History Recap / CreepshowS2E7PipeScreams

* BaitAndSwitch: Linus prepares to open the cupboard Cloggy seems to be hiding in, but finds nothing when he does so. The little clog then latches onto his hand from a small hole in the pipes.

Linus tracks the source of the problem to Apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, single mother Janet (Selena Anduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him into what she calls "the Presidential Suite". She informs Linus, as he examines her bathroom, that her neighbors have reportedly heard, felt, and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet is forced to leave Linus to work on the problem so she can pick up her daughter Leila. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the drywall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing put a hole in the pipes. As he moves in to investigate the hole, some kind of creature suddenly emerges from it.

Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report a problem that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement in the middle of the night, Victoria finds herself face to face with her angry tenants, all of them brandishing Linus' tools as weapons. Janet and an injured Linus, leading the mob, identify Victoria as the true problem of the building, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them and fully willing to let their children succumb to brain damage to save herself money. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain in the floor. Cloggy, now several times bigger, wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive and belching up one of her bloodied shoes. With the problem solved, the tenants give Linus back his tools and leave the basement, followed by Linus himself. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where Cloggy lives before she goes off to school. She leaves a bowl of food and a drawing of herself and Cloggy holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* CoveredInGunge: Linus stumbles to the floor after Fluffy's death cries startle him, landing facefirst into a puddle of slime and stagnant water.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Despite his discovery of Fluffy's mutilated remains, Linus believes that the source of the furry things that Janet and her neighbors have been observing in their bathrooms to be rats, attracted to the smorgasboard of sludge built up in the pipes. While there ''are'' rats infesting the building, Linus discovers the truth about the disturbances once he finds the hole in Janet's wall and the slime trail leading under her sink.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Linus is very clearly uneased by the fact that Victoria doesn't care that her tenants and their kids will slowly-but-surely die from continued exposure to her toxic pipes, and after he finds Fluffy having been mauled to death, he nearly leaves right there. Only the sound of playing children through the floor is what persuades him to stay and make things right.
* [[EvilDetectingDog Evil Detecting Cat]]: As Linus investigates the basement, Fluffy hears Cloggy nosily moving throughout the pipes on the ceiling, growing nervous and trying to escape before Cloggy catches her.

** Victoria meets her well-deserved death the exact same way from Deke from [[Film/Creepshow2 "The Raft"]] does. Cloggy even belches after devouring her, like the blob in that story did.

** Linus' attempts to get Cloggy off his hand also mirror Ash's battle against his posessed hand from ''Film/EvilDead2'', such as smashing dishes on it.

* WouldHarmASenior: The ColdOpen has one of Victoria's tenants complaining that the lead pipes are said to have given her grandfather pnuemonia, putting him at the risk of dying.

!!Pipe Screams

When the residents of an old and decrepit apartment complex issue numerous complaints about the plumbing, the building's arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist owner Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) calls Carruthers Brothers Plumbing, hiring financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Eric Edelstein) to investigate the problem. Making his way to the basement, Linus hears Victoria rant about the mess that the pipes are causing, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Linus then discovers that the building has highly toxic lead pipes. Linus informs Victoria that per the law, he can't repair lead pipes; only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the pipes to the city's Health & Safety Department, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him for everything he's got and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms, desperately needing the money to repair the damage his deceased brother has done to the business. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls Fluffy, a cat who was currently in the basement, to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave the building, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs.

When the residents of an old and decrepit apartment complex issue numerous complaints about the plumbing, the building's arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist owner Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) calls Carruthers Brothers Plumbing, hiring financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Eric Edelstein) to investigate the problem.

Upon making his way to the basement, Linus hears Victoria rant about the mess that the pipes are causing, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Linus then discovers that the building has highly toxic lead pipes. Linus informs Victoria that per the law, he can't repair lead pipes; only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the pipes to the city's Health & Safety Department, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him for everything he's got and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms, desperately needing the money to repair the damage his deceased brother has done to the business. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls Fluffy, a cat who lives in the basement, to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave the building, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs.

