The Halloween Tree (1993 TV Movie)
Edan Gross: Tom
Quotes
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Tom : Please sir, trick or treat.
Mr. Moundshroud : So you've tricked me, is that it? What would a treat be then, hmm?
Tom : Well, we saw our friend come in here. If you let him go, that would be a treat.
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Tom : [reading] Dear Tom and all the gang.
Wally : Didn't mean to spoil your Halloween, off to the hospital.
Jenny : Something about appendicitis. Don't worry, I'll catch up. Signed...
Tom : Appendicitis?
Wally : You could die from that, right?
Tom : P.S., start without me, I'll catch up. Ready. Set. Go?
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Jenny : Notre Dame! I think we've built Notre Dame!
Wally : But this can't be Notre Dame! Can't you see what's missing? Monster faces!
Tom : You know, stone devils.
Ralph : Marble demons!
Mr. Moundshroud : Gargoyles. Ever wonder why we like dressing up as monsters, beasts and ornery critters?
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Tom : A pumpkin tree?
Mr. Moundshroud : No, a HALLOWEEN tree!
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Tom : [arriving at Pip's house] Huh?
Ralph : Impossible.
Jenny : It can't be!
Wally : What?
[the house is scarcely decorated]
Jenny : Where're the jack-o-lanterns?
Ralph : And the corn shucks on the porch?
Wally : And monsters clinging to the roof!
Tom : [running around to the back] Something's wrong, awfully wrong!
[they turn the corner and see Pip being loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital]
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Tom : [sees Pip running down the ravine] It's Pip! PIP!
Wally : [aghast] Hey, I can see right through him!
Ralph : Nah, it's just this funny moonlight.
Tom : The important thing is he's not sick.
Wally : But what about the hospital?
Tom : Don't you get it? It was a joke all the time, the ambulance, that note on the door, what a trickster! Hey Pip! You sure had us fooled! Where's your Halloween costume?
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Mr. Moundshroud : Who are you?
Tom : The name's Tom Skelton, sir.
Mr. Moundshroud : Know why you're wearing bones, boy? Bah! Didn't think so. And you?
Ralph : My friends call me...
Mr. Moundshroud : Why so dressed up in an ancient mummy's rags, huh? Time's up! And you, the big one!
Wally : Me, sir?
Mr. Moundshroud : Why a monster's face? And what about you, girl?
Jenny : Jenny!
Mr. Moundshroud : Why are you wearing the costume of a witch? No thoughts, aye?
[moans]
Mr. Moundshroud : I'm wasting my breath. All dressed up for All Hallow's Eve, but you don't know why, or what, or even from where!
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Tom : And you, sir? Who might you be?
Mr. Moundshroud : Oh yes, of course.
[hands Tom his card]
Mr. Moundshroud : Moundshroud is the name. Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud. Is that but a fine name, children? Does it
[chuckles]
Mr. Moundshroud : ring? But I have work to do tonight, no treats, only tricks.