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* GutturalGrowler: Slim, delivered by none other than Creator/FrankWelker.
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* ArtisticLicensePaleontology: The baby pterosaur looks nothing like how an actual pterosaur hatchling is thought to have appeared. Ironically, it more closely resembles a feathered theropod like ''Confusciusornis'' nearly a decade before this species was discovered and formally described.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bippy the Caterpuppy. The baby pterosaur could also count.
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* ActorAllusion: This movie has John Ratzenberger making a cameo as an electrician/swashbuckler, obliquely referencing [[Series/{{Cheers}} George Wendt]] playing a nosy neighbor in the first movie.
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* MythologyGag: This movie has John Ratzenberger making a cameo as an electrician/swashbuckler, obliquely referencing [[Series/{{Cheers}} George Wendt]] playing a nosy neighbor in the first movie.
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* MythologyGag: This movie has John Ratzenberger making a cameo as an electrician/swashbuckler, referencing [[Series/{{Cheers}} George Wendt]] playing a nosy neighbor in the first movie.
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* MythologyGag: This movie has John Ratzenberger making a cameo as an electrician/swashbuckler, obliquely referencing [[Series/{{Cheers}} George Wendt]] playing a nosy neighbor in the first movie.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Bippy the Caterpuppy.
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* HonkingArrivingCar: The film begins with Jesse as a baby to be handed off to his adoptive parents. His birth mother calls out to her husband, "Clarence, they're here!" As soon as he responds, "I'll be there in a minute," an outside car begins honking loudly.
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* ArtistAndTheBand: Charlie and Lana invite themselves to stay at Jesse and Kate's new house while plotting to get Kate (a record company exec) to "discover" Lana's band, Puce Glitz and the Avoiders.
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* RandomEventsPlot: The only coherent thread tying the movie together is that bad guys from several different eras are trying to get their hands on the skull. Otherwise, cast members come and go as they please, and there's generally not much else in the way of a solid plot.
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* ComicbookAdaptation: By Creator/MarvelComics.
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* IChooseToStay: In the final scene we see that Jesse and his friends decide to keep living in the Wild West Era. Considering in the modern era Jessie is thought to be a lunatic CopKiller, he doesn't exactly have much of a choice.
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* StableTimeLoop: One way to read the last scene is that Jesse and his friends go back to the old west and Jesse will eventually end up [[MyOwnGrampa becoming Gramps]].
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* YouKilledMyFather: The final enemy Jesse confronts is the zombie of the guy who killed his parents, and avenges them by blowing Slim's head off.
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* CastingGag: Like the first movie, it has an actor from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' in a minor role. This time, Creator/JohnRatzenberger.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/house_2.jpg]]
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A sequel to ''Film/{{House}}'', released in 1987.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Grandpa Jesse's first question to his friends who have just crashed through the collapsed ceiling of his room, covered in non-local forest debris:
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* LighterAndSofter: It's the only film in the series to not get an "R" rating.
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Jesse has just moved into an old family mansion. Rummaging through old things, he learns that his grandfather's grandfather found a priceless crystal skull, and hid it in his grave. Jesse and and his buddy Charlie go digging, but instead of claiming the skull becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams, they now have look after a 170-year old zombie and protect the said skull from dark forces.
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Jesse has just moved into an old family mansion. Rummaging through old things, he learns that his grandfather's grandfather found a priceless crystal skull, and hid it in his grave. Jesse and and his buddy Charlie go digging, but instead of claiming the skull and becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams, they now have to look after a 170-year old zombie and protect the said skull from dark forces.
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* DenserAndWackier: While the first movie was no grimfest, ''The Second Story'' is still much more lightearted.
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* DeadGuyJunior: Main protagonist Jesse was named after his grandfather's now-a-zombie-grandfather Jesse.
* DenserAndWackier: While the first movie was no grimfest, ''The Second Story'' is still much morelightearted.
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* DontCallMeSir:"Don't Grandpa Jesse's reaction when he's referred to as "Sir".
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* GhostTown: The climactic fight between Jesse and Slim (mostly) takes its place in an abandoned western town.
