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15 Spooky Secrets About the Halloweentown Franchise Revealed

E! News counts down fifteen behind-the-scenes secrets from the Disney Channel's Halloweentown movies, in time for the Halloween season; some fans may wish the list were scarier.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorE! News has fifteen spooky secrets about the Halloweentown movies, which debuted on the Disney Channel.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe big takeaway is a quote: being normal is vastly overrated.

  3. Torvald AchterbergVera, that line is my whole constitution. I read it at nine years old and signed it in my own mind.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd E! says October thirty-first is quite cool. Do you agree?

  5. Torvald AchterbergIt's the only day my neighbors stop calling the city about me. I treat it like a holiday and a pardon.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorLovely. So tell us about the new project.

  7. Torvald AchterbergA one-man musical about a casserole that wants to be a soufflé. I sing the oven. The oven has the second act.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe oven.

  9. Torvald AchterbergEighty minutes, no intermission. Normal people need intermissions. I need only a glass of warm pickle juice.

  10. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNow the hard question. Your lifestyle brand sells cobwebs for weddings. Is that a reach?

  11. Torvald AchterbergI'd call it a gentle invitation to a fuller life. Next question. Is that my cauldron on your screen? Yes, it is.

  12. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou dodged. I'm asking again: are cobwebs a wedding trend, or a cry for help?

  13. Torvald AchterbergBetween you and the candles, I've never once been strange. I iron my socks. I'm in bed by nine.

  14. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the cape is a performance.

  15. Torvald AchterbergThe cape is a cry for help, Vera. The socks are who I am. Please don't tell the grandmothers.

  16. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYour secret is safe with a very large audience. Lightning round. Pumpkin or cobweb?

  17. Torvald AchterbergPumpkin. Broomstick or minivan?

  18. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorMinivan, with a waitlist. I started a backorder list here, and Dale is four thousandth in line for his opinions, ready in twenty twenty-seven.

  19. Torvald AchterbergThen he's already normal. Nobody waits that long for a cape.

  20. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBefore the top of the hour, a masked man in Florida says his best friend is God. Torvald, where can people see you?

  21. Torvald AchterbergCasserole: The Musical opens soon, wherever the ovens are warm. Vera, did you ever want to be normal?

  22. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorNever. Then again, Halloween is the thirty-first and it's quite cool. I have a feeling I'm right on schedule.

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