Linus tracks the source of the problem to Apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, single mother Janet (Selena Anduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him into her apartment, which she calls "the Presidential Suite". She informs Linus, as he examines her bathroom, that her neighbors have reportedly heard, felt, and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet is forced to leave Linus to work on the problem so she can pick up her daughter Leila. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the drywall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing put a hole in the pipes. As he moves in to investigate the hole, some kind of creature suddenly emerges from it.

* ActorAllusion: Linus, the plumber who deals with Cloggy the living blob, is played by Eric Edelstein, who had previously voiced a talking blob in ''[[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013 Monsters vs. Aliens]].''
* AdmiringTheAbomination: After Victoria is out of the picture, Janet's daughter Leila seems to have taken a shine to Cloggy, giving it a bowl of food and leaving it a picture of the two holding hands as she leaves for school.
* AndThenWhat: Victoria tries to invoke this to keep Linus, Janet, and the tenants from attacking her, asking them where else they could go, or what other place they could afford to live in. The tenants don't care one bit.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Victoria hisses at and kicks away Fluffy when she finds her having caught a rat.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just when Cloggy is about to attack Linus for a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping the clog under a bucket.
* {{Blackmail}}: Knowing that Carruthers Brothers Plumbing has had the highest number of complaints made to city hall out of any repair business, and is only one more bad review away from going under, Victoria blackmails Linus into fixing her lead pipes (despite the danger they pose to her tenants and their children) by threatening to give him that last review and suing him for everything he's got.
* BlatantLies: Before she dies, Victoria tearfully insists that she didn't know her building had lead pipes. Janet, Linus, and the others see right through it.
* BlobMonster: Cloggy is a noticeably tiny example. Of course, that doesn't make it any less deadly.
* CardCarryingVillain: Victoria makes it clear from her very frustrated sigh that she's utterly irredeemable. For those familiar with how a horror anthology format works, all you have to do is countdown the minutes until she meets her end.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: After finding Fluffy's remains, Linus intitally chooses to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere drop the job, pack up his tools, and go home]]. The only thing that makes him reconsider is hearing children playing upstairs.
* ContemplatingYourHands: Linus takes a short while to stare at his hand after half of the skin on it is eaten by Cloggy.
* CrankyLandlord: With her unashamed bigotry and her willingness to sue maintenance services into bankruptcy instead of paying them, calling Victoria "cranky" would be a massive understatement.
* DeathByIrony: Fluffy the cat is devoured by Cloggy, a slime-coated hairball.
* DirtyCoward: When surrounded by her angry tenants, Victoria nervously tries to bribe them into dispersing with increasing months of free rent. When that fails, she tearfully insists that she didn't know about the lead pipes, which also doesn't work. Even as she's being devoured by Cloggy, her last words are her screaming about how she just wants to go home.
* TheDogBitesBack: After years of Victoria treating them like dirt, her abused tenants team up to ensure that she meets her death by the hands (or tendrils) of the very creature her toxic pipes created.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The tenants of the building are finally freed from Victoria's arrogance, and they even give Cloggy its own home in the basement storm drain, with Leila treating it as a pet. Linus was also possibly able to save his business as well.

* FoldSpindleMutilation: When Cloggy drags Victoria down the storm drain, her leg protrudes from the drain's opening, alongside her head and one arm.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Janet mentions that Victoria is a fan of these, usually taking contractors to court rather than pay them for repairs. She even actively hunts down failing businesses for any maintenance work she needs done because they're easier to sue.
* HarmfulToTouch: Cloggy is noted as being painful to touch, the chemicals in the lead pipes being contained in the slime surrounding it would be the possible cause as to why. Linus even says, as the clog is wrapped around his head, that it burns his skin.
* HatedByAll: Victoria's tenants despise her, only renting in her building because it's the cheapest place for them to live.
* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how plain horrible she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She also cares about no one but herself, showing no sympathy to the fact that the lead pipes in her building could potentially harm her tenants and their children, and doesn't want to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. She's also incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than actually pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. With all these negative traits, it honestly wouldn't be that much of a surprise if she was a descendant of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt]].

