Based on Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns, book #48 of the original Goosebumps series.
Drew and her friends are sick and tired of their jerkish classmates Tabitha and Lee, who've spoiled Halloween for them two years in a row. This year, they're getting revenge... and two pumpkin-headed monsters want in on the fun.
The episode provides examples of:
- Actually Pretty Funny: Drew's dad snickers when Walker sprays him with a water gun, to explain the "stormy" of "Dark and Stormy Knight".
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Unlike in the book, Walker had never met Shane and Shana before and didn't know they were aliens.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Book Drew was in on the prank that Shane and Shauna did, so she was playing up her fear when the jack-o-lanterns started terrorizing the kids. In the TV episode, the twins just tell her they'll handle the details and bring Tabby and Lee to a designated meeting spot. Drew becomes legitimately scared that the pumpkin heads they see aren't Shane and Shauna, and warns Tabby and Lee.
- Costumes Change Your Size: Twin brother and sister Shane and Shana are revealed to be alien friends of the lead protagonist. When in their human disguises, they are at an average pre-teen kid-size, but after removing their Latex Perfection masks to reveal their green Muppet-esque alien heads, suddenly they are way taller, appearing even larger than an average adult human.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Drew and Walker didn't know the Jack-O-Lanterns were Shane and Shana. Likewise, Walker didn't know the twins are aliens.
- Missing Child: Presented more prominently here than in the book. Drew's parents discuss if it's safe for their daughter to go trick-or-treating after a string of disappearances. They make Drew promise to stick with the group and head home if there's any trouble. Suffice to say, Drew doesn't get the chance to do this because the Jack-O-Lanterns make sure she and her friends can't run. It was only Shane and Shauna pulling a prank on Tabitha and Lee, but they tease Drew to not eat too much candy or she'll be their next meal.
- Nightmare Sequence: A daydream Drew had in the book is turned into an actual nightmare, wherein she dreams about everyone being captured by a creepy old husband and wife with dozens of other kids in Halloween costumes.
- Race Lift: Lee goes from black to white, while Drew becomes black.
