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* DramaticDrop: Heffer drops a bowl of candy, after Filburt asks who took the pictures from the previous Halloween.
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* FreudianExcuse: Filburt's parents spent Halloween going to parties, leaving him in the care of Aunt Gretchen. She proceeded to tell him horror stories about Halloween and candy, which is why he's a shut-in at the start of the episode and why he goes absolutely crazy after eating some candy.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Ed and Bev start off screaming at each other, with Rocko observing it's worse than usual and being one of the reasons he thinks murder has occurred. When Ed later returns from the hospital, Bev happily greets him. The episode also closes out on the two sharing a romantic moment.
* ChairReveal: Rocko finds it's not Ed in the wheelchair in the basement, but Earl (who promptly turns out the light and mauls Rocko).
* ChekhovsGag: The wart on Ed's butt, a source of ridicule from onlookers and his excuse for not doing any yard work. It turns out he spent the episode in the hospital having it removed.
* ChairReveal: Rocko finds it's not Ed in the wheelchair in the basement, but Earl (who promptly turns out the light and mauls Rocko).
* ChekhovsGag: The wart on Ed's butt, a source of ridicule from onlookers and his excuse for not doing any yard work. It turns out he spent the episode in the hospital having it removed.
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* TheGlomp: How Bev greets Ed, upon his return from the hospital.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: Rocko thinks he saw Bev murder a panicking Ed through the window. When Bev is explaining, we see the seen from her perspective: she was working on a meat sculpture that he was posing for, and she discards the failing effort.
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* SlasherSmile: Bev when inviting Rocko to dinner and saying Ed won't be there. Rocko runs screaming from the house.
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* ThemeTuneCameo: Really Really Big Man goes trick-or-treating dressed as Rocko, and he is shown whistling the ''Rocko's Modern Life'' theme song as he walks past.
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* DisneyAcidSequence: After eating an entire bag of sugar, Filburt has one that's a direct parody of the "Night On Bald Mountain" segment from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', with Filburt in the role of Chernabog.
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* MushroomSamba: After eating an entire bag of sugar, Filburt has one that's a direct parody of the "Night On Bald Mountain" segment from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', with Filburt in the role of Chernabog.
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'''Ed is Dead: A Thriller!'''
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-->'''Newscaster:''' ''What the heck’s a "hessian"?''
* DeadHatShot: The camera lingers on Filburt’s broken glasses laying in the creek, implying that he didn’t survive his encounter with the Hopping Hessian. This is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] however, as he is later shown to be perfectly fine.
* GoshDangItToHeck:
-->'''Filburt:''' ''Just a gosh darned minute.''
-->'''Filburt:''' ''Just a gosh darned minute.''
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* HeadlessHorseman: The legend is parodied with the one-legged "Hopping Hessian". Instead of having lost his head, the Hopping Hessian is revealed to have lost his leg.
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* HeadlessHorseman: A variation. The legend is parodied with the one-legged "Hopping Hessian". Instead of having lost his head, the Hopping Hessian is revealed to have lost his leg.
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* ItsProbablyNothing: Parodied when Rocko, Heffer and Filburt are walking through the graveyard after Filburt's sugar rush. They hear a cracking sound, and Rocko and Heffer jump at the sound and ask what it was, but Filburt just says in a deadpan manner, "Oh, just a twig snapping." To which the scene changes to show a rabbit and a squirrel have indeed deliberately snapped a twig in half to give the three a scare.
* MarshmallowDream: When Filburt hallucinates about eating a giant chocolate bar, Rocko and Heffer find him at the cemetery, chewing on a tombstone.
* MarshmallowDream: When Filburt hallucinates about eating a giant chocolate bar, Rocko and Heffer find him at the cemetery, chewing on a tombstone.
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* ItsProbablyNothing: Parodied when Rocko, Heffer Heffer, and Filburt are walking through the graveyard after Filburt's sugar rush. They rush and they hear a cracking sound, and sound. Rocko and Heffer jump at the sound and ask what it was, but Filburt just says in a deadpan manner, "Oh, just a twig snapping." To which the The scene changes to show a rabbit and a squirrel have indeed deliberately snapped a twig in half to give the three a scare.
*MarshmallowDream: MadnessInducedOmnivore: When Filburt hallucinates about eating a giant chocolate bar, Rocko and Heffer find him at the cemetery, chewing on a tombstone.tombstone.
* Magic8Ball: When Heffer tries to get Filburt out of hiding, Filburt's shell briefly turns into a Magic 8 Ball that gives the message, “Ask again later.” Filburt finally comes out when Heffer tries asking about his love life.