* HorribleHousing: The apartment building where the story takes place. Aside from the lead pipes, the place is barely standing, the rooms and hallways are decrepit, and the rent is outrageously high. Even Janet's apartment, "the presidential suite", while slightly better than the rest of the building, isn't the best of living conditions.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Victoria clearly despises anyone who isn't her, especially if they happen to be a different race, religion, or nationality.
* ItCameFromTheSink: Cloggy, a sentient, flesh-eating pile of hair and soap scum that was presumably given life by the toxic chemicals contained in the lead pipes of the building.
* KillerRabbit: Despite its vicious streak and appetite for flesh, Cloggy is one of the smallest monsters ever featured in the series.
* LickedByTheDog: Fluffy rubs up against Linus' legs while purring, showing him to be a good person underneath his crude and grimy exterior.
* MuckMonster: Cloggy, a tiny flesh-eating creature formed from slime, soap scum, and human hair, given life by the toxic chemicals housed in the apartment building's lead pipes.

** The cat seen in the apartment complex's basement is named "Fluffy", the same name given to the monster from "The Crate" in the [[Film/{{Creepshow}} original film.]] Similarly to that story, all that remains of Victoria after her death is a bloodied shoe.
** Victoria meets her well-deserved death the exact same way from [[Film/Creepshow2 Deke from "The Raft"]] does. Cloggy even belches after devouring her, like the blob monster in that story did.
** The "Father's Day" ashtray is seen on a table in Janet's apartment, holding colored pencils that her daughter uses for her activity books.
* NoSympathy: Victoria doesn't give a damn that her building has children living in it that are susceptible to all sorts of illnesses and disorders from the lead pipes she's too cheap to have removed.

* PipePain: Despite the fact that the pipes in Victoria's building aren't actually used as weapons, they are highly toxic, and those chemicals are what end up creating Cloggy.
* PlumbersCrack: There's an obligatory scene where Linus has his ass exposed, crack and all.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Victoria is a complete bigot who hurls insults at her tenants, treating them like animals simply for having multicultural backgrounds.
* POVCam: We get a couple of brief glimpses of Linus from Cloggy's point of view as it hides in the pipes, and again as it charges at him.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Victoria is astoundingly rich, so much so that refuses to spend any money to have her dangerously toxic lead pipes replaced with copper ones, and blackmails Linus into fixing them by threatening to sue him into the ground if he reports them to city hall.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After spotting Fluffy's remains, Linus collects his tools and attempts to leave the building behind. He's only persuaded into staying by the sound of children playing upstairs, all of them at risk to the lead pipes.

** A plush version of Robert the Doll, the infamous allegedly haunted toy that was said to be the basis for the ''Film/ChildsPlay'' franchise, can be seen on a shelf in Janet's apartment.
** Much like the old man from ''Film/TheBlob1958'', Cloggy latches on to Linus' hand and won't let go. Afterwards, Cloggy proceeds to latch onto his head like a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Facehugger.]]
* SpitefulSpit: After believing that he's stopped Cloggy by trapping it under a pipe, Linus spits into the tube to mock the creature.
* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Early on, Linus tells Victoria that the building has children living in it, and the lead pipes are a huge health risk to them. Near the end, Janet tells her the same thing.
* StrugglingSingleMother: Janet, despite being a mother, displays no evidence of being married, and often has to deal with the abuse of Victoria, her racist landlady.
* TheTeaser: Before the story begins, an illustrated cold open shows Victoria's tenants angrily complaining about the building's plumbing, prompting Victoria to call Carruthers Brothers Plumbing and threaten Linus into meeting her.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Before the above mentioned cold open ends, Linus sarcastically rebuts that his latest assignment is sure to be fun.

