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When Good Ghouls Go Bad

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When Good Ghouls Go Bad	comment	A 2001 Halloween Made-for-TV Movie by Goosebumps author, R. L. Stine and notable for starring Christopher Lloyd.Danny Walker has moved back to the small town of Walker Falls with his father, James, who hopes to restart the family chocolate business and revive the town as a Halloween tourist destination.The town, however, doesn't like the idea...or the Walkers...or Halloween, as they haven't celebrated it in quite some time. The sole exception is Danny's grandfather, Uncle Fred, an eccentric sort who likes doing things that most adults would consider childish (playing with toys, dressing up in silly outfits, etc). Danny soon learns the people shun Halloween due to a "curse" by someone named Curtis Danko, an artist outcast who liked to paint monsters. Curtis mysteriously died inside the school kiln while making a sculpture for a contest. Mike Kankel, one of the people who really opposes Halloween, apparently saw the sculpture himself and was blinded by it. The town's been in fear of Halloween since.However this particular year brings a slight change, starting when a pile of pumpkins mysteriously appear in the Town Square. However Uncle Fred, while investigating the pumpkins, accidentally sends the whole pile falling on him, killing him in the process. But the next day he reappears in his house still alive...somewhat. He's somehow come back as a zombie, and he isn't the only one resurrected as well.It soon falls on Danny, his love interest, Dayna, James and Uncle Fred to figure out what's going on before the whole town is overrun by zombies.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: Played for Horror. The janitor wearing them is what turned the klin prank into a full-on Deadly Prank.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: For all his posturing, Mike Kankel is constantly scared of the undead Uncle Fred and, when the zombies come for the townspeople, he makes a break for it, letting the zombies in in the process. He does come back to try tackling Curtis Danko, but just as an attempt to make himself look good to the townspeople. The second Curtis gets back up, Mike panics and hides behind his wife.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_170b46db	type	Picked Last
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_170b46db	comment	Picked Last: In the opening montage, Danny wasn't just left out when teams were formed for football, it was the entire class against him on his own!
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son!" Guy: Uncle Fred spent so much time concerned with his business and charity work that James began to believe that other people's kids were more important to him than his own. Mike Kankel falls under this too, as he raves that all he did was for his father's approval.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: For the majority of the film, it isn't sure if Curtis Danko and his Zombie Apocalypse are the result of Ryan Kankel stealing his sculpture, Dayna's secret Halloween party in his house, or James' "Spooktacular", with the latter two apologizing for their actions while Danny apologizes for not standing up and stopping Ryan. Turns out, none of these were the reason, as in truth, Curtis wanted everyone to see his sculpture of Uncle Fred and expose Mike Kankel's lie.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Uncle Fred devoted a lot of time to his business and charitable works, which made him quite beloved in the town, but it also left James feeling neglected and less important than other people's children. The strain of this lingers into the present, which made Uncle Fred both apologetic and concerned that James will similarly alienate Danny. They both iron things out in the end and part on good terms.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_216c045b	type	The Scottish Trope
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_216c045b	comment	The Scottish Trope: Everyone in town is so frightened of the Curtis Danko curse that they even refrain from saying "Halloween".
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_2c7416bb	type	Acting Unnatural
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_2c7416bb	comment	Acting Unnatural: When Danny and Dayna finally try to break Uncle Fred's resurrection to their respective parents, Dayna spends the entire time speaking in a forced, overly-chipper tone with an enormous fake smile on her face.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_407d3e6d	comment	Morton's Fork: The town of Walker Falls had a pretty nasty one. They were afraid to celebrate Halloween lest the curse of Curtis Danko destroy them, but doing so caused the town's chocolate factory to be shut down and put nearly everyone in town out of a job. James himself said that they couldn't have it both ways.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The town, upon knowing the truth behind the kiln incident and that the Curtis Danko curse is bunk, resume celebrating Halloween. However, while he was able to mend his relationship with his son, Uncle Fred is still a zombie and has to pass on with the others, though he's at least Together in Death with his long-dead wife.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Outside of his family, Danny is not liked by anyone in Walker Falls. He has that in common with Curtis Danko, who was an eccentric goth with a passion for art.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: After all the build-up to what Curtis Danko had made, his dramatic unveiling of it reveals it's actually a mundane statue of Uncle Fred.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Most of the zombies look like pretty normal people except for the ratty clothes, paleness or the occasional falling limb. Curtis Danko, however, is a desiccated near-skeleton with Glowing Eyelights of Undeath.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: Curtis Danko turns out to be this. He was actually a nice guy who admired Uncle Fred and made a statue in his honor. However, the Jerk Jock in his school accidentally got him killed and tried covering it up.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_5a1912af	type	The Hermit
