Halloween night allows Chucky to wander the streets of Hackensack as himself. He uses this time to target Lexy in an attempt to convert Jake into becoming a killer.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Artistic Age: The students are all middle school aged, but at Oliver's party, get drunk and high like much older high schoolers. Lexy even expects Junior to sleep with her.
- Bad Liar: Chucky lies he didn't murder Annie. It didn't convince Jake.
- Blood from the Mouth: After deliberately biting into a Razor Apple, Chucky's mouth starts bleeding.
- Call-Back:
- Chucky actually references Glen/Glenda (although not by name), thus establishing Seed of Chucky as canon in the series' continuity.
- While discussing Jake, Aunt Bree asks "Are we even qualified to take care of a boy like this?" This is a line said word for word by Phil regarding Andy in Child's Play 2.
- Domestic Abuse: Lexy is just as much a bitch to Junior as she is to his cousin.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The housekeeper sprays Chucky's face to clean him and gets rewarded with getting shoved onto a tray full of knives.
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Junior is a little uncomfortable when Lexy disparages Luke's death as "your idiot uncle [sticking] his finger in the frickin' toaster", saying that it's still sad that a troubled alcoholic and family member killed himself by accident. When she dresses up as Luke and even pantomimes being electrocuted at Oliver's Halloween party, he's mortified.
- Played for grim laughs when Chucky reveals that "I've got a queer kid" as he's trying to commiserate with Jake, and that even he wouldn't stoop so low as homophobia. Jake is unimpressed, mainly because being a little tolerant of others still doesn't mean he isn't a monster in the more literal "sadistic doll that kills and tortures people" sense.
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself:
- Chucky is able to walk around in Hackensack undetected, with nothing but a Hello Kitty mask.
- Jake foregoes wearing a costume, instead saying he's going as a "victim of circumstances" to explain the black eye Chucky gave him.
- Gaslighting: Chucky has replaced Lucas as the abusive parental figure in Jake's life. He is able to convince Jake of his innocence towards killing the housekeeper as he tells Jake he could've killed anybody in the house, including Jake, but so far hasn't.
- Hired Help as Family: The Wheelers claim they viewed Annie as family, but they know nothing about her, including her address or her next of kin.
- Hypocrite:
- Chucky tries to claim that because Glen/Glenda is gender fluid, he has no problem with Jake being gay, even though in Seed of Chucky, he tried to force Glen/Glenda to be the gender he wanted.
- Lexy claims that Jake's "ventriloquist act" with Chucky at the talent show is considered bullying, yet she's an even worse bully towards Jake, taking the form of a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing in the last episode.
- Bree and Logan claim that their maid Annie was like a member of the family to them, but when asked where she lived or who her next of kin is they draw a blank.
- Kick the Dog:
- Lexy dresses up as Lucas Wheeler for Halloween and imitates his death. Even Junior is appalled.
- Chucky steals Jake's diary and tells him writing isn't his forte.
- Halloween Episode: Takes place on Halloween night. As Devon says, violence spikes in Halloween.
- Make It Look Like an Accident: Chucky pushes Annie onto a bunch of knives. The cops claim such accidents are actually more common than one would expect. He also tries convincing Jake it was indeed an accident, claiming he only kills people who deserve it.
- Noodle Incident: In Devon's podcast, he reminisces about how:
- One year, unstable trick-or-treaters broke into the candy emporium downtown.
- Or the previous year, when Ms. Fairchild cut her hand carving a pumpkin and needed to get stitches.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Chucky tries to convince Jake that he only kills people who have it coming, and while many of his previous victims were assholes, he's killed his fair share of innocent people who were in his way or just because he felt like it. That's not even getting into how he terrorized a young boy for most of his life.
- Pet the Dog: Oliver sincerely apologizes for his bullying and losing his dad, and invites him to his Halloween party on the condition he bring Chucky.
- Police Are Useless: Devon's mother and her partner suspects Junior and/or Jake might've killed Annie, even though the two were at school and the security cam footage showed no one entering before they arrived and Annie was already dead.
- Razor Apples: Chucky received an apple with a razor in it as a child, biting into it knowing what it was. He also gives an apple to a woman who tells him where Oliver's party is. And, the next time we see her, she's bleeding profusely from her mouth as she reports the "Horrible red-haired child" to the police.
- "Reason You Suck" Speech: A small one, but still. Michelle tells Lexy that Caroline is a talented artist and she's better at drawing than Lexy has been at anything in her entire life.
- Self-Harm: As shown in the opening, Chucky (as Charles Lee Ray) receives a Razor Apple. And, despite knowing what it was, he bit it anyway.
- Ten Minutes in the Closet: Oliver and other kids shove Jake and his crush Devon in the closet for "seven minutes in hell".
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: During the opening, a younger Chucky takes a Razor Apple and bites down on it, grinning as blood drips down from his mouth.
- Villains Out Shopping: Chucky plays a violent Video Game with Caroline, and even compliments her skills.
- Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: Chucky tries to argue to Jake he isn't a monster because his child, Glen/Glenda, is genderfluid.
