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* FacePalm: Mordecai’s reaction when Rigby starts eating the eggs he’s planning to throw at a house in order to convince a cop that he brought them as a snack.

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* FacePalm: Mordecai’s Mordecai's reaction when Rigby starts eating the eggs he’s he's planning to throw at a house in order to convince a cop that he brought them as a snack.



* KillItWithFire: In Pops’ story, he finally defeats Percy by kicking him into an open furnace.

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* KillItWithFire: In Pops’ Pops' story, he finally defeats Percy by kicking him into an open furnace.



-->'''Muscle Man:''' Stupid fog! It’s making it so I don’t know where I am!

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-->'''Muscle Man:''' Stupid fog! It’s It's making it so I don’t don't know where I am!



* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Wizard in “In the House” has red eyes.

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* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Wizard in “In "In the House” House" has red eyes.
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* FaceDoodling: This seems to be Percy’s only desire in “Creepy Doll.”

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* FaceDoodling: This seems to be Percy’s only desire in “Creepy Doll.” "Creepy Doll".
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** Muscle Man gets dragged away and has his skin removed by the Wizard, living long enough to [[BlackComedy flex his exposed muscles]] before he falls dead.

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** Muscle Man gets dragged away and has his [[FlayingAlive skin removed removed]] by the Wizard, living long enough to [[BlackComedy flex his exposed muscles]] before he falls dead.



* DramaticWind: A foreboding wind blows every time the wizard shows up in “In the House.”
* DwindlingParty: In ''In the House''.

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* DramaticWind: A foreboding wind blows every time the wizard shows up in “In "In the House.”
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* DwindlingParty: In ''In "In the House''.House".

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* DramaticWind: A foreboding wind blows every time the wizard shows up in “In the House.”



* {{Egging}}: Rigby eggs a house because the owner didn’t come to the door when he was trick-or-treating. Unbeknownst to him, the house belongs to a wizard who then seeks revenge on him.



* FacePalm: Mordecai when Rigby is eating an egg.

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* FaceDoodling: This seems to be Percy’s only desire in “Creepy Doll.”
* FacePalm: Mordecai Mordecai’s reaction when Rigby is starts eating an egg.the eggs he’s planning to throw at a house in order to convince a cop that he brought them as a snack.


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* FreezeFrameBonus: There’s a framed picture of Eileen on the fireplace mantle in House!Rigby.


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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Mordecai tells Rigby that it’s not cool to egg people’s houses, but Rigby doesn’t care because “there aren’t any cops around.” A cop pulls up next to them immediately after he says this.
* ItsTheBestWhateverEver: Muscle Man at the end of his story:
-->'''Muscle Man:''' Best Crash Pit ever!
* KillItWithFire: In Pops’ story, he finally defeats Percy by kicking him into an open furnace.


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* OminousFog: Muscle Man and Hi-Five walk blindly through the fog after they leave the main house.
-->'''Muscle Man:''' Stupid fog! It’s making it so I don’t know where I am!


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* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Wizard in “In the House” has red eyes.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"You! You're going to pay for that!"]]

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** Hi-5 Ghost gets sucked into a phone and ground to ectoplasm, which sprays all over his friends.

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** Hi-5 Hi Five Ghost gets sucked into a phone and ground to ectoplasm, which sprays all over his friends.



* EvilIsPetty: The Wizard murders all of the park workers as part of his payback on Rigby, until it escalates to just throwing eggs at Rigby.
-->'''Rigby:''' [[BigWhat What?!]] You turned me into a house and killed all my friends ''just'' to throw eggs at me? ''[[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe That's it?!]]''\\
'''Wizard:''' [[BluntYes Yup.]] That's it!



* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Muscle Man, Skips, and Mordecai die pretty horrific deaths for a children's cartoon, being flayed, incinerated, and decapitated respectively. Hi-Five Ghost, Benson, and Pops get off easy in comparison, being sucked into a telephone and sprayed out (which is lessened by the fact that Hi-Five Ghost is, well, a cartoony ghost), flushed down a toilet (though the gumballs floating to the surface implies that Benson's head was busted open in the process), and shoved into a closet that disappears.

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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Muscle Man, Skips, and Mordecai die pretty horrific deaths for a children's cartoon, being flayed, incinerated, and decapitated respectively. Hi-Five Hi Five Ghost, Benson, and Pops get off easy in comparison, being sucked into a telephone and sprayed out (which is lessened by the fact that Hi-Five Ghost is, well, a cartoony ghost), flushed down a toilet (though the gumballs floating to the surface implies that Benson's head was busted open in the process), and shoved into a closet that disappears.



