History Recap / TalesFromTheCryptS4E7TheNewArrival

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Alan ends the episode at the mercy of the undead child he failed to reach, forced to endure her "playtime" and her favorite show (the shock jock who Rona replaced him with) while tries in vain to "ignore" his problems like he told so many struggling parents to do.

[[caption-width-right:350:And you thought [[Film/ProblemChild Junior]] was a problem child...]]

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(wrapped in a straightjacket and speaking to a psychologist, while notably distressed)'' You see what I mean, doc?! It's- it's just like that nightmare I told you about! The one I keep having when I'm petting ''Bambi!'' ''(gasps)'' You've got to help me, doc! I'm losing my '''''mind!''''' I can't seem to take a ''joke'' anymore! I mean, a ''choke!'' I mean... it's like the man in tonight's tale. He's a head shrinker who's about to undergo a little ''final'' analysis of his own, in a paranoid parable I call: '''The New Arrival.'''

Dr. Alan Goetz (Creator/DavidWarner) is an award-winning child psychologist who hosts ''Good Psychology'', a radio talk show where he takes calls from troubled parents. Being pompous and full of himself, Dr. Goetz advises these burdened parents to ignore their children's behavior and ridicules them for their presumed lackluster parenting. The owner of the radio station where the doctor hosts his show, Rona, insistently tells Alan's long-suffering producer Bonnie that his show is sharply falling in the ratings and is facing replacement by the trashy shock jock Lothar's show. Alan then receives a call from Nora (Creator/ZeldaRubinstein), a regular caller whose daughter Felicity is inordinately troubled. In a stroke of inspiration, Alan decides to offer Nora, who he considers "the epitome of the inept parent", a chance for some sit-in counseling, which he plans to make into a series of episodes broadcast live from Nora's home. Nora graciously accepts, so Alan and Bonnie head over to her large, secluded, and decrepit house. Rona takes the opportunity to tag along with them, hoping Alan may fail in his attempts to discipline the girl so she can finally drop his show.

Alan and Bonnie soon find out that Felicity is indeed a rather problematic child, wearing a white porcelain mask over her face, electrifying her room's doorknob and the doorbell, coating the walls in bubblegum, banging her head against the wall, and emitting primal screams that echo through the halls. Upon hearing Nora reveal that Felicity's father is allegedly fighting in "the War", and seeing that she has books from every major noted child psychologist in her possession, Alan theorizes that Nora and Felicity are actually one and the same; the result of a damaged psyche resulting in a split personality. Determined that good psychology will always beat bad behavior, Alan braves the booby trapped house to find "Felicity" and give her the help she desperately needs. But when he is finally ready to give the demented girl some counselling, Alan discovers that Felicity isn't exactly who he thinks she is.

!!"The New Arrival" provides examples of:
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the comic, Alan was just an unlucky guy who happened on Nora's house by accident during a storm. Here, he's a pompous radio psychiatrist who's only out for himself.
* AllForNothing: In the end, Nora turns on the radio to what she calls Felicity's "favorite show", and the program she turns on is Lothar's program. This reveals that Rona actually cancelled Alan's show before he and Bonnie even left the station, and Alan has put himself through hell for nothing.
* TheBadGuyWins: Nora is only a "bad guy" in the sense that she abducts psychologists and locks them up until they die so they can help her daughter, which is what she subjects Alan to by the episode's end. Felicity also never gets disciplined for killing Rona and Bonnie, and is free to "play" with Alan all she wants until he dies.
* BerserkButton: The slightest contradiction to what he has to say is all it takes for Alan to go off like a rocket.

