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Recap / Clarence S 3 E 26 A Nightmare On Aberdale Street Balances Revenge

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Clarence uses a special jack-o-lantern to enter people's dreams, and learns that something is causing his friends to have nightmares.

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  • Acid Reflux Nightmare: Clarence eats too much Halloween candy, giving him a stomach ache and causing him to experience bizarre dreams.
  • And You Were There: Clarence says this to Chad, Guyler, and Mavis after he wakes up from his dream and describes everything he experienced.
  • Bizarro World: Mavis’ dream is about everyone looking and speaking like she does, except she’s now the normal one and can’t understand them.
  • Caged Inside a Monster: Balance absorbs Chad, Guyler, Mavis, and Jeremy into his body and traps them in his cage-like stomach.
  • Dramatic Drop: Jeremy drops the coffee mug he was drinking out of when Balance arrives. With this being a dream, the mug has returned to his hand when the camera switches back to him.
  • Dream Episode: This episode is all about Clarence exploring dreams.
  • Dream Walker: Clarence learns that he can enter and interact with other people’s dreams using his “pumpkin portal”.
  • Dwindling Party: Every time Clarence wakes up after traveling through another person’s dream, the person whose dream he was in has disappeared.
  • Gag Nose: Guyler’s nose is so big that it’s the only thing Clarence can see when he puts the pumpkin portal on his face.
    Clarence: So, what’s it like having a big nose?
  • Halloween Episode: After trick-or-treating on Halloween, Clarence eats too much candy and has an adventure in his dreams.
  • I'm Not Afraid of You: Clarence says this to Balance, because he knows that it’s his dream and he can make it into whatever he wants.
  • Immediate Self-Contradiction: Clarence is about to say “Oh man, I’m never gonna fall asleep”, but he gets cut off by doing just that.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: It’s unclear if Clarence really did enter Chad, Mavis, and Guyler’s dreams or if it was All Just a Dream of his own.
  • Nightmare of Normality: Chad’s dream is about him working a dull office job and screwing it up, to Mary’s disappointment.
  • Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a reference to A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge.
  • The Power of Love: The group defeats Balance by giving him a Group Hug, which causes him to melt and disappear.
  • Real Dreams are Weirder: The dreams in this episode are just as nonsensical as real life dreams tend to be.
  • Training Montage: Clarence has one in which Jeremy teaches him how to control his dreams.

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