After Clarence leads Chelsea and Mavis through his homemade haunted house, Chelsea suggests they go to the high school's haunted house for some real scares.
Tropes:
- Absurd Phobia: After leaving Clarence’s lame haunted house, Mavis was actually scared…of a fire hydrant on the sidewalk.
- Bedsheet Ghost: The ghost that chases Clarence ends up being Howard, a mischievous resident of the retirement home wearing a sheet. He was also the culprit behind all of the Scooby Doo-esque sounds after revealing that he used to do sound effects in the 60s.
- Face Your Fears: When Clarence gets chased by a ghost that reminds him of the “spooky boo” decoration that scared him the year before, he’s forced to face his fear and tackles the ghost to the ground.
- Faux Horrific: Jeff thinks the most terrifying thing about the theory of a cult living in the house on the hill is that they follow their own rules and grow their own vegetables.
- Halloween Episode
- Haunted House: Three in this episode
- The homemade one Clarence set up in his garage
- The one that Chelsea’s brother, Glary, is helping run at the Aberdale Community Center
- The creepy house on the hill that all the kids are afraid of, which ends up being a retirement home
- Incredibly Lame Fun: Clarence’s haunted house, as proud of it as he is, is filled with poorly made props and lame cliches. It does little to even hold the girls’ attention, let alone scare them.Chelsea: Well, Clarence, that was kinda lame.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: Clarence decides that they should all split up to go search the possibly-haunted house for Mavis.
- Losing Your Head: Jeff’s role in Clarence’s haunted house is to act like a person with their head cut off. He does this by sticking his real head in his t-shirt and using a balloon as the decapitated head. Chelsea and Mavis remain unimpressed.
- Musical Pastiche: When Jeff finds Mavis, she’s listening to a song that sounds very similar to the song, “Monster Mash.”
- Nixon Mask: A teenager with a chainsaw and a Richard Nixon mask jumps out to scare Sumo in the high schoolers’ haunted house.
- Rat Men: Sumo spends the entire time in the haunted house hunting for the legendary rat man that supposedly lives there.
- Real After All: The only urban legend that ends up being true is Sumo’s bizarre rat man theory.
- Shout-Out:
- There are various allusions to Scooby-Doo, starting with the episode title (and the title card, done in the style of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!). The chase scenes inside the old house feature sound effects from the original show, which In-Universe come from an old man who used to do cartoon sound effects in the 70s.
- The House on Hogus Hill is a reference to the classic film, House on Haunted Hill.
- Too Old to Trick-or-Treat: Clarence claims to be this, but really he doesn’t want to go because last year he went into a neighbor’s house to go to the bathroom and was scared by a ghost decoration.
- Urban Legend: The kids have each heard a different legend about the creepy house on the hill
- Chelsea heard a rumor that it’s haunted by a bunch of ghosts because it used to be an “orphanarium” that burned down.
- Sumo thinks a rat man lives there after he got mutated by radiation.
- Jeff’s theory is that it’s the base of a rule-breaking cult.
