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Matt Foley: A Scary Story on Halloween

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The setup

A father hires Matt Foley to curb his children’s Halloween pranks, but the motivational speaker’s cautionary tale becomes a destructive demonstration.

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The premise

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After three siblings return from vandalizing the neighborhood on Halloween, their father brings in motivational speaker Matt Foley to straighten them out. The children answer his blustering questions with jokes, prompting a flashlight-lit story about a boy whose bad choices lead to life in a van. Foley then demonstrates how it feels to be a thrown egg by grabbing one of the sons and crashing into the coffee table. His attempt to organize a neighborhood cleanup unravels when a flaming bag appears at the door and he spreads the mess through the living room before falling through a window.

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