Here Comes Peter Cottontail is the Holiday Inn of Rankin/Bass outings, managing to fit several special occasions into one hour thanks to a time travel story that sends its titular bunny on a quest to save Easter. To do this, he must win a contest to deliver the most eggs, but alas, he sleeps through the big day, losing the contest to the villainous Irontail, and now he’s desperately attempting to do the job on other holidays to make up for it.

After his disasters on Mother’s Day and the Fourth of July, Peter’s next stop on his festive misadventure is Halloween (what, no love for Labor Day?). This time, however, Irontail decides to intervene, calling upon his friend Esmeralda the witch for assistance. I say “friend” but I really mean “friend with benefits,” since Esmeralda wiggles her butt excitedly upon hearing from him. You can’t tell me there’s not some gross DeviantArt-friendly shenanigans going on between these two (I’m of course only joking, except that I’m not).

Anyway, Irontail is evil, but he’s not evil evil, so he doesn’t recruit “his favorite witch” to cook Peter into a pie or anything. No, he just wants her to frighten him off. She gleefully agrees, no doubt excited about the “celebration” they’ll have together afterwards. Unfortunately her “evil powers” just involve her being able to change her skin color (in other words, she’s a loser), which doesn’t scare Peter at all, but he does try to cheer her up by offering her an egg, which immediately wins her over.

In fact, Esmeralda is so touched that she calls all of her spooky friends over to collect their “Halloween eggs.” It looks like Peter is about to win the contest, but Irontail grows desperate and sends his bat assistant to steal them and destroy them. “THOSE EGGS ARE DONE FOR!!!” he cackles madly, before realizing how stupid that sounds and rethinking all of his life’s decisions that got him to this point.

Have a spooky night, y’all!