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* AwfulWeddedLife: Henry's neglected wife Helen repeatedly and furiously accuses him of cheating on her with his secretary Marlene, and when he accidentally burns her via dunking the gingerbread man in his coffee, he does it again and again to confirm the effect works, smiling and laughing maniacally as she screams again and again. Near the end, when Helen sees a lipstick kiss on the napkin accompanying Henry's last cookie (likely planted there by Ruby), she furiously crushes it, crushing Henry in the process.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Henry's neglected wife Helen repeatedly and furiously accuses him of cheating on her with his secretary Marlene, and when he accidentally burns her via dunking the gingerbread man in his coffee, he does it again and again to confirm the effect works, smiling and laughing maniacally as she screams again and again.screams. Near the end, when Helen sees a lipstick kiss on the napkin accompanying Henry's last cookie (likely planted there by Ruby), she furiously crushes it, crushing Henry in the process.
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* TimeCompressionMontage: Radio bulletings, newspaper headlines, and magazine covers are used to illustrate how quickly Ruby franchises her shop under Henry's guidance, as well as how Henry himself gets to the top of the advertising business by killing his rivals via the gingerbread men, then how he declares bankruptcy when Ruby cuts ties with him.
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* TimeCompressionMontage: Radio bulletings, bulletins, newspaper headlines, and magazine covers are used to illustrate how quickly Ruby franchises her shop under Henry's guidance, as well as how Henry himself gets to the top of the advertising business by killing his rivals via the gingerbread men, then how he declares bankruptcy when Ruby cuts ties with him.
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In New Orleans, Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King) owns and operates Cuzzins' Dozens, a shop where she bakes and sells cookies imbibed with magic to customers. Though she puts on a friendly face in public, she's actually a wicked voodoo witch who regularly punishes her assistant and father Aloysius (Vernon Washington), who ran out on her and her mother to get drunk on moonshine, by painfully transforming him into a rat. One day, unscrupulous advertising executive Henry Hogan (Creator/LarryManetti) enters Ruby's shop, having heard a great deal about her reputation and inspires her to franchise the shop, seeking to profit from her special recipes. Aloysius gives Henry a box of special gingerbread men that act as voodoo dolls, which Henry soon uses to get rid of anyone who tries to stand in the way of his profits and standing. When he tries to use one of them to get rid of Ruby, she vows not to go down without a fight.
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In New Orleans, Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King) owns and operates Cuzzins' Dozens, a shop where she bakes and sells cookies imbibed with magic to customers. Though she puts on a friendly face in public, she's actually a wicked voodoo witch who regularly punishes her assistant and father Aloysius (Vernon Washington), who ran out on her and her mother to get drunk on moonshine, by painfully transforming him into a rat. One day, unscrupulous advertising executive Henry Hogan (Creator/LarryManetti) enters Ruby's shop, having heard a great deal about her reputation and inspires her to franchise the shop, seeking to profit from her special recipes. Aloysius gives Henry a box of special gingerbread men that act as voodoo dolls, which Henry soon uses to get rid of anyone who tries to stand in the way of his profits and standing. When he tries to use one of them to get rid of Ruby, runs low and confronts Ruby for more, she vows not to go down without a fight.
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* BittersweetEnding: Aloysius is turned into a rat, and the story ends on the note he may never turn human again. ...but not before he makes his cruel daughter pay for her machinations by killing her with a voodoo cookie. Meaning that her ability to infuse her baked goods with dark magic has died with her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ruby Cuzzins comes across as a [[PerpetualSmiler smiley]], bouncy, friendly and affable baker. Don't let that fool you, that's just a front. Her real self is a ruthless and cruel voodoo practitioner who abuses Aloysius and will double-cross her partner when needs be. As for her smile, that's just something she uses her enchanted chocolate-chip cookies in order to ''appear'' happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Of the TranquilFury variety. Ruby often has one of her "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies when dealing with her new business partner in order to keep up a poker face, and not betray her fury towards him.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on her father Aloysius in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for "moonshine". It's implied that Aloysius has been worked nearly to death by his nasty daughter, to the point where he should've retired a long time ago.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ruby Cuzzins comes across as a [[PerpetualSmiler smiley]], bouncy, friendly and affable baker. Don't let that fool you, that's just a front. Her real self is a ruthless and cruel voodoo practitioner who abuses Aloysius and will double-cross her partner when needs be. As for her smile, that's just something she uses her enchanted chocolate-chip cookies in order to ''appear'' happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Of the TranquilFury variety. Ruby often has one of her "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies when dealing with her new business partner in order to keep up a poker face, and not betray her fury towards him.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on her father Aloysius in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for "moonshine". It's implied that Aloysius has been worked nearly to death by his nasty daughter, to the point where he should've retired a long time ago.
