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* BackingAwaySlowly: Bill nervously backs into the basement wall when Cricket corners him, suddenly suspicious after Bill [[WhamLine mumbles]] that he is seemingly aware of the animals getting out and knowing how bad it has become.

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* EyeCam: Gloria has this when waking up from fainting.



* EyeCam: Gloria has this when waking up from fainting.
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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Cricket does it following Bill's WhamLine below.



* AnimalStampede: The zombie animals break into the apartment complex and chase after the Greens, plowing down anything in their path.



* BlindedByTheLight: Cricket discovers the animals' weakness is shining flashlights in their faces, and everyone does so to fend them off. Unfortunately, the batteries die.



* CassetteCraze: True to her scientist costume, Tilly uses one to record her scientific findings throughout the episode.
* CatScare: More like chicken scare. Bill sees something out of the corner of his eye while he’s locking the animals up for the night and tension builds as he goes to investigate. Something jumps out and scares him, but it ends up just being a loose chicken.
** Double subverted as Cricket gives Bill a JumpScare immediately after.
* ChekhovsGun: Cricket’s secret entrance, which he jumps out of at the beginning of the episode to scare his dad, ends up being how the animals get into the house.



* CoordinatedClothes: Both Remy and Vasquez dress as hot dogs for Halloween. Remy accuses Vasquez of stealing his costume, but it turns out Vasquez ''always'' goes as a hot dog; Remy just happened to dress as one this year.



* DressesTheSame: Both Remy and Vasquez dress as hot dogs for Halloween. Remy accuses Vasquez of stealing his costume, but it turns out Vasquez ''always'' goes as a hot dog; Remy just happened to dress as one this year.



* ExorcistHead: Cricket does it following Bill's WhamLine below.



* FailedAttemptAtScaring: Gramma Alice tries to warn Cricket and Tilly about the Blood Moon, but they just laugh her off.



* FlashbackMontageRealization: When Vasquez tells Remy that he stole his yearly hot dog costume and not the other way around, Remy thinks back to all the other times Vasquez went as a hot dog for Halloween.



* {{Gasp}}: The rest of the group’s reaction when Cricket shows them the lock to the garage door that fell out of Bill’s pocket.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Gloria ignores the warning to stay inside and gets attacked by the farm animals, however we only see the rest of the group’s reactions to the attack.
-->'''Gramma Alice:''' Get outta the way! I can’t see!



* IGotARock: Cricket, Remy, and Vasquez get tiny porcelain unicorns from “Jill.” Granted, it’s the best they can do while trick-or-treating inside.



-->'''Alice:''' [to Bill] I bring you into this world, and you take me out! Just like that fortune teller predicted.

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-->'''Alice:''' -->'''Gramma Alice:''' [to Bill] I bring you into this world, and you take me out! Just like that fortune teller predicted.


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* PatientZero: Tilly and Gramma treat Gloria as this, being the first person to be bitten by the Blood Moon-affected animals. Tiffy then makes it her mission to FindTheCure.
* RaisingTheSteaks: The Blood Moon turns the Greens’ animals into bloodthirsty monsters.
* RaisedHandOfSurvival: Played for laughs. To get to the apartment next door so the kids can still trick-or-treat, the group digs their way out of the house and comes busting out of the ground like a bunch of zombies.


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* SingleTear: Cricket sheds one when he sees the trick-or-treating nirvana that is the apartment complex.


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* TheTriple: Gramma in the opening sequence mentions that there’s much to be afraid of on Halloween:
-->'''Gramma Alice:''' ...ghouls, goblins, and those spooky motion-sensor decorations, you know the ones.


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* WeakenedByTheLight: Cricket discovers the animals' weakness is shining flashlights in their faces, and everyone does so to fend them off. Unfortunately, the batteries die.
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: The Greens hold hands on the rooftop as they prepare to face the inevitable from the animals as a family. It doesn't last long, because the blood moon ends right before they could do so, sparing them.
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* {{Fainting}}: Gloria comes to the Green house to complain about a disgusting jack o'lantern that Cricket left at the coffee shop, and she demands to see him. Cricket himself immediately drops down the doorway to scare Gloria, who screams and faints in shock. This causes Gramma to mistake her for dead, and bring her into the house intending to bury her.

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* {{Fainting}}: FaintInShock: Gloria faints when Cricket drops down the doorway to scare her. She kind of sets herself up for it when she comes to the Green house to complain about a disgusting jack o'lantern that Cricket he left at the coffee shop, shop and she demands to see him. Cricket himself immediately drops down the doorway to scare Gloria, who screams and faints in shock. This causes Gramma to mistake her for dead, and bring her into the house intending to bury her.him.
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* AbsenteeActor:
** Among all the animals, only Phoenix and Dirtbag don't appear, making them the only animals who don't turn into zombies. Granted, it's probably because they aren't farm animals to begin with.
** This is also the first double-length episode where Nancy and Officer Keys don't appear.
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* {{Sabotutor}}: Remy calls Bill this upon Cricket discovering the garage lock falling out of his back pocket, revealing he was responsible for letting the animals out and exposing them to the blood moon.
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* {{Sabotutor}}: Remy calls Bill this upon Cricket discovering the garage lock falling out of his back pocket, revealing he was responsible for letting the animals out and exposing them to the blood moon.
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* OneDimensionalThinking: The Greens have no excuse to not jump off the roof and land safely in a bush or tree when cornered on the roof, something Cricket doesn't even think of until a whole season from now.
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** Not the way Bill screams for the kids to come inside, he sounds as if he had it planned.

