It may be a throwback to the Universal Horror films of the golden age, but it also holds a lot of the camp that was found in those films as well.
- Before Verussa can introduce the deceased Ulysses, Elsa loudly drags a chair to the center. We have a sassy step-daughter here.
- When Verussa is making her introductory speech she walks behind Ulysses' coffin which has the words "This End Up" and an arrow printed on the back.
- Ulysses' puppeteered body can't help but state a pun — "I'll be rotting for you" — and everyone present (save for Verussa and Billy) can't help but grimace.
- Just the fact that Jack is sorely out of place in a room of hardened monster hunters, pointing out that a vampire — whose head is mounted on the wall — is someone he fought a few times and going on a casual stroll through the maze as if he's looking for a pet cat than being afraid of a monster lurking within the catacombs...which is exactly what's going on from his perspective.
- Our first introduction to Man-Thing is to have a massive hand grab Jack...and Jack doesn't scream in terror, but he's joyfully patting Man-Thing's hand and talks to him like an old friend.
- Jack tells Elsa that the best way to get on Man-Thing's good side is to call him by his name...Ted. (That is his real name.) This comes into play as Elsa does call him "Ted" seconds after Man-Thing just touched the head of a hunter and turned it into ashes! Ted's "expression" immediately softens when she does.
- For good measure, she says that "Ted" is a lovely name.
- When Elsa figures out a way to get out of the tomb she and Jack are trapped in by breaking into her aunt's grave to find the key, she passes her aunt's decayed bones to an increasingly bewildered Jack.
- Jack tries to explain to Elsa that he has no idea how an explosive works...and he accidentally triggers its countdown. After running to the wall, he throws it from cover only to realize too late that it simply bounced off. He runs over and sticks it to the wall....and after a few seconds it falls back off. He just barely gets it sitting in a crack before it explodes.
- As they are trapped in a cage — and Elsa bluntly tells Jack that the Bloodstone will hasten his transformation — Jack goes to Elsa and starts sniffing her jacket in the hopes that it'll help him snap out of his transformation. Elsa asks if this has worked and Jack says it has...once.
- He also shows numerous dog traits like walking in a circle before sitting on the ground and scratching one of his ears.
- While the hunters are trying to figure out where the werewolf is, Billy, the butler, is weaponizing the crank used to puppeteer Ulysses' corpse.
- Elsa's response to Man-Thing immolating her step-mother and hurling her skeleton to the corpse of her father? To stare blankly as if to say, "Well, that works."
- After causing her wicked stepmother to spontaneously combust and throwing her into the animatronic remains of her father, Ted turns to Elsa clearly asking where Jack is. She just pointed him in the direction he ran off in, and the Man-Thing turns away clearly moaning out a "Thank you." Ted even makes sure to step over one of the fallen hunters' corpses and even has the courtesy to pick up a discarded cloak as he makes his way for the exit.
- After watching his mistress murdered by a monster, and several other hunters murdered by the estranged daughter of his former master, what does Billy do? He puts down his improvised weapon and says, "Mistress, I would like to make myself available to you."
- Elsa misses maybe one beat before telling him to clean up the battle's mess and then settles down into a chair.
- Once the hunt is over and Jack and Man-Thing have left, the background music becomes "Somewhere Over the Rainbow".
- After that entire nightmare, Jack wakes up in a tent with Man-Thing having coffee. They then decide they should go out for sushi and agree that Ted gets to choose the restaurant as if what they experienced was just another Tuesday for them. Or the fact that Man-Thing is playing Solitaire like it's no big deal. And has somehow made Jack a cup of coffee using a French press.
- Even funnier, via Fridge Logic? Jack doesn't even bat an eye at any of these smaller details or question them, implying this is a routine they follow on nights where Jack wolfs out. The fact they even own a French Press lends further credence that this is just normal for them. The idea that Man-Thing has been with Jack long enough to know EXACTLY what he needs the morning after, and Jack just sort of rolls out of bed and knows to expect it, is pretty hilarious in its own right.
