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[The camera turns on to show the inside of a store. It's decorated with cobwebs and hanging bats, the corner of a menacing skeleton just at the edge of the screen. It's a Halloween store through and through, that much is obvious.

Suddenly, though, there's a shadow on the wall and some extremely exaggerated mwahahahahahaha! type laughter before Bart pops into view. His hair is slicked back and he has fake fangs stuck to his teeth, just barely visible over how he has his arm thrown in front of him, draped in a black cape.]

Bewaaaare the mighty Draaaacula! [He wiggles his eyebrows in what he hopes is a menacing way before breaking out into laughter] Oh! Oh, or- [He runs from in front of the camera, and all that can be heard is the gentle wshhh of fabric moving against fabric.

Just a few seconds later he's walking stiffly back on screen, arms held out straight in front of him and wrapped in fake bloody bandages, his mouth slack and open in a loud groan. He makes it halfway across the screen before dissolving back into laughter and running off again.

What follows are a few quick costume changes and rather theatrical reveals; Pirate.] ARRRR Someone be tellin' me that- pfff- [Ghost] BOO! Haha!! Someone told me that October has this- this thing called- [Mad Scientist] Halloween muahahaha! Which, dude, best idea for a holiday ever do we really get candy if we dress up?

[He's forgoing the costume change now, instead just grabbing up his comm and grinning into it excitedly.] I mean, I've never gotten to do Halloween and it sounds totally crash so I started wondering what other holidays are there? This world, other worlds, oh are there alien holidays??

[Just then, another voice cuts in - HEY! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE PACKAGE! - and Bart winces comically - YOU BETTER BE BUYING ALL OF THESE, KID!!] Whoops, busted.

[There's a final glimpse of the store, a rather impressive pile of discarded costumes, an angry shop keeper, and Bart's unrepentant grin, before the video cuts.]

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[hydraated]

[Kid you are going to get yourself killed]

How do you not have Halloween kid? [Ward is petting a very large dog while he's talking.] And how are all those roombas working out?

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Dunno. We just don't have it in my era. Too retro. [The reply comes a few minutes later, and from the background Bart's in a totally different section of the city]

The roombas? Dude! They're totally crash! I've already reconfigured a few and given them away, my cousin has one now they even named it. [He grins] Thanks, again.

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[hands4healing]

[Have a puzzled young woman staring at you.]

What holiday?

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Halloween! It's- [HOLD ON] Wai- whoa whoawhoawhoa whoa. You don't know what Halloween is? At all?

Okay. Okay. It's the most crashin' thing ever! It's October 31st and everyone dresses up in costumes of whatever they want and goes house to house to house and gets candy! For free!!

[It's literally the best]

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[animalage]

That's what we have to look forward to? A future without Halloween?

[He is pretty distressed right now, because that sounds like literately the worst thing. What is life without Halloween!? ...n o t that gar has that much Halloween experience between his days in Qurac and the cave but...at least he knew what it was?]

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[Oh right, Gar might know the basics of 2016, but from the time he's from? He... wouldn't know the nitty gritty of the apocalypse side of things.

... Bart doesn't want to lie, but he also doesn't want to ruin the kid]

Nope! Yours is all different, amigo. Changed that when I got stranded in 2016. You'll have Halloween until the end of time. [He hopes. God how he hopes.]

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[glitterateur]

You'll love Halloween, it's the best holiday! You get candy if you dress up, but you get even more candy if people think your costume is cool or cute. [She speaks with a definite air of experience on that topic.]

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[moded]

Whoa, wait. There's a candy to costume ratio? Dude! You gotta give me the run down.

[No really Bart's looking way too intensely focused, now.]

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[performance]

Oh, man, you're gonna love Christmas.

... but please don't taunt the underpaid retail employees.

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Christmas? [Robin, that's a moment of actual confusion and zero recognition before finally, finally it clicks. Kinda.] Oh! That's the one with elves in December, right?

