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* AnAesop: If you {{face your fears}}, you'll likely get over them.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Spooky has eyes that glow {{sickly green|glow}} to show his frightening nature. [[MorphicResonance He retains them when he transforms into different forms]], even if the form is of something that doesn't normally have eyes in the first place (such as water or a whirlwind).
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Spooky has eyes that glow {{sickly green|glow}} green|Glow}} to show his frightening nature. [[MorphicResonance He retains them when he transforms into different forms]], even if the form is of something that doesn't normally have eyes in the first place (such as water or a whirlwind).
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* MorphicResonance: All of Spooky's transformed forms retain his GlowingEyesOfDoom, [[ExploitedTrope which Lilo and Stitch try to take adventage of to fish him out among the costumed trick-or-treaters, and then Lilo successfully exposes "Cobra Bubbles" as him by knocking off his shades]].
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A green blob-like experiment activates on Halloween night and scares Stitch. He and Lilo must face their fears in order to capture the experiment, who leads them to an abandoned house.
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A green blob-like experiment activates on Halloween [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night and scares Stitch. He and Lilo must face their fears in order to capture the experiment, who leads them to an abandoned house.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Lilo and Stitches fears are rather simple. (Clowns and water respectively)Which makes sense since they have the maturity of children. The fears of the adults are more complex and personal. Nani's fear is Lilo being taken away. Pleakley's fear is disappointing his mother. Jumba's fear is his ex wife.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Non-lethal variant: after being activated Spooky turns into a cat to frighten a mouse, only to attract the ire of a stray dog. He then turns into a dogcatcher, sending the pooch running.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Non-lethal variant: after being activated Spooky turns into a cat to frighten a mouse, only to attract the ire of a stray dog. He then turns into a dogcatcher, sending the pooch running.
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: Lilo and Stitches Stitch's fears are rather simple. (Clowns simple (clowns and water respectively)Which respectively). Which makes sense since they have the maturity of children. The fears of the adults are more complex and personal. Nani's fear is Lilo being taken away. Pleakley's fear is disappointing his mother. Jumba's fear is his ex wife.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: Non-lethal variant: after beingactivated activated, Spooky turns into a cat to frighten a mouse, only to attract the ire of a stray dog. He then turns into a dogcatcher, sending the pooch running.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Halloween is not a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays federal holiday]] like Lilo says it is. {{Justified|Trope}} since she's a young kid; she doesn't know any better.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Halloween [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] is not a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays federal holiday]] like Lilo says it is. {{Justified|Trope}} since she's a young kid; she doesn't know any better.better.
* BlobMonster: Spooky is a green blob creature with GlowingEyesOfDoom and spikes on his back that changes into whatever a person fears most. This appearance isn't just for show, either, as he has the ability to turn himself into slime to escape enemies.
* BlobMonster: Spooky is a green blob creature with GlowingEyesOfDoom and spikes on his back that changes into whatever a person fears most. This appearance isn't just for show, either, as he has the ability to turn himself into slime to escape enemies.
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire episode takes place within a couple hours of Halloween night. The episode even ends while legal trick-or-treating hours are still going on (Nani was even getting ready to go to bed early because her house normally doesn't get ''any'' trick-or-treaters).
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire episode takes place within a couple hours of Halloween [[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]] night. The episode even ends while legal trick-or-treating hours are still going on (Nani was even getting ready to go to bed early because her house normally doesn't get ''any'' trick-or-treaters).
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* HalloweenEpisode: This episode takes place on Halloween.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Spooky has eyes that glow {{sickly green|glow}} to show his frightening nature. [[MorphicResonance He retains them when he transforms into different forms]], even if the form is of something that doesn't normally have eyes in the first place (such as water or a whirlwind).
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode takes place onHalloween.[[UsefulNotes/AllHallowsEve Halloween]].
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode takes place on
* InhumanEyeConcealers: When Spooky takes the form of Cobra Bubbles, his shades hide his GlowingEyesOfDoom, though they are exposed by Lilo knocking off his shades with a thrown fake axe.
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* SssssnakeTalk: While he's not a snake or a reptile, Spooky speaks this way when speaking English. This is especially noticeable when he's disguised as another person, with "Lilo" and "Cobra Bubbles" having their actual counterparts' voice actors doing this.
