History Recap / TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown

* DeathOfAChild: All the kidnapped children that weren't taken recently by Odd Bob "fade[d] away".

* AdultFear: Deliberately invoked by the fear entity, who has kidnapped thousands of children throughout European and American history without a trace.

* ShoutOut: A good deal more than "99 Red Balloons" signify pending tragedy. [[spoiler:The tragedy is averted.]]

* WholePlotReference: The episode is essentially ''Literature/{{IT}}'' if it were a kid's show.

** Mr Blakeman, the previous headteacher at Park Vale, is said to have disappeared following the events of "[[TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E1E2RevengeOfTheSlitheen Revenge of the Slitheen]]".

** The PHAROS Institute previously appeared in [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS1E9E10TheLostBoy The Lost Boy]], and now owe Sarah Jane a favour for not exposing their part in the events of that story.

Children all over London are disappearing after seeing visions of a clown holding a red balloon. Clyde and new student Rani are also getting visions of this clown. Those who see the clown were given tickets to a museum of circuses. Sarah Jane and Clyde visit this museum where they meet Elijah Spellman, who commands an army of mechanical clowns and can shapeshift into Odd Bob, the clown who has been abducting children. While there, they learn that Spellman was the inspiration for the legend of the Pied Piper, who abducted all the children in a village.

** When Sarah Jane is looking at pictures of clowns on her laptop, one of the pictures she pulls up is Clara the clown from [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker}} The Celestial Toymaker]].

* ShoutOut:
** A good deal more than "99 Red Balloons" signify pending tragedy. [[spoiler:The tragedy is averted.]]

** A clown with a red balloon that feeds off fear and abducts children. [[Literature/{{It}} Sound]] [[Film/IT2017 familiar]]?

* FirstAppearance: Of Rani Chandra.

* ContinuityNod: When Sarah Jane is looking at pictures of clowns on her laptop, one of the pictures she pulls up is Clara the clown from [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker}} The Celestial Toymaker]].

* ShoutOut: A good deal more than "99 Red Balloons" signify pending tragedy. [[spoiler:The tragedy is averted.]]

--> '''Luke:''' Johnny Depp has [coulrophobia].

--> '''Luke:''' Heat.

* SerialNumbersFiledOff: This story borrows a ''lot'' from Stephen King's ''Literature/{{It}}'', almost beat for beat. It can basically be described as [[TheOneWith "the one where]] [[CoolVsAwesome Sarah Jane fights Pennywise".]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Sarah Jane has a childhood fear of clowns. Guess what she has to go up against.

* AdultFear: Deliberately invoked by the fear entity, who has kidnapped thousands of children throughout European history without a trace.

* AncientEvil: The Jeggorabax fear entity has been on Earth since the 13th century and has cultivated instinctual phobia of clowns to terrorise population [[DisproportionateRetribution ever since the people of Hamelin refused to pay him.]]

* AdultFear: Deliberately invoked by Spellman.
* CircusOfFear[=/=]MonsterClown

* AdultFear

--> Luke: Johnny Depp has [coulrophobia].
--> Clyde: What encyclopedia did you read that in?
--> Luke: Heat.

* ShoutOut: A good deal more than "99 Red Balloons" signify pending tragedy. [[spoiler:The tragedy is averted.]]

--> Luke: Johnny Depp has [coulorphobia].