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The Haunting Hour

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The Haunting Hour	comment	R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series is a horror series that aired on The Hub (now called Discovery Family). Like the TV adaptation of Goosebumps (1995) and the short-lived series, The Nightmare Room, it is a horror Genre Anthology series featuring a different story every week filled with kids facing off against ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural beings...Compared to Goosebumps, the stories are much, much darker. There was even a disclaimer about its content before the episodes began! Some of the episodes were adapted from R.L. Stine's works, mainly from the Nightmare Hour and The Haunting Hour short story collections.After just four seasons on the air, R.L. Stine confirmed that Discovery Family removed the show from their schedule, making the last season the shortest one with only ten episodes. The last episode aired was the Christmas Episode "Goodwill Toward Men".Has a Recap page and a wiki.Continuity-wise, it's unrelated to the made-for-TV movie The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It.
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The Haunting Hour / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: In "My Imaginary Friend", Shawn has a crush on his neighbor Amy. She does not appear in the short story. This is Justified as, in the short story, it is Shawn and not David who is imaginary.
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The Haunting Hour / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
The Haunting Hour / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: Ranger Jackson when he infects Melvin in the end of "Spores".
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The Haunting Hour / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Haunting Hour / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Greg's great-great-grandfather didn't outsmart Seamus in "Lotsa Luck". All he did was save his own hide by allowing the leprechaun to claim the soul of his next male descendant. Greg was unlucky enough to be born a boy.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
The Haunting Hour / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: The ending to "Funhouse" has Chad shatter a mirror that reads, "The only way out is to face yourself" which helps him destroy his anger against his family problems.
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The Haunting Hour / int_13a499b8	type	Diabolus ex Nihilo
The Haunting Hour / int_13a499b8	comment	Diabolus ex Nihilo: A few episodes when the creatures/supernatural events are completely unexplained, leaving viewers to wonder about what the protagonists are up against. In "Mascot," it's never revealed just what Big Yellow is—we know he's a monster, but how he came to live in the school and be considered its mascot are totally unknown. In "Uncle Howee", the home audience never finds out the truth behind the titular kiddie-show host. We know he has powers including teleportation, directly interacting with his audience, the ability to slip from the TV to reality and back again, and transforming people into cast members of his show, but what exactly is he? A wizard? A human who was literally cursed with TV magic? Cynthia's imaginary friend who can communicate with her through reflective surfaces, like the TV and the bathroom mirror? The ghost of a long-dead children's show host whose spirit is alive because his show is always on in reruns and always watched by children Cynthia's agenote it does seem that way, given how outdated the show looks, as if it used to be on in the 1950s, when live-action kids' shows really did have character actors like "Uncle Howee" entertain children in front of a live audience? Some kind of monster or otherworldly creature posing as a human kids' show host? Is the television under some kind of curse? Has Cynthia's love and devotion to the show somehow make Uncle Howee and his friends real? Has Uncle Howee done this to other kids in the past? The answers are never even hinted at, making him all the more frightening. It's not explained how Mangler in "Near Mint Condition" came to be evil (nor do we actually see the aftermath of Mangler's attacks). Was it a flaw in the robotics? Was it a mistake with the manufacturers? Or is there a toy creator out there so sociopathic that he can make a toy that injures and kills kids without feeling remorse or thinking of what that kind of stunt means for the toy company brand? The House from "My Old House" is a sentient building with the ability to summon food, manipulate everything inside of it, communicate through dreams, turn into a blood red snake made out of its wiring, and speak, but we have absolutely no idea as to what the heck it actually is and how it even came into existence. Which makes its presence all the more horrifying if you realize that it's been watching the family for years. According to The Other Wiki, it's implied that it might be a demon. The Alp from "Red Eye" is a shadow demon that has the ability to insert itself within photos, send threatening letters capable of altering themselves, haunt Georgia's nightmares, turn into a specter, and can possess human beings. However, we have no clue how it exists, what its motivation is, or why it's even bothering with stalking a random little girl and her father.
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The Haunting Hour / int_140e849	type	The Problem with Fighting Death
The Haunting Hour / int_140e849	comment	The Problem with Fighting Death: In "Dead Bodies" Jake learns the hard way that Death never accepted him trading Will's life for his and wants Jake's soul back. His attempts to weasel his way out of it with another sacrifice are foiled, resulting in Death taking him to Hell.
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The Haunting Hour / int_141a6acb	type	Madness Mantra
The Haunting Hour / int_141a6acb	comment	Marty's behavior in "Catching Cold" is disturbingly similar to that of a drug addict: In one scene, he's shown repeating "Kreamy Kold" to himself like a Madness Mantra and a few scenes later, he casually sells off a bike that his dad got him for twenty bucks so he can buy ice cream. Exactly one scene later, he blatantly lies to his parents about where he's going so he can sneak out to buy ice cream. Cut to him repeating, "Come on, come on, come on" as he waits for the truck to show.
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The Haunting Hour / int_143c304b	type	Vegetarian Vampire
The Haunting Hour / int_143c304b	comment	Vegetarian Vampire: Grandpa Walt Montgomery in Grampires only preys on rats. Justified in that he's a grandfather first and a vampire second, so, despite being a bloodsucker, he's very protective of his grandkids.
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The Haunting Hour / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
The Haunting Hour / int_14a8974a	comment	Love Potion: Played with, as the "potion" Cupid used in "Terrible Love" is a mix of serotonin, adrenaline, and dopamine, which are common hormones in the human body (as opposed to a magical potion with unexplained ingredients, like in so many other Cupid story variations) and associated with strong emotions like joy, anger, or, in this case, love. Accordingly, getting shot with too much of it has unpleasant effects on people.
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The Haunting Hour / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Haunting Hour / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: It's darker than Stine's earlier works Goosebumps (1995) and the short-lived series The Nightmare Room, and, while some episodes do have happy endings or come off as the kind of cheesy stories that R.L. Stine did in the 1990s, the majority of Haunting Hour episodes are darker and have endings that are either cruel or don't make any sense, no matter how many times you watch it.
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The Haunting Hour / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Phillip's visible terror at his robot doing "what's good for him" in "My Robot" is strongly reminiscent of a child with an abusive, controlling parent (or someone with an abusive, controlling spouse). Jake forcing Anna to shake his hand so he can steal her life is very akin to date rape. His guilt-tripping to force her to do it—"Don't you love me?"—also sounds a lot like someone in an abusive relationship trying to convince their partner to stay. Marty's behavior in "Catching Cold" is disturbingly similar to that of a drug addict: In one scene, he's shown repeating "Kreamy Kold" to himself like a Madness Mantra and a few scenes later, he casually sells off a bike that his dad got him for twenty bucks so he can buy ice cream. Exactly one scene later, he blatantly lies to his parents about where he's going so he can sneak out to buy ice cream. Cut to him repeating, "Come on, come on, come on" as he waits for the truck to show. Similarly, Chad's actions in "Funhouse" after he gets his taste of violence and revenge have drug parallels. He's shown rocking back and forth and shaking as he sits alone in the hallway, and eventually sneaks out to get his fix. He even tells the carnie "I need more!" Alice's obsessive devotion to the titular building in "My Old House" seems rather like someone idealizing a romantic partner (who turns out to be abusive) and deciding to stay with them, despite protests from loved ones who realize that what looks like love is actually obsession. The house itself shows traits similar to how a pedophile targets its victim.
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The Haunting Hour / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
The Haunting Hour / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Eve in "Intruders". It's mentioned in a throwaway line by her dad that she tried to run away not too long before the episode's plot; this is why she is grounded during the story. When she goes out to find the source of the light in the woods, her dad follows her, afraid that she ran away again.
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The Haunting Hour / int_15b09af9	type	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam
The Haunting Hour / int_15b09af9	comment	Heelâ€“Face Door-Slam: The protagonist of "My Old House" suffers a literal one when she reforms too late. She decides to return to her family after realizing how much they love her, only to be likely murdered and absorbed by the house she loved.
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The Haunting Hour / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
The Haunting Hour / int_15da4941	comment	In "Alien Candy", Walt is a Badass Adorable action survivor who slays aliens instead of being Too Dumb to Live like in the book.
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The Haunting Hour / int_16ad6f7f	type	"It" Is Dehumanizing
The Haunting Hour / int_16ad6f7f	comment	"It" Is Dehumanizing: In "The Return of Lilly D.", Natalie starts referring to Lilly D. as "it" when she starts suspecting the latter of being alive and evil.
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The Haunting Hour / int_17e8daa3	type	Adoring the Pests
The Haunting Hour / int_17e8daa3	comment	Adoring the Pests: In the "Best Friends Forever" episode, Jack adopts a zombie as a pet. Though it turns out the zombie viewed their relationship the other way around.
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The Haunting Hour / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Haunting Hour / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: In "My Old House", the last time we see Alice alive, she screams just as the House closes in to kill her. "Sick" ends with a sharp, beeping sound from an offscreen machine before everything goes white.
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The Haunting Hour / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Haunting Hour / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Near Mint Condition" ends with Ted putting up the Mangler up for auction, with the last shot being him labeling it as such (due to having decapitated it with his katana and duct-taped the head back on prior). "So you're like my...Grampire!"
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The Haunting Hour / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
The Haunting Hour / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Meg in "Dreamcatcher" starts out seeming like just a mean girl, but shows herself to be much more than that in the climax when she prepares to callously and even gleefully leave two other girls to die at the hands of the titular creature. Fortunately, she is hit with Laser-Guided Karma immediately afterward and becomes an Asshole Victim.
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The Haunting Hour / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
The Haunting Hour / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The Mad Artist in "Brush With Madness". For a comic character come to life, he looks like a regular man in a black hat and trenchcoat. And before he kills the main characters, he shows his face to be Corey's face! The overall mundanity makes for one of the most genuinely disturbing episodes.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1adcd502	type	Sins of Our Fathers
The Haunting Hour / int_1adcd502	comment	Sins of Our Fathers: The cause of Greg's unfortunate fate at the end of "Lotsa Luck." Specifically, his great-great-grandfather wished that, in exchange for getting to keep his soul, Seamus the leprechaun would take the soul of his next male descendant.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Haunting Hour / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Seth in "Night of the Mummy." Audrey, Kate, and Halftime in "Detention" — until Audrey's apology to Kate reversed the events and made it so that way, the homecoming voting scandal and the parade accident that killed all three of them never happened. Sam and her family (along with the previous owners of the RV) at the end of "Argh V," although the time between the accident that Sam's family apparently avoided and The Reveal that they are actually dead after they pick up the family that turns out to be the previous owners of the RV (who also died when a truck ran them off the road) is very brief.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1b5c9c48	type	The Blank
The Haunting Hour / int_1b5c9c48	comment	The Blank: In "Scary Mary", chanting Mary's name three times in front of a mirror will summon the Mirror Monster Scary Mary, who will send her three faceless servants through the mirror to drag the summoner back so Mary can steal their face.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Haunting Hour / int_1b60dcba	comment	Downplayed with Travis, who was a False Friend towards Will and at least pretended he was a nice guy. In the television version, he's a malicious bully who doesn't hide his love for picking on people.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1c2c6e08	type	Ignoring by Singing
The Haunting Hour / int_1c2c6e08	comment	Ignoring by Singing: Played for horror in "The Girl in the Painting." When Becky finally enters the painting's world and meets the titular girl, they chat for a while, but then giant rumbling sounds start shaking the house. The girl pulls a rope to open the ceiling and says it's "feeding time." She then covers her ears and sings as loudly as she can to drown out Becky's screams as a giant monster reaches in and eats her alive.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
The Haunting Hour / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Throughout "Afraid of Clowns", Chris's father tries to give his son The Talk but Chris refuses to listen. Had he let his father explain it, it might've softened the blow about him becoming a clown once he hit puberty.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
The Haunting Hour / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: The spore cloud from "Spores".
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The Haunting Hour / int_1dd12556	type	We All Die Someday
The Haunting Hour / int_1dd12556	comment	In "Flight", Jeremy and Death have a farewell to which Death replies, "without a doubt". Whether this means that he'll see her when he finally dies or that he has a short lifespan, it's never revealed.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Haunting Hour / int_1dfd19f9	comment	The titular character on Uncle Howee is a gray area. On the one hand, he wouldn't hurt Cynthia (who's somewhere between five and seven years old) as he considers her his friend because of how much she loves The Uncle Howee Show. On the other hand, he has no trouble going after Jared, because of how poorly he treats Cynthia.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1e2af48	type	Trapped in Villainy
The Haunting Hour / int_1e2af48	comment	Trapped in Villainy: In "The Girl in the Painting," it turns out that the titular girl and her mother are kept prisoner in their seemingly-perfect mansion by a gigantic reptilian monster. They have to lure in mortals to feed the creature, or it will eat them instead. The girl hates that she's sent so many people to their deaths, but her mother tells her "that's just the way our world is painted," and since they obviously can't defeat the monster, they're stuck in the pattern.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1f79f239	type	The Compliance Game
The Haunting Hour / int_1f79f239	comment	The Compliance Game: In "Uncle Howie", the titular character comes up with the game for Jared. He has to find his little sister, Cynthia, in under a few minutes. Jared lost the game and is forced to become Uncle Howie's new friend, as well as a new character of his show.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
The Haunting Hour / int_1fc8335e	comment	In "Headshot," Lexi tries to invoke this trope by deleting Gracie's ever-changing headshot, thinking it will be enough to bring things back to normal. But since Gracie made a deal with Cassandra in the first place, it was up to her to make the choice to erase the photo, and the result... well, see Nightmare Face above.
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The Haunting Hour / int_1fe9ccad	type	Puppet Permutation
The Haunting Hour / int_1fe9ccad	comment	Puppet Permutation: One of Uncle Howee's powers is the ability to transform people into puppets, which is what happens to Jared in the end.
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The Haunting Hour / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
The Haunting Hour / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: In "The Dead Body": Jake Skinner was actually Will's loving uncle who helped the kid out with his bullying problems out of the goodness of his heart, but in the show, he is a sadistic monster who gleefully harms his enemies and grows into Will's archenemy. Downplayed with Travis, who was a False Friend towards Will and at least pretended he was a nice guy. In the television version, he's a malicious bully who doesn't hide his love for picking on people. The aliens Greg and Bonnie were originally just dim-witted jerks on "Alien Candy", but on the show, they were actively sadistic in their villainous misdeeds.
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The Haunting Hour / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Haunting Hour / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: In "My Old House," Alice runs away from her new home and goes back to the titular building instead of heading for school. While her parents do think to search for her there, they only spend about five minutes looking and miss the fact that their daughter is hiding literally five feet away from them in a closet.
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The Haunting Hour / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good Is Not Nice: The angel in "Goodwill Toward Men" has more in common with Old Testament depictions of angels than the cheerful, more forgiving ones everyone is familiar with, whether or not they're religious. She marks the bedroom doors of the wealthy, obnoxious Mr. and Mrs. Jordan and their son Henry with large swaths of fire, then puts the whole Jordan family (including Missy, who was the only one who showed any semblance of goodness) through hell by trapping them in a reality where they are homeless and poor. The end of the episode is something of a subversion, though. After Missy pleads with the angel to make things right because her family has suffered enough, the being creates a reality where Missy is a member of the Donaldson family—the gardeners in the old time stream. They are wealthy, kind, and generous, while the Jordans are their hired help, but much nicer and humbler than they were in their previous existence. The angel even lampshades this when she points out that some viewers probably wanted to see the Jordans suffer even more, but "even the rich deserve Christmas cheer too."
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The Haunting Hour / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Haunting Hour / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The witch in "Stage Fright" who cursed the "Hansel and Gretel" musical because no one was able to tell her story right. She didn't eat the kids — she made meals out of their parents.
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The Haunting Hour / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
The Haunting Hour / int_22a27b19	comment	Debbie Ryan's role as an Alpha Bitch on "Wrong Number" is really taken advantage of.
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The Haunting Hour / int_22a65646	type	Not Brainwashed
The Haunting Hour / int_22a65646	comment	Not Brainwashed: In "Funhouse," Kelly accuses the mysterious Carny of putting a spell on her brother Chad that is warping him into a rage-fueled monster. The Carny remarks that this isn't the case at all: the funhouse is merely allowing Chad to indulge in his angry, violent impulses, not causing them, and only he has the power to choose to stop. Similarly in "Headshot," Lexi orders Cassandra to undo whatever dark magic she put on Gracie to make her become a shallow Alpha Bitch. Cassandra merely rolls her eyes and says, "Gracie's become what she's always been," explaining that, like any devil, she's only able to tempt people into pursuing dangerous things—they have to make the choice to actually do them on their own, and only already-heartless people take her up on her offers.
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The Haunting Hour / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Haunting Hour / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The main character's silver necklace in "Nightmare Inn" was given to her by her father specifically to ward off other werewolves.
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The Haunting Hour / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
The Haunting Hour / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Nate's drawing of Mrs. Worthington comes to life after he wishes she were real so his bullying older sister, Molly, would be put in her place.
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The Haunting Hour / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Haunting Hour / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Justified: many of the stories are based off short stories.
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The Haunting Hour / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Haunting Hour / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: Brandon in "Really You". He's the only member of the Carbo family to acknowledge their dysfunction and try to solve their problems.
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The Haunting Hour / int_2484396e	type	Know-Nothing Know-It-All
The Haunting Hour / int_2484396e	comment	Know-Nothing Know-It-All: In "Spores", Melvin's father acts like he's a natural in nature, but he's a total moron and a jerk.