--> '''Mordecai:''' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Huh. So this is what it feels like to be as tall as Rigby.]]

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--> '''Mordecai:''' -->'''Mordecai:''' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Huh. So So, this is what it feels like to be as tall as Rigby.]]



--> '''Hi Five Ghost''': Worst phone call ever.

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--> '''Hi -->'''Hi Five Ghost''': Ghost:''' Worst phone call ever.



-->"Happy Halloween!"

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-->"Happy Halloween!"-->'''Wizard:''' Happy Halloween!
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* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Muscle Man, Skips, and Mordecai die pretty horrific deaths for a children's cartoon, being flayed, incinerated, and decapitated respectively. Hi-Five Ghost, Benson, and Pops get off easy in comparison, being sucked into a telephone and sprayed out (which is lessened by the fact that Hi-Five Ghost is, well, a cartoony ghost), flushed down a toilet (though the gumballs floating to the surface implies that Benson's head was busted open in the process), and shoved into a closet that disappears.

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* BluntYes: This is how the Wizard responds to Rigby incredulously asking him if he did all this just to get back at him for egging his house.



* CatScare: Mordecai is looking through the house of the Wizard, and suddenly he looks at a disturbance near one of the windows. It turns out to be a creepy cat.



** Pops is swallowed by an evil wardrobe.

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** Pops is swallowed by an evil wardrobe. knocked around the room, stuffed into a closet, and vanished into nothingness.


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* EatTheCamera: The leader of Skull Punch does this when he and the rest of his band mates are about to fall into the Crash Pit.


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* NestedStoryReveal: Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost say that they are leaving after Pops does his story, and their apparent event takes place outside, suggesting that this is actually happening in real life. But it turns out, no, that this was all part of a story Muscle Man was telling.


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* OminousKnocking: After Muscle Man is dragged off into the woods by the Wizard, the rest of the Park workers are left in the house feeling uneasy. Suddenly, there is VERY loud knocking coming from the door. Cue the door slowly opening to reveal a flayed Muscle Man.


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* SoundtrackDissonance: While Skull Punch are plummeting towards their deaths, as well as causing the deaths of everyone else around them, the music that is played in this scene is a cheery whistling piece.
* StunnedSilence: After Rigby tells his story, the rest of the Park workers just stare at him in silence, shocked by his terrifying tale. It gets broken by Muscle Man nitpicking it.
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* HalloweenTrickery: Rigby throws eggs at an old creepy house on Halloween.
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* FauxHorrific: Muscle Man's attempt to stall the ghosts of Skull Punch by convincing them to put on a show backfires because he now has to listen to the [[DreadfulMusician band's horrible music up close]], and he treats like it's the worst torture ever.

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* FauxHorrific: Muscle Man's attempt to stall the ghosts of Skull Punch by convincing them to put on a show backfires because he now has to listen to the [[DreadfulMusician band's horrible music up close]], and he treats like it as if it's the worst torture ever.
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* FauxHorrific: Muscle Man's attempt to stall the ghosts of Skull Punch by convincing them to put on a show backfires because he now has to listen to the [[DreadfulMusician band's horrible music up close]], and he treats like it's the worst torture ever.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Someone eggs your house? Turn him into a house, kill his friends, then kill him by drowning him in egg.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: Someone eggs your house? Turn him into a house, kill his friends, then [[LaserGuidedKarma throw eggs at him]]... and then kill him by drowning him in egg.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted. When Rigby demands the Wizard to just GetItOverWith, it looks like the Wizard is about kill him, but Rigby is surprised and unimpressed when the former starts throwing eggs at him, apparently to invoke LaserGuidedKarma for throwing eggs at his house. Then the Wizard points to the giant egg above him...

