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"The One with the Text Message" | "Boo, Dude" | "6teen: Dude of the Living Dead" | 
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| "Boo, Dude" | |
| Episode name reference to/pun on: None | |
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| Season 1, Episode 26 | |
| Airdate: | CAN: October 10, 2005 USA: November 6, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Karen Lessmann |
| Written by: | Jennifer Pertsch |
| Story Editors: | Jennifer Pertsch |
| Episode Guide | |
Boo, Dude is the twenty-sixth episode of the first season and of 6teen. It first aired on Teletoon on October 20, 2005 and later in the United States on November 6, 2008.
Halloween is coming on, which means that the guys are going to prank Ron and that Coach Halder is going way overboard with his Halloween fun. Meanwhile, Caitlin tries to get a kiss from Talon.
Plot[]
Main Plot[]
The gang is gathered around the Big Squeeze on Halloween when Jonesy brings up that he got a new job at the costume shop and as a result will be able to hook his friends up for free. Caitlin readily agrees, as she's going to a monster movie marathon with her newest flame Talon, but nobody else is interested: Nikki doesn't want to dress up at work, seeing as the Clones already plan to do that, and Jen is being forced to dress up as a pig by Coach Halder, who really loves Halloween. After this conversation concludes, Jonesy tells Caitlin that every year the guys get together to try and prank Ron on Halloween. Unfortunately, they haven't been very successful the past few years, and Ron is keeping an eye on them in order to prepare for their inevitable attempt.
The boys have a trick up their sleeve: a book of great pranks. To demonstrate its power, Jude calls the Khaki Barn at Nikki's insistence and performs a prank on her co-workers. Even with the book, though, the guys are having a hard time coming up with something unexpected and impressive until Caitlin comes up with a suggestion of her own: why not slip a security tag into Ron's pocket so that he'll set off alarms all over the mall? The guys think that this is a great idea, and walk off to set it up until Caitlin calls Jonesy back.
Caitlin needs Jonesy because she wants a guy's frame of mine. She's been on three dates with Talon, and he still hasn't kissed her, so she wants to know what's going on. Jonesy then questions her about what she's been doing and comes to the conclusion that she's not presenting enough of a challenge to him. If she plays harder to get, Talon will be all over her.
The guys then go out to set up the prank. While Jude distracts Ron, Jonesy slips the tag into his back pocket. They then follow Ron around the mall until he enters the Penalty Box, where he is subsequently threatened by a chainsaw-welding Coach Halder. Ron's nerves are made of steel, though, and he confronts the man without flinching a bit. When he pulls out his ticket book to write Coach Halder a ticket for improper use of gardening equipment, the tag slips out as well, and Ron realizes what the prank was.
A new prank is needed, so they set one up involving Jude in a police officer's uniform. Unfortunately for them, Ron sees right through the charade and quickly unmasks Jude. After this, they try to scare him with a battery-operated toy rat, but the rat's batteries die immediately after it runs into Ron. When Ron spots it, he realizes it's another failed prank attempt, and he yells to the hidden pranksters that if this is the best that they can do, it'll be a quieter day than he was expecting.
This only makes the would-be pranksters more motivated, and soon Jonesy has drawn up a new plan of attack. Since they know when Ron leaves the building, they'll block off the entrance to all the bathrooms except for one, then disable the lights in that bathroom, and then gather people in the restroom. When Ron uses the bathroom, they'll signal the group to kick open his stall door and take a picture of the rent-a-cop with his pants down. Of course, they need to make sure that Ron will need to use the bathroom, and for that Wyatt has just the ticket: a gigantic frozen coffee that he'll give to Ron as a gift.
After Wyatt gives the coffee as a gift, Jen enlists Coach Halder as one of the scarers, and the boys begin to set up the bathroom. Jude uses juice crystals to make fake blood, while Jonesy prepares an additional prank: buttering the toilet seats. When Ron goes to use the toilet, not only will he be caught with his pants down, but he’ll be also caught with his butt wedged in the toilet.
When the big time comes, their victim sneaks into the restroom. When the stall door shuts, the pranksters creep out, and Coach Halder kicks open the stall door while wildly swinging his chainsaw. This causes their victim to scream just as Jude takes a picture of the scene. Immediately after that, the butter kicks in, and the victim slides into the toilet. However, Jen recognizes the scream and turns the lights on. Caitlin has been the victim of their prank, while Ron has stayed a step ahead of them by using the bathroom in the Khaki Barn.
The next day, Ron comes by and gives tickets to all the guys before heading back to his office. However, with the failure of their Halloween prank, they've thought up a post-Halloween joke to play on Ron: set a chocolate cupcake on his chair in the hopes that he'll sit on it. Ron does and spends the rest of the day walking around with a giant brown stain on the back of his pants.
