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Fridge Horror

  • Bedelia Grantham's relationship with her father is implied to be Parental Incest. He arranged to have Bedelia's fiance murdered, out of jealousy. Not to mention this puts a very, very uncomfortable context to Nathan asking for his "cake."
    • This is not an incest thing. Emotionally abusive parents often become jealous of their children's partners and even friends, anyone who they feel is pulling their child's attention away from them; it's called enmeshment.
  • The ending to Father's Day leaves us with more questions than answers. How did Nathan come back? What happens to Cass and Richard? Worst of all, what happens when the matter of all those missing people inevitably creates a crime scene full of unrelated law enforcement personnel that will come face to face with a psychic zombie?
  • After Harry dies, Richard takes the VHS out of the camera filming his death and puts it in a collection of similar VHS. How many people do you think Richard killed and videotaped?

Fridge Brilliance

  • Before Billy's voodoo attack on his father, Billy's mother is ironing his (the father's) yellow shirt. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, you will notice a section of the shirt has been cut out. The missing patch of shirt is then seen adorning the voodoo doll: legend has it that a voodoo doll only works if it is dressed in cloth that has touched the victim's skin (of course, it also needs hair and blood).

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  • The Musky Holler zombies for the "live pie" event have their limbs removed at the lower joints. They can only crawl: this makes them far less dangerous to their handlers, but still deadly to an incapacitated prisoner.

Fridge Brilliance

  • Thinking back over the events of "The House of the Head", it becomes clear that the Head's agenda all along was to convince Evie to take it out of the dollhouse. If it had really been content to torment her dolls, alone, then it could easily have hidden itself entirely from her view so it could assail them unopposed; conversely, if it had merely wished to torment her, it could have openly displayed its powers when she could see it make things move. Instead, it stages scenes that will stimulate Evie's empathy for her playthings, maintaining her belief that they are tiny people who need rescue rather than unfeeling objects, and ruthlessly eliminating any "protector"-dolls Evie adds to the house. Even her very first encounter with the Head, in which she picks it up and gets mock(?) blood on her finger, is an attempt to trick her into taking the Head out of the dollhouse to wash it clean in the sink. Everything it does to "menace" the Smithsmiths, from unnerving the parent-dolls to replacing the child-doll's head, is calculated to make Evie bring it out of the dollhouse where it's trapped, so it can have some real victims to plague.
    • Frankly, this episode in particular is an exemplar of Fridge Horror. The more you think about it, the more disturbing it is.
  • In "All Hallow's Eve," Jill seems much more passive towards the adults, and Binky and Bobby are exceptionally cruel and rude. These are the parents of their murderers. Jill feels they've suffered enough after a few moments of the torment, whereas Binky and Bobby are far more angry and don't feel they've paid enough.

  • Why didn't "The Man In The Suitcase" have the good sense to tell Justin that he could make far more coins after being removed from the suitcase? Alternately, why didn't he suggest Justin cut the suitcase away from around him - presumably, a far less painful alternative - rather than pull him out? Because he's a Jackass Genie who was setting up whomever thought to torture him for gold to become his similarly suitcase-trapped minion.

  • No explanation for the Zombie Apocalypse in "Musky Holler" is given ... unless, that is, you consider that it's the follow-up companion story to "Night of the Paw". What was the closing scene of the latter story? A whole morgueful of corpses, rising as biting, predatory undead, due to the protagonist's too-loosely-worded wish. "Musky" is most likely a direct sequel to "Paw", and the wish's effects impacted the whole world, not just the morgue!

  • In "Queen Bee," It seems bizarre that Deborah would turn on Trinice when her friend is ready to reveal their pop star idol is a monstrous insect-live monster who just killed their friend, all because "it can hurt her career." However, earlier in the episode, Deborah had said that seeing Regina live in concert "changes you." It's thus likely that in her live concerts, Regina implants her hypnotic influence via her song, creating a deeper loyalty in any of her fans which is only strengthened in her presence in her true form. Thus, Deborah was already brainwashed by her without realizing it and so her supposed I'm Your Biggest Fan obsession is just created by Regina.

Fridge Horror

  • "All Hallow's Eve:" The Golden Dragons are rude to the adults who regard them with terror. While this may seem because they are just punk teenagers, the truth is they deeply resent their own tragic deaths, which was brought about by the sons of these adults.
    • Also, they saved Eddie for last. It is implied that they would murder one of the boys every Halloween, and there appeared to be about eight of them. Eddie knew they were coming for him, he just didn't know when. They probably wanted him to sweat it out as long as possible.

  • The chilling implication of the finale of "The Finger:" there was no "Bob." It was Clark himself who murdered all his enemies. Bob was just him blacking out doing the deed, hence why he only remembers disposing of the remains.
    • This is also the twist of the Stephen King short story "Nona."

  • "Times is Tough in Musky Holler:" as if the zombie apocalypse isn't bad enough! The townsfolk attend public executions in a stadium, feeding prisoners to zombies in a sporting event atmosphere. Even surrounded by literal monsters, humans will still be monsters themselves.
    • The zombies that kill the prisoners are themselves missing faces, implying that they were previous victims of the "live pie" event.

  • "House of the Head:" we only see the aftermath of what transpires in the Smithsmith house, but it's very easy for us to fill in the missing scenes.
    • Also, the look of horror on the faces of the dolls each time the head strikes.
    • And the Head looking back at Evie from the bathroom mirror. His message to her is obvious.

  • Richard's ordeal in "Survivor Type" was ultimately for nothing. He still died, he just put himself through a lot of agony first.

  • Blake's fate in "Tweeting from the Circus of the Dead" is either being devoured by zombies at the end of the story, or replacing the ringmistress (which means she'll eventually meet that fate anyway).
    • The most disturbing part of this tale is that this circus is being run by a bunch of seedy, sick carnies. The circus seems more about entertaining themselves than an audience. Namely, by murdering guests, destroying the zombies, and routinely making the ringmistress flee for her life.

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