The gang have miraculously secured tickets to the gig of the century on Halloween night, and the chance to meet their idol, Fatboy Slim.
Tropes
- Accidental Proposal: Inverted Trope when Sarah mistakes Ciaran's engagement ring for a gift.
- Batman Gambit: Michelle goes on a talkshow with a tall tale about James getting mugged to get free tickets for Fatboy Slim.
- Caught on Tape: Ma Mary promising an advance on Erin and Orla's birthday money. Sarah claims they got the idea from the tape recorder in Home Alone 2.
- Chekhov's Gun: Sister Michael hiring out her nun's costume for Halloween gets Sarah off the hook from Ciaran.
- Funny Background Event: Orla can be seen trying to eat a bowl of some snack face-first since her hands are incapacitated by the costume's wings.
- Getting the Boot: The gang get evicted from the concert when it's revealed James is faking his injuries. Starting a fight didn't help either.
- Gilligan Cut: Clare's friends say she should tell Laurie she's a lesbian too. She says no, that's weird and pathetic. She then proceeds to announce it point-blank, apropos of nothing. Played with, in that there is no cut. A classic Gilligan Cut involves a cut, which suggests elapsed time during which the person is talked into it. Here it's all one scene and Clare just flips in the moment.Erin: Why don't you just tell her?
Clare: Because it's pathetic, Erin.
Laurie: Hi, there.
Clare: [voice too loud] Hi, I'm a lesbian! - Halloween Episode
- Kiai: Mad Stab's signature pre-fight roar.
- Mood Whiplash: Moments after Clare has her first kiss, Gerry arrives to inform her that her father has suffered an aneurysm and he passes away that night.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Mad Stab. James does so — twice.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Clare is prepared to meet her crush, who will be in a clown costume, at the concert. Unfortunately, Clare discovers a lot of partygoers are dressed as clowns.
- No MacGuffin, No Winner: James tries to stop the brawl by ripping up the concert tickets, but all this does is upset everyone and make Mad Stab swear vengeance.
- Not So Above It All: Lampshaded by James when Clare cheers him on to fight for the concert tickets.James: I expected better from you, Clare!
- Obfuscating Disability: James using crutches that are part of Michelle's story that he got beat up. When he's seen Throwing Off the Disability they all get kicked out.
- Pet the Dog: In spite of their usual animosity, Jenny Joyce offers sympathy to Clare at her father's funeral.
- Radio Contest: How the opening scene establishes it's Halloween.Radio: You're listening to BBC Radio Foyle. Let's kick things off with today's phone-in competition. So, with Halloween night less than a week away, we want to know the festival's original name. What did the ancient Celts call Halloween? If you think you know the answer, give us a buzz on.
- Running Gag: The gang's angel costumes being mistaken for swan costumes. Even Orla made this mistake and attached her wings to her arms instead of her back.
- Sensing You Are Outmatched: Why James refuses to fight Mad Stab.James: Anyway, I was never gonna win. The man's the size of a wardrobe!
- Sudden Downer Ending: The penultimate episode, set right before a Time Skip, ends with Clare's father dying of a brain aneurysm and the girls attending his funeral.
- Taking the Fight Outside: Mad Stab challenging James.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: While Clare isn't quite as much of a Butt-Monkey as James, her getting her First Kiss in the penultimate episode swiftly followed by her dad's death by aneurysm is still pretty brutal.