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* GhostTown: The climactic fight between Jesse and Slim (mostly) takes its place in an abandoned western town.
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* RasputinianDeath: SInce he is a ghost, Slim takes a lot of bullets before going down.
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* BigBad: Slim Reeser's ghost is still seeking the skull, and must be stopped from caliming it.
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* BigBad: Slim Reeser's ghost is still seeking the skull, and must be stopped from caliming claiming it.
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Jesse has just moved into an old family mansion. Rummaging through old things, he learns that his grandfather's grandfather found a priceless crystal skull, and hid it in his grave. Jesse and and his buddy Charlie go digging, but instead of claiming the skull becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams, they now have look after a 170-year old zombie and protect the said skull from dark forces.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AlmightyJanitor: Bill Towner, an electrician with knowledge about alternate dimensions, a swashbuckling hero and [[PunchClockHero a guy just doing his job]].
* BigBad: Slim Reeser's ghost is still seeking the skull, and must be stopped from caliming it.
* CatScare: Grandpa is alerted by noises coming from the fireplace, but it's just Bippy. He is then jumped by three extredimensional Mayans.
* ComicbookAdaptation: By MarvelComics.
* CrystalSkull: The MacGuffin that drives the plot
* DenserAndWackier: While the first movie was no grimfest, ''The Second Story'' is still much more lightearted.
* DontCallMeSir: "Don't call me sir, I ain't no politician!"
* GutturalGrowler: Slim, delivered by none other than Creator/FrankWelker.
* MirrorScare: During their showdown, Slim surprises Jesse by appearing in a mirror.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Bippy, a dog with a caterpillar body that was found in the Triassic period and brought to modern times by the main characters.
* RobbingTheDead: Realizing that Jesse [=McLaughlin=] was buried with the skull, Jesse and Charlie dig him up.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize. When the Barbarian tries to kill Charlie, a prehistoric rodents sneaks up behind him and snatches him up.
* ShoutOut: The Barbarian's full name in the credits is [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold]] [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the Barbarian]].
* VirginSacrifice: After entering the alternate Mayan dimension, the protagonists end foiling a virgin sacrifice involving the crystal skull.
* WhatYearIsThis: Naturally, when Grandpa Jesse gets up from his grave, he wants to know what year is it.
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Jesse has just moved into an old family mansion. Rummaging through old things, he learns that his grandfather's grandfather found a priceless crystal skull, and hid it in his grave. Jesse and and his buddy Charlie go digging, but instead of claiming the skull becoming rich beyond their wildest dreams, they now have look after a 170-year old zombie and protect the said skull from dark forces.
!!This film has the examples of:
* AlmightyJanitor: Bill Towner, an electrician with knowledge about alternate dimensions, a swashbuckling hero and [[PunchClockHero a guy just doing his job]].
* BigBad: Slim Reeser's ghost is still seeking the skull, and must be stopped from caliming it.
* CatScare: Grandpa is alerted by noises coming from the fireplace, but it's just Bippy. He is then jumped by three extredimensional Mayans.
* ComicbookAdaptation: By MarvelComics.
* CrystalSkull: The MacGuffin that drives the plot
* DenserAndWackier: While the first movie was no grimfest, ''The Second Story'' is still much more lightearted.
* DontCallMeSir: "Don't call me sir, I ain't no politician!"
* GutturalGrowler: Slim, delivered by none other than Creator/FrankWelker.
* MirrorScare: During their showdown, Slim surprises Jesse by appearing in a mirror.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Bippy, a dog with a caterpillar body that was found in the Triassic period and brought to modern times by the main characters.
* RobbingTheDead: Realizing that Jesse [=McLaughlin=] was buried with the skull, Jesse and Charlie dig him up.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize. When the Barbarian tries to kill Charlie, a prehistoric rodents sneaks up behind him and snatches him up.
* ShoutOut: The Barbarian's full name in the credits is [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Arnold]] [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 the Barbarian]].
* VirginSacrifice: After entering the alternate Mayan dimension, the protagonists end foiling a virgin sacrifice involving the crystal skull.
* WhatYearIsThis: Naturally, when Grandpa Jesse gets up from his grave, he wants to know what year is it.
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