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"Let the Wonk One In"
Season 2, Episode 15
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Prod. Code: RC219
Premiered: October 17, 2014
Credits
Written by:
  Jed Elinoff & Scott Thomas
and Hugh Webber
Storyboard by:
  Chris Copeland & Fabien Tong
and Otis Brayboy
Directed by:
  Joshua Taback
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"Let the Wonk One In" is the fifteenth episode of the second season (and sixty-seventh episode overall) of Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja and the third Halloween-themed episode of the show. It premiered on October 17, 2014.

Synopsis[]

Randy unleashes the terrifying orange Halloweenja suit from the Nomicon and soon discovers that it’s a force he can’t control.

Plot[]

The episode opens with Randy pontificating about the horrors of Halloween; he is cut short by Rachel, who is in her usual saccharine manner, refers to the holiday as "Hug-a-ween" and is spreading her cuteness to others. This annoys Randy and Howard intensely, finding anything cute being the opposite of the Halloween tradition. The boys argue that they need to preserve the dark nature of the holiday, so they send a text to the kids of the block announcing that they made the scariest haunted house ever, which is in Randy's garage.

Meanwhile, McFist and Viceroy go trick-or-treating as the Frankenstein monster and its Bride, though McFist finds that he has become jaded and insusceptible to the Halloween horrors which keep Viceroy in a constant state of the jitters. Hearing about the "Scare-Rage," McFist insists on visiting it.

However, after checking the "Scare-Rage" with fresh eyes, Randy and Howard realize that the results are distinctly lame. Randy tries to formulate a plan in a panic, but Howard suggests that he should go into the Nomicon to find them something to help make the haunted house more scary; Randy hesitates at first, unsure if the Nomicon has such a thing, but Howard ignores him and opens the book himself and shloomps Randy inside, saying that they both know there is.

Inside the Nomicon, Randy finds himself in front of the Temple of Forbidden Knowledge of the Shadow Warrior. Remembering the dark nature associated with the temple, he tries to enter; the Nomicon, clearly against it, boards up all points of entry, but Randy finds a small vent, through in which he is able to squeeze his way inside.

Upon entering, Randy finds himself inside a storage room filled with stranger objects. After walking around, he finds an idol labeled "Halloweenja - The Essence of Terror." Thinking that it would be perfect for the "Scare-rage," he releases the magic, which resembles the Sorcerer's Stank except for being black with yellow highlights within; this envelopes him and expels him from the Nomicon.

Randy's Ninja Suit, which has turned bright orange, now embodies the Halloweenja, and is able to shoot a stank-like fog from its hands which transforms mundane objects into actual horrors, making the "Scare-rage" truly terrifying: the garage is covered in thick dark and light orange with lightning effects and thunderclaps, and featuring real witches, giant spiders, skeletons, etc., which duly scarify the kids of the block.

Having accomplished what they had set out to do, Randy tries to undo the suit's dark magic, but is dismayed to find the horrors actually multiplying. He tries to remove the suit, but is unable to; he tries to consult the NinjaNomicon, but the suit itself reacts violently, pulling him away and then spitting him out through the eyes of the mask.

The Halloweenja, now fully in control, uses its power to terrorize the block, turning the local kids into the actual monsters depicted by their costumes, although McFist, witnessing all this, is nevertheless unimpressed and insists they are all "fake." Randy is unable to fight the Halloweenja without possessing his suit, but realizes that the Halloweenja is actually repelled and its magic counteracted by Rachel, leading him to conclude that cute was its weakness.

Randy manages to gather the remaining kids at Rachel's house to retaliate against the Halloweenja and its monsters by dressing up in cute costumes. This method works: as soon as the kids began to hug the monsters, they immediately transform back to normal. With all the monsters preoccupied, Randy himself, in a teddy-bear costume, goes after the Halloweenja, luring it into a deserted alley, but is unable to do much due to his costume's lack of mobility. However, he manages to trick the Halloweenja into thinking he is defenseless, only to to fling the Nomicon onto the ground by it in order to suck all the Essence of Terror out of the suit, returning it to its normal state and saving the day.

McFist, who has been unimpressed by this supposedly un-scary Halloween all along, then hears a Halloween novelty song and reveals to Viceroy that such retro music "wigs [him] out"; Viceroy delightedly brings revenges on McFist by chasing him while singing "Ghost Boogie." The episode ends with Randy talking to what he assumed as Howard in his bear costume... until Howard actually shows up beside him and the unknown individual in the bear costume begins to walk away with its head twisted all the way around to the back, creeping both boys out.

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Trivia[]

  • This is the third Halloween episode, the previous two being "Dawn of the Driscoll" and "Night of the Living McFizzles."
  • The title is based on the 2004 Swedish vampire novel and the 2008 Swedish romantic horror film Let the Right One In.
  • This is Rachel's second speaking appearance and first main appearance.
  • Howard suggests that Randy should use Earth Attack, but immediately dismisses the idea, as Randy doesn't have his suit, even though it's already been shown that Randy can in fact use this ability without the Ninja suit. It is likely that Howard forgot this as he has been shown to forget a lot of things.
  • This episode reveals that Rachel lives just a few houses away from Randy's old house.
  • It's revealed in this episode that McFist is creeped out by retro Halloween music.
  • The Halloweenja's magic circle may be a reference to the conjuring circle of Bill Cipher in Disney cartoon Gravity Falls, though magic circles, particularly in conjurations, are age-old in magical lore.
  • Howard's line, "Childer-en of the night!" references the famous line from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula (and its many film versions), "Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" (There the "children of the night" are wolves.)
  • Rachel's line, "The power of cute compels you!" is a parody of the line "The power of Christ compels you!" from the 1973 horror film, The Exorcist, drawn from the Roman Catholic rite of exorcism.
    • The way "Mrs. Ted E. Bear"'s head twists all the way around further echoes the twisting-around of the demon-possessed girl Reagan's head in the same film.
      • It remains unknown who possessed "Mrs. Ted E. Bear" at the end of the episode.
  • In the background of the "Scare-rage," a plastic snowman is visible wearing a hockey mask similar to that of Jason Voorhees from the "Friday the 13th" franchise.
  • The part where Randy throws the NinjaNomicon and sucks the Halloweenja suit into it is reminiscent of how the "ghost traps" are used in the 1984 film Ghostbusters.
  • The last line of "The Ghost Boogie" sung over the credits is "I ain't 'fraid of no boogie," a parody of the line from the song "Ghostbusters," "I ain't 'fraid of no ghost!"

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