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Halloween Candy

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The setup

An eccentric father previews his Halloween handouts, mixing candy with unsettling surprises while his son and wife join the strange celebration.

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The premise

Here’s the bit.

A father settles beside a decorated fireplace to show what he plans to give trick-or-treaters. Ordinary candy wrappers conceal unwanted snacks, gross substitutes and empty packaging, while a personalized Pez dispenser and packaged razor blades reveal his peculiar sense of generosity. His skeleton-costumed son Diego keeps returning with increasingly disastrous Halloween mishaps, and his wife Adult Ruth appears as part of a candy-bar joke. The family ends the preview together after a final adult treat.

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He’s a hot little mess.

Now who’s in control?

ScriptEnglish · 27 turns

Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.

  1. 00:05

    Odd Dad

    Oh, hi, friends. Well, it's that spooky time of year again, Halloween, and I have a fresh batch of goodies in store for all of our trick-or-treaters, so why don't we just see what they're gonna get this year, shall we?

  2. 00:21

    Odd Dad

    This is a little Snickers. They say it's fun size. No arguments from me, wink.

  3. 00:30

    Odd Dad

    Now, this looks like a Reese's Cup, but guess what's inside.

  4. 00:36

    Odd Dad

    Kale chip. Gotcha, fatty. Now, this is an Almond Joy. Almond Joy's got nuts. TMI, Almond Joy, geez. Do you like Halloween, Diego?

  5. 00:52

    Diego

    Yeah.

  6. 00:54

    Odd Dad

    Diego's my son. He loves Halloween. I like your costume, Diego. What are you?

  7. 01:01

    Diego

    Bones.

  8. 01:02

    Odd Dad

    Hmm. Okay. Uh, what else have we got in here? This is a Bazooka Joe bubblegum. I already took a peek at the comic inside surprise it's funny as all hell now this is a peanut scotch taped to an M&M because that's just how my mind works now this is a ring pop I told my wife it was a ruby and she was like can we not please this little guy is a Pez dispenser with my head on it to make it To get accurate, I

  9. 01:42

    Odd Dad

    filled it up with what I ate last night. Don't worry, I just had Pez. Diego, what's going on with that pumpkin?

  10. 01:53

    Diego

    I made the mouth too big.

  11. 01:56

    Odd Dad

    He's a hot little mess. Okay, now this, if you look close, is one single little nerd. Can you get in a little closer?

  12. 02:08

    Odd Dad

    Sike, it's a boogie. Now this, this is the movie Cars 2. But look what happens when you open the case. No DVD. Now who's in control?

  13. 02:24

    Odd Dad

    This is a baby Ruth, and this is an adult Ruth.

  14. 02:28

    Adult Ruth

    I'm Ruth.

  15. 02:32

    Odd Dad

    Whoa, Diego. What happened?

  16. 02:34

    Diego

    I got TP'd!

  17. 02:38

    Odd Dad

    Uh, uh, Diego thought he saw a ghost last night, but it turned out it was just a sheet over a dead corpse.

  18. 02:47

    Odd Dad

    Okay, look. Now, these are razor blades, But they're still in the pack, so this time they'll have to arrest me for generosity.

  19. 02:59

    Odd Dad

    This is a Klondike bar. What would I do for a Klondike bar? I'd suck anything you put in front of me? I'm serious. I don't care. I love Klondike bars. Is that a candy corn mojito?

  20. 03:17

    Odd Dad

    Oh, it's yummy.

  21. 03:18

    Odd Dad

    I guess I'm giving that two-year chip back.

  22. 03:23

    It's so...

  23. 03:26

    Odd Dad

    Happy Halloween, Diego.

  24. 03:28

    Diego

    Happy Halloween, Dad.

  25. 03:30

    Odd Dad

    Happy Halloween, adult Ruth.

  26. 03:32

    Adult Ruth

    Happy Halloween, everyone.

  27. 03:33

    Speaker 1

    Have a spooktacular Halloween from Diego, Dad, and Adult Root.

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