The alien menaces Emmett and Vivia Balfour after trapping them inside the box.
The Control Voice: The greatness of evil lies in its awful accuracy. Without that deadly talent for being in the right place at the right time, evil must suffer defeat. For unlike its opposite, good, evil is allowed no human failings, no miscalculations. Evil must be perfect... or depend upon the imperfections of others.
An elderly woman (Miriam Hopkins) tries to free her husband from a timeless void through any means possible.
The Control Voice: Without that deadly talent for being in the right place at the right time, evil must suffer defeat. And with each defeat, doomsday is postponed for at least one more day.
Don't Open Till Tropesday:
- Accidental Hero: Despite his evil intentions, Doctor Spazman's revenge plot actually keeps the alien in the box and prevents the destruction of Earth.
- Alien Invasion: Mordecai Spazman tried to warn the people about invading aliens, but his rival, Harvey Kry, Sr. publicly ridiculed him in the scientific community.
- Always Save the Girl: Mary Kry desperately wants to get her husband back, even if that means helping the alien destroy the planet. Of course, she has gone quite crazy due to decades of despair and loneliness.
- Bigger on the Inside: The alien's box, which is a pocket dimension.
- Blob Monster: The box alien.
- Driven to Suicide: Realizing that humans will never assist it, the alien finally self-destructs, blowing up the whole mansion along with itself, the Krys and Emmett Balfour.
- Elopement: Gard Hayden and his teenage bride, Vivia Balfour.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Emmett Balfour is a slimy lawyer and businessman, but he won't help a malicious alien destroy Earth.
- The Flapper: Mary Kry obsessively tries to pretend she's still a young woman from The Roaring '20s.
- The Grotesque: The box alien, intended to represent pure evil, may be the most nightmarishly ugly alien in the entire series.
- Heroic Sacrifice/The Needs of the Many: Harvey Kry rather condemns himself to be trapped inside the box for all eternity (or at least 34 years) than help the alien destroy Earth.
- I Will Wait for You: Mary Kry, who does this to an insane level.
- Love Makes You Crazy: Mary can't take the loss of her husband, and would literally do anything to free him from the box. Decades of despair and obsession over it made her mental health deteriorate to a point where she's very insane.
- Love-Obstructing Parents/Parental Marriage Veto: Emmett Balfour tries this, but it doesn't work.
- Meaningful Name: Plenty of them. Gard = Guard, Vivia = from the Latin "Alive", Kry = Cry, Mary = Marry, Spazman = Spaceman.
- Mr. Exposition: After keeping the audience in the dark for most of the episode, the alien finally delivers an Exposition Dump where it explains what it's been trying to do,
- My Own Private "I Do": Gard and Vivia married this way after they eloped (using fake papers as Vivia is below the age of consent).
- Omnicidal Maniac: The alien and its unseen companions, according to Harvey Jr.Harvey Jr.: Their plan was to first blow up to Earth, and then the entire universe.
- Pocket Dimension: The mysterious box.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Spazman appears only briefly and speaks just one line ("For the newlyweds"), but he sets the story in motion.
- Time Skip: The prologue is set in 1929, while the rest of the story takes place in 1963 or so (The Present Day when the episode was filmed).
- Widowed at the Wedding: Harvey Kry does not die, but gets trapped inside the alien box right on the wedding night, making Mary technically a widow for the next 34 years.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Inside the alien's box, its human prisoners don't age because time doesn't pass.