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The Haunting Hour / int_25f33d8	type	Sick Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_25f33d8	comment	Sick Episode and Fever Dream Episode: The episode "Sick," though the "fever dream" side to this is debatable, as it's implied that Alex wasn't dreaming and that the government really was planning to kill him and his mom. See the YMMV page for more discussion.
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The Haunting Hour / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Haunting Hour / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: "The Dead Body": Will is tricked into dying in the boiler room explosion that claimed Jake's life. Likewise, Jake's original death at the hands of his bullies. "Wrong Number": Steffani gets sucked into a cell phone video, sent to the Goth girl she bullied and deleted forever. "Swarmin' Norman": Norman's insect pals attack him after they find out they're being used for evil. "Pumpkinhead": The kids who trespassed on Old Man Palmer's farm get murdered and turned into zombies. Similarly, the Sequel Episode implies that Katie and her brother will die at the hands of their newly-transformed parents and the other pumpkinheads that just rose from the garden. "Sick": Alex discovers too late that his "fever dream" of the government putting him in quarantine and preparing to blow up the house to control the infection is real...maybe.) "Mascot": Willie is digested after finding out that Big Yellow is a monster that only looks like a man in a cheesy mascot costume. "Ghostly Stare": Lauren loses a staring contest against her brother and complains of feeling cold before her face briefly changes, meaning the real Lauren fell into the open grave and is now dead. "The Girl in the Painting": Becky is eaten by a dragon while living her new life in the painting she found. "Dreamcatcher": Meg gets trapped in the Dreamcatcher's spider web, and Lisa and Amelia are able to get out because they set their clock alarm. Meg, on the other hand, was asleep outside the cabin and couldn't hear the alarm, leaving her to be devoured by the Dreamcatcher and die in her sleep. "Near Mint Condition": It's stated that Mangler (the robotic teddy bear) was recalled after a string of child deaths and mutilations at the hands of the bear. "Argh V": Sam discovers that the family her parents picked up during their RV trip were the same ones who died in the crash that she read about online, and now she and her parents met the same fate as them. It should be noted, however, that for every time they do show kids dying on this show, there are a few times where this is subverted and the kids are saved. Cases in point: "Detention" (Audrey, Kate, and Halftime do discover that they're dead, but when Kate and Audrey atone for the events that led to their death, they get their lives back and the voting scandal and parade accident are erased), "The Black Mask" (the three kids discover that the mask that showed the colonial kids dying in the past was actually a prediction of their own deaths and they stop it before it can happen), "A Creature Was Stirring" (Timmy and his family escape the house before the Krampus burns it down), and "The Weeping Woman" (Chi saves his friend and his friend's sister from being lured into the lake and drowned by La Llorona).
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The Haunting Hour / int_2719ab04	type	Special Guest
The Haunting Hour / int_2719ab04	comment	Special Guest: Unlike most horror anthology's for its age demographic, each episode usually featured a well known, established child/teen actor in the lead, (Ariel Winter, Debbie Ryan, Dylan Minnette, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, China Ann-McLain, Joel Courtney, Booboo Stewart, Mackenzie Foy, Bailee Madison, Joey King, Matthew Knight, so-on and so-on).
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The Haunting Hour / int_2764d432	type	Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
The Haunting Hour / int_2764d432	comment	Cruelly subverted with Gracie in "Headshot". She may seem nice at first, but with a little push, she becomes who she really is.
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The Haunting Hour / int_27af99f1	type	Raised by Grandparents
The Haunting Hour / int_27af99f1	comment	Raised by Grandparents: Appears to be Natalie's situation in "The Return of Lilly D.".
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The Haunting Hour / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
The Haunting Hour / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Fear in "Fear Never Knocks."
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The Haunting Hour / int_281f09d0	type	Defanged Horrors
The Haunting Hour / int_281f09d0	comment	Defanged Horrors: The Klemit in "Walls," the zombie in "Best Friends Forever" (at least until he clubs Jack in the head and drags him home underground as his new pet) and the furry ostrich monster in "Bad Egg."
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The Haunting Hour / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: "Pumpkinhead" and the sequel episode "Return of the Pumpkinheads"note (though "Return of the Pumpkinheads" only touched on Halloween and didn't feature many characters in costume, a costume party, trick-or-treating, or any events/characters associated with the typical Halloween episode.. For a horror TV show based on R. L. Stine's books (and given that Goosebumps had more), it's surprising that there are only two Halloween episodes in this series.
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The Haunting Hour / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
The Haunting Hour / int_2af6bbeb	comment	In "Wrong Number" (in which a mean girl gets trapped in her cell phone, sent as a video message to the Goth girl whom she bullied, and ends up getting deleted). Unlike the Cruel Twist Endings listed above, the main character of this episode deserved what happened to her, since the old woman she harassed was the grandmother of the Goth girl she and her "friend" bullied. The old woman even lets the "friend" go since she was at least nice to the Goth girl and meant no ill will to either her granddaughter or her, and was even going to let the bully go if she genuinely apologized (which she didn't). Nice to see some vengeful ghosts can be reasonable.
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The Haunting Hour / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
The Haunting Hour / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: It's implied in "Golem" that Jeremy's family is of Russian-Jewish heritage (or are into the mystical side of it), given how Jeremy's grandmother and a group of people from her village were the ones who created the Golem (a humanoid creature found in Jewish folklore and mysticism made of stone, dirt, or mud and brought to life by a Hebrew incantation used to protect villagers from invaders) to use against the Nazis (no signs of swastika armbands or Nazi regalia, but you can tell it was them, given the time period) during World War II.
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The Haunting Hour / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
The Haunting Hour / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins: Since this is a horror show after all, expect the villain to sometimes succeed in haunting their targets. "My Old House": The house gruesomely murders Alice (or something worse) and gets away with it. To make it all the more disturbing, a new girl moves into the house and it gives a big Slasher Smile to show us that it plans to take her next. "Mascot": Big Yellow kills Willie and keeps his job as school mascot, with nobody the wiser. "Catching Cold": The ice cream truck abducts Marty and drives off with him trapped inside it forever. "Headshot": Cassandra owns Gracie's soul forever, leaving the transformed girl hideously scarred for life.
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The Haunting Hour / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
The Haunting Hour / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Josh and Matt in "The Perfect Brother". Chris in "Afraid of Clowns." David in "My Imaginary Friend." Corey and Emma in "Brush with Madness" who evidently are not the real Corey and Emma following the episode's first scene, and are actually comic versions of them drawn up by the Mad Artist.
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The Haunting Hour / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Haunting Hour / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Sir Maestro (from "Long Live Rock and Roll") may steal the souls of anyone who wants to be a music star, but he feels that the mainstream music industry is worse than he is in exploiting musical talent (he calls them "the real evil" and blames them for his bitterness, cynicism, and the competitive streak that would be his downfall when Holden challenges him to a guitar duel). Cassandra in "Headshot" is similar. While it's heavily implied that she's literally the Devil and steals the souls of girls who want to be pretty, she doesn't warp their personalities to do so. Rather, the girls who take up her offer are already shallow, cutthroat, and competitive (even if they don't show it), and befitting her Satanic nature, she merely tempts them to act on this. The carnie on "Funhouse" may have a sideshow attraction that warps people into bringing out the evil inside them, but his funhouse isn't to scare people or turn them into monsters nor is the carnie himself evilnote (though Chad and Kelly do find it weird that he knows about their family dinners and it's not explained how he knows). The whole idea of his funhouse to help people get over their inner demons. When Chad's sister, Kelly, confronts the carnie about Chad, the carnie is genuinely concerned about Chad, tells Kelly that he didn't do anything (and meant it), and outright declares that he's trying to fix him (which seems to be why he is repairing the toys outside the attraction). The Christmas angel in "Goodwill Toward Men" may have been cruel enough to send a family to live on the streets with homeless people (not that most of them didn't deserve it. Missy didn't, though this can be interpreted as a test to see if she really is a good person), but when she warps reality so that Missy now lives with the Donaldsons (the now-wealthy family that used to be her original family's gardeners), she makes Missy's former selfish and elitist family the hired help who are humbler, kinder, and don't have a daughter rather than leave them to rot on the streets, as "even the rich deserve Christmas cheer, too."
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The Haunting Hour / int_31df118	type	Attention Whore
The Haunting Hour / int_31df118	comment	Attention Whore: Big Yellow in Mascot. The central conflict of the episode is that Willie and Drake (mostly Willie) want to replace him with a new mascot named Wolfie, but Big Yellow isn't willing to let his role as school mascot go without a fight...
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The Haunting Hour / int_322426f8	type	Not Good with Rejection
The Haunting Hour / int_322426f8	comment	Not Good with Rejection: The house in "My Old House" didn't like hearing the Just Friends line and wouldn't let Alice leave to reunite with her parents.
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The Haunting Hour / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Haunting Hour / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: On "Alien Candy", there were 2 other members named Evan and Natasha in the alien club, but on the show they are nowhere to be seen. Valerie from "Black Mask" is not in the show's adaptation.
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The Haunting Hour / int_33f095a8	type	Jaded Washout
The Haunting Hour / int_33f095a8	comment	Cassandra and Sir Maestro also comment on how people can be more evil than they are in their respective episodes. Cassandra in "Headshot" says that the girls who get their pictures taken with her and don't delete their headshots are "who [they] truly are on the inside" while Sir Maestro blames the mainstream music industry for making him a Jaded Washout and has been around for a long time, collecting the souls of anyone who wants power (not just musicians and creative people).
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The Haunting Hour / int_34889673	type	Gender Flip
The Haunting Hour / int_34889673	comment	Gender Flip: "Pumpkinhead" changes the male protagonist to a girl. The sorcerer Ned teams up with in The Most Evil Sorcerer was a man named Shamandra in the book, but is a woman named Gresilda in the episode.
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The Haunting Hour / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
The Haunting Hour / int_34f1b472	comment	Corey and Emma in "Brush with Madness" who evidently are not the real Corey and Emma following the episode's first scene, and are actually comic versions of them drawn up by the Mad Artist.
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The Haunting Hour / int_38f5ed1a	type	Dragged Off to Hell
The Haunting Hour / int_38f5ed1a	comment	Dragged Off to Hell: The fate of Jake Skinner in Dead Bodies. The end of the episode implies he broke out — but only to get his comb back.
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The Haunting Hour / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Haunting Hour / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "Uncle Howee", the titular character asks Jared if he wants to be his friend. When Jared mumbles a "Yes", Uncle Howee shouts "I can't hear you!!!"
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The Haunting Hour / int_3b99a9e0	type	Reality Warper
The Haunting Hour / int_3b99a9e0	comment	Reality Warper: Corey when he uses Alan Miller's brushes on "Brush with Madness", even though the end of the episode reveals that the entire story was just an unpublished work Allan Miller did as "therapy" after being hounded by fanboys at a comic book convention. Uncle Howee does have some reality warping powers, like making Cynthia disappear, appearing in many places at once, crossing over from the TV to the real world and taking people to and from there with ease (which explains how Loomis the rabbit and Mr. Clock also appeared in the real world and how Jared ended up on the show at the end), and making the real world as loud and cartoonish as his show.
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The Haunting Hour / int_3de32c52	type	Unrelated in the Adaptation
The Haunting Hour / int_3de32c52	comment	Unrelated in the Adaptation: "The Dead Body" is somewhat of an In Name Only adaptation of the original story, where Jake was Will's loving uncle, who pretended to be a corpse to play a prank on his nephew's bully. As you may expect, the twist is that Jake was Dead All Along, but came back to help Will, who notes he was a "good friend." In the TV adaptation, Jake is the ghost of a murdered boy from Will's school and is neither an uncle or friend to Will.
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The Haunting Hour / int_3ec2719c	type	Wishplosion
The Haunting Hour / int_3ec2719c	comment	Wishplosion: Greg uses the classic "I wish I had never met you" to undo the effect of Seamus the leprechaun's magic in "Lotsa Luck." Unfortunately, while this does save his parents and undo the magic of the episode, it's not enough to save him, as his soul was forfeited by his great-great-grandfather's selfish final wish decades ago.
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The Haunting Hour / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Haunting Hour / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In "The Most Evil Sorcerer", Ned is a decent person who merely gets too obsessed with wanting to do magic, while in the original story, he was a prankster who kept that nature even in the end.
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The Haunting Hour / int_401d4116	type	Broken Aesop
The Haunting Hour / int_401d4116	comment	Broken Aesop: The goth girl who was bullied by the protagonist in "Wrong Number" gets the ghost of her dead grand-mother to magically transform the protagonist into a video file on a phone (don't ask) and then personally deletes her from existence; essentially the equivalent of kidnapping and murdering her. The moral of the episode is supposed to be that "you shouldn't be mean and horrible to people", but it's way more horrible to murder someone in cold blood than it is to make fun of a classmate!
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The Haunting Hour / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
The Haunting Hour / int_40c57041	comment	Greg from "Lotsa Luck" thinking that the "I wish everything turned back to normal" wish would work on a leprechaun, who (a) has probably heard that wish 1000 times before, (b) knew that wasn't the wish Greg's great-great grandfather used to defeat him, and (c) is said to be a Manipulative Bastard. It should be noted that, prior to the ending, Greg was somewhat Genre Savvy about Seamus' tricks (when Seamus offers to tell Greg about how he knows Greg's mother and her side of the family, Greg immediately refuses, as he knows it's a trap and demands that Seamus give him the three wishes owed to him).
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The Haunting Hour / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: "A Creature Was Stirring" ends with the family's home destroyed, leaving them with little but the clothes on their backs. However, they got through the episode alive and were brought closer together, with the parents canceling their divorce. "Nightmare Inn" ends with Jillian saved by the Green Eyed werewolf but the revelation that he is her father means he can never be a part of her life, as he mournful howls while watching her and her mother. â€œChecking Outâ€� ends with * Jeremy and Chelsea escaping with their parents after reconciling with them after burning down the painting. Sadly however, the children (including Todd) werenâ€™t able to return or escape from the painting.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
The Haunting Hour / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: Eve invokes this trope at the climax of Intruders, after refusing to give up her brother and threatening Lyria with Cold Iron.
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The Haunting Hour / int_41d50d81	type	Big Brother Bully
The Haunting Hour / int_41d50d81	comment	Jared from "Uncle Howee" is a coldhearted Big Brother Bully who's willing to abandon his little sister to go hang out with his friends. However, when Uncle Howee decides to treat him a lesson about being kind, he still refuses to respect him even though he's freaking out over his sister's disappearance.
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The Haunting Hour / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Haunting Hour / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The aliens in "Le Poof De Fromage" kill the family this way.
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The Haunting Hour / int_41f45fa2	type	Inexplicably Awesome
The Haunting Hour / int_41f45fa2	comment	Inexplicably Awesome: Uncle Howee and his strange powers. It's not known whether Uncle Howee has inherent magical ability, if Cynthia's love for the show empowered him, if he's a supernatural being of any kind, if the TV has a curse on it, or if Cynthia's imagination is behind it, but all of that is moot, as he uses his powers for good.
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The Haunting Hour / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: In "Flight", Jeremy and Death have a farewell to which Death replies, "without a doubt". Whether this means that he'll see her when he finally dies or that he has a short lifespan, it's never revealed. In "Cast", we never find out if the crazy old lady actually placed a curse on the main character or he's hallucinating it the entire time. In â€œSeanceâ€�, Carla and Cyrus turned out to have been the ones who were pranking Naomi and her friends for bullying her while he was turned out to be Real After All in which he then takes out his axe in an attempt to cut one of the bullies legs off to use as his own. It doesnâ€™t reveal on which one of the childrenâ€™s he took away from.
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The Haunting Hour / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
The Haunting Hour / int_423f5a19	comment	Farmer Palmer is still alive in the short story, but in "Return of the Pumpkinheads", he was stated to have been Killed Offscreen. Downplayed with the protagonist, as it's certainly implied they will be killed but it's left up in the air while the episode has them become a pumpkinhead.
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The Haunting Hour / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
The Haunting Hour / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed in "Intruders", with an extra dose of Nothing Is Scarier thrown in for good measure. Lyria, when angered, has her eyes turn bright red while cursing Eve. In the end, hundreds of red eyes are shown looking out from the forest, and it's implied that the Fair Folk have assumed more monstrous forms to confront Eve with. This is foreshadowed during the episode's climax, where Lyria ominously warns Eve that the Fair Folk aren't just "dancing lights and pretty flowers."
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The Haunting Hour / int_4668be6f	type	Distinguishing Mark
The Haunting Hour / int_4668be6f	comment	Distinguishing Mark: Lilly has a mole on the back of her neck which helps identify her as the real Lilly rather than the doll just as the mom was about to dump her in the trash.
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The Haunting Hour / int_485eb589	type	Sealed Evil in a Can
The Haunting Hour / int_485eb589	comment	Sealed Evil in a Can: The snake demon in "Bad Feng Shui" haunts an antique cabinet, and placing items in proper feng shui arrangement keeps it locked away. Breaking the arrangement is enough to set it free, but it takes hateful thoughts to let it kidnap people.
