Episode Ideas

Wet Floor- 

A customer earlier in the day speaks out his very complex and specific order which happens to be a summoning ritual for an ancient and troublesome spirit which latches onto the diner. Later on, Mr Zhao is finishing up his work one day nearly at the end of his shift doing some cleaning in the bathrooms. The diner is empty as he’s finishing up, about to leave and lock up, some strange things start to happen; First it starts with the lights flickering, faint noises and the temperature dropping. Engrossed in his work he doesn’t notice anything as strange until he looks up at a stall door he had just cleaned and sees some fresh graffiti across it. Confused, he wipes it off without reading it and turns to pick up his equipment, as he turns back around the graffiti is back again. This cycle of him washing it off and new graffiti appearing somewhere else continues, with him growing more annoyed and paranoid with each wipe. This eventually ends upon him finally reading the graffiti which happens to be an equally annoyed message addressed to him. More notes appear before his eyes before the final one simply says “behind you”. Upon turning he is face to face with an angry spirit and squirts some of his holy water at it before turning tail and booking it out of there. That is until he leaves the bathroom and is face to face with the wet floor sign he placed there earlier. A stickler for the rules he stops running and walks at a safe pace as to not slip whilst panicking, during this time the room grows dark behind him as the spirit draws near until eventually reaching him. When Charlie arrives for his shift and finds Mr Zhao still there he is shocked and tries to get the janitor to leave before the others arrive but the other refuses. Whilst Charlie is getting ready for customers he notices Zhao shift between cleaning like his usual shelf to acting creepy and lurking just out the corner of his sight as his conscience and the spirit fight over control of his body. This behaviour only worsens when the others arrive and everybody agrees that something is definitely wrong. Things all come to light when he becomes aggressive and starts to use inhuman powers and they realise he must be possessed. They then spilt up with Rivet, Delano and Mangus trying to subdue him whilst Charlie, Kayla and Drew look for items they need to perform an exorcism. Once all items are collected and the diner a mess, Kayla begins the exorcism on the downed janitor and banishes the spirit from his body, leaving an unconscious Mr Zhao. As he begins to wake up Charlie takes him outside to the front door and then walks up to the diner just as Zhao fully awakens and acts as if he were just starting his shift now and Zhao must have taken a nap after leaving. The janitor seems to buy this story and then stumbles home and goes straight to bed, forgetting most of the events of that night.   

Halloween episode- 

Loreta drops by the diner one night as she finally follows up to all of Charlie’s frantic babblings of the supernatural from when he first started. Unfortunately, the date happens to be on the Halloween weekend so by the time she arrives there, both people in costumes and actual monsters are in but it’s impossible to distinguish between the two. She is clearly unimpressed and thinks that these people in costume must just be coming in every night, or Charlie just set it up, and gives him some harsh words before leaving. The actual monsters there are unimpressed and feel like these costumed humans are making fun of them, and they label them all as “Deadist”. Charlie and Kayla try to calm down the livid monsters and get the costumed patrons to leave. It all starts to get out of hand but then some of the costumed teens compliment the monsters on their great outfits and how they’ve chosen great characters to go as. This takes them off guard and their attitudes completely shift as they end up loving all the attention. Just as it seems everything is fine, the clouds outside part revealing a full moon and Rivet starts to change to her huge bear form and lets out a massive roar, which more than startles the other customers and they all run from the diner. Those customers come back the next day in the morning and leaves a tip with the manager for Charlie for the great service the night before and the coolest Halloween prank they have ever experienced.

Out of Order-

A vampire hunter is in town looking for Delano and has tracked him down to the diner. He bursts in guns blazing and begins stalking over to him before Rivet and Mangus block the hunter’s path. Both parties involved are about to get violent before Kayla jumps between them trying to explain to the hunter that Delano isn’t a threat to anyone, and would never hurt a fly. After Charlie and Ava burst from the back room and she runs into Delano’s arms, and the hunter eventually backs down but before leaving, issues a stern threat that if he ever becomes a problem he won’t hesitate to put him down. After that ordeal everyone winds down and everything goes back to normal, that is until the slushy machine breaks down and Delano starts to have withdrawal symptoms and starts to lose himself as his natural thirst for blood comes back in full swing and he becomes a danger to the others. They try to contain him but he quickly escapes from the diner and makes a run for it into town in search of that hunter, to put an end to him. The others run after him (Ava included) but quickly lose sight and have to split up whilst Drew and Charlie stay in the diner to try and fix the machine. They eventually get the machine and Charlie grabs a drink and quickly runs into town in search of the others, during this time Ava has wandered off from Rivet and located Delano and the hunter in an alleyway fighting each other. Just as Delano was going to bite the other she jumps in and shakes him, instead of lunging at her he seems to regain some control of himself and jumps back from her and the dazed hunter. Charlie manages to meet up with the other three in town, none of which have caught sight of Delano or Ava yet, that is until they hear a commotion from a