-->'''Heffer:''' ''Cool! Umm...will I ever find true love?''
-->'''Filburt:''' ''Okay I’m out, knock it off!''
* TheManInTheMoon: When Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt first start out trick-or-treating, the moon gets an evil-looking face with a jagged smile. It goes back to normal later in the episode.
* MassOhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer [[DramaticDrop breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of]].
* MindControlEyes: Filburt gets these after eating his first piece of candy, showing that the sugar rush has officially kicked in.
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* Magic8Ball: When Heffer tries to get Filburt out of hiding, Filburt's shell briefly turns into a Magic 8 Ball that gives the message, “Ask again later.” Filburt finally comes out when Heffer tries asking about his love life.
-->'''Heffer:''' ''Cool! Umm...will I ever find true love?''
-->'''Filburt:''' ''Okay I’m out, knock it off!''
* TheManInTheMoon: When Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt first start out trick-or-treating, the moon gets an evil-looking face with a jagged smile. It goes back to normal later in the episode.
* MassOhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer [[DramaticDrop breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of]].
* MindControlEyes: Filburt gets these after eating his first piece of candy, showing that the sugar rush has officially kicked in.
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* OhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer [[DramaticDrop breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of]].
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* OhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. OverlyNervousFlopSweat: Filburt nervously asks who had taken starts sweating profusely before he tells the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer [[DramaticDrop breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of]].story of why he’s scared of Halloween.
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* ShoutOut: After Filburt goes insane from eating an entire bag of sugar, he has a hallucination sequence similar to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from ''Fantasia''.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** Heffer's line of "They're coming to get you, Filbert" is an homage to a line early in the film ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'', when Johnny torments his sibling Barbara at a cemetery.
** After Filburt goes insane from eating an entire bag of sugar, he has a hallucination sequence similar to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from''Fantasia''.''[[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Fantasia]]''.
** After the TimeSkip, Filburt references Charles Dickens’ ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'' when he asks a passing trick-or-treater what day it is and is happy to find out that he didn’t miss Halloween.
** Heffer's line of "They're coming to get you, Filbert" is an homage to a line early in the film ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 Night of the Living Dead]]'', when Johnny torments his sibling Barbara at a cemetery.
** After Filburt goes insane from eating an entire bag of sugar, he has a hallucination sequence similar to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from
** After the TimeSkip, Filburt references Charles Dickens’ ''[[Literature/AChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]'' when he asks a passing trick-or-treater what day it is and is happy to find out that he didn’t miss Halloween.
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* TimeSkip: After Rocko, Heffer, and Filburt get attacked by the Hopping Hessian, the episode cuts to Halloween the following year.
* UrbanLegend: The episode starts off with introducing the legend of the Hopping Hessian: a ghost that only has one leg and terrorizes trick-or-treaters on Halloween. He turns out to be RealAfterAll as the trio comes to learn, however he ends up being a pretty chill guy.
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-->'''Filburt''': ''Just a gosh darned minute. Who ''Who took those pictures?!''
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* HorrifyingTheHorror: Not even the Hopping Hessian remembers how those photos were taken, and is left just as shocked as everyone else.
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* NothingIsScarier: The episode ends on a silly note of everyone looking at photos from the previous Halloween, until Filburt asks who took them.
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* SpookyPhotographs: Played with. The photos initially appear harmless, with Rocko, Heffer, Filburt, Gordon, and the Hessian smiling and having fun. Then they became horrifying when Filburt asks who took them, leaving everyone speechless in horror at the implications.
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-->'''Filburt''': ''Who ''Just a gosh darned minute. Who took those photos?!''
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Really Really Big Man whistles the ''Rocko's Modern Life'' theme song as he skips through O-Town in a Rocko costume.
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** Rocko sneaks into the the Bigheads' basement and sees what appears to be Mr. Bighead [[FaceRevealingTurn seated in a chair with his back to Rocko]], similar to Lila finding Bates' mother in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Subverted when it actually turns out to be Earl, the Bigheads' AngryGuardDog.
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** Rocko sneaks into the the Bigheads' basement and sees what appears to be Mr. Bighead [[FaceRevealingTurn seated in a chair with his back to Rocko]], similar to Lila finding Bates' mother in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Subverted when it actually turns out to be Earl, the Bigheads' AngryGuardDog.AngryGuardDog.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After realizing Ed doesn't want anyone to know about his wart removal, Rocko casually assures Ed he won't tell anyone he "Had his tonsils removed." It takes a moment before Ed realizes Rocko's willing to cover for him and thanks him.