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The Haunting Hour / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
The Haunting Hour / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Played straight, but then subverted with Will Johnston from "The Dead Body". In the novel, the kid achieved his happy ending, but on the show he gets killed off thanks to some trickery on Jake Skinner's part. However, in the sequel "Dead Bodies", the character is Back from the Dead. Farmer Palmer is still alive in the short story, but in "Return of the Pumpkinheads", he was stated to have been Killed Offscreen. Downplayed with the protagonist, as it's certainly implied they will be killed but it's left up in the air while the episode has them become a pumpkinhead. Greg and Bonnie die in the show's version of "Alien Candy" instead of winning like they did in the end of their short story. Priscilla is killed off in "Nightmare Inn" whereas in the original short story there was a vague implication that she was alive and plotting her revenge. David from My Imaginary Friend is an interesting example as he turns out to be not even real to begin with, and then Sean gets rid of him, having grown past the need for imaginary friends. In the story, Sean was the imaginary one and he doesn't go away.
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The Haunting Hour / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Haunting Hour / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: Played for Drama in "Bad Feng Shui." Jessica, upon realizing that it was her own selfishness and cruelty toward her mother that summoned the snake demon which kidnapped her, breaks down in tears and starts screaming for her: "I NEED MY MOM!" Thankfully, she's able (with her mother's help) to defeat the demon.
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The Haunting Hour / int_48e138e0	type	Footprints of Muck
The Haunting Hour / int_48e138e0	comment	Footprints of Muck: In "Near Mint Condition", Mangler runs through some spilled food and Mark and Ted uses its footprints to track it from the kitchen to their mother's scrapbooking room.
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The Haunting Hour / int_48e453d0	type	Episode on a Plane
The Haunting Hour / int_48e453d0	comment	Episode on a Plane: "Flight."
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The Haunting Hour / int_48e8fe57	type	Happily Adopted
The Haunting Hour / int_48e8fe57	comment	Happily Adopted: Played with Eve in "Intruders". When she is first introduced, she's shown to have grown distant from her parents, is jealous of her baby brother, and is also unaware that she is adopted, being a changeling. By the episode's end, she decides she'd rather stay with her adoptive parents if it means her brother will be safe.
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The Haunting Hour / int_48f58e2e	type	Dream Weaver
The Haunting Hour / int_48f58e2e	comment	Dreamweaver: Implied to be one of Fear's powers in Fear Never Knocks. Also "Dreamcatcher".
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The Haunting Hour / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Haunting Hour / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Most of the deaths that occur are usually not fully seen. Justified, as this show aired on a family-friendly network and some of the violence had to be toned down to PG levels (which makes it more disturbing than just showing the gore and horror outright).
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The Haunting Hour / int_4a57732a	type	Friendless Background
The Haunting Hour / int_4a57732a	comment	Alice in "My Old House" is a downplayed example. She has no friends, a lack of social skills, and believes that her only true friend in the world is her house. When the house is proven to really be alive, she immediately accepts the idea of being alone with it forever. Which makes the Cruel Twist Ending all the more harsher when the House exposes itself as a Yandere.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4a5fcde	type	Adaptational Alternate Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_4a5fcde	comment	Adaptational Alternate Ending: In the short story "My Imaginary Friend", David repeatedly tells his younger brother Shawn that he has to give up his Imaginary Friend Travis, who is constantly getting him into trouble. In the final scene of the story, it is revealed that Shawn is likewise imaginary. The ending of the television adaptation differs in that it reveals that Shawn is real and David is his imaginary brother. The story ended with David still talking to Shawn and Travis, with Travis still wanting to put him in danger. The episode has Shawn letting go of David, which is more of a Bittersweet Ending compared to the story.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
The Haunting Hour / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: The antagonist of "My Old House".
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The Haunting Hour / int_4ab9720d	type	I'm Cold... So Cold...
The Haunting Hour / int_4ab9720d	comment	I'm Cold... So Cold...: The ghosts in "Ghostly Stare" are all so cold.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4ac8b81f	type	Humans Are the Real Monsters
The Haunting Hour / int_4ac8b81f	comment	Humans Are the Real Monsters: Many of the stories' antagonists (and protagonists, in the cases of "Headshot" and "Funhouse") are really messed-up people whose inner demons are scarier than any monster, ghost, vampire, or legendary creature you can name. Cupid in "Terrible Love" even says as such when Maggie begs him to give Brendon another love arrow (cf. his speech on how he's sick of humans always asking for more love and more power, as it always leads to destruction and disaster and him [and other gods] getting blamed for it). Cassandra and Sir Maestro also comment on how people can be more evil than they are in their respective episodes. Cassandra in "Headshot" says that the girls who get their pictures taken with her and don't delete their headshots are "who [they] truly are on the inside" while Sir Maestro blames the mainstream music industry for making him a Jaded Washout and has been around for a long time, collecting the souls of anyone who wants power (not just musicians and creative people). Jeffrey's parents in "The Walls" were willing to gaslight their own son into insanity so they wouldn't have to tell him that the monster living in their walls is actually a good luck charm who is harmless and only brings good things to their family. Their son rightfully calls them out on this and they do get what they deserve in the end — namely, Jeffrey gets their room with the new TV while his parents have to put up with the Klemit making noises in the walls and keeping them awake at night. Meg in "Dreamcatcher" is one of the few human kids who was completely on board with allowing her former best friend to die at the hands of the monster all because she felt abandoned by her. Pretty much ever bully the show ever has is a sick, cruel monster who is just as bad if not worse than the monster of the week.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4bad4a5b	type	Students' Secret Society
The Haunting Hour / int_4bad4a5b	comment	Students' Secret Society: The episode "Alien Candy" features the alien club, advertised as a group for sci-fi fans... but is actually a club for actual aliens planning to take over the school.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4c191a65	type	Elderly Immortal
The Haunting Hour / int_4c191a65	comment	Elderly Immortal: "Grampires" features an entire neighborhood of vampire senior citizens.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4c961994	type	Acquired Situational Narcissism
The Haunting Hour / int_4c961994	comment	Acquired Situational Narcissism: Happens to Gracie in "Headshot". Though if Cassandra is to be believed, Gracie had always been that way, and Cassandra merely pushed her to the point of revealing her true colors.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_4e3d253b	comment	"Headshot" combines this with Downer Ending: Gracie's friend, Lexi, learns that Cassandra is the Devil and that Gracie inadvertently sold her soul to her to make her wish of being the prettiest girl in the world come true, so Lexi decides to reverse the spell by deleting Gracie's headshot from her cell phone — which grows uglier as the real Gracie gets prettier. Sadly, Lexi didn't know that Gracie and only Gracie had the power to erase her own headshot and not go through with her Deal with the Devil. On top of that, she had already won Teen-Teen's "Most Beautiful Face" contest, so there would have been no way to reverse it. Because of this, Gracie's human face is on Cassandra's wall of all the girls who sold their souls and their looks to her, and now wanders the Earth with her pretty face replaced by an even more hideous figure than her picture.
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The Haunting Hour / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Haunting Hour / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During "Sick", as Alex is proceeding to barricade his bedroom door, his TV comes back on, airing the same morning show that's been playing throughout the episode. Ignoring the broadcast, Alex proceeds to try and move his dresser. At the beginning of "Uncle Howee", the title character just seems to be a loud kiddy show host that Cynthia, Jared's little sister, likes. Then, after Jared turns off the TV, Cynthia clicks it back on, and we very quickly learn that Uncle Howee's more than he appears... In "Lotsa Luck," Greg captures a leprechaun in secret, wishes for a pot of gold, and tries to hide it in the kitchen. His mother comes in and, after he stammers for a few seconds, reveals that she's a lot more aware of the situation than he expected:
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The Haunting Hour / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
The Haunting Hour / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: In "Dead Bodies", Jake Skinner's body decays after being touched by Death, but the worst part is that he's still alive as his skin slowly chips away. The mutants in Spores are half-human, half-plant and still alive, but can't think of their own free will.
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The Haunting Hour / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Haunting Hour / int_50b05d30	comment	As nightmarish and utterly disproportionate as their punishment was, the victims in "Checking Out" are heavily implied to have been bratty kids who don't appreciate what their parents do for them.
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The Haunting Hour / int_511728ae	type	Magic Versus Science
The Haunting Hour / int_511728ae	comment	Magic Versus Science: "My Sister The Witch" sets its plot up to be this, only to subvert it slightly when the main antagonist reveals that the scientific revolution allowed all magic users to thrive while the rest of the world was preoccupied. The conflict ends up being resolved with magic beating magic. "Terrible Love" explains that attraction is chemical and the potion in Cupid's love arrows is a balanced mixture of serotonin, adrenaline, and dopamine (common human hormones associated with strong emotions), which is why one hit is enough. Any more, and the target will go insane from love.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Haunting Hour / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Uncle Howee begins and ends with Cynthia watching "The Uncle Howee Show" while giggling and waving at the television.
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The Haunting Hour / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Haunting Hour / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Jake Skinner from "The Dead Body" is not an elderly, bearded man, but rather a young, attractive bad boy with nice hair. Walter from "Alien Candy" was originally a fat, shy kid with no friends, but his show counterpart Walt is an adorable ginger kid. Downplayed with Farmer Palmer in "Pumpkinhead" since he's still a filthy farmer, but he doesn't look like a rotting pumpkin like he does in the original short story.
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The Haunting Hour / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Haunting Hour / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: In "Funhouse," the Carny that runs the funhouse seems to be The Corrupter who's getting Chad hooked on anger and destruction. He's actually genuinely trying to help Chad by showing him the consequences of that anger. It's lampshaded when Kelly confronts the Carny:
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The Haunting Hour / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Haunting Hour / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: In "Creature Feature", when a cop encounters a tick monster jumping him he...screams in fear. He doesn't even bother getting his gun, he just screams at the monster slowly jumping him. Needless to say, the officer didn't help the protagonists and they ended up saving him.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Haunting Hour / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: A few hints are laid about the identity of the Wicked Witch in Stage Fright. It turns out to be... none of the cast. It's a lady who has never appeared before. The cast members are equally surprised.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5c059fbd	type	Twin Telepathy
The Haunting Hour / int_5c059fbd	comment	Twin Telepathy: Jack Jr. and Jacqueline claim to possess this in "Spores." At first, it seems like they're just pretending to tease their brother Melvin—but in the end of the episode when Jacqueline is hit by the mutating spores of the title, their link is somehow able to begin the process with Jack Jr. as well.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5cc25ed	type	Not-So-Imaginary Friend
The Haunting Hour / int_5cc25ed	comment	Not-So-Imaginary Friend: The House is really alive in "My Old House".
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The Haunting Hour / int_5d414804	type	Just Friends
The Haunting Hour / int_5d414804	comment	Alice's parents in "My Old House". They spend about five minutes hunting for their daughter in their former house. Her mom delivers a tearful monologue about how much she loves Alice...and then they leave. And they don't even bother to search the entire building! Alice herself qualifies for not immediately emerging from her hiding place when she hears her parents talking, stopping to say goodbye to the house (which at this point has clearly demonstrated sentience), and then trying the Just Friends route to a living, breathing building. Come on, Alice.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
The Haunting Hour / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	In Season 1 "Game Over", Kelly and his friends are pulled into a video game and must beat the final boss, the Game Master, to escape. After they beat the Game Master, Kelly ends up becoming the new Game Master and he's trapped in the video game while his friends are free to leave and he can only leave when someone else beats him. The episode ends with an unnamed boy playing the same video game, where a hand pulls him into the game when he accepts the Game Master's challenge.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
The Haunting Hour / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: The carny from the "Funhouse" was actually trying to help the siblings the whole time despite his creepy behavior. The switchman from "Toy Train" was actually revealed to be a victim of tragedy rather than a vengeful ghost like the episode played him up as. The ghosts in "Lights Out" were trying to protect the kids the whole time, locking them in a room because any patient caught out of bed after dark was subjected to the mad doctor's experiments.
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The Haunting Hour / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
The Haunting Hour / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: The main character's transformation into a tick monster in Creature Feature Part 2.
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The Haunting Hour / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Haunting Hour / int_60fa92ac	comment	Also, Dr. Mangle in "Creature Feature".
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The Haunting Hour / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
The Haunting Hour / int_617f0563	comment	Molly goes through this in "Mrs. Worthington" when she discovers Nate's drawings of her suffering various tortures. She later asks him outright, "Am I really that mean to you?" Happily, the end of the episode shows her beginning a Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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The Haunting Hour / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Uncle Howee takes place inside a house and has only four (human) characters.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
The Haunting Hour / int_6293c185	comment	Implied to be the ending in "The Weeping Woman." Yes, Chi saved his friends from being drowned and the negative energy that brought the statue to life disappeared when Chi's friend's parents reunited, but the last image of the episode was the La Llorona statue being put in a yard sale (and no one, except for Chi and his friends, know who La Llorona is and what her powers are). Who knows who will buy it, thinking that it's just a harmless statue of a woman to have around the house?
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The Haunting Hour / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
The Haunting Hour / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel / Teens Are Monsters: Used throughout the series. Notably played with in Swarmin' Norman: The kids watching Norman get picked on by the school bullies laugh when they make fun of Norman's science project; they immediately stop laughing when the bullies proceed to beat Norman up.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6379edc1	type	Valentine's Day Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_6379edc1	comment	Valentine's Day Episode: "Terrible Love," which takes a lot of Valentine's Day elements and makes them scary and/or funny in a sick way (cf. the part where Brendon gives Maggie a tarantula that wasn't defanged for Valentine's Day because he wanted to have something cute and fuzzy as a gift, Cupid being a sarcastic middle-aged man who tries to teach Maggie that she should trust herself and not pursue Brendon because he's not interested in her, and the end where Stuart hires Cupid to make Maggie his girlfriend).
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The Haunting Hour / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
The Haunting Hour / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: This is what happens to the spirit of the dead passenger in "Flight" when he decides to follow the Grim Reaper. It almost happens to Will at the end of "Dead Bodies" until he realises he's not supposed to die yet.
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The Haunting Hour / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Haunting Hour / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Farmer Palmer from the Pumpkinhead episodes and his pumpkinhead children genuinely seemed to love each other.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Haunting Hour / int_6439de78	comment	In "Game Over," the game master tells Kelly that he can choose any weapon he likes for the final battle. Kelly chooses his friends, who had sacrificed themselves earlier, bringing them back to life—after all, they're something he can use to cause damage against the boss.
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The Haunting Hour / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
The Haunting Hour / int_644eca71	comment	Missy's parents in "Goodwill Toward Men". They make fun of Missy for showing kindness to the gardeners they hired, tell her that the hired help have no business mingling with the upper-crust because it disrupts the "natural balance of things", favor their son Henry over her (because Henry is just as selfish as his mom and dad), and, even when they're poor, cold, and starving, all they care about is contacting their former connections (lawyers, credit card companies, etc.) so they can get their old lives back.
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The Haunting Hour / int_65cd483d	type	Friend to Bugs
The Haunting Hour / int_65cd483d	comment	Friend to Bugs: Norman in "Swarmin' Norman"...until he abuses them and they fight back against all mankind (or at least Norman).
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The Haunting Hour / int_6654b17b	type	Facial Horror
The Haunting Hour / int_6654b17b	comment	Facial Horror: Gracie's fate at the end of "Headshot". Also, Chad when his anger begins to overtake him on the episode "Funhouse"
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The Haunting Hour / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: The Most Evil Sorcerer, in which the entire plot (except for the last scene of the evil sorceress waking up in the modern day after a jogger thinks she needs medical attention) takes place in medieval Europe and is more like a Dark Fantasy than a horror story. Some episodes are more comedy-horror than straight horror. "Terrible Love" plays out like a supernatural, romantic Black Comedy, "Best Friends Forever" and "Bad Egg" parody the sitcom story of "Kid keeps a pet in the house under wraps from his parents who forbid him from having a pet", "Uncle Howee" is more of a Black Comedy with scary elements and social commentary about how television is too often used as a babysitter, and "Near Mint Condition" is a satire against obsessive toy collectors, 1980s nostalgia, and online auction addicts. "Headshot": It's The Picture of Dorian Gray set in the world of teen modeling. Much like "Terrible Love", the fears are more based in reality. In this case, it's the promises of fame and glamor bringing out a person's worst qualities, how the famous often have to sacrifice what really matters to them in order to succeed only to lose everything when their star fades, and how evil lives in all mankind and only comes out if a person chooses to surround themselves with evil influences. "Funhouse" is similar to "Headshot," as the traveling carnie isn't the evil one; he merely encourages Chad to vent his anger over his family. Chad's anger and frustration over his father never being around (and his mother not doing anything about it) turns Chad into a monster. Unlike "Headshot," Chad breaks the spell his anger has over him by smashing the mirror that reads, "To Get Out, You Must Face Yourself" and distorted his face. "The Cast": Gives more psychological scares, despite having a Crazy Cat Lady who may or may not be a witch or have godlike powers over her cats. Lex's guilt over not telling the truth about what he did to the cat lady's house is what drives him crazy (as symbolized by the rats making a nest in his cast). It's been described as an homage to The Telltale Heart (only instead of a beating heart under the floorboards, it's rats making a nest in a boy's arm cast). "Goodwill Toward Men": While there is a supernatural character (the Christmas angel statue), it's more of a morality tale (akin to what The Twilight Zone puts out) and the scares are more based in reality than fiction (Missy and her family become poor and are forced to live on the streets, while their gardener and his family are as rich and selfish as Missy's family used to be).