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** Not Note the way Bill screams for the kids to come inside, he sounds as if he had it planned.
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* BluntYes: When she sees Gloria at the front door, Gramma is asked if she's carrying a club, to which it's revealed that she's indeed holding one. Gramma gives a firm "yes."


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* {{Fainting}}: Gloria comes to the Green house to complain about a disgusting jack o'lantern that Cricket left at the coffee shop, and she demands to see him. Cricket himself immediately drops down the doorway to scare Gloria, who screams and faints in shock. This causes Gramma to mistake her for dead, and bring her into the house intending to bury her.
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** Not the way Bill screams for the kids to come inside, he sounds as if he had it planned.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A zombified chicken lays an egg, which hatches into a chick also zombified. In reality, a chicken egg takes about 20 to 21 days before it hatches, as the embryo has to develop inside the egg. Also, the chicken has to sit on the egg to keep it warm to prepare.
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* AdaptedOut: The book adaptation of the episode removes all of Gloria's scenes, thus cancelling out all theories of what would happen if one is bit by a zombified farm animal. Cricket's [[JumpScare Jump Scares]] are also cut out.
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* CallingTheOldManOut: When Cricket realizes Bill is the reason for the animals getting out for the sake of not wanting the kids to trick-or-treat without him, he angrily calls him out for ruining Halloween.


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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
-->'''Bill:''' I realized this whole thing turned into a whoopsie-daisy.\\
'''Cricket:''' Oh! Is that what you called this? A whoopsie-daisy!?! You put the whole family in danger! And also, NO TRICK-OR-TREATING!! Are you hearin' this, Tilly!?!\\
'''Tilly:''' I hear it, and I cannot absorb it....\\
'''Cricket:''' Oh! And you broke Tilly while you were at it!\\
'''Bill:''' Well, when you put it like that, uh...\\
'''Gramma:''' Oh, Bill...\\
'''Cricket:''' Well, you wanted us to spend Halloween together, so...here we are. Happy Halloween.
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[[caption-width-right:350:When there's a blood moon, it's ''Farm of the Dead''.]]
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* BrickJoke: After Bill (as "Jill") gives out porcelain unicorns, Remy tries to eat his before Bill stops him. When we next see them trick or treating, Remy has the unicorn in his mouth as he asks Cricket if he's going to eat his.


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-->'''Alice:''' [to Bill] I bring you into this world, and you take me out! Just like that fortune teller predicted.

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'''Blood Moon'''



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!! Blood Moon"Blood Moon" contains examples of:

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* AbsenteeActor: Among all the animals, only Phoenix and Dirtbag don't appear, making them the only animals who don't turn into zombies. Granted, it's probably because they aren't farm animals to begin with.

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* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: Cricket does it following Bill's WhamLine below.
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* UnexpectedlyDarkEpisode: The episode takes "dark" to a whole new meaning when the blood moon rises and turns the animals into zombies, and the Greens' first Halloween is threatened. To add up to it, the entire outside view is bathed in bloody red light, Tilly and Gramma treat Gloria as one of the victims, and it gets even worse when the family are nearly sacrificed near the end.
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* FriendOrIdolDecision: When cornered by the animals on the roof, Bill prepares to willingly sacrifice himself so Cricket can enjoy the candy he got from the apartments. However, Cricket chooses to protect him instead and gives the candy to the animals, because he wants to spend his potential final moments with him.

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* FriendOrIdolDecision: When cornered by the animals on the roof, Bill prepares to willingly sacrifice himself so Cricket can enjoy the candy he got from the apartments. However, Cricket chooses to protect him instead and gives the candy to the animals, because he wants to realizes Bill was right and he'd rather spend his potential final moments with him.
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* BadMoonRising: The blood moon. Once in some years, it curses farm animals to turn into man-eating zombies on Halloween.



* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Bill is rejected by Cricket and Tilly and they run out on him, he goes "Hmm..." to himself, foreshadowing his plan to let the animals out.

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After Bill is rejected by Cricket and Tilly and they run out on him, he goes "Hmm..." to himself, foreshadowing his plan to let the animals out.out.
** Bill somehow knows about the blood moon and when it will fade, which worries Cricket.
** When suggesting indoor trick-or-treating, Bill says they'll do it "as a family".
** Doubling as a RewatchBonus, Bill is noticeably absent during the scene when the kids greet Remy, the blood moon rises, and the animals start attacking. Not only does this foreshadow Bill's connection with the animals, but the fact he was the one who let the animals out, as shown in his flashback where we see what he was doing during that scene.
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* WhamLine: When hiding in the garage, Bill utters the following line which makes Cricket suspicious.

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* WhamLine: When hiding in the garage, basement, Bill utters the following line which makes Cricket suspicious.

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