Inventing a New and Iconic and Merchandisable Monster | Show of the Weekend

[@Icam_here]

i can imagine one day Luke is going to come back to the list he has been writing in this and have no clue why he wrote all this down

[@toymachine2328]

*iconic *franchiseable *MERCHANDISEABLE ☆☆☆ *if there's time- scary ...."f'd up 'GDT stuff'... what the heck did I mean there? 'GDT stuff'....do I even want to Google that?"

[@apocrypha5363]

"I'm pretty sure this was a shopping list..."

[@iris4547]

i do this all the time in onenote. write things that are important at the time down with no context or title, come back weeks, months, years later and wonder wtf it means.

[@mooniejohnson]

The Psychosexual Gnomes were a great punk band.

[@migleroide]

And a very merchandisable t-shirt graphic

[@NaughtyFox1331]

I love how this channel goes completely wild on Saturdays now🤣

[@danteish3re]

During the week it's all fun and games from both channels then you get show of the weekend pure chaos energy

[@sebastianwlodarczyk]

You know, in a "man in a van luring children with confectionaries BUT is actually an eldritch being gathering energy from its victims as they fall" concept, the actual monster part feels like the less creepy one

[@feebleweevil]

I was definitely imagining the cinematic First Kill of the hypothetical film being the vanman travelling isolated cliffside roads to push people off (before arriving at the coastal town where the Goonies style child cast live).

[@Faranya]

True, but no one is going to want to buy an action figure of normal human van predator...

[@michaelross2972]

There is truly nothing better than letting Andy and Luke just talk uninterrupted

[@pmonday]

This is why I was so excited when they started doing Mom Can't Cook.

[@amory765]

@@pmonday It's SO good, I could really stand for one episode a week for the next, ever

[@liamross340]

@@amory765 need them to keep going with it forever. more disney channel original movies need to keep being pumped out just for episodes

[@SteveDice21]

I like how they started joking around but got progressively more into it as the video went on.

[@thewingedporpoise]

I mean that's always how it goes

[@CaitlinRC]

If you want a monster, the horrifying anteater creation back in the Kinect NBA video that OX did is a pretty terrifying beast

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

Was that the Jane facescan thing?

[@CantankerousDave]

*Some* of us had finally repressed that memory...

[@duanegee7636]

although very frightening, is it merchandisable?

[@thatfield977]

For a second I thought you were talking about Wrong Jeremy

[@Jillbles]

@@CantankerousDave I was so close, but it's fully back now. 😆

[@Borderlines]

Andy and Luke has the energy of two troublemaking brothers 😆

[@ltamha]

The dark haired version of the Weasley brothers pops straight into my head seeing your comment.

[@harrypatatochips139]

They feel like Mac and Charlie from sunny

[@Joe90h]

I would totally listen to a podcast of these two talking about Disney Channel Original Movies, if such a thing were to exist.

[@RangerBeef]

The ice cream vein is good because ice cream van music is always creepy when played backwards. I was thinking of calling it just The Angler. Lean into the ice cream man being the angler fish. Because you can't kill the Eldritch Abomination but you can starve it. Remove the ice cream man, remove the food source, starve the greater evil. Leaves you open for sequels too because you end with them thinking they got all the ice cream man but then there's a man on the corner selling from a push cart and he's the new beginning.

[@youliahadzhidimova5260]

Oh, that's good! Also there can be something in the ice cream - like a bug or a human tooth or sth creepy, that you need to swallow to be marked. But if you find it you're ok. (Finding gross stuff in your food is a good horror trope and it can make you food paranoid in real life.) It can also be used as a reveal that there are more ice cream men. You're having a therapeutic ice cream at the end of the movie to prove to yourself that it's over. But then you (and the camera) look down and there's a worm or sth in the ice cream. Did you find it in time or did you already eat some of it?

[@j.jadams5477]

As a horror fan this was such a fun episode to experience, there's just something about Luke and Andy coming up with increasingly unhinged ideas that I love

[@warpstorm1988]

I like the idea that it doesn’t have a name and “the catcher” is just what the victims have dubbed it.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

Ditto. I also like the idea (from Luke?) that it doesn't have eyes, just a fleshy face and sunglasses. The icecream jingle could be the standard jingle but slightly slowed down with a few discordant notes in (Edit: not creepily so, but as if the system was slightly broken or on low battery). What I don't yet like is that they didn't really come up with anything that the catcher does when it catches you. Ok, you're caught and have to escape. Is that it? Is the catcher's domain just there for you to escape from? ... I mean, ok. The catcher is an escape room monster, and you have to work with friends and/or total randoms to escape or be trapped forever, I guess.

