Two thieves robbing Skid's house are spotted by the young kid. Luckily, because it's Spooky Month, he goes off to celebrate with Pump. Unluckily, the two are spotted by Skid's mom, Lila, and promptly arrested.
Skid and Pump set off on their usual escapades around town, when they meet the Hatzgang, local neighborhood bully Roy and his two friends Ross and Robert. Roy tricks the two kids into going to an abandoned house on a hill for a party. When they arrive, they are nearly preyed upon by Roy's uncle until an eldritch being known as The Eyes of the Universe drags them underground.
Upon being told that it's Spooky Month, The Eyes of the Universe tags along with them on their antics around town. Once the night is over, their new friend heads back underground. Meanwhile, Sheriff John and his deputy Jack are driving the thieves to jail when they notice tentacles coming out of the abandoned house, becoming suspicious.
"The Stars" contains examples of:
- The Character Ice Cream Bar: Frank's white van has been redecorated to look like an ice cream truck; some of the ice cream bars shown on the front reference the real-life ice cream bars of SpongeBob SquarePants and Sonic the Hedgehog, and another is a bar resembling Sr. Pelo's avatar. Frank also gives Skid and Pump ice cream made to look like themselves, with Skid getting his head on a cone and Pump getting his head on a stick.
- Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?: While the Eyes of the Universe is holding Skid and Pump at its mercy, upon hearing about Spooky Month, it decides to let the two kids show it the joys of the Halloween season, terrifying the Hatzgang and shopping for sweets at the Candy Club, before walking back to it home underneath the house on the hill.
- Exact Words: When Skid and Pump break into Susie's room and use her computer before she barges in and finds them, Skid shouts "Let's get the hell outta here!"; Pump responds by stealing Susie's homework project, a scale model of the gates to Hell, before they both jump out the window.
- Foreshadowing: Susie's room, which the kids broke into earlier, has a poster of a large monster with two kid-sized characters standing before it. By the end of the short, pretty much the exact same scenario is playing out for the boys with The Eyes of the Universe.
- Hollywood Heart Attack: The boys pay a visit to Pump's grandfather and accidentally Jump Scare him by the front door so badly that he's suffering an excruciating heart attack. The kids then let him know it's Spooky Month and the old man is back in spirits, doing the Spooky Dance while horribly cracking every bone in his body.
- Instant Wrist Watch: Right before Skid and Pump enter the Candy Club, Kevin checks the time on his watch. The watch disappears after he puts his arm down, and it's the only time in the series that he's drawn with one.
- Orwellian Retcon: When the episode first released, the thumbnail was Skid and Pump breaking into a sprint. After the release of "Unwanted Guest", the thumbnail was changed to Skid and Pump staring at each other while The Eyes of The Universe looms above them in the background, to go with "Unwanted Guest"'s thumbnail having the Moloch-possessed Dexter behind the two.
- The Stinger: The YouTube version has Mr. Clown (instead of Ooga Booga) attacking and kidnapping the viewer. In the Newgrounds version, John and Jack notice that something strange is happening with the spooky old house on the hill, and then they accidentally run over Ooga Booga.
