Sandbox / Spooky Month Recaps Trope Separator

• Art Shift:
  • "Unwanted Guest":
    • Kevin's internal freakouts regarding the Candy Dealer's package of sugar are drawn in a much looser, sketchier style with incomplete coloring.
    • The credits panoramic for this episode is drawn in a lineless, shaded, and more detailed style than the rest of the episode.
  • The credits panoramic for "Deadly Smiles" is in CGI, depicting everyone as 3D toys.
  • "Tender Treats":
    • When Jack and John accidentally run over Bob, the event is abruptly depicted in CGI, with Bob as a 3D model ragdolling. Bob's body is subsequently shown as a clay model, while Jack and John are still animated in 2D.
    • The credits panoramic for this episode is drawn in a lineless, shaded, and more detailed style than the rest of the short.

• Brick Joke:
  • "The Stars":
    • Moloch is still stuck in the attic since he was summoned in the first episode.
    • Roy's uncle (the stranger that locked Skid and Pump inside the house on the hill) books it when one of Eyes' tentacles bursts out of the floor and grabs the two. When Eyes and the Spooky Kids leave the house to engage in Spooky Month shenanigans, Eyes accidentally tramples Roy's uncle (who was still fleeing from the house), leaving a small blood splatter on the ground.
  • Come "Unwanted Guest", Moloch is still trapped in the attic (two years have since passed in-universe), and he becomes so pissed off that he causes this episode's main conflict.
  • "Deadly Smiles":
    • At the beginning, Lila talks to Jaune on the phone, complaining that Skid and Pump spend all their time sharing the Happy Fella. At the end of the short, Jaune arrives at the house with a new Happy Fella for Pump, having misunderstood Lila's complaints.
    • After John sneezes on the Happy Fella, Jack simply says "told you". In the Newgrounds ending of the short (which is set before the short itself), Jack notices how dirty John's coffee mug is and remarks that drinking out of it will get him sick, which John brushes off.

• Chekhov's Gag:
  • In the attic scenes in both "It's spooky month" and "Unwanted Guest", a dusty mannequin in the background slides across the floor. In "Deadly Smiles", the mannequin conveniently tips over onto Dexter right when he's about to attack Lila and the boys, giving them time to escape and form a plan.
  • "Tender Treats":
    • At the first house they trick or treat at, Skid and Pump bust down the guy's door with a hammer to get his attention. Later when they begin playing "hide and seek" with Bob, the two use the hammer to bust open a restaurant's back door so they can hide in there.
    • The boys are seen looking both ways before crossing the street early in the episode. Later when the protagonists are accosted by Bob, they quickly look both ways before crossing the street. Bob does not and is immediately run over by John and Jack.

• Continuity Nod:
  • "Deadly Smiles":
    • The male actor in the horror movie is the same actor that gets spooked by Ooga Booga in the movie the boys were watching in the first short, just with a different outfit.
    • In the attic scene, Lila hides behind the portrait of her and Skid's dad that was hung up on the wall in "It's spooky month", now with Skid's dad's face torn out.
  • While Jaune is flicking through channels on the TV in "Tender Treats", she comes across a horror movie with the same brunette actress from the horror movie playing at the theater in "Deadly Smiles".

• Creator Cameo:
  • Sr. Pelo himself appears down the street in "It's spooky month", screaming as he gets abducted by Frank.
  • One of the various ice creams advertised on Frank's van in "The Stars" is based on Sr. Pelo's Author Avatar.
  • One of the background artists for "Deadly Smiles", Sifyro, snuck a plush of her author avatar◊^note More specifically, the "imp" version◊ of her into one of the backgrounds she did.
  • One of the animators for "Tender Treats" put in their persona as one of the workers at Streber's haunted house.
  • Sr. Pelo makes another in-person appearance in "Tender Treats", only to be immediately killed by Bob so he could use the bathroom stall he was in.

• Curse Cut Short:
  • "Unwanted Guest":
    • The Candy Dealer starts to say "What the fu—" in response to Skid and Pump playing dead after saying they want to go to the hospital, only for a hysterical woman to start screaming that he killed the kids.
    • In the ending, one of the Wheel of the Worst hosts somehow hears Skid and Pump say that "it's Spooky Month" through the TV, causing him to start dancing. His baffled co-host replies "What?! What the fu—", with the episode cutting to the credits before he's able to finish.
    • Subverted in the Newgrounds ending; when John and Jack bust into the house on the hill and find a group of robed cultists looking into the hole in the floor, John utters an uncensored and uninterrupted "What the fuck are you?".
  • "Deadly Smiles":
    • Dexter almost calls Lila a "dumb bitch", but he gets interrupted by Skid and Pump shoving him into the oven.
    • Confused at Lila's hysterical panicking over the new Happy Fella doll she brought over, Jaune starts to mutter "What the fu—", but Dexter's yelling startles her before she's able to finish.
  • "Tender Treats":
    • When Lila calls Jaune to tell her about Bob stalking her, Jaune thinks Lila has a new boyfriend and congratulates her, saying that, "You've gone so long without di-", but the scene cuts back to Lila before Jaune finishes saying "dick".
    • When the teen dressed as Bob tells Kevin that kids are stealing from the currently-unattended candy store, he runs towards the door with an "Ah, shi-" before the Smash Cut to the next scene interrupts him.
    • Subverted by John in the Newgrounds ending, where after realizing Jack propped up Bob's corpse to scare him, he says, "Jesus fucking Christ, Jack!"

