After purchasing a vintage Good Guy doll at a local yard sale, death and chaos begin to happen around teen artist Jake Wheeler’s hometown, Hackensack.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Due to everyone thinking it's All Part of the Show, the audience finds Chucky's invoking his Laughably Evil side on stage at the talent show hilarious, even while he insults Jake's classmates and family.
- All Part of the Show: Everyone thinks Chucky's sentience is part of Jake's ventriloquist act at the school's talent show.
- Asshole Victim:
- Chucky's first kill in this episode is Lucas, but he spends it a homophobic, alcoholic mess who physically and verbally abuses Jake.
- Chucky publicly embarrasses Lexy onstage, spilling her secrets and watching everybody laugh at her, after she spends the entire episode bullying Jake.
- Backstabbing the Alpha Bitch: Chucky humiliates Lexy at the talent show by revealing her embarrassing secrets to the audience.
- Call-Back:
- A man on the phone, presumably Andy, advises Jake to check if the Chucky doll still has his batteries. This is how Karen was able to deduce his existence.
- Jake Googles Chucky and Good Guy doll-related incidents online and finds reference to Andy Barclay, Chucky's original owner, and several murders from the first, second, and third movies in the franchise.
- Jake trying to force Chucky to talk is similar to what Karen did in the first movie, even using the same words.
- Chucky's method of electrocuting a victim is similar to how he disposed of Jill in Curse.
- Cat Scare: Aunt Bree is scared by Jake's cat when she goes up to Jake's room to talk on the phone.
- Condescending Compassion: After hearing about Jake's money troubles, Lexy starts a GoFundMe page for him, claiming it's to help, when it's really just to humiliate him.
- Death by Irony: Chucky exploits this, downing a bottle of whiskey and then puking it onto Lucas, electrocuting him. It leads the police to assume he simply got drunk and didn't know what he was doing, ie a death by misadventure.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Tiffany appears at the yard sale in the beginning. She's the woman dressed in all red.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Cat in this case. Binx, Jake's pet cat, immediately knows something's off about Chucky.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Father: Lucas doesn't see any reason for Jake to become an artist since he views it as no sensible way to make a living. But it is heavily implied that he associates it with Jake being gay, which he disapproves of/is in denial about.
- Hate Sink: Lexy's behavior doesn't do her any favors.
- Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Jake's father pressures him into dating girls despite Jake and pretty much everyone else being very much aware that he's gay.
- Innocently Insensitive: Devon invites Jake on his podcast to talk about bullying. However, Jake ends up taking this the wrong way and snaps at Devon for wanting him to be a poster boy for bullied victims.
- Insistent Terminology: Jake isn't into retro, he's into vintage. There's a ten dollar price difference.note
- Kick the Dog: Chucky kills Jake's cat just because it kept bothering him.
- Not That There's Anything Wrong with That: Chucky says this during the talent show after saying that he and Jake are friends and nothing more.
- Oh, Crap!: Jake when he realizes Chucky has been talking (and moving) without batteries.
- One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Chucky assumes Jake is talking about his cat when in reality he is talking about his father, whom Chucky has just murdered. That being said, it may have been just a cruel quip on Chucky's part.
- Time Skip:
Word of God states this episode takes place two weeks after Cult of Chucky. - Title Drop: What the officers decide killed Lucas.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Chucky projectile vomits the whiskey he drank in order to electrocute Luke.
- You Should Have Died Instead: After Luke punches Jake and threatens to kill him for saying that he's gay, Jake angrily says, "It should’ve been you inside that car instead of Mom."
