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The Trap Door

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The Trap Door	type	TVTItem
The Trap Door	label	The Trap Door
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The Trap Door	comment	The Trap Door was a British Claymation show that first aired in 1984. The show is set in a Haunted Castle owned by an unseen creature known only as the Thing Upstairs. The main character is this creature's servant, a blue blob named Berk, who lives in the castle's lower floors and does his master's bidding, such as tidying up and cooking his various disgusting meals. Living with Berk is his pet spider-like bug named Drutt, and a snarky talking skull named Boni who is constantly annoyed, mostly due to being unable to move on his own power.The titular trapdoor is a big wooden trap door in the castle's lower floors leading to a massive underground cave system full of monsters. At least once an episode the trap door opens up and releases a monster for Berk and his friends to deal with as it causes chaos around the castle. Typically they manage to get rid of the monster by the end of the episode, but they have befriended one, a big dim-witted red monster named Rogg, who regularly pops out of the trap door to visit. All the characters — except Drutt, who is instead voiced by Nick Shipley — are voiced by comedian Willie Rushton.The show's creators, CMTB Animation and Queensgate Productions, later made Stoppit and Tidyup and Bump.
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The Trap Door / int_12e8e69b	type	Jekyll & Hyde
The Trap Door / int_12e8e69b	comment	Jekyll & Hyde: One episode's titular "Nasty stuff" unleashes the three main characters' Evil Twin.
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The Trap Door / int_13eea985	type	Arbitrary Skepticism
The Trap Door / int_13eea985	comment	Arbitrary Skepticism: In episode 6, Boni tries to warn Berk that what to the audience is obviously a giant spider just crawled out of The Trap Door, but Berk things he's "just 'avin [him] on."
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The Trap Door / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
The Trap Door / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: In "The Thingy" Berk nails a board over the Trap Door, and tells Boni that this way he'll never have to deal with strange things escaping and bothering him. Just as he's finished talking, the Monster of the Week bursts out.
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The Trap Door / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Trap Door / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: "The Thingy" has the titular monster zap zap Berk and Drutt, changing their sizes and shapes. Boni expresses relief it hasn't zapped him yet. Guess what happens next.
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The Trap Door / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
The Trap Door / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: 'Im Upstairs, who is never seen on-screen, but is always present with his loud, booming voice. A few episodes hint at what he looks like — including a giant eyeball, the sound of wings beating as he returns home from a trip, and most notably a briefly-illuminated sickly yellow mass that's either a bunch of amorphous tentacles or VERY lumpy skin in "The Little Thing". His eyes appear to be detachable, and on separate occasions we get to see both a tooth and an eye of his, both of which are about the size of Berk himself. We're also told that he has Extra Eyes, multiple heads, and "various nostrils".
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The Trap Door / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Trap Door / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of the episode "Don't Open That Trap Door", Berk wonders if they'll play the song they heard on the radio (the show's theme song) again. Cue the end credits, which plays that exact song.
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The Trap Door / int_20314beb	type	Cousin Oliver
The Trap Door / int_20314beb	comment	Cousin Oliver: Drutt had babies that became regular characters.
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The Trap Door / int_233da103	type	Cordon Bleugh Chef
The Trap Door / int_233da103	comment	Cordon Bleugh Chef: Berk often cooks with such ingredients as live worms, bugs, eyeballs and other gross things. Justified, since he's cooking for a monster. Taken to extremes in the first episode when a yellow monster emerges from the trap door and eats Berk's carefully prepared dinner. Berk improvises and serves Yellow Monster Surprisenote As in, shoving the bloated, still-living monster into the dumbwaiter and sending it up. instead. The thing congratulated him on the texture.
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The Trap Door / int_23b059ec	type	Bedsheet Ghost
The Trap Door / int_23b059ec	comment	Bedsheet Ghost: Berk gets haunted by loads of these in 'Boo!'
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The Trap Door / int_281f09d0	type	Defanged Horrors
The Trap Door / int_281f09d0	comment	Defanged Horrors: Some monsters, like Rogg, can be quite nice.
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The Trap Door / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
The Trap Door / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Berk's master, the Thing Upstairs. While the opening narration claims he's nothing compared to what's lurking under the Trap Door, the end of "Don't You Open That Trap Door" shows all the aforementioned things fleeing when 'Im Upstairs bellows about the noise.
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The Trap Door / int_3270a3d7	type	Low Culture, High Tech
The Trap Door / int_3270a3d7	comment	Low Culture, High Tech: Berk lives in an actual stone castle, and addresses Him Upstairs in terms that imply the latter is actual Feudal Nobility. And yet, in one episode Berk comes across a radio while digging through the cupboard (while Berk doesn't know what it is at first, Boni explains it to him in terms that suggest it's a normal, if uncommon and recently developed, household item rather than some sort of "artifact from the future").
