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"This is not spooky, it's scary!"
— Skid, "The Stars"
This series is rooted in comedy, but there are reasons it's called Spooky Month.
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General
- Unlike the more humorous shorts advertising the original plushies and the shirts, the short
for the second edition of the plushies has Skid and Pump watch an advertisement on TV inspired by Halloween III, featuring a frightening, flickering "glitch witch" as a circus-like tone plays in the background. Lila walks into the living room and discovers the two have been turned into dolls, before noticing the witch on the TV. She's caught staring into her eyes as the tone quickens and distorts, camera closing in on one of the witch's bloodshot eyes to reveal Skid and Pump staring back at her, flickering in and out. The very last frame shows Lila now in the spot between them, and the short just ends.
It's spooky month
- Before Skid is revealed to be a Cheerful Child, he's first shown with his Face Framed in Shadow, seemingly with a Slasher Smile, all while a deathly chime echoes in the background.
The Stars
- When Skid and Pump arrive at the house on the hill, the cheerful background music cuts out as Roy's uncle closes the door behind them. He then begins to slowly approach the two and calls them his "treats", his shadow covering them as Skid and Pump back away in fear.Skid: This is not spooky, it's-a scary!
- The Eyes of the Universe. ...It's hard to even describe it. It's as if Mother Brain was transformed into a Lovecraftian horror, with eyes all over its brain and a booming Voice of the Legion. Even Skid and Pump befriending it doesn't take away from how horrific Eyes looks or its general concept.Eyes: Always look at the stars.
Unwanted Guest
- Just when it seemed like Moloch was an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, he proceeds to possess Dexter, forcing him to undergo horrific changes like giving him glowing yellow eyes, a Lamprey Mouth, and horns. Then he attempts to attack Lila for no discernible reason (aside from being Skid's mom), threatening to torture and mutilate Lila without killing her. And then he finally confronts Skid and Pump, threatening to burn their skin and feast on their flesh. And given how powerful he was, Moloch could've easily made good on all of those vicious threats, had Pump not dared him to turn his head around in order to prove that he's a real demon.
Deadly Smiles
- After being left alone with him at the Candy Club, Dexter kills the lights and attempts to kill Kevin, chasing the panicked clerk around the store while shouting how he's going to kill him; and compared to his previous and later attempts, Dexter successfully manages to stab Kevin in the leg, letting out a loud, sadistic "YES!" at the sight of his blood.
- The scene in the attic is genuinely tense, due to Dexter being a Super-Persistent Predator who always knows where to look. Even with Skid and Pump blowing raspberries at him, the slow pan as he walks across the attic floor and manic laugh as he's about to attack the three is unnerving.
Tender Treats
- The masked devil man from the first episode returns, now taking the role of Spooky Month's resident slasher villain — his entire presence is unnerving, a blank stare with a face-consuming smile, and distinct thudding footsteps as he silently stalks his prey. When he does speak, it's a low Southern drawl giving facts about meat preparation and the human body, thinly veiled death threats given his M.O.
- Skid and Pump head for a haunted house, meeting a fake vampire greeter named Streber. He has some spooky fun with the boys, using mirrors and green screens to hide his reflection, before sending them through. When Bob shows up, he attacks Streber, and goes through the haunted house while munching on the poor guy's arm like a brisket. When exiting, Skid and Pump see Streber lying on the ground, having been badly mutilated with his visibly terrified eyes focusing on the two kids.
- Skid and Pump playing hide and seek with Bob, cheerfully unaware that he plans on killing (and possibly eating) them should he find them. After he enters the cold storage, Bob stops for a short moment before violently slashing at nearby meats. Later on, he makes out what seems to be the kids and stabs at them only to find out that they were just decoys made out of ground meat. While the kids managed to get out of cold storage unharmed and still under the impression that it was just a harmless game, it was still a tense scene because there were several points where Bob almost found them and because of how brutal he can be.
- The episode's climax sees Bob being utterly brutalized by the cops... and yet, he doesn't die, continuing to get back up and continue his hunt, culminating in him climbing onto the hood of John and Jack's car with an even more deranged grin as everyone, save for Jack, screams in terror. It takes being run over three more times for Bob to finally die, him Laughing Mad all the while.
- The initial ending for "Tender Treats" has Lila showing Skid photos of how she celebrated Halloween when she was his age. Suddenly, Skid asks if Lila also played hide-and-seek with someone and points to a man in the photo standing behind her. Lila is then visibly horrified as she realizes the man in the photo looks like Bob Velseb and rips the picture in half. She tries telling herself they're not the same guy, and then the episode slowly darkens while highlighting the man's smiling face...
Hollow Sorrows
- During Skid and Pump's quest to seek forgiveness from the people they've annoyed, one of these people is Ignacio. While he simply tells them to Get Out! the first two times they try, after the third time…Ignacio: You will die one day… (laughs crazily) …And I will personally CREMATE YOUR BODIES!
- If you thought Moloch was bad in "Unwanted Guest" it gets a whole hell of a lot worse in this episode. To elaborate, Moloch goes on a wild possession spree. Many memorable characters across the series: Patty, Kevin, Roy, Skid and even Pump get possessed (although the latter two occurs with them giving Moloch permission into possessing them since the boys still see him as their "friend") and they're not pretty sights when we see them on screen..
- Father Gregor's fate after being knocked unconscious and kidnapped by the cultists. They force him into a room and is staring face to face with "The Eyes of the Universe" where we see him slowly lose himself and postures himself in front of it in a display of total worship to the creature.
