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Aug 31, 2025 4:35 PM
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dolls are always kinda creepy but gosh that calm, unperturbed old lady was scary. Though I guess insomnia can lead to that weird state :D
Aug 31, 2025 6:43 PM
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Well I thought the ad for the doll was more silly than scary, but I appreciate the attention to detail by giving it a catchy jingle lol. Old lady at the end was spooky tho, I wanna say she sold her husband for the doll because in the ad, the old lady was by herself and her husband was in a photo, so maybe that means a sacrifice is necessary to have this doll that makes you never bored, a tough price to pay but maybe the resell value on souls is good lol.
TheColonel76Aug 31, 2025 6:48 PM
Aug 31, 2025 7:03 PM
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I liked the guy with a bag on his face in the ad. Maybe he paid with his dashing good looks? I think the best part was that we never saw the evil cursed doll actually do anything.

Cat Report 8: She was in my laundry basket with my clean socks, then jumped out to scratch on my door.
Aug 31, 2025 7:26 PM
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Damn, she traded her husband in for a cursed doll. That is messed up. LOL
Aug 31, 2025 9:27 PM
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Those customer reviews were hilarious. Lame ending though. Feels like the absolute typical bog standard ending, when I'm sure they could have done something with a bit more spice. Or hey, maybe even just removing his scream would have made it work better.
Sep 1, 2025 5:20 AM
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This just didn't do it for me. This felt like an objectively worse version of Reception Room from season 7. While the themes of these two episodes were clearly different, this feels like the more generic version of the general concept of an old couple getting involved with a cursed doll. Once again, I think the commercial segment went on for too long, hence why the ending was so underwhelming. Maybe I'm just so desensitized to things like this, but the old lady trading her husband for some random creepy doll just doesn't affect me whatsoever.
Sep 1, 2025 10:13 AM
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This was one of the better episodes in a long while imo, I loved the dark comedy of the teleshopping.
Sep 1, 2025 6:32 PM
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NaosuShikkan said:
Once again, I think the commercial segment went on for too long, hence why the ending was so underwhelming.
A bit into it I realised, "yeah, this is gonna be the majority of the episode", and with that I think it'd have been better if we didn't get the framing device of the old couple watching it and was more like we were watching the commercial directly.
Nov 9, 2025 4:44 AM
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Poor grandpa didn't deserve this 😭
Nov 24, 2025 5:55 PM
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Call 666-YAMI-GOODS! Very cute.

Is it just me or is the doll from one of the earlier seasons? I forget which, but the episode with the doll in the coin locker.

The scare on this one didn't really do it for me, but the setup had a lot of little mischievous jokes I liked. Shoutouts to the sexagenarian buckethead.
Nov 27, 2025 3:26 PM

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I left this unfinished a while ago, so it's time to pick it up again.
At first I thought it would be a bittersweet chapter... but no haha.
Overall, I quite liked the idea; it was fun to see the buyer reviews and the strange messed up numbers (?) on the screen.
Jan 17, 3:43 PM

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I really liked this episode, but poor grandpa. 😞





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