(S25) - PT 4 - Spooky Scary Season

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Halloween is a bit of a touchy subject for Doy Fieri. When he was three years old, Doy's parents let him watch the all-time Halloween film, Ernest Scared Stupid. Even though the comedy stylings of Jim Varney resonate with all ages, the evil trolls not only scared Ernest, but also scared young Doy. From that point on, every time October 31st rolled around he would come down with a horrible case of anxiety. This led Fieri to be bullied as a child, as his classmates thought it was funny that he thought that gremlins and goblins were real. Where kids in other neighborhoods might smash pumpkins or toiler paper houses on Halloween, the kids in Doy's neighborhood instead played a game called, "Dunk the Doy" where they would find him and shove his head in a jack-o-lantern and play the theme from the film Halloween, and then laugh at him while he would run home and typically pee his pants.

That all changed when Doy grew into a 6'2 230 pound 15 year old. The Halloween of his sophomore year of high school, Doy turned it around on his tormenters, and tormented all of his classmates while chasing them around while wearing a Jack-O-Lantern helmet and a wrestling singlet. Every Halloween since, Fieri has worn the same costume that makes him look like a mix between Andre the Giant and the Headless Horseman, and goes trick-or-treating, to make up for the fact that he never got the chance to trick-or-treat as a child.