History WebAnimation / SpookyMonth

** As Bob attempts to get into the police car to attack the boys, Lila and Jaune, John and Jack come up behind him and shoot him in the back, making him fall to the ground. After John asks if they think he's dead, the two decide to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill unload the rest of their bullets into his chest]] just to make sure.

** As Bob attempts to get into the police car to attack the boys, Lila and Jaune, John and Jack come up behind him and shoot him in the back, making him fall to the ground. The two then decide to unload the rest of their bullets into his chest just to make sure.

--> '''Pump:''' Let's go to the graveyard!
--> '''His subtitles:''' ''[[ExpospeakGag Fellow comrade, I bear the unrelenting desire for you and myself to heed our X, Y and Z coordination upon the premises of our local death keep-]] *I MEAN* Les go to de graveyard!''

* ChekhovsGun: In the episode "Hollow Sorrows", Kevin gets gifted some holy water from a friend. Later in the episode [[spoiler: when Moloch escapes the hospital and goes on a rampage,]] the friend uses the same holy water to save Kevin from [[spoiler: [[DemonicPossession being possessed by Moloch.]]]]

* ArcWords: "Everything". The concept of "everything" seems to carry negative connotations behind it, as not only do damaged pictures of [[UnPerson Skid's father]] come with the phrase "You are everything", but Mr. Clown implies to John and Jack in the Newgrounds ending of "Unwanted Guest" that he and the cult plan on seizing this supposed "everything". The word even comes up in unrelated contexts, such as Dexter's slogan and the name of town's newspaper.

* AuthorAppeal: Sr. Pelo loves the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', and based the mall and most of its customers in "Unwanted Guest" off the franchise to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Various pictures around Skid's and Pump's houses also show their respective families dressed as ''Touhou'' characters for Halloween, Nitori and Hina make a short cameo at the Candy Club in "Deadly Smiles", and four little girls dressed as Reisen, Marisa, Alice, and Nazrin are seen repeatedly applauding John and Jack for brutalizing Bob at the end of "Tender Treats".

** While the series is in English, many background gags and props are written in Spanish, as that is Sr. Pelo's native language.

* ChekhovsGun: In the episode "Hollow Sorrows", Kevin gets gifted some holy water from a friend. Later in the episode [[spoiler: when Muloch escapes the hospital and goes on a rampage,]] the friend uses the same holy water to save Kevin from [[spoiler: [[DemonicPossession being possessed by Muloch.]]]]

** Two of the haunted house workers in "Tender Treats" are loosely based off animators for the episode, Fangz and [=MrBlaz=].

** When Jaune changes channels in "Tender Treats", the short frame of static has a QR code hidden in it, which when color corrected leads to a base picture with other links.

* FunWithSubtitles: There are ''multiple'' official subtitles on the [=YouTube=] versions of the videos; while most of them are standard and straight forward, there's at least one set per episode that have a lot more fun with it, [[XtremeKoolLetterz spelling letters incorrectly]], adding in its own gags and commentary (such as every instance of the word spooky being typed as 𝒮𝓅𝑜𝑜𝓀𝓎), or even something completely different from what the characters actually say. [[FreezeFrameBonus Be prepared to either watch one frame at a time or at half speed while constantly pausing]].

* {{Halloweentown}}: Skid and Pump are always celebrating Halloween around town and wearing their costumes even when the holiday is still a long way's off, believing it to be Spooky Month; even when others tell them to snap out of it because it's not October, Lila still reaffirms that it's indeed ''a'' Spooky Month so as not to disappoint them.

** Overused excessively by Ooga Booga in "It's spooky month", who somehow always appears either in person, on the phone, in a film, and in a video game to scream ''OOGA BOOGA!''.

** Skid's DisappearedDad is implied with the torn-up pictures of where he should be in the family pictures, on top with some of his shelves having cultist attire and gear implying his family's ties to the occult. In those same pictures, you get to see Skid without his costume on.

** Among the various missing person posters in the background of "Deadly Smiles" is one of Dexter, confirming that no one outside of Lila, Skid and Pump even know he's dead. This poster along with a photo of him on the police station's corkboard also shows what he looks like without his gas mask on.

** In "Tender Treats", Lila has a flashback to the scene in "It's spooky month" when she was attacked by Bob Velseb. For this brief moment she is voiced by Creator/SrPelo himself, like she was in that video. At the end of the flashback, Lila, once again voiced by Creator/ElsieLovelock, says [[LampshadeHanging "Huh. My voice was so different back then."]]

** One of the ads in the "Unwanted Guest" phonebook is a ad deriding Sr. Pelo for the delay of the episode, and a call to action for the readers to kick his ass for it. The ad right below it echos the sentiment, and there are two additional phone numbers that agree with it.

** "It's Spooky Month": The [=YouTube=] version features Ooga Booga jumpscaring the audience. While the Newgrounds version has Moloch realize it's now November, stops doing the Spooky Dance, and then he gets slapped silly by SantaClaus.

* SupernaturalHotspotTown: The unnamed town the series takes places in is home to a variety of ghosts and ghouls, such as actual ghosts, a supernaturally powered SerialKiller, zombies that rise from the dead at the mere mention of Spooky Month only to die when told it's not, a MagicalFlutist that leads people to their deaths, an EldritchAbomination whose eyes are the stars that dot the night sky, and a cult that worships said eldritch being. "Unwanted Guest" also introduces the Happy Fella toys, dolls that are specifically made as ghost trappers first and children's toys second.

* WholePlotReference: While the episodes are shock-full of references to horror movies, "Deadly Smiles" as a whole is a direct homage to Film/ChildsPlay1988, with the possessed "Happy Fella" doll being an {{expy}} of the possessed "Good Guy" doll on the movie, and the episode recreating a few of the movie's scenes, like when the doll is burned by the protagonists on their house (an oven in here and a fireplace in the movie).

* AngryAnimalisticGrowl: Two times with Kevin.

* CerebusSyndrome: The first three shorts were primarily comedy-driven, with "Unwanted Guest" having more worldbuilding to its name beyond just Skid's and Pump's random antics. Although comedy wasn't lost on the series after the fact, "Deadly Smiles" is the first episode to take itself seriously and focus on telling an engaging story, which would carry on into "Tender Treats".

The first episode was released in October 2018, and is set to have a total of 10 episodes.

* InconsistentEpisodeLengths: As the series goes on, the shorts increase in runtime: the original "It's spooky month" was around a minute forty in length, "The Stars" is six minutes, and "Unwanted Guest" ten, with "Deadly Smiles" and "Tender Treats" clocking in past twenty minutes.

* TheStinger: Happens after the end credits of each episode, and they differ between the Website/YouTube and {{Website/Newgrounds}} uploads; with the [=YouTube=] version being a quick gag (almost always involving Ooga Booga attempting a JumpScare), while the Newgrounds version is more like a post-credits ending scene (from the second episode onward, following an ongoing story arc about the policemen John and Jack investigating the cultists' plans).

* VanityPlate: Seen after {{the stinger}}s of the {{Website/Newgrounds}} uploads, starting with "Deadly Smiles":

-->'''Happy Fella:''' ''(EvilLaugh)'' I'm a ''doll''! You DUMB [[CurseCutShort BI-]] ''(Skid and Pump shove him into the oven)''

** Various texts and scriptures related to the cult are in Latin, which offer lore relating to them and their ultimate goal.

* BilingualBonus: While the series is in English, many background gags and props are written in Spanish, as that is Sr. Pelo's native language. One of the movies in "Deadly Smiles" is even in German.