[@pot6455]

Like "The Grabber" from The Black Phone

[@thegamingbadger5940]

@@TheRawrnstuff I like the idea that he shatters your mind, so maybe if you don’t escape he leeches from your mental energy and you lose your mind? So there’s a ticking clock element, plus you can create prequels about the kids that the kids from the first movie meet and who have already lost their minds.

[@catoninetales]

It has a name but it's inconceivable to the human mind, maybe.

[@TheYorkRose]

And Mr Treats is just the name on the side of the van (and therefore the toys), so both work, and the sequel can be the same Catcher but with a different avatar on the surface world eg a PE teacher or painted human statue person 👀

[@dallydaydream]

"What if the toilet itself were the monster?" See what you've got there is a mimic Watching your thought processes, with invaluable input from Jon, is an absolute delight

[@the_blind_scout]

They never suspected the Potpourri...

[@dallydaydream]

@@the_blind_scout Oh dear god D:

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

You can tell if a toilet is a mimic by which side the chain is on.

[@rayquazzenron3853]

This video makes me wish we could see more of the oxboxtra's brainstorming sessions. Obviously Luke and Andy make a brilliant pair but think about what Jane could do in this video with all the practical knowledge she has about monsters

[@abydosianchulac2]

Jane would be a bit of a buzz kill for this one, though, because she'd constantly be talking about how your brilliant idea went wrong on her 700 or 800 years ago, and not why it _wouldn't_ work but why it _didn't_ work.

[@justmonifer]

I can already hear the scratching of Johnny's pen crossing out every instance of gnomes in Oxventure from now on, just in case Corazon or Dob inherit their creators' apparent need to turn them into psychosexual nightmares.

[@greyzonefilm]

I was not expecting to hear the phrase "psychosexual gnomes" so many times this morning, but I'm here for it.

[@MichaelSmith-zw5fu]

Alex Hirsch watching this: Yes. Gnomes taking the shape of a man... horrifying.

[@toratio8547]

I am genuinely shocked Luke and Andy don't know Gravity Falls, as it would 100% be their jam

[@katherinevasper1791]

@@toratio8547 Ellen is 100% Mabel.

[@g4cky]

First thing I though was GF too!

[@rmt3589]

@@g4cky same!

[@aegresen]

@@toratio8547 I feel like I remember them mentioning Gravity Falls before; could be they simply forgot about it at the moment.

[@TheWretchedOwl]

I can’t wait to see a follow up episode where they review all the insane fan art that will come from this.

[@Michael_Lindell]

Did you know: Farrant-enstein was the name of the doctor and not that of the monster.

[@mar_speedman]

Well of course Doctor Andy Farrantenstein knows that!

[@JackHammer503]

Also, Shelley's first draft of the monster was a psychosexual gnome

[@Aileil]

The monster was probably named Herman.

[@snorpenbass4196]

@@JackHammer503 So, basically Lord Byron, then?

[@robstuart8474]

Intelligence is knowing that Farrantenstein was not the monster; wisdom is knowing Farrantenstein was the monster.

[@bretthake7713]

When Imhotep catches people in the Fraser Mummy movie, he takes body parts to restore his own - we see eyes and tongue specifically but we also see him do like an advanced life-drain move that is just restorative in general after he levels up a bit

[@tomhausen9048]

The tag line can be "I scream you scream we all scream for ice cream" but the text is dripping down like ice cream or blood, who's to say!

[@ghostderazgriz]

That tag line is already taken, probably in that exact same format lol.

[@lacytaylor1501]

I don't know if it had that tagline but I remember that popular game a while back with the ice cream man who was taking kids and you had to go try to save one while avoiding him.

[@Neodeleux]

Sounds like the Ice Scream movie from the 70-80's

[@simmadpaul2880]

'Pusher'' was a character from an episode of the X Files who could make people do things by the power of suggestion

[@HeyJyll]

Look at the sky, a nice cerulean blue…

[@whee2390]

"standing on the shoulders of clowns" is not a phrase I expected to hear today but I'm glad that I did

[@carriefrazier1809]

Guessing they shot this right before the October games video: it would explain the amazingly wild outtake energy at the top of that piece 😂

[@michaelpirrone]

Yep, my first thought as well. "Ohhhhhh, I get yesterday's vid now."