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* SssssnakeTalk: While he's not a snake or a reptile, Spooky speaks this way when speaking English.UsefulNotes/{{English|Language}}. This is especially noticeable when he's disguised as another person, with "Lilo" and "Cobra Bubbles" having their actual counterparts' voice actors doing this.
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* WalkDontSwim: Stitch does this after falling into a swimming pool while trying to capture Spooky.
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* WalkDontSwim: Stitch does this walks on the floor of a swimming pool after falling into a swimming pool it while trying to capture Spooky.Spooky. {{Justified|Trope}} since he's too dense to swim.
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** Nani's fear is the only emotional fear that is shown; she is afraid of losing Lilo. Spooky is still able to take on a physical manifestation of it by turning into Cobra Bubbles saying he's come to take Lilo away.
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** Nani's fear is the only emotional fear that is shown; she is afraid of losing Lilo. Spooky is still able to take on a physical manifestation of it by turning into Cobra Bubbles saying he's come to take Lilo away.away.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Spooky's primary ability; whenever he comes across another living being, he will take the form of whatever it is they fear most.
* WouldHurtAChild: Spooky attempts to strike the 6-year-old Lilo in his MonsterClown form, then leaves her to fall to her doom when she is left hanging off of a ledge for dear life in her attempt to escape him.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Spooky's primary ability; whenever he comes across another living being, he will take the form of whatever it is they fear most.
* WouldHurtAChild: Spooky attempts to strike the 6-year-old Lilo in his MonsterClown form, then leaves her to fall to her doom when she is left hanging off of a ledge for dear life in her attempt to escape him.
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* Ageappropriateangst: Lilo and Stitches fears are rather simple. (Clowns and water respectively)Which makes sense since they have the maturity of children. The fears of the adults are more complex and personal. Nani's fear is Lilo being taken away. Pleakley's fear is disappointing his mother. Jumba's fear is his ex wife.
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* Ageappropriateangst: AgeAppropriateAngst: Lilo and Stitches fears are rather simple. (Clowns and water respectively)Which makes sense since they have the maturity of children. The fears of the adults are more complex and personal. Nani's fear is Lilo being taken away. Pleakley's fear is disappointing his mother. Jumba's fear is his ex wife.
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* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]: A ghostly green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back, greatly resembling another Disney (and Halloween-based) character, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. He is designed to scare people by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into [[YourWorstNightmare their worst terrifying fears.]]
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* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]: (X-300): A ghostly green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back, greatly resembling another Disney (and Halloween-based) character, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. He is designed to scare people by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into [[YourWorstNightmare their worst terrifying fears.]]
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* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]: A ghostly green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back, greatly resembling another Disney (and Halloween-based) character, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. He is designed to scare people by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into [[YourWorstNightmare their worst terrifying fears.]]
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* NeedleInAStackOfNeedles: Pleakley realizes that with so many people dressed up scary for Halloween, Spooky could be ''anyone''.
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** Pleakley is afraid of his mother. Although a further episode, "Fibber", implies that Pleakley actually fears [[WellDoneSonGuy disappointing his mother.
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** Nani's fear is the only emotional fear that is shown; she is afraid of losing Lilo. Spooky is still able to take on a physical manifestation of it by turning into Cobra Bubbles saying he's come to take Lilo away.
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* OhCrap: Lilo has this reaction when she sees where Spooky had run off into; the HauntedHouse.
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-->'''Lilo:''' Oh no. I’ve seen this movie. And I didn’t like the ending…
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-->'''Lilo:''' Oh no. I’ve seen this movie. And I didn’t like theending…ending...
-->'''Lilo:''' Oh no. I’ve seen this movie. And I didn’t like the
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* AdultFear: Most of the characters' fears are irrational, but for Nani, Spooky turned into Social Services agent Cobra Bubbles telling her that he had to take Lilo away because she was an unsuitable guardian, which almost happened in [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original movie]].
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* AdultFear: Most of the characters' fears are irrational, but for Nani, Spooky turned into Social Services agent Cobra Bubbles telling her that he had to take Lilo away because she was an unsuitable guardian, which almost happened in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original movie]].
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* AdultFear: Most of the characters' fears are irrational, but for Nani, Spooky turned into Social Services agent Cobra Bubbles telling her that he had to take Lilo away because she was an unsuitable guardian, which almost happened in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original movie]].
