What we have here is a Halloween episode that may well sound like most of our other episodes but that’s just because we tend to live in a perpetual state of Halloween. We’re constantly dressing up in costumes (or at least one of us is), we give each other candy year round, and we watch spooky movies every chance we get. If you factor in our fantasy role-playing, we’re dealing with more monsters on a consistent basis than you’ll find at your local mall’s costume contest. When we’re driving stakes through vampires, it’s just as likely to be April as it is October. You might think that with this ongoing Halloweenie state of mind we have, we wouldn’t get so excited about the holiday itself when it eventually rolls around, but we do. It’s like the world has finally caught up with us again. So happy Halloween everybody – we’ve been keeping it warm for you.

If you can’t make friends, keep prisoners. That seems to be the motto of the psycho doll maker with abandonment issues who shrinks his victims and forces them to have dance parties with cake. And he can do it too, because everyone knows that doll makers and master marionette puppeteers also possess expert degrees in particle physics that equip them to make shrinking rays. Skullard got a bible degree which allows him to do psychological counseling with farm animals, so why not? But what do you do when you’re shrunk? Stand in a can, mostly. Though sometimes you’re let out to climb string, run from rats and hide in UPS packages. This film has all of that plus a musical number and a really scary girl scout. Get ready for zero attacks from non-puppet people in Attack of the Puppet People (1958).

Yup, we’re taking Skullard’s mother who’s terrified of snakes to go see a movie chock full CGI snakiness. Fortunately it’s Rifftrax, so we’re going for the funny, not the story.

From Skullard’s Postcard Collection: Halloween blessings from a lucky witch – you can’t ask for better than that.