History WebAnimation / SpookyMonth

[[caption-width-right:350:'''"PUMP! It's a Spooky Month!"''' ''"Let's start a trope page!"'']]

* FunWithSubtitles: The official subtitles on Youtube do a fairly accurate job of showing what the characters are saying ([[XtremeKoolLetterz albeit not always spelled correctly]]), but also turns the RapidFireComedy UpToEleven. [[FreezeFrameBonus Be prepared to either watch one frame at a time or at half speed while constantly pausing]].

!!It is the spooky tropes! Ayyy!:

!!Tropes relating to ''Spooky Month'':

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Those who gaze upon Eyes are rendered catatonic and teal-eyed. Strangely enough, Skid's completely immune to this while Pump is instantly hypnotized[[note]]Though even then, Pump seems to somewhat retain his sentience.[[/note]] .

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Those who gaze upon Eyes are rendered catatonic and teal-eyed. Strangely enough, Skid's completely immune to this while Pump is instantly hypnotized.

** At the mall, many cast members from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' are seen browsing the isles, namely [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Udonge, Eirin, Mokou]], Marisa, Reimu (first as a [[Memes/TouhouProject Yukkuri]], later as a drawing), [[VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom Youmu, Chen]], [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Rumia, Sakuya, Cirno, Flandre and Remilia Scarlet.]] The hidden advert in the same short even has a ''Happy 25th Anniversary (Thank you ZUN)'' dedication to it.

* WeHardlyKnewYe: Dexter the Exterminator is introduced in "Unwanted Guest" and has about a minute of screentime before getting attacked Moloch, spending the rest of the episode possessed until Moloch accidentally snaps his neck, killing them both.

* SeriousBusiness: The Candy Dealer, a tall dark and trench coat clad figure who meets the boys outside the mall to smuggle some 'sugar' for him. When they get to Kevin at the candy store and give him the package, it really was sugar the whole time. The "serious" part comes in with an advert that can be found in a hidden QR code in the same short, with the Candy Dealer daring other sugar dealers to try at outdo him at their own risk.

** At the mall, many cast members from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' are seen browsing the isles, namely [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Udonge, Eirin, Mokou]], Marisa, Reimu, [[VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom Youmu, Chen]], [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Rumia, Sakuya, Cirno, Flandre and Remilia Scarlet.]]

An annual Halloween series made by Creator/SrPelo, Spooky Month follows the misadventures of Skid and Pump, two hyperactive Halloween-obsessed children who regularly venture out into the night to enjoy the titular Spooky Month - even if it isn't October. Things quickly take a strange series of turns from there as creeps, criminals, [[ApocalypseCult cultists]], [[GangOfBullies bullies]], [[DemonicPossession demons]], [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entities whose eyes form the stars above]], and [[MonsterClown clowns]] have the (mis)fortune of bumping into these children.

* CheerfulChild: Almost nothing will get in the way of Skid and Pump's fun, with the closest they get to being miserable for once being when the Hatzgang bullies thrashed them up and Kevin, the cashier for a candy store, refused to give them candy cans. He relents when they sigh in dejection.

* {{Halloweentown}}: What Skid and Pump ''think'' is the case, as they're always celebrating Halloween around town and wearing their costumes even when the holiday is still a long way's off. Even when others tell them to snap out of it because it's not October, Lila still reaffirms to them that it's indeed a Spooky Month so as not to disappoint them.

** In the Newgrounds ending of "The Stars", the cop driving the car gets excited when one of the crooks in the backseat mentions Spooky Month, and the two happily dance. Except, the driver let go of his steering wheel to dance and the car promptly went out of control.
** In the Newgrounds ending of "The Stars", the OOGA BOOGA Witch thought it would be a good idea to pull off one of her infamous screamer pranks in the middle of the night. On an unlit road. Against a careening police car. [[BandageMummy The results were obvious]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: "Unwanted Guest" has an extended segment focusing on Kevin dealing with Skid and Pump dropping off a bar of "sugar" when they leave the candy store.

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* DidIJustSayThatOutLoud: This gag in "Unwanted Guest":
-->'''Cop''': It's fine, Jack. It wasn't your ''intention'' [[PoliceBrutality to shoot him!]]\\
'''Kevin''': Wow, a cop shooting someone. [[SarcasmMode What a surprise.]]\\
''Both cops give him a DeathGlare''\\
'''Kevin''': (Thinking) '''[[OhCrap OH NO! I SAID IT OUT LOUD!]]'''