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!! Baker's Dozen
In New Orleans, Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King) owns and operates Cuzzins' Dozens, a shop where she bakes and sells cookies imbibed with magic to customers. Though she puts on a friendly face in public, she's actually a wicked voodoo witch who regularly punishes her assistant and father Aloysius (Vernon Washington), who ran out on her and her mother to get drunk on moonshine, by painfully transforming him into a rat. One day, unscrupulous advertising executive Henry Hogan (Creator/LarryManetti) enters Ruby's shop, having heard a great deal about her reputation and inspires her to franchise the shop, seeking to profit from her special recipes. Aloysius gives Henry a box of special gingerbread men that act as voodoo dolls, which Henry soon uses to get rid of anyone who tries to stand in the way of his profits and standing. When he tries to use one of them to get rid of Ruby, she vows not to go down without a fight.
!! Tropes:
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: A baker's dozen consists of thirteen cookies, and of the dozen he stole from Ruby and gave to Henry, Aloysius only gave him 12 while he kept the thirteenth, which he uses to get back at his abusive daughter.
* AndIMustScream: Ruby's death comes from her transformed father eating the head of the gingerbread man he saved for himself. We don't see the actual death, but Ruby's horrific screaming illustrates just how painful it is.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Ruby tracked down Aloysius, the father who abandoned her and her mother for being malevolent witches, and enslaved him as an indentured servant in her cookie shop. She also regularly transforms him into a rat in an implicitly painful process, both to punish him and mostly for her own sadism.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Henry's neglected wife Helen repeatedly and furiously accuses him of cheating on her with his secretary Marlene, and when he accidentally burns her via dunking the gingerbread man in his coffee, he does it again and again to confirm the effect works, smiling and laughing maniacally as she screams again and again. Near the end, when Helen sees a lipstick kiss on the napkin accompanying Henry's last cookie (likely planted there by Ruby), she furiously crushes it, crushing Henry in the process.
* BalefulPolymorph: Aloysius is forcibly transformed into a rat by his abusive daughter, and he demonstrates that the change is heavily painful.
* BittersweetEnding: Henry is crushed to death when his wife crushes his magic gingerbread man in a jealous rage, and at the same time, Aloysius is turned into a rat,and the story ends episode ending on the note he may never turn become human again. ...but not before again. Despite this, he makes his cruel daughter Ruby pay for her machinations actions by killing her with a voodoo cookie. Meaning that eating the head of the gingerbread man he saved from Henry's baker's dozen, letting her ability to infuse her baked goods with dark magic has died in her cookies die with her.
* ChekhovsGun: The thirteenth gingerbread man from the titular baker's dozen, or more specifically, the fact that Henry didn't get it.
* DeathByIrony: Henry is gruesomely killed when his wife Helen crumples up his last voodoo gingerbread man while he's in the shower. It's a fitting act, given she was the victim of his ''first'' cookie, getting burned when he absent-mindedly dunked the cookie in his coffee.
* DisappearedDad: Aloysius ran out on Ruby and her mother to get drunk on moonshine after he learned they were witches. She tracked him down and turned him into her abused servant ever since as revenge for doing so.
* TheDogBitesBack: Aloysius, stuck as a rat, kills Ruby by eating the head of the gingerbread man she stole from him and didn't give to Henry.
* DoubleMeaningTitle / {{Foreshadowing}}: Both tropes come into play when Aloysius gives Henry the gingerbread men. The advertiser is confused since Cuzzins' Dozens only sells twelve types of cookies and he's never seen any gingerbread men, to which Aloysius tells him that it's a baker's dozen. The end of the episode reveals that Aloysius had actually stolen the 13 gingerbread men from Ruby, and gave 12 of them to Henry while he kept the thirteenth to kill her.
* EvilIsHammy: Ruby is as bombastic as she is villainous, laughing incessantly as her father squirms.
* EvilVersusEvil: The wicked and cruel Henry partners up with the equally wicked and cruel Ruby to market and franchise her cookie shop, and both characters actively look forward to screwing over the other for all the profits.
