EP 40 - 70s AND 80s HALLOWEEN

The Girls remember Halloween of Yore...Robbie-Ann's first costume memory, as a toddler: wearing a onesie kitty outfit in her Oma's neighborhood Halloween parade. Amy recalls her first-grade plastic "Cinderella" mask, paired with patent leather shoes and blue socks, and her shocking costume contest loss. Homemade vs. Store-bought costumes. God Bless the non artsy-craftsy moms. Robbie-Ann's faux 'princess' costume, created with her mother's old nightgown and last year's costume cape. The rubber band on the plastic masks, held together with The World's Flimsiest Staple. Robbie-Ann's "Community Center" Halloween, and the bag of dried apricot ears. The Candy. Big ticket items: a full sized Reeses Peanut Butter cup, a full-sized Snickers bar. Robbie-Ann rejects Milky Ways and Three Musketeers - why were there always so many of them? The five pennies taped together. Raisins. Sweet little old ladies who handed out popcorn balls. Robbie-Ann realizes later in life the care and effort it took to tape all those pennies and make those popcorn balls. The Rules: no eating on the road, all candy had to be inspected by Mom and Dad. Trading candy with Cousin Michelle. Smarties: the first candies on the table. Performance-Based candy rewards: a full-sized Snickers bar. SNOW on Halloween?! Amy's candy brokering. The no-name orange and black wrapped nougat candies. Dum-Dums. Bazooka bubble gum pieces. Unwrapped, open random Twizzlers in the bag: thrown out immediately by Mom. Fun-sized candy bars. The poisoned candy urban myth, and why Robbie-Ann's mother would not allow her to eat trick-or-treat apples. Robbie-Ann reports the history of Three Musketeers, and a shocking revelation about the candy bar's origin. The razor in the apple urban legend: was it real? Amy reports on the controversy, and uncovers a horrible story about a child murder in the 70s. Halloween II: the emergency room scene with a kid who bit into a razor blade hidden in an apple. Candy Corn: iconic. Robbie-Ann defends the much-maligned candy and explains how you're supposed to eat it. Jelly beans. The mystery flavor abomination known as the sponge peanut. Tootsie Rolls: problematic. Milk Duds: they taste like they're supposed to be something else.  Pumpkin Carving!! Pumpkin Patch vs. Supermarket Pumpkins. The family carving ritual, with newspapers and roasted pumpkin seeds. Screwing up the teeth and eyebrows. The TV specials: The Great Pumpkin.  Witches Night Out, the 1978 Halloween animated special starring Gilda Radner. Robbie-Ann shares a warm memory from Gramma Helen's kitchen on a cold fall night. The Headless Horseman cartoon. Chilling Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House record. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. The Monster Mash. TV series Halloween "special" episodes. Alice smashes Mrs. Brady's ceramic bust because the boys kept scaring everyone with fake ghosts.