Curdle Holler: a Halloween Podcast

The recently deceased Chip Clearly and Bonita von Wangencamp adjust to their afterlife – as proprietors of “The Bootique” in the town of Curdle Holler. Chip and Bonita need more fright power to reimburse their customers, or Sheriff Bones Malone will throw them in monster jail. While seeking help, they’ll meet kooky Holler residents like: Rotchester, the skulking store manager; Pumpkin, an anthropomorphic pumpkin, Minerva, a skilled inventor with “brains”; the urbane and mysterious Old Coot; and the surly skeleton sheriff.

As the sheriff’s deadline draws near, our newest Curdle Holler residents will also learn about an upcoming election (between Caretaker Belfry Batsinger and challenger Albert Ghost), and begin to ponder their true purpose in this strange new town.

Life is hard, it seems, even when you’re dead.

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The sheriff delivers at-risk youth to The Bootique, and Bonita uncovers a crisis while checking Instagrim: the troubled teens have released dancing flowers throughout Curdle Holler, mesmerizing its residents with an inane, cheerful song. Now, Chip and Bonita must recruit allies – including Pastor Munch, the teens and the Old Coot – to track down all the flowers before Halloween is ruined.

With the store “unattended,” Count Fangula and Pumpkin investigate a haunted mirror.

Meanwhile, power fluctuations plague the town, and it sure seems like Batsinger and the sheriff are up to no good.

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Caretaker Batsinger, a professed lover of antiquities, purchases a mysterious old tea set from The Bootique, but Chip is arrested when he can’t locate the missing spoon. At the jail, Sheriff Malone tries to terrify Chip with his “completely unscripted” tour, in which they encounter the town’s most fearsome prisoner: a towering golem named “Rocky.”

Back at the shop, Chip’s friends search for the spoon, and Bonita joins the Albert Ghost campaign to strike back at the odious Batsinger.

Later, after Chip and Bonita overhear a distressing phone call, Albert sheds some light on the power fluctuations and all the strange behavior from Batsinger and the sheriff. His discovery reveals a grave threat to this world – and the world of the living.

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Following through on their promise to Albert, Chip and Bonita devise a plan to infiltrate Belfry Batsinger’s mausoleum party and collect evidence of his corruption. To enter the party, they’ll disguise themselves as real haunted housewife Fibula von Snap and her mummy hubby, “Don.” Rotchester feeds them intel through a small radio, Minerva runs tech support, and Count Fangula parks the getaway van. Chip and Bonita must improvise when the plan runs into some unexpected complications.

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Fresh from the grave — and her stint as a Real Housewife of Curdle Holler — Fibula Von Snap is here to take cheapskates to task with “Boo-rgain Shopper.”

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It’s election night, and the turnout looks grim. That’s because it’s also the night of Curdle Holler’s big bonecoming game, where the whole town will gather to cheer on the undefeated Hobgoblins. Candidate Albert Ghost hopes that Chip and Bonita will pull through and deliver their evidence, unaware that the Bootique owners are trapped in the catacombs beneath the mausoleum.

With help from their friends, Chip and Bonita will try to survive the absurd trials of the labyrinth, so they can appear on the field at halftime and make their case against Batsinger.

It’ll be a game for the ages.

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The results are in for caretaker of Curdle Holler, but there’s no time celebrate: a vortex threatens to consume the entire town. While chaos reigns, intrepid Holler citizens meet to discuss their options. According to Rochester’s hasty PowerPoint, they must close the portal and seal it from the other side to avoid certain doom. But the plan may come at a great cost from an unlikely hero. Yet there is hope that this ending might yield a new beginning. In the final episode of Season One, Curdle Holler fights for the future of all Halloweens.

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It’s the Yuletide season in our favorite Halloween town, Curdle Holler. How are these fangy and freaky monsters going to celebrate? And who is the mysterious town inspector who arrives at the behest of the Elsewhere Council? It’s going to take more than a little Christmas spirit(s) to get the town back to abnormal.

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It’s hard to believe Chip and Bonita died only a year ago, because they’ve been plenty busy since then (saving the town and everything – no big deal). Yet there’s no rest for the dead.

After a quick Halloween binding ritual, Chip and Bonita agree to deliver a mysterious package to The Collector. And since they now have access to some beastly wheels – courtesy of Chip’s new car lot – they decide to run a few errands first. Okay, several errands.

As they reckon with all the new changes around town, “complications” arise.

Meanwhile, residents report a haunting melody throughout the holler …

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The whole town turns out for a rare Curdle Holler funeral – to mourn the actual death of a long-time friend and resident. But, since funerals are so uncommon in the afterlife, everyone struggles with the format.