• Five-Second Foreshadowing:
  • "The Stars": After sending Skid and Pump off to the house on the hill, Roy mentions it's the place where his uncle takes him. When Skid and Pump burst into the manor in the next scene, a creepy stranger locks them inside and references Roy tricking them into coming, revealing him to be Roy's uncle.
  • "Deadly Smiles": When Jaune presents the Happy Fella doll she bought for Pump, it has Dexter's white eye, indicating he's already possessing it. Lila understandably begins to panic, and Dexter tries to break out of the doll's box shortly after.
  • "Tender Treats":
    • After John and Jack accidentally run Bob over, Pump gains his blue eyes again as he pokes Bob's body. Sure enough, Bob isn't dead, and tries to attack them again while the cops are distracted.
    • In The Stinger, when Patty calls the two cops to give John the amulet she found on Bob, Jack sees something offscreen and gets a devious smile as he walks towards it. Shortly after, John sees Bob seemingly still alive and shoots at him again, before Jack reveals he propped up Bob's body to scare them.

• The Ghost:
  • Skid's father has thus far only been seen through pictures, and not even entirely, as they're all either torn or have his face scribbled out.
  • Starting with "Unwanted Guest", Robert mentions his thus far unseen little sister at least once per episode; she actually factors into the Hatzgang's subplot in "Tender Treats", as they're trying to get candy for her because she was too sick to go trick-or-treating herself.
  • Pump and Susie's parents haven't made a physical appearance, and are only mentioned or seen in photos. The closest one of them has to an actual appearance is the silhouette of Pump's mom coming across the package her kids sent her for Mother's Day in a comic Sr. Pelo posted to Twitter.
  • Ross' dad has currently only appeared in some family photos in Jaune's house during "Tender Treats". Word of Godinvoked states that he's still married to Jaune, however, and is not a Disappeared Dad like Skid's father.

• Grave Humor:
  • When Skid and Pump visit the graveyard in "It's spooky month", all of the tombstones say various funny things, such as "Here lies my boner", "I am fine", and "You later".
  • When Skid and Pump visit the haunted house in "Tender Treats", two of the tombstones in the front yard say "LET IT RIP" and "RIP UR ASS".

• Jump Scare:
  • Overused excessively by Ooga Booga in "It's spooky month", who somehow always appears either in person, on the phone, in a film, and in a video game to scream OOGA BOOGA!.
  • "The Stars":
    • Ooga Booga returns in the Newgrounds post-credits ending scene, trying to scare the cops in a police car as they're barreling right towards her, with predictable results.
    • Mr. Clown instead appears in the Youtube ending credits to give the camera a wallop with his mallet and try to steal the viewer away, Laughing Mad all the while.
  • Ooga Booga returns in HD glory for the Youtube ending of "Unwanted Guest", jumpscaring after the credits are done rolling.
  • Ooga Booga appears again for the Youtube ending of "Deadly Smiles", trying to jumpscare the viewer with a Happy Fella doll, but gets freaked out when it talks, only to then use that as an opportunity to give a real jumpscare.
  • Ooga Booga makes another return after the credits for the YouTube version of "Tender Treats" end, asking the viewer "OOGA or sugar", then jumpscaring the viewer when she pulls out an apple on a stick.

• In the Back:
  • As part of their plan, Lila comes up behind the Happy Fella and stabs him in the head with a knife while Skid and Pump are distracting him. It doesn't do anything because, as he himself points out, he's a doll and therefore doesn't have a brain.
  Happy Fella: (Evil Laugh) I'm a doll! You DUMB BI- (Skid and Pump shove him into the oven)
  • As Bob attempts to get into the police car to attack the boys, Lila and Jaune, John and Jack come up behind him and shoot him in the back, making him fall to the ground. The two then decide to unload the rest of their bullets into his chest just to make sure.

• Precision F-Strike: The series generally tends to avoid swearing that's any worse than a "hell" or "damn", and cuts them off whenever a character tries to say worse, so John directing an uninterrupted "What the fuck are you?" to the cultists is very noticeable.

• Rule of Three:
  • Three characters attempt to say "what the fuck" over the course of "Unwanted Guest"; the first two were interrupted, while the third gets it out.
  • Shortly into "Tender Treats", Skid and Pump look both ways before crossing the street. Near the episode's end, they, Lila and Jaune again look both ways before crossing the street as they're being chased by Bob. Bob crosses the street without looking and instantly gets hit by a car.
  • Over the course of "Tender Treats", Lila gets asked by three different characters about why she's not wearing a costume: first "Costume Bob", then Jaune, and finally Skid.