* BoobyTrap: Felicity has managed to electrify the doorknob to her room, as well as the doorbell. Alan gets shocked when he tries to open her door by himself. Bonnie, meanwhile, manages to get around the shock by coating her palm with some of Felicity's old bubblegum.
* BreakTheHaughty: The constant threat of Felicity killing him after having done away with his manager and producer turns Alan from a stoic and competent professional to a coward who begs to be released from his newfound prison.
* CallingTheOldManOut: This is one of the two things Alan tells troubled parents regarding their children, telling them that their misbehaved children are their fault and slinging insults at them for their lackluster parenting, not even bothering to give actual advice to their problems.
* CharacterCatchphrase: Alan has two of them: "Ignore it, ignore it, ignore it!" and "Good psychology beats bad behavior every time!"
* ChildHater: Rona admits that she hates kids when Felicity's old gum gets stuck to her fancy shoes.
* CreepyChild: Thanks to her primal shrieking, her coating the walls with gum, electrifying the doorknob to her room and the house's doorbell, and banging her head against the wall, Felicity ''is'' the child from hell. It's even taken literally after TheReveal. Even before then, Alan theorized that she was the type to burn her house down, smear her feces on the walls, and electrocute her cat.
* DeadAllAlong: It turns out Felicity has been dead for 40 years, but is still active even as a zombie.
* DeadlyRotaryFan: Felicity manages to kill Bonnie by causing the fan above her to rapidly increase in speed and descend from the ceiling, where it chops her head off.
* DenserAndWackier: There are some slight hints of this formula for the episode, given that it's focused on a psychologist who's at the mercy of a demented child bombarding him with [[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone-style traps.]]
* DisappearedDad: Nora tells Alan and Bonnie that Felicity's father is allegedly still "in the War." Rona can tell that her story doesn't add up because the father, whose picture she picked up, is seen shaking hands with Douglas [=MacArthur=].
* DrJerk: Alan has absolutely no interest in actually helping parents discipline their children. All he does instead is call them out for being bad parental figures and tells them to ignore their misbehaving children instead of actually getting to the root of their problems.
* EntertaininglyWrong: Alan initially suspects that Felicity and Nora are two personalities sharing one body, given how neither of them are seen at the same time and they have the exact same physical stature. The ending reveals that Felicity is actually a separate person... who's been dead for 40 years.
** Rona also had theories of how Nora's eccentric behavior meant that she couldn't possibly have a kid of her own, thinking that she's kidnapped some missing kid from a milk carton, or housing an escapee from a mental institution in her attic.
* EvilBrit: The British Dr. Goetz isn't downright evil, but he ''is'' self-centered and treats everyone else, especially parents he considers inept, like shit.
* ExactEavesdropping: Alan overhears Rona's threat to can his show by switching frequencies from Nora's call to the control room.
* FoodAsBribe: Nora offers Felicity some of her favorite bubblegum if she behaves herself, only for Alan to stop her, telling her that bribing a child to stop their bad behavior only reinforces said behavior.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Lothar tells Alan, as his shift ends, his ratings are skyrocketing and there are rumors that he's going to be getting the doctor's timeslot. The episode's ending reveals that the rumors came true.
** Bonnie notes that Nora's library holds every child psychology book ever written, including one whose author disappeared. This happens to be the case because Nora lured these psychologists to her house and locked them in the attic to have them try and help Felicity behave, only for them to starve to death and Nora to collect their books for her library.
*** Rona also screams when she turns around and sees four chairs placed in a specific manner in the attic. We later find the psychologists' corpses in those same chairs.
* GoodParents: As twisted as her methods are, Nora absolutely loves her daughter and truly wants to help her behave more properly, even if it means essentially abducting child psychologists and locking them with Felicity until they starve to death to get them to help her.
* GrossGumGag: Alan, Bonnie, and Rona discover the hallway leading to Felicity's room is completely caked in grape bubblegum.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Heartbeats can be heard mixed into a series of creepy, crawling noises as Felicity runs throughout the house.
* HellIsThatNoise: Felicity's primal shrieks echoing through the halls of the house, reminding the viewers of a feral and tormented animal.
* HiddenDepths: Felicity, in spite of her borderline lunacy, happens to be a pretty effective electrician, rigging the doorbell to shock unsuspecting visitors, electrifying the doorknob to her bedroom, and rigging a ceiling fan to descend and decapitate Bonnie.
* {{Homage}}: This episode serves as one to films such as ''Film/HomeAlone'' and ''Film/ProblemChild'', since much like those films, the episode features a badly misbehaved child who has a penchant for setting tricks and traps around their house, and also need a big lesson in behavior modification.
* HomeAloneAntics: Alan and Bonnie are subject to some of these as they explore the house trying to find Felicity, including electrified doorknobs and a ceiling fan that kills Bonnie.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: People have somehow given Alan a metric ton of recognition and awards before the episode began, even though all he does is tell parents to ignore their children and rebukes them for being bad parents.
* IronicEcho: Alan's catchphrase of "Ignore it, ignore it, ignore it!", the horrible advice he's given to countless bad parents in need of help, is thrown right back at him at the end of the episode. The person he's saying it to this time is himself.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Alan is a pompous asshole who only thinks of himself as the most superior psychologist on the planet, and will either tell troubled parents to ignore their misbehaving kids or straight up insult their skills in parenting.
* JerkassHasAPoint: As mean and insulting as she is, Rona is completely right that Alan's "advice" is causing his ratings to plummet. She even points out Alan snapping at Nora's suggestion of coming to her house and meeting Felicity in person to prove her point.
* KarmaHoudini: Felicity gets no punishment for killing Rona and Bonnie, and Nora gets away with sending another child psychologist to his death.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Alan ends the episode at the mercy of the undead child he failed to reach, forced to endure her playtime and her favorite show (the shock jock who Rona replaced him with), left to just "ignore" his problems like he told so many parents to do.
* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Alan is an award winning child psychologist who has written a best-selling book, but he's constantly full of himself, treats everyone like crap, and is gradually revealed to be less competent that he looks, to the point where Bonnie calls him out for all of this before she's killed.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After trying to get through to Felicity and ultimately just throttling her, Alan discovers the truth about her and is left to fruitlessly get through to her before he dies, listening to the show that replaced his own on the radio as Felicity plays games around him.
