Funny / Dead End: Paranormal Park

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Season 1

The Job

• The paper for the job application appears to be a crude word document, with the text in comic sans and a stock image with visible watermark.
• The Phoenix Parks welcome video ends with Pauline reminding visitors to "keep it yourself, darlin'" if they see anything suspicious or unusual during their visit
• Courtney asks Barney what makes him think he would be a good flesh vessel.
  Barney: Mmm, flesh?
  Courtney: Perfect! Let's go!
• When Courtney gathers the other demons:
  Barney: Um, Norma? I don't think this is what we think it is.
  Norma: Ugh, I know! Group interview. They could've warned us.
  • Immediately after, Norma asks if the job has any benefits:
  Courtney: Uh, wings, blood made of fire, immortality...
  Norma: Okay, but what about dental?
• Temeluchus choosing between Barney and Norma as his new host using "one potato, two potato".
• When Temeluchus asks to know who the humans' leader is so he can eat them, Norma starts giving him directions to a 'little White House'.
• Despite being able to float in midair, Temeluchus still chooses to chase Barney using another one of the ride's gondolas.

The Tunnel

• When the mascots corner Norma in Dead End, Courtney promptly teleports away. Norma's response is simply "Eh. Fair enough."

Trust Me

• After Barney's morning routine, which includes washing himself in an outdoors fountain, Courtney comes crashing down through the upstairs floor in a bathtub.
  Courtney: Morning.
  Barney: Wait, we have a bath?
• Barney's wide-eyed cell phone profile picture of Norma, which seems to have been taken from the side when she wasn't ready.
• Badyah's description of beach volleyball:
  Badyah: It's a really great game where your forearms get red and sore and you get lots of sand in your eyes, but for a split-second you feel like you're in an 80s movie.

Night of the Living Kids

• Logs and Badyah cheerfully inform Norma and Barney that the kids at the slumber party are so full of sugar and candy that they're "never going to sleep."
• Norma walks in on the kids performing the night hag summoning ritual, giving them all a Jump Scare:
  Norma: Wow. I feel powerful.
• Barney walking in on Courtney on top of Pugsley with a melon baller:
  Courtney: It's exactly what it looks like.
• The solution the to the Night Hag's reign of terror? Summon a Day Hag. Who turns out to be her sister. And they really don't like being called "hags" when they find out.

The Nightmare Before Christmas in July

• Apparently, the demon world is where game shows were invented.
• Hox's reaction to Pugsley having magical powers:
  Hox: [on a call with the crew] What the here was that?
• Badyah leaves the soup she brought for Norma... By pouring it through the mail slot in the door.
• Hox hitting the group with a "sudden death" round... meaning pushing Barney down the stairs, hitting him with lightning bolts on the way down until he literally suddenly dies.
  Badyah: Did... did Barney just straight up die?
  Courtney: [genuinely shocked] I don't believe it! [Beat] Pass the popcorn.
  [Badyah gives the bucket of popcorn to Courtney, who starts eating the actual bucket]
  • Barney's reaction to seeing his dead body after getting revived by the lifeline is hilarious.
    Barney: [smiling with a terrified expression] Ok! Cool! When we get back, uh, remind me to call my therapist!
• When the group enters the seemingly empty Chamber of Cuddles:
  Norma: "Chamber of Cuddles"? How do we get out?
  Barney: Maybe we have to cuddle each other?
  Norma: [look of absolute horror and revulsion] Oh my ghost. We're never getting out of here.

