"Once upon a time, Benson was so dumb."
The groundskeepers tell more ghost stories while on their way to a Halloween Party.Payback: Mordecai's story: Mordecai keeps seeing the spirit of his deceased uncle after he accidentally kills him by knocking him into a bowling alley.
Party Bus: Margaret's story: Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen board a haunted bus on which the passengers become more elderly as the bus moves forward.
Wallpaper Man: Benson's story: Mordecai and Rigby hire an interior designer to re-wallpaper the house, but they realize that the man they hired has other plans.
"Terror Tales of the Park II" contains examples of:
- Back from the Dead: In his story, Mordecai's uncle comes back from the dead due to some unfinished business that won’t let him rest.
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Jan the Wallpaper Man ends up being a giant spider that shoots wallpaper like webs.
- Bullying a Dragon: Rigby decides to taunt Benson by calling him dumb. This gets them both into a fight and causes the car to crash again.
- Claustrophobia: Rigby is revealed to be terrified of small spaces in “Wallpaper Man.” Luckily for him, Mordecai, and Pops, his frantic flailing about causes him to break through the wallpaper room they’ve been trapped in.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Mordecai’s Uncle Steve in his story, “Payback,” gets killed by getting his tie stuck in the ball return at a bowling alley.
- Death by De-aging: The ending of "Party Bus" had Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret, and Eileen end up aging in reverse and vanishing.
- Dem Bones: The driver of the party bus is revealed to be a skeleton once the bandages covering his entire body fall away.
- Didn't Think This Through: In Wallpaper Man, Mordecai and Rigby think to kill Jan by pulling the pins on Muscle Man's package of grenades and throwing the package down his gullet. Unfortunately, they do this while in Jan's grasp, so they end up going down with him.Rigby: Hey, hold on. How far away are we supposed to be before these things go off?
Mordecai: Wait, what? - Double Entendre:Mordecai: Dude, Muscle Man’s package!
Rigby: What?! Muscle Man’s package?! - Downer Ending: The episode ends with the entire group dying after they crash the tow truck into a tree outside the party. Benson seems to be the only one upset about it though. They are completely alive again by the next episode without any explanation.
- Dude, Not Funny!:
- Margaret's story, "Party Bus", was supposed to be funny, but the whole group was pretty disturbed by it. She thought it was hilarious, though.
- Benson's story, "Wallpaper Man", is essentially a personal attack against Mordecai and Rigby, as it depicts them as extremely stupid, depicts Benson as a morally-reprehensible Jerkass, and ends with Mordecai and Rigby dying in a graphic fashion.
- Eldritch Location: The house becomes this in Benson's story once Jan redecorates the place, as it turns into a shifting labyrinth with optical illusions and dead ends.Rigby: What did that guy do?!
- Epic Fail: Margaret thought that her story would be funny, but it only ended up freaking everybody out.
- Faux Affably Evil: Jan the Wallpaper Man seems like a super nice and helpful guy at first, but it ends up just being a front to hide his true monstrous intentions.
- Flanderization: In-Universe. During Benson's story, Mordecai and Rigby are reduced to completely incompetent morons who draw on and punch holes in the wall, can't follow instructions, call a suspicious wallpaper man when he appears on the TV that somehow got into the hallway, and blow themselves up with grenades.
- Fountain of Youth: The party bus initially makes people age rapidly until they die. However, when Mordecai puts it in reverse, the group de-ages into young teenagers, children, and toddlers until they eventually disappear altogether.
- Friendly Ghost: At first, Mordecai thinks his uncle is haunting him because he accidentally caused his death. Really, his Uncle Steve just wants to pay Mordecai back for the $5 he borrowed from him at the bowling alley.
- George Jetson Job Security: Subverted. Benson tells Rigby he's fired after the tow truck crashes and kills them all (except for Hi-Five Ghost), only for Rigby to scoff at him and point out that having a job no longer matters now that he's dead.
- Get Out!: Said by Mordecai in "Wallpaper Man".Mordecai: Let our friends go and get out of our house!
- Guilt-Induced Nightmare: Mordecai has one in which the events of his uncle’s death play out.
- Halloween Episode: This episode features the gang telling scary stories to pass the time on the way to a Halloween party.
- Humor Dissonance: In-Universe. Margaret thinks her "Party Bus" story is incredibly funny, but nobody else sees what's so funny about it.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Muscle Man in "Wallpaper Man", complete with Major Injury Underreaction.Muscle Man: Whatever. That didn’t even hurt. If your job was to kill people, you'd probably get fired!
- It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: How Mordecai starts his story.Mordecai: It all started at the bowling alley on a dark and stormy night.
- It's All My Fault: Mordecai blames himself for his uncle’s death. Strangely enough, he blames it on his insistence to play another round of bowling rather than his goofing around that knocked him into the ball return.
- Jerkass Ball: While Benson had a right to be concerned about Pops' nerves, he ends up becoming more aggressive and spiteful after the first story, even after Pops assures him that he's alright, to the point of making his scary story complete slander against Mordecai and Rigby.
- Match Cut: Uncle Steve is about to be killed after his tie gets stuck in the ball return at the bowling alley, when the scene cuts to a tree being put through a wood chipper at the cemetery.
- Mirror Scare: Mordecai is washing his face in the bathroom sink and when he finishes drying off with a towel, he looks up to see Uncle Steve’s ghost in the mirror.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Mordecai and Rigby both say one when they’re about to blow up the giant spider. Unfortunately, it causes a Failed Attempt at Drama because they awkwardly say their lines at the exact same time.Mordecai: Special delivery.Rigby: Time to redecorate.
- Rapid Aging: The party bus in Margaret’s story causes its riders to age so fast that they turn from senior citizens to skeletons to dust in just a matter of seconds.
- Revenge via Storytelling: A mishap after the second story causes their van to crash and have to get a lift by the tow truck driver. Angered at Mordecai and Rigby for unintentionally cause the situation, Benson tells the third story and makes the duo come off as bumbling idiots who end up getting themselves killed trying to stop the spider monster of the story. Offended, Rigby tries to tell his own story but causes a scuffle that once more cause their car to crash and end up killing them. Luckily it's Negative Continuity, so it doesn't stick.Rigby: Once upon a time, Benson was so dumb!
- Schmuck Bait: Mordecai and Rigby have no qualms calling the suspicious wallpaper man that they saw on TV when it mysteriously appears in the hall.
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That: The house’s TV set mysteriously shows up in the hallway Mordecai and Rigby are working in and starts playing a commercial that is literally the answer to all their wallpaper problems.Mordecai: Did you turn on the TV?Rigby: No...
- Toilet Paper Prank: The reason the group has to take a party bus in Margaret’s story is because Benson and Skips have to use the golf cart to patrol the park for pranksters toilet papering the trees for Halloween.
- Took a Level in Badass: In “The Wallpaper Man,” Benson is shown to be much more badass than usual. When released from his wallpaper cocoon, he lands on his feet despite Skips, the most badass character in the show, breaking both his ankles upon his landing. Benson also catches the delivery guy when he falls out of his cocoon and carries him, Pops, and Skips all away to safety. This also, conveniently, happens to be his story.
- Unfinished Business: Uncle Steve only haunts Mordecai because he wasn’t able to pay his nephew back the $5 he borrowed before he died.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: It’s not made clear if the tow truck driver died at the end of the episode along with the rest of the group or what exactly happened to him.
