The Previous Owner is the third and final segment in the Season Five episode "Terror Tales of the Park III". It aired on October 21, 2013, and was written & storyboarded by Benton Connor and Andres Salaff.
Like with the rest of the "Terror Tales" saga, this story is non-canon, and treated as an in-universe story told by Benson.
Synopsis[]
Mordecai and Rigby start a bet to see who can survive a poltergeist in the house.
Plot[]
The park guys are having a meeting with Benson, after they get all the pumpkins and signs set up, he says that there is going to be a 200-year-old Poltergeist in the house at night. Everybody thinks that it is going to be awesome, but Benson says otherwise. He explains how a long time ago, A man named Jebediah Townhouse used to say things that people used to say back in the 1980s such as "Bogus, Righteous and Wiggin Out." Since he was so ahead of his time, the townsfolk believed he was a witch. Before they could kill him, he infused his soul into the house that the park crew lives in right now, silently waiting for 200 years to return.
After the story is told, everyone thinks that Benson just wants the house to himself, and they also think it doesn't make sense. But Benson is really serious and leaves the house in his compact car. Then Muscle Man says that everyone should go to the house at night and see who can stay the longest. Mordecai says that they should all pool in $20 and the winner gets all the money. Skips didn't participate, so it was Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, Hi Five Ghost and Pops. Later that night, Pops tried going to sleep, then heard hip hop coming from his phonograph. After he turned off the music, Jebediah spoke to Pops, and Pops ran downstairs screaming. Then the power went out, while there is a loud banging at the door. Pops holds a flashlight while Mordecai and Rigby defend themselves and Pops with golf clubs. At the door, there is a shadow that resembles Jebediah. They open and start attacking him, but it is revealed to actually be Muscle Man in a raincoat with Fives under a garbage pail, therefore making them look like Townhouse in the shadows.
Then, they decided to play a board game and Pops once again freaks out claiming that he saw Jebediah on the board game. But once again, nobody sees anything. Fives and Muscle Man get hungry and head to the kitchen for the house's supply of burritos. But Jebediah confronts them as the Fridge itself, then morphs into the Oven and says: "Why you all up in my grill?". Then the two get burned alive and baked into brownies. Mordecai finds the two human desserts and says that the remaining three have to leave now. But Rigby disagrees and says that they will get more money for the winner, so they think that they should try to stick it out. Then Jebediah morphs from the board game that they were playing. They try to be scared but the 80's phrases that Townhouse keeps saying to them get them bored.
But not too soon until he begins to chase them throughout the house, as they try to run for the front door, Jebediah appears and sticks out his long tongue. The trio runs up the stairs but turns into Jebediah's mouth, therefore his tongue makes it hard to run upward. Mordecai and Rigby hang on to the ceiling columns, but Pops slips and falls into Jebediah's mouth. The remaining two run up the stairs, but one of the windows on the end of the hallway turns into a floating, spinning, and shredding head. The two attempt to open the window, but it's stuck. They climb up the ladder to the attic, making the floating head explode, Then the columns on the ceiling turn into Jebediah's hand and ask for the $100. Mordecai and Rigby find an open window to the roof and the roof turns to Townhouse's head. He shakes the two and Mordecai and Rigby jump, but before the two reach the ground, Jebediah's hand catches them and he says: "Whoomp! There it is!" and eats them.
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Pop Culture References[]
- Jebediah Townhouse's name was inspired by Jebediah Springfield, the founder of Springfield from The Simpsons.
- Jebediah Townhouse's head with three heads on the eyes and mouth chasing Mordecai and Rigby is a reference to one of Salvador Dali's paintings: "The Face of the War".
- After Jebediah Townhouse eats Pops he says "Oh yeah, gotta have my Pops". This is a reference to the tag line for Kellogg's Corn Pops cereal.
- When Jebediah Townhouse moves to the top of the house while being threatened by the villagers, his movement and pose resembles that of MC Hammer in his music video for the song "U Can't Touch This"
Official Releases[]
- On iTunes and Amazon Prime, the segment was included in the full digital release of "Terror Tales of the Park III".
- The segment was also included as part of "Terror Tales of the Park III" in the DVD release for Season Five.
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