* TubeTravel: Cloggy is able to squeeze its way through pipes and walls, an effective mode of travel for a being that's small in size and constantly lubricated by slime.
* TheVoiceless: Janet's daughter Leila has no dialogue for the whole episode.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business, since we don't get any indication that the lead pipes have actually been removed. Of course, they may be staying to act as a sort of life support system for Cloggy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Victoria doesn't harm any of the children in the building directly, but she is more than willing to let them succumb to brain damage, learning deficiencies, and behavioral disorders brought on by her lead pipes to save money.
* WouldHarmASenior: Victoria's lead pipes are said to have given the grandfather of one of her tenants pneumonia, putting him at Death's door.

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Linus tracks the source of the problem to Apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, single mother Janet (Selena Anduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him into her apartment, which she calls "the Presidential Suite". She informs Linus, as he examines her bathroom, that her neighbors have reportedly heard, felt, and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet is forced to leave Linus to work on the problem so she can pick up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the drywall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing put a hole in the pipes. As he moves in to investigate the hole, some kind of creature suddenly emerges from it.

* AndThenWhat: Victoria tries to invoke this to keep Linus, Janet, and the tenants from attacking her, asking them where else they could go; what other place they could afford to live in. The tenants don't care one bit.
* AssholeVictim: Victoria.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: After finding Fluffy's remains, Linus decides to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere drop the job, pack up his tools, and go home]], but hearing children playing upstairs makes him reconsider.

* TheDogBitesBack: After years of Victoria treating them like dirt, her abused tenants team up to ensure that she meets her death by the hands of the very creature her toxic pipes created.

* FrivolousLawsuit: Janet mentions that Victoria is a fan of these, usually willing to take contractors to court rather than pay them for repairs. She even actively hunts down failing businesses for any maintenance work she needs done because they're easier to sue.

* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how plain horrible she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She also cares about no one but herself, showing no sympathy to the fact that the lead pipes in her building could potentially harm her tenants and their children, and doesn't want to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. She's also incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than actually pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. With all these negative traits, it honestly wouldn't be that much of a surprise if she was a descendant of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt]].

* HorribleHousing: The apartment building where the story takes place. Aside from the lead pipes, the place is barely standing, the rooms and hallways are decrepit, and the rent is outrageously high. Even the presidential suite, Janet's apartment, while slightly better than the rest of the building, isn't the best of living conditions.

* LickedByTheDog: Fluffy rubs up against Linus' legs while purring, showing him to be a good person underneath his crude, grimy exterior.

** The cat seen in the apartment complex's basement is named "Fluffy", the same name given to the monster from "The Crate" in the [[Film/{{Creepshow}} original film.]] If that isn't enough, all that remains of her after her death is a shoe.

** The "Father's Day" ashtray is seen on a table in Janet's apartment, holding crayons that her daughter uses for her activity books.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business, since we don't get any indication that the lead pipes have actually been removed. Of course, they may be staying to act as a sort of life-force for Cloggy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Victoria doesn't harm any of the children in the building directly, but she is more than willing to let them succumb to brain damage, as well as learning deficiencies and behavioral disorders, brought on by her lead pipes to save money.

After receiving numerous complaints about the plumbing in the oldest and most decrepit building she owns, arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist slumlord Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) hires financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Eric Edelstein) of Carruthers Brothers Plumbing to fix the problem, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains.

Upon making his way to the basement and discovering that the building has highly toxic lead pipes, Linus informs Victoria he can’t fix lead pipes, only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the health violation to city hall, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls Fluffy the cat to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs.

Eventually, Linus tracks the source of the problem to Apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, Janet (Selena Anduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him in. She informs Linus that her neighbors have reportedly heard and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet leaves Linus to work on the problem while she picks up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the wall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing, but some kind of creature suddenly emerges from a hole in the pipes.

