Wraith's Journal #24 - Is Halloween canon? [S2E11]
A question at the outset: Are these Halloween special episodes canon? Ponder this while I ramble about the episodes.
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Anyway, it's apparently Halloween and Mr. Diaz is failing to scare kids.. again. He goes off to sulk and Angie leaves him a bowl of candy corn (candy corn is a legit Halloween candy - fight me).
Star tries to fix Rafael's hauntless house by summoning Hungry Larry. Hungry Larry seems benign, but eventually anyone who goes near him gets eaten, causing them to scream, which attracts folks wondering what's so scary, resulting in more people getting eaten, including Star and Marco.
Rafael eventually investigates why everyone's missing and finds a very fat Hungry Larry with all the kids and his family inside. Enraged, he dives into Hungry Larry, causing Larry to regurgitate everyone. Everyone is safe, and everyone was 'terrified' (in a good way) by Rafael. Halloween is saved!
Hungry Larry gives us the lesson that the scariest thing of all is a 'man who's lost everything'. Rafael darkly insists Larry leave immediately, which he does - with a levitating taxi.
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Spider With a Top Hat is the first of the 'spells' episodes! We're in the.. Wand dimension? What is the official name of this place, actually?
Anyway, Spider With a Top Hat (Spider) entertains the other spells and generally keeps up morale around Star's spells' room. Spider wishes he was strong like the other spells and trains in secret, tiring himself out. He's so exhausted and depressed that he doesn't wake up the other spells on time one day. The other spells give him space, but eventually Star starts calling out various combat spells.
Star uses literally her entire arsenal, leaving Spider as the only one left. He tends to a wounded warnicorn that returns. Warnicorn tells Spider he has the "hat of a warrior", right before Star calls "Spider With a Top Hat Blast!"
Spider is summoned against a giant wolf attacking Marco and Star. Spider gathers what courage he has, and.. his hat has a minigun that shoots lasers? Spider attacks the wolf, and defeats it. Marco and Star celebrate, with Star noting that Spider is the "strongest spell [she's] got".
Spider returns to the spells' room and everyone celebrates him. Spider is happy that he realized his full potential. Even the smallest spells can do big things.
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It's the Halloween special, it's good fun. Everyone going missing when Hungry Larry eats them is kind of tense, although I'm not one to scare easily.
Anyway, as I asked at the beginning, is this episode canon? It doesn't seem to fit with the timeline:
- Star's "14th birthday" - December (S1E1a Star Comes to Earth)
- Star spends at least "47 days" on Earth - roughly mid-February (S1E3b The Other Exchange Student)
- The Love Sentence Concert is on April 1 (Book 1 - Star & Marco's Guide)
- The end-of-school-year party is likely May or June (S2E22 Starcrushed)
- Star's 15th birthday - the following December (S3E14a Stump Day)
This is only Season 2, Episode 11. How could Halloween, which occurs in October, occur before something in May or June? Not to mention Star left Earth at that point.
The simple answer is: This is just TV and 'special' episodes just kind of occur whenever. Not to mention this is just a side episode that doesn't really affect the main plot. Although, Marco did make Star a patch for her cape in Season 4's Knight Shift that has their Halloween costumes on it.
What do you think? 'Just TV', or something else?
Posted Apr 10, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC