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* JustForPun: The description of The Monster Mash dance uses the lyrics from The Monster Mash song.
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* HarmlessVillain: Randy, despite his deteriorating sanity turning him into a Jack Torrance expy, doesn't really do anything to even remotely terrify his family and just wanders around the store wailing his son's name.
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* TheUnreveal: Who won the costume contest is never revealed.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Randy witnesses multiple ghosts haunting the store but is too pissed that their existence is a higher power's way of criticizing him for his bad investment to care.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Randy witnesses multiple ghosts haunting the store but is too pissed that their existence is a higher power's way of criticizing him for his bad investment to care.
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* {{Anvilicious}}: In-universe, Randy is annoyed at how everyone around him keeps hammering in that streaming services have made video stores obsolete.
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** Kyle is Jewish and dresses as Thor. Norse mythology was quite popular among the Nazis.
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** Kyle is Jewish and dresses as Thor. Norse mythology was quite popular among the Nazis. Of course, he’s dressed as Thor from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who is not literally a god but a very powerful humanoid alien so it’s not entirely the same thing.
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This is just the plot happening. It’s not treated as a surprise. More just the conventions of modern times.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Double dose for both Randy and the Redbox Killers.
** Randy assumes he'll make a fortune owning a Blockbuster store and that people will come lining up to rent movies. Problem is in the era of instant streaming and Redbox rentals, a brick and mortar store is obsolete.
** For the Redbox Killers their whole shtick is breaking into the Redbox machines, assuming they work the same way as an atm. However once they open one, there's no physical cash inside the machine.
** Randy assumes he'll make a fortune owning a Blockbuster store and that people will come lining up to rent movies. Problem is in the era of instant streaming and Redbox rentals, a brick and mortar store is obsolete.
** For the Redbox Killers their whole shtick is breaking into the Redbox machines, assuming they work the same way as an atm. However once they open one, there's no physical cash inside the machine.
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* {{Irony}}: Kyle is Jewish and dresses as Thor. Norse mythology was quite popular among the Nazis.
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** Kyle is Jewish and dresses as Thor. Norse mythology was quite popular among theNazis.Nazis.
** Kenny, the kid who gets teased for being [[PerpetualPoverty dirt poor]], is dressed up as ComicBook/IronMan, who is known for being a [[WealthyPhilanthropist billionaire philanthropist]].
** Kyle is Jewish and dresses as Thor. Norse mythology was quite popular among the
** Kenny, the kid who gets teased for being [[PerpetualPoverty dirt poor]], is dressed up as ComicBook/IronMan, who is known for being a [[WealthyPhilanthropist billionaire philanthropist]].
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* BigNo: Stan when the lead robber scratches Kyle's [=iPad=] and again when said [=iPad=] is tossed into a field.
* CaptainObvious: After Randy has yelled at the imaginary ghost looking for Emily.
-->'''Stan:''' I think there might be something wrong with Dad.\\
'''Sharon:''' [[SarcasmMode Ya think?]]
-->'''Stan:''' I think there might be something wrong with Dad.\\
'''Sharon:''' [[SarcasmMode Ya think?]]
* NoSympathy: Double subverted. Even after being denied getting to go trick-or-treating, Stan admits to Kyle that the whole SanitySlippage makes him still feel a little bad for Randy. After getting yelled at to hang up the phone, Stan says he's back to hating Randy.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Just as he really starts cracking up, Randy laments how things used to be so simple before streaming services came along.
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: Just as he really starts cracking up, Randy laments how things used to be so simple before streaming services came along.
** According to Stan, "Renting [=DVDs=] is more ancient than Madonna's boobs."
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-->'''Yates:''' How many people at the Monster Mash?\\
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* YouKeepTellingYourselfThat: No matter how many times the family disagrees with him, Randy keeps insisting that Blockbuster is superior to streaming services and that he was right to buy this place.