* FreudianExcuse: The leader of the Hatzgang, Roy, sends Skid and Pump to the spooky abandoned mansion and nonchalantly says 'That's where my uncle takes me'. Ross and Robert can only awkwardly shift away from him after thinking about it. Considering what dwells under that manor and what kind of people visit it, though, the implications are all the more concerning.
* GangOfBullies: The Hatzgang, a trio of bullies named Roy, Ross and Robert who a fondness for hats and bullying Skid and Pump, first seen spitting in their faces and hitting them over the head before tricking them into walking inside a haunted and dangerous mansion. They get their comeuppance and meet the duos new friend, the [[EldritchAbomination Eyes of the Universe.]]

* TooDumbToLive: In the Newgrounds ending of "The Stars", the OOGA BOOGA Witch thought it would be a good idea to pull off one of her infamous screamer pranks in the middle of the night. On an unlit road. Against a careening police car. [[BandageMummy The results were obvious]].
** Earlier in the scene, the cop driving the car gets excited when one of the crooks in the backseat mentions Spooky Month, and the two happily dance. Except, the driver let go of his steering wheel to dance and the car promptly went out of control.

An annual Halloween series made by Creator/SrPelo, Spooky Month follows the misadventures of Skid and Pump, two hyperactive Halloween-obsessed children who regularly venture out into the night to enjoy the titular Spooky Month - even if it isn't October. Things quickly take a strange series of turns from there as creeps, criminals, cultists, bullies, demons, [[EldritchAbomination eldritch entities whose eyes form the stars above]], and clowns have the (mis)fortune of bumping into these children.

* SeriousBusiness: The Candy Dealer, a tall dark and trench coat clad figure who meets the boys outside the mall to smuggle some 'sugar' for him. When they get to Kevin at the candy store and give him the package, it really was sugar the whole time. The "serious" part comes in with an advert that can be found in a hidden QR code in the same short, with the Candy Dealer's as daring other sugar dealers to try at outdo him at their own risk.

** The OOGA BOOGA Witch, who spends the whole first short delivering an absurd amount of jump scares and showing up in the background, including appearing after the credits to try one last scare. She temporarily retired after standing in the middle of a road trying to jump scare a car and got sent to the hospital.

** The OOGA BOOGA lady looks like a combination of the troll face and [[Film/TheExorcist Regan MacNeil]] when she’s possessed by a demon. She's also a parody of the overuse of jump scares and screamers, with her default face being one of the more infamous faces to be used also from the Regan's demonic possession, most famously in the [[ScreamerPrank Scary Maze Game.]]

* PerkyGoth: Lila's first appearance had a goth vibe going for her, with a purple dress and black eyeliner.

** At the mall, toys of [[VideoGame/PizzaTower Peppino Spaghetti]] and [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin The Boyfriend]] appear on the shelves where the boys are shopping.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Candy in general. In two of the three shorts, the boys make an excited trip to the candy store to pick up some treats before heading home, screwing with Kevin in some way on their way out.

* WackySoundEffect: Whenever Skid and Pump run together, it's almost always accompanied by the harsh sound of metal crashing violently against metal, but the ground is never reduced to a pot-holed and pebble ridden lunar surface.

Spooky Month currently has three shorts, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmzwhVE5Ly4 It's spooky month]], [[https://youtu.be/g206kwbS1xo The Stars]] and [[https://youtu.be/zQu_Xi6aoFo Unwanted Guest]].

* BaitAndSwitchSilhouette: Done twice by Skid. First he sits in a dark room lit only by a computer screen, slowly swivels his chair to face the viewer with an eerie smile and stare, only for the lights to instantly turn on and he loudly starts goofing off.
** In ''The Stars'', he confronts two burglars in his home in the darkness and shows up as a creepy and more realistic looking skeletons, scares the beejezus out of the crooks and cheerily greets them when they shine a light on him and he returns to normal.

** They're spared a kidnapping by the MonsterClown who offers them an unintelligible joke instead, and are outright on obliviously friendly terms with Frank the neighborhood kidnapper / child killer.

** The OOGA BOOGA lady can be seen staring at the viewer behind windows or standing around somewhere hidden.

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Be it horrible monsters or dangerous criminals, Skid and Pump are naive enough to put complete trust and friendliness to almost anyone they meet. [[BornLucky The fact that nothing short of the bullies or the creep at the mansion seems to want hurt them helps.]]
* HowlingToTheNight: 'The Friend Call', which is [[VocalDissonance Skid howling a monstrous roar]] into the sky to bring Pump over to him.

* RunningGag: A couple.
** Skid and Pump's catchphrase for basically anything they do together always starts with ''Let's (go do whatever just came to their minds).''
** The OOGA BOOGA lady, who spends the whole first short delivering an absurd amount of jump scares and showing up in the background, including appearing after the credits to try one last scare. She temporarily retired after standing in the middle of a road trying to jump scare a car and got sent to the hospital.