* FauxAffablyEvil: RubyCuzzins comes across as a [[PerpetualSmiler smiley]], bouncy, friendly friendly, and all-around affable baker. Don't let that fool you, that's just a front. Her real self is a ruthless and ruthlessly cruel voodoo practitioner witch who abuses Aloysius her manservant father and will makes no hesitation to double-cross her partner Henry when needs be. he stiffs her. As for her smile, that's she just something she uses eats some of her enchanted chocolate-chip "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies in order to ''appear'' ''look'' happy.
* GoryDiscretionShot: Henry and Ruby's gruesome deaths are kept offscreen, but we still get brief glimpses of their agony. A rivaling executive Henry indirectly kills is demonstrated when he stabs one of the gingerbread men.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Aloysius left his family to get drunk on moonshine, likely because he had learned they were malefic witches.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Henry is crushed to death by his aggressive wife, and Ruby gets her head eaten by her now-rat father.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted. As Ruby tortures Aloysius by turning him into a rat, she launches into a monologue that reveals that he's her father, and she keeps abusing him as payback for abandoning her and her mother because of their status as witches, as well as to go hunt moonshine.
* PainfulTransformation: Ruby turning her enslaved father into a rat, with him screaming the whole time.
* PerpetualSmiler / StepfordSmiler:Of the TranquilFury variety. Ruby often has eats one of her "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies when dealing with her new business partner customers or Henry, in order to keep up a her poker face, face.
* PowerUpFood: While the voodoo gingerbread men are rather obvious in their effects, Henry notes that Ruby's other cookies happen to bring a variety of different effects on consumers. "Chocolate Chip Happiness" keeps the eater looking pleasant andnot betray smiley, "Shortbread Painkillers" cure physical ailments in seconds, "Oatmeal Bodybuilders" give the eater the sensation of a week-long exercise session, and "Peanut Butter Tranquilizers" are hinted to give the eater a restful sleep.
* PresentAbsence: Aloysius ran out on Ruby and herfury towards mom when he learned they were witches, likely drinking moonshine to help himself forget the knowledge. Ever since she found him, Ruby turned him into her indentured servant, forcing him to do all the heavy lifting in her shop.
* TimeCompressionMontage: Radio bulletings, newspaper headlines, and magazine covers are used to illustrate how quickly Ruby franchises her shop under Henry's guidance, as well as how Henry himself gets to the top of the advertising business by killing his rivals via the gingerbread men, then how he declares bankruptcy when Ruby cuts ties with him.
* TimeSkip: After the above montage ends, the episode skips ahead a year after Ruby and Henry partner up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Aloysius, the father who abandoned Ruby and her mother, is the only person with any decency throughout the episode.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ruby and Henry, the former through her faux-sunny attitude and magical recipes, the latter for his slick tongue and his using black magic to make his way to the top.
* VoodooDoll: Gingerbread men, to be specific. The characters use these magic cookies to exact revenge on those they want to hurt or kill.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Helen disappears after she kills Henry, so it's left ambiguous as to whether the police will question her when she and they find Henry's crushed body in the shower.
* WorldOfJerkass: Every single character in the episode is inherently villainous, with Ruby being a wicked witch who tortures her father and tries to screw over her partner, Henry using voodoo to kill off his rivals while also trying to screw over Ruby, and his wife Helen being a furious nag who continuously rebukes him for supposedly cheating on her. You know this cast is screwed up when Aloysius, the father who ''abandoned his destitute wife and child to get drunk'', is the most well-meaning character.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on Aloysius, herfather Aloysius father, who should've retired a long time ago, with painful transformations and overall horrendous treatment in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for "moonshine". to get drunk on moonshine. It's implied even subtly applied in his opening monologue that Ruby magically extended his lifespan to keep him suffering.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Downplayed. Ruby knew immediately that Aloysiushas been worked nearly had stolen a dozen of her voodoo gingerbread men and slipped them to death by his nasty daughter, Henry in an attempt to kill her, but she wasn't worried. She already knew Henry's use of the point where cookies would mean success for her (since she could counteract any negative voodoo he should've retired a would bring her way) and that he would wind up getting screwed over in the long time ago.run. What she ''didn't'' count on was that Aloysius actually took 13 cookies, and gave Henry 12 of them while he kept the last one for himself.