Wait Time: 22 Minutes

• The setting for the episode is a line for a newly opened ride, which is based on Pauline's show "Dr. Love." A show where Pauline solved patients' relationship problems with heart transplants. It only lasted three episodes.
• Pugsley uses Courtney's spell book to possess Barney, and winds up making a great impression with Logs, despite barely disguising the fact that he is a dog.
  • He later says that they need to give Barney's body back because he doesn't feel right stealing Barney's "special boy time" with Logs.
• The book winds up getting passed around the characters, with Norma and Courtney also possessing Barney. Norma does a poor job due to her anxiety, but Courtney manages to do the worst as her understanding of human relationships comes from reading "Fakin' and Negs: a Pathetic Man's Guide to Dating".
  • Courtney's belief that good relationships start with convincing the other party you hate them.
• Pugsley suggests they stop possessing Barney, Courtney instead insists they should possess each other more. When asked why, her response is that it would be funny.
• Norma gets in the staff line to get on the ride faster, only to find it's moving slower than the public one because it's for staff and their family members. The way Josh says it implies the majority of the line is his family as well.
• Norma's insistence on not hearing any "spoilers" about the ride.
• While possessing Barney, Courtney starts consuming items from a woman's purse, causing her real body to start making slurping noises while waving its tongue around. Unable to see what's going on, Norma concludes the demon is either eating or in the middle of a makeout session.
  Norma: Either she found some food, or Logs is getting a lot more than he bargained for.
• One woman repeatedly cuts the line yelling out obviously fake excuses to explain why she needs to be at the front. Her first excuse is that she left her bag on the ride. The second is that she left her baby on the ride. The third is that she grabbed the wrong baby (carrying one of the worm creatures dressed in a diaper) and needs to return it.
  • The final time, the woman pushes past Barney and Logs while flat out admitting she just wants to go again. Logs gives her points for honesty.

Norma Khan: Paranormal Detective

• Everyone immediately pointing out that Pauline is obviously the culprit when Norma still concludes after her investigation that the culprit must be Barborah:
  Barney: She's tracking everyone's movements.
  Courtney: All the victims are her look-alikes.
  Pugsley: She has access to the whole park.
  Badyah: She's a rich white lady, and they can be the worst.
• We learn that the theme park has a Hall of Ex-Husbands, a parody of Walt Disney World's Hall of Presidents featuring broken down or absent animatronics of Pauline Phoenix's exes.
  "Forget diamonds; prenups are a girl's best friend!"
  • The ex-husbands are a tiger dentist, a baked bean magnate, a Swedish musician whose name Pauline never learned to pronounce and then the tiger dentist again, who turned out to have faked his death... and died for real doing it a second time because he forgot to bring his parachute.
• Courtney admits that she's gotten used to having roommates and is afraid that Barney's going to move out:
  Courtney: Hadn't been anyone else in this dump for a year. I started talking to myself, and man, I am so rude.

The Pauline Phoenix Experience

• Pauline-as-Cousin Gail's moment in the first movie, a black and white horror movie:
  Cousin Gail: I was having such awful night horrors. Visions of witches, gargoyles and communists!
• In the Western movie, Pugsley is turned into a regular size horse while still having his actual face. It looks just as funny as it sounds.
• The obvious special effects as the group runs through Pauline Phoenix movies, like a boom mike showing, visible wires in a space movie and an unconvincing puppet dinosaur.
• Courtney's various roles in the films are hilariously miscast. She plays a maid, princess and bartender.
  • As a princess, Courtney declares she is not a prize to be won. Unless you're hot, rich or both.
• Dr Love has Pugsley playing Doctor Reverend Harvard, who happens to be a doctor, reverend and world-famous tightrope walker.
  • Pauline going off to perform emergency surgery on an astronaut who is somehow her ex-twin.
• One of the movies is a retro exercise video.
• The commercial Pauline was shooting when she died was about life insurance. The script has her trying to guilt the viewers as much as possible into buying the insurance, directly saying they are bad people for not buying it and using the fact that it's the most expensive life insurance on the market as a selling point.
  "So why are you selfishly leaving them with nothing when you inevitably die? It could happen any day now and you haven't prepared for it because you are a bad person who only thinks of yourself."

The Phantom of the Theme Park

• Pugsley's spell for making everyone sing like a musical:
  "Bippity boopity Patti LuPoney Menken Tesori Menzella Minnelli!"
• Courtney gets a big "I Want" Song about literally going to hell.
  • At the end, she's at the top of the house's tower and catches herself pointing up when singing about "down there" and quickly gestures downwards instead.
• Pauline completely missing the second half of "My Frankenstein" being about how Norma knows her secret and is disappointed in her and merely asking to meet the girl in her dressing room.
  • Amplified by her not even questioning how the girl she sees "looks like my clone" to the point of even having her birthmark.
• The song "Phantom of the Theme Park" has multiple lines that need to rhyme with "Park" for its lyrics. The funniest?
  Pugsley: You're gonna make me sad-bark! *howls*
• While singing a song about how Logs is "just some guy" Barney gives himself away by imagining their wedding. On a horse.
  • He is seemingly aware of the implications too
  Barney: It's not like I've drawn up plans for our wedding / Because that's... a totally stalker-ish thing to do...
• The chant for sealing Pauline into Norma's body is the same chant used for Temeluhcus in the first episode. Somehow the crowd knows it and sings it along with Pauline.
• Pauline ends the final reprise of Phantom of the Theme Park (the song) by cackling evilly... And then telling the audience "Aw, bless your hearts"