* MeanBoss: Rona, the radio station manager, is astoundingly bitchy to all of her employees, and she rubs it in poor Bonnie's face that she can't wait to can Alan's show. She actually does so before she, Alan, and Bonnie even leave the station, hoping to watch Alan's reputation crash and burn. Thankfully, Felicity makes her her first victim.
* MortonsFork: Felicity's undead state runs on this, with her love for her mother allowing her to stay active after death, but the state of undeath itself bringing her great pain.
* MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: The mummified corpses of four other psychologists who came to Nora's house before Alan are revealed to be locked in the attic, each of them tied up and left to try and help Felicity until they starved to death.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Once her mask and wig come off, revealing her as a zombie, Felicity becomes frightened of Alan, then decides to "get acquainted" with him at her mother's request. It can be guessed that her bad behavior streak was just a way of venting with the frustration and pain that comes with being undead, and she's not as bad as she seems when given the right kind of treatment.
** Similarly, while her own motives are rather illegal, Nora genuinely thinks that locking psychologists in her attic with her zombified daughter will help Felicity behave herself better, even though that wasn't the case with the last four she sent up there.
* NothingIsScarier: The deranged screams that Felicity makes before she's introduced, letting the audience know that she could be hiding anywhere in the house.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Nora is seen as gentle, kindly, and supportive of Alan's attempts to help her daughter. When she comes across him throttling Felicity, she actually yells to him that he should be ashamed for attacking a little girl.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: If the Crypt Keeper is to be believed, Alan managed to escape Nora's attic at some point after the episode ends, and even got a job at another radio station.
* OffWithHisHead: Bonnie is killed when Felicity tinkers with a ceiling fan, making it speed up and descend to the floor to chop off her head.
* OminousMusicBoxTune: This serves as a {{Leitmotif}} for Felicity, usually playing when she's not actively causing trouble.
* ParentalNeglect: Alan actively ''encourages'' parents to ignore their troubled children instead of taking the time to find out why they act out. He even wrote a bestselling book titled ''The Art of Ignoring Your Child.''
* PeekABooCorpse: Bonnie discovers Rona's corpse lying on Felicity's bed, a jump rope wrapped around her neck and her face frozen in shock.
* ThePowerOfLove: Nora hints that Felicity came back from the grave thanks to her love for her mom, but her being undead gives her pain as well.
* RedHerring: The evidence tying into the theory that Felicity may be an alter-ego of Nora's, including the knowledge that she was tinkering with the doorbell and the tape recorder where she tells Felicity that she's badly behaved, is rendered moot by TheReveal mentioned below.
* TheReveal: [[DeadAllAlong Felicity has been dead for 40 years]], and Nora's been luring psychologists like Alan to her house so that they can help her, only to end up keeping them there until they die.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Alan and Bonnie discover Felicity's bedroom is full of stuffed dolls, windup toys activated on their own, antique televisions playing nothing but static, and a tape recorder with audio of Nora berating her daughter. This is what convinces Alan that Nora and her daughter are actually the same person.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: While they were already debating taking their show to another radio station, Alan and Bonnie are truly set to bail on Nora when they discover Rona's corpse on Felicity's bed.
* ShaggyDogStory: The end of the episode reveals that Lothar was given Alan's timeslot before he and Bonnie even left the station, so Alan had to endure absolute hell trying to discipline Felicity and ultimately ended up left to die in Nora's attic for no reason.
* ShockJock: Lothar, who Rona was planning to have replace Alan's show. We learn at the end that she did it in advance, rendering Alan's hellish trek to save his show and discipline Felicity moot.
* SkewedPriorities: When coming upon the gum-caked hallway, Rona's only complaint is that she got some of it on her Italian shoes.
* SmallParentHugeChild: It's downplayed, but Nora and Felicity are the same size in nearly all physical aspects. This is a factor that makes Alan believe Felicity is actually a separate persona from her mother's mind.
* SplitPersonality: Alan thinks that this is actually the truth behind Felicity, that she's an alter-ego of Nora. This is proven incorrect in the end when Nora walks in on Alan throttling her daughter.
* SpoiledBrat: Felicity was apparently one in life, and continues to be one after her mother actually "spoiled her to death."
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: While Bonnie usually puts up with Alan's unending abuse of her and everyone else on the planet, she absolutely goes off on him for his phony know-it-all nature, prompting Alan to fire her. She immediately rebukes that she quits... just before the fan comes down on her head.
* TemptingFate: As he approaches Nora's front door, Alan boasts to Bonnie and Rona that there is no child he can't possibly help. Felicity gradually disproves his claim.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Felicity is shown to enjoy grape-flavored bubblegum, having caked an entire hallway with the stuff.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: While Felicity demonstrates untold amounts of rowdy and dangerous behavior, she's not the only child with such problems. A mother who calls Alan early in the episode tells him that her daughter has learned how to masturbate and now does it all the time... ''at the age of three.''
* {{Tuckerization}}: One of the psychologists in the attic is a "Dr. Kassir". This is clearly a nod to John Kassir, who provides the voice of the Crypt Keeper.
* UndeadChild: Felicity has been dead for forty years, but she is somehow able to stay alive and continue making mischief.
* VillainBall: Rona accompanies Alan and Bonnie to Nora's house solely to watch the former fail. Alan even lampshades that she should just go home if she isn't actually interested in visiting Nora, but she tells Alan that he just can't be trusted. After stepping inside the house, Rona soon makes her way to the attic to look for Felicity, the demented child cornering and strangling her with a jump rope.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Nora abducts psychologists and keeps them locked up until they die, but only so they can try and help her beloved daughter be more behaved.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: According to the Crypt Keeper, Alan eventually escaped his capture and got a new radio show, but now he's more careful about "screaming" his calls.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Felicity dons one of these, along with a wig, to disguise her zombified appearance from everyone.