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In New Orleans, Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King) owns and operates Cuzzins' Dozens, a shop where she bakes and sells cookies imbibed with magic to customers. Though she puts on a friendly face in public, she's actually a wicked voodoo witch who regularly punishes her assistant and father Aloysius (Vernon Washington), who ran out on her and her mother to get drunk on moonshine, by painfully transforming him into a rat. One day, unscrupulous advertising executive Henry Hogan (Creator/LarryManetti) enters Ruby's shop, having heard a great deal about her reputation and inspires her to franchise the shop, seeking to profit from her special recipes. Aloysius gives Henry a box of special gingerbread men that act as voodoo dolls, which Henry soon uses to get rid of anyone who tries to stand in the way of his profits and standing. When he tries to use one of them to get rid of Ruby, she vows not to go down without a fight.
!! Tropes:
* ThirteenIsUnlucky: A baker's dozen consists of thirteen cookies, and of the dozen he stole from Ruby and gave to Henry, Aloysius only gave him 12 while he kept the thirteenth, which he uses to get back at his abusive daughter.
* AndIMustScream: Ruby's death comes from her transformed father eating the head of the gingerbread man he saved for himself. We don't see the actual death, but Ruby's horrific screaming illustrates just how painful it is.
* AntagonisticOffspring: Ruby tracked down Aloysius, the father who abandoned her and her mother for being malevolent witches, and enslaved him as an indentured servant in her cookie shop. She also regularly transforms him into a rat in an implicitly painful process, both to punish him and mostly for her own sadism.
* AwfulWeddedLife: Henry's neglected wife Helen repeatedly and furiously accuses him of cheating on her with his secretary Marlene, and when he accidentally burns her via dunking the gingerbread man in his coffee, he does it again and again to confirm the effect works, smiling and laughing maniacally as she screams again and again. Near the end, when Helen sees a lipstick kiss on the napkin accompanying Henry's last cookie (likely planted there by Ruby), she furiously crushes it, crushing Henry in the process.
* BalefulPolymorph: Aloysius is forcibly transformed into a rat by his abusive daughter, and he demonstrates that the change is heavily painful.
* BittersweetEnding: Henry is crushed to death when his wife crushes his magic gingerbread man in a jealous rage, and at the same time, Aloysius is turned into a rat,
* ChekhovsGun: The thirteenth gingerbread man from the titular baker's dozen, or more specifically, the fact that Henry didn't get it.
* DeathByIrony: Henry is gruesomely killed when his wife Helen crumples up his last voodoo gingerbread man while he's in the shower. It's a fitting act, given she was the victim of his ''first'' cookie, getting burned when he absent-mindedly dunked the cookie in his coffee.
* DisappearedDad: Aloysius ran out on Ruby and her mother to get drunk on moonshine after he learned they were witches. She tracked him down and turned him into her abused servant ever since as revenge for doing so.
* TheDogBitesBack: Aloysius, stuck as a rat, kills Ruby by eating the head of the gingerbread man she stole from him and didn't give to Henry.
* DoubleMeaningTitle / {{Foreshadowing}}: Both tropes come into play when Aloysius gives Henry the gingerbread men. The advertiser is confused since Cuzzins' Dozens only sells twelve types of cookies and he's never seen any gingerbread men, to which Aloysius tells him that it's a baker's dozen. The end of the episode reveals that Aloysius had actually stolen the 13 gingerbread men from Ruby, and gave 12 of them to Henry while he kept the thirteenth to kill her.
* EvilIsHammy: Ruby is as bombastic as she is villainous, laughing incessantly as her father squirms.
* EvilVersusEvil: The wicked and cruel Henry partners up with the equally wicked and cruel Ruby to market and franchise her cookie shop, and both characters actively look forward to screwing over the other for all the profits.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ruby
* GoryDiscretionShot: Henry and Ruby's gruesome deaths are kept offscreen, but we still get brief glimpses of their agony. A rivaling executive Henry indirectly kills is demonstrated when he stabs one of the gingerbread men.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Aloysius left his family to get drunk on moonshine, likely because he had learned they were malefic witches.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Henry is crushed to death by his aggressive wife, and Ruby gets her head eaten by her now-rat father.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Inverted. As Ruby tortures Aloysius by turning him into a rat, she launches into a monologue that reveals that he's her father, and she keeps abusing him as payback for abandoning her and her mother because of their status as witches, as well as to go hunt moonshine.
