Line #11 Recap/HTFReadEmAndWeep


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/s3e1_the_demon_eats_petunia.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[NoKillLikeOverkill Anyone for minced skunk?]]]]
3	-->''"Don't judge a book by its cover!"''
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5	Airdate: November 2, 2007
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7	After Pop buys a [[TomeOfEldritchLore strange book]] from Toothy and reads it to Cub for a bedtime story, Cub acts strange the next morning.
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9	!!"Read 'em and Weep" contains the following:
10	* AccidentalIncantation: Pop treating the Necronomicon as a vulgar book to read to Cub at bedtime causes him to unwittingly summon dark magic.
11	* AccidentalMurder: ZigZagged. Pop wanted to kill the demon inside Cub, but kills Cub himself instead due to the demon having already gotten out of his body.
12	* BreakTheCutie: A minor one but before the demon emerges from the sink pipes to kill her, Petunia is seen crying in pain and fear.
13	* BrickJoke: When Pop balks at throwing a flower vase at the demon possessing Cub, the [=BlurB=] says that he loves the flowers more than Cub, but that they still die every week. At the end of the episode, the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue mentions that "Pop went on to kill the flowers".
14	* CaptionHumor: One of the episodes with a [=BlurB=] version.
15	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Pop notices that it is starting to rain dead birds, but the only thing he does is just closing the window.
16	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Half of Petunia's skin is ripped off her torso, then her [[FoldSpindleMutilation entire body is forced into a pipe]] while being shredded to pieces by the garbage disposal.
17	* DemonicPossession: Cub gets possessed by a demon after Pop reads a TomeOfEldritchLore as a bedtime story for him. In the end, Lumpy manages to exorcise it, only to get possessed by it himself.
18	* DownerEnding: Cub dies just after he's been freed from the curse, and the demon lives on in Lumpy.
19	* EatTheCamera: The demon under Cub's bed lunges into Cub's mouth from it's perspective.
20	* TheEndOrIsIt: The episode ends with Lumpy seemingly having successfully exorcised the demon that possessed Cub (though with Cub himself dead due to Pop's AccidentalMurder of him). Then a tentacle pops out of Lumpy's mouth, revealing that ''he's'' now possessed by the demon. Cue IrisOut.
21	* ExorcistHead: The newly-possessed Cub repeatedly turns his head away when Pop tries to feed him some breakfast, culminating in him doing this and vomiting green liquid on Pop.
22	* FlayingAlive: The demon rips off the lower half of Petunia's skin.
23	* FoldSpindleMutilation: Petunia's body is crushed and mangled when the demon pulls her through a ''very'' small pipe while she's trying to hide under the sink. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill And then she's ripped apart to tiny pieces by the garbage disposal.]]
24	* HalloweenEpisode: The first Halloween episode of Season 3.
25	* HatsOffToTheDead: When Pop and Lumpy mourn at Cub's grave at the end of the episode, Pop takes his hat off.
26	* HiddenDepths:
27	** Pop is shown to be pretty cheap, as he refuses to buy the more expensive story book, instead opting for something that costs less. He also prepares to smash a vase over the possessed Cub's head, only to decide against it and go find a shovel instead.
28	** [[TheEveryman Toothy of all people]] is the one to own the {{Necronomicon}} before selling it to Pop.
29	* IdiotHoudini: Pop gets away with reading a cursed book and killing his own son.
30	* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Lumpy is a priest this episode.
31	* NightmareFace: After getting possessed, Cub's face gets sickly green and his eyes turn ghost white.
32	* OffingTheOffspring: Pop does this to Cub near the end. He ''intended'' to kill the demon that was possessing Cub, but unbeknownst to him, the demon had already been exorcised by that point.
33	* ProphetEyes: Cub's eyes turn pure white when he gets possessed by a demon.
34	* RainOfSomethingUnusual: When Pop reads a TomeOfEldritchLore as a bedtime story for Cub, it starts raining dead birds. Pop, apparently seeing nothing unusual about this, simply closes the window.
35	* ShootTheShaggyDog: Lumpy successfully gets the demon out of Cub! Too bad Pop kills Cub with a shovel, thinking that he's still possessed.
36	* ShoutOut: The book that Pop reads to Cub is the {{Necronomicon}}.
37	* ShovelStrike: Pop kills Cub by repeatedly smashing him over the head with a shovel in a misguided attempt to kill the demon he thinks is possessing the baby bear.
38	* SicklyGreenGlow: The arrival of the demon that possesses Cub is heralded by a green glow underneath the child's bed.
39	* SkewedPriorities: When Lumpy gets into a fight with the possessed Cub, Pop prepares to throw a vase at the demon to help, only to think better of it and go get something cheaper to attack with.
40	* SquashedFlat: A non-cartoonish example. Pop repeatedly slams a shovel on Cub's head (keep in mind that Cub is no longer possessed by the demon) until he looks like a bloody, crushed can.
41	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Cub and Petunia die this episode.
42	* ThousandYardStare: Cub does this after he's been scared stiff by the "bedtime story" Pop read him from a TomeOfEldritchLore. He snaps out of it when he notices an ominous green light coming from under his bed.
43	* ThrowTheDogABone: Toothy, Pop, and Lumpy survive this episode.
44	* TomeOfEldritchLore: Pop buys one at a book sale and reads it to Cub as a bedtime story, resulting in his son being possessed by a demon.
45	* TookALevelInBadass: Even though he gets possessed by another demon, Lumpy is surprisingly competent this episode. And not only that, but it's shown in the end that Lumpy has much better control over the demon than Cub had.
46	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Done in the [=BlurB=].
47	-->Epilogue: With this new found experience, Lumpy moved to Japan and became a huge movie star!\
48	Pop went on to kill the flowers

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