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* StandardSnippet: "Aloha ʻOe" is revealed here to be Lilo's coping mechanism. Surprisingly, like with in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original film]], this still defies the normally silly use of the song by sticking it closer to its actual tone, even though ''The Series'' is a more traditional children's show when compared to the first ''Lilo & Stitch'' movie.
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* StandardSnippet: "Aloha ʻOe" is revealed here to be Lilo's coping mechanism. Surprisingly, like with in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the original film]], this still defies the normally silly use of the song by sticking it closer to its actual tone, even though ''The Series'' is a more traditional children's show when compared to the first ''Lilo & Stitch'' movie.
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[[HalloweenEpisode It's Halloween on Kaua'i]], and Lilo has dressed as a dead hula girl with a fake rubber axe on her head for Halloween, scaring the kids at the halau's Halloween party. "Kumu" Moses suggests to her that she should dress up as something more pleasant, like a [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]], so Lilo goes home to change costumes.
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[[HalloweenEpisode It's Halloween on Kaua'i]], and Lilo has dressed as a dead hula girl with a fake rubber axe on her head for Halloween, scaring the kids at the halau's Halloween party. "Kumu" Moses suggests to her that she should dress up as something more pleasant, like a [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]], princess, so Lilo goes home to change costumes.
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** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
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** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
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"Spooky" is the sixth fifth episode[[note]]second in production order and fifth aired instead according to Disney Wiki[[/note]] order[[/note]] of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. It first aired on October 12, 2003, which is also the same day that [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E6Holio "Holio"]] first aired.
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"Spooky" is the sixth episode[[note]]second in production order and fifth aired instead according to Disney Wiki[[/note]] of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. It first aired on October 12, 2003, which is also the same day that [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E5Holio [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E6Holio "Holio"]] first aired.
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"Spooky" is the sixth episode[[note]]second in production order and fifth aired instead according to Disney Wiki[[/note]] of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. It first aired on October 12, 2003, which is also the same day that [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E5Holio "Holio"]] first aired.
[[HalloweenEpisode It's Halloween on Kaua'i]], and Lilo has dressed as a dead hula girl with a fake rubber axe on her head for Halloween, scaring the kids at the halau's Halloween party. "Kumu" Moses suggests to her that she should dress up as something more pleasant, like a [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]], so Lilo goes home to change costumes.
Jumba and [[WholesomeCrossdresser Pleakley]] are dressed up for Halloween, much to the former's chagrin. Lilo requests Pleakley to make her a princess costume right away, which he does so (he's very quick with the sewing machine). Stitch asks Lilo about Halloween, and she explains about how people scare each other on this day. He says he's not afraid of anything, and Lilo says she's not afraid either, except for clowns, broccoli, and a scary abandoned house on a nearby hill. However, she also shows him that she has a coping mechanism for whenever she's scared; singing the chorus of "Aloha ʻOe". Once Pleakley finishes the princess costume, Lilo changes into it and puts her rubber axe back on, then she and Stitch head over to the party.
At the party, Lilo seems to have returned as a dead hula girl again... [[LosingYourHead but with her head in her arms]] and [[SicklyGreenGlow glowing]] green eyes, scaring the lives out of Mertle, Elena, Teresa, and Yuki. "Lilo" then changes into a giant spider, scaring Moses and the partygoers out of the halau.
The actual Lilo and Stitch then show up at the halau, seeing the mess in the hall. She finds Mertle and her posse hiding under a table, the four girls frightened by the sight of Lilo. They explain what they last saw of her as Stitch goes into the halau's kitchen to raid the fridge, only for him to find a green blob-like creature with glowing green eyes transforming into a torrent of water. The creature almost drowns Stitch until Lilo approaches the kitchen, prompting the creature to hide. A terrified Stitch shouts, "Hissing green eyes!" similar to what Elena said to Lilo about what she and the rest Mertle's posse saw. Lilo decides to go back home to see Jumba, although Stitch has quickly become paranoid of nearly everything from his scary experience.
While Stitch boards up every window on the house, with Jumba and Pleakley having changed into different costumes, Lilo finds out that Stitch dealt with Experiment 300, an experiment designed to change into anyone's worst fears. Jumba's especially worried about 300, since the experiment can do an uncanny impression of his ex-wife. Once Lilo gets Stitch to stop blocking off every opening in the house, the duo go out into Kokaua Town to hunt down the experiment.
