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"You! You're going to pay for that!"

The groundskeepers are telling ghost stories. Pops' story is about a vintage talking doll that draws on people's faces, Muscle Man's story centers on he and High Five Ghost being haunted by the horrible music of a 1980s hair metal band, and the final story centers on Rigby being cursed by a wizard after pelting his house with eggs.


"Terror Tales of the Park" contains examples of:

  • Ambiguous Situation: If Rigby was really the Wizard in disguise, then what happened to the real Rigby? And what did the Wizard do to the rest of the staff?
  • Bait-and-Switch: A Double Subversion. When Rigby demands the Wizard to just Get It Over With, it looks like the Wizard is about kill him, but Rigby is surprised and unimpressed when the former starts throwing eggs at him, apparently to invoke Laser-Guided Karma for throwing eggs at his house. Then the Wizard points to the giant egg above him...
  • Blunt "Yes": This is how the Wizard responds to Rigby incredulously asking him if he did all this just to get back at him for egging his house.
  • Body Horror: Rigby's transformation into a house.
  • Cat Scare: Mordecai is looking through the house of the Wizard, and suddenly he looks at a disturbance near one of the windows. It turns out to be a creepy cat.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: All of the main characters' deaths in "In The House", despite being bloodless. It's little surprise a good deal of this segment was censored in the UK.
    • Muscle Man gets dragged away and has his skin removed by the Wizard, living long enough to flex his exposed muscles before he falls dead.
    • Hi Five Ghost gets sucked into a phone and ground to ectoplasm, which sprays all over his friends.
    • Benson is flushed into a toilet which cracks open his head and spews up gumballs.
    • Skips gets sucked up the chimney through the fireplace, which burns him alive.
    • Pops is knocked around the room, stuffed into a closet, and vanished into nothingness.
    • Mordecai gets decapitated and his head lives long enough to say, "Huh. So this is what it's like to be as tall as Rigby."
    • And poor Rigby who has been experiencing all this going on inside him as a house, is finally crushed and drowned by a giant egg.
    • Special mention goes to the Crash Pit audience from Muscle Man's story, who get graphically dissolved to skeletons by the explosion of the ghost van.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Someone eggs your house? Turn him into a house, kill his friends, then throw eggs at him... and then kill him by drowning him in egg.
  • Dramatic Wind: A foreboding wind blows every time the wizard shows up in "In the House".
  • Dwindling Party: In "In the House".
  • Eat the Camera: The leader of Skull Punch does this when he and the rest of his band mates are about to fall into the Crash Pit.
  • Egging: Rigby eggs a house because the owner didn’t come to the door when he was trick-or-treating. Unbeknownst to him, the house belongs to a wizard who then seeks revenge on him.
  • Evil Is Petty: The Wizard murders all of the park workers as part of his payback on Rigby, until it escalates to just throwing eggs at Rigby.
    Rigby: What?! You turned me into a house and killed all my friends just to throw eggs at me? That's it?!
    Wizard: Yup. That's it!
  • Face Doodling: This seems to be Percy’s only desire in "Creepy Doll".
  • Face Palm: Mordecai's reaction when Rigby starts eating the eggs he's planning to throw at a house in order to convince a cop that he brought them as a snack.
  • Family-Unfriendly Death: Muscle Man, Skips, and Mordecai die pretty horrific deaths for a children's cartoon, being flayed, incinerated, and decapitated respectively. Hi Five Ghost, Benson, and Pops get off easy in comparison, being sucked into a telephone and sprayed out (which is lessened by the fact that Hi-Five Ghost is, well, a cartoony ghost), flushed down a toilet (though the gumballs floating to the surface implies that Benson's head was busted open in the process), and shoved into a closet that disappears.
  • Faux Horrific: Muscle Man's attempt to stall the ghosts of Skull Punch by convincing them to put on a show backfires because he now has to listen to the band's horrible music up close, and he treats it as if it's the most agonizing torture possible.
    Muscle Man: HELP! THIS MUSIC SUCKS!
  • Flaying Alive: Muscle Man had his skin ripped off of him, and lived long enough to show everyone his muscles.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: There’s a framed picture of Eileen on the fireplace mantle in House!Rigby.
  • Halloween Trickery: Rigby throws eggs at an old creepy house on Halloween.
  • Harmless Villain: In Pops' story, the evil doll isn't out to kill anyone, he just wants to draw on people's faces, which is a very minor inconvenience.
  • Instantly Proven Wrong: Mordecai tells Rigby that it's not cool to egg people's houses, but Rigby doesn't care because "there aren't any cops around." A cop pulls up next to them immediately after he says this.
  • Invincible Villain: The Wizard in the last story easily kills every one of the Park's workers after transforming Rigby into a house and gets away unscathed while nothing they initially do even slows him down.
  • It's the Best Whatever, Ever!: Muscle Man at the end of his story:
    Muscle Man: Best Crash Pit ever!
  • Kill It with Fire: In Pops' story, he finally defeats Percy by kicking him into an open furnace.
  • Mythology Gag: As Rigby is freaking out the day after Halloween, Mordecai tricks him into hearing him fart. This trick was also done by JG Quintel's character in 2 in the AM PM.
  • Nested Story Reveal: Muscle Man and High-Five Ghost say that they are leaving after Pops does his story, and their apparent event takes place outside, suggesting that this is actually happening in real life. But it turns out, no, that this was all part of a story Muscle Man was telling.
  • Nightmare Face: The Wizard.
  • Off with His Head!: Mordecai, in Rigby's story. It doesn't bother him much, though.
  • Ominous Fog: Muscle Man and Hi-Five walk blindly through the fog after they leave the main house.
    Muscle Man: Stupid fog! It's making it so I don't know where I am!
  • Ominous Knocking: After Muscle Man is dragged off into the woods by the Wizard, the rest of the Park workers are left in the house feeling uneasy. Suddenly, there is VERY loud knocking coming from the door. Cue the door slowly opening to reveal a flayed Muscle Man.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: The Wizard in "In the House" has red eyes.
  • Schmuck Bait: The phone Skips disconnected earlier starts ringing, and Hi Five Ghost goes to answer it without any suspicion what so ever. He gets sucked in and liquefied for his troubles.
    Hi Five Ghost: Worst phone call ever.
  • Soundtrack Dissonance: While Skull Punch are plummeting towards their deaths, as well as causing the deaths of everyone else around them, the music that is played in this scene is a cheery whistling piece.
  • Stunned Silence: After Rigby tells his story, the rest of the Park workers just stare at him in silence, shocked by his terrifying tale. It gets broken by Muscle Man nitpicking it.
  • Troll: The Wizard.
  • Twist Ending: Rigby in the framing device is really the Wizard.
    Wizard: Happy Halloween!

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