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* AnAesop:
** Don't go behind your family's back to take risks for the sake of helping them.
** Learning from your mistakes is all a part of growing up.
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* DropTheHammer: Cricket pulls a mallet out of his bag of pranking supplies to protect Remy from the monster pumpkin. Unfortunately, it’s rubber and only squeaks when he hits the pumpkin with it.
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* SpecialEditionTitle: Much like in "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS1E19 Blood Moon]]", the theme is done in a minor key, but this time, the main instrument is a synth instead of whistling and there are more Halloween-themed images.

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* SpecialEditionTitle: Much like in "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS1E19 Blood Moon]]", the theme is done in a minor key, [[{{Scales}} key]], but this time, the main instrument is a synth instead of whistling and there are more Halloween-themed images.

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* TheBusCameBack: This is Gwendolyn Zapp's first appearance since "Green Mirror".
* CallBack: Gloria and the Greens bring up the events of "Blood Moon", which happened to occur the year before.

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* BackToBackBadasses: Bill and Tilly fight a horde of pumpkin aliens back-to-back with each other using farming tools.
* BrickJoke: When Remy first gets attacked by one of the pumpkins, he asks why this is happening to him because he’s “supposed to be an apex predator” since he’s dressed as a dinosaur. Later when he teams up with Vasquez to fight the monsters, he’s hitting them with a fake bone and exclaims, “I am an apex predator!”
* TheBusCameBack: This is Gwendolyn Zapp's first appearance since "Green Mirror".
"[[Recap/BigCityGreensS2E17 Green Mirror]]".
* CallBack: Gloria and the Greens bring up the events of "Blood Moon", "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS1E19 Blood Moon]]", which happened to occur the year before.



* ChekhovsGun: The silly string that Cricket threatens to spray Bill with at the beginning of the episode is what he uses to attack the biggest pumpkin alien.



** Characters, mostly Gloria, bring up the events of "Blood Moon".



* CoveredInGunge: When Tilly lets the lawn mower run over the giant pumpkin monster, she and Cricket get sprayed by its guts.
-->'''Cricket:''' My mouth was very much open.
* DaddysGirl: Tilly idolizes her father so much that she even dresses as him for Halloween.



* DramaticThunder: Thunder crashes and lightning strikes when Tilly approaches Bill’s pumpkins, ready to use Zapp’s compound on them.
* DropTheHammer: Cricket pulls a mallet out of his bag of pranking supplies to protect Remy from the monster pumpkin. Unfortunately, it’s rubber and only squeaks when he hits the pumpkin with it.
* DualWielding: Vasquez isn’t worried about taking out the rest of the pumpkin monsters because he’s dual-wielding...Cricket and Remy, who are each latched on to one of his arms.



* FalseTeethTomfoolery: While the family is getting their Halloween decorations ready, Cricket finds a pair of vampire teeth that he excitedly puts in his mouth. They end up apparently being Gramma Alice’s dentures.
-->'''Gramma:''' Those are my dinner dentures! I keep them extra sharp for when we eat red meat!
* GoshDangItToHeck:
-->'''Cricket:''' Oh gosh dang, it’s a whole pumpkin army!



* HappyDance: Bill does one with Tilly when he sees that his pumpkins have had a “sudden growth spurt.”



* ImpossibleShadowPuppets: Nancy is apparently super good at doing shadow puppets.
* ItsAllMyFault: Tilly is beating herself up over causing the pumpkin monster invasion, and Cricket immediately agrees with her.
-->'''Tilly:''' All our friends and family have been consumed by pumpkin aliens because of me! This is all my fault!
-->'''Cricket:''' Aw, Tilly...I completely agree.
* KissTheCookApron: Bill’s so excited to carve pumpkins that he goes to find his “Papa Pumpkin” apron especially for the occasion.
* MamaBear: The kids are about to be attacked by a pumpkin monster, but Nancy jumps in front of them and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices herself]] to save them.
* MeanwhileScene: After Bill says that “nothing extraordinary” is going to happen this Halloween, there’s a cut to Zapp running from a monster on Mars.



* MusicalPastiche: Bill has a little dancing Frankenstein toy that plays one of the classic Hallloween song, “Monster Mash.”



* PeopleJars: Zapp has these in her lab but instead of people, giant vegetables are floating inside.



* RapidFireNo: Bill’s reaction when Tilly suggests that she should drive since she’s technically Bill.



* TemptingFate: After Bill reassures Gloria that this year's Halloween will be normal, the action moves to Gwendolyn' base on Mars, where she's dealing with the aliens that will later attack the Greens.
* VariationsOnAThemeSong: Much like in "Blood Moon", the theme is done in a minor key, but this time, the main instrument is a synth instead of whistling and there are more Halloween-themed images.

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* SpecialEditionTitle: Much like in "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS1E19 Blood Moon]]", the theme is done in a minor key, but this time, the main instrument is a synth instead of whistling and there are more Halloween-themed images.
* SquirtingFlowerGag: Cricket tries to prank one of the party guests with this but ends up spraying himself instead.
* TemptingFate: After Bill reassures Gloria that this year's Halloween will be normal, the action moves to Gwendolyn' base on Mars, where she's dealing with the aliens that will later attack the Greens.
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* VariationsOnAThemeSong: Much like in "Blood Moon", VillainousHarlequin: Cricket’s Halloween costume is an evil jester named “Trickor.”
* WhoopeeCushion: One of
the theme is done in a minor key, but this time, biggest pumpkin monsters approaches the main instrument is a synth instead of whistling kids while they’re hiding under the kitchen table and there are more Halloween-themed images.Cricket chooses that time to pull one of his Trickor pranks and throws a whoopee cushion at it.

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