[@Michael_Lindell]

This reminds me of the 1995 black comedy horror film "Ice Cream Man" starring Clint Howard (yes, THAT Clint Howard).

[@grankmisguided]

Clicked through to comments to point that out

[@revo1verrock]

I've always wanted to see the brainstorm that resulted in Ghostshark....it gets you on the toilet, it gets you in the shower, it can get you wherever you go swimming.

[@CantankerousDave]

I was genuinely convinced that such things existed as a kid. My babysitter had cable (this was the late 70s), and her kids looooooved to watch Jaws. And Phantasm. And It's Alive. Anything with geysers of blood, really. I was scared of lots of things back then.

[@dominateeye]

I can't say I saw it coming, but I'm excited nonetheless for the new direction this channel is taking. Good luck, Outside Psychosexual Gnomes!

[@thatfield977]

I absolutely love the chemistry these two have

[@CloonieKing]

honestly I'd watch "The Boiler". The idea about a "monster" which can boil water while you're swimming in it is scary

[@caiholroyd178]

Scary, but would only work once... like, the horror movie teens would see one of them getting boiled and just be like... "well, let's maybe not go swimming anymore" and then the monster is powerless

[@Faranya]

@@caiholroyd178 Until the monster recognises precisely how many places contain water.

[@CloonieKing]

@@caiholroyd178 but then maybe it storms. And in the end the character gets boiled from the inside

[@andreroy6320]

Human is about 60% water, imagine if/when it figures *THAT* out!? 😳

[@caiholroyd178]

@@andreroy6320 okay yes, but if it can boil the water inside you, then that's instant game over and there's no point watching the movie. Not very merchandisable

[@n-rage531]

The Scooper sounds like a better name... and yes, there's quite a couple of evil ice cream men out there, like Billy Kincaid from Spawn, the Ice Cream Man from Legion, played by the one and only Doug Jones and Gregory Tudor from Ice Cream Man (1995).

[@MrLennyShelby]

I'm ready for the inevitable Mr. Treats vs Plant Nutrition Boy crossover.

[@Brasc]

Naturally immune because he only ever eats plants! Until he develops vegan ice cream... which is already a thing... damn it.

[@juminor]

After yesterdays "7 new games out in October" video I really don't need a new monster, I'll just wait for the "grueling slog through 13th century France" to enjoy "amazing rat physics" 😂

[@Brasc]

Games Are Back!

[@puffpuffadder]

Once they said "the catcher" all I could picture was an ice cream version of the child catcher from chitty chitty bang bang. The question is will this also get a musical? I'd love to see how a musical deals with: "man falls through bed into giant worm stomach"

[@TheROOTminus1]

I remember seeing a video essay on the elements of horror; IIRC the fundamentals of scary are; unknown, uncanny, loss of agency, surprise, and probably others. A toilet monster would definitely hit all those elements.

[@mar_speedman]

Yeah, that was honestly my favorite one. The winker -I mean mistah treats- is pretty good, too, but that's more psychological dread than full on fright. The toilet monster is full on scary, because once it gets you, there's no coming back.

[@michaelkocwin]

“Luke/Andy have become my favourite pairing :) they are so cracked” Me, on the previous video

[@Drunken_mage]

Alternative name for this episode: Andy and Luke make the magnus archive film. Luv it

[@dallydaydream]

While they were listing all the times/places you are innately vulnerable, I did catch myself thinking "I wonder what they'd think of TMA"

[@Drunken_mage]

@@dallydaydream it was when they talked about falling that it clicked. And I'd definitely watch a movie about the vast.

[@dallydaydream]

@@Drunken_mage Simon Fairchild *would* make an excellent horror monster

[@jocosesonata]

I mean, I'm certain Luke can produce the ice-cream jingle, and the creepy version of it. It'd be good to present to any potential investors.

[@TheYorkRose]

Tbh I'm picturing a slow creepy version of teddy bears picnic the same way a slow pop goes the weasel is evil jack in the box territory, and I assume it's out of copyright if every ice cream van in the UK is using it already lol

[@adriankerrison]

"You've written psychosexual gnomes in all caps there. I don't know why you've done that?" To Google later Andy!

[@slimeysosa1013]

I like how the idea they came up with is basically Maxwell Prince's Ice Cream Man

[@wallygarrick]

I was hoping someone had said this!

[@mattball8622]

I was taking a drink when Andy said "We can't call him the winker" and laughed so hard I almost choked to death. A fine way to go.