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The Haunting Hour / int_671681af	type	Jackass Genie
The Haunting Hour / int_671681af	comment	Jackass Genie: Seamus the leprechaun in "Lotsa Luck". The episode even references the trope, with Greg's mother pointing out that The Fair Folk are tricksters.
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The Haunting Hour / int_675206b9	type	Games of the Elderly
The Haunting Hour / int_675206b9	comment	Games of the Elderly: In the "Grampires" two-parter, the vampiric retirement community capture the protagonists, Mike and Cristen, but rather than have the residents fight over who gets to feed on them. The lead vampire decides to have them as prizes for the bingo game.
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The Haunting Hour / int_67542e29	type	This Is Your Brain on Evil
The Haunting Hour / int_67542e29	comment	This Is Your Brain on Evil: "Funhouse" is essentially an anti-drug story with anger as the drug of choice. Chad becomes utterly hooked on letting out his rage by smashing up the final room of the attraction: we see him rocking back and forth as he waits for a "fix," sneaking out, and outright telling the Carny "I need more!" after one round. Later, he declares that the funhouse is the only thing in his life that matters, and even his physical appearance starts warping as time passes, much like an addict's would (although in this case, half of Chad's face becomes a monstrous bald leer). The only thing that saves Chad is his sister's love for him.
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The Haunting Hour / int_675a7d05	type	OrpheanRescue
The Haunting Hour / int_675a7d05	comment	Orphean Rescue: "Scary Mary (Part Two)" has Eric going into Mary's world to rescue Hannah. Curiously enough, Mary seems to be invoking this trope as a means for her to escape. Essentially, she kidnaps pretty girls hoping that a boy will be willing to pull this rescue, whereby she can use the girl's stolen face to impersonate her and escape the mirror world.
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The Haunting Hour / int_67c287fe	type	Karmic Twist Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_67c287fe	comment	Steffani in "Wrong Number". When the antagonist almost releases her to freedom after getting an obviously fake apology from her, Steffani insults her despite her friend's warning. She could have just let it go and left while she still could, but for some reason, Steffani just had to throw one more insult toward the old woman anyway. She suffers a Karmic Twist Ending for her trouble.
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The Haunting Hour / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
The Haunting Hour / int_68068108	comment	Fear from "Fear Never Knocks" relishes in the sound of children screaming and acts as over-the-top as the master of fears should do. Even his Evil Laugh is over-the-top.
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The Haunting Hour / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Haunting Hour / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: While Brandon from "Really You" acts like a standard Aloof Big Brother at first, he turns out to be the Only Sane Man and is inclined to believe that Lilly isn't the one responsible for what the doll's been doing, even going as far as to sneak into the company with his friend to figure out how Lilly D works.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
The Haunting Hour / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Most of the villains are incredibly dark even by the show's standards and the usual standards of an R.L. Stine children's horror story. The Salesman in Scarecrow casually talks about death and the end of the world all the time, naturally freaking out the other characters. He follows around a little girl to sell a Scary Scarecrow to her, raising questions as to why he's following her around. The fact that he is also revealed to be said scarecrow and is trying to make all of humanity disappear to invoke the end of the world only makes him more of a monster.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
The Haunting Hour / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Works in both directions in "Bad Feng Shui." After Jessica's mother is kidnapped by an evil Chinese demon, she hears Jessica desperately crying for her and briefly overcomes the monster to form a connection with her, drawing the girl's attention to her violin. Similarly, it is Jessica's realization that her mother loves her (despite being harsh and urging Jessica to embrace her Chinese heritage) and subsequent playing of the violin—something her mother loves—that banishes the demon and restores Mrs. Cheng. In a bit of Genius Bonus, the piece Jessica plays to do this is Bach's "Lover's Concerto."
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The Haunting Hour / int_6a6c1f35	type	The Power of Rock
The Haunting Hour / int_6a6c1f35	comment	"Long Live Rock and Roll" also has this, only instead of looks, a boy sells his soul for musical talent. The difference between this episode and "Headshot" in terms of story is that Sir Maestro told Holden that in exchange for the guitar, Sir Maestro gets his soul (or, as it's worded on the episode, "You get to play for me, forever.") and Holden was able to get out of it with The Power of Rock and his friends (who also signed away their souls to Sir Maestro) at his side.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Haunting Hour / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Sam and her family (along with the previous owners of the RV) at the end of "Argh V," although the time between the accident that Sam's family apparently avoided and The Reveal that they are actually dead after they pick up the family that turns out to be the previous owners of the RV (who also died when a truck ran them off the road) is very brief.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Haunting Hour / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: To most of the elderly vampires in Grampires, bingo. Sir Maestro takes contract deals very seriously. Justified in that he's actually Satan, or some kind of soul-stealing demon. In this particular form, he was once a talented rock guitarist who signed on (or, as he put it, "sold out") to a record company, and became a bitter, overly-competitive Jaded Washout after seeing (and falling victim to) the manipulative nature of the mainstream music industry. He takes revenge against those who pursue fame in that industry by tricking them into signing contracts (in blood) before buying any of his instruments (which are ridiculously overpriced, but he always accepts whatever the customer has in cash along with signing his contracts), even though he tells Holden that he also collects the souls of anyone who wants power (not just musicians or even people in the creative/entertainment industry, though that's where most of his targets come from).
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The Haunting Hour / int_6ba2b94f	type	Trapped in TV Land
The Haunting Hour / int_6ba2b94f	comment	Trapped in TV Land: Jared's fate at the end of "Uncle Howee." After Jared admits defeat and gives into Uncle Howee's demand to be his friend, Jared is found hours later on TV as a life-sized wooden puppet welcoming his new kiddie fans, including his sister, Cynthia.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
The Haunting Hour / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Uncle Howee; whatever you do, don't accept the deal to be his friend else you want to be transformed into a puppet for the rest of your life. The Mangler from "Near Mint Condition" is a children's toy that's massacred a bunch of people. Seamus the Leprechaun from "Lotsa Luck" is a Large Ham, but he loves collecting souls.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6ccb6be	type	My Car Hates Me
The Haunting Hour / int_6ccb6be	comment	My Car Hates Me: In "Return Of The Pumpkin Heads", Karen and Zach try to escape using a car, but it fails to start. And, to make matters worse, their parents (now transformed into Pumpkinheads) are sitting in the backseat...
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The Haunting Hour / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
The Haunting Hour / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: "The Hole" ends with the dad possessed by the man who went nuts in the video after he wears the Hawaiian shirt that the man in the video wore. "Game Over": "Kell-Raiser" is the new video game master and he drags a new player into the video game world. Implied to be the ending in "The Weeping Woman." Yes, Chi saved his friends from being drowned and the negative energy that brought the statue to life disappeared when Chi's friend's parents reunited, but the last image of the episode was the La Llorona statue being put in a yard sale (and no one, except for Chi and his friends, know who La Llorona is and what her powers are). Who knows who will buy it, thinking that it's just a harmless statue of a woman to have around the house? "Terrible Love": Maggie finding out too late that Stuart made a deal with Cupid to make her his girlfriend and gets hit with a love arrow. "Worry Dolls": One of the worry dolls Jordanna set fire to in the fireplace regroups and comes back to haunt her, as her worrying over the dolls actually being burned is what brings one back to life. "Lovecraft's Woods": Erica, who has been scratched by an unknown creature in Lovecraft's Woods, is cursed to live in a cabin while the rest of her friends are doomed to repeat their ill-fated journey. "Coat Rack Cowboy" is a minor example. Yes, Ethan does defeat Mad Dog McCoy and returns to the present, but two of the outlaws Ethan mentioned before look over his bed and comment that, now that Ethan defeated Mad Dog McCoy, they want to challenge him to a shoot-out as well, since they heard he killed him without shooting him. "My Robot": After the robot is rebooted, it imprints on Tim, which was Philip's plan the whole time so he would finally be rid of it. "My Old House": It's implied that the House that sucked up Alice will target a new girl moving into it. "Mrs. Worthington": Nate is able to defeat his creation by ripping her picture to shreds, but doesn't realize that he didn't destroy her hand, which is now sketching herself back to life in the attic, meaning that Mrs. Worthington will be alive and able to wreak havoc on everyone in the family again.
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The Haunting Hour / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	Christmas Episode: "A Creature Was Stirring" and "Goodwill Toward Men", making for a nice Bookends for the series, as it started with a Christmas episode and ended with a Christmas episode ("Really You" was a pilot/series sneak peek, and doesn't count as an official episode).
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The Haunting Hour / int_6f9d7da3	type	GrimReaper
The Haunting Hour / int_6f9d7da3	comment	This is what happens to the spirit of the dead passenger in "Flight" when he decides to follow the Grim Reaper.
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The Haunting Hour / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
The Haunting Hour / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Largely averted throughout the series. Defeating the Monster of the Week doesn't necessarily undo whatever havoc they wreaked. In "Bad Feng Shui," a snake demon is held at bay by having objects arranged in a good feng shui balance; when Jessica angrily undoes this to spite her mother, the monster is freed and immediately kidnaps Mrs. Cheng. Jessica replaces all of the curios and puts them back in their proper places, but it's not enough to banish the monster (it takes The Power of Love to do that). In "Headshot," Lexi tries to invoke this trope by deleting Gracie's ever-changing headshot, thinking it will be enough to bring things back to normal. But since Gracie made a deal with Cassandra in the first place, it was up to her to make the choice to erase the photo, and the result... well, see Nightmare Face above.
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The Haunting Hour / int_710ae822	type	Butter Face
The Haunting Hour / int_710ae822	comment	In "Headshot," Cassandra tells Lexi that "Gracie has become what she's always been, or she would have deleted that headshot long ago," meaning that, while Cassandra is the Devil (posing as a teen magazine modeling scout and photographer) who steals the souls of girls who want to be known for their beauty and turns them into ugly monsters, she didn't drive Gracie into being evil, just captured her soul in a headshot photo and encouraged her to do what she could to make it so she'd be the winner, even if it meant hurting and alienating everyone she's ever known and loved. After all, it was Gracie who disobeyed her mother, set up Dylan to get suspended for cheating on a math test, spiked Flynn's milkshake with Red Dye #3 (which makes her break out in hives), and alienated Lexi (her best friend and the one who knew that Cassandra was evil and using Gracie for her own gain) by calling her a "Butter Face" and telling her that (paraphrased), "When good things happen, your friends are the first ones to bail."
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The Haunting Hour / int_7142b38a	type	The Grim Reaper
The Haunting Hour / int_7142b38a	comment	In "Flight", The Grim Reaper takes the form of a nice old lady and is good-natured, but still has a job to do and will kill everyone on-board an airplane if the spirit doesn't come with her.
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The Haunting Hour / int_71cc4b5a	type	Descent into Addiction
The Haunting Hour / int_71cc4b5a	comment	Descent into Addiction: In "The Girl in the Painting," Becky becomes increasingly hooked on the titular art. At first she just stares at it for hours, but then she starts rearranging her room to match its layout, talks as if the subjects are alive, and even fishes it out of the trash when her mother, who realizes that she's becoming obsessed, tries to get rid of it. Becky's addiction eventually gets so strong that she's pulled into the world of the painting, where she's almost immediately devoured by a monster. In "Catching Cold," Marty gets more and more obsessed with catching the Kreemy Kold ice-cream truck, going so far as to sell his bike, lie to his family, and set up spike traps just so he can get as much as he wants. By the climax of the episode, he's a twitching mess waiting for the truck to show up on his street. In "Funhouse," Chad goes from a quiet but polite teenager to a destructive, rage-fueled jerk as he continues to indulge his temper in the titular attraction. The drug parallels are probably the most blatant in this episode, complete with Chad sneaking out of the house, shaking like an addict with bad cravings, and screaming, "I need more!"
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The Haunting Hour / int_7243f3cb	type	Dark Fantasy
The Haunting Hour / int_7243f3cb	comment	The Most Evil Sorcerer, in which the entire plot (except for the last scene of the evil sorceress waking up in the modern day after a jogger thinks she needs medical attention) takes place in medieval Europe and is more like a Dark Fantasy than a horror story.
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The Haunting Hour / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
The Haunting Hour / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: In the short story version of "Alien Candy", Greg and Bonnie were both immature children, but on the show they are diabolical masterminds who orchestrate numerous misdirections against Walt.
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The Haunting Hour / int_727a65e0	type	Gaslighting
The Haunting Hour / int_727a65e0	comment	Jeffrey's parents in "The Walls" are revealed to have known about the monster living in their son's walls the whole time, but they kept it a secret and tried to gaslight him so they wouldn't have to share all their good luck coming from the monster with him. That is to say, "sufficient" good luck, as they do tell him if they would receive good luck as would he, but obviously, they much more than he would have and did not want him telling anyone else at risk of ruining the good luck.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Haunting Hour / int_7301ae04	comment	Melvin's family in "Spores" is even worse. The father vacations in a mysterious forest, where a large number of hikers disappeared and is overlooked by a park ranger who everyone describes as a Serial Killer. However, the real problem is a spore cloud that turns everyone into clicker expies. Still, it's his stupidity that causes all the horror in the episode to occur.
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The Haunting Hour / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Haunting Hour / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: In "The Dead Body" short story, Will Johnston was a Shrinking Violet who was afraid of everything and couldn't stand up for himself. While this trait is used for the most part in the adaptation, he later grows into a brave Bully Hunter who stands up to his vicious ghost bully by partaking in a fistfight with him. Then again, in the original story, Jake complained Will got too rough while pretending to fight him off. Remember in this version, Jake is a grown man while Will is just his nephew. On a related note, Jake from the original story needed a mask to pose as a zombie. In the series, he's capable of shapeshifting and time-travel. In "Alien Candy", Walt is a Badass Adorable action survivor who slays aliens instead of being Too Dumb to Live like in the book.
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The Haunting Hour / int_74463f7f	type	"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop
The Haunting Hour / int_74463f7f	comment	"Anger Is Healthy" Aesop: The episode "Funhouse" is about a teenager named Chad who's reeling from his parents' divorce, but refusing to share his feelings. When the titular funhouse comes to town, he discovers that the final portion is a kitchen filled with robotic mannequins that have an argument; a sledgehammer is provided to smash up the room and everything in it. Chad quickly becomes addicted to letting his anger out through destruction â€” at one point outright telling the carny that runs the place "I need more!" â€” and he's soon warped into a literal monster by his rage. His younger sister ultimately saves him by encouraging him to express his emotions in a healthy way before they destroy him.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Haunting Hour / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: The original ending to "Black Mask" had the kids finding out too late that they were seeing the future and getting killed by the falling roof; the TV version had them alive and able to save the handyman (thought to be the villain) who was about to die. Walt doesn't die at the end of "Alien Candy" like his novel counterpart did. Mark didn't die in the "Ghostly Stare" like he is heavily implied to have did in the short story. Jillian's dad in "Nightmare Inn" died before the story began and stays that way. The episode reveals that he actually just became a werewolf.
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The Haunting Hour / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Haunting Hour / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: The main advantage the children of this show have over those in Goosebumps is that they always have access to cell phones (considering that this show was made during a time when children as young as twelve can have a cell phone and Goosebumps was made during a time when cell phones weren't that mainstream). Too bad said phones tend to die out at the worst possible time (as seen in "Big Yellow"), the person they're trying to contact doesn't pick up (which is Truth in Television, but still), they can be used to trap you in a video file and be deleted ("Wrong Number"), or, in the case of "Uncle Howee," a reality-warping TV character can easily hack your calls.
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The Haunting Hour / int_777baed3	type	Out-of-Character Alert
The Haunting Hour / int_777baed3	comment	Out-of-Character Alert: Scary Mary got Hoist by Her Own Petard because of this: Her plan to trick Eric into taking her out of her world by making him think she was Hanna would have worked if she hadn't demanded that Eric tell her how beautiful and perfect she was.
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The Haunting Hour / int_779009b5	type	Beware the Quiet Ones
The Haunting Hour / int_779009b5	comment	Beware the Quiet Ones: The scariest villains are the ones who speak the least... Lilly D can't speak, but she's a completely insane murderer. Big Yellow from "Mascot" never has a single line of dialogue but he is by far one of the show's darkest villains. The "Scarecrow" never speaks, but can while he's in his human form. The Kreamy Kold truck from "Catching Cold" is incapable of speech but it's still a creepy monster.
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The Haunting Hour / int_77c9a628	type	Your Soul Is Mine!
The Haunting Hour / int_77c9a628	comment	Your Soul Is Mine!: The Cruel Twist Ending of "Lotsa Luck" has Greg lose his soul to the leprechaun after it's revealed that his great-great-grandfather exchanged it to Seamus the leprechaun in order to keep his own.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7916f22e	type	Creepy Changing Painting
The Haunting Hour / int_7916f22e	comment	In "The Girl in the Painting," a shot of the titular artwork after Becky turns away reveals not only that it's a Creepy Changing Painting, but that one of the changes is a giant yellow reptilian eye glaring through the window. Guess what ends up eating Becky at the end of the episode?
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The Haunting Hour / int_79372d59	type	The Game Come to Life
The Haunting Hour / int_79372d59	comment	The Game Come to Life: "Game Over", only it's a video game, not a board game or a trading card game, like in most examples.