They don't find the experiment anywhere in town; instead, Stitch ends up blasting every trick-or-treater in purple restraining goo. However, they come back home to find Nani trying to convince who is believed to be Cobra Bubbles not to take Lilo away. Lilo and Stitch expose "Cobra" to be 300, who Lilo decides to call "Spooky". The experiment escapes, leading Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and now-dressed-as-a-matador Pleakley to the nearby abandoned house.
Naturally, Lilo and Stitch are afraid to enter the house, so they carefully walk in while she sings "Aloha ʻOe". Once they are trapped inside, they chase Spooky into a room with a swimming pool, nearly going in. However, Spooky then changes into a MonsterClown, scaring our duo and causing Stitch to fall into the pool. Lilo climbs up a column, but Spooky causes her to jump onto a diving board. She bounces off the board and ends up grabbing onto a high ledge. As Spooky decides to deal with Jumba and Pleakley as they enter the house, Stitch barely manages to get above water, clutches on a floating plank, and notices that Lilo is close to losing her grip on the crumbling ledge.
Jumba and Pleakley end up separating shortly after going inside, and Spooky changes to resemble Pleakley's mother, scaring him. Stitch, worried for Lilo as she is about to fall, starts singing "Aloha ʻOe" to himself and tries to swim to the diving board, but he falls underwater. However, he continues to sing the song to himself as he walks along the bottom of the pool. Lilo falls as he gets out of the water, but he manages to catch her in time. Stitch then goes after Spooky, who changed into Jumba's ex-wife after having frightened Pleakley.
Our blue hero chases the green blob into the house's dining room. Spooky tries to frighten Stitch again, but Stitch shows fearlessness and boredom, pretending to fall asleep, then punching Spooky when the experiment's guard is down. Spooky tries to escape in the main hall of the house, but Stitch manages to restrain him and put him in a containment capsule.
Lilo then decides to have Spooky help her out by making her house--which normally doesn't get any trick-or-treaters--the coolest place to trick-or-treat at by having him scare visitors for fun as they and Stitch hand out treats. She also implies that once the holiday is over, Spooky will begin scaring people year-round at the abandoned house as his "one true place".
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!![[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments The experiment]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek of the episode]]:
* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]: A ghostly green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back, greatly resembling another Disney (and Halloween-based) character, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. He is designed to scare people by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into their worst terrifying fears.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode include:
* AdultFear: Most of the characters' fears are irrational, but for Nani, Spooky turned into Social Services agent Cobra Bubbles telling her that he had to take Lilo away because she was an unsuitable guardian, which almost happened in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original movie]].
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Non-lethal variant: after being activated Spooky turns into a cat to frighten a mouse, only to attract the ire of a stray dog. He then turns into a dogcatcher, sending the pooch running.
* AnAesop: If you {{face your fears}}, you'll likely get over them.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Halloween is not a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays federal holiday]] like Lilo says it is. {{Justified|Trope}} since she's a young kid; she doesn't know any better.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Before Nani lets the rest of the ''[='=]ohana'' outside to chase after Spooky, she has them recite the house rules:
-->'''Lilo''': I stick with Stitch.\\
'''Nani''': Right. ''(to Jumba)'' And you?\\
'''Jumba''': I am to guard Lilo as if she were being delicate flower.\\
'''Nani''': Mm-hmm. ''(to Pleakley)'' And?\\
'''Pleakley''': And dog food is for dogs, not for little girls.\\
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'''Nani''': OK, go ahead.
* ChekhovsGun:
** "Aloha ʻOe"; Lilo says to Stitch that it's her coping mechanism. When he later ends up under water, Stitch sings the song to himself to keep calm as he [[FaceYourFears faces his fears]].
** The abandoned house. First introduced as a place Lilo fears, she, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley later chase Spooky inside and capture him there. Afterwards, it becomes his "one true place".
* DrowningPit: Spooky transforms into water--which is Stitch's worst fear since he cannot float--and fills up the kitchen they're both in with his watery self. He almost drowns Stitch until Lilo heads to the room, forcing the experiment to flee by draining himself through a vent.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses[=/=]PrincessPhase:
** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire episode takes place within a couple hours of Halloween night. The episode even ends while legal trick-or-treating hours are still going on (Nani was even getting ready to go to bed early because her house normally doesn't get ''any'' trick-or-treaters).