Into the Fire

• Badyah tries to correct Norma on still not knowing her fellow employees names during a rallying speech...only to immediately fall in line upon being referred to as "Deathslide" once again.
• This exchange:
  Courtney: Pugsley, trust me!
  Pugsley: *flatly* Why?
  Courtney: ...Good point!
• Pauline finally joining the humans in fighting Zagan:
  Pauline: This park is my legacy, and I'd rather not have hundreds of people dying in it. I'm not having a repeat of Phoenix Parks Europe!
• Norma declaring that since her next shift starts in three hours, she's finishing the demonic invasion with a power nap.

Season 2

Take the Angels Bowling

• The episode opens with Pauline's video will, which goes about as well as you'd expect:
  • Before it even properly starts, she complains about having to do her own hair and makeup and gets hit by a boom mike.
    Pauline: What kind of production is this?!
  • Pauline warns anyone who's spited her that she will be haunting them now that she's dead, including an unnamed man she met at a dry cleaners'.
  • She says she never found a true next of kin, "not for lack of trying", showing her six (at least) surviving ex-husbands at the will playing.
• Barney having trouble with the bowling alley's score keeping system.
  Pauline-voiced computer: Error! Error! Did I happen to mention... Error!
• When Fingers first enters the bowling alley, Hercules (the guy behind the counter), just puts up a pair of bowling shoes without looking up from his phone; Fingers just grumbles and moves on.
• When Pugsley manages to hide from Fingers in a pile of prize plushies, he remarks that they'll have to wash them.

Evil Twins are People Too

• Pugsley attempts to bring a flower to life during his magic lesson with Fingers.
  Flower: Do, re, mi, fah, so, la, ti, do—[catches fire and begins shrieking in pain]—OH NO! HELP ME! HELP ME! I hate yoouuuuu... [disappears]
  Fingers: Oh no, you just sent that rose to the Realm of Eternal Screaming.
• "Well, I'm not immediately great at it. So I might as well give up."
• Norma initially thinks her evil twin is a fan of her and Badyah's podcast that is wearing Norma cosplay
• Courtney gets a good twin who wears a sweater vest and Nerd Glasses
  Good Courtney: Heyyyy friendbags! Want to play a game of "How Long We Can Hug Each Other"?
  Courtney: Ugh, horrifying!
• Good Courtney starts a support group for demons living in the Neutral Plane.
  Night Hag: After sucking the sleep out of the fiftieth child of the night, you have to take a good look at yourself in the mirror and think "am I the problem?"
  Vampire: At least you can look in a mirror

Eat the Parents

• Norma's "stereotypical relationship timeline" based on watching rom-coms: Meet Cute, First Date, Meet Parents, Move In, Get Married, Buy Matching Coffins
• The (cursed) dinner party handbook Norma, Courtney, Fingers, and Pugsley use is called Dinner Party Etiquette for the Authentically Human Person.
  [Beat as the camera focuses on the book cover and an evil laugh is heard]
  Norma: Hmm, sounds... Totally not suspicious, this'll be perfect!
• Norma decides to host the dinner party in an affected posh accent and speaking with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Barney's parents are introduced to Courtney.
  Saul: And she is a... demon? Is that an OK thing to say?
  Courtney: [annoyed] I prefer Courtney, but whatever meat sack.
• The book grants everyone an illusion of their dream dinner party guests. Barney's dream guest is Logs and Logs' is a famous online parrot with a spiky blue crest, yellow wings, and a dark blue chest.
  Logs: [gasps] Internet sensation Angsty Alphie the Blue Crested Parrot!
  Alphie: Nobody understands me.
  Logs: He's so relatable!
  Illusion!Logs: Hmm, that parrot reminds me of someone.
  Barney: No it doesn't.
• The return of the evil spoon from the previous episode.
• Logs' awkward attempts to make a good impression on Barney's parents.
• Pugsley briefly wakes up after being captured by Harmony.
  Pugsley: Have things gotten any better? Nope, this is worse. [passes out again]

