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Watcher World

  • As Bill keeps saying, he doesn't mind that Alice wants a girlfriend. He just wants her to be with someone worth her time and love. From what we hear of Deb, Bill is an Excellent Judge of Character when Alice sees pictures of Deb hooking up with Zigs at the party.
  • Alice has a panic attack while they get trapped on the Tearjerker rollercoaster, on the uphill. Despite the fact that they were told to stay in the cars, Bill unbuckled his seatbelt and gets her to the stairs, ordering her not to look down. She tells him about her playwright dreams. They end up back at the loading zone.
  • Bill actually calls out Alice for her bad attitude. As he points out, his dropping her phone was an accident, and his bigger priority was getting her off the ride.
  • The climax was an early Crowning Moment of Awesome for Nightmare Time that showed what the format could do. Somehow, with nothing selling it but the actors' facial expressions, Nick Lang's narration and Matt Dahan's epic, tragic piano accompaniment, the moment where Bill and Alice's Final Battle commences was one of the most cinematic moments in any Starkid show without actually showing any of the action.
    BANG! Alice takes a shot at Bill. He jumps out of the way, tosses the Blinky doll, and grabs the mallet with both hands. As both father and daughter run to attack, the electric lights flicker on, illuminating Main Street. Though it seemed empty in the dark, a crowd of hundreds lines the street to watch the fight with purple eyes. Blinky himself stands atop a gift shop, and bellows...
    "WELCOME TO THE SHOW!"
  • "Fuck you, Blinky." BANG!

Jane's a Car

  • As fucked up as things may be about to get in the subsequent story, the Title Theme Tune Title Sequence of "Jane's a Car" is a legitimate bop of a Driving Song and one of the most earnestly fun and joyous numbers Starkid has produced up to this date.

The Witch in the Web

  • The escalating reveals of just how awesome Hannah's potential is and her finally claiming her power as The Chosen One and using it to one-shot Uncle Wiley into dust and smash the Witch's domain into rubble was pretty damn satisfying, especially in contrast to how Hannah has spent all of her screen time up to that point as a screaming, terrified child.

Honey Queen

  • Linda spends much of the episode frustrated at lacking a talent she can employ in the beauty pageant. At the pageant itself, we learn that she's figured out how to get around her lackluster singing voice — "Queen B", a song that heavily employs rap and Auto-Tune for a very different vibe than anything Starkid has ever done before.

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