The creature, a sentient pile of hair and slime (which the story's cover refers to as "Cloggy"), latches onto Linus’ hand and doesn’t let go. After an intense struggle, Linus finally manages to get Cloggy off of him, whereupon he discovers that it has eaten the flesh on the top of his hand. Cloggy comes at him again, but he manages to stop it by trapping it under a tube. It manages to squeeze through the tube and latch onto Linus’ face. He manages to pry the clog off of him once again, but just before it charges at him a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping Cloggy under a bucket. While Linus considers calling animal control or the CDC to deal with the clog, Janet says she has a different idea.

Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report something that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement, Victoria finds herself face to face with a mob of her angry tenants, all brandishing Linus' tools as weapons. Janet, leading the mob alongside an injured Linus, identify Victoria as the true problem of the building, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain. Cloggy wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where Cloggy lives and leaves it a bowl of food and a drawing of the two holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: After Victoria is taken care of, Janet's daughter Leila seems to have taken a shine to Cloggy, giving it a bowl of food and leaving it a picture of the two holding hands as she leaves for school.
* AndThenWhat: Victoria tries to invoke this to keep Linus, Janet, and the tenants from attacking her, asking them where else they could go, and what other places they could afford. The tenants don't care one bit.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Victoria hisses at and kicks away Fluffy the cat when she finds her having caught a rat.

* DirtyCoward: When surrounded by her angry tenants, Victoria nervously tries to bribe them into dispersing with free rent. When that fails, she tearfully insists that she didn't know about the lead pipes, which also doesn't work. Even as she's being devoured by Cloggy, her last words are her screaming about how she just wants to go home.

* FoldSpindleMutilation: When Cloggy drags Victoria down the storm drain, her leg protrudes from the opening, alongside her head and one arm.
* FrivolousLawsuit: Janet mentions that Victoria is a fan of these, usually willing to take contractors to court rather than pay them for repairs.
* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how plain horrible she is:
** She's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay.
** She's a heartless harpy, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children.
** She's a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes.
** Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. With all these negative traits, it honestly wouldn't be that much of a surprise if she was related to [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt]] in some way.

* ItCameFromTheSink: Cloggy, a sentient, flesh eating pile of hair and soap scum that was presumably given life by the toxic chemicals contained in the lead pipes of the building.
* LargeHam: Victoria. Big time.

* TheTeaser: Before the story begins, an illustrated cold open establishes that Victoria's tenants are complaining about the problems with the building's plumbing, prompting Victoria to call Carruthers Brothers Plumbing and threaten Linus into meeting her.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business, since we don't get any indication that the lead pipes have actually been removed. Of course, they may be staying to act as a sort of life-source for Cloggy.
* WouldHurtAChild: Victoria doesn't harm the children in the building directly, but she is more than willing to let them succumb to brain damage, as well as many deficiencies and learning disorders, brought on by her lead pipes to save money.

* ActorAllusion: Linus, the plumber who deals with Cloggy the living blob, is played by Eric Edelstein, who had previously voiced B.O.B. the blob in ''[[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013 Monsters vs. Aliens]].''

* FoldSpindleMutilation: When Cloggy drags Victoria down the drainhole, her leg protrudes from the opening alongside her head and one arm.

* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how cruel, spiteful, hateful, and blatantly evil she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She's also heartless, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children. Furthermore, she's a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. It honestly wouldn't be that much of a surprise if she was related to [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt]] in some way.

* ItCameFromTheSink: Cloggy, a sentient, flesh eating pile of hair and soap scum that was presumably given life by the toxic chemicals contained in the lead pipes of Victoria's building.

** The cat seen in the apartment complex's basement is named "Fluffy", the same name given to the monster from "The Crate" in the [[Film/{{Creepshow}} original film.]]