* FaceYourFears: The episode's moral and how Stitch defeats Spooky.
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode takes place on Halloween.
* HauntedHouse: An old abandoned house on top of a hill located near the Pelekai residence scares Lilo, so Spooky leads her and Stitch over there to scare her. The house then becomes Spooky's "one true place" after he's captured and rehabilitated.
* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Stitch eats a lemon on the floor and spits it out because it's organic. (He could probably taste the faintest bit of manure residue thanks to his SuperSenses.)
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Spooky can easily discover anyone's worst fears.[[note]]The later ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime shows that he can read people's minds.[[/note]]
* LosingYourHead: Spooky pretends to be Lilo with her head detached from her body to scare Mertle and her posse.
* MonsterClown: Spooky changes into a clown at one point to scare Lilo.
* ShoutOut: When Jumba and Pleakley are dressed like they're from the Antebellum South:
-->'''Jumba''': [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Frankly, my dear, I am not giving]] [[GoshDarnItToHeck darn]].
* SicklyGreenGlow: Spooky's green eyes glow brightly to show his frightening nature.
* SssssnakeTalk: While he's not a snake or a reptile, Spooky speaks this way when speaking English. This is especially noticeable when he's disguised as another person, with "Lilo" and "Cobra Bubbles" having their actual counterparts' voice actors doing this.
* StandardSnippet: "Aloha ʻOe" is revealed here to be Lilo's coping mechanism. Surprisingly, like with in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original film]], this still defies the normally silly use of the song by sticking it closer to its actual tone, even though ''The Series'' is a more traditional children's show when compared to the first ''Lilo & Stitch'' movie.
* WalkDontSwim: Stitch does this after falling into a swimming pool while trying to capture Spooky.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Spooky's function is to shapeshift into people's worst fears.
** Lilo has coulrophobia (fear of clowns) and is also afraid of a nearby abandoned house on a hill... and broccoli. Odd considering that she's a NightmareFetishist.
** Stitch has aquaphobia (fear of water) since [[SuperDrowningSkills he cannot swim]].
** Mertle and her posse are afraid of Lilo [[LosingYourHead without her head attached]].
** Moses (the girls' hula teacher) has arachnophobia (fear of spiders).
** Jumba is afraid of his ex-wife.
** Pleakley is afraid of his mother.
** Nani's fear is the only emotional fear that is shown; she is afraid of losing Lilo.
[[caption-width-right:350:Stitch and his greatest fear meet face-to-face.]]
"Spooky" is the sixth episode[[note]]second in production order and fifth aired instead according to Disney Wiki[[/note]] of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''. It first aired on October 12, 2003, which is also the same day that [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E5Holio "Holio"]] first aired.
[[HalloweenEpisode It's Halloween on Kaua'i]], and Lilo has dressed as a dead hula girl with a fake rubber axe on her head for Halloween, scaring the kids at the halau's Halloween party. "Kumu" Moses suggests to her that she should dress up as something more pleasant, like a [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]], so Lilo goes home to change costumes.
Jumba and [[WholesomeCrossdresser Pleakley]] are dressed up for Halloween, much to the former's chagrin. Lilo requests Pleakley to make her a princess costume right away, which he does so (he's very quick with the sewing machine). Stitch asks Lilo about Halloween, and she explains about how people scare each other on this day. He says he's not afraid of anything, and Lilo says she's not afraid either, except for clowns, broccoli, and a scary abandoned house on a nearby hill. However, she also shows him that she has a coping mechanism for whenever she's scared; singing the chorus of "Aloha ʻOe". Once Pleakley finishes the princess costume, Lilo changes into it and puts her rubber axe back on, then she and Stitch head over to the party.
At the party, Lilo seems to have returned as a dead hula girl again... [[LosingYourHead but with her head in her arms]] and [[SicklyGreenGlow glowing]] green eyes, scaring the lives out of Mertle, Elena, Teresa, and Yuki. "Lilo" then changes into a giant spider, scaring Moses and the partygoers out of the halau.