[@ildanach]

Gravity Falls did combining gnomes there were a little psychotic. Scary Ice cream man was kinda made in Spawn with Kincaid. This is quite hard indeed.

[@mar_speedman]

They said *don't* look up scary ice cream men lol

[@ghostderazgriz]

psychosexual, not psychotic. VERY different.

[@ArcaneOwlchemist]

9:00 This is my nightmare. I live in an extremely rural area in NY, and I just imagine a deer walking out of the woods on just it's hind legs and it just freaks me the heck out.

[@Mulbert]

Big wendigo vibes 😱

[@stone5against1]

With big fangs and claws dripping blood for added effect?

[@ltamha]

I'm disappointed Luke didn't remember that absolutely horrifying scarab beetle scene in The Mummy! That part still comes to mind like 20 years later in my sleep paralysis and nightmares :')..

[@combatwombat555]

Just fully lost it at 'psychosexual gnomes', I should not have been eating at the time

[@mar_speedman]

I'm not sure if it's iconic, franchise-able, merchandise-able or scary, but it sure is original lol

[@Banquet42]

Tie In book by Noam Chomsky surely?

[@chefbreccia2642]

Between psychosexual gnomes, rat physics and CROW CROW CROW I'm starting to wonder if it's safe for these two to be in the same room together.

[@mar_speedman]

@@chefbreccia2642 Wait, rat physics?? When?? Must see, NOW! D:

[@CantankerousDave]

*Upcoming film adaptation by David Lynch.

[@AnanasVert]

Oxbox reinventing the Magnus Archives entities is not something i was expecting today but god i'm sure glad they did

[@heathernicol3026]

Andy scoffing at mummies made me instantly think “Ohhh, Forewarned” :D It’s so much fun to watch you guys having so much fun. ^_^ Also, Jon laughing off-camera gives me life. xD

[@syncdom]

In the "Mummy" series it drains the life force of it's targets leaving them as dried out husks.

[@ilikechococookies342]

And takes their organs! And unleashes a whole bunch of plagues!

[@tracyjackson4406]

"I scream. You scream. We all scream" coming to cinemas this Halloween 🎃 😱🍦

[@Mulbert]

I was thinking this!

[@stone5against1]

The title should just be "Ice Cream"

[@tomastomasi975]

A scary enemy for me would be something that gives off creepy sounds like frostbite spiders. Another is the Silence from Doctor Who, their look and the fact you can't bloody remember you're even fighting them. So mix in some weird sounds and memory modification and I will be terrified. Edit: Add in giving them the same voice Aoife Wilson uses when she chases people in Among Us.

[@AreYouShore464]

The ice cream angle lends itself to a great range of puns, such as when one character in the movie exclaims the catcher got another victim and another character looks steely-eyed down the camera and says "How dairy"

[@maxblake5564]

They’ve already done the swarm-of-gnomes-becoming-a-giant-gnome thing. Granted, it was a Wizard101 Life-school spell and not a Halloween monster, but still.

[@0southpaw6]

There is a point where two coworkers become too good of friends to get anything done. I think we've found it.

[@stone5against1]

When has anything gotten done on Show of the Weekend though? 🤪

[@0southpaw6]

Yeah but video game stuff. No shade though. I had fun.

[@Mulbert]

When they were talking about a memory stealing/implanting toy I immediately thought of one of the wee fuzzy worm things with the "invisible" thread slithering into your ear 😱

[@lightningwingdragon973]

Nah, just think of Furbies

[@dallydaydream]

Worm off the string, what atrocities will you commit?

[@Kingirl1]

I will not stand for this slander. the original Brendan Frasier Mummy movie was iconic in part for giving the Mummy a specific threat when it gets you, namely taking your body parts to replenish itself. the idea of a monster killing you in an attempt to restore itself, in my (stolen) eyes, puts it at least on par with zombies (eat your brains) and vampires (drink your blood)

[@Brasc]

Then there's the whole mind control with plague thing, the creation of massive controllable sandstorms, and those carnivorous freaking scarabs.

[@MORI20DM]

My mind goes immediately for "You fall, for I SCREAM!" - the comma is important...

[@katfromthekong414]

The thumbnail was extremely promising and the episode didn't disappoint! 😂

[@stone5against1]

When has Show of the Weekend ever disappointed though?