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The Trap Door / int_380faa43	type	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant
The Trap Door / int_380faa43	comment	Your Tomcat Is Pregnant: Drutt has babies. They still refer to them with male pronouns.
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The Trap Door / int_3b451101	type	Leaking Can of Evil
The Trap Door / int_3b451101	comment	Leaking Can of Evil: The Trap Door is all that stands between the castle and an underground cavern of weird monsters. A trap door that is never locked, mind you.
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The Trap Door / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
The Trap Door / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Berk often addresses the kids directly. Boni sometimes explains what's going on at an episode's beginning, 'Allo 'Allo! style.
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The Trap Door / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
The Trap Door / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Berk lives in an actual stone castle under what is implied to be an actual feudal noble, and yet said castle contains a fully functional radio, which is treated as a normal, if uncommon and recently developed, household object.
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The Trap Door / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Trap Door / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Berk, for as much as he complains and snarks at them while trying to do his job, does legitimately care about Boni, Drutt and Rogg.
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The Trap Door / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
The Trap Door / int_48081842	comment	The Stinger: In both season finales to undo any changes they have done.
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The Trap Door / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Trap Door / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: At the end of the episode "Don't You Open That Trap Door", in which Berk finds a radio that plays the theme tune, he wonders if they'll play it again. Cue the end credits.
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The Trap Door / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
The Trap Door / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Berk drops a good one when he deals with The Splund in his self-named episode, via a giant sewing needle he brought with him from having just finished repairing 'Im Upstairs' torn pyjamas.
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The Trap Door / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
The Trap Door / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Character: Besides the main trio of Berk, Boni and Drutt; Rogg, Bubo, and the Big Red Thing are the most notable recurring monsters that appear.
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The Trap Door / int_5b2e1e5e	type	Fake-Out Fade-Out
The Trap Door / int_5b2e1e5e	comment	Fake-Out Fade-Out: At the end of the first season Berk decides he's finally had it with monsters always escaping into his kitchen and 'Im Upstairs yelling at him all the time and leaves. But then the credits finish and he's back.
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The Trap Door / int_5b2efa6c	type	Music Soothes the Savage Beast
The Trap Door / int_5b2efa6c	comment	Music Soothes the Savage Beast: Subverted in 'Don't You Open That Trap Door,' Berk turns on the radio, leading nearly every monster from the series to pop up and run rampant in the kitchen. They scurry back in when I'm Upstairs bellows about the noise.
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The Trap Door / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Trap Door / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Drutt... maybe. Although they had a litter of baby spiders, they are often referred to as "he", so it's pretty unclear what Drutt actually is.
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The Trap Door / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Trap Door / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: 'Im Upstairs can really pack it away. In "The Splund", he eats so much food that his pajamas split.
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The Trap Door / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
The Trap Door / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: Almost every episode takes place fully in the castle of The Thing Upstairs, mostly within Berk's kitchen, where the trap door resides — ironically, only a couple actually show what's inside it.
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The Trap Door / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Trap Door / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Rogg, in the final episode. He gets better.
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The Trap Door / int_664bc28f	type	British Brevity
The Trap Door / int_664bc28f	comment	British Brevity: There are only two seasons, both with fewer than thirty episodes, and each episode is under five minutes.
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The Trap Door / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Trap Door / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Berk is British slang for a stupid, often easy to manipulate person.
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The Trap Door / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
The Trap Door / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Several of the monsters would either throw handfuls of the stuff around, or explode in showers of yellow goo.
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The Trap Door / int_6dcfd275	type	Theme Tune Extended
The Trap Door / int_6dcfd275	comment	Theme Tune Extended: As revealed in "Don't Open That Trap Door", there are two additional verses to the theme after the one in the closing credits.
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The Trap Door / int_6eb1268c	type	Extreme Omnivore
The Trap Door / int_6eb1268c	comment	Extreme Omnivore: One monster that came out of the trap door was a brown one with nothing but a trumpet mouth for a head. It swallowed Boni (who Berk rescued by bonking the thing) and then swallowed another monster that was all eyes (and roughly the same size). Berk used it to clear the drain he was trying to unblock.
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The Trap Door / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
The Trap Door / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Boni, though usually much more level headed (no pun intended) than Berk, is very neurotic and occasionally prone to bursts of childish excitement.
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The Trap Door / int_77666408	type	Combat Tentacles
The Trap Door / int_77666408	comment	Combat Tentacles: Some of the monsters, like whatever's attached to those orange ones in the first episode. Fortunately for those ones at least, they prove susceptible to bonking.