* PainfulTransformation: Ruby turning her enslaved father into a rat, with him screaming the whole time.
* PerpetualSmiler / StepfordSmiler:
* PowerUpFood: While the voodoo gingerbread men are rather obvious in their effects, Henry notes that Ruby's other cookies happen to bring a variety of different effects on consumers. "Chocolate Chip Happiness" keeps the eater looking pleasant and
* PresentAbsence: Aloysius ran out on Ruby and her
* TimeCompressionMontage: Radio bulletings, newspaper headlines, and magazine covers are used to illustrate how quickly Ruby franchises her shop under Henry's guidance, as well as how Henry himself gets to the top of the advertising business by killing his rivals via the gingerbread men, then how he declares bankruptcy when Ruby cuts ties with him.
* TimeSkip: After the above montage ends, the episode skips ahead a year after Ruby and Henry partner up.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Aloysius, the father who abandoned Ruby and her mother, is the only person with any decency throughout the episode.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Ruby and Henry, the former through her faux-sunny attitude and magical recipes, the latter for his slick tongue and his using black magic to make his way to the top.
* VoodooDoll: Gingerbread men, to be specific. The characters use these magic cookies to exact revenge on those they want to hurt or kill.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Helen disappears after she kills Henry, so it's left ambiguous as to whether the police will question her when she and they find Henry's crushed body in the shower.
* WorldOfJerkass: Every single character in the episode is inherently villainous, with Ruby being a wicked witch who tortures her father and tries to screw over her partner, Henry using voodoo to kill off his rivals while also trying to screw over Ruby, and his wife Helen being a furious nag who continuously rebukes him for supposedly cheating on her. You know this cast is screwed up when Aloysius, the father who ''abandoned his destitute wife and child to get drunk'', is the most well-meaning character.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on Aloysius, her
* WrongGenreSavvy: Downplayed. Ruby knew immediately that Aloysius
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* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on her father Aloysius in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for another woman."moonshine". It's implied that Aloysius has been worked nearly to death by his nasty daughter, to the point where he should've retired a long time ago.
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* BittersweetEnding: Aloysius is turned into a rat, and the story ends on the note he may never turn human again. ...but not before he makes his cruel daughter pay for her machinations by killing her with a voodoo cookie. Meaning that her ability to infuse her baked goods with dark magic has died with her.
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* BittersweetEnding: Aloysius is turned into a rat, and the story ends on the note he may never turn human again. ...but not before he makes his cruel daughter pay for her machinations by killing her with a voodoo cookie. Meaning that her ability to infuse her baked goods with dark magic has died with her.her.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ruby Cuzzins comes across as a [[PerpetualSmiler smiley]], bouncy, friendly and affable baker. Don't let that fool you, that's just a front. Her real self is a ruthless and cruel voodoo practitioner who abuses Aloysius and will double-cross her partner when needs be. As for her smile, that's just something she uses her enchanted chocolate-chip cookies in order to ''appear'' happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Of the TranquilFury variety. Ruby often has one of her "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies when dealing with business in order to keep up a poker face, and not betray her fury towards them.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on her father Aloysius in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for another woman. It's implied that Aloysius has been worked nearly to death by his nasty daughter, to the point where he should've retired a long time ago.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Ruby Cuzzins comes across as a [[PerpetualSmiler smiley]], bouncy, friendly and affable baker. Don't let that fool you, that's just a front. Her real self is a ruthless and cruel voodoo practitioner who abuses Aloysius and will double-cross her partner when needs be. As for her smile, that's just something she uses her enchanted chocolate-chip cookies in order to ''appear'' happy.
* StepfordSmiler: Of the TranquilFury variety. Ruby often has one of her "Chocolate Chip Happiness" cookies when dealing with business in order to keep up a poker face, and not betray her fury towards them.
* WouldHarmASenior: Ruby exacts this on her father Aloysius in order to make him pay for leaving her and her mother for another woman. It's implied that Aloysius has been worked nearly to death by his nasty daughter, to the point where he should've retired a long time ago.
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* BittersweetEnding: Aloysius is turned into a rat, and the story ends on the note he may never turn human again. ...but not before he makes his cruel daughter pay for her machinations by killing her with a voodoo cookie. Meaning that her ability to infuse her baked goods with dark magic has died with her.
