Recap / The Aquabats! Super Show! S1 E6 "Haunted Battle Tram!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

Eaglebones Falconhawk: Commander, I've been sensing great unrest in the spirit world, ever since we left the graveyard.
MC Bat Commander: Shhh, not now Eaglebones.
Eaglebones: But Commander, I know if you've just listened...
MCBC: Ah ah ah ah ah ah-! (gets his badger blown up in the video game) D'oh! You made me lose another badger!
Eaglebones: But Commander...
MCBC: Wait! Eaglebones, I'm sensing something. I'm sensing...that you're gonna go get me a cold drink.

Somewhere, in a spooky graveyard...

(summary in progress)

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Tropes

• Arbitrary Skepticism: The Commander doesn't believe in ghosts...despite there apparently being scientific proof that they're real. And right on the heels of seeing mummies recapture a siren who'd escaped from the Underworld, too.
• Creepy Cemetery: The start and end of the episode.
• Grave Robbing: The MCBC takes a burrito from the grave of Bob Higgensbottom, setting in motion the events of the episode.
• Harmless Villain: The Ghost freaks the hell out of the team and covers them in goo, but ultimately doesn't do much to hurt them, other than suck the Commander into the TV. All in all he was probably only interested in teaching them not to steal from people, even the dead.
• Mythology Gag: At the start, the 'Bats run in fear of their old foe Pumpkin Face...until it turns out they are just playing a game of Pumpkin Head Tag.
• Oh, Crap!: The Commander when he sees the ghost in his video game, right before it turns into a monster face and sucks him inside.
• Recycled Premise: This episode is an expansion of the premise of Lil' Bat cartoon from "Eagleclaw!" to a full episode.
• Shout-Out: There are a reference to a multitude of classic horror films.
  • Crash's shout of "WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" when the power cuts out and the MC Bat Commander being pulled into the tv are references to Poltergeist (1982).
  • The scene where Jimmy turns around and notices that some books have randomly been stacked is a nod to Ghostbusters.
  • Crash's recorded speech to Jimmy when he's trapped in the bathroom is similar to Heather's apology in Blair Witch Project.
  • When the spirit of Bob Higgensbottom goes into the Battle-Tram, it's done in a shaky POV shot similar to the Evil Dead films.
• Trapped in TV Land: The ghost of Bob Higgensbottom traps the MC Bat Commander in a realm of television static.
• Troll: Bob Higgensbottom's haunting amounts to him trolling the Aquabats.