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* ChildHater: Otto in the TV episode. He's also the ghost of the sea captain, and punishes children who cause trouble in Hill House, such as the titular ghost Andrew.
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* ChildHater: Otto in the TV episode. He's also the ghost of the sea captain, and punishes children who cause trouble in Hill House, such as the titular ghost Andrew. He very nearly inflicts the same fate on Stephanie.
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* WhamShot: Stephanie believes that she's going to get the usual lecture from Otto, before she turns around and sees that the curmudgeonly Otto is actually a ghost -- Captain ''Otto'' Bell.
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* WhamShot: Stephanie believes that she's going to get the usual lecture from Otto, before she turns around and sees that the curmudgeonly Otto is actually a ghost -- Captain ''Otto'' Bell.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While in the book Otto was a good guy, in the episode he turns out to be the sea captain.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: While in the book Otto was a good guy, in the episode he turns out to be the sea captain. Not only is he the one in charge of the ghosts in Hill House, he is also a vindictive ChildHater who tries to subject Stephanie to a FateWorseThanDeath.
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* AndIMustScream: The ghost of the sea captain tries to inflict this on Stephanie via trapping her in a * painting. She's rescued by Duane just in the nick of time.
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Based on ''Literature/TheHeadlessGhost'', book #37 of the original ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' series.
Duane and Stephanie tour a haunted house, and discover the ghostly legends about the place are real.
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!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptationDyeJob: Seth in the book has blonde hair and gray eyes. In the episode, he has brown hair and brown eyes.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Unlike in the book, where Andrew graciously thanks the protagonists for finding his head, the Andrew in the TV show is an UngratefulBastard who insults and threatens them even after they find it for him. He also turns out to be one of Otto's henchmen.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While in the book Otto was a good guy, in the episode he turns out to be the sea captain.
* AdaptedOut: Edna, another tour guide of Hill House in the book, is absent from the show.
* AndIMustScream: The ghost of the sea captain tries to inflict this on Stephanie via trapping her in a * painting. She's rescued by Duane just in the nick of time.
* AscendedExtra: The Sea Captain. In the book, he was long gone by the time the main events of the story took place. Here, it turns out he was Otto all along.
* BittersweetEnding: Although Duane and Stephanie narrowly escape Hill House with their lives, Otto goes unpunished for his crimes and it's revealed at the very end that he's about to lure another couple into becoming ghosts.
* ChildHater: Otto in the TV episode. He's also the ghost of the sea captain, and punishes children who cause trouble in Hill House, such as the titular ghost Andrew.
* CompositeCharacter: In the book, Seth is just messing around with Duane and Stephanie via telling them the story of a boy who loved ice cream until he leaned too far into the dumbwaiter and fell to his death. In the episode, he's that boy's ghost AND one of Otto's henchmen.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: Otto the old tour guide, as in the book. ''Unlike'' the book, he's actually evil and tries to use magic to [[AndIMustScream trap the main character inside a painting]].
* PersonaNonGrata: After pranking a family during a tour at Hill House, Duane and Stephanie are kicked out of the place by Otto. At another tour, he is willing to give the two children another chance if they behave themselves, but they decide to sneak away from the tour and hide in a closet. They are again caught by Otto, by which he kicks them out again, saying that they're banned from the place permanently. They still sneak in one night, anyway.
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Duane and Stephanie tour a haunted house, and discover the ghostly legends about the place are real.
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!!The episode provides examples of:
* AdaptationDyeJob: Seth in the book has blonde hair and gray eyes. In the episode, he has brown hair and brown eyes.
* AdaptationalJerkass: Unlike in the book, where Andrew graciously thanks the protagonists for finding his head, the Andrew in the TV show is an UngratefulBastard who insults and threatens them even after they find it for him. He also turns out to be one of Otto's henchmen.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While in the book Otto was a good guy, in the episode he turns out to be the sea captain.
* AdaptedOut: Edna, another tour guide of Hill House in the book, is absent from the show.
* AndIMustScream: The ghost of the sea captain tries to inflict this on Stephanie via trapping her in a * painting. She's rescued by Duane just in the nick of time.
* AscendedExtra: The Sea Captain. In the book, he was long gone by the time the main events of the story took place. Here, it turns out he was Otto all along.
* BittersweetEnding: Although Duane and Stephanie narrowly escape Hill House with their lives, Otto goes unpunished for his crimes and it's revealed at the very end that he's about to lure another couple into becoming ghosts.
* ChildHater: Otto in the TV episode. He's also the ghost of the sea captain, and punishes children who cause trouble in Hill House, such as the titular ghost Andrew.
* CompositeCharacter: In the book, Seth is just messing around with Duane and Stephanie via telling them the story of a boy who loved ice cream until he leaned too far into the dumbwaiter and fell to his death. In the episode, he's that boy's ghost AND one of Otto's henchmen.
* HauntedHouseHistorian: Otto the old tour guide, as in the book. ''Unlike'' the book, he's actually evil and tries to use magic to [[AndIMustScream trap the main character inside a painting]].
* PersonaNonGrata: After pranking a family during a tour at Hill House, Duane and Stephanie are kicked out of the place by Otto. At another tour, he is willing to give the two children another chance if they behave themselves, but they decide to sneak away from the tour and hide in a closet. They are again caught by Otto, by which he kicks them out again, saying that they're banned from the place permanently. They still sneak in one night, anyway.
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