In a special double-length Halloween episode, Charlie wakes up from a nice nap (in an abandoned graveyard) and regales the viewers with four spooky stories. First, the Bears have an encounter with a horde of zombie animals. Next, the Baby Bears spend the night in a haunted house full of spooky monsters. Third, Chloe's attempt to watch free movies on the Internet summons a literal Internet troll who torments her and the Bears. And finally, Charlie's encounter with an abandoned arcade machine leads to a series of ill thought-out wishes.
Tropes:
- Actor Allusion: Alex Hirsch voices the Internet Troll, a character very similar to Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls created by Alex Hirsch himself.
- All Trolls Are Different: The "Internet Troll" is a goblin-like creature with reality-warping powers who loves to torment people and tell them that their favorite things are terrible.
- Alternate Universe: Due to Zohar misinterpreting his wishes, Charlie creates a variety of different universes including one where everyone is a Bigfoot, one that’s underwater, and one that references Adventure Time.
- And Then John Was a Zombie: Both Ice Bear and Grizz get turned into zombies by the end of the first story.
- Bannister Slide: In the second story, the Baby Bears slide down a railing to try and get away from the monsters.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: The fourth segment has Charlie making a series of wishes so he can go to the city with his friends the Bears.
- The first wish turns Charlie into a human, but the Bears don't recognize him in this form, and in fact don't seem to remember who he is.
- After his second wish, Charlie is the only human in a world of cryptids, including bigfoot versions of the Bears.
- After his third wish, everyone else is an anthropomorphic or talking animal, except the Bears are realistic-looking normal bears.
- After his fourth wish, Charlie is in a world where he's a wanted criminal.
- After that, Charlie ends up travelling through a string of increasingly bizarre alternate universes, including ones where humans and fruit swap places, an underwater world populated by merfolk, and a world where anthropomorphic cell phones take pictures with humans.
- Bedsheet Ghost: Baby Ice Bear dresses as one to go trick-or-treating.
- Brain Food: Ice Bear, now “Zombie Bear,” becomes hungry for brains when he gets infected.Ice Bear: Zombie Bear wants brains.
- Buried Alive: The episode opens with Charlie climbing out of a grave with a tombstone reading "TALL DUDE WHO LOVED TO TALK". Apparently he was taking a nap, and is such a Heavy Sleeper the villagers who buried him thought he was dead.
- Comically Missing the Point: In the fourth segment, Charlie finds a human skeleton entangled in vines standing next to the old Zohar machine, and remarks "Someone must've wished for a skeleton."
- Cthulhumanoid: A Cthulhu look-alike is one of the monsters that chases the bears in the second story.
- Dance Party Ending: In a Surprisingly Happy Ending twist, the monsters don’t want to eat the baby bears but rather they want to adopt them. The second segment ends with the bears and their new monster family dancing to a Musical Pastiche of "Monster Mash."
- Digital Piracy Is Evil: Chloe contracts the internet troll by trying to watch a movie on a torrent site. When it's vanquished she and the bears decide to just pay for the movie on demand
- A Dog Ate My Homework: Parodied. After the monsters adopt the baby bears, Panda notices that his homework is missing. The Wolf Man then coughs up a soggy ball of paper and apologizes.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In the end of the second segment, the Baby Bears finally get adopted by a loving family... of monsters.
- The End... Or Is It?: At the end of the third segment, Panda leaves a negative review of Chloe's favorite movie and imitates the Internet Troll's evil grin.
- Evil Laugh: The caretaker of the creepy house the baby bears stay in does one and the bears awkwardly join in.
- Expy: With his obnoxious personality, ability to warp reality, and the voice of Alex Hirsch, the Internet Troll is obviously based on Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls.
- Forced Transformation: In the third segment, the Internet Troll turns Grizzly into a crude CGI model of a bear with a text-to-speech voice and Ice Bear into an ice cube.
- Fourth Wall Psych: Just like in the first Halloween episode, Charlie is revealed to have told all the stories to an In-Universe audience. However, instead of trick-or-treaters, he was talking to skeleton versions of Grizzly, Panda, and Ice Bear.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: When the animals are turned into zombies, their eyes start glowing bright green.
- Halloween Episode: Charlie shares four spooky stories with the audience to celebrate Halloween.
