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Matt Belinkie, Peter Fenzel, and Mark Lee step slowly up to the wrought-iron knocker on the old oak door of this haunted mansion we call a podcast and knock three times to welcome Halloween! The door creaks on rusty hinges to reveal a bowl of tricks and treats: the spooky-scary and the spooky-silly. These three fathers wonder then on the meaning of Halloween costumes for children: the scary, the aspirational, and the ones with retirement plans. Discussions follow of our favorite scarecrows at the crossroads of ghoulish and gigglish, from remembrance of Crypt Keepers past, to blazing hot takes on a chilling corpse of a topic: The Addams Family versus the Munsters. Are scary things here, or are they yet to come? You’ll have to wait and scream!!

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Further Reading

• Overthinking It Podcast, Episode 539: Halloween Candy
• Crypt Keeper Pun Time playlist, from Subgenre Fanatic
• “Hulk Smash” by Happy Birthday on Spotify
• The Addams Family intro on YouTube
• The Drag-u-La on the Munsters YouTube channel
• Mummies perform the Monkees Theme Song on The Masked Singer