* SeriousBusiness: The Candy Dealer, a tall dark and trench coat clad figure who meets the boys outside the mall to smuggle some 'sugar' for him. When they get to Kevin at the candy store and give him the package, it really was sugar the whole time. The 'serious' part comes in with an advert that can be found in a hidden QR code in the same short, with the Candy Dealer's as daring other sugar dealers to try at outdo him at their own risk.
* SexySantaDress: What the first short ends on, with the boys so perplexed by Skid's mom dressing up in it to announce it's a November that the music stops and they stop their antics to stare.

** Skid and Pump play Luigi's Mansion together when they say they want to play a horror game.
** The OOGA BOOGA lady looks like a combination of the troll face and [[Film/TheExorcist Regan MacNeil]] when she’s possessed by a demon. She’s also a parody of the overuse of jump scares and screamers, with her default face being one of the more infamous faces to be used also from the Regan's demonic possession, most famously in the [[ScreamerPrank Scary Maze Game.]]

*** Also at the mall, many cast members from the Franchise/TouhouProject are seen browsing the isles, namely [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight Udonge, Eirin, Mokou]], Marisa, Reimu, [[VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom Youmu, Chen]], [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Rumia, Sakuya, Cirno, Flandre and Remilia Scarlet.]]
** In the background of Kevin's candy store, a treat with the face design and color scheme of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/ENA Ena]] sits on display.
** In ''Unwanted Guest'', Skid and Pump doing the Spooky Dance attracts a bunch of hospital cadavers to rise from death and perform a MichaelJacksonsThrillerParody.

* BaitAndSwitchSilhouette: Done twice by Skid. First he sits in a dark room lit only by a computer screen, slowly swivels his chair to face the viewer with an eerie smile and stare, only for the lights to instantly turn on and loudly starts goofing off.
** In ''The Stars'', he confronts two burglars in his home in the darkness and shows up as a creepy and more realistic looking skeletons, scares the beejezus out of the crooks and cheerily greets himself when they shine a light on him and he returns to normal.

* MysteriousPast: While Skid's house and implied life outside of the Spooky Month is always explored in detailed in the shorts, Pump currently remains as Skid's best friend, with the closest to a past being a possible family photo of him without his costume.
* PerkyGoth: Lila's first had a goth vibe going for her, with a purple dress in her first appearance and black eyeliner.

** Skid and Pump's catchphrase for basically anything they do together always starts with ''Let's (go do whatever just came to their minds)''

** Pump tends to appear out of nowhere whenever Skid summons him, first nonchalantly standing outside of Skid's house in seconds of being called, then hurling himself across the sky and landing in front of Skid after a phone call, and then rising from a grave planted in the yard in the third shout.

** The OOGA BOOGA lady looks like a combination of the troll face and [[Film/TheExorcist Regan MacNeil]] when she’s possessed by a demon. She’s also a parody of the overuse of jump scares and screamers one of the more infamous faces to be used, most famously in the [[ScreamerPrank Scary Maze Game.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Those who gaze upon Eyes are rendered catatonic and teal-eyed, at least if we go by Pump's reaction to him. Strangely enough, Skid's completely immune to this.

* CrapsackWorld: Aside from the boy's neighborhood being ridden with violent criminals, there's a festering anomalous and eldritch influence that's attracted a cult to the town, with implications that there's more going on than simple adventures with the boys.

** Pump tends to appear out of nowhere whenever Skid summons him, first nonchalantly standing outside of Skid's house in seconds of being called, then hurling himself across the sky and landing in front of Skid after a phone call, and then rising from a grave planted in the yard.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: In every short, the boys always stop by Kevin's candy store to get some Candy Cans, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which are cans full of candy.]]

An annual Halloween series made by Creator/SrPelo, Spooky Month follows the misadventures of Skid and Pump, two Halloween-obsessed children who regularly venture out into the night to enjoy the titular Spooky Month - even if it isn't October. Things quickly take a strange series of turns from there as creeps, criminals, cultists, bullies, demons, eldritch entities whose eyes form the stars above, and clowns have the misfortune of bumping into these children.

** In the background of Kevin's candy store, a treat in the face shape and color scheme of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/ENA Ena]] sits on display.

** At the mall, toys of [[VideoGame/PizzaTower Peppino Spaghetti]] and [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin the Boyfriend]] appear on the shelves where the boys are shopping.
%%** In the background of Kevin's candy store, a treat in the shape and color scheme of [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebAnimation/ENA Ena]] sits on display.