** Much like "The Crate" from the original film, all that remains of Victoria is a shoe.
* PipePain: Despite the fact that the pipes in Victoria's building aren't actually used as weapons, they are highly toxic, which ends up creating Cloggy.
* PlumbersCrack: As Linus is a plumber, there's naturally a scene where he has his exposed.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Before the above mentioned cold open ends, Linus sarcastically communicates that his latest assignment is sure to be fun.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business, since we don't get any indication that the lead pipes have actually been removed.

* ActorAllusion: Linus, the plumber who deals with Cloggy the living blob, is played by Eric Edelstein, who had previously voiced B.O.B. the blob in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens.''

* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how cruel, spiteful, hateful, and blatantly evil she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She's also heartless, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children. Furthermore, she's a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. All in all, she's basically the love child of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt]] and the ultimate "Karen".

After receiving numerous complaints about the plumbing in the oldest and most decrepit building she owns, arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist slumlord Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) hires financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Eric Edelstein) of Carruthers Brothers Plumbing to fix the problem, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Upon making his way to the basement and discovering that the building has highly toxic lead pipes, Linus informs Victoria he can’t fix lead pipes, only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the health violation to city hall, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls Fluffy the cat to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs. Eventually, Linus tracks the source of the problem to apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, Janet (Selena Anduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him in. She informs Linus that her neighbors have reportedly heard and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet leaves Linus to work on the problem while she picks up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the wall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing, but some kind of creature suddenly emerges from a hole in the pipes. The creature, a sentient pile of hair and slime (referred to on the cover as "Cloggy"), latches onto Linus’ hand and doesn’t let go. After an intense struggle, Linus finally manages to get the creature off of him, whereupon he discovers that it has eaten the flesh on the top of his hand. The creature comes at him again, but he manages to stop it by trapping it under a tube. It manages to squeeze through the tube and latch onto Linus’ face. He manages to pry it off once again, but just before it charges at him a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping the creature under a bucket. While Linus considers calling animal control or the CDC to deal with the creature, Janet says she has a different idea. Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report something that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement, Victoria finds herself face to face with a mob of her angry tenants, all brandishing Linus' tools as weapons. Janet, leading the mob alongside an injured Linus, identify Victoria as the true problem of the building, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain. The creature wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where the creature lives and leaves it a bowl of food and a drawing of the two holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* HateSink: Victoria. In spite of her cartoonish and over-the-top behavior, she makes no attempt to hide just how cruel, spiteful, hateful, and blatantly evil she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she herself lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She's also heartless, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children. Furthermore, she's a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. All in all, she's basically a female version of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt.]] Linus even tells Fluffy, the basement cat, that she had eaten the wrong rat.

* TheTeaser: Before the story begins, an illustrated cold open establishes that Victoria's tenants are complaining about the problems with the building, prompting Victoria to call Carruthers Brothers Plumbing and threaten Linus into meeting her.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business, since we don't get any indication that the lead pipes have been removed.

After receiving numerous complaints about the plumbing in the oldest and most decrepit building she owns, arrogant, heartless, and blatantly racist slumlord Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) hires financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Creator/EricEdelstein) of Carruthers Brothers Plumbing to fix the problem, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Upon making his way to the basement and discovering that the building has highly toxic lead pipes, Linus informs Victoria he can’t fix lead pipes, only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the violation to city hall, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls Fluffy the cat to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs. Eventually, Linus tracks the source of the problem to apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, Janet (Creator/SelenaAnduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him in. She informs Linus that her neighbors have reportedly heard and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet leaves Linus to work on the problem while she picks up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the wall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing, but some kind of creature suddenly emerges from a hole in the pipes. The creature, a sentient pile of hair and slime (referred to on the cover as "Cloggy"), latches onto Linus’ hand and doesn’t let go. After an intense struggle, Linus finally manages to get the creature off of him, whereupon he discovers that it has eaten the flesh on the top of his hand. The creature comes at him again, but he manages to stop it by trapping it under a tube. It manages to squeeze through the tube and latch onto Linus’ face. He manages to pry it off once again, but just before it charges at him a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping the creature under a bucket. While Linus considers calling animal control or the CDC to deal with the creature, Janet says she has a different idea. Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report something that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement, Victoria finds herself face to face with a mob of her angry tenants, all brandishing weapons. Janet, leading the mob alongside an injured Linus, identify Victoria as the true problem of the building, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain. The creature wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where the creature lives and leaves it a bowl of food and a drawing of the two holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* HateSink: Despite how cartoonishly over-the-top she is, Victoria makes no attempt to hide just how cruel, spiteful, and hateful she is as well. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She's also heartless, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children. Furthermore, she's a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. All in all, she's basically a female version of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt.]]