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* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted.A DoubleSubversion. When Rigby demands the Wizard to just GetItOverWith, it looks like the Wizard is about kill him, but Rigby is surprised and unimpressed when the former starts throwing eggs at him, apparently to invoke LaserGuidedKarma for throwing eggs at his house. Then the Wizard points to the giant egg above him...
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* RevengeViaStorytelling: A mishap after the second story causes their van to crash and have to get a lift by the tow truck driver. Angered at Mordecai and Rigby for unintentionally cause the situation, Benson tells the third story and make the duo come off as bumbling idiots who end up getting themselves killed trying to stop the spider monster of the story. Offended, Rigby tries to tell his own story but causes a scuffle that once more cause their car to crash [[spoiler: and end up killing them. Luckily it's NegativeContinuity, so it doesn't stick.]]
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* RevengeViaStorytelling: A mishap after the second story causes their van to crash and have to get a lift by the tow truck driver. Angered at Mordecai and Rigby for unintentionally cause the situation, Benson tells the third story and make the duo come off as bumbling idiots who end up getting themselves killed trying to stop the spider monster of the story. Offended, Rigby tries to tell his own story but causes a scuffle that once more cause their car to crash [[spoiler: and end up killing them. Luckily it's NegativeContinuity, so it doesn't stick.]]
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of the main characters' deaths in "In The House", despite being bloodless. It's little surprise a good deal of this segment was censored in the UK.
** Muscle Man gets dragged away and has his skin removed by the Wizard, living long enough to [[BlackComedy flex his exposed muscles]] before he falls dead.
** Hi-5 Ghost gets sucked into a phone and ground to ectoplasm, which sprays all over his friends.
** Benson is flushed into a toilet which cracks open his head and spews up gumballs.
** Skips gets sucked up the chimney through the fireplace, which burns him alive.
** Pops is swallowed by an evil wardrobe.
** Mordecai gets decapitated and his head lives long enough to say, "Huh. So this is what it's like to be as tall as Rigby."
** And poor Rigby who has been experiencing all this going on inside him as a house, is finally crushed and drowned by a giant egg.
** Special mention goes to the Crash Pit audience from Muscle Man's story, who get graphically dissolved to skeletons by the explosion of the ghost van.
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* SchmuckBait: The phone Skips disconnected earlier starts ringing, and Hi Five Ghost goes to answer it without any suspicion what so ever. He gets sucked in and liquefied for his troubles.
--> '''Hi Five Ghost''': Worst phone call ever.
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* AmbiguousSituation

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* AmbiguousSituationAmbiguousSituation: If Rigby was really the Wizard in disguise, then what happened to the real Rigby? And what did the Wizard do to the rest of the staff?
* BaitAndSwitch: Subverted. When Rigby demands the Wizard to just GetItOverWith, it looks like the Wizard is about kill him, but Rigby is surprised and unimpressed when the former starts throwing eggs at him, apparently to invoke LaserGuidedKarma for throwing eggs at his house. Then the Wizard points to the giant egg above him...

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* OffWithHisHead: Mordecai, in Rigby's story.

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* OffWithHisHead: Mordecai, in Rigby's story. It doesn't bother him much, though.
--> '''Mordecai:''' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Huh. So this is what it feels like to be as tall as Rigby.]]
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* HarmlessVillain: In Pops' story, the evil doll isn't out to kill anyone, he just wants to draw on people's faces, which is a very minor inconvenience.
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* NightmareFace: The Wizard.

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* NightmareFace: [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/a/ac/WizardSmile.png/revision/latest?cb=20120926191145 The Wizard.Wizard]].
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* FlayingAlive: Muscle Man had his skin ripped off of him, and lived long enough to show everyone his muscles.


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* OffWithHisHead: Mordecai, in Rigby's story.
* {{Troll}}: The Wizard.
* TwistEnding: Rigby in the framing device is really the Wizard.
-->"Happy Halloween!"
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Someone eggs your house? Turn him into a house, kill his friends, then kill him by drowning him in egg.
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The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories. Pops' story is about a vintage talking doll that draws on people's faces, Muscle Man's story centers on he and High Five Ghost being haunted by a horrible music of a 1980s hair metal band, and the final story centers on Rigby being cursed by a wizard after pelting his house with eggs.

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The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories. Pops' story is about a vintage talking doll that draws on people's faces, Muscle Man's story centers on he and High Five Ghost being haunted by a the horrible music of a 1980s hair metal band, and the final story centers on Rigby being cursed by a wizard after pelting his house with eggs.
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The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories.

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The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories. Pops' story is about a vintage talking doll that draws on people's faces, Muscle Man's story centers on he and High Five Ghost being haunted by a horrible music of a 1980s hair metal band, and the final story centers on Rigby being cursed by a wizard after pelting his house with eggs.
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* NightmareFace: The Wizard.
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* DwindlingParty: In ''In the House''.
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* BodyHorror: Rigby's transformation into a house.
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* AmbigiousSituation

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* AmbigiousSituationAmbiguousSituation
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The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories.
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* AmbigiousSituation
* FacePalm: Mordecai when Rigby is eating an egg.
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