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The Haunting Hour / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: Intruders ends with The Fair Folk emerging from the forest and menacingly approaching Eve's home.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
The Haunting Hour / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: Travis and Dave to Ryan on My Imaginary Friend. To some extent, Uncle Howee from the episode of the same name could be, as, prior to Jared seeing Uncle Howee, Loomis, and Mr. Clock escape from the TV, Cynthia was the only one who could see and interact with Uncle Howee, whether he was on TV or in the bathroom mirror, meaning that Uncle Howee and his show could be the product of Cynthia's imagination.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7bd88e4a	type	Slain in Their Sleep
The Haunting Hour / int_7bd88e4a	comment	Slain in Their Sleep: "Dreamcatcher"; the Dreamcatcher can only get you while you sleep.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
The Haunting Hour / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The House in "My Old House" has glowing red eyes, a deep voice, a pale white color to it, and always smiles. Unfortunately, Alice thinks of it as her best friend.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7c58fe32	type	Louis Cypher
The Haunting Hour / int_7c58fe32	comment	Sir Maestro takes contract deals very seriously. Justified in that he's actually Satan, or some kind of soul-stealing demon. In this particular form, he was once a talented rock guitarist who signed on (or, as he put it, "sold out") to a record company, and became a bitter, overly-competitive Jaded Washout after seeing (and falling victim to) the manipulative nature of the mainstream music industry. He takes revenge against those who pursue fame in that industry by tricking them into signing contracts (in blood) before buying any of his instruments (which are ridiculously overpriced, but he always accepts whatever the customer has in cash along with signing his contracts), even though he tells Holden that he also collects the souls of anyone who wants power (not just musicians or even people in the creative/entertainment industry, though that's where most of his targets come from).
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The Haunting Hour / int_7e851477	type	Balancing Death's Books
The Haunting Hour / int_7e851477	comment	Balancing Death's Books: Or "Balancing a Leprechaun's Books". In "Lotsa Luck", Greg's mother explains that whenever a mortal earns three wishes from a leprechaun, the cost of the final wish is always the soul of the wisher. Her great-grandfather Daniel is the only person who's ever escaped this fate, and ever since, Seamus (and, it is implied, the entire leprechaun race) has been attempting to gain a soul from his descendants to make up for his loss.
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The Haunting Hour / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Haunting Hour / int_7fbb2a3	comment	In "Bad Feng Shui," a snake demon is held at bay by having objects arranged in a good feng shui balance; when Jessica angrily undoes this to spite her mother, the monster is freed and immediately kidnaps Mrs. Cheng. Jessica replaces all of the curios and puts them back in their proper places, but it's not enough to banish the monster (it takes The Power of Love to do that).
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The Haunting Hour / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Haunting Hour / int_7febc23b	comment	The title character in "Mrs. Worthington". Her line "What a lovely greeting," spoken to the rude Molly, is an Establishing Character Moment.
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The Haunting Hour / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Haunting Hour / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Some of the villains on the Haunting Hour really enjoy Chewing the Scenery. Fear from "Fear Never Knocks" relishes in the sound of children screaming and acts as over-the-top as the master of fears should do. Even his Evil Laugh is over-the-top. Debbie Ryan's role as an Alpha Bitch on "Wrong Number" is really taken advantage of. Uncle Howee from the episode of the same name is loud and theatric every minute he's on-screen. Justified as he's played by Tom Kenny, who often plays hammy characters (usually cartoon characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and Heffer Wolfe from Rocko's Modern Life). Mad Dog McCoy from "Coat Rack Cowboy" loves showing off his badass bandit skills and like all Old West cowboys gloats about every one of his victories in gun-slinging. Margot Kidder as "Mrs. Worthington" plays up the Babysitter from Hell aspect to an all-time high.
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The Haunting Hour / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: The ending to "Sick" had a lot of viewers scratching their heads. Did Alex actually die when the government destroyed his house or is this like Inception where he's trapped in another dream plane (and possibly died in his sleep, if one were to interpret the story as the inner workings of someone's body as he or she fights off an infection)? What was real in this story and what wasn't?
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The Haunting Hour / int_83f18d93	type	DontGoIntoTheWoods
The Haunting Hour / int_83f18d93	comment	Don't Go Into the Woods: In Spores, this is the case with Melvin's family. In "Lovecraft Woods", the titular woods imprison whoever enters them in a "Groundhog Day" Loop.
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The Haunting Hour / int_84545521	type	Sapient House
The Haunting Hour / int_84545521	comment	Sapient House: The titular house in "My Old House."
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The Haunting Hour / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Haunting Hour / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The scarecrow salesman definitely looked human when he is not in his scarecrow form. It's implied that some of the other antagonists—including Mrs. Worthington, Uncle Howee, and the Carny—are something that isn't human despite looking like it. They don't appear to be witches or magic users, and have vaguely defined but still frightening powers, so it's quite likely that they're a case of this trope.
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The Haunting Hour / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Haunting Hour / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Seamus the leprechaun in "Lotsa Luck". Lyria and the forest fairies in "Intruders." In their case, it's somewhat played with in terms of appearance; while Lyria is outfitted like a fairy from Victorian/Edwardian-era illustrations (think Arthur Rackham and Ida Outhwaite), her motives and personality are much, much more akin to earlier legends. Eve technically counts as well, being a changeling. The Alp in "Red Eye". The Alp's name is a variation on "elf," pointing to darker, earlier legends wherein elves/fairies were to be feared.
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The Haunting Hour / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
The Haunting Hour / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: Cameron in "Pool Shark." He's a competitive swimmer with a huge ego and a condescending attitude.
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The Haunting Hour / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Haunting Hour / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: In "Brush with Madness", Alan Miller becomes this to the main protagonist after getting into a fight with him at a Comic Con.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
The Haunting Hour / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: The alien-monster creature from "Sick," though it's hard to tell since he's rarely shown (all we see of him are tentacles, and it's implied that he's not of this Earth and that blowing up the house is the only way that he can be destroyed).
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The Haunting Hour / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Haunting Hour / int_890d4ef2	comment	The "Really You" two-parter is one big Humiliation Conga for the Spoiled Brat of a main character being framed for things the doll's been doing (some regardless if it even made sense).
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The Haunting Hour / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
The Haunting Hour / int_8967e17f	comment	Played straight, but then subverted with Will Johnston from "The Dead Body". In the novel, the kid achieved his happy ending, but on the show he gets killed off thanks to some trickery on Jake Skinner's part. However, in the sequel "Dead Bodies", the character is Back from the Dead.
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The Haunting Hour / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Haunting Hour / int_898ff050	comment	Steffani Howard from "Wrong Number" is a sadistic bully who thinks she's better than everyone and treats others poorly for a cheap laugh. It's made very clear that she's a Villain Protagonist.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Haunting Hour / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Eve in Intruders.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Haunting Hour / int_8a4988bb	comment	Travis and Chang the bullies in "The Dead Body". Chang mauled to death by a ghost, but considering how he proudly admits that he loves beating people up, nobody cared. Travis comes close to this trope too, but he's merely mind raped instead of outright murdered.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8bff32a8	type	Creepy Doll
The Haunting Hour / int_8bff32a8	comment	Creepy Doll: Always a staple of a horror show. Lilly D, who is a twisted life-sized mannequin based off of a real human girl who won her in a contest, but she proves to be one of the most monstrous villains of the series. Her specialties include manipulating others, plotting wicked deeds against people she hates, and attempting to murder anyone who stands in her way. The Mangler, who was a toy designed to be the greatest children's collectible ever suffered from a programming error where it would assault and slaughter children since it literally thought it was the real character. The Worry Dolls, who seem to randomly appear whenever Jordanna worries about something or sees a problem that can be easily solved. In "Lovecraft's Woods", the kids find a keychain of a creepy goth girl which matches their own. The miniatures from "Toy Train" certainly have a foreboding feel around them. However, the toy conductor is revealed to be a good guy despite his scary appearance.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8c23b321	type	Harmless Villain
The Haunting Hour / int_8c23b321	comment	Harmless Villain: The twist ending of "The Walls" reveals that the Klemit was nothing more than a pathetic, syrup-starved loser the whole time and was zero threat to the hero.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8cbd311b	type	Good Angel, Bad Angel
The Haunting Hour / int_8cbd311b	comment	Good Angel, Bad Angel: With Fridge Brilliance. The twist ending in "My Imaginary Friend" makes more sense when you rethink Dave and Travis as Shawn's conscience trying to help him out, and Shawn's decision to get rid of his imaginary friends is really his decision to Take a Third Option and think for himself.
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The Haunting Hour / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Haunting Hour / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	"Terrible Love"'s ending is kind of a gray area. If you believe Maggie is an Asshole Victim because she forced Cupid to give Brendon another hit of the love arrow out of insecurity despite his warnings, then the ending in which Stuart summoned Cupid too and made a deal with him to hit Maggie with one of his love arrows doesn't count as a cruel twist, as she's getting what she deserved. However, if you think Maggie learned her lesson and has suffered enough, especially after wishing the love-crazed Brendon would leave her alone and seeing him fall down the stairs and be sent to the hospital, then it is cruel, as she's forced to love Stuart forever (it's heavily implied that, because Cupid's love arrows contain the human hormones of serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline, and because it was a direct hit with the proper balance of hormones, the feelings of love you have for whoever you see when you wake up are permanent).
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The Haunting Hour / int_8f7e610d	type	Autocannibalism
The Haunting Hour / int_8f7e610d	comment	Autocannibalism: "Afraid of Clowns" has Chris dream about a clown serving him a piece of cake that was part of his hand. It's lessened by the fact that Chris's hand appeared to turn into cake (and that it was All Just a Dream) but it still has this vibe and is genuinely unsettling.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Haunting Hour / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Gracie in "Headshots" immediately regrets calling her best friend Lexi a "butterface". As she holds the strip of photos of her and Lexi taken during happier times, she briefly considers backing out of her deal with Cassandra by deleting her headshot. After another pep talk from Cassandra encouraging her to follow her shallow dreams of fame, Gracie promptly crumples up the photos and leaves the headshot on her phone.
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The Haunting Hour / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Haunting Hour / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: The episode "Pool Shark"note about a Hawaiian boy who thinks a shark is haunting the school pool, only to learn that it's his estranged father, who is a mythical Hawaiian creature called a Nanaue, a man who turns into a shark when exposed to water can best be described as Twilight if Jacob was the main character and he was a half-man, half-shark creature. The series itself is Goosebumps if the stories were darker and a little less Narmy (though "Le Poof de Fromage" played out like something R.L. Stine would have written in his Goosebumps and Ghosts of Fear Street daysnote which he did in the form of the Ghost of Fear Street book, "Body Switchers from Outer Space"). "Terrible Love" is what happens when you mix a toned-down version of Fatal Attraction with Be Careful What You Wish For from the original Goosebumps book series (a Fear Street story about unrequited love driving someone into insanity) and add a sarcastic, middle-aged man as Cupid. "Spores" can be best described as Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets a "Don't Go Into the Woods"-style horror flick and the infected fungal mutants from The Last of Us. The twist ending of "Spaceman" bears a disturbing resemblance to the famous twist of Psycho, but with a space theme thrown in for good measure.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9182ea54	type	Crazy Cat Lady
The Haunting Hour / int_9182ea54	comment	"The Cast": Gives more psychological scares, despite having a Crazy Cat Lady who may or may not be a witch or have godlike powers over her cats. Lex's guilt over not telling the truth about what he did to the cat lady's house is what drives him crazy (as symbolized by the rats making a nest in his cast). It's been described as an homage to The Telltale Heart (only instead of a beating heart under the floorboards, it's rats making a nest in a boy's arm cast).
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The Haunting Hour / int_92db333b	type	Ret-Gone
The Haunting Hour / int_92db333b	comment	It should be noted, however, that for every time they do show kids dying on this show, there are a few times where this is subverted and the kids are saved. Cases in point: "Detention" (Audrey, Kate, and Halftime do discover that they're dead, but when Kate and Audrey atone for the events that led to their death, they get their lives back and the voting scandal and parade accident are erased), "The Black Mask" (the three kids discover that the mask that showed the colonial kids dying in the past was actually a prediction of their own deaths and they stop it before it can happen), "A Creature Was Stirring" (Timmy and his family escape the house before the Krampus burns it down), and "The Weeping Woman" (Chi saves his friend and his friend's sister from being lured into the lake and drowned by La Llorona).
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The Haunting Hour / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
The Haunting Hour / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: A whole group of them in "Afraid of Clowns", including the main character and his family. Arguably subverted as while some of them are definitely creepy, they're never shown actually doing anything bad, though the main character is coulrophobic and thinks all clowns are scary, making this a case of You Are What You Hate.
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The Haunting Hour / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
The Haunting Hour / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: The basic plot of "Black Mask". Subverted when it turns out the mask was actually showing the future and the apparent Obviously Evil villain was an innocent worker they had to save.
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The Haunting Hour / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Haunting Hour / int_94680696	comment	Some of which are based on actual monsters from different world mythologies, such as the Alp (from German folklore) in "Red Eye," the Krampus (from Bavarian German, Austrian, and Eastern European folklore) in "A Creature Was Stirring," the Nanaue (from Hawaiian and Polynesian folklore) in "Pool Shark," La Llorona (from Hispanic folklore, particularly Mexican) in "The Weeping Woman," the Golem (from Jewish folklore) in "The Golem," and a leprechaun (from Celtic/Irish folklore) in "Lotsa Luck".
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The Haunting Hour / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Haunting Hour / int_957e5fc2	comment	"My Old House": After returning to the House that she loves so much, Alice sees her parents are sick with worry over her disappearance and decides that she should return to them. She finally says goodbye to the house, but the house has a Villainous Breakdown and absorbs her into its walls so she'll never leave.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
The Haunting Hour / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Molly goes through this in "Mrs. Worthington" when she discovers Nate's drawings of her suffering various tortures. She later asks him outright, "Am I really that mean to you?" Happily, the end of the episode shows her beginning a Heelâ€“Face Turn. Kate does this in "Detention," leading her to nearly go off in the hearse to Hell after Audrey and Halftime realize that they're dead and their underhanded actions led to their demise and the homecoming weekend being canceled.
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The Haunting Hour / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Haunting Hour / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: From "Mascot": Where did Big Yellow even come from? The closest explanation we get is Drake's speculation that Big Yellow's costume is a throwback to an older form of marsupial that may have existed in Yellow Valley, the episode's setting. Given that Big Yellow is not a costume, but a monster, there may be some truth to Drake's comments.
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The Haunting Hour / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Haunting Hour / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: In "Really You", when Jill calls her husband out on spoiling their daughter rotten, he clearly does not like it and brushes her off. Melvin's father in "Spores" tries to defend himself for putting the family in a horrible situation and justifies that he wanted to bond with them on a vacation they didn't want.
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The Haunting Hour / int_982b6570	type	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire
The Haunting Hour / int_982b6570	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Grandpa Walt Montgomery in Grampires, who refuses to feed off people (especially his grandchildren, whom he loves, despite being a vampire) and instead eats rats.
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The Haunting Hour / int_98412467	type	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul
The Haunting Hour / int_98412467	comment	Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Implied to be the case with Jared at the end of "Uncle Howee". After Jared agrees to be Uncle Howee's friend, he's later seen on the show as a blissed-out wooden marionette with a smile literally painted on his face and greeting the kid audience, including his sister.
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The Haunting Hour / int_99385626	type	Once for Yes, Twice for No
The Haunting Hour / int_99385626	comment	Once for Yes, Twice for No: In "My Old House", this is how Alice communicates with the House.
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The Haunting Hour / int_997392ec	type	Killer Teddy Bear
The Haunting Hour / int_997392ec	comment	Killer Teddy Bear: In "Near Mint Condition", Ted is obsessed with buying collectable toys online, and spends $5000 (which he was supposed to use to buy a car) on a rare Robo-Bear toy from the 80's named Mangler with a mysterious link to accidents and deaths that occurred to the children that received the toys. Mangler comes alive that night, and goes after Ted's younger brother Mark and friend Jason for using him to mock Ted.
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The Haunting Hour / int_99c3dd05	type	Lifesaving Misfortune
The Haunting Hour / int_99c3dd05	comment	Lifesaving Misfortune: In "Pumpkinhead", Allie's offscreen friend Patty was supposed to come over to hang out with her on Halloween. Unfortunately for the former, Patty's parents made her cancel out of fear of her going missing. Given what happens to Allie and her brothers, Patty's parents were completely in the right.
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The Haunting Hour / int_99e87707	type	When You Coming Home, Dad?
