What I’m Watching: Suburgatory (Halloween Episode #1)

Suburgatory: Season 1, Episode 5 “Halloween” (B)

I’ve never been a big fan of comedy series that do Halloween episodes that are meant to be seriously creepy. I remember a “Boy Meets World” installment from years ago that freaked me out a lot. In any case, this episode started out like that with the whole Misty storyline, but fortunately, it all came to a clever and entertaining end. It doesn’t quite seem like Tessa to just put on some random girl’s clothes and wear them to school, but I suppose it does serve her purpose of mocking all of her ignorant classmates. Misty’s return during the exorcism was amusing, and only in these suburbs would it be easier to say she went to “a better place,” presuming that means death, than to a remedial school called “A Better Place.” George’s frustration with not being able to decorate his lawn for a scary Halloween is understandable, but it does seem that much of this show is just going to be George and his daughter trying to change the way things work in the suburbs. Fortunately, Dallas is a huge fan of his, and her efforts to get into the spirit of Halloween were decently commendable, though she really wasn’t so strong with the delivery. The return of her husband, played by the dependably despicable Jay Mohr, should throw for things a loop, especially since Dallas clearly doesn’t love him anymore. George did manage to get her to like Halloween, so something tells me he’s going to win this particular popularity contest without even having to try too hard.