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The Trap Door / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Trap Door / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The last episode of the series has the Big Red Thing, one of the nastiest creatures to come through the trap door, jump out and attack Berk and his friends only for the show to cut out.
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The Trap Door / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
The Trap Door / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: Downplayed. In one episode Berk comes across a radio, and doesn't know what it is at first. Boni explains it to him, but comments that he thinks radios are "horrible, noisy things," which doesn't suggest he holds any sort of ethical objection to radios, but does suggest a personal distaste for such newfangled devices.
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The Trap Door / int_7c48b272	type	Summon Bigger Fish
The Trap Door / int_7c48b272	comment	Summon Bigger Fish: In "Food for Thorp", after figuring out that the eponymous carnivorous plant likes eating the flying insects that came out of the trapdoor, Berk simply pushes it to the kitchen and waits until it's snatched and eaten them all.
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The Trap Door / int_7dafc482	type	ChewToy
The Trap Door / int_7dafc482	comment	Chew Toy: Boni, thanks to his stuffy attitude and how easily he can be picked up, tends to be on the receiving end of most of the show's physical comedy. Berk gets it pretty bad at times as well.
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The Trap Door / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Trap Door / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A few times, it's Berk who opens the Trap Door and forgets to shut it.
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The Trap Door / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
The Trap Door / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: Drutt. More commonly spelled Drut. Turd.
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The Trap Door / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
The Trap Door / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: In "The Thingy", the monster can shoot a beam from its eyes that causes random transformations in its targets.
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The Trap Door / int_8fe962f3	type	Battle Discretion Shot
The Trap Door / int_8fe962f3	comment	Battle Discretion Shot: More often than not, violence occurs in another room, complete with Screen Shake.
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The Trap Door / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
The Trap Door / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The Stop Motion animation is occasionally briefly replaced by such hand drawn images as Berk's blinking eyes in the title sequence, and a lightning-lit shot of the lower body of The Thing Upstairs.
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The Trap Door / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Trap Door / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Splund. He cheerfully threatens to eat Boni and Drut and laughs maniacally as they become increasingly frightened from him doing so and teleporting around the kitchen.
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The Trap Door / int_95be648c	type	Creepy Basement
The Trap Door / int_95be648c	comment	Creepy Basement: The trope the series is built around. Whatever is below the trap door is seriously creepy and it is full of monsters.
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The Trap Door / int_973291cd	type	Pardon My Klingon
The Trap Door / int_973291cd	comment	Pardon My Klingon: "Globbits!" "Great Grumfuttoks Tusks!"
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The Trap Door / int_9be7c205	type	Giant Spider
The Trap Door / int_9be7c205	comment	Giant Spider: The monster in "Creepy Crawlies" is a huge black spider bigger than Berk. In "The Thingy", the monster briefly turns Berk's pet spider gigantic.
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The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0	type	Eye Spy
The Trap Door / int_9d0bd3f0	comment	Eye Spy: The Thing's eyes still function when they're detached.
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The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
The Trap Door / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: A good few of the monsters actually find out the hard way not to mess with Berk. Rogg also deals with some rather swiftly. In "The Midnight Snack" he actually wins a four-on-one fight. Pretty impressive.
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The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Trap Door / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Boni. Berk, too, at times.
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The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Trap Door / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "Oh Globbits!" "It's bonking time!"
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The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c	type	Spoof Aesop
The Trap Door / int_b3c0ed0c	comment	Spoof Aesop: "If you've got a problem, stuff a worm in it." "The moral of this story is 'don't mess with Berk and don't sing like Boni'".
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The Trap Door / int_b58b7975	comment	Kindhearted Simpleton: Rogg is one of the friendlier creatures to come out of the trap door. It may come from the fact he is a complete ditz.
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The Trap Door / int_b9085a47	comment	Summon Magic: In "Ghoulies", while rummaging around an old room, Berk finds a book of spells and incautiously decides to read one at random, summoning the titular monsters.
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The Trap Door / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: In "The Thingy", the monster starts randomly transforming the characters into various bizarre forms for its own entertainment.
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The Trap Door / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Trap Door / int_ba236071	comment	"The moral of this story is 'don't mess with Berk and don't sing like Boni'".
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The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
The Trap Door / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In "Junk Food" Rogg gets into the Thing Upstairs' room. 'Im Upstairs was already upset about it ("BERK, WHAT'S THIS?! IT'S NOT EVEN COOKED PROPERLY!"), but Rogg's unthinking comments made the situation worse;
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The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a	type	Sense Freak
The Trap Door / int_bf1f379a	comment	Sense Freak: When a monster from the trap door transforms Boni into a goat-like creature, Boni spends the remainder of the episode running around in his new body and trying to show it off to Berk and Drutt.
