Original air date: October 30, 2022
Written by: Caroline Levich
Directed by: Karen Hydendahl
Directed by: Karen Hydendahl
When a storm ruins Honeybee's plans to fly home to Fresno for her family's Halloween and she goes home to take a nap, she gets a visit from three spirits to teach her a lesson about Halloween, but she skips through their lessons and assumes she needs to bring her family traditions to Lone Moose. Meanwhile, the Tobins has to decide who gets to wear the cat costume that came in the mail since they're tired of wearing their old Halloween costumes.
Tropes:
- Bedsheet Ghost: Wolf's usual Halloween costume is wearing an old Alvin and the Chipmunks bedsheet.
- Big Storm Episode: Played with. A storm offshore cancels all flights to and from Lone Moose, which means Honeybee can't go to Fresno and the Tobin's other costumes won't be delivered until after Halloween. Otherwise, the storm has no effect on the story, and the weather in Lone Moose is quite pleasant.
- Call-Back:
- Guy Fieri returns as the Ghost of Halloween Present.
- In the flashback to the Shaw's Halloween with the funeral, Honeybee is dressed like Fiona from Shrek, which is one of the first movies she and Wolf bonded over enjoying.
- Couch Gag:
- The boat in the opening says "Rosemary's Buoy."
- Wolf's T-Shirt says "Drag Me To Smell."
- Creepy Doll: The first ghost of Halloween Honeybee meets is Possessed Patsy, a cursed doll who eats children from Honeybee's favorite horror movie franchise. She would sometimes speak with a demonic voice when Zandeack the Underlord speaks through her.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When it's revealed that Granny Shaw's funeral was just a prank, Possessed Patsy tells Honeybee her family creeps her out while pointing out she's a haunted doll who eats children.
- Faking the Dead: At one of their previous Halloween parties, Granny Shaw faked her death and held her funeral during the party. When her family got close to her coffin, she popped out and announced that she was alive. While Honeybee and her parents had a good laugh at it, Jerry was completely scared and had a freak out.
- Foreshadowing: When Possessed Patsy takes Honeybee to the past where her family are decorating their home for Halloween, Honeybee, her parents, and her grandma are inside their house putting up the horrifying decorations while Jerry is outside carving pumpkins with happy faces on them. This hints that Jerry is not into his family's way of celebrating Halloween, how he's trying to keep his distance from them, and how they're oblivious to his fear of it.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: The yeti can be spotted wearing a witch hat while peeking from behind a tree near the end of the episode when the guests arrives to attend Honeybee's Halloween party, but just before Allison starts talking with Beef.
- Halloween Episode: The episode takes place during Halloween.
- Kill It with Fire: After seeing how Honeybee decorated their home, Beef asks the family to torch the whole house down.
- Look Behind You: When Beef declares he gets to wear the cat costume and Wolf correctly guess it's because the costume makes his "ding dong" look great in the cat leotard, Beef points to something and tells them "look out", with his children distracted, he runs away.Wolf: Dang. Can't believe he got us with "look out".
- Musicalis Interruptus: When Wolf tries to give his statement on why he should get the cat costume, he starts to sings about being a cat...and when he tries to crawl on the stair rail he falls off and hurts his back, ending his song and his desire to want the costume.
- Naked People Are Funny: During the Ghost of Halloween Future's Vision, we see that Jerry no longer lives in the apartment, it is now occupied by a naked Cheesecake.
- Nightmare Fetishist: Honeybee and her parents both show shades of this. Their decorations are massively gory and over-the-top, to the point where Honeybee recreating them sends the Tobins hiding in the panic room. Louis and Ruth also play some genuinely terrifying pranks during their parties, from Ruth pretending to have her arm ripped off to claiming to be holding a funeral for the kids' grandmother, only to have her jump out from inside the coffin and surprise them.
- Nightmare Retardant: In-universe. While Possessed Patsy is supposed to be scary, Honeybee just finds her funny whenever she randomly starts talking with a demonic voice.
- Once More, with Clarity: When the three Ghost of Halloween tries to teach Honeybee a lesson about Halloween, she skips seeing the rest of what they were going to show her because seeing her family makes her sad since she can't be with them and she thinks she knows what the lesson is. After Jerry tells Honeybee he's not going to attend the Tobin's Halloween party after Honeybee added her family style to it, Honeybee asks the ghosts to show her what she missed. The ghost shows her Jerry being terrified with the way his family celebrates Halloween with its gore and scary moments, and Honeybee feels bad for not noticing how Jerry feels and he's actually happy to skip his family's version Halloween.
- One Size Fits All: The cat costume the Tobins accidentally got in the mail can fit all of them, from smallest Moon to the tallest Beef. Although it helps that the costume is a leotard.
- Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title: The title is a pun off of Love Actually.
