Original air date: 04/04/2020
Production Code: 117
Principal Bump welcomes you to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics! Their top priority is keeping students safe, providing amazing food in the cafeteria, and give students the support they need!
The short can be watched here.
Tropes in this short include:
- Butt-Monkey: Mattholomule, bar none. He's smacked against the window by a tentacled beast in the opening, webbed to the ceiling by a legion of pink spiders, smacked in the face by a living plant, and ends up falling from the sky, right in front of Principal Bump, who covers up the battered child by standing directly in front of him, all in the name of finishing the promo.
- Deliberate VHS Quality: The promo is filmed with a slightly degrated quality, with static waves occasionally cropping up throughout the video — particularly at its beginning and end.
- Framing Device: King catches this commercial while flipping through the channels on his crystal ball.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Bump asserts that the well-being of Hexside's students is their "top priority" as Skara, Mattholomule, and Cat are seen flying away from a tentacled monster, Mattholomule is hit by a tentacle, which sends him crashing into Bump's window.
- Kitschy Local Commercial: The Hexside advertisement has elements of this, with incredibly stylized (yet cheap) transitions going from scene to scene, a Deliberate VHS Quality, and soft Jazz playing in the background.
- Pet the Dog: Mattholomule's 'healthy "food"' turns out to be steak and lettuce. He doesn't even get to eat it before he's facehugged by a living plant.
- Shout-Out: Bump finishes his promo with a declaration that "the magic of friendship... is no longer taught here, due to budget constraints."
