"The secret to a long life lies in how acutely you perceive time. Welcome to Night Vale."
A carnival comes to town. Plus the Cleaning of Books, breaking ground at the new old Opera House, and an intern returns... again.
Tropes present in A Carnival Comes To Town include:
- Faux Horrific: Cecil's description of the carnival has the same tone he uses for genuine horrors, even though it's just a regular carnival.
- Meta Twist: Those familiar with the show's format from episodes like "Street Cleaning Day" and "Valentine's Day" will probably expect that a "carnival" in Night Vale is something surreal and horrifying. Nope, it's a regular carnival. The inhabitants freak out about it anyway.
- Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?: Cecil motivates Night Vale to face the carnival by reminding them of their prior victories against StrexCorp and the Street Cleaners.
- Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: It's implied that the carnival workers believed they had arrived in Modesto, California, until the Night Vale townsfolk attacked them
"Today's proverb: Say what you will about dance, but language is a limited form of expression."