The actual Lilo and Stitch then show up at the halau, seeing the mess in the hall. She finds Mertle and her posse hiding under a table, the four girls frightened by the sight of Lilo. They explain what they last saw of her as Stitch goes into the halau's kitchen to raid the fridge, only for him to find a green blob-like creature with glowing green eyes transforming into a torrent of water. The creature almost drowns Stitch until Lilo approaches the kitchen, prompting the creature to hide. A terrified Stitch shouts, "Hissing green eyes!" similar to what Elena said to Lilo about what she and the rest Mertle's posse saw. Lilo decides to go back home to see Jumba, although Stitch has quickly become paranoid of nearly everything from his scary experience.
While Stitch boards up every window on the house, with Jumba and Pleakley having changed into different costumes, Lilo finds out that Stitch dealt with Experiment 300, an experiment designed to change into anyone's worst fears. Jumba's especially worried about 300, since the experiment can do an uncanny impression of his ex-wife. Once Lilo gets Stitch to stop blocking off every opening in the house, the duo go out into Kokaua Town to hunt down the experiment.
They don't find the experiment anywhere in town; instead, Stitch ends up blasting every trick-or-treater in purple restraining goo. However, they come back home to find Nani trying to convince who is believed to be Cobra Bubbles not to take Lilo away. Lilo and Stitch expose "Cobra" to be 300, who Lilo decides to call "Spooky". The experiment escapes, leading Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and now-dressed-as-a-matador Pleakley to the nearby abandoned house.
Naturally, Lilo and Stitch are afraid to enter the house, so they carefully walk in while she sings "Aloha ʻOe". Once they are trapped inside, they chase Spooky into a room with a swimming pool, nearly going in. However, Spooky then changes into a MonsterClown, scaring our duo and causing Stitch to fall into the pool. Lilo climbs up a column, but Spooky causes her to jump onto a diving board. She bounces off the board and ends up grabbing onto a high ledge. As Spooky decides to deal with Jumba and Pleakley as they enter the house, Stitch barely manages to get above water, clutches on a floating plank, and notices that Lilo is close to losing her grip on the crumbling ledge.
Jumba and Pleakley end up separating shortly after going inside, and Spooky changes to resemble Pleakley's mother, scaring him. Stitch, worried for Lilo as she is about to fall, starts singing "Aloha ʻOe" to himself and tries to swim to the diving board, but he falls underwater. However, he continues to sing the song to himself as he walks along the bottom of the pool. Lilo falls as he gets out of the water, but he manages to catch her in time. Stitch then goes after Spooky, who changed into Jumba's ex-wife after having frightened Pleakley.
Our blue hero chases the green blob into the house's dining room. Spooky tries to frighten Stitch again, but Stitch shows fearlessness and boredom, pretending to fall asleep, then punching Spooky when the experiment's guard is down. Spooky tries to escape in the main hall of the house, but Stitch manages to restrain him and put him in a containment capsule.
Lilo then decides to have Spooky help her out by making her house--which normally doesn't get any trick-or-treaters--the coolest place to trick-or-treat at by having him scare visitors for fun as they and Stitch hand out treats. She also implies that once the holiday is over, Spooky will begin scaring people year-round at the abandoned house as his "one true place".
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!![[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments The experiment]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek of the episode]]:
* [[YourWorstNightmare Spooky (X-300)]]: A ghostly green blob-like experiment with olive green eyes, a wide mouth and three round, short, stubby spikes on his back, greatly resembling another Disney (and Halloween-based) character, [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]. He is designed to scare people by [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into their worst terrifying fears.
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!!Tropes featured in this episode include:
* AdultFear: Most of the characters' fears are irrational, but for Nani, Spooky turned into Social Services agent Cobra Bubbles telling her that he had to take Lilo away because she was an unsuitable guardian, which almost happened in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original movie]].
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Non-lethal variant: after being activated Spooky turns into a cat to frighten a mouse, only to attract the ire of a stray dog. He then turns into a dogcatcher, sending the pooch running.
* AnAesop: If you {{face your fears}}, you'll likely get over them.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Halloween is not a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays federal holiday]] like Lilo says it is. {{Justified|Trope}} since she's a young kid; she doesn't know any better.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Before Nani lets the rest of the ''[='=]ohana'' outside to chase after Spooky, she has them recite the house rules:
-->'''Lilo''': I stick with Stitch.\\
'''Nani''': Right. ''(to Jumba)'' And you?\\
'''Jumba''': I am to guard Lilo as if she were being delicate flower.\\
'''Nani''': Mm-hmm. ''(to Pleakley)'' And?\\
'''Pleakley''': And dog food is for dogs, not for little girls.\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Nani''': OK, go ahead.
