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* ScareEmStraight: Amy hears Jonah and Kelly yelling at each other over the text messages, and finds them in the middle of a vicious argument with her accusing him of playing mind games and him insisting he has no idea what she's talking about. To Amy's horror, it culminates in Kelly grabbing a kitchen knife from a nearby shelf and seemingly stabbing Jonah to death -- but it turns out they'd already figured out that the texts were from her, and set the whole thing up as a revenge prank.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Everyone but Kelly breathes a sigh of relief when they find out Sal is the corpse. Kelly's a little disturbed by the reaction until the inform her how creepy he was alive.

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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Everyone but Kelly breathes a sigh of relief when they find out Sal is the corpse. Kelly's a little disturbed by the reaction until the they inform her how creepy he was alive.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: The Cloud 9 customers mistake Sal's corpse as a fake display for Halloween and take pictures of it in awe.

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* AllPartOfTheShow: The Cloud 9 customers mistake Sal's corpse as a fake display for Halloween and take pictures of it in awe. At the end of the episode, the corpse ends up stuck on a Halloween display.



* BecomingTheMask: After Mateo dresses up as "creepy Sal," he ends up subconsciously acting creepy.



* DeadPersonImpersonation: Since Mateo is undocumented, he uses the recently dead Sal's passport and some heavy makeup to go to his cousin's wedding in the Philippines.

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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Since Mateo is undocumented, he uses the recently dead Sal's passport and some heavy makeup to go to his cousin's wedding in the Philippines. He gives up on the charade because he finds himself actually acting as creepy as Sal.



* ARareSentence: A variant when Jonah speaks with Kelly and Amy after he pretended to get stabbed: "I'm gonna go wash all this blood off... is a weird way to end a conversation."



* {{Yellowface}}: Inverted when Mateo (a Filipino man) gets made up to look like the white Sal.

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* {{Yellowface}}: Inverted when Mateo (a Filipino man) gets made up to look like the white Sal. Cheyenne refers to it as "creepface."
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* AllPartOfTheShow: The Cloud 9 customers mistake Sal's corpse as a fake display for Halloween and take pictures of it in awe.


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* DeadPersonImpersonation: Since Mateo is undocumented, he uses the recently dead Sal's passport and some heavy makeup to go to his cousin's wedding in the Philippines.


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* HalloweenEpisode: The episode takes place on Halloween and has the eerie plot of a corpse in the walls.


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* StreisandEffect: InUniverse, Glenn's attempt to dissuade the customers from going to the aisle where Sal's body is located only makes the customers more interested, mostly because Glenn's descriptions calling it "horrifying" just make it sound like a Halloween decoration.
* {{Yellowface}}: Inverted when Mateo (a Filipino man) gets made up to look like the white Sal.

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* ContinuityNod: Dina wears the same costume she wore last year.

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* ContinuityNod: AutoIncorrect: Amy, pretending to be Jonah, texts Kelly, "You're so special" but "special" gets autocorrected to "spicy." This happens twice in a row.
* {{Catfishing}}: After accidentally matching with Kelly on Jonah's phone, Amy pretends to be Jonah and strikes up a long conversation that snowballs into more lies, such as claiming Jonah has a terminal disease.
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Dina wears the same costume she wore last year.

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* FreakyFridayFlip: Jokingly discussed; Garrett suggests finding a cursed object and swapping bodies with Jonah to solve the Kelly .

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** They also wonder if it was Sal's foot that they found in the tornado (originally attributed to Brett). Turns out it's not.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Jokingly discussed; Garrett suggests finding a cursed object and swapping bodies with Jonah to solve the Kelly . Kelly problem.


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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Everyone but Kelly breathes a sigh of relief when they find out Sal is the corpse. Kelly's a little disturbed by the reaction until the inform her how creepy he was alive.
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!!"Sal's Dead"

Halloween day, and the employees find Creepy Sal's corpse in the drywall. Amy messes around with Jonah's dating app and accidentally matches him with Kelly.
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* ContinuityNod: Dina wears the same costume she wore last year.
* FreakyFridayFlip: Jokingly discussed; Garrett suggests finding a cursed object and swapping bodies with Jonah to solve the Kelly .
* ThePeepingTom: Sal died drilling a hole into the women's bathroom.
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