[@katfromthekong414]

@@stone5against1 fair point! The thumbnail just looked exceptionally bonkers .... 😆

[@Icam_here]

i think that because psychosexual gnomes was said so many times during this that it's lost all chance of being scary

[@mar_speedman]

If I ever see a psychosexual gnome I'm going to keel over laughing.

[@stone5against1]

And that's when they get you, cause you let your guard down!

[@rodolfosantos9047]

In regards to fake memories I just defaulted to something that devours the elements of the self and fills its place with premade things. So not only you have something that while it doesn't kill you, it makes you not you, and also there is an army of victims that are all the same person because they have all been consumed and filled with elements of this premade self

[@nightmarethrenody8232]

Agent Smith?

[@thebpphantom]

Ice Cream Man is a D2V mid-90's horror movie starring Ron Howard's brother, Clint. That said, I LOVE the minor edits you made to own it.

[@thebpphantom]

@@lisah-p8474 I totally don't own the Rifftrax version of it either. Nope. Definitely not.

[@ajm5007]

I think they had a good thing going with The Boiler. He can get you in the pool, the shower, AND on the toilet. Could even get you at the sink or in the rain. Scalding hot steam is a constant threat.

[@TurbanatorUK]

Monsters are great because they delve into human mythology, the uncanny valley, and the unknown space between the stars. HR Giger created the look of the Alien, which is truly iconic and horrifying. You could create a human mimic, though this might be like the Thing or Parasyte... The themes are the same, even across different cultures. It's hard to create a unique monster, but with the current reality, you could create a modern one. For instance, a person whose face appears like a garbled messed up JPG, similar to those AI generated faces in DALL-E, and they infect you when you view a series of words or symbols on any video screen. Given today's reliance on technology it would be nearly impossible to avoid. When you're 'corrupted', you would become the next version...

[@TurbanatorUK]

@@scottneil1187 Zombies are literally the bottom of the uncanny valley.

[@michaelskatharoudis9201]

In the Mummy, he does take someone’s eyes

[@krzysztofprzybylski2750]

I skip most of your list videos, but never missed SotW. It's just the chilliest, silly, random stuff with wholesome people

[@quincebielka8843]

The Catcher can only be defeated by the one who has no need of ice cream. Plant Nutrition Boy

[@Rayne_Check]

I'm 1 minute into the show and they're talking about needing a scary monster with Andy wearing a Mothman shirt. Show over, I think.

[@mar_speedman]

I noticed near the end and was like "hold on a minute"

[@dallydaydream]

I did think it was a very appropriate shirt ^_^

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

Andy and Luke have obviously never seen the classic of horror cinema "Ice Cream Man."

[@Running_The_Shadows]

Full Moon Features has done horror movies with toys like 'Baby Oopsie' and 'Demonic Toys ' and with puppets with the Puppet Master series.

[@katherineherbison1634]

The closest thing that's similar is junji itos icecream bus, where the children ride a bus and turn into melted icecream.

[@katherineherbison1634]

In my old neighborhood there was an icecream truck whose music was like, a few notes off. I guess because it was old? But it was terrifying. Now we just have the Kona ice truck playing all the insufferable current pop music to a carribean muzak flare.

[@Dreadjaws]

During the whole second half I was expecting them to run into Clint Howard's "The Ice Cream Man", but they never did. It's kinda hilarious they deliberately avoided it.

[@kcollier2192]

While the living toilet idea is good, having the creature emerge FROM the bowl is even scarier

[@BadMarriageKawagoe]

"And this is obviously all taking place over a baking summer in the 80's... Maine" Amazing

[@Alexitty17]

The challenge should have been who can say "another gruel through 14th century France" or "amazing rat physics" without laughing

[@davidwit7749]

I'm hearing a lot of good ideas, but I feel like we keep coming back around to Psychosexual Gnomes. You got it right on the first try.

[@RijaMo]

4:44 Great minds think alike. They both got the toilet eureka moment at the same time.

[@bernard832]

A masked reanimated corpse stitched together from parts of a vampire, werewolf, and swamp thing. The ultimate monster.

[@BogeyTheBear]

What I'm scared of are cryptid hominids. The idea of going out hiking or camping and hearing a semi-human howl from the hills, or a momentary glimpse of a walking figure that is not quite human-- that's creepy.

[@calebnannie1822]

"Small, alien clown." This made me think they were going the way of Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

[@TheWindii]

The Ice Cream Truck as an anglerfish lure reminds me very much of that creepy old Ice Cream Lady in the Spongebob Movie. Turns out she's an anglerfish.