* ChekhovsGun:
** "Aloha ʻOe"; Lilo says to Stitch that it's her coping mechanism. When he later ends up under water, Stitch sings the song to himself to keep calm as he [[FaceYourFears faces his fears]].
** The abandoned house. First introduced as a place Lilo fears, she, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley later chase Spooky inside and capture him there. Afterwards, it becomes his "one true place".
* DrowningPit: Spooky transforms into water--which is Stitch's worst fear since he cannot float--and fills up the kitchen they're both in with his watery self. He almost drowns Stitch until Lilo heads to the room, forcing the experiment to flee by draining himself through a vent.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses[=/=]PrincessPhase:
** The stereotype of girls wanting to be princesses is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when Lilo comes to a costume party as a dead hula girl and her teacher suggests she wear something more like what some other girls are wearing. She looks at the girls he indicates and lists the choices she has:
---> '''Lilo''' ''(dully)'': Princess, princess, princess... or princess.
*** Still, she complies to Moses anyway and changes to a princess outfit, but still partly defies the trope with her rubber axe so she can be a "dead princess".
** Mertle, in a rare bit of compassion for Lilo,[[note]]even though Lilo is not around to hear this[[/note]] does admit that Lilo's right and they should not all be princesses, but Yuki points out that Mertle forced them into dressing as princesses, saying that she wanted to be a hockey player.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire episode takes place within a couple hours of Halloween night. The episode even ends while legal trick-or-treating hours are still going on (Nani was even getting ready to go to bed early because her house normally doesn't get ''any'' trick-or-treaters).
* FaceYourFears: The episode's moral and how Stitch defeats Spooky.
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode takes place on Halloween.
* HauntedHouse: An old abandoned house on top of a hill located near the Pelekai residence scares Lilo, so Spooky leads her and Stitch over there to scare her. The house then becomes Spooky's "one true place" after he's captured and rehabilitated.
* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: Stitch eats a lemon on the floor and spits it out because it's organic. (He could probably taste the faintest bit of manure residue thanks to his SuperSenses.)
* IKnowWhatYouFear: Spooky can easily discover anyone's worst fears.[[note]]The later ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime shows that he can read people's minds.[[/note]]
* LosingYourHead: Spooky pretends to be Lilo with her head detached from her body to scare Mertle and her posse.
* MonsterClown: Spooky changes into a clown at one point to scare Lilo.
* ShoutOut: When Jumba and Pleakley are dressed like they're from the Antebellum South:
-->'''Jumba''': [[Film/GoneWithTheWind Frankly, my dear, I am not giving]] [[GoshDarnItToHeck darn]].
* SicklyGreenGlow: Spooky's green eyes glow brightly to show his frightening nature.
* SssssnakeTalk: While he's not a snake or a reptile, Spooky speaks this way when speaking English. This is especially noticeable when he's disguised as another person, with "Lilo" and "Cobra Bubbles" having their actual counterparts' voice actors doing this.
* StandardSnippet: "Aloha ʻOe" is revealed here to be Lilo's coping mechanism. Surprisingly, like with in [[Disney/LiloAndStitch the original film]], this still defies the normally silly use of the song by sticking it closer to its actual tone, even though ''The Series'' is a more traditional children's show when compared to the first ''Lilo & Stitch'' movie.
* WalkDontSwim: Stitch does this after falling into a swimming pool while trying to capture Spooky.
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Spooky's function is to shapeshift into people's worst fears.
** Lilo has coulrophobia (fear of clowns) and is also afraid of a nearby abandoned house on a hill... and broccoli. Odd considering that she's a NightmareFetishist.
** Stitch has aquaphobia (fear of water) since [[SuperDrowningSkills he cannot swim]].
** Mertle and her posse are afraid of Lilo [[LosingYourHead without her head attached]].
** Moses (the girls' hula teacher) has arachnophobia (fear of spiders).
** Jumba is afraid of his ex-wife.
** Pleakley is afraid of his mother.
** Nani's fear is the only emotional fear that is shown; she is afraid of losing Lilo.
