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* AllForNothing: The kids manage to acquire all the candy needed for the Trickster to let them off free, but when Wendy and Robbie pass by, Dipper hides the wheelbarrow in a bush, which causes it to fall off a cliff and dump all the candy into a river, making the trick-or-treating a complete wasted effort. Worse still, there's no time to get any more, as all the jack o' melons have gone out except for Old Man [=McGucket's=].
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* BigDamnHeroes: Soos (temporarily) saves the gang from the Summerween Trickster by ramming into it with his pickup truck. And then ''permanently'' saves it them by devouring the Summerween Trickster's candy heart, telling him he actually tasted good and putting him to rest.
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* PlotHole: The Trickster says the kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to bring him the candy, but by the end of the episode, Stan’s jack-o'-melon is still lit.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to get 1,000 pieces of candy if they want to live.
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* PlotHole: The Trickster says the kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to bring him the candy, but by the end of the episode, Stan’s jack-o'-melon is still lit.
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* RaceAgainstTheClock: The kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to get1,000 500 pieces of candy if they want to live.
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* GuiltByAssociation: Even though Dipper was the only one who insulted the Trickster, he threatens not only Dipper, but Mabel, Candy and Grenda (the latter two who didn't even speak to him) presumably just for being in the same room.
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* GuiltByAssociation: Even though Dipper was the only one who insulted the Trickster, he threatens not only Dipper, him, but Mabel, Candy and Grenda (the latter two who didn't even speak to him) presumably just for being in the same room.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: When Robbie teases Dipper for planning on going trick-or-treating, Wendy pipes up that he’s too old for that. This gets Dipper to think that he really IS too old for that, and decides to ditch it. May also be a case of UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom, as this action causes Dipper to anger the Summerween Trickster and almost get eaten by them.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Mabel asks Dipper what’s worse: Getting eaten by a monster, or going trick-or-treating? Dipper is about to go with the latter.
* RightBehindMe: As he talks to Wendy’s and Robbie who happened to be driving by, Dipper quickly ditches his costume and pretends to not care about trick-or-treating as he talks to them, saying he’ll be at their party. After they leave, it cuts to behind Dipper to show a stunned Mabel, who had just come back from getting the last piece of candy, and apparently heard the whole conversation.
* RightBehindMe: As he talks to Wendy’s and Robbie who happened to be driving by, Dipper quickly ditches his costume and pretends to not care about trick-or-treating as he talks to them, saying he’ll be at their party. After they leave, it cuts to behind Dipper to show a stunned Mabel, who had just come back from getting the last piece of candy, and apparently heard the whole conversation.
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* SilentTreatment: After Mabel finds out that Dipper didn’t care much about trick-or-treating, lied to her by pretending to be sick, and lost all the candy that almost got them all killed, she refuses to answer his quips he throws at her, and hardly even looks at him on the ride home.
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* TooOldToTrickOrTreat: Dipper and Mabel are excited to join in on Summerween, but when Wendy casually mentions that trick-or-treating is for kids, Dipper's whole outlook on the evening changes.
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* IdiotBall: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press Soos's preoccupation with the electronic talking candy bowl button skull toys at the Summerween store drive him to fool around with one when you were that close they're ''trying to escaping from sneak past the Trickster? Summerween Trickster''. Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.again''. Naturally [[SoMuchForStealth this gets him eaten and everyone else caught]], but luckily it pays out in the end.
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* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: Soos seems have a BigDamnHeroes moment by smashing The the Trickster with his truck, but the first thing he does afterwards is ask if that was a pedestrian.pedestrian.
* IdiotBall: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.
* IdiotBall: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.
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* ThinkOfTheCensors: The party flyer was originally supposed to say "Bottles will be spun"; after they couldn't get it past Standards and Practices, it got changed to "[[TakeThat Not S&P approved]]".
* TooDumbToLive: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.
* TooDumbToLive: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.
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* ThinkOfTheCensors: The party flyer was originally supposed to say read "Bottles will be spun"; after they Creator/AlexHirsch couldn't get it past Standards and Practices, it got changed to "[[TakeThat Not S&P approved]]".
* TooDumbToLive: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.approved]]".
* TooDumbToLive: Seriously, Soos, did you have to press the electronic talking candy bowl button when you were that close to escaping from the Trickster? Even worse, it's out of batteries, so Soos ''tears open a fresh pack of batteries and sticks them in before pressing it again''.
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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: An [[EvilLaugh evil laugh]] {{evil laugh}} variation.
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* JumpScare: The trick-or-treaters scare Stan with a cat video that suddenly ends with a shot of a ferocious monster snarling.
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* WildTeenParty: One is alluded to (but not shown) when Robbie and Wendy say that they are going to a party at Tambry's house while her parents are out of town.
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* BMovie: At the end of the episode, the gang watches a horror movie marathon, which includes a film called ''The Fear Guy From Terror Town Street'' that apparently consists of alternating shots of a screaming woman and a growling crappy-special-effects alien.
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* TheresNoBInMovie: At the end of the episode, the gang watches a horror movie marathon, which includes a film called ''The Fear Guy From Terror Town Street'' that apparently consists of alternating shots of a screaming woman and a growling crappy-special-effects alien.