* WorldOfJerkass: Dr. Goetz only gives any semblance of care about himself, and Rona, his boss, is equally unlikable.

->'''Crypt Keeper:''' ''(back to his old self)'' You'll be happy to know that Dr. Goetz ''did'' get another radio show, though he was much more careful this time about ''screaming'' his calls. ''(cackles)'' I'm feeling so much better. ''(to the psychologist, who's now wearing the straightjacket)'' You were right, doc. A little ''smother-''ly love was all I needed. ''(to the viewers)'' So, 'til next time kiddies, I'm sending ''my'' shrink to join the others. You know what they say: "The ''morgue'', the merrier!" ''(cackles)''

* {{Catchphrase}}: Alan has two of them: "Ignore it, ignore it, ignore it!" and "Good psychology beats bad behavior every time!"

Dr. Alan Goetz is an award-winning child psychologist who hosts ''Good Psychology'', a radio talk show where he takes calls from troubled parents. Being pompous and full of himself, Dr. Goetz advises these burdened parents to ignore their children's behavior and ridicules them for their presumed lackluster parenting. The owner of the radio station where the doctor hosts his show, Rona, insistently tells Alan's long-suffering producer Bonnie that his show is sharply falling in the ratings and is facing replacement by the trashy shock jock Lothar’s show. Alan then receives a call from Nora, a regular caller whose daughter Felicity is inordinately troubled. In a stroke of inspiration, Alan decides to offer Nora, who he considers “the epitome of the inept parent”, a chance for some sit-in counseling, which he plans to make into a series of episodes broadcast live from Nora's home. Nora graciously accepts, so Alan and Bonnie head over to her large, secluded, and decrepit house. Rona takes the opportunity to tag along with them, hoping Alan may fail in his attempts to discipline the girl so she can finally drop his show.

