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In the House is the third and final segment in the Season 3 episode "Terror Tales of the Park. It aired on October 10, 2011, and was written & storyboarded by Sean Szeles and Kat Morris.
Like with the rest of the "Terror Tales" saga, this story is non-canon, and treated as an in-universe story told by Rigby.
Synopsis[]
Rigby eggs the wrong house and gets cursed by a wizard.
Plot[]
It's Halloween night and Mordecai is dressed as a dad with his 5 fake children, a scam to get a buttload of candy. After being caught red-handed by one woman, he quickly flees the scene. Rigby, dressed as a robber, then comes out of the bushes trying to trick or treat, but horrifies the woman. Mordecai wants to turn in for the night until the two approaches an ancient and creepy house; Rigby wants this to be his last house.
Rigby goes to the house, knocks at the door when the porch light on the house shuts off. Rigby, enraged, eggs the house against Mordecai's warnings. The house turns out to be owned by a vengeful wizard, who comes out of the house and puts a curse on Rigby. The next day, Rigby is nervous about what that wizard did to him. Then, weird things start happening to him. He suddenly grows a house number plaque, as well as a doorknob, on his chest and his tail transforms into a chimney. As he and Mordecai exit the house, Rigby starts inflating, thus immobilizing him.
Mordecai goes to send Rigby's apologies to the wizard. But once again, he acts like he is not home. At the park, Rigby is transformed fully into a house. While the gang is inside, the phone rings and the wizard states that the transformation is just the beginning of Rigby's punishment. Benson interrupts him, and the wizard vows that all the park's employees will pay just as much as Rigby will. Everyone takes refuge inside the Rigby-house, and they all lie in wait, with each one of them holding a different weapon. Muscle Man is on the porch when a black car drives up. The door opens, but no one emerges.
Muscle Man is taunted and pulled into the woods by an unseen force, his shotgun blasts lighting up the night as he is dragged away. He comes back inside but has been skinned alive. The disconnected phone rings, and Hi Five Ghost picks it up despite everyone's warnings, and is sucked into the phone, liquified, and sprayed out of the speaker. The Wizard, still unable to be seen, throws Mordecai against a bookshelf, knocking him unconscious. Then, he breaks Skips' crossbow. He then pushes Skips up into the fireplace and shoots the flame up after him, incinerating him. Benson is found in the bathroom, he screamed and drowned when flushed down the toilet. Pops is standing on the bed in his room, and is pulled into a dresser, which then disappears. Mordecai is the last one left of the group and readies himself to defend, but is decapitated by an unseen force. Rigby, in the form of a house, is the only one left.
The Wizard then teaches Rigby a lesson by egging him, to Rigby's surprise, and finishes him off by cracking a giant egg on him, crushing and drowning him.
Characters[]
Locations[]
- Park
- Neighborhood
- Wizard's House
Trivia[]
Worldbuilding[]
- A picture of Eileen is revealed to be inside of the house after Rigby turned into it on the third short-implying he has feelings for her but doesn't like to show it as of this point in the show.
Episode Connections[]
- Mordecai does the the same fart trick to Rigby that J.Q. Quintel did in his pilot short. (TV: 2 in the AM PM)
- Scenes from this segment are seen in season four (TV: Exit 9B) and in season eight (TV: Meet the Seer).
Pop Culture References[]
- This story is a reference to The Evil Dead franchise.
Goofs[]
- Albeit in a story, Rigby is shown to be able to eat raw eggs with no trouble. However, "Eggscellent" shows that he is allergic to fully cooked omelettes.
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the segment was included in the full digital release of "Terror Tales of the Park".
- This version swaps this with "Creepy Doll" and "Death Metal Crash Pit".
- The segment was also included as part of "Terror Tales of the Park" in the following DVD releases:
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