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* PlotHole: The Trickster says the kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to bring him the candy, but by the end of the episode, Stan’s jack-o'-melon is still lit.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: The kids have until the last jack-o'-melon goes out to get 1,000 pieces of candy if they want to live.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Gorney somehow cannot be seen when the Trickster is hit by Soos’ truck, but does reappear when Soos eats him.
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* HalloweenEpisode: Naturally.Naturally, even though the show takes place during the summer. This is justified by Gravity Falls having its own version of Halloween that they celebrate in summer called Summerween.
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** The music playing the Summerween store is a clear pastiche on "Monster Mash."
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* DisneyDeath: Gorney and Soos, both eaten by the Trickster, get out of it alive at the end of the episode, although Gorney declares he's traumatized.
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* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Both Gorney and Soos survive getting eaten by the Trickster.
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** Mabel names everyone's qualities with which they'll win solve the problem, then gets to Soos and... can't think of one. But it's Soos who saves everyone in an unpredictable manner. Twice.
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** Dipper hucks a candy bar at the Trickster, which absorbs it into its body. Later it turns out it's ''made'' of candy.
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* LightEqualsHope: The Trickster's deadline was "before the last Jack-O-Melon is blown out". The kids rally after Dipper ends up dumping the candy, but townsfolk have begun blowing out their melon-lanterns. Grenda grabs the last one from Old Man [=McGuckett=] before he blows it out. But her gusty sigh of relief is enough to snuff the candle and count as blowing it out. The Trickster immediately looms out of the darkness ready to attack.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Soos (temporarily) saves the gang from the Summerween Trickster by ramming into it with his pickup truck.
** And then ''permanently'' saves it by [[spoiler: liking the candy the Trickster was made of]]. Soos was straight-up the Big Damn Hero of this episode.
** And then ''permanently'' saves it by [[spoiler: liking the candy the Trickster was made of]]. Soos was straight-up the Big Damn Hero of this episode.
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** Candy dresses up like a peppermint candy for Summerween. "I am so sweet, I could eat myself!"
** The Summerween Trickster turns out to be an amalgam of unwanted "loser candy".
* BigDamnHeroes: Soos (temporarily) saves the gang from the Summerween Trickster by ramming into it with his pickuptruck.
**truck. And then ''permanently'' saves it by [[spoiler: liking devouring the Summerween Trickster's candy the Trickster was made of]]. Soos was straight-up the Big Damn Hero of this episode.heart, telling him he actually tasted good and putting him to rest.
** Candy dresses up like a peppermint candy for Summerween. "I am so sweet, I could eat myself!"
** The Summerween Trickster turns out to be an amalgam of unwanted "loser candy".
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**And then ''permanently'' saves it by [[spoiler: liking the candy the Trickster was made of]]. Soos was straight-up the Big Damn Hero of this episode.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: How Stan manages to finally scare the two bratty trick or treaters, albeit unintentionally. The boys ran into the shack demanding candy and caught Stan just as he was about to take a bath. Yeah that would scare ''anyone''. (He's still wearing his boxers, but...)
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his overzealous attempt to try and impress Wendy, Dipper throws the wheelbarrow of candy into some bushes not seeing what was behind it. Turns it out was a cliff leading into a creek and all the candy winds up dumped into it. If that wasn't bad enough the kids were just one candy short of getting their goal (which Mabel managed to acquire) and the Trickster comes calling not shortly after.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his overzealous attempt to try and impress Wendy, Dipper throws the wheelbarrow of candy into some bushes not seeing what was behind it. Turns it out was a cliff leading into a creek and all the candy winds up dumped into it. If that wasn't bad enough the kids were just one candy short of getting their goal (which Mabel managed to acquire) and the Trickster comes calling not shortly after.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: How Stan manages to finally scare the two bratty trick or treaters, trick-or-treaters, albeit unintentionally. The boys ran into the shack demanding candy and caught Stan just as he was about to take a bath. Yeah Yeah, that would scare ''anyone''. (He's (A camera-angle switch shows he's still wearing his boxers, but...)
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his overzealous attempt to try and impress Wendy, Dipper throws the wheelbarrow of candy into some bushesnot seeing without looking what was behind it. Turns it out was a cliff leading into a creek and all the candy winds up dumped into it. If that wasn't bad enough enough, the kids were just one candy short of getting their goal (which Mabel managed to acquire) and the Trickster comes calling not shortly soon after.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In his overzealous attempt to try and impress Wendy, Dipper throws the wheelbarrow of candy into some bushes
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* RedHerring: At the start of the episode, Soos is implied to be the Summerween Trickster. He tells the kids about the trickster's existence, he's absent when the Trickster first appears, and then suddenly appears after the Trickster leaves. However, as the characters trick or treat, the Summerween Trickster ambushes them AND Soos, proving that the Summerween Trickster is real.
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* RedHerring: At the start of the episode, Soos is implied to be the Summerween Trickster. He tells the kids about the trickster's existence, he's absent when the Trickster first appears, and then suddenly appears after the Trickster leaves. However, as the characters trick or treat, the Summerween Trickster ambushes them AND ''and'' Soos, proving that the Summerween Trickster is real.
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