The Haunting Hour / int_99e87707	comment	When You Coming Home, Dad?: "Worry Dolls" is a unique case where the kids eventually figure out that the parents are simply trying their best to put food on the table and learn the hard way that the opposite extreme can be just as bad.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
The Haunting Hour / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Naturally, as an R.L. Stine work there's a ton of brutal child death featured. "Brush With Madness": In the end, our two kid heroes are violently butchered by a Mad Artist wielding a chainsaw as they scream in pain before the episode closes out. "Mascot": The episode ends showing us that Big Yellow gobbled up Willie and he's slowly and painfully digesting inside of the monster's stomach. Made even worse when we see the Wolf mascot's corpse not moving behind our protagonist, already dead from his imprisonment. "Dreamcatcher": The dreamcatcher demon takes innocent girls into its webs where it then mauls them to death and eats them alive while they scream in horror. Heck, this episode outright shows blood from a girl having claw slashes on her wrist. "Swarmin' Norman": Norman is eaten alive by millions of insects. "Dead Bodies": Jake Skinner is brutally murdered by the grim reaper through having his flesh melt off as he's dragged down to Hell. "My Old House": Although nothing is outright shown onscreen, we do see Alice's severed face melded into the House's walls, implying that her death wasn't pretty.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
The Haunting Hour / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The Really You Company is not only revealed to be an Evil, Inc., but they bought the business from a crazy old lady, hence why most of the dolls including Lilly D are Living Toys.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9bfb2f41	type	Dead Guy on Display
The Haunting Hour / int_9bfb2f41	comment	Dead Guy on Display: [[spoiler: Alice from My Old House is killed and has her face mounted on the wall of her old room by the House.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9c5e78d0	type	Kill the Cutie
The Haunting Hour / int_9c5e78d0	comment	Kill the Cutie: In "My Old House", Alice is horrifically murdered by the House after she tries to part ways peacefully with it.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9cdb5ec5	type	Genre Anthology
The Haunting Hour / int_9cdb5ec5	comment	Genre Anthology: In the same vein as the 1990s adaptation of Goosebumps, in which every episode is a different story (including the episodes that are sequels to earlier ones, like "The Return of Lilly D", "Dead Bodies", and "Return of the Pumpkinheads")
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The Haunting Hour / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Haunting Hour / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: As each episode is only 22 minutes, it's hard to keep the secrets secret, but there are occasionally hints dropped: In "Uncle Howee," watch closely when Jared turns off the TV for the first time. Just before he does, Uncle Howee and Loomis — who were talking about carrots — pause and look at him with upset expressions, proving that they're aware of what's going on. In "Terrible Love," Cupid tells Maggie that she's "not [his] only client." Turns out that other client is Stuart. In "Detention", someone says something about the "powers that be", possibly referring to God and such due to the reveal of the detention being purgatory. In "The Girl in the Painting," a shot of the titular artwork after Becky turns away reveals not only that it's a Creepy Changing Painting, but that one of the changes is a giant yellow reptilian eye glaring through the window. Guess what ends up eating Becky at the end of the episode?
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The Haunting Hour / int_9e08a5c2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
The Haunting Hour / int_9e08a5c2	comment	What Measure Is A Nonhuman: From "The Return of Lilly D.": Natalie rushes to Lilly D.'s aid when she sees two teenage boys dragging her with their bikes. Subverted later when Lilly D. reveals herself to be evil; by that point, Natalie has no qualms with taking her out. Inverted in "Intruders": Lyria tells Eve that, as a fairy, she shouldn't care about her baby brother, or any human, for that matter. Eve disagrees with her, though.
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The Haunting Hour / int_9e51933c	type	I Know What You Fear
The Haunting Hour / int_9e51933c	comment	I Know What You Fear: Fear Never Knocks
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The Haunting Hour / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Haunting Hour / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: In the second part of "Really You", Jill, angry at Lilly seemingly acting out again, says she wishes Lilly D was her daughter instead. Afterwards, the doll forcibly switches places with the real Lilly. The next day just as Lilly is about to be taken away by the garbage truck, Jill and Brandon discover the switch when they notice that the doll has a mole on the back of her neck, just like the real Lilly. Jill hugs the doll Lilly as she begins crying, realizing that no doll — especially not an evil one — can take her flesh-and-blood daughter's place. Happily, this restores Lilly to her human form. In "Bad Feng Shui," Jessica realizes that the snake demon didn't kidnap her mother because of the bad feng shui in her bedroom—rather, the monster manifested when Jessica acted like a selfish brat and wished that she didn't have a mother. As Mr. Ming puts it, the demon is "her ghost, eating what she serves." Maggie in "Terrible Love" after she explains to Brendon that his attraction to her was brought on by a hyper-dose of chemicals from Cupid's arrows. Nate in "Mrs. Worthington", who realizes that his imaginary punishments for his sister and desire to have the titular babysitter enact them are too extreme. In "My Old House", Alice overhears her parents talking about how much they love and miss her after she runs away to live in the title building, which makes her see how silly her obsession with the house is. Too bad the House doesn't agree.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Haunting Hour / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In "The Most Evil Sorcerer, Part 2," the sorceress performs a spell to pull out Ned's eyes and then places them in a jar.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Haunting Hour / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: In the original "Ghostly Stare" story, Lauren and Mark were identical twins with red hair. In the episode version, the two are noticeably quite different, including that Lauren is blonde and Mark is brunette.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a497eea5	type	Babysitter from Hell
The Haunting Hour / int_a497eea5	comment	Margot Kidder as "Mrs. Worthington" plays up the Babysitter from Hell aspect to an all-time high.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Haunting Hour / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Hoo boy, does "Near Mint Condition" run the gamut. The first act is largely silly, featuring Ted geeking out over the Mangler Robo-Bear, a deliberately bad commercial for the toys, and Ted's younger brother Mark and his friend Jason teasing Ted over his collection. Then Mangler comes to life for the first time...and brutally attacks Jason, leaving him comatose. Things remain grim when Ted and Mark travel to visit Mangler's previous owner's address: it turns out he was a toy collector so obsessed with his hobby that he spent money on them in place of things like food and heat. His sister is the only person who was able to put up with him—and even she's still bitter about how he ruined his life, and by extension hers, with his obsession. It's outright stated that Mangler killed the collector; the woman is also clearly mentally unstable from her brother's death and her unresolved anger toward him, leaving her miserable. Then the episode takes another sharp turn in the third act, with Ted and Mark teaming up to fight the monster and cracking jokes while they do it.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a4cd4fc6	type	Cruel Twist Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_a4cd4fc6	comment	One not related to the Cruel Twist Ending: Jake Skinner has a big one upon being confronted with Death, who's not happy to have been cheated.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a5001f7f	type	Chekhov's Classroom
The Haunting Hour / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: The science lessons on chemical reactions (and how human emotions are connected to them) prove to be the basis for the episode "Terrible Love".
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The Haunting Hour / int_a55ab01e	type	Jerkass Realization
The Haunting Hour / int_a55ab01e	comment	Kate the homecoming queen in "Detention." Though when she, Audrey, and Halftime discover that they're dead and their actions at the homecoming parade led to their early demise, Kate realizes how awful her behavior is and she is willing to go to Hell to spare the lives of Audrey and Halftime. Thankfully, Audrey and Halftime are having none of it and are able to talk her out of it in a legitimately touching scene.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Haunting Hour / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Since this is a horror show, The Bad Guy Wins almost all the time. A particularly infuriating example occurs in "Lotsa Luck" where the protagonist Greg's great-great-grandfather Daniel gets no comeuppance for landing Greg in the mess he is in and Seamus taking his soul to settle his debt as per Daniel's final wish. Greg was a decent person and Daniel screwed him over without consequence.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Haunting Hour / int_a8a04f6f	comment	"Mascot" has Willie and the kid in the wolf costume be eaten by Big Yellow, who turns out to be an actual monster that just looks like a man in a cheesy monster costume. Drake later finds out that Willie was eaten by Big Yellow during the next game, via calling him on his cell phone, where we find out Willie is still alive inside Big Yellow and slowly being digested.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a939a527	type	Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Haunting Hour / int_a939a527	comment	Red Eyes, Take Warning: Happens in "Intruders": Lyria the forest fairy acts kind and generous to Eve, but once Eve refuses to hand her brother over for the Fey Folk to sacrifice, in addition to harming Lyria with Cold Iron, the fairy's eyes flash red as she swears to Eve that she will rue the day she defied the Fey. The episode ends with Eve holding her baby brother and looking out the window, where she sees hundreds of red eyes staring back at her from the woods, and the Fair Folk beginning to descend upon her house... The House from "My Old House" illuminates quite the pair of intimidating angry eyes when Alice is forced to leave.
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The Haunting Hour / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
The Haunting Hour / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: In "Really You", the mother is more concerned with the fact that there was a camera in her room as opposed to the fact that someone sneaked into her room and took the video card at some point and brushes off her son when he points this out. The adults in "Mascot" have this, too. The basketball coach is too busy working out to realize that several of the kids he's responsible for—including the team's manager and the previous mascot—have disappeared. And the mother in "Red Eye," who didn't notice or care that her daughter may be right about what's happening to Grace's father. Averted in "Grandpa's Glasses." Carolyn, Bo's mother, outright states that she believes him when he tells her that something supernatural is happening in her father's old house (though at first she doesn't believe him. She starts to believe him when he ends up locked in the room with Grandpa's ghost and the demon who turns out to be Carolyn's resentment over her father leaving her). Later, when Bo is trapped in a locked room, she grabs an ax from the woodpile and is prepared to break through the door if it means saving him. The finale of the episode, too, reveals that only she has the power to release the evil in the house by forgiving her father for abandoning his family. "Mrs. Worthington" has Nate's mother, who sides with Molly whenever Nate tries to tell her that his sister is being a bully. Mrs. Worthington even tells Nate that his mom is worse than Molly, as she allows the bullying to happen and needs to be taught a lesson. Sadly, this doesn't happen, but given that the episode ended with Mrs. Worthington's disembodied hand sketching herself so she can be alive again, it's implied that Nate's mom will also get her comeuppance. Sam's parents in "Argh V," who act like irresponsible teens, while Sam herself is the sane and mature one. Sam immediately figures out that something is wrong with the RV her parents buy, and repeatedly attempts to warn them that something is suspicious, but they are too busy planning a "life of adventure" to listen or care. What makes it even worse is that this ends up killing the family and dooming them to an eternity travelling on the highway. Notably averted in "Lotsa Luck," as Greg's mother and her side of the family have dealt with Seamus the leprechaun in the past and the mother is afraid that Seamus will come for Greg because he caught him and already made two wishes with him. (Seamus still gets Greg anyway, because his mother's great-grandfather wished that his next male descendant would be targeted by Seamus instead of him). Missy's parents in "Goodwill Toward Men". They make fun of Missy for showing kindness to the gardeners they hired, tell her that the hired help have no business mingling with the upper-crust because it disrupts the "natural balance of things", favor their son Henry over her (because Henry is just as selfish as his mom and dad), and, even when they're poor, cold, and starving, all they care about is contacting their former connections (lawyers, credit card companies, etc.) so they can get their old lives back. Inverted in "Afraid of Clowns." Chris's father repeatedly tries to tell him that he'll be transforming into a clown on his thirteenth birthday, but Chris refuses to talk about it. Presumably, if he had listened, it might have softened the blow.
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The Haunting Hour / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
The Haunting Hour / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Inevitable when you have adult scriptwriters writing characters who are at most young adults. To the show's credit, it's not as frequent as it could have been.
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The Haunting Hour / int_aabb956	type	Mirror Monster
The Haunting Hour / int_aabb956	comment	Mirror Monster: In "Scary Mary", chanting Mary's name three times in front of a mirror will summon Mary, who will send her three faceless servants through the mirror to drag the summoner back so Mary can steal their face.
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The Haunting Hour / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
The Haunting Hour / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: The fate of the main characters in "Mascot" and "The Girl in the Painting".
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The Haunting Hour / int_ac36578e	type	Or Was It a Dream?
The Haunting Hour / int_ac36578e	comment	Or Was It a Dream?: The twist ending of "Sick" keeps it vague if everything Alex experiences was real or not. "I'm Not Martin" reveals that the ghost boy targeting Sean was the only real person he encountered in his nightmares. "Nightmare Inn" reveals that everything the protagonist suffered was real.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Haunting Hour / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Usually present in the Cruel Twist Ending. One not related to the Cruel Twist Ending: Jake Skinner has a big one upon being confronted with Death, who's not happy to have been cheated.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ad62678e	comment	Living Shadow: The Alp in "Red Eye" is a shadow demon.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ad9559e6	type	Arc Villain
The Haunting Hour / int_ad9559e6	comment	Arc Villain: Lilly D ("Really You" and "The Return of Lilly D"), Jake Skinner ("The Dead Body" and "Dead Bodies"), and Old Man Palmer and his pumpkinheads ("Pumpkinheads" and "The Return of the Pumpkinheads"), though for the last one, just the pumpkinheads appear, as Old Man Palmer was said to have died, but his monstrous creations live on in the pumpkin patch.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The title character in "Mrs. Worthington". Her line "What a lovely greeting," spoken to the rude Molly, is an Establishing Character Moment. Sam in "Argh V," especially since she has to deal with her parents who act more like children than she does. Some of the fantastical creatures can be sarcastic (which is justified as they've dealt with foolish and selfish humans), such as Cupid in "Terrible Love," Uncle Howee and Loomis the rabbit on "Uncle Howee," and Seamus the leprechaun in "Lotsa Luck."
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The Haunting Hour / int_aea164f3	type	Playing with Syringes
The Haunting Hour / int_aea164f3	comment	Playing with Syringes: Dr. Sturgess in "Light's Out" was fond of this back when the asylum was open and he was alive. Death has not changed this. Also, Dr. Mangle in "Creature Feature".
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The Haunting Hour / int_aec6516c	type	Goth Girls Know Magic
The Haunting Hour / int_aec6516c	comment	Goth Girls Know Magic: There's a typical-looking goth girl in the episode "Wrong Number", but she actually has an uncle and grandmother who use magic and such. She knows of this, and uses their help to eventually delete a video that Steffani is trapped in, deleting Steffani forever.
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The Haunting Hour / int_aeea541c	type	Baby-Doll Baby
The Haunting Hour / int_aeea541c	comment	Baby-Doll Baby: In the episodes "Really You" and "Really You 2", Lilly's mom starts treating Lilly D (the doll) more like her daughter than the real Lilly.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Haunting Hour / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: "Best Friends Forever," "A Creature Was Stirring" (the first episode with this trope that has a more-or-less happy ending as Timmy's parents decide not to divorce after losing their house to the Krampus as the children need love and support from both of them while they try to find a new place to live), "Headshot," "The Red Dress," "The Girl in the Painting," "Terrible Love," "Worry Dolls," "Long Live Rock and Roll" (another episode that has a happy ending as Holden defeated Sir Maestro in the guitar duel and was able to save his friends), and "Mrs. Worthington" (another episode with a more-or-less happy ending as, while Nate and his sister begin to be more civil towards each other, they don't notice that Mrs. Worthington's hand is still in the attic and has drawn herself so she can come back to life). "Lotsa Luck" is a variation: it's revealed from the very start that leprechaun wishes come at a hefty price (health, wealth, and soul, just like the spell on "My Sister, The Witch"), and that dealing with them inevitably goes badly!
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The Haunting Hour / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Haunting Hour / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Melvin's father in "Spores". Although he isn't physically abusive, he is emotionally and psychologically abusive towards his family. He guilt-trips everyone else into coming along on his vacation and constantly tries to defend his actions. Jason's father from "Bad Egg" constantly belittles his son and calls him a loser. He eventually gets so fed up with Jason disappointing him that he threatens to ship him off to military school if he so much as screws up one last time. He even cherishes his dog more than his own children. Jeffrey's parents in "The Walls" are revealed to have known about the monster living in their son's walls the whole time, but they kept it a secret and tried to gaslight him so they wouldn't have to share all their good luck coming from the monster with him. That is to say, "sufficient" good luck, as they do tell him if they would receive good luck as would he, but obviously, they much more than he would have and did not want him telling anyone else at risk of ruining the good luck.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b13bb418	type	Alien Among Us
The Haunting Hour / int_b13bb418	comment	Alien Among Us: "Alien Candy" (the Alien Club members), "Sick" (though this is debatable, as the creature that infected Alex is never shown and can be interpreted as a lot of things, like a living cold bacteria or flu virus that just looks alien in appearance), and "Poof de Fromage" (both Jean-Louis and the alien cheese puffs that attack the family).
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The Haunting Hour / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Haunting Hour / int_b53077b3	comment	The titular company from "Really You" is essentially a satire on American Girl, complete with outrageously expensive prices.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b575a2b1	type	Cold Iron
The Haunting Hour / int_b575a2b1	comment	Happens in "Intruders": Lyria the forest fairy acts kind and generous to Eve, but once Eve refuses to hand her brother over for the Fey Folk to sacrifice, in addition to harming Lyria with Cold Iron, the fairy's eyes flash red as she swears to Eve that she will rue the day she defied the Fey. The episode ends with Eve holding her baby brother and looking out the window, where she sees hundreds of red eyes staring back at her from the woods, and the Fair Folk beginning to descend upon her house...
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The Haunting Hour / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
The Haunting Hour / int_b5785433	comment	Inverted. The titular funhouse in "Funhouse" is shown arriving to town in the Cold Open but vanishes, owner and all, without a trace once Chad destroys his pent-up anger.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Haunting Hour / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Steffani in "Wrong Number". When the antagonist almost releases her to freedom after getting an obviously fake apology from her, Steffani insults her despite her friend's warning. She could have just let it go and left while she still could, but for some reason, Steffani just had to throw one more insult toward the old woman anyway. She suffers a Karmic Twist Ending for her trouble. Melvin's family in "Spores" is even worse. The father vacations in a mysterious forest, where a large number of hikers disappeared and is overlooked by a park ranger who everyone describes as a Serial Killer. However, the real problem is a spore cloud that turns everyone into clicker expies. Still, it's his stupidity that causes all the horror in the episode to occur. Both protagonists in "Brush with Madness". They eventually die because they chose not to call the police when they're being threatened by a Mad Artist. Alice's parents in "My Old House". They spend about five minutes hunting for their daughter in their former house. Her mom delivers a tearful monologue about how much she loves Alice...and then they leave. And they don't even bother to search the entire building! Alice herself qualifies for not immediately emerging from her hiding place when she hears her parents talking, stopping to say goodbye to the house (which at this point has clearly demonstrated sentience), and then trying the Just Friends route to a living, breathing building. Come on, Alice. Basically, any protagonist who thinks it's a good idea to confront the Monster of the Week alone could qualify as being a total fool.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b5ac90ac	type	"Groundhog Day" Loop
The Haunting Hour / int_b5ac90ac	comment	"Groundhog Day" Loop: The cursed forest creates this in "Lovecraft's Woods".