* ThrowTheDogABone: After realizing Ed doesn't want anyone to know about his wart removal, Rocko casually assures Ed he won't tell anyone he "Had his tonsils removed." It takes a moment before Ed realizes Rocko's willing to cover for him and thanks him.
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* TooOldToTrickOrTreat: Rocko and Heffer, both adults in their early 20s, go out trick-or-treating on Halloween night and manage to rope Filburt into coming along, and they have virtually no problems with this, not even when they join a group of small children during their trek (although one woman at the door thinks Rocko, dressed as Really Really Big Man, had already visited her house - when it was really the actual Really Really Big Man (also an adult) trick-or-treating dressed as Rocko!)
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* WhamLine: Dropped by Filburt in response to the photos from last Halloween.
-->'''Filburt''': ''Who took those photos?!''
-->'''Filburt''': ''Who took those photos?!''
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* OhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of.
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* OhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer [[DramaticDrop breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of.of]].
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The first episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and the series' HalloweenEpisode (the first episode is the "main characters go trick-or-treating" type of Halloween episode while the second one is the "homage to a famous horror movie" episode[[note]]or thriller, in this case, since it borrows from Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rear Window'' and ''Psycho''[[/note]])
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The first episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and the series' HalloweenEpisode (the first episode is the "main characters go trick-or-treating" type of Halloween episode while the second one is the "homage to a famous horror movie" episode[[note]]or thriller, in this case, since it borrows from Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rear Window'' and ''Psycho''[[/note]])
HalloweenEpisode.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This exchange between Ed and Bev at the end of the episode, which is shown only in silhouette:
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-what are you doing?!\\
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-what are you doing?!\\
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This exchange between Ed GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and Bev at the end of the episode, which persistent misuse, GCPTR is shown on-page examples only in silhouette:
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-whatuntil 01 June 2021. If you are you doing?!\\
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-what
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!
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The first episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
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The first episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' and the series' HalloweenEpisode (the first episode is the "main characters go trick-or-treating" type of Halloween episode while the second one is the "homage to a famous horror movie" episode[[note]]or thriller, in this case, since it borrows from Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rear Window'' and ''Psycho''[[/note]])
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* BedsheetGhost: Filburt's Halloween costume when he reluctantly goes trick-or-treating with Rocko and Heffer consists of this, with a lampshade for a hat. But among tasting his first piece of Halloween candy and descending into a sugar addiction, the lampshade [[StuffBlowingUp explodes]] and the sheet splits apart. Another (much younger) trick-or-treater is also seen dressed this way.
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* ItsProbablyNothing: Parodied when Rocko, Heffer and Filburt are walking through the graveyard after Filburt's sugar rush. They hear a cracking sound, and Rocko and Heffer jump at the sound and ask what it was, but Filburt just says in a deadpan manner, "Oh, just a twig snapping." To which the scene changes to show a rabbit and a squirrel have indeed deliberately snapped a twig in half to give the three a scare.
* OhCrap: At the very end, when Gordon and the Hopping Hessian are leaving to go to the photo hut for their Halloween scares, and Rocko and Heffer are going to prepare for trick-or-treating. Filburt nervously asks who had taken the pictures they were just looking at slides of, to which everyone else, even the Hopping Hessian, widen their eyes in fear and Heffer breaks the candy bowl he was eating out of.
* TheReveal: With this episode, we learn that the ghost of the Hopping Hessian is the off-screen voice that responds to what Gordon says with "Yes!" or "No!"
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* DramaticThunder: A rainstorm appears in this episode's climax, where Rocko confronts Bev after Spunky sneaks into the Bigheads' backyard. The storm ends when Ed returns from his wart removal surgery.
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* MistakenForMurderer: Rocko witnesses the apparent murder of Ed by Bev and starts swearing that he's next. In the end, it turns out that Bev was actually using a trowel to sculpt a bust of Ed and that Ed went missing because he left to have surgery done to remove a wart on his butt.
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* MistakenForMurderer: Rocko witnesses the apparent murder of Ed by Bev and starts swearing that he's next. In the end, it turns out that Bev was actually using a trowel to sculpt a bust of Ed that fell apart and that Ed went missing because he left to have surgery done to remove a wart on his butt.
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The first episode of the third season of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife''.
