"Good Will Haunting" is the Halloween Episode of Sabrina the Teenage Witch's third season.
The Spellmans are invited to the Halloween party of an eccentric relative they've never met called Aunt Beulah. Unable to come up with a reason to no show, they RSVP, but Sabrina is allowed to stay home when Valerie invites herself, Harvey and Justin over to watch scary movies.
Aunt Beulah gifts Sabrina with a 'Molly Dolly', a talking doll, voiced by Tara Strong...who proceeds to seal the house and unleash a collection of movie monsters to terrorise Sabrina and her friends. Plus, Aunt Beulah's party isn't what it seems...
Guest starring multiple people from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
Tropes:
- All Part of the Show: Harvey, Justin and Valerie assume everything is one of Sabrina's pranks.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Zelda lists through the excuses they used to miss Aunt Beulah's party - World Wars I and II, the Chicago Fires, and Luke and Laura's wedding.
- As Himself: Gary Owens appears as himself, but is credited as 'Man Who Thinks He's Gary Owens'.
- Bedlam House: The party Zelda and Hilda attend is actually thrown in one, where the other guests try to catch them and perform experiments on them. But it turns out that it is just a party, with this as a theme.
- Casual Danger Dialog: After watching Delilah call herself "Fred" and acting like she's driving a car, Hilda blithely comments she never expected this is how she'd die.Hilda: It's funny, I never thought I'd die this way.Zelda: Not really funny "ha-ha."
- Continuity Nod: Making it even harder to keep track of where Season 3 fits into the show's continuity - Sabrina turning 17 at the start of Season 2 and 18 at the start of Season 4 - there are multiple references to "A River of Candy Corn Runs Through It".
- Creepy Doll: Molly Dolly through and through. She is an all powerful entity that can conjure up monsters and match Sabrina's magic.
- Dramatic Thunder: Valerie gets excited when thunder rumbles, as it sets the mood for an evening of scary movies.
- Dreadful Musician: Aunt Beulah just has to sing very loudly to make Molly Dolly back off.
- Fan Disservice: Sabrina tries to pretend she's screaming at Clint Eastwood taking his shirt off in The Bridges of Madison County.
- Fluffy Fashion Feathers: Aunt Beulah has a feather boa as part of her party outfit, and then switches to a pink one even when she's in doctor's scrubs.
- Framing Device: The episode opens and closes with Salem addressing the audience, suggesting the whole thing is an out of continuity story.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Hilda and Zelda end up having their minds switched with two chickens!
- Fun with Acronyms: Inverted. Hilda insists that RSVP stands for 'rotten stupid vile party'.
- Furniture Blockade: Sabrina and friends barricade the kitchen door with furniture to keep the monsters out. Then they realise they've done it on the wrong side of the door.
- The Ghost: Sabrina mentions Molly sending a vampire and headless horseman as well, who we never see.
- Good All Along: Well, in a Blue-and-Orange Morality sort of way. Aunt Beulah is just throwing a Halloween role play, and thought Molly Dolly "would be fun for Halloween".
- Halloween Cosplay: Harvey dresses up as Frankenstein.
- I Have Many Names: A Running Gag with Ruth Buzzi's character is that she changes her name every other scene - first introducing herself as Delilah, then Fred and finally insisting her name is actually Sabrina as well. Since she's credited as Delilah, it's possible that's her actual name.
- Harmless Electrocution: Sabrina gets electrocuted trying to open the door and is otherwise fine. Justified, as it's established that witches are invincible, and can only be destroyed by lava. And even that is left in doubt.
- Here We Go Again!: The end of the episode sees the first scene, of Hilda getting Beulah's invite, replaying and Salem screaming in horror about it.
- Herr Doktor: Dave Madden guest stars as a German-accented doctor called Hans Egglehoffer, an expert on slug reproduction.
- ...In That Order: Sabrina orders Molly to unseal the house "or I'll throw you out in the middle of traffic". After a beat, she realises.
- Invincible Villain: Molly Dolly is nigh unstoppable, and able to match Sabrina's magic easily. The world is lucky she's just a toy and not actually evil.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Valerie invited herself over to Sabrina's house without asking, and ends up terrorised by the monsters Molly summons.
- Mad Scientist: Bellevuedere appears to be one, spearheading the experiment to switch the aunts' brains with chickens, but he's just playing the role for the party.
- Meaningful Name: Aunt Beulah's assistant Bellevuedere is named both after the mental hospital Bellevue, and Belvidere, the butler.
- Off the Rails: The party's role play is derailed when Sabrina arrives needing help from her aunts, who didn't even know they were in a role play to begin with.
- Power Outage Plot: Part of Molly's schtick is knocking the power out at the Spellman house. Sabrina is annoyed to find the mundane solution in her magic book - just clapping her hands and saying "clap on".
- Remember the New Guy?: Aunt Beulah is a never before mentioned relative that even Hilda and Zelda have never met, since they've avoided her Halloween parties for five hundred years. Justified, since this is said to be an out-of-continuity story.
- Shout-Out:
- Salem introducing the episode with a warning to put the parents to bed could be one to the first Treehouse of Horror, where Marge sincerely appears at the start warning about the episode's content.
- Sabrina distracts Frank by playing the violin, like in Young Frankenstein.
- Larry Talbot shows up carrying Salem at the end.
- The movies the boys rent are The Remains of the Day, The Bridges of Madison County and Enchanted April.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When trying to escape the asylum, Zelda sees one sign marked 'exit' and another marked 'laboratory'. She assumes the exit sign is a trick and goes into the laboratory door...which it turn out is a lab. She and Hilda are then trapped.
- X-Ray Sparks: Sabrina gets shocked when trying to open the front door, and we get an X-ray shot of her skeleton.