Pastor Munch tries his best to juggle duties as sheriff and spiritual leader, while Chip and Bonita help collect signatures for the funeral guestbook. To get all the signatures – and open the church doors – Team Bootique will need to mend the broken threads of friendship between two members of the Weaving Circle.

During this time of crisis and confusion, an old spirit also returns, and the murder case gets murkier.

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The Cacophony Killer has struck again, and Sheriff Pastor Munch will need all the help he can get!

Chip and Bonita summon the usual suspects to gather clues, while Albert pitches a controversial BooTube tax proposal to upgrade the vulnerable etherweb network.

When the investigation leads to Vexco Laboratories, new details are revealed about the music box murders.

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With Fez investigators on the case, everyone takes a moment to unwind.

For Curdle Holler’s rowdy denizens, who lost their football stadium in last year’s portacalypse, that means channeling their natural aggression into a charming beauty pageant. Albert hopes these same maniacs will remember to vote for his etherweb proposal, which – of course – is scheduled on the same day.

Back at the Bootique, it’s business as usual. Chip takes a promising new delivery order, and Bonita questions the reliability of their transportation.

Everything seems normal. A little … too normal.

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The latest murder has rocked the investigation, and the detective hats are back on. For a warmup, Chip and Bonita help Pumpkin look for his missing toy but get roped into delivering The Collector’s personal items to people around town – and it leads to a shocking revelation about the Cacophony.

Elsewhere, Ms. Weaver hosts a viewing party for the Real Housewives of Curdle Holler reunion special, but unexpected guests threaten to ruin her evening of class and elegance.

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At last, Team Bootique umasks the Cacophony Killer – and learns about a devious plan to steal the town’s lifeforce.

With no time to spare, Chip and Bonita race to the studio to stop the broadcast, while Curdle Holler’s great minds devise a way to install last-minute security patches inside the etherweb.

During a climactic showdown with the music box murderer, new loyalties will be tested, familiar voices will be truly heard, and the noise of battle will shake loose old rhythms in this weird and ancient Halloween town.

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The pulse quickens, your mind goes numb, sweat pools upon the back of your neck. This is the terrifying condition … called love.

To celebrate this unsettling feeling, Curdle Holler prepares for its annual downtown Paper Hearts Festival. Leading up to the event, Ms. Weaver spins relationship advice on BooTube, while Chip and Nita take care of some unfinished business from last Halloween. Meanwhile, Pumpkin expands the Pumpkin’s Store (TM) brand to collect donations “for a good cause.”

But not all goes according to plan. Like all paranormal activity, love is unpredictable, and this year’s Paper Hearts will be full of surprises – and maybe, also, a little Halloween mystery.

Come, then. Don’t be afraid. Celebrate love this year in Curdle Holler. All you must do … is give up your heart.

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It’s Halloween Eve Eve, and that means that the residents of Curdle Holler are getting ready for another trip through the Halloween portal. But there’s plenty to distract them until the big day: notably, a much-awaited late-season opener by the Curdle Holler Hobgoblins at the brand-new Vexco Stadium. Nothing strange could possibly happen during a Halloween Eve Eve football game, right?

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A new era dawns and a new citizen spawns in the season 3 opener. The Boo-tique crew is busy getting ready to rebrand their store as the town excitedly prepares for a new citizen. This hectic and exciting day will have Chip and Bonita doing everything from interviewing former disgraced caretaker Belfry Batsinger to visiting the town dump on a mission … of mattresses. Is there ever a dull moment in Curdle Holler? Not when there’s a blob at the library and a roach with a BIG problem to solve.

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It’s the grand opening of “Pumpkin’s Store,” and the town is in a tizzy – or is it a sugar rush from Belfry Batsinger’s “Belfry’s Bon Bons” candy that is hyping up all the townsfolk in Curdle Holler? Either way, Chip and Bonita find themselves tracking down a slimy shoplifter who takes them on a chase through the town’s most mysterious corridors.

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The store is under siege, and a fresh batch of blobs is having a field day in the town square. Meanwhile, Chip and Bonita perform SCIENCE on a “rootbeer of slime.” With new information about the slime situation, Team Boo-tique attempts to communicate Mr. Blob – if that is his real name, which it is not. Everything changes from here!

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While the town judges Halloween parade floats, Chip and Bonita visit the elder gods retirement home in search of first-hand slime wisdom. Mrs. Weaver is confident everyone will follow the parade rules, and Team Bootique expects the elders will be agreeable and forthcoming with information … … Everyone learns something!

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It’s the big day: time for Curdle Holler residents to head to Earth for Halloween! But a last-minute Halloween “trick” means there’s a lot more on the itinerary than just collecting treats.

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