History Recap / CreepshowS4E10Doodles

* ForWantOfANail: If Angela had just remembered to go back and get her supplies from the bar, she and Calvin wouldn't have met their gruesome deaths.

-> '''Creep:''' Welcome back, connoisseurs of carnage. My editor has me on a strict ''"dead" line'', so let's dive into a gory story of illustrated chaos before the blood dries. This tale converns an aspiring cartoonist whose art begins on the funny pages and ends... in the obituaries. Like I always say -- hard work slays off! I call this demented dissertation...

Back at the ''Timeless'' offices, Roger looks through Angela's newer sketches and finds himself impressed, offering Angela a publishing contract. However, Roger tells Angela that if she truly wants to become the newest cartoonist of the magazine, she must fire Calvin (who stepped out to tackle an emergency) and prove her loyalty to ''Timeless''. Unable to bring herself to fire an old friend who hasn't done anything wrong, Angela is forced to watch a laughing Roger tear up her contract, once again losing her dream job. After storming out, Angela drowns her sorrows at a bar in the building's lobby. Noting that she's highly upset, the bartender pours her a shot of J&B. As she shares her woes with him, she angrily doodles over Roger's portrait on the cover of her issue, depicting the back of his head exploding. Right behind her, seconds later, Roger suddenly falls from nowhere and lands headfirst on the ground floor, his skull exploding into a viscous pile of blood and viscera. After observing the scene and connecting the dots that the deaths of Roger and Sonia were the result of some kind of innate ability she posesses, the traumatized Angela frantically packs her luggage and throws away her art supplies, planning to return to her hometown.

A few days later, Angela goes back to ''Timeless'' to say goodbye to Calvin, saying that she's leaving town and going home. However, Calvin reveals that Roger's death has resulted in him being promoted to editor-in-chief, and he's made plans to publish Angela's cartoon and hire her full-time. Angela, beyond happy, thanks Calvin for everything and offers to take him out to a celebratory dinner, though she lies that she wasn't aware Roger had died. As Angela leaves, the bartender she met a while ago comes up to Calvin. He tells Calvin that Angela saw Roger's death and left the building without taking any of her things, giving Calvin her stuff so he can return it. Calvin sees Angela's doodle of Roger on the magazine, and begins getting the idea that Angela murdered him and Sonia.

* BadBoss: Roger, who rebukes Angela while praising Sonia, the artist who shamelessly plagarized her, as a true, singular talent. When Sonia dies and Angela is given a publishing contract in her place, Roger insists she fire Calvin, not caring that he's her friend and that he hasn't even done anything wrong, as a means to prove her loyalty to ''Timeless''.

** There's also the yearbook itself, as Angela leafs through it while talking to her mother, and later is forced to doodle on Calvin's picture within to kill him.

** '''''Roger Barton.''''' This man is one of the most abusive and belittling characters in ''Creepshow'' thus far, as he repeatedly demeans poor Angela as a talentless hack while praising Sonia, the artist who shamelessly plagarized her work. When Angela is offered a publishing contract, Roger has her loyalty to ''Timeless'' tested by telling her to fire Calvin, his number two and her old friend, even though he ''hasn't done anything worthy of firing.'' For his sheer loathsomeness, he's given an '''exceptionally''' graphic death.

* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Calvin, the nicest character in the episode, ends up killed by Angela's newfound powers in a bid of desperation to keep her dream job and avoid jailtime.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Sonia's cartoons are often seen in ''Timeless'' and are met with great acclaim by Roger, though Angela discovers she's a thief who shamelessly plagarized and claimed the sketch she intended to show him.

* YankTheDogsChain: After Roger's death, Angela just wants to get the hell away from ''Timeless'' and go back home, only for Calvin to have taken up the editior-in-chief mantle and tell her that he's publishing her work, forcing her hand.
* YourHeadASplode: Angela's doodle of Roger depicts the back of his head exploding. A minute later, Roger suddenly falls from the top floor via unknown circusmstances behind her. His skull explodes upon impact with the floor, treating the viewers to one of the most gruesome scenes in the series to date and terrifying Angela to the point where she leaves.

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Sonia's cartoons are often seen in ''Timeless'' and are met with great acclaim by Roger, though Angela discovers she's a thief who shamelessly plagarized and claimed the sketch she intended to show Roger.

* ForWantOfANail: If Angela had just remembered to go back and get her supplies from the bar, she and Calvin wouldn't have met their gruesome deaths

As Angela pours some champagne and tells her mother the good news (from a bottle her mother sent her for when she finally got published), Calvin comes to her apartment, the defaced magazine in his hand, asking Angela what the idea behind it is. Angela claims that it's only an innocent doodle, but Calvin thinks she's hiding something, reminding her of how she feigned surprise at Roger's death, how Sonia died after she stole her cartoon, and how she said that some people deserve to rot at the bar. Angela bolts into her room and locks the door, telling Calvin to go away as the new editor-in-chief threatens to call the police. Hatching a desperate idea, Angela pulls out her high school yearbook and opens it to Calvin's picture. She hurriedly sketches her mother's champagne bottle embedded deep into Calvin's neck, suddenly prompting Calvin to start gasping for breath and the bottle (which she took with her) to vanish. Angela opens the door to find Calvin lying dead in a pool of his own blood, the broken bottle in his neck. Suddenly feeling weird, Angela flips through the yearbook to discover she scribbled so hard and fast that the doodle on Calvin's picture bled/tore right through the page, resulting in her own picture, right behind Calvin's, also having her neck stabbed with the bottle. Instantly, the bottle stabs itself in Angela's neck, whereupon she reflexively pulls it out and falls to the ground atop of Calvin's body, also dead from blood loss.