'''Sugar Frosted Frights'''
Rocko and Heffer take Filburt on his first night of trick-or-treating, and have a run-in with a one-legged ghost.
'''Ed is Dead: A Thriller!'''
Rocko suspects that Mrs. Bighead has murdered her husband.
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!! "Sugar Frosted Frights" provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: The Newscaster misnames the Hopping Hessian as the "Hopping Henchman", and is corrected from offscreen by the director.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Rocko and Heffer trick-or-treat at Gladys the Hippo Lady's house, Gladys says "I believe I might have some goodies offscreen here."
* DisneyAcidSequence: After eating an entire bag of sugar, Filburt has one that's a direct parody of the "Night On Bald Mountain" segment from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', with Filburt in the role of Chernabog.
* EyeScream: When Rocko gets pieces of candy stuck to his face, the children pull his eyes out along with the candy. He gets his eyes back in the next scene.
* FurryReminder: Rocko and Heffer scream when they find what looks like a headless Filburt, then they remember that Filburt's a turtle and he's actually hiding it in his shell.
* GRatedDrug: After eating his first piece of candy, Filburt becomes addicted to sugar and eats whatever sugary confection he can find.
*GoKartingWithBowser: The end of the episode takes place one year after its main events. In it, The Hopping Hessian shows Rocko, Heffer, and Gordon slides from the previous Halloween.
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode's events take place on Halloween night.
* HeadlessHorseman: The legend is parodied with the one-legged "Hopping Hessian". Instead of having lost his head, the Hopping Hessian is revealed to have lost his leg.
* IrisOut: This episode ends with one shaped like a jack-o-lantern's face.
* MarshmallowDream: When Filburt hallucinates about eating a giant chocolate bar, Rocko and Heffer find him at the cemetery, chewing on a tombstone.
* MobileFishbowl: Filburt's Aunt Gretchen lives inside a tank, and Filburt explains the reason for it; she was raised in an aquarium and refused to leave it, so she grew into it.
* {{Mooning}}: One of the slides looked at by Rocko, Heffer, the Hopping Hessian, and Gordon depicts Heffer smiling as he drops his pants to bare his butt to the camera.
* RazorApples: Parodied; when Dr. Hutchison appears on O-Town Action News to discuss Halloween safety tips, she holds up an apple with a pair of gardening shears in it.
* ShoutOut: After Filburt goes insane from eating an entire bag of sugar, he has a hallucination sequence similar to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from ''Fantasia''.
* StaggeredZoom: Seen after Rocko and Heffer remove the sheet Filburt is hiding under and he appears headless (he's actually hiding it under his shell.)
* ThemeTuneCameo: Really Really Big Man whistles the ''Rocko's Modern Life'' theme song as he skips through O-Town in a Rocko costume.
!! "Ed is Dead: A Thriller" provides examples of:
* DramaticThunder: A rainstorm appears in this episode's climax, where Rocko confronts Bev after Spunky sneaks into the Bigheads' backyard. The storm ends when Ed returns from his wart removal surgery.
* EvilOverlooker: This episode's title card depicts a giant Bev wickedly looking down at Ed as he falls into an open grave.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This exchange between Ed and Bev at the end of the episode, which is shown only in silhouette:
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-what are you doing?!\\
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!
* ImpactSilhouette: Subverted; Bev digs a hole shaped like Ed's body, which Rocko believes she's going to bury him in after she allegedly killed him. It is later revealed that Ed gave Bev a shovel shaped like his body as an anniversary present.
* MistakenForMurderer: Rocko witnesses the apparent murder of Ed by Bev and starts swearing that he's next. In the end, it turns out that Bev was actually using a trowel to sculpt a bust of Ed and that Ed went missing because he left to have surgery done to remove a wart on his butt.
* RearWindowHomage: This episode's main plot is a parody of ''Film/RearWindow'' and contains numerous shout-outs to that film.
* ShoutOut:
** The beginning of this episode is one to the ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' opening, complete with music.
** Rocko sneaks into the the Bigheads' basement and sees what appears to be Mr. Bighead [[FaceRevealingTurn seated in a chair with his back to Rocko]], similar to Lila finding Bates' mother in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Subverted when it actually turns out to be Earl, the Bigheads' AngryGuardDog.
'''Sugar Frosted Frights'''
Rocko and Heffer take Filburt on his first night of trick-or-treating, and have a run-in with a one-legged ghost.
'''Ed is Dead: A Thriller!'''
Rocko suspects that Mrs. Bighead has murdered her husband.