The Ride of a Lifetime

• Norma's idea for an episode of her and Badyah's podcast: "Did aliens build the pyramids, or are conspiracy theorists just racist?"
• Some of Pugsley's attempts to fix the group's issues have hilariously disastrous outcomes:
  • One of them results in all of them (except Courtney) in the same seat... which falls off of the wheel when the seagull lands on Norma's head.
  • One results in Courtney choking on the puzzle box.
  • Another somehow results in the whole theme park being drowned underwater; even Pugsley doesn't understand what he did to set off that bad a chain reaction.
• The fact that the puzzle box Courtney is playing with is holding an incredibly powerful, evil demon. When it's released, Pugsley is so exhausted by all the other times he tried that he can't even be bothered.

My Super Sweet 1600

• After everything that Temeluchus did the previous season, the revelation that Zagan sees him as a huge nerd is pretty funny.
• Just the awkwardness between Pugsley and Temeluchus in a Does This Remind You of Anything? for two exes running into each other at a party.
  Pugsley: New flesh vessel, I see.
  Temeluchus: Yeah... Yeah, we met on Plenty of Flesh.
  Pugsley: Oh, nice...

All Dolled Up

• It becomes a sad plot point later in the episode, but Norma realizing how much of her free time at home had to do with Pauline Phoenix has some funny moments:
  • She is woken up by a Pauline alarm clock and throws it towards a trash can.
    Norma: I told mom to get rid of this. We do not stan stars who abducted their impersonators in this house.
  • Her To-Do list is all points about her geeking out over Pauline, including finishing a self-insert fanfic about Pauline where they are best friends.
• Norma's mother mentions that Pauline's movies are running on a network called The Old and Boring Movies Network.
• Logs arrives to pick up a seance kit from Norma but immediately stops to fix the chandelier in the front hall.
  Logs: Falling chandeliers are America's silent killers, Mrs. Khan!
  Swati: I thought they'd be pretty loud...
• While it's still an emotional moment for Norma, she tries to avoid giving away to Logs that Badyah is the other girl she has a crush on while still mentioning that it's someone with whom she does a podcast.
• When Norma comments that Pauline's new doll form is much smaller, she takes it as a compliment.
  Pauline: Don't I look petite? I've finally reached my goal weight.
• Pauline reveals her plan to possess Norma's mother:
  Norma's mother: But I look nothing like you!
  Pauline: [scoffs] I know a few plastic surgeons who'll disagree.
  Norma and her mother: [horrified] Ew!
• Doll!Pauline commandeers a toy car to chase after Logs, Norma, and Swati.
  Doll!Pauline: Get in losers, were going possessing!
• As Norma walks back toward Dead End she is rehearsing various things to say to Badyah and rekindle their friendship, one of them is "Badyah, I'm sorry you're straight"
• The ending is darkly funny, with Norma going back to Dead End, only to walk in on the gang doing a seance and a group of ghosts, including Barney's, floating near a swirling supernatural vortex.
  Norma: Sooo... Uh, did I miss anything?

The Other Side

• Barney is killed from being hit by a falling chandelier, but is pretty blase about it.
  Logs: How are you not freaking out?
  Barney: I guess dying isn't as shocking the second time.
  Logs: SECOND TIME?!
• Barney meets the other ghosts haunting dead end.
  Jules: Anyway... Hello, I'm Jules! My pronouns are they, them, and the late. [Rimshot] A little, uh, ghost chuckle for you there.

Going Up

• Courtney's plan to infiltrate the angel prison Naraka is to be arrested, so she chucks a pebble at one of the angels working at a terminal.
  Angel: Alert, I am being harassed in the workplace.
  • Even funnier, it works and they are instantly arrested!
    Guard Angel: You are under arrest and shall be banished to the Vault of Naraka for all of eternity.
• Courtney tries to give a Rousing Speech to others like her that they should create their own destinies and rise up against the angels' oppressive ways. They do not care about it. She then tells them about getting longer lunch breaks and this is what sparks the revolution.

The Watcher's Test

• While this episode is far from funny, there is a nice callback to Barney's having died in season one when Barney having watched his first death remembering that he never did get around to calling that therapist.

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