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_5a1912af	comment	The Hermit: After what happened to Curtis Danko, Uncle Fred shut down the chocolate factory and became a recluse.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Uncle Fred blames himself for the death of Curtis Danko because he donated the kiln the boy died in. Danny also blames himself for not standing up and stopping Ryan when he stole Curtis Danko's sculpture.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Subverted, all the zombies are friendly and are helping Curtis to expose Mike Kankel's lies so the town will resume celebrating Halloween.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The initial flashback showing Curtis Danko's backstory portrayed him as some sort of a freak who died in a mysterious kiln accident, with him supposedly vowing revenge by destroying the town if it ever celebrated Halloween again. Towards the end of the movie, when it's revealed that his supposed horrific art project was actually a simple statue of Uncle Fred, it flashes back to the night he died to reveal that Mike Kankel and his friends had attempted to scare him by locking him in the kiln, only for it to accidentally get turned on by the custodian. Upon realizing he was wrong about Curtis all along, Mike made up the lie about the curse in order to cover it up.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: Upon seeing that Curtis Danko's sculpture was of him, Uncle Fred asked why he saw him as a hero. Curtis then silently holds up a news article of Uncle Fred presenting him with an arts award.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Uncle Fred was beloved in the past thanks to his overwhelming generosity towards the art's. The only exception was Mike Kankel, who hated art as being 'sissy', and how all that money Fred gave to the art programs, he never gave a penny for sports ones, or the football theme park he and his father Fred wanted to build.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7fbe9a30	type	Freak Out
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7fbe9a30	comment	Freak Out: Danny several times, most notably when he finds that his deceased grandmother is supervising the zombie uprising. Mike upon seeing Uncle Fred "alive" not shortly after his funeral.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: The first time we see Uncle Fred, he's fallen asleep at the kitchen table wearing a space suit.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Mike Kankel, as well as his son Ryan. All the Kankels can think of is football, and deem anything not regarding sports as trash worth terrorizing people over. This is much more important to the plot than it seems.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: And pretty lively too.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Curtis Danko never speaks throughout the film.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_91b0421b	type	Loser Son of Loser Dad
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_91b0421b	comment	Loser Son of Loser Dad: Because it was Uncle Fred who donated the kiln that killed Curtis Danko and started the alleged curse, the entire Walker line has been shunned by the entire town.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9335ac5d	type	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9335ac5d	comment	Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Curtis Danko. He didn't have any shared interests with the rest of his classmates and he had a dark taste in art. If he hadn't died in such a tragic way, things would have turned out differently for him.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_952f8f26	type	Deadly Prank
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_952f8f26	comment	Deadly Prank: The real truth behind the kiln incident was that Curtis had ran into the kiln to hide from Mike and his fellow bullies. They locked him inside, intending to release him later. But the janitor happened to come back and accidentally turned the kiln on, wearing headphones so he couldn't hear anything, burning Curtis alive.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Uncle Fred, whose story also includes how he dies. Justified in that he was able to return as a zombie.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When it came out that Ryan Kankel had stolen Curtis Danko's statue, which may have been the cause of the zombies rising up, he claims he had been taken in by a compelling urban legend and couldn't have known it was real.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Curtis Danko pulls the tarp off his artwork, every living person in the room screams in horror. Then they see what it actually is and just stare in confusion.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Curtis's especially when it revealed how he truly died.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the flashback as Ryan tells Danny the story of Curtis Danko, the "scene of a world gone mad" Curtis is painting is clearly a scene from a Planet of the Apes movie, a popular film franchise around the time of the flashback, showing that, while his interests didn't align with the rest of his classmates, he wasn't the near-demonic figure he's being made out to be. While discussing the situation at Curtis Danko's crypt, Mike Kankel and Ed allude to their Dark Secret.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: What Mike claimed happened when he saw the "cursed" statue of Curtis. He's lying, the statue was normal and he covered his eyes in soot to make it seem like his eyes were scorched.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Well, green eyes in this case as they're made from fireflies, but Curtis Danko gives a good allusion to them.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mike is a bundle of nerves around the undead in general, but this really kicks in when Curtis Danko outs him for causing his death. Ditto when he learns his father is among the zombies.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The Reveal shows that young Mike was genuinely shocked to be wrong about Curtis Danko and to have inadvertently caused his death. However, he refused to own up to what he had done and his lie is what caused various events throughout the story.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b02f996a	type	Town with a Dark Secret
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b02f996a	comment	Town with a Dark Secret: But not the secret they thought.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b4fb830c	type	Smarter Than You Look
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b4fb830c	comment	Smarter Than You Look: Despite being called "Darklord of the Stupid" by Uncle Fred, Ryan Kankel is much more eloquent and sneaky than your average Jerk Jock.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b818d204	type	Forbidden Holiday