Sub-Plot One: Caitlin and Talon[]
After Jonesy gives Caitlin his advice, Caitlin tries to play it cool around Talon by pretending to have a call on her cell phone when he passes her by at the Big Squeeze. Unfortunately, she gets an actual call in the middle of her fake conversation, making her look foolish. Her next idea is to look at magazines for suggestions and see that when a guy stares at your mouth, he's thinking of kissing you. When she goes for her coffee date with Talon, however, she goes with a piece of spinach caught in her teeth, which naturally draws Talon's eye. When he points this out, she leaves in shame.
Caitlin comes to the conclusion that her last, best hope is to have an amazing costume and impress Talon at the movies with it. To do this, she gets a showgirl costume from Jonesy. However, when she shows up at the movie theater, it turns out that she's the only one who dressed up, which elicits laughter from the other partygoers.
Talon stands by her, though, because he loves Halloween, and he reveals that he planned to dress up but was afraid that she'd think it lame. His admission helps turn the tide of the audience, as several people at the movies wanted to dress up for Halloween as well, and soon Talon and Caitlin have a good time watching the movie. After it ends, however, Caitlin needs to pee, and finds that the only open restroom is the men's room in the food court.
With Talon standing guard, she enters the restroom, but finds that the lights are off inside. She makes her way to a stall and prepares herself, but as she does she hears footsteps. Suddenly, a man in a hockey mask and coveralls bursts through the shut stall door and swings a chainsaw in her direction while screaming. This frightens Caitlin, and she screams just as Jude pops up to take a photo. At that moment, the butter kicks in, and she slides into the toilet. However, Jen has figured out that the wrong person is in the stall, stops the prank, and helps her back into Talon's arms.
Sub-Plot Two: Coach Halder Vorhees[]
At the Penalty Box, not only is Jen being forced to wear an ugly costume, but her boss is taking way too much pleasure in scaring customers. He is so gung-ho to scare that he's taking any possible victim, from old to young, and not even a ticket from the mall rent-a-cop does anything to make him ease off. Jen's commissions are in serious jeopardy because of his scaring, and she doesn't know how to make him stop until she sees him driven into a panic when Stanley enters the store dressed as a giant mouse.
This gives Jen an idea, and soon she replaces the batteries in the toy mouse and uses it to scare Coach Halder. Once he's been properly frightened, she gets through to him that he's going way over the top for Halloween. To mitigate his disappointment, however, she suggests that he scares somebody who needs it, and enlists him into the big bathroom prank.
Trivia[]
- Jonesy's job: Costume store employee
Reason for firing: Since Halloween came to an end, all seasonal employees were laid off, but Jonesy was never seen fired.
Notes[]
- Coach Halder has suriphobia, a fear of mice and rodents also known as "musophobia" or "murophobia". He once got a rat inside his jockstrap.
- Jude's surname, Lizowski, is revealed in this episode when he is trying to trick Ron, introducing himself as "Officer Lizowski, city police."
- Some of the characters wear costumes to celebrate Halloween. In order of appearance:
- Jen - a lame pig costume (given to her by Coach Halder and later discarded)
- Coach Halder - hockey mask, coveralls and chainsaw
- Charlie Dobbs - a mummy
- Caitlin - Vegas Showgirl (although when asked what she is, she doesn't know, as the costume was given to her by Jonesy)
- Talon - a Batman-style costume
- Jude, Jonesy, and Wyatt have been pulling pranks on Ron every Halloween due to their parents telling them they're too old to go trick-or-treating.
Errors[]
- On one of the two Retro Rerun uploads of the episode, it is incorrectly stated in the title to be a Christmas episode.
- This episode aired in place of "It's Always Courtney, Courtney, Courtney!" whenever it was listed on Cartoon Network's schedule.
- Caitlin mentions that Talon hasn't kissed her after several dates. Strangely enough, they have kissed before and broken up as a result. According to Caitlin, Talon "kissed like a golden retriever."
Episode connections[]
- This is one of the few episodes dealing with holidays:
- The season one finale, "Dude of the Living Dead", is a Halloween-themed episode just like this one.
- "In a Retail Wonderland...", "Deck the Mall", and "How the Rent-A-Cop Stole Christmas" are all Christmas-themed episodes.
- "Midnight Madness" is a New Year's Eve/New Year's Day-themed episode.
- "Stupid Over Cupid" is a Valentine's Day-themed episode.
- The Barbie-styled costumes that The Clones wore later appeared in the episode "Quit It", which they wore as part of the Rock Maniac tournament.
- This is the pregnant woman's first appearance. She makes her second appearance in the episode "Welcome to the Darth Side", and finally in the episode "Smarten Up", where she gives birth to a baby that Jonesy helps her with (to which he fainted afterwards).
- Jude, Jonesy, and Wyatt's prank on Ron leaves him with a brown stain on the back of his pants, similarly to an incident involving Jen in the episode "Pillow Talk".
Cultural references[]
- Talon's costume is a reference to comic book character Batman.
- The Clones' costumes are a reference to Mattel's line of Barbie dolls.
- Coach Halder's Halloween costume is a reference to Jason Voorhees, a character from the film Friday the 13th. His chainsaw in question is a reference to the character Leatherface, the main antagonist of the film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.