History Recap / CalvinAndHobbesTheSeriesS3E9PrankingTheGhosts

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Moe apparently bullied the candy he received that night from little kids. [[spoiler: Guess who is now cursed by Issac Avon?]]

He finds Hobbes in the corner of his bedroom in a state of shock staring at the discarded phone in horror and cheerfully greets him. Hobbes is annoyed of how Socrates can stay so cheerful and claims that he got a phone call of [[ShoutOut some vampire-ghost thing screaming in the reciever]] but Socrates shrugs this off as a prank call and tells him a story about [[Literature/TheRing how he saw a weird movie about wells and wrinkled up girls and got a call saying he would die in seven days.]] It turned out that his "death" was being forced to see an annoying weight loss commercial seven days later. The two tigers begin to leave to meet up with the others but Hobbes notices the wall behind them covered in black handprints.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Moe apparently bullied the candy he recieved that night from little kids. [[spoiler: Guess who is now cursed by Issac Avon?]]

The episode begins in a [[NightmareFuel rather dark]] fashion: in the form of a {{Flashback}}, we hear the sound of two men arguing before the sound of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar a gunshot]], footsteps, and the slamming off a door. As the scene fades to black, big red letters appear on the screen.

He finds Hobbes in the corner of his bedroom in a state of shock staring at the discarded phone in horror and cheerfully greets him. Hobbes is annoyed of how Socrates can stay so cheerful and claims that he got a phone call of [[ShoutOut some vampire-ghost thing screaming in the reciever]] but Socrates shrugs this off as a prank call and tells him a story about [[TheRing how he saw a weird movie about wells and wrinkled up girls and got a call saying he would die in seven days.]] It turned out that his "death" was being forced to see an annoying weight loss commercial seven days later. The two tigers begin to leave to meet up with the others but Hobbes notices the wall behind them covered in black handprints.

* {{Expy}}: This ghost has a learned lot of tricks from a [[{{Juon}} creepy]], [[Film/TheGrudge crawling]], [[StringyHairedGhostGirl long haired ghost chick]] [[NeckSnap with some]] obvious vocal issues.

Meanwhile Socrates is at his house thinking of various bobby traps to put in his yard while he trick-or-treats when he notices strange creaking noises comming from the attic and goes to investigate. [[TheGrudge Sound familiar?]] Upon finding no-one up there, Socrates shrugs this off and starts heading towards the elevator when all the doors surrounding him start to slam shut on their own. The slightly freaked out tiger tries to calmly assure himself that his house isn't haunted as he waits in the elevator. As he exits the mansion, the doors slam shut and Socrates notices on doorknob's grime-covered gold plague that he never noticed before:

* {{Expy}}: This ghost has a learned lot of tricks from a [[{{Juon}} creepy]], [[TheGrudge crawling]], [[StringyHairedGhostGirl long haired ghost chick]] [[NeckSnap with some]] obvious vocal issues.
* [[BluntYes Flat No]]: The MTM's response to Calvin asking for comic relief during a dramaticly creepy scene.

* ShoutOut: [[TheGrudge Socrates chase scene with the ghost and the lights, Andy being pulled into the house by a pale hand, the loud creak-like noises, the ghost crawling up the attic and reaching out, Calvin attempting to retreat by opening a nearby door only for the ghost the emerge from it by the head]]-okay seriously? Are these guys blood-relatives or something? Also there's this line:

Andy and Sherman are wandering the second floor and begin to hear the sound of heavy breathing. They go through a wooden door leading to the mansion balcony and relax for a few seconds until the porch light goes out. [[TemptingFate Andy mentions that since they still have the bug zapper still working, then their location is still ghost free]] only for the bug zapper to immediately go out. Andy turns on his flashlight as a light source and both him and Sherman are startled after they see a [[EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette pale-faced man]] staring at them through the window. As they calm down, Andy inches towards the door armed with the Scream until they are pulled in by a pale hand. From there they find themselves back in the hose reunited with Calvin on the first floor. Calvin has The MTM search for any signs of the ghost near them only for it to reveal that they're already standing right in the middle of an abnormally magnetic spot as all the doors surrounding them slam shut.

* [[BluntYes FlatNo]]: The MTM's response to Calvin asking for comic relief during a dramaticly creepy scene.

Meanwhile Socrates is at his house thinking of various bobby traps to put in his yard while he trick-or-treats when he notices [[HellIsThatNoise strange creaking noises]] comming from the attic and goes to investigate. [[TheGrudge Sound familiar?]] Upon finding no-one up there, Socrates shrugs this off and starts heading towards the elevator when all the doors surrounding him start to slam shut on their own. The slightly freaked out tiger tries to calmly assure himself that his house isn't haunted as he waits in the elevator. As he exits the mansion, the doors slam shut and Socrates notices on doorknob's grime-covered gold plague that he never noticed before:

* {{Expy}}: This ghost has a learned lot of tricks from a [[{{Juon}} creepy]], [[TheGrudge crawling]], [[StringyHairedGhostGirl long haired ghost chick]] [[NeckSnap with some]] [[HellIsThatNoise obvious vocal issues]].

Socrates, desperate what just happened to him in his last scene, is wandering the halls cheerfully without an ounce of terror. He's even whistling the DoctorWho theme song.