Sugar Frosted Frights (Rocko's Modern Life)

"Sugar Frosted Frights" is the first half of the third episode in the third season of Rocko's Modern Life.

Plot
Filburt overcomes his fear of Halloween and candy-eating (something instilled in him by his deranged aunt) and goes insane.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The Halloween costumes look pretty cool, with Rocko's being an inflatable Really Really Big Man costume and Heffer's being a glow-in-the-dark pumpkin face on his belly.
 * 2) The title card music is really creepy and perfect for a Halloween episode.
 * 3) Filburt's backstory that made him scared of trick-or-treating is very emotional, as his parents always loved going to parties on Halloween night, but would leave Filburt with his crazy Aunt Gretchen - who had her face in a fish tank and hated Halloween and told a lot of scary stories, along with himself saying that he'll never eat candy again when seeing the Hopping Hessian nd accidentally eating a bit of a gravestone.
 * 4) Watching Filburt go crazy for candy after eating one piece of it was hilarious to watch, and the imagery is very detailed.
 * 5) Speaking of which, "Give me that plastic bowl!" - Filburt.
 * 6) The Hopping Hessian looks pretty decent, and it turns out that he's actually called Gordon and he helped the Foot Guy in the revolution, but he's only a friend of a friend who helped him move once.
 * 7) Heffer, Rocko, the Hopping Hessian and the Foot Guy looking back on photos of their Halloween session a year later was nice to watch.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Plot Hole: Although Filburt's backstory was emotional, candy is not actually poisonous (just unhealthy) and why would a monster (The Hopping Hessian) come just because a person ate a piece of candy?
 * 2) The first trick-or-treater was a bit mean-spirited for not giving Rocko and Heffer candy just because "they were already there", even though they weren't.
 * 3) While the ending wasn't bad, it ended on a cliffhanger with Filburt wondering who took the pictures of Rocko, Heffer, himself, the Hopping Hessian and the Foot Guy.

Reception

 * It holds a rating of 8.3/10 on IMDB.

Trivia

 * The episode title is a parody of the Kellogg's cereal, Sugar Frosted Flakes, which is now known simply as Frosted Flakes (or Frosties).
 * Filburt's nightmare is a spoof of the Night on Bald Mountain sequence from Fantasia (1940).
 * (Heffer's line of "They're coming to get you, Filbert" is an homage to a line early in the 1968 film, Mh:greatestmovies:Night of the Living Dead, by George Romero when Johnny torments his sibling Barbara at a cemetery.