* MadArtist: Angela shows hints of the trope as she angrily doodles on the faces of those who wronged her, killing them in ways that reflect the doodle. However, she isn't aware of the deaths she's causing in the real world at first, but when she learns about them, she's very clearly horrified.

* KickTheDog: Roger does this to everyone but Sonia, especially to poor Angela, insulting her and telling her to fire Calvin (who hasn't even done anything), then tearing up her publishing contract and laughing to her face about it. His death is no doubt meant to induce much rejoicing.

* GoodParents: From what we hear of her, Angela's mom is supportive of her daughter's cartoons and how she's been drawing them ever since she was little, even sending her a bottle of champagne for when she finally gets published. Though Angela keeps getting shot down at ''Timeless'', she suggests that her daughter could perhaps go back to her old job, or do caricatures at the roller rink like she did in high school.

* DrowningMySorrows: After Roger fires her again, Angela drinks her misery away as the good-hearted bartender listens to her woes.

As Angela pours some champagne and tells her mother the good news (from a bottle her mother sent her for when she finally got published), Calvin comes to her apartment, the defaced magazine in his hand, asking Angela what the idea behind it is. Angela claims that it's only an innocent doodle, but Calvin thinks she's hiding something, reminding her of how she feigned surprise at Roger's death, how Sonia died after she stole her cartoon, and how she said that some people deserve to rot at the bar. Angela bolts into her room and locks the door, telling Calvin to go away as the new editor-in-chief threatens to call the police. Hatching a desperate idea, Angela pulls out her high school yearbook and opens it to Calvin's picture. She hurriedly sketches her mother's champagne bottle embedded deep into Calvin's neck, suddenly prompting Calvin to start gasping for breath and the bottle (which she took with her) to vanish. Angela opens the door to find Calvin lying dead in a pool of his own blood, the broken bottle in his neck. Angela then flips through the yearbook to discover she scribbled so hard and fast that the doodle on Calvin's picture bled/tore right through the page, resulting in her own picture, on the page right behind Calvin's, also having her neck stabbed with the bottle. Instantly, the bottle appears to stab itself in Angela's neck, whereupon she reflexively pulls it out and falls to the ground atop of Calvin's body, similarly dead from blood loss.

** The bottle of champagne that Angela's mother sent to her, meant to be opened when she finally got published, is hastily used to kill Calvin before he can call the police. After he dies, Angela learns that the ink from his doodle bled onto her own yearbook picture just behind his, leading that same bottle to kill her instantaneously.

* CallBack: A shelf on Angela's apartment houses the yellow phone previously seen in [[Recap/CreepshowS4E3TheHat The Hat]] and [[Recap/CreepshowS4E6ToGrandmothersHouseWeGo To Grandmother's House We Go]].

* EyeScream: Sonia's doodle has her eyes being eaten by rats. This becomes reality when she dies in an accident on her way back from work, Calvin even sharing a picture of the scene with Angela.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roger, who demands only the best quality cartoons and total dedication to ''Timeless''. He rebukes Angela as an amateur, praises the sketch that Sonia clearly stole from her, and commands her to hurtfully fire Calvin (while purposefully being sad about it), even after he's been a perfect subordinate to him, as a test of her loyalty to the magazine.

At home that night, Angela sulks as she talks to her mother over the phone, questioning what else she could do with her life. After the call, Sonia's mocking voice invades Angela's mind, prompting her to pull out a copy of ''Timeless'' that Roger gave her to study, opening to a page with Sonia's photo on it and starting to doodle Sonia's head and her being eyes being eaten by rats. The next morning, Angela receives a text from Calvin, who says that Roger has opened submissions back up. When asked why, Calvin reveals that Sonia was in an accident on her way home. Looking up the news on her phone, Angela discovers that Sonia was indeed found dead on the train tracks, likely having slipped, fallen, and hit her head, after which rats ate out her eyes. The bottom of the article includes a photo of the crime scene, where Angela discovers Sonia's body looks exactly like her doodle.

* SleepingWithTheBoss: It's slightly implied between Roger and Sonia, hence why he keeps her as the magazine's go-to cartoonist, meets with her for quite a while, accepts and doesn't at all question the art that she shamelessly steals from Angela, and repeats the retort she gave her.

* HearingVoices: Angela hears Sonia's voice as she stares at a picture of her in the ''Timeless'' issue Roger gives ehr as "homework", mockingly admitting that she did indeed steal her drawing and rebuking her as a terrible artist, telling her that she'll never have what it takes.

* EvilLaugh: Roger gives an evil one as he tears Angela's publishing contract, her future, right in front of her.

* MeaningfulName: Sonia ''Wicks''; appropriate for such a ''wicked'' and smug art thief.

* WorldOfJerkass: ''Timeless'' has some pretty scummy employees and management under its belt, such as the shameless art thief Sonia and the crooked boss Roger. Thankfully, the kindly Calvin and the sympathetic bartender allow for some bright spots to shine through.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roger, who demands only the best quality cartoons and total dedication to ''Timeless''. He rebukes Angela as an amateur, praises the sketch that Sonia clearly stole from her, and commands her to hurtfully fire Roger (while purposefully being sad about it), even after he's been a perfect subordinate to him, as a test of her loyalty to the magazine.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Calvin spends the whole episode polite and patient with Angela, while also being profanity-free. As the end, as he pound son her bedroom door, he demands that she "open the fucking door" and threatening to call the cops, showing just how troubled the situation is making him.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Roger, who demands only the best quality cartoons and total dedication to ''Timeless''. He rebukes Angela as an amateur, praises the sketch that Sonia clearly stole it from her, and commands her to hurtfully fire Roger (while purposefully being sad about it), even after he's been a perfect subordinate to him, as a test of her loyalty to the magazine.