[@TessaOswin]

I mean if the ice cream man is a avatar it could be a franchise with advertisements and everything but every van man is a puppet. Possible the entity only occasionally takes someone in to the other world, most of the time they just loop people through the falling tube and puts them back. Maybe the taking is part of a feeding cycle or the horror was bound at some point and it full taking people is the horror properly breaking through to the surface (the loops and the ice cream man could be echo as the entity’s strength in the ‘real’ world grew).

[@travisspaulding5835]

That was too good. This concept needs to be made!

[@dilemma08]

How could you guys miss Furby in the category of terrifying toys?!?!

[@BlueLoneWolf527]

This whole thing leaves me to believe that the boys of the Oxbox team were left alone on Saturday without Jane or Ellen to keep things on track while Producer Jon enables the whole thing for his own amusement. Also, gnomes are terrifying. Always so unassuming and cheerful. Smiling... always smiling....

[@SuperBeardWill]

If he was in a field he would be The Catcher in the rye. I'll see myself out

[@Speilbilde]

Can't believe this disrespect of cinematic masterpiece The Mummy (1999)

[@barbararowley6077]

True. And you’re quite vulnerable when you’re on the wrong side of the river, too.

[@BogeyTheBear]

I only gamble with my life, never with my money.

[@ZOB4]

You're right on it guys - nobody's ever made a horror ice cream man before, and they definitely didn't make an entire game franchise with one as the main character.

[@love4bodymod]

A great after credits scene would be showing the Ice cream man in NYC in the 90's handing out ice cream again (regardless of how the movie ended, but better if we thought the kids had won)... and then show that there are multiple ice cream men active all over the world at the same time.

[@highspotplays]

They begin circling 'Ghoulies' (1985) with the toilet monster thing, then they sort of invented the movie 'Death Bed: The Bed That Eats' (1977) before moving on to 'Ice Cream Man' (1995) starring Clint Howard. Just with a cosmic horror twist. Glad they didn't check to see if their monsters exist.

[@flaetsbnort]

I like how their mind goes from goofy ideas like 'guy wot boils the pool' to terrifying ideas like 'monster that implants false memories in your mind'

[@cloudy_dreams99]

The fall could be the name of the movie and i imagine the catchers domain being very much a labyrinth with doors and stairs that go no where and there can be moments where those trapped are tempted to stay by possibility of their dreams coming true but they end up just getting killed

[@dwinesk254]

Don't forget the "Angels" from Dr. Who. Moves only when unseen!

[@brentage5000]

it's so easy for them to get KZbin viewers.

[@brentage5000]

it's so easy for them to get KZbin viewers.

[@dwinesk254]

@@brentage5000 So true. 🤣

[@coyoteartist]

Ghostbusters already has a monster toilet in Fearsome Flush and there's a purchasable model of it and was one as well in The Real Ghostbusters toy line from back in the 1980s.

[@bilbo_t_baggins2762]

"I'm a killer toilet" He said with a flush.

[@fabianlaibin6956]

Scares the shit out of you and drains your life away

[@cramirez3855]

Flabia: it flaps through the midsomer midnight while screaming about you planting plants for it in the yard.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

i like how at two points they almost come up with the ideas for The Creature From The Black Lagoon and The Blob without realizing either before they eventually settle on The Catcher. 😄👍

[@RogueTangent]

That's actually really good! Creepy ice cream man hasn't been mainstream done and is totally scary, on the level of dolls and clowns. Has a lot of elements of classic things like It and The Ring and Freddy and Jeepers Creepers but is a unique combination. Way better horror than the stuff we are getting. "The Catcher" makes me think dog catcher though; that could work too possibly if ice cream has been done, or another name..? Weird vibe, vulnerability, uncanny/supernatural -- Print it!

[@maxblake5564]

Luke, Andy, you COMPLETELY forgot about Lovecraftian abominations. Get it together, you two.

[@distant_planet7780]

I'm picturing a Blumhouse writer with a legal pad and ink-stained fingers, muttering "...swarm of gnomes...this is gold!"

[@FictionWriter95]

I love how the idea of an ice cream salesperson acting as a lure gives me flashbacks to the SpongeBob movie

[@lavaita9709]

"I scream. You scream. We all scream."

[@green_dragon_knight]

I scream. You scream. We all scream… until we’re caught.

[@zupasha]

they were so close to creating that clown, ice-cream man, time traveling guy from Giraffe Town