper and pushing down fake gravestones. Mummy Kid and Solider decide to stop what they are doing and just go inside to get the candy, candy, candy; like a bunch of spoiled little brats. So they head inside and it's darker than usual. Jump cut to Stan in his bathrobe and shower cap in the bathroom; turning on the shower as he wants to wash off the shame he had. The kids open the door and notice Stan dropping his clothes and he's naked as a jaybird; although you only see his shaven legs. This is enough for Mummy Kid and Solider Kid to scream and bail out of the shack and run like a bunch of scalded dogs. Oh wait; Stan was wearing shorts all this time. Geez; what a bunch of wimps?! Stan is so happy about this as he cheers that he still got it. That was actually funny because Stan's own partially naked body scared them off; and showed that for all the gore; it was nudity that scared them. So we scene change to the living room as all the kids enter with Stan watching television. We meet and greet for a while.
Suddenly; we see Wendy craving a watermelon and waving to Dipper; which surprises him. Dipper stammers and then admits that he was trick-or-treating with Mabel. And damn; they got a lot of candy out of this deal and Soos even got to slay a monster, what more could you want? Wendy admits the party was lame in spite of not being approved by BS&P; because Robbie got home sick from eating a lollipop. Dipper tries hard not to laugh and fails; but Wendy don't care. Mabel is still upset because they didn't get any candy; despite the fact that there was tons of candy left from the monster. So yes; no one learned anything here, except for Soos, who has no shame in liking loser candy. Soos is pretty good actually. I discover that Solider Kid and Mummy Kid forgot to take their bags with them when they ran out because Stan has two bags of candy in his person now. So yes; Stan's plan was to scare them in giving HIM candy and it failed; until the kids were dumb enough to see him taking a shower. So we watch television which is showing a Z-grade movie marathon including the movie known as The Fear Guy From Terror Town Street. We see a woman screaming like a 1960's horror flick scream, natch. Even the alien is screaming at this (and wires are clearly shown on the wrists of the alien by the way). Everyone sits down with candy eating and out of costume with ghostly sounds. Dipper finds the bandaid and puts it on Mabel's left elbow and she approves of it. Waddles is eating from a bowl of candy as Soos, Stan and Wendy pass on the candy; with Soos having a good reason. Stan channels Baloo from The Golden Sprocket of Friendship and claims that what matter is pure evil; which he cackles and laughs. Of course! Everyone crackles like a villain and Soos then trumps this to infinity by proclaiming that he ate a man alive tonight. Well; it was actually a monster; but that counts, right?! So we end the episode at 22:34 with twenty seconds of Waddles meme pictures of him working 9 to 5. Aww; my heart melted! This episode was a good Halloween episode with a twist finish that made me look like a stupid idiot. Sadly; I have no Chris Jericho costume to wear. *** 3/4 (75%). I'm more shocked that they used a copyrighted song here; but couldn't allow "C Is For Cookie" anywhere on this DVD set. Copyright: It still sucks, even when it doesn't.
THE REVIEW LINE
Well; this was a pleasant surprise because I'm really getting tired of the Dipper/Robbie/Wendy angle being foisted on me and it's clear that it's becoming poisonous to the show as a whole now. Not just in storyline, but in the grand scheme of things. Thankfully; most of it was focused on the Halloween candy monster angle and that was really well done. I will say that the Stan subplot is the best one I have seen in this show where Stan looked like a goddamn idiot throughout it and it took softcore nudity (and I do mean softcore) for Stan to win. It was a simple angle that had a really great payoff (and not just in storyline) and it made up for Dipper's insecurities; which that angle is so old now that it's time to abort it. I also love the twist finish to this whole thing as well. Soos winning wasn't just the correct booking decision, it actually gave the writers an out so that they could adhere to the no death rule and actually it was better for it, since Soos (the dark skinned token guy) got caught first, just like in almost every horror movie ever made. Waddles in a suit is many buys as well with that ending; even though it really had nothing to do with the episode, it was still glorious. Overall; this was a fun episode that got great once the finish came. So....
Thumbs in the middle pointing up for this episode and I'll see you all next time.