** Victoria meets her well-deserved death the exact same way Deke from [[Film/Creepshow2 "The Raft"]] does. Cloggy even belches after devouring her, like the blob monster in that story did.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed the job and saved his business.

After receiving numerous complaints about the plumbing in the oldest and most decrepit building she owns, arrogant, heartless, and racist slumlord Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) hires financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Creator/EricEdelstein) of Carruthers Brothers Plumbing to fix the problem, blaming it on the "foreign food" and "different" hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Upon making his way to the basement and discovering that the building has highly toxic lead pipes, Linus informs Victoria he can’t fix lead pipes, only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the violation to the city council, Victoria, paying no mind to the danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him and ruin his already failing business. With no other options, Linus is forced to agree to her terms. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls a cat that was in the basement to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs. Eventually, Linus tracks the source of the problem to apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, Janet (Creator/SelenaAnduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him in. She informs Linus that her neighbors have reportedly heard and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet leaves Linus to work on the problem while she picks up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the wall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing, but some kind of creature suddenly emerges from a hole in the pipes. The creature, a sentient pile of hair and slime (referred to on the cover as "Cloggy"), latches onto Linus’ hand and doesn’t let go. After an intense struggle, Linus finally manages to get the creature off of him, whereupon he discovers that it has eaten the flesh on the top of his hand. The creature comes at him again, but he manages to stop it by trapping it under a tube. It manages to squeeze through the tube and latch onto Linus’ face. He manages to pry it off once again, but just before it charges at him a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping the creature under a bucket. While Linus considers calling animal control or the CDC to deal with the creature, Janet says she has a different idea. Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report something that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement, Victoria finds herself face to face with a mob of her angry tenants, all brandishing weapons. Janet, leading the mob alongside an injured Linus, identify Victoria as the true problem of the building, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain. The creature wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where the creature lives and leaves it a bowl of food and a drawing of the two holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* HateSink: Despite how cartoonishly over-the-top she is, Victoria makes no attempt to hide just how cruel, spiteful, and hateful a woman she is. For starters, she's unapologetically racist, leaving her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns, while she lounges in luxury and laps up Chardonnay. She's also quite heartless, since she doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm her tenants and their children. She's also a huge cheapskate, not wanting to spend the money to have said pipes replaced with copper pipes. Lastly, she's incredibly petty, willing to sue contractors rather than pay them for repairs, to the point where she actively seeks out failing businesses because they're easier to take to court. All in all, she's basically a female version of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt.]]

