Fridge Brilliance
- The fact that Trip Nickerson's self-help goal-setting seminar was nearly empty except for the main characters and other children makes more sense when Carver skims over his book at his book signing, which was "also" empty, and finds that it was essentially just "I'm better than you are" repeated for pages and pages. When Trip insists that he doesn't need anyone and is happy being alone , Tino describes Trip as "a pathetic loser trying to make up for a lack of friends with fake achievements" moments later. No one who's actually looked at it would have ever attended, let alone people his age who actually have friends to spend time with. Though how he got that published is another question...
- The costume party being a trap makes more sense when you realize just how hard Tish and Tino had to work to make their costumes since it was so long after Halloween that buying them was difficult. A real costume party wouldn't give such short notice in a time when costumes are harder to come by.
