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Nightmare Fuel / The Greatest Freakout Ever

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  • The policeman spraying Stephen with pepper spray in episode 11.
  • Following the events of episode 13, The Happiest Company actually went out of business due to the damage to their office that Stephen inflicted. That's right. Stephen single-handedly destroyed an entire company.
    • In 2016, it was revealed the owner of The Happiest Company had been arrested, and the entire organization was a shell company for a political movement to LEGALIZE CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Stephen may have done all of us a favor.
  • In episode 29, Jack films Stephen fighting with his parents about him not wanting to go to Uncle Philip's farm. Stephen catches Jack filming him and Jack retreats to another room, only for Stephen to bust open the door and scream "BACK OFF!", loud enough to the point where even Jack was terrified.
  • Episode 32 has Stephen coming back from military school, and it seems he had finally calmed down. Except Jack reveals that he just came back to find his entire backyard in ruins, all while seeing Stephen screaming in the background that he "saw blood".
  • Episode 34 begins with Stephen very calmly and serenely painting, channeling Bob Ross. Then there is angry knocking at the front door and ringing of the doorbell, and his mom is at the door. As Jack and his mom go to confront Stephen, we find the room where he was painting abruptly in shambles, and Stephen is already walking away in the backyard wearing only his shorts. We learn that Stephen apparently stole painting supplies from his cousin Liam and left his mom at someone's house.
  • Stephen's Sanity Slippage in Episode 37 (yes, even by his standards). After an argument with his girlfriend about whether he's responsible enough to have kids, Stephen is challenged to raise an egg. Jack finds him squatting over the egg in the family duck-house, alone, in total darkness, while wearing a creepy-looking duck mask. The episode ends with him chasing Jack through the woods like some found-footage horror flick.
  • Stephen's freakout in Episode 39 (the McJuggerNuggets crossover) is as unsettling as it is funny, in part due to how loud the sound gets during the freakout, and also because of how genuine Stephen's feelings of betrayal come off as.
    • The abrupt ending of the episode, when Jesse, infuriated at Jack for not telling him about Stephen's ambiguous disorder, begins to chase after him, with Jack screaming at him to calm down.
  • In Episode 41, Stephen supposedly goes off to Town Hall to congratulate Greg, the winner of the election. However, Jack follows him and sees that Stephen is loading gasoline and a chainsaw in the car. Fearing for the possible destruction Stephen is capable of, Jack locks him in the duck-house.

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