After receiving numerous complaints about the plumbing in the oldest and most decrepit building she owns, arrogant, heartless, and racist slumlord Victoria Smoot (Creator/BarbaraCrampton) hires financially struggling plumber Linus Carruthers (Creator/EricEdelstein) of Carruthers Brothers Plumbing to fix the problem, blaming it on the “foreign food” and “different” hair that her predominantly multicultural tenants flush down their drains. Upon making his way to the basement and discovering that the building has highly toxic lead pipes, Linus informs Victoria he can’t fix lead pipes, only gut them. When he says that he’ll need to report the health violation to the city council, Victoria, paying no mind to the potential danger her tenants and their children are in, blackmails Linus into keeping quiet and finishing the job by threatening to sue him and ruin his already failing business. While Linus inspects the pipes for whatever the cause of the issue may be, something slithers out of a nearby washing machine and mauls a cat that was in the basement to death. After discovering the remains, Linus attempts to leave, but he reconsiders after hearing the playful banter of children upstairs. Eventually, Linus tracks the source of the problem to apartment 236. The apartment’s resident, Janet (Creator/SelenaAnduze), determines that Linus is a plumber and invites him in. She informs Linus that her neighbors have reportedly heard and seen some kind of furry creature in their sinks, showers, and toilets, prompting Linus to assume that the problem is rats. Janet leaves Linus to work on the problem while she picks up her daughter Leila from school. Linus then hears odd chirping sounds and the rattling of pipes, and traces the noises to a small, sludge-covered hole in the wall. Hearing the chittering sounds behind him, Linus discovers a trail of slime leading underneath the kitchen sink. When he opens the cabinets, he finds nothing, but some kind of creature suddenly emerges from a hole in the pipes. The creature, a sentient pile of hair and slime (referred to on the cover as "Cloggy"), latches onto Linus’ hand and doesn’t let go. After an intense struggle, Linus finally manages to get the creature off of him, whereupon he discovers that it has eaten the flesh on the top of his hand. The creature comes at him again, but he manages to stop it by trapping it under a tube. It manages to squeeze through the tube and latch onto Linus’ face. He manages to pry it off once again, but just before it charges at him a third time, Janet comes to his rescue by trapping the creature under a bucket. While Linus considers calling animal control or the CDC to deal with the creature, Janet says she has a different idea. Later that night, Linus calls Victoria to report something that she should take a look at. Arriving to the basement, Victoria finds herself face to face with a mob of her angry tenants, all brandishing weapons. Janet, leading the mob alongside an injured Linus, identify Victoria as the true problem, tearing into her for keeping the lead pipes concealed from them. While pleading with her tenants to spare her and nervously backing away, Victoria ends up standing above a storm drain. The creature wraps its hairy tendrils around her leg and pulls her down the drain, devouring her alive. Sometime later, Leila visits the drain where the creature lives and leaves it a bowl of food and a drawing of the two holding hands, having befriended the creature.

* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: Victoria kicks away Fluffy the cat when she finds her having caught a rat.

* DirtyCoward: When surrounded by her angry tenants, Victoria nervously tries to bribe them to disperse with free rent for months. When that fails, she tearfully insists that she didn't know about the lead pipes, which also doesn't work. Even as she's being devoured by Cloggy, her last words are her screaming about how she just wants to go home.

* HateSink: Despite how cartoonishly over the top she is, Victoria makes no attempt to hide just how cruel and spiteful a woman she is. She's unapologetically racist, leaves her multicultural tenants (which she refers to as "animals") to live in the most decrepit building she owns while she laps up Chardonnay, doesn't care that the lead pipes in said building could potentially harm their children, doesn't want to spend the money to have said pipes replaced, and should her buildings need repairs, she seeks out failing businesses and hires them to fix whatever problems the buildings might have, then sues them to ensure that she doesn't have to pay them. In short, she's basically a female version of [[Film/{{Creepshow}} Upson Pratt.]]

** Victoria meets her well-deserved death the exact same way Deke from [[Film/Creepshow2 "The Raft"]] does.

* PlumbersCrack: Naturally, there's a scene where Linus, a plumber, has his exposed.

** Cloggy latches on to Linus' hand and won't let go, similar to the old man from ''Film/TheBlob1958''.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While Linus does help get rid of Victoria, we don't know what exactly happens to him by the ending. The whole reason he took Victoria's job was because he needed the financial support, but it's unclear whether or not he actually completed it and saved his business.