Following the theme of animated specials this is a Beavis and Butthead special. If you didn't know Beavis and Butthead was a cartoon that aired on MTV in the 1990s and focused on two characters that were basically every teenage boy in your high school at some point or another.
In this one they are, as usual, on the couch watching music videos. It's Halloween night and the doorbell keeps ringing and they decide one of them should check it. After learning the hard way about trick or treating, B+B make a plan to do some trick or treating of their own. Finding costumes is an adventure, eventually they settle on makeshift costumes that do more to make one themselves laugh than disguise. But once they start knocking on doors, they learn that most people think they're too old to be trick or treating and are turned away, so they resort to stealing that delicious, delicious candy.
Unfortunately they get a hold of too much candy and the sugar rush turns Beavis into a sugar-hungry goblin who manifests himself into The Great Cornholio, who needs TP for his bunghole (which he does not have).
I've been watching back through Friends again (like recent brands snapping up the Friends costuming look I too gather artistic inspiration from the outfits on Friends) and this reminds me of the episode where Ross eats too much maple sugar candy and goes squirrely.
Beavis, hopped up on candy, hunkers down in a graveyard as The Great Cornholio til his stash of candy runs out and need forces him to venture out to steal candy from families. He then notices a forlorn and spooky field across the way where, while this has been happening, Butthead has been kidnapped by a zombie farmer who found him in the middle of a field and invited him into his barn (kind of like how Bob Mortimer began his craft beer brewing journey according to this latest Would I Lie To You, bizarre story!)
The show is nostalgic for some, though I didn't watch it while it was airing. It's a fun watch and does provoke a good point of discussion- I think it's silly to turn away older kids for a harmless and fun tradition. Out of what, stinginess? Wanting to preserve the holiday? It wasn't yours to begin with. There are a ton of other things teens could be doing and obviously already do on Halloween that are destructive and potentially dangerous, why would you rather have that than just allowing them to still participate in something fun?
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