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Season 1

Pizza Time

The whole foundation of the show is built on a kind of Fridge Horror, with Evelyn losing out on her chance to go to the afterlife, and instead being stuck with a complete stranger who feeds on her kind. It's mitigated by Evelyn's extremely upbeat attitude and the fact that, due to Riley's Heroic Sacrifice at the end of the season, she can come and go between the afterlife and the human realm as she pleases.
Despite overall being a pretty death-positive show, you still get occasional doses of Existential Horror.
Pizza Ghost Jon: Jesus. So that was it? That was life?
Riley: Yeah, surprisingly short and uneventful, wasn't it?
Pizza Ghost Jon: Well yeah, thanks to you, it was!
Jon's fate in general. Eaten Alive by Riley during a routine delivery job, almost sent to Hell to be eternally tortured for digital piracy, then condemned to haunt Riley's bathroom forever. Talk about The Woobie.

Be our Guests

While it's Played for Laughs, Riley's Horror Hunger can be a little unnerving, especially when someone in their general proximity is on the menu.
Satan lets the mask slip a few times during his ad for the supposedly-luxurious "Morningstar Condos."
Satan: You like it hot? We’ll literally boil your fucking skin off.

Video Killed The Podcast Star

People who dislike the incomprehensible Silverstream-original movie "Grave Boat" are apparently just shot in the head for their trouble.
Morby. He's a kind of nostalgia parasite that latches on to movies and shows in order to gain power for them. He then slowly assimilates the characters - which implied to be a pretty painful and horrific process - until he's strong enough to leave the show and enter the real world. He literally plans on absorbing the universe, and strangely enough for such a goofy show, he's actually played mostly straight.
Morby: There is no next episode, Evelyn Hooper. Morby is the first and final episode, and every episode in between. I am the vulture who feasts on time. I am the shadow of the turned page. Your innocence is my ambrosia, your lust for simplicity my bread.

Eternal Slumber Party

Riley very casually drops the fact that they ate their own appendix.
Evelyn suggests that the two of them play truth or dare, then Riles comes out with this gem:
Riley: If aliens came for you, and gave you the choice between stabbing a clone of yourself through the brain with a spear, or carrying one of their human-alien hybrid test tube babies, and if you didn’t pick one they would blow up the whole earth…..what would you do?
Riley's Mom. Her voice can apparently banish ghosts, and Riley implies that she's even able to kill ghosts. What the hell is this woman?

Todd's Heaven

Riley delivers some more Existential Horror without even realizing.
Riley: I mean if you think about it, life and death is a lot like chutes and ladders: the rules are arbitrary, and it's mostly pure chance disguised as meaningful choice.
Evelyn: Well, that's existentially terrifying.
Riley: Really? I feel like it takes the pressure off. It means I can't really be blamed for any of the dumb shit I've done.
Todd is just...off. From his creepy Faux Affably Evil demeanor to his Hair-Trigger Temper and the fact he's way too eager to compare himself to a God, it's hard not to feel uncomfortable when he's around.
Todd: With the fabric of reality growing weaker every day, the likelihood of large swathes of the population dying before thirty is increasing. Is this bad news? Of course not! Meatspace reality is going out of style. Everything’s decaying.
The whole concept of Todd's Heaven. Just being trapped in an empty field with a bunch of dead Vine stars forever, while Hansen's Mmmbop plays constantly.

Fiscal Responsibility - The Scariest Monster of All

Riley previously had both pet-sitting and babysitting jobs. Evelyn doesn't ask for details.
The Sleepy Mountains Resort Town ad is full of Nightmare Fuel. From the creepy, atmospheric music and sound design, to the Dissonant Serenity of the narrator, to the fact that it's an Expy of a certain other town...
Narrator: You got kids? Wonderful. We love kids. Take them to the Sleepy Mountains amusement park, where there are so many delightful rides. Also, when you’re here, you’re never more than five feet away from something in a bunny costume. Ever.

You Will Not Get This Episode

The ad in this episode presents the horrifying concept of Fred Bet - a kind of extradimensional bookmaker that exclusively takes bets on one random guy's life. They go frighteningly far with it, too.
Fred Bet Spokesman: Bet on if Fred's doctor is gonna find out about the brain tumor fast enough to operate.

Medium; Tarrare

Riley expresses eagerness to eat their mom's corpse when she dies.
The Last Chance Texas-Style Barbecue. A local Tallahassee restaurant that sells human flesh chilli, and has a delivery boy named Bubba who wears a human-skin face mask. They're an Expy of another Texan cannibal family.
Riley briefly becomes a Humanoid Abomination that speaks with the Voice of the Legion after transforming into twenty people at once.
Abomination!Riley: They must've put a lot of people in that chilli.

Floridian Gothic

The buildup to the arrival of the legendary Florida Man is laden with creepiness.
Riley: This is a disaster. What does Florida Man do to you if you don't have his meth?
Tiffany: I'm not sure, nobody ever lives to share their stories.
Florida Man in general is just horrifying. From his obsession with meth, to his creepy, wheezing chuckle, to the fact he threatens to kill everyone within minutes of meeting them, he's one of the more deranged and actively aggressive characters on the show.
Florida Man: Okey-dokey-Okeechobee. So, how'd you wanna die? I can either infect you with these official Disney Parks-brand brain-eating amoebas , or I can throw you to the horde of military-grade cassowaries I keep in the back of my truck. I call ‘em Murder Turkeys.

Chortle at Riley's Bones

The ad for Pizza Pizzazz-O is genuinely terrifying. Think Five Nights at Freddy's if there were no humans fighting back against the evil animatronics.

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