- Serious Business: The Shaw family treats Halloween as a serious family holiday, having a massive party every year with people from all over Fresno. Honeybee even says that Halloween is the only day of the year her parents close their store.
- Sexy Whatever Outfit: The B-plot concerns the Tobins all competing to be the one to wear a cat costume Judy had ordered, with Judy specifically wanting it due to its possible sex appeal compared to her old costume. Beef ends up being the one to keep it, once he tries it on and is impressed with how it fits around his package.
- Shout-Out:
- While napping, Honeybee is visited by three ghosts in a A Christmas Carol-like plot. Each of the ghosts tries to explain, only for her to breeze through the scenes they show her, since she already knows what they're here to do.
- Jerry's plan for a Halloween movie double feature includes Twitches and The Devil Wears Prada.
- The first "ghost" that appears to Honeybee is an Expy of Annabelle, right down to the blonde hair and white dress.
- Judy's old Halloween costume is Slimer from Ghostbusters (1984).
- The"Scare-o-Gram" the Shaws send Honeybee and Jerry is dressed as Leatherface.
- Sickeningly Sweet: During the credits, Jerry shows Honeybee his Halloween decorations, which are all cute and comforting, but Honeybee hates how sweet and non-scary they are.
- Special Guest: Guy Fieri appears As Himself in Honeybee's dream as the Ghost of Halloween Present.
- Sweet Tooth: Halloween is the one time Beef allows Moon to get as much candy as he wants and it really makes him hyper and aggressive. In the past, he would eat so much candy that he would have a sugar crash and they're surprised he managed to stay up until 2:00 P.M. this year. When Judy takes him to his room to rest, they would put a few candies under his pillow because it's dangerous for him to go cold turkey. After Judy gives her statement for her costume, Moon returns from outside the house (having no idea how he got outside in the first place) so he can continue to eat more candy.
- Take Our Word for It: The audience never actually sees Beef in the cat costume from the waist down, but several characters (including Alyson) comment on how it fits him.
- Too Much Information: When Judy is giving her statement on why she should get the cat costume, she explains that her previous costume is Slimer from Ghostbusters and no one wants to go to third base with him, and she's not even sure how you're supposed to do that with someone like Slimer. Beef immediately tells her to stop and she can have the costume since "it sounds like [she's] going through something right now".
- Unreliable Narrator: During one of their visits to the past, Honeybee explains to the ghosts that this Halloween also doubled as her grandmother's funeral, as she had just died shortly before and decided to include her in the party. The ghosts were surprised to learn this. Cue grandma popping out of the casket and scaring Jerry. The ghosts were shocked too and Honeybee chuckles about having tricked them.
- Wrong Assumption: Having seen several versions of A Christmas Carol, including the Muppets version, Honeybee assumes she already knows the lesson they are trying to teach her, to bring her family's Halloween traditions to Lone Moose and invite her brother over. However what they are really trying to teach her is to take Jerry's feelings into account. Namely that he hates how their family celebrates the holiday and tries to get her to tone it down. She had simply skipped over the parts where they established he had always been unhappy with it.
- Yet Another Christmas Carol: A Christmas Carol story around Halloween which Honeybee lampshades despite Possessed Patsy claiming what they're doing is a completely original, unrelated idea.
Jerry: Here's my kind of decorations. A light up-sign. It says "boo."
Honeybee: Ugh.
Jerry: And here's my Frankenstein candy bowl. You press the bolts on his neck and Skittles come out.
Honeybee: I hate it.
Jerry: This is kind of scary. It's a ghost and a bat.
Honeybee: Why are they holding hands?
Jerry: They're in love. And look, my coat rack is a skeleton. It looks like he's waving. Hi, Honeybee.
Honeybee: I think I'm gonna throw up. We should find out if you're adopted.
Jerry: This Dracula sings "Disturbia" by Rihanna.
Honeybee: Please don't press that button.
Jerry: Oh, I'm pressing it. I'm pressing it.
Honeybee: No, no!
Jerry: Pressed.
♫ Time to get Jerrified. ♫
Honeybee: Ugh.
Jerry: And here's my Frankenstein candy bowl. You press the bolts on his neck and Skittles come out.
Honeybee: I hate it.
Jerry: This is kind of scary. It's a ghost and a bat.
Honeybee: Why are they holding hands?
Jerry: They're in love. And look, my coat rack is a skeleton. It looks like he's waving. Hi, Honeybee.
Honeybee: I think I'm gonna throw up. We should find out if you're adopted.
Jerry: This Dracula sings "Disturbia" by Rihanna.
Honeybee: Please don't press that button.
Jerry: Oh, I'm pressing it. I'm pressing it.
Honeybee: No, no!
Jerry: Pressed.
♫ Time to get Jerrified. ♫