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The Haunting Hour / int_b6fe20c0	type	DirectorsCut
The Haunting Hour / int_b6fe20c0	comment	Director's Cut: Two episodes have reran with alternate endings: "Scarecrow": In the original version, the scarecrow salesman turns back to his true form and is burned at his stake by Bobby, who walks off into the empty world. In the director's cut version, the scarecrow salesman turns Bobby into a scarecrow and the two are the only things left in an empty world. The director's cut ending is the ending that now airs in reruns on TV and on Netflix, but, if you comb YouTube or any video site, you might find the original ending. "Spaceman": In the original version, Aaron volunteers to play Spaceman with Ms. Hollinger's dead son as he felt sorry for her loss and Aaron finally had a friend who liked space travel. In the director's cut, the spirit of Ms. Hollinger's son forces his mother to make Aaron his new friend. Aaron tries to escape, but ends up locked in his room. Ms. Hollinger's line, "I'll leave you two spacemen alone" goes from being sweet and part of the game to being bitter and spiteful. "Spaceman" also has an extra scene where the voice over the helmet explains to Aaron that his helmet has advanced technology, which is why he can hear him, despite the helmet not having batteries in it.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Haunting Hour / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: The titular Uncle Howee likes to teach kids about proper grammar and discourages slang, but the crux of his Theme Tune's lyrics is his Punny Name (a play on "Howie" and an abbreviation of "How are we").
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The Haunting Hour / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Haunting Hour / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Jared, from "Uncle Howee", is transformed into a giant marionette on the Uncle Howee Show, where it's implied that he'll be a smiling, vapid character on the program forever.
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The Haunting Hour / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Haunting Hour / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Gooch and Kelly from "Game Over". "Detention" has Kate, Audrey, and Halftime. Although Subverted when Halftime's real name is revealed to be Henry.
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The Haunting Hour / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Haunting Hour / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: The Benefactor and his cult from "Checking Out" despise children so much that they kill them and brainwash their parents into joining them on their sick crusade to remove even more.
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The Haunting Hour / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Haunting Hour / int_bc103f8b	comment	"Detention" has Kate, Audrey, and Halftime. Although Subverted when Halftime's real name is revealed to be Henry.
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The Haunting Hour / int_bd8b2b0b	type	To Serve Man
The Haunting Hour / int_bd8b2b0b	comment	To Serve Man: The aliens in "Alien Candy".
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The Haunting Hour / int_be0ad6b7	type	Used to Be a Sweet Kid
The Haunting Hour / int_be0ad6b7	comment	Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Lilly in "Really You." According to her brother, "[she] used to be cute", until her father's constant showering of gifts made her a Spoiled Brat. The ending, however, implies that she'll get better. Eve in Intruders is also implied to have been this. Her parents, particularly her father, try to rein in her attitude and bond with her.
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The Haunting Hour / int_be30f1a6	type	Clownification
The Haunting Hour / int_be30f1a6	comment	Clownification: In "Afraid of Clowns", Chris decides to try to get over his fear of clowns by going to the circus, but the evil clowns trap him in a jack-in-the-box. When he escapes, he's dressed in clown getup and he unsuccessfully tries to take it off. His parents reveal to him that clowns are an actual species of humanoids and that they've always been clowns. To Chris's horror, he's stuck as a clown forever.
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The Haunting Hour / int_be445584	type	Act of True Love
The Haunting Hour / int_be445584	comment	Act of True Love: Eric must perform one to save Hanna from the mirror, as only those who truly love someone can make take them with them across Mary's tear-soaked river back to the real world.
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The Haunting Hour / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Haunting Hour / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The ending of "Sick". What was the fever dream and what wasn't?
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The Haunting Hour / int_bf110089	type	Break Them by Talking
The Haunting Hour / int_bf110089	comment	Break Them by Talking: This is how Ethan defeats Mad Dog McCoy in "Coat Rack Cowboy," by telling him of all the lives he ruined with his outlaw ways (even though most of what Ethan said were lies, though there could be some truth to it, given the fact that Mad Dog never cared about the lives he affected with his outlaw ways until Ethan said so. He most likely was stalling, but when he saw that Mad Dog McCoy was beginning to lose his nerve, he ran with it).
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The Haunting Hour / int_bf64a255	type	Rock Me, Asmodeus!
The Haunting Hour / int_bf64a255	comment	Rock Me, Asmodeus!: "Long Live Rock and Roll (AKA Doom Metal)" involves a rock contest between the devil (or at least a being that is heavily implied to be the devil) and a teenage garage band.
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The Haunting Hour / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
The Haunting Hour / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: The Cruel Twist Ending of "My Old House."
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The Haunting Hour / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
The Haunting Hour / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: In "Uncle Howee," Jared takes it in a little too well that a fictional children's show host has come to life outside the TV, broken into his house, abducted his sister, and is threatening his life while holding him hostage. In "My Old House," Alice looks a lot less intimidated than she should be upon seeing the house's true demonic form readying to kill her. Though, her screams definitely make up for it. In "Intruders," Eve doesn't look as frightened as she should be when she notices the army of evil fairies charging up at her front door.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Haunting Hour / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: The Uncle Howee Show on the episode "Uncle Howee." "Near Mint Condition" also mentions a 1980s cartoon called Robo-Bears that introduced the Mangler character in the show's second season, but the only evidence viewers see of the show is the toy commercial for Mangler.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c250346f	type	Generic Doomsday Villain
The Haunting Hour / int_c250346f	comment	Generic Doomsday Villain: Quite a number of the monsters on this show can come across as this if they have no character or real motive for doing the villainous things they do. The Alp from "Red Eye" is a shadow demon that has the ability to insert itself within photos, send threatening letters capable of altering themselves, haunt Georgia's nightmares, turn into a specter, and can possess human beings. However, we have no clue how it exists, what its motivation is, or why it's even bothering with stalking a random little girl and her father. "Scarecrow" features a literal one through the titular scarecrow. The monster wants to wipe out all life on the planet and bring an end to the world, but we don't know exactly why it wants to bring death to everything. The pumpkinheads like to decapitate random people and replace their heads with pumpkins in order to generate more pumpkin people, but their end goal to why they're doing this is never brought up at all and we get zero explanation on how Farmer Palmer was capable of bringing them into this world outside of him being evil.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Haunting Hour / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: The ending to Really You Part 2.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
The Haunting Hour / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: Cassandra Hobbes (the photographer from "Headshot") and Sir Maestro (the rocker-turned-music store owner from "Long Live Rock and Roll"). Justified, as both of these stories are Deal with the Devil stories, as well as commentary on how easily people give up what really matters to them in the name of fame. The trope is also played with in the two episodes. "Long Live Rock 'n Roll"'s protagonist, Holden, is outright told this by Maestro ("I've had many names over the span of many years, but, lately, I go by, 'Sir Maestro'"), and later confirms it when he tells Holden that he's been collecting the souls of anyone who wanted power, not just musicians or even creative people. In "Headshot," it's Lexi, not Gracie, who discovers that Cassandra is the Devil (Cassandra answers Lexi's question of "What are you?" with "Haven't you already guessed?" before her face transforms into a screeching demon. Additionally, Cassandra reveals to Lexi that, while she does steal souls and offer encouragement to be evil, she doesn't warp her victims to be evil, as the girls who don't get rid of their headshots have already proven their true nature, which fits the Devil's traditional portrayal as one who tempts people into evil). Unfortunately, that means that only Gracie can reverse the effects of her deal with her—when Lexi tries to save her friend, it's already too late as Gracie needed to make the choice herself.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Haunting Hour / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: A lot of the protagonists fail to see that the people they trust are Evil All Along or more powerful than them. These kind of characters don't last long against the villains.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c66cb5a9	type	Human Sacrifice
The Haunting Hour / int_c66cb5a9	comment	Human Sacrifice: Implied to be what the Fair Folk wanted to do to Eve's baby brother in Intruders. Anyone familiar with the ballad "Tam Lin" would know that the sacrifice is meant to be a tithe to Hell.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Haunting Hour / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The titular company from "Really You" is essentially a satire on American Girl, complete with outrageously expensive prices. Loomis sounds almost identical to the Disney version of the Mad Hatter. The retirement home in Grampires has a sign saying "For the Twilight of your life" In Mascot, someone wakes up to find a horse head in their bed.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
The Haunting Hour / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Inverted. The titular funhouse in "Funhouse" is shown arriving to town in the Cold Open but vanishes, owner and all, without a trace once Chad destroys his pent-up anger. Played straight with "The Raven's Chest" in "The Red Dress". Played with in "Long Live Rock and Roll." The music store has always been there, but the owner (Sir Maestro) wasn't.
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The Haunting Hour / int_c9848555	type	Taken During the Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_c9848555	comment	Taken During the Ending: In Season 1 "A Creature Was Stirring", Timmy and his family have to deal with a Krampus-like monster that's terrorizing them on Christmas. After the monster burns their house to the ground and the family are able to escape, they're just happy that they're all together. At the end of the episode, later that night, a SUV-limo drives up to the burned house and the window rolls down to reveal Santa Claus. He summons the monster back to him and drops a letter on the ground from Timmy, who wished his family would get along again. It's revealed Santa granted his wish by sending the monster to terrorize the family into doing so. In Season 1 "Game Over", Kelly and his friends are pulled into a video game and must beat the final boss, the Game Master, to escape. After they beat the Game Master, Kelly ends up becoming the new Game Master and he's trapped in the video game while his friends are free to leave and he can only leave when someone else beats him. The episode ends with an unnamed boy playing the same video game, where a hand pulls him into the game when he accepts the Game Master's challenge. In Season 1 "Catching Cold", Marty tries to catch the Kreemy Kold ice cream truck so he can eat more of its ice cream and finally stops it using spike strip to pop its tires. After entering the ice cream truck, he meets an adult man named Jimmy Jefferies, who was also obsessed with catching the truck when he was a kid and reveals he was trapped inside it for 30 years and has been waiting for someone else to catch the truck so he can finally leave. After Jimmy leaves the truck, the truck traps Marty inside, re-inflates its popped tires, and drives off with Marty trapped inside until the next kid tries to catch it again.
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The Haunting Hour / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Haunting Hour / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In "The Cast", it's never really confirmed whether the cat lady is actually cursing Lex or Lex's guilt is causing him to hallucinate.
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The Haunting Hour / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Haunting Hour / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The slimy creature in the episode "Sick" is hardly seen in-view, which makes it seem scarier. The same goes for the monster in "The Girl in the Painting." The ending of "Intruders". Hundreds of red eyes staring out from the woods is all we see of the Fair Folk. The ending of "My Old House". Alice became absorbed into the house and ended up as a facial imprint on the wall with the strong implication that the building will kill another girl moving in.
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The Haunting Hour / int_cf48c17	comment	Nightmare Face: "Headshot", first when Cassandra reveals her true nature, and then in the ending, when Gracie is doomed to have a horrendously disfigured face for all eternity. In "Funhouse," Chad's addiction to anger warps half of his face into a twisted, monstrous leer that never moves. It's implied that if he keeps on indulging his worst impulses, he'll transform completely and permanently. In "My Old House", what's left of Alice is shown mounted on the wall by the house.
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The Haunting Hour / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
The Haunting Hour / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: Everything that went wrong during Hansel and Gretel: The Musical on Stage Fright
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The Haunting Hour / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Haunting Hour / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Delivered by a character named Cassandra, no less! In "Headshot," Lexi confronts photographer Cassandra and demands that she undo whatever dark magic she's placed on Gracie. Cassandra flat-out tells Lexi that she hasn't done anything to corrupt her friend's soul; rather, Gracie was always a cruel, petty person despite her nice demeanor (otherwise, she would have either deleted the headshot or turned down Cassandra's offer to have her photo taken), and the magazine photoshoot contest simply provided an opportunity to let her true colors show. True to this trope, Lexi refuses to believe Cassandra and tries to save Gracie herself. It doesn't end well. As the ending narration revealed: "But the choice wasn't mine to make. It was Gracie's and Gracie's alone."
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The Haunting Hour / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Haunting Hour / int_cfc52d52	comment	Lilly in "Really You." According to her brother, "[she] used to be cute", until her father's constant showering of gifts made her a Spoiled Brat. The ending, however, implies that she'll get better.
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The Haunting Hour / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Haunting Hour / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: The Cruel Twist Ending has the ghost of Cyrus proving to be Real After All and demanding one of the kids provide him with a new leg, showing off his hatchet to prepare for surgery. The majority of "I'm Not Martin" revolves around a kid attempting to escape a hospital that wants to hack off his foot.
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The Haunting Hour / int_d0f0a80d	type	One-Word Title
The Haunting Hour / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: A few of the episodes, such as "Intruders", "Mascot", and "Spores".
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The Haunting Hour / int_d1673f5c	type	Bad Humor Truck
The Haunting Hour / int_d1673f5c	comment	Bad Humor Truck: In "Catching Cold", the ice cream truck that Marty tries to catch is run on the souls of those obsessed with ice cream and was behind the disappearance of a child who, like Marty, was obsessed with ice cream and tracking down the Kreamy Kold truck so he can get his fill.
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The Haunting Hour / int_d1da2c36	type	Played for Drama
The Haunting Hour / int_d1da2c36	comment	Also Played for Drama in "Goodwill Toward Men", where Missy and her family are cursed to become poor and homeless thanks to the angel statue she received, even though, unlike her parents and older brother, Missy actually cares about the less fortunate (even when she herself is in the same boat as the homeless people). She ends up in a new reality where the gardener, his wife, and his son are the rich family and have Missy as their daughter/sister, while her former selfish, money-grubbing family are the hired help with no memory of ever having a daughter/sister.
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The Haunting Hour / int_d1fb97a	type	School Club Front
The Haunting Hour / int_d1fb97a	comment	School Club Front: The episode "Alien Candy" features the alien club, which is for actual aliens planning to take over the school instead of sci-fi fans, as the club advertised.
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The Haunting Hour / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Haunting Hour / int_d397657d	comment	The show wasn't afraid of showing or mentioning kids dying. To name a few examples, "The Black Mask" had the visions of the three main characters dying allegedly at the hands of the handyman trying to fix the basement, the twist in "Detention" revealed that Audrey accidentally killed Kate the homecoming queen and Halftime the star football player by throwing a smoke bomb under a parade float, but also herself because the float went out of control and she was in its path when it swerved off the roadnote though this might not count, since Audrey and Kate apologizing for their actions led to the entire detention/stay in limbo being erased, Alex in "Sick" was obliterated in a house explosion to get rid of the creature that made him sick (maybe), and Will was killed by Jake in "The Dead Body."
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The Haunting Hour / int_d42fb539	type	Our Monsters Are Weird
The Haunting Hour / int_d42fb539	comment	Our Monsters Are Weird: For starters, Big Yellow from Mascot. He only looks like someone dressed in a crappy costume and can remove his head just like one. Some of which are based on actual monsters from different world mythologies, such as the Alp (from German folklore) in "Red Eye," the Krampus (from Bavarian German, Austrian, and Eastern European folklore) in "A Creature Was Stirring," the Nanaue (from Hawaiian and Polynesian folklore) in "Pool Shark," La Llorona (from Hispanic folklore, particularly Mexican) in "The Weeping Woman," the Golem (from Jewish folklore) in "The Golem," and a leprechaun (from Celtic/Irish folklore) in "Lotsa Luck".
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The Haunting Hour / int_d782bd52	type	Equivalent Exchange
The Haunting Hour / int_d782bd52	comment	Equivalent Exchange: This is how leprechaun magic works in "Lotsa Luck." Any wish that is granted comes at a price. For instance, protagonist Greg wishes to be lucky; Seamus, the leprechaun who he catches, gives him incredible luck, but gives Greg's father horrible luck as a trade (he gets fired from his job and breaks his hand while fixing his car).
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The Haunting Hour / int_d9c4365c	type	Reset Button
The Haunting Hour / int_d9c4365c	comment	"Lotsa Luck": Greg uses his third wish to wish he had never met Seamus the leprechaun, thinking that this was the wish his great-great-grandfather Daniel made to save his soul. Seamus comes for Greg anyway and reveals that wishing for everything to turn back to normal wasn't the wish that defeated him; rather, Daniel wished to keep his own soul in exchange for that of his next-born male descendant.
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The Haunting Hour / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Haunting Hour / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: As an Entertainment Weekly review pointed out, it takes Melvin and his family at least three days to reach the top of Lookout Point in "Spores." Yet in the ending, Melvin (who's stated in the episode to be the slowest member of the family) somehow manages to make it back to the beginning of the trail in what seems like less than an hour.
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The Haunting Hour / int_daecc607	type	BigSisterBully
The Haunting Hour / int_daecc607	comment	Molly from "Mrs. Worthington" is another Big Sister Bully, tormenting her little brother and deliberately getting him into trouble for no particular reason—that is, until the titular babysitter shows up...
