Michael Jackson’s Halloween

Sorry that this random post wasn’t updated the day that this special aired on 10-27-2017. I was caught off guard by a lot of things that were going on in my life this month. But I found out that this special was airing on CBS in place of an episode of MacGyver that they normally air.

Not only will this special featuring Alan Cumming in a role, it will also another Good Wife alumni by featuring Christine Baranski. It is also is airing at the same time as Blindspot. I still don’t know if that has Archie Panjabi in it. But this could link up these random posts in the future to when Blindspot airs. I doubt that I would do the regular posts on Fridays at the moment even if it is just once a month. Just keep that in mind as a potential time for potential things for this blog potentially. Or it may have nothing to do with the dates that I have picked.

I decided to put this special on tape, only one not in the main rotation of tapes so that I could get caught up on in sooner and post it when it actually made sense. To me, writing about the special makes more sense than doing a simple review about it so here it is and don’t expect more than just one more mention of this during the regular updates. Let’s get to the special then.

We begin with people in a lab trying to acquire a target of some sort. There is a DJ who is playing a song. His father disapproves. It might have just been an imaginary DJ thing. We then get to a second target who wants to be a dancer who is an intern at an office place. It seems like Christine Baranski is playing the boss character. This main man doesn’t want to take over the grocery store. Victoria, who is the main woman, is stuck taking care of her boss’s dog.

A monkey sets up a magic castle thing with a box of some sort while a person dances some. Who is this mystery person? It is probably not much of a mystery given the name of the special, should it be who I think it is, but I might be wrong. A bat follows the monkey’s command and goes after the targets. Different cartoony things happen as Victoria and whoever this man is named meet up and then argue with each other. They then chase after the dog who took the helmet. He goes inside the house. How did he open the door? The monkey named Bubbles talks to them then takes the two people on an elevator.

Act two has the elevator falling through a vortex of some sort. Only it seems more like the TARDIS travelling through time. They are at the garden level with pumpkins that are big and huge. They follow the music, because following a monkey’s advice seems like a good idea, right? They find pumpkin people dancing in addition to other, weird creatures. This leads to a dance break of some sort. When they walk into the scene, the people disappear briefly before being assured that it is okay to come out and talk to them.

It appears that a person named Conformity is the villain in whatever place they are. Hayman is the pumpkin faced person. She confronts them and a random animal gets turned into a mindless zombie. The people run from Conformity and the crows that she has chase them. They take the song out of Hayman’s head and continue to run into a pumpkin where they take a lead of faith and wind up falling. They got stuck on spider webs of some sort and then overrun by spiders.

Act three has the duo and dog even more attached to the spider webs. Haven’t they ever heard of overkill? The lead spider comes to talk to them. They get charged with what is considered rebellion. Somehow Victoria has a knife that she is using to help escape before she gets the spider to release her and show her marching moves which is pretty much dancing. Maybe he doesn’t realize that he’s breaking his own rules. The boy escapes with the dog during this time. Conformity shows up during this time and a soldier sacrifices himself in a way to become a zombie.

He gets the spiders to attack Conformity and she uses her crows to attack back. He is now on the duos side and he wants to keep his song safe the way Hayman did. The two make their way to a stain glass window of Michael Jackson’s face. They find the elevator, but a skeleton comes and takes their dog to Conformity.

Act four has the heroes captured again and possibly tortured. Conformity talks to her cat assistant for help. I thought that humans were the cats’ assistants. He comes to people with a knife. There are also disembodied heads in jars. Isn’t that just like what happened in Futurama? I don’t fully understand what is going on with the cat. The dog escapes and helps the others escape as well. The cat then turns on Conformity, it seems. They take her machine. Conformity shows up at the hotel where the heroes ended up going to.

Act five has Conformity summoning her zombie hoard to try to attack the two heroes. They then use the machine and Franklin (the cat) is able to come and help them by reversing the polarity. Again, they rip off Doctor Who. They summon different people to attack the hoard of zombies. Michael Jackson shows up and is able to turn the zombies back into humans. How did that happen? Or is it because of dues ex machina? What is going on?

Conformity transforms into a dragon. Now they are ripping off Enchanted. The people are turned back into zombies, but Michael Jackson is able to attack the dragon and turn her back to normal? So everyone dances and that is good, apparently. They then transform back into the forest. The castle turns back into a box as the monkey or chimp gets back into the car that his boss wanted. We then see the main guy as a DJ with Victoria dancing. Also, I missed whoever Meriwether is, but that is who Alan Cumming played. The special ends there.

Okay, that was a pretty strange special. A lot of things happened and it didn’t all make sense. We don’t know why the villain was evil and banning dancing and all that jazz. The ending seemed a bit too convenient for wrapping everything up. Still, it wasn’t really bad or anything. I guess we’ll see what happens and if it ever airs again.

That’s all for this blog post. I don’t know if we’ll see this special air again in future years or not. But if it does, it can relate to future random posts. I already have the next one written for the next time. When is that? You’ll have to wait and see. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.