'The Mick' Season 2, Episode 4 'The Haunted House' Recap: 'I Freakin' Hate Halloween!' [SPOILERS]

What a Halloween episode! “The Mick” brings us another half-hour of outrageous laughs and crazy fright antics as Mickey (Kaitlin Olson) and Jimmy (Scott MacArthur) throw the best Halloween party in the neighborhood. Sabrina (Sofia Black-D’Elia) uses this as an opportunity for her to leave a lasting legacy to her peers and tries to get with Matty Pruitt, a popular freshman jock. Meanwhile, as things get out of hand, Mickey is also forced to act as the neighborhood watch for Halloween night.

Prepping up The ‘Haunted’ House

It’s Halloween morning and we see Mickey and Jimmy play a prank on Chip (Thomas Barbusca). He comes into his room to find Jimmy sprawled and having spasms. As he screams for help Mickey comes at him (a la Texas Chainsaw Massacre) wearing an Obama mask and threatening to kill Chip. They tell him that they’re throwing a party, and Chip says that he hates Halloween.
They head downstairs to decorate the house and prepare for the party. Sabrina is excited and is ready to show everyone that she is still the most popular girl in school. She’s using the party to make a lasting legacy. Alba (Carla Jimenez) walks in with more animal entrails for decoration, just as Mickey and Jimmy talk about Halloween costumes. They assign each other a character, with Alba going as Fernando Valenzuela, Mickey as Randy Johnson, Sabrina as Steve Jobs and Jimmy as literal garbage. Ben (Jack Stanton) tells them that his butt is “throwing up,” and Mickey tasks Jimmy to take care of it.

The neighborhood security comes knocking at their door. Turns out that Chip informed him that Mickey is throwing a party, and he wants none of it. They assure the security guy that they weren’t holding a party and closes the door. Alba and Mickey then lock Chip in a cage for being a snitch.

It’s Party Night!

Come party night, the mansion is packed. Everybody is in their respective costumes, and Jimmy tells Mickey about the upgrades that he installed to make the night scarier. However, things don’t go according to plan as every single one of the booby traps fail to work. Jimmy sets out to fix them all.
Sabrina points Matty—the freshman guy she wants to screw and dressed as Peter Pan—out to Mickey and Alba and tells them that she’ll leave her legacy through sleeping with him. Things get a little complicated as they find out that Matty came with a girl dressed as Tinker Bell. Sabrina is irritated and tries to talk Matty’s girl into leaving the party.

Meanwhile, as Jimmy tries to fix the broken traps, Chip begs him to be set free. Instead, Jimmy gives him a monkey costume to wear. The party rages on and we see Mickey and Alba playing a drinking game. But the party comes to a halt when the security guy interrupts the party and tells them to shut it down. As Mickey taunts him, Alba knocks him unconscious with a pumpkin. They lock him up in the cage with Chip. As they leave, an officer radios in, telling the security guy about trouble in the neighborhood. That’s when Mickey and Alba decide to act as the night’s neighborhood watch. They radio back and tells the dispatcher that they are on their way.
Ben, who’s sleeping sound in his room, awakens as he wears zombie makeup. He stumbles into the party and has his fill of candy.

And now their watch has begun

Mickey and Alba make their rounds in the patrol car. As Mickey tries to put out a small fire, she gets egged by a group of teenage boys. She comes after them and manages to catch one of the boys. He brings Mickey and Alba to their hideout, and Mickey threatens to put the boys in juvy prison if they don’t eat all the eggs that they have. She puts detains all of them in the patrol car.

Back at the party, Sabrina swoops in for the kill. She tries to seduce Matty but fails. Matty tells her that he has a girlfriend (Tinker Bell) and he didn’t want to disrespect her. Sabrina awkwardly tries to shrug it off and storms into a room where Jimmy argues with someone over the phone. She rants at Jimmy and tells him that she could do anything she wanted because she’s popular. Little does she know that it was all caught on video, through the baby monitor that Jimmy installed in the room. Everyone at the party saw her emotional breakdown. Sabrina comes down to disgusted faces. She rants a little more, telling them that they’d all suffer because she will be the only popular girl left standing. As she goes on about her rant, Ben throws up in a bunch of electrical cables. This causes an electrical trip, making Jimmy’s bloody booby traps work. It all explodes just as Sabrina loses her cool and Mickey arrives with Alba. It’s a bloodfest, also reminiscent of the pig’s blood scene in Stephen King’s “Carrie” movie.

Everyone leaves the party’s mess. Some kids think Sabrina’s a witch, which isn’t bad if you really wanted to leave a legacy during Halloween night. Mickey sets Chip and the security guy free. She gives him the keys to the patrol car and says that she has the group of boys in it. The episode ends with Chip asking them to be done with the Halloween antics as Jimmy plans to acquire a corpse from the morgue. Chip then screams as he’s startled by a skeleton booby trap.

‘The Mick: The Haunted House’ Overall Verdict

FOX’s “The Mick” never fails to churn out no-brainer humor. It’s too early for this kind of episode, but it’s Halloween month anyway. This time, relationships aren’t put to the test; instead, we have each of the characters trying to prove something that they couldn’t in the end. But nonetheless, “The Haunted House” gave me a couple of good chuckles and outrageous laughs, totally making my 30-minute break worthwhile. The standout for this episode is definitely Sabrina, who, despite trying her best to leave a legacy, makes a huge fool out of herself into thinking that she’s still the popular rich girl she once was.
“The Mick” continues October 31st with “The Invention,” 9/8c on FOX.