Hey, I didn't do anything! He never told me I couldn't open them! [Yes he did, Bart just wasn't listening]

[braided_icarus]

...Halloween?

[Yeah. Amestris does not do these holidays you speak of. Ed is clueless.]

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Halloween! Happens on October 31st? Everyone dresses up and goes house to house to get candy? Based on the Gaelic tradition of Samhain? [Bart stop devouring wikipedia]

Dude, it's like. Probably the best holiday! [Or so he'll say until the next holiday comes around.]

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[mayatama]

Well, my favorite holidays are Christmas and National Hamburger Day. Though not a lot of people know about the latter, which is kind of sad.

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National Hamburger Day? [WHAT] When is it? Dude, does it exist here I mean even if it doesn't we should totally bring it here what do you do on Hamburger Day?

[motherboxes]

Well, there are quite a lot of holidays. Some depending on which country or religion. But the ones I know of are Valentines Day, Easter, Halloween, 4th of July, oh, and Thanksgiving and Christmas. They're the big ones I guess.

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I know of Halloween, the Fourth, and Christmas, kinda. And uh- I think my mom mentioned something about Thanksgiving but. Holidays aren't big in my time.

[He definitely looks really, really curious about them, though] What ones can I celebrate?

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Bitch.

Please.

You call those costumes? I could out-costume any of those any day. I could do it with a ten dollar budget and my eyes closed! Look kid, if you want a good costume, I'd be willing to part with a few hours to hook a brother up.

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[Wally, stop corrupting your poor, sweet, innocent cousin]

I dunno, these seemed pretty cream of the crop top dollar one hundred percent believable don't think you could do better even with a hundred dollar budget and costuming classes.

[Is he goading? He's totally goading.]

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[khajidont]

Aw, Bart, don't torment the poor guy. Or at least fold the costumes.

[Hey, working retail sucks!

Then again, he can't quite keep the curl of a smile off his face when he says,] I dunno if I wanna be anywhere near you after a night of free candy. You're gonna be bouncing off the walls.

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I won't be bouncing off them that's stupid. I'd go right through them.

[Is he just blatantly talking about powers and halfway showing them off on a public broadcast? YOU BETTER BET HE IS!

He's... basically just given up on secret ID's at this point. They're dumb.]

And uh- no. I was going to repackage them but no way I'm going back in there now.

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[projectkr]

Yeah, you really get candy if you dress up. All you have to do is go door-to-door to get it. Last Halloween I went to a party as a mummy.

[M'gann dressed him up.]

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[moded]

What? Really??? Was it a team party? Oh oh! Do you think team parties happen in 2016 I mean its not the time for parties but after do you think we'd have parties if I go back because that'd be even more crash I'd get Halloween here and whenever I go back home were you really a mummy?

[He's buzzing with excitement.

No, really.

He's buzzing.

The camera's even shaking.]

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[lyingheart]

From what I understand, there are different celebrations that occur between different countries. The United States has their own celebrations and holidays, different from the United Kingdom, or Japan, for example.

Back home, you were more likely to witness festivals around harvest time. Things like that.

Halloween occurs on October 31st?

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yeah i think its a christianized feast initially influenced by celtic harvest festivals with possible pagan roots like the gaelic samhain

[If it sounds like he's regurgitating wikipedia its because he's regurgitating wikipedia]

but we have people from all over right maybe we should all start celebrating different things like everyone puts the dates down and we have a bit import party to celebrate cause i mean itd be nice to have other people doing it even if they arent from your world or whatever right its just better to do things with other people and itd be way crash having people together so often

[He's just recently discovered how much of a blast people can have hanging out in a group. And believe you me he is going to look to recreate it as often as possible]

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[gabriel_gray]

They gave you the ability to perform a quick change? Oh well, now I'm impressed. Who needs super strength when you can do that?

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[....... damnit]

whoops
oh man that WAS too fast huh

[And here he thought he was at least doing an okay job of it]