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_b818d204	comment	Forbidden Holiday: The town of Walker Falls doesn't celebrate Halloween because, when a child named Curtis Danko was mysteriously killed, he left behind the threat of destroying everyone if they celebrated Halloween again. However, despite the collective fear of the townspeople, the protagonist's father planned to have a "Spooktacular" to re-open the town's chocolate factory and some of the local children spent time collecting decorations to have their own secret Halloween.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_bafa1190	type	Unfinished Business
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_bafa1190	comment	Unfinished Business: All Curtis Danko wanted to do was show off his completed statue and out Mike for what he had done.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Mike would rather ruin Halloween for Walker Falls, hurt the towns economy, smear the memory of an innocent boy, damage the reputation of a kind and respected town figure, and let the town fall into the hands of zombies than admit that he let an innocent student die in a kiln accidentally and exploited this death for the aforementioned ruining because he didn't get a football-based amusement park. Even his own zombie father, whose approval he says he wanted so much, could recognize that he was doing it all for himself.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Literally: After Curtis Danko's Unfinished Business is over and it's clear that the magic that is keeping them alive will be over soon, the zombies spend their last hours dancing before turning to dust at sunrise. Uncle Fred waltzes with his long-dead wife.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_c5835f29	comment	Ghostly Goals: Danny and Dana figure that Curtis Danko and his army of zombies want to reclaim his stolen statue and punish the townspeople. As it turns out, what he really wants is to show them his art project and expose Kankel's lie.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: After everything has blown over, the German investors finally arrive, ready to double their offers because they believe the zombies which attacked them on arrival were part of James' "Spooktacular", and nobody bothers to correct them.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Happens to Uncle Fred a few times after he turns into a zombie.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_d5f518d3	comment	The Dead Can Dance: The finale sees the zombies doing this, ballroom-style before they wither to dust.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_dc292b90	comment	Ear Ache: When Mike Kankel's zombie father shows up to punish him. He drags away Mike like this (the "like a naughty child" version).
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Danny Walker turns out to be the false protagonist hero in this story. The twist was that Curtis Danko and the zombies are the real heroes of the story.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e150c4c7	comment	Manchild: Uncle Fred, despite being Danny's grandfather, is full of childlike playfulness and a love for pranks. Mike is pretty much all the clichés of a high school football-playing bully in a grown man's body. It seems that keeping the truth about Curtis Danko's curse buried taxed him mentally and emotionally.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e2decfff	type	With Lyrics
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e2decfff	comment	With Lyrics: While clinging to the outside of the car with the German investors inside, the zombies sing "Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet" to the tune of "Ride of The Valkyries", which is playing on the stereo.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e37f19	type	Disguised in Drag
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e37f19	comment	Disguised in Drag: When Uncle Fred is in the audience at James' town hall meeting, he's dressed as an old woman, complete with head scarf and makeup. Though, whether it's him actually trying to remain beneath notice, or just another one of his eccentricities isn't clarified.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Coach Michael Kankel is pretty much the source of all the problems in the movie. His fear mongering and bullying tactics keep Walker Falls from celebrating Halloween for twenty years, which in turn took a toll on the town’s economy. He did so by spreading an Urban Legend about the curse of Curtis Danko, convincing everyone that Curtis was pure evil and making himself into a new pillar of the community. It's soon revealed that as a kid, he was the one who indadvertedly killed Curtis by locking him in a kiln as a prank; when he discovers Curtis's death, not only did he not feel any remorse, he uses the incident to fabricate the urban legend in the first place. He did because he was jealous that Curtis's statue was going to win an art contest and so that he could play hero. He claims that he is doing this to honour his father's legacy, but even Kankel's own father is disgusted at his son's actions when he finds out.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_edd34386	comment	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: Curtis Danko has these via a pair of magic fireflies.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_f909b16b	comment	While discussing the situation at Curtis Danko's crypt, Mike Kankel and Ed allude to their Dark Secret.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_f9439c84	comment	Haunted House: Dayna and the other kids set one up in Curtis Danko's abandoned mansion so they can have Halloween despite the town's fear of the curse.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_fb23483d	type	Undeath Always Ends
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_fb23483d	comment	Undeath Always Ends: After Curtis Danko's Unfinished Business is over and the people of Walker Falls understand the miscarriage of justice they had let occur for so long (and decide to start celebrating Halloween again), he and all of the rest of the zombies (including Uncle Fred) finally turn to dust as the sun rises.
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When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
When Good Ghouls Go Bad / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Mike Kankel admits that he scared the townspeople into not celebrating Halloween when he saw Curtis's statue which was of Uncle Fred, who had given donations to the school's art and music programs and was loved by the town children, largely out of spite and jealousy when he wouldn't give them money to build a football theme park.
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