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!! "Sugar Frosted Frights" provides examples of:
* AccidentalMisnaming: The Newscaster misnames the Hopping Hessian as the "Hopping Henchman", and is corrected from offscreen by the director.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: When Rocko and Heffer trick-or-treat at Gladys the Hippo Lady's house, Gladys says "I believe I might have some goodies offscreen here."
* DisneyAcidSequence: After eating an entire bag of sugar, Filburt has one that's a direct parody of the "Night On Bald Mountain" segment from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'', with Filburt in the role of Chernabog.
* EyeScream: When Rocko gets pieces of candy stuck to his face, the children pull his eyes out along with the candy. He gets his eyes back in the next scene.
* FurryReminder: Rocko and Heffer scream when they find what looks like a headless Filburt, then they remember that Filburt's a turtle and he's actually hiding it in his shell.
* GRatedDrug: After eating his first piece of candy, Filburt becomes addicted to sugar and eats whatever sugary confection he can find.
*GoKartingWithBowser: The end of the episode takes place one year after its main events. In it, The Hopping Hessian shows Rocko, Heffer, and Gordon slides from the previous Halloween.
* HalloweenEpisode: This episode's events take place on Halloween night.
* HeadlessHorseman: The legend is parodied with the one-legged "Hopping Hessian". Instead of having lost his head, the Hopping Hessian is revealed to have lost his leg.
* IrisOut: This episode ends with one shaped like a jack-o-lantern's face.
* MarshmallowDream: When Filburt hallucinates about eating a giant chocolate bar, Rocko and Heffer find him at the cemetery, chewing on a tombstone.
* MobileFishbowl: Filburt's Aunt Gretchen lives inside a tank, and Filburt explains the reason for it; she was raised in an aquarium and refused to leave it, so she grew into it.
* {{Mooning}}: One of the slides looked at by Rocko, Heffer, the Hopping Hessian, and Gordon depicts Heffer smiling as he drops his pants to bare his butt to the camera.
* RazorApples: Parodied; when Dr. Hutchison appears on O-Town Action News to discuss Halloween safety tips, she holds up an apple with a pair of gardening shears in it.
* ShoutOut: After Filburt goes insane from eating an entire bag of sugar, he has a hallucination sequence similar to the "Night on Bald Mountain" sequence from ''Fantasia''.
* StaggeredZoom: Seen after Rocko and Heffer remove the sheet Filburt is hiding under and he appears headless (he's actually hiding it under his shell.)
* ThemeTuneCameo: Really Really Big Man whistles the ''Rocko's Modern Life'' theme song as he skips through O-Town in a Rocko costume.
!! "Ed is Dead: A Thriller" provides examples of:
* DramaticThunder: A rainstorm appears in this episode's climax, where Rocko confronts Bev after Spunky sneaks into the Bigheads' backyard. The storm ends when Ed returns from his wart removal surgery.
* EvilOverlooker: This episode's title card depicts a giant Bev wickedly looking down at Ed as he falls into an open grave.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: This exchange between Ed and Bev at the end of the episode, which is shown only in silhouette:
-->'''Bev:''' Wh-what are you doing?!\\
'''Ed:''' You thought I was kidding, eh? ''[looks as if he's grabbing Bev's neck]''\\
'''Bev:''' Stop it Ed, stop it. Y-you're scaring me!\\
'''Ed:''' ''STOP IT?!'' I'm not gonna stop till I'm through!\\
'''Bev:''' Oh, oh! You beast!
* ImpactSilhouette: Subverted; Bev digs a hole shaped like Ed's body, which Rocko believes she's going to bury him in after she allegedly killed him. It is later revealed that Ed gave Bev a shovel shaped like his body as an anniversary present.
* MistakenForMurderer: Rocko witnesses the apparent murder of Ed by Bev and starts swearing that he's next. In the end, it turns out that Bev was actually using a trowel to sculpt a bust of Ed and that Ed went missing because he left to have surgery done to remove a wart on his butt.
* RearWindowHomage: This episode's main plot is a parody of ''Film/RearWindow'' and contains numerous shout-outs to that film.
* ShoutOut:
** The beginning of this episode is one to the ''Series/AlfredHitchcockPresents'' opening, complete with music.
** Rocko sneaks into the the Bigheads' basement and sees what appears to be Mr. Bighead [[FaceRevealingTurn seated in a chair with his back to Rocko]], similar to Lila finding Bates' mother in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Subverted when it actually turns out to be Earl, the Bigheads' AngryGuardDog.