* CreepyChild: Thanks to her primal shrieking, her coating the walls with gun, electrifying the doorknob to her room and the house's doorbell, and banging her head against the wall, Felicity ''is'' the child from hell. It's even taken literally after TheReveal. Even before then, Alan theorized that she was the type to burn her house down, smear her feces on the walls, and electrocute her cat.

* CreepyGood: Nora may be rather eccentric with her high-pitched voice, short stature, and suspiciously kind nature, and her daughter is a violent and horrifically misbehaved child, but she genuinely is as good as she acts, and truly wants to help Felicity improve her behavior, actively seeking help for her on a regular basis.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Alan's first caller is a mother whose daughter has taken up masturbating... '''''at three years old.''''' Like all his other callers, he advises her to ignore it.

* CreepyChild: Thanks to her primal shrieking, her coating the walls with gun, electrifying the doorknob to her room and the house's doorbell, and banging her head against the wall, Felicity ''is'' the child from hell. It's even taken literally after TheReveal. Even before then, Alan theorized that she was the type to burn her house down, smear her feces on the walls, and electrocuting her cat.

* BoobyTrap: Felicity has managed to electrify the doorknob to her room, as well as the doorbell. Alan gets shocked when he tries to open her door by himself. Bonnie, meanwhile, manages to get around the shock by coating her palm with some of Felicity's old bubblegum.

* CreepyChild: Thanks to her primal shrieking, her coating the walls with gun, electrifying the doorknob to her room and the house's doorbell, and banging her head against the wall, Felicity ''is'' the child from hell. It's even taken literally after TheReveal. Even before then, Alan theorized that she was the type to burn her house down, smear her feces on the walls, and electrocute her cat.

* MeanBoss: Rona, the radio station manager, is astoundingly bitchy to all of her employees, and she rubs it in poor Bonnie's face that she can't wait to can Alan's show. She actually does so before she, Alan, and Bonnie even leave the station, hoping to watch Alan's reputation crash and burn. Thankfully, Felicity makes her her first victim.

* WhatTheHellHero: While she's highly trusting of Alan's methods, she rebukes him when she finds him throttling Felicity.

* CreepyChild: Thanks to her primal shrieking, her coating the walls with gun, electrifying the doorknob to her room and the house's doorbell, and banging her head against the wall, Felicity ''is'' the child from hell. It's even taken literally after TheReveal. Even before then, Alan theorized that she was the type to burn her house down, smear her feces on the walls, and electrocuting her cat.

Desperate for views on his failing radio show, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Goetz agrees to perform a house call to help a mother control her unruly daughter. But is there more to this situation than meets the eye?

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the comic, the protagonist was just an unlucky guy who happened on the house by accident during a storm. Here, he's a pompous radio psychiatrist who's only out for himself.
* CreepyChild: Felicity is the child from hell, even more so after TheReveal.
* DeadAllAlong: It turns out Felicity has been dead this whole time.
* DrJerk: Alan could care less about helping people, as long as he keeps his show.
* OffscreenMomentofAwesome: If The Cryptkeeper is to be believed, Alan managed to escape at some point after the episode ends.
* TheReveal: [[DeadAllAlong Felicity has been dead this whole time]], and Nora's been luring psychiatrists like Alan to her house so that they can help her, only to keep them there until they die.
* UndeadChild: Felicity has been dead for forty years, but somehow is still alive and making mischief.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: According to The Cryptkeeper, Alan did eventually escape and got a new radio show, but is now more careful about "screaming" his calls.

* OffscreenMomentofAwesome: If The Cryptkeeper is to be believed, Alan managed to escape at some point after the episode ends.

* Dr.Jerk: Alan could care less about helping people, as long as he keeps his show.
* TheReveal: Felicity has been dead this whole time, and Nora's been luring psychiatrists like Alan to her house so that they can help her, only to keep them there until they die.