Happy Halloween All/ot

[Annie]

Hi all, just wanted to say Happy Halloween ! Enjoy the day and be safe out there .
Love, Anne 👻🎃

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Hi, Anne,

Are you going to go trick-or-treating tonight and, if so, who (or whom?) are you going out as?

As for me, if I do go out trick-or-treating tonight, I’ll probably go out as either the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker or the venerable Ezra Braithwaite, which shouldn’t be that much of a stretch now for me at my “somewhat” advanced years.   

Bob, the Aging Bartender, avid “AARP:The Magazine” reader.

[Annie]

Hey Bob I’m not going trick or treating . But If I was id go as Quentin Collins or
Julianka . Lol 😂 Anne

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Anne,

I’m sure that you’d be a beautiful Julianka, but I’d like to see how you pulled off going out as Quentin Collins?

Although, I have to say that the lovely Fran Drescher looked very convincing when she dressed up as a man in a memorable episode of “The Nanny.”   

Bob

[Annie]

That’s true Bob I think I’ll leave the quetin costume to Fran Dresher
And thank you for the lovely compliment. I’ll stick to julianka .
Perhaps we could trick or treat to Collinwood ? I’m just wondering if
Mrs Johnson would answer the door hmmm .
Anne 🎃👹

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Oh, Anne,

Can you imagine actually walking up that tall hill to knock on the front door of Collinwood and, as you say, asking Mrs. Johnson, a real “softie,” or, perhaps, even the unfailingly “cheerful” and “convivial” Roger Collins for some Halloween treats? Ugh!

Come to think of it, do you think Maggie Evans, Joe Haskell, Buzz Hackett, Harry Johnson, Susie, the silent waitress, and the two Jennings brothers, along with the rest of the young kids in Collinsport, were brave enough (or foolish enough) to trek up to the great house on the hill to trick-or-treat in 1956? Roger would have probably sent the “grandfatherly-like” Matthew Morgan out to chase away all of those annoying young kiddies.

And, what did David Collins do on Halloween? We never saw him hanging out with the other kids in
town. No doubt, David’s patrician father would not want his only son and heir associating with the
youthful riffraffs and guttersnipes of Collinsport.  Maybe David just spent the Halloween holiday alone in the decrepit Old House, chilling out with his only real friends, the ghosts of Josette, little Sarah Collins, Bill Malloy and the wailing widows?

And, instead of dressing up like Spider-Man, Superman or even Fred Flintstone, the uniquely inventive David dressed up like cute, little Alexander, the Leviathan child, Damien, the child Anti-Christ or possibly even the pig-tailed and kindly Rhoda Penmark from “The Bad Seed”?

Yes, no doubt, Halloween was THE most popular and anticipated holiday in Collinsport, Maine for obvious reasons!     

[Annie]

Hi Bob true what if Barnabas Collins answered the door , he might give out
Bloody Mary’s I would assume. But then pint sized coffin candy bars interesting.
Anne 😬👽

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Hi Bob true what if Barnabas Collins answered the door , he might give out
Bloody Mary’s I would assume. But then pint sized coffin candy bars interesting.
Anne 😬👽

Oh, Jesus, Anne,

I never thought about the little kids, schlepping all the way out to the Old House to go trick-or-treating!?!

Yes, I could definitely see Barnabas handing out pint-sized coffin candy bars to all the kids. Maybe Mr. B. would also hand out some of  those small, mini-boxes of breakfast cereal, like Count Chocula or Frankenberry?

As to the Bloody Mary’s, I’d see Barnabas fixing that particular festive libation for some of the “slightly” older trick-or-treaters, like Sam Evans, Ezra Braithwaite, Professor Stokes and the Eagle Hill Cemetery Caretaker, said to be an absolute Hell-raiser at an especially wild and uninhibited party! 


By the way, can you imagine if the “slightly” jittery Willie Loomis answered the door when those young trick-or-treaters came a-knocking? Poor Willie would have an apoplectic fit, trying to get those kids to run away from the Old House as fast as they could before the sun went down and you-know-who emerged from the cellar!   

[Annie]

Oh yes I can see that yikes or someone playing around with the bleeder valve
In the car oh no !!!  Maybe perhaps a Halloween party at Collinwood
What a wild night that will be.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Anne,

Wasn’t David an especially “charming” little boy, sabotaging the brakes on his father’s car, locking poor Vicky Winters up in that spooky and smelly abandoned room in Collinwood and apparently drowning or strangling to death his pet cat, if I remember correctly from a first-year episode episode of DS.  David was born to be a willing toady for the Leviathans. 

[Annie]

Oh yes what a naughty boy he was .We must keep him in his room.
Somehow . 🎃👻👻👻💀

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Oh yes what a naughty boy he was .We must keep him in his room.
Somehow . 🎃👻👻👻💀

Anne,

The little brat probably had a hidden door in his bedroom leading to one of those many secret passageways honeycombed throughout the great house of Collinwood.

Aunt Elizabeth should have insisted that Roger send his oh-so-naughty son to a strict military school, like Tony and Carmella Soprano almost did with their perpetual problem child, A.J. Soprano. 

[Annie]

Or hiding in the west wing with Quentin Collins As a ghost laughing up with him.
And causing trouble . Maybe coming down to the kitchen for some ice cream
And Halloween candy getting a sugar rush phew 😅.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Or hiding in the west wing with Quentin Collins As a ghost laughing up with him.
And causing trouble . Maybe coming down to the kitchen for some ice cream
And Halloween candy getting a sugar rush phew 😅.

Anne,

Yes, David always seemed to enjoy hanging out in the West Wing with the “bad” ghost of Quentin. I don’t recall ever seeing David and Amy exploring the East Wing of Collinwood. You would think that the eternally-curious David would have discovered the mysterious Parallel Time Room long before Barnabas stumbled upon it while searching for the vampiric Megan Todd’s hiding place.

Your comment about David sneaking down into the kitchen to steal some ice cream reminded me of when David repeatedly stole food from the kitchen for the crazed Matthew Morgan, who was hiding out from the police in the secret room in the Old House. The eagle-eyed Mrs. Johnson quickly noticed the missing food and questioned David about it.

However, when Adam was hiding out in the West Wing of Collinwood and Carolyn began stealing food for Adam, I don’t believe that Mrs. Johnson ever noticed the missing food. Now, I realize that old Matthew Morgan was a husky man with an apparently very healthy appetite, but an absolutely huge man like Adam must have had an equally humongous appetite, much larger than Matthew’s. And, yet Carolyn was still able to steal huge quantities of food every day for weeks for the truly BIG guy and Sarah Johnson never caught on. I just don’t get it?   

Bob

PS They just showed many of the local NYC Halloween celebrants at the annual Halloween Parade in Greenwich Village tonight on the local news. I was hoping to see someone dressed up in a Barnabas Collins costume or even a Buzz Hackett motorcycle get-up, but no such luck.   

[Annie]

Hi Bob makes one wonder what David did steal in the kitchen. Like a huge steak
that maybe Barnabas had in the refrigerator 😂 Oh sorry that was steak thru
his heart. Or perhaps some blood pudding as well.  Interested to know
If Barnabas went out for dinner maybe had it to go .
Anne 👹🎃😜