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The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a	type	That Makes Me Feel Angry
The Trap Door / int_bfc2ec8a	comment	That Makes Me Feel Angry: Rogg is prone to this when pushed too far. As seen in the last episode, when The Big Angry Red Thing comes and causes mayhem:
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The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61	type	Invisible Monsters
The Trap Door / int_c0b66f61	comment	Invisible Monsters: The creature that comes out from the trapdoor in "Gourmet's Delight" is invisible, and can only be tracked by its footprints until Berk splats food all over it and thus renders it visible.
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The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68	type	Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth
The Trap Door / int_c0f2df68	comment	Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth: The small orange monster Berk fishes out of the trap door while trying to rescue Drutt. It looks and sounds incredibly cute. Then it opens its mouth and reveals a large, sharp set of gnashers.
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The Trap Door / int_c25f7913	type	By the Lights of Their Eyes
The Trap Door / int_c25f7913	comment	By the Lights of Their Eyes: This was often used for when the characters were in a dark place — like Berk hiding in the room with the mirror to get away from the Big Red Angry Thing in 'Breakfast Time'. It also features heavily in the credits, where it's all we can see of the trap door denizens (and one of them has three). In fact the title animation is actually called "Eyes in the Dark" in the closing credits.
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The Trap Door / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Trap Door / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Thing, after eating his breakfast in "Breakfast Time", declares "Parts of that were excellent!" This is a reference to the Curate's Egg cartoon from Punch!.
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The Trap Door / int_d7512543	type	Friendly Neighborhood Spider
The Trap Door / int_d7512543	comment	Friendly Neighborhood Spider: Drutt, Berk and Boni's pet spider. Besides one time where they morphed into a frightening Giant Spider that nearly ate Berk in "Nasty Stuff", they generally gets on well with their companions.
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The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Trap Door / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Berk and Boni. Berk also ends up one to the obliviously friendly Rogg, though seems to lighten up by Season Two. Point in case: To be fair, Rogg had just knocked Berk out of a window. Well above the ground floor.
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The Trap Door / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
The Trap Door / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Some of the horrors Berk and the others meet are treated in a light-hearted manner. Though granted they do deal with them on a very regular basis.
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The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0	type	Musical Episode
The Trap Door / int_e1f59bf0	comment	Musical Episode: An entire episode was dedicated to an extended version of the theme tune. Aptly named Don't You Open That Trap Door, which is the first lyric of the theme song.
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The Trap Door / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Trap Door / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Berk has moments of inspiration, but is a fairly careless guy.
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The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Trap Door / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: 'Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite' and 'Moany Boni'
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The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Trap Door / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Bubo, one of the few recurring monsters in the series, is this; revelling in causing chaos and taunting everyone when they unsuccessfully try to stop him. It's a wonder Berk never tried feeding him to 'Im upstairs.
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The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704	type	Scary Stinging Swarm
The Trap Door / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: In "Food for Thort", a swarm of hornet-like monsters get into the castle. One gives Berk a sting, leaving a yellow welt, and he feeds them to Thort, a plant monster from the Thing Upstairs's garden.
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The Trap Door / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Trap Door / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: A few monsters, such as The Splund, cameo in the episode "Don't Open That Trap Door", before getting their own spotlight episode.
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The Trap Door / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
The Trap Door / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: The Trap Door unleashes a fearsome monster or several once in every episode. Lampshaded in "The Dose":
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The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
The Trap Door / int_f3fd818b	comment	Dark Reprise: a slower, sadder version of the theme song plays in the season finales.
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The Trap Door / int_f651b980	type	Forbidden Zone
The Trap Door / int_f651b980	comment	Forbidden Zone: The area would seem to be one, being out "somewhere in the dark and nasty reaches, where nobody goes," and for good reason.
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The Trap Door / int_f9facc81	type	Grotesque Cute
The Trap Door / int_f9facc81	comment	Grotesque Cute: A cute little monster opens his mouth to reveal rows of jagged fangs.
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The Trap Door / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
The Trap Door / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Although Rogg is generally considered to be one of the nicest and most easygoing characters, he can descend into this if pushed far enough, as seen in 'Junk Food': Amusingly in this case though, it was also subverted in a way: given that immediately afterwards, Rogg stops being angry, wanders over and cheerily waves to Berk from the window, and then speaks to the audience about how much he likes him. Played more straight when Rogg helps deal with any of the monsters from the trap door. Especially so in "Scunge", where he uses the same trick on Bubo after he starts heckling them:
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