- Haunted House: In the second segment, the Baby Bears go looking for a “forever home” at an Old, Dark House.
- Hope Spot: Just when it looks like the antivirus has defeated the Internet troll, it turns out to have possessed Panda.
- Humanity Ensues: In the fourth segment, Charlie's first wish has him turn into a human. He doesn't turn back until he hits the Reset Button at the end.
- The Immune: The end of the first story reveals that Panda is immune to the zombie virus, making him the only one of the Bears capable of taking care of them, plus Zombie!Tabbes. Panda laments the irony in this, considering how he's allergic to a lot of things.
- In Case of X, Break Glass: Baby Panda gets a Wooden Stake from a glass box that says “Break in Case of Vampires” and is about to slay the vampire with it until the monsters’ roommate stops him.
- Just Ignore It: Chloe figures out the best way to defeat the Internet Troll is to ignore its antics. At the very least, it distracts him long enough for the anti-virus to delete him for real.
- Medium Blending: The third segment features a CGI "Internet troll" interacting with the 2D-animated Chloe and the Bears.
- Mirror Scare: Baby Panda goes to the bathroom sink to try to calm himself down, but when a strike of lightning flashes he sees a mummy behind him in the mirror.
- Monster Mash: The second story features Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, a Wolf Man, a Mummy, and a Cthulhumanoid. It even ends with a parody of the Trope Namer.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In the first story, Tabes runs over the alien who has the antidote to the zombie plague, causing him to spill it.
- Not Quite Back to Normal: In the ending of the fourth segment, Charlie undoes all his wishes and things are seemingly back to normal... except Charlie and the Bears have pouches on their stomachs containing younger versions of themselves.
- Reality Warper: The Internet Troll from the third segment messes with reality inside the Bears' house.
- Reset Button: A literal example; the Zohar machine in the fourth segment has an "Edit Undo" button that undoes all the wishes a customer has made on the machine.
- Right Behind Me: Baby Grizz remarks that next Panda is going to tell him that a monster is right behind him and then begins describing the exact cthulhu-like monster that’s looming over him.
- Scenery Censor: After getting turned into a human, Charlie's lack of clothes is covered up by a conveniently-placed bush in the foreground.
- Shout-Out:
- The episode’s title card is a reference to the title card for The Conjuring 2.
- The opening soundtrack is similar to the Halloween theme.
- The alien from the first story looks and sounds a bit like Kermit the Frog, of The Muppets fame.
- The Internet Troll in the third segment turns a vase of flowers into Missingno, and references Internet memes such as "360 NO SCOPE!"
- "Zohar the Wish-Granter" from the fourth segment is based on the Zoltar machine from Big.
- One of the alternate universes seen in the fourth segment has Panda, Grizzly, and Ice Bear as palette-swapped versions of Finn, Jake, and the Ice King from Adventure Time, complete with the voice of Tom Kenny as Ice King.Ice King: Ice King in wrong show.
- The episode ends with a skeletal version of the Bears doing an homage to The Skeleton Dance.
- Troll: In the third story, the bears and Chloe face an annoying internet troll who constantly uses Forum Speak and criticizes everything.
- Whole-Plot Reference: From the sound effects to the setting to the gags, the whole second story reads like a Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode.
- Wishing for More Wishes: When the bears think a UFO falling out of the sky is a shooting star, Ice Bear says he’s going to wish for more wishes.Grizzly: Bro, you can’t wish for more wishes. Think that’s against the rules.Ice Bear: Then Ice Bear will wish for more shooting stars.
- Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: A few zombie wolves (and one squirrel) howl at the full moon before attacking the bears.
- Wrap Around Background: Parodied in the second segment. The Baby Bears are being chased by a werewolf down a hallway, but when the werewolf notices the wrap-around background he stops and waits for the bears to run into him again.
- Visual Pun: The zom-bee that Tabes gets stung by. It’s even lampshaded by Panda.Grizzly: Please tell me that’s not a zombie bee.Panda: Wait, would that make it a "zom-bee"?
- You Are What You Hate: The final segment has the human-fearing Charlie becoming a human himself, though by choice.
- Zombie Apocalypse: In the first story, goo from a mysterious meteorite starts turning the forest animals into zombies.