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The Haunting Hour / int_dbea19b0	type	LivingToy
The Haunting Hour / int_dbea19b0	comment	Living Toy: Really You, The Return of Lilly D, Toy Train, Worry Dolls, My Robot (if you want to include electronics as toys), and Near Mint Condition (which has a blue, cyborg teddy bear named Mangler who was recalled for hurting and killing children).
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The Haunting Hour / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
The Haunting Hour / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Pumpkinhead changes the name of the little brother from Mike to Scott.
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The Haunting Hour / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
The Haunting Hour / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: The eponymous protagonist of "Swarmin' Norman" becomes this when he realizes that he can control bugs, but it comes back to bite him when he crushes some bugs and they retaliate by eating him alive in bed.
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The Haunting Hour / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
The Haunting Hour / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Cupid in "Terrible Love": He's well-meaning, but he's obligated by ancient laws to do anything asked of him, even when he knows it isn't in the best interest of the one asking.
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The Haunting Hour / int_dd608032	type	Hell Hotel
The Haunting Hour / int_dd608032	comment	Hell Hotel: Subverted. The Nightmare Inn isn't awful. The werewolves running it, however, are. "Checking Out" plays it straight with a hotel run by a cult of adults who brainwash adults who come in with children into hating their children so they can sacrifice them to The Benefactor (a painting with a white void in the back of it).
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The Haunting Hour / int_dfa1ee91	type	Changeling Tale
The Haunting Hour / int_dfa1ee91	comment	Changeling Tale: Intruders.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e040c8f	type	Romantic Comedy
The Haunting Hour / int_e040c8f	comment	Some episodes are more comedy-horror than straight horror. "Terrible Love" plays out like a supernatural, romantic Black Comedy, "Best Friends Forever" and "Bad Egg" parody the sitcom story of "Kid keeps a pet in the house under wraps from his parents who forbid him from having a pet", "Uncle Howee" is more of a Black Comedy with scary elements and social commentary about how television is too often used as a babysitter, and "Near Mint Condition" is a satire against obsessive toy collectors, 1980s nostalgia, and online auction addicts.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
The Haunting Hour / int_e0c470a1	comment	At the beginning of "Uncle Howee", the title character just seems to be a loud kiddy show host that Cynthia, Jared's little sister, likes. Then, after Jared turns off the TV, Cynthia clicks it back on, and we very quickly learn that Uncle Howee's more than he appears...
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The Haunting Hour / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Haunting Hour / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: In "Bad Feng Shui," Mrs. Cheng hears Jessica sobbing as the snake demon tries to attack her, and immediately flies into action. This is particularly notable since she's already been kidnapped by the demon—but her love is so strong that she reaches across time and space to overcome the demon and give Jessica the clue she needs to defeat it. In "Grandpa's Glasses," Bo's mother wastes no time in trying to save her son from the vengeful spirit haunting her childhood home, going as far as to grab an ax from a woodpile and start chopping down the door that's separating them.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e47e0eb	type	Scary Scarecrows
The Haunting Hour / int_e47e0eb	comment	Scary Scarecrows: In "Scarecrow", a young farmer named Jenny has trouble ridding her crops of crows, so she buys a scarecrow from a mysterious salesman. Jenny soon discovers that the scarecrow is behind a chain of mysterious disappearances.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
The Haunting Hour / int_e50987a9	comment	"Best Friends Forever," "A Creature Was Stirring" (the first episode with this trope that has a more-or-less happy ending as Timmy's parents decide not to divorce after losing their house to the Krampus as the children need love and support from both of them while they try to find a new place to live), "Headshot," "The Red Dress," "The Girl in the Painting," "Terrible Love," "Worry Dolls," "Long Live Rock and Roll" (another episode that has a happy ending as Holden defeated Sir Maestro in the guitar duel and was able to save his friends), and "Mrs. Worthington" (another episode with a more-or-less happy ending as, while Nate and his sister begin to be more civil towards each other, they don't notice that Mrs. Worthington's hand is still in the attic and has drawn herself so she can come back to life).
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The Haunting Hour / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Haunting Hour / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Missy does this to her parents and brother in "Goodwill Toward Men" when, after the angel curses them to live like the less fortunate, they continue to act selfishly and refuse to help the other homeless people they are staying with. She points out that they have never truly known what it's like to be cold, hungry, or in pain nor have they been in a situation where their wealth and connections couldn't bail them out.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Haunting Hour / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: As obvious as it sounds, the title character in Fear Never Knocks seems to be one for Freddy Krueger (it would explain the whole "worst fears coming to life" premise of the story). Sir Maestro from "Long Live Rock 'n Roll" looks and sounds like Keith Richards from The Rolling Stones, though the top hat is more on par with either Tom Petty back in the 1970s or Slash from Guns 'n Roses. Alan Miller from "Brush with Madness" is a mash-up of real-life graphic novelists Alan Moore (best known for V for Vendetta, Watchmen, and From Hell) and Frank Miller (best known for Sin City, 300, and The Dark Knight Returns). Uncle Howee (from the episode of the same name) seems to be a mix of Captain Kangaroo and Pee-Wee Herman if either of them dressed as an old-timey carnival barker. The fungal mutants in "Spores" are obviously the clickers (except the other way around).
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The Haunting Hour / int_e545d293	type	Narm
The Haunting Hour / int_e545d293	comment	The series itself is Goosebumps if the stories were darker and a little less Narmy (though "Le Poof de Fromage" played out like something R.L. Stine would have written in his Goosebumps and Ghosts of Fear Street daysnote which he did in the form of the Ghost of Fear Street book, "Body Switchers from Outer Space").
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The Haunting Hour / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
The Haunting Hour / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Expect this trope to appear a lot in a show well known for its villains, especially if they're bullies. Steffani Howard from "Wrong Number" is a sadistic bully who thinks she's better than everyone and treats others poorly for a cheap laugh. It's made very clear that she's a Villain Protagonist. Meg from "Dreamcatcher" is a sociopathic, self-entitled brat who picks on Lisa and her former best friend Amelia for fun. It makes her death at the claws of the dream catcher all the better. Jared from "Uncle Howee" is a coldhearted Big Brother Bully who's willing to abandon his little sister to go hang out with his friends. However, when Uncle Howee decides to treat him a lesson about being kind, he still refuses to respect him even though he's freaking out over his sister's disappearance. Cameron from "Pool Shark" is a Jerk Jock who feels entitled to his student's love and picks on Kai for his crippling phobia of sharks.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Haunting Hour / int_e71db2e	comment	Depraved Kids' Show Host: Uncle Howee, from the episode of the same name. Downplayed in that he's not a criminal or sexual deviant (or real, if you believe that Uncle Howee is an interdimensional being, a living cartoon character, Cynthia's imaginary friend, or the ghost of a long-dead children's entertainer whose show — and, by proxy, his spirit — lives on in syndication), he actually likes his kid fans (especially Cynthia, who truly believes that he's real and her friend), and he's more a Karmic Trickster who uses his powers for good.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e794cb54	type	Powered by a Forsaken Child
The Haunting Hour / int_e794cb54	comment	Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Kreamy Kold truck in Catching Cold.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Haunting Hour / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In "Uncle Howee", the titular character is a Large Ham extraordinaire, making horrible jokes and doing silly accents even when tormenting Jared. That's perfectly understandable for a kiddie show host...but when he gets quiet and serious, that's when you're in big trouble.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e8491efa	type	Don't Fear the Reaper
The Haunting Hour / int_e8491efa	comment	Don't Fear the Reaper: In "Flight", The Grim Reaper takes the form of a nice old lady and is good-natured, but still has a job to do and will kill everyone on-board an airplane if the spirit doesn't come with her. Gabe/Mr. Kane/the Janitor from "Detention" isn't exactly the Grim Reaper, but an analogous figure who guides people after their death. In "Dead Bodies", Death takes Jake Skinner to Hell and brings back to life Will, who was sacrificed by Jake to prolong his own.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
The Haunting Hour / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: Ranger Jackson in Spores.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
The Haunting Hour / int_e9604359	comment	Basically, any protagonist who thinks it's a good idea to confront the Monster of the Week alone could qualify as being a total fool.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Haunting Hour / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Uncle Howee has Jared be his friend to see his sister again. Turns out Jared will see his sister whenever she watches the Uncle Howee Show since Jared has become one of his new puppets. In "Game Over," the game master tells Kelly that he can choose any weapon he likes for the final battle. Kelly chooses his friends, who had sacrificed themselves earlier, bringing them back to life—after all, they're something he can use to cause damage against the boss.
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The Haunting Hour / int_e9fb38	type	The Talk
The Haunting Hour / int_e9fb38	comment	The Talk: Subverted in "Afraid of Clowns." Chris's father tries to have a conversation with his son about how, on his thirteenth birthday, his body might start going through some changes. It's eventually revealed that Chris's father didn't mean puberty—he meant that Chris would be turning into a clown on that day.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Haunting Hour / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: "Sick" (though this was possibly subverted when Alex sees the morning news-show hosts telling him that he wasn't dreaming at all and he's also about to die). Same thing with "I'm Not Martin," only the one thing that turned out to be true was Martin's roommate targeting him for his foot to replace the one that got removed.
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The Haunting Hour / int_eb002293	type	Shrinking Violet
The Haunting Hour / int_eb002293	comment	Shrinking Violet: Cruelly subverted with Gracie in "Headshot". She may seem nice at first, but with a little push, she becomes who she really is. Alice in "My Old House" is a downplayed example. She has no friends, a lack of social skills, and believes that her only true friend in the world is her house. When the house is proven to really be alive, she immediately accepts the idea of being alone with it forever. Which makes the Cruel Twist Ending all the more harsher when the House exposes itself as a Yandere.
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The Haunting Hour / int_eb37fe59	type	Sequel Episode
The Haunting Hour / int_eb37fe59	comment	Sequel Episode: "Return of Lilly D" ("Really You"), "Dead Bodies" ("The Dead Body"), and "Return of the Pumpkinheads" ("Pumpkinheads").
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The Haunting Hour / int_eb6ed797	type	Children Raise You
The Haunting Hour / int_eb6ed797	comment	Sam in "Argh V," especially since she has to deal with her parents who act more like children than she does.
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The Haunting Hour / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Haunting Hour / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Missy's parents and brother in "Goodwill Toward Men", only they're more jerkass than victim. With Missy herself, it's the other way around (more victim than jerkass).
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The Haunting Hour / int_ec0bf4a1	type	Take Over the World
The Haunting Hour / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: Strongly hinted to be Fear's end goal in "Fear Never Knocks" due to him needing the magic box to both enhance his nightmare powers and make sure that nobody else uses it to stop him. Possibly the twist ending of "Swarmin' Norman" after Manny and the other insects turn against Norman and mankind. "Le Poof de Fromage" ends with an all out alien invasion.
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The Haunting Hour / int_ecf510f4	type	Puberty Superpower
The Haunting Hour / int_ecf510f4	comment	Puberty Superpower: Eve's fairy powers in "Intruders" are presented as this.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f01a54f1	comment	Evil Feels Good: In "Funhouse," Chad is encouraged to let out his anger by taking a mallet to a display featuring an arguing mannequin family. Initially, Chad feels great that he's unleashing his anger, but soon he gets hooked on it, and the anger begins warping his personality and his appearance. The only way out is to destroy the mirror that reflects what he's become.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f1e6402d	comment	Suddenly Speaking: The House can talk at the end of "My Old House".
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The Haunting Hour / int_f3d5d15f	comment	"Swarmin' Norman". The main character is relentlessly picked on by bullies, and when he discovers he has godlike powers over bugs, he uses them to get his revenge. Fair enough, but when Norman now proclaims he could crush the bully "like a bug" whenever he wanted to, he actually crushes several bugs just to make that point. The other kids seem afraid of him the next day, suggesting that they're worried he'll sic the bugs on them too, and he becomes verbally abusive to the bugs he once loved. The bugs turn on Norman in response and swarm him, and it's implied that, because of what he did, the world is going to be overrun by them.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Haunting Hour / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Literally every kid, even the little little kids in this series, have smartphones. When a 10-year-old starts blathering on about getting her new life-sized plastic doll a "matching cell phone with a real phone number", it somehow isn't as disgusting as it should be, considering the prevelance of smartphones in everyone's hands.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f51c5f3c	type	Never Say "Die"
The Haunting Hour / int_f51c5f3c	comment	Never Say "Die": Averted in "Stage Fright". Sam tells the witch not to kill them. Also averted in "Terrible Love" when Maggie tells Cupid that Brendon (who has been driven mad with a hyper-dose of the hormones associated with feeling love) is going to kill her after her botched attempt at breaking up with him. She probably didn't mean it literally, but considering his Yandere behavior, it's safe to say that she was right. The show wasn't afraid of showing or mentioning kids dying. To name a few examples, "The Black Mask" had the visions of the three main characters dying allegedly at the hands of the handyman trying to fix the basement, the twist in "Detention" revealed that Audrey accidentally killed Kate the homecoming queen and Halftime the star football player by throwing a smoke bomb under a parade float, but also herself because the float went out of control and she was in its path when it swerved off the roadnote though this might not count, since Audrey and Kate apologizing for their actions led to the entire detention/stay in limbo being erased, Alex in "Sick" was obliterated in a house explosion to get rid of the creature that made him sick (maybe), and Will was killed by Jake in "The Dead Body." Season four is even more explicit with this trope: "Near Mint Condition" notes that several children have been killed by Mangler the Robo-Bear (including the original owner of one of the few remaining Mangler bears left in the world after the recall, as mentioned by that owner's mentally-unstable sister, who was obviously affected by his death and the fact that he was a toy-collecting geek who wasted his life), while "Argh V" goes a step further by actually showing the Applebaum children — who look about eight and six at the oldest — as zombies.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
The Haunting Hour / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: If an episode has a happy ending, chances are the main characters are going to have to go through hell to get it (cf. "Really You," "Game Over"note in that Kell-Raiser learns that his friends are worth more than being the best at a video game. Sadly, he doesn't return to the real world with them, as he won the video game and is forced to be the new game master until another player defeats him, which could take forever, depending on how good the next player is "Bad Feng Shui," "Flight," the original cut of "Spaceman," "Creature Feature," "The Golem," "Grampires," "The Weeping Woman," "Checking Out," "Detention," "Funhouse," "Coat Rack Cowboy," "Dead Bodies," "Toy Train," "Grandpa's Glasses," and "Goodwill Toward Men").
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The Haunting Hour / int_f788b2c5	type	Love Makes You Evil
The Haunting Hour / int_f788b2c5	comment	Love Makes You Evil: The House in "My Old House" killed/captured Alice because it didn't react well to the Just Friends line. Now it has her...forever.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f82b1ad	type	Enemies with Death
The Haunting Hour / int_f82b1ad	comment	Enemies with Death: Jake Skinner, due to cheating it. Death is not happy and comes back with a vengeance.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f8fe0279	comment	Impossibly Delicious Food: Kreamy Kold Ice Cream in "Catching Cold". One taste is enough to cause a boy to become obsessed with intercepting the Bad Humor Truck that supplied it. He even spits out normal ice cream, claiming it is as hamburger compared to world's best steak compared to Kreamy Kold.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f96f8980	type	Love Makes You Crazy
The Haunting Hour / int_f96f8980	comment	Love Makes You Crazy: What happens when Cupid hits the same target twice, as seen in "Terrible Love". See below as to why that happens.
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The Haunting Hour / int_f9fc071	type	My Little Panzer
The Haunting Hour / int_f9fc071	comment	My Little Panzer: Mangler the robot teddy bear from "Near Mint Condition." In the 1980s, the Mangler bear was part of a toy line from a Merchandise-Driven action cartoon, but parents complained that the toy was causing accidents and deaths, and public pressure led to it being recalled. There are seven left in the world and are considered high-priced collector's items.
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The Haunting Hour / int_fb724048	comment	"Nightmare Inn" reveals that everything the protagonist suffered was real.
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The Haunting Hour / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
The Haunting Hour / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: In "My Old House", the titular building reveals its true form by ripping its wires and pipes out of the walls to form a blood red snake. Downplayed in "Intruders", with an extra dose of Nothing Is Scarier thrown in for good measure. Lyria, when angered, has her eyes turn bright red while cursing Eve. In the end, hundreds of red eyes are shown looking out from the forest, and it's implied that the Fair Folk have assumed more monstrous forms to confront Eve with. This is foreshadowed during the episode's climax, where Lyria ominously warns Eve that the Fair Folk aren't just "dancing lights and pretty flowers."
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The Haunting Hour / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Haunting Hour / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Natalie in "The Return of Lilly D." She takes care of injured animals and fixes up the titular doll when she finds some boys dragging it around with their bikes. When Lilly D. tries to drown the bird Natalie found and pushes her wheelchair-bound grandfather down the stairs, Natalie decides to kill her.
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The Haunting Hour / int_fd1b902c	comment	Non-Malicious Monster: The eponymous dolls of "Worry Dolls" are honestly just trying to help resolve Jordana's worries...thing is, they tend to go overboard with it (getting rid of the housekeeper, making her parents psychotically obsessed with spending time with her, destroying a precious violin, etc.)
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The Haunting Hour / int_fd752bc3	comment	All Trolls Are Different: "The Most Evil Sorcerer" features a troll in the woods, and trolls are listed along with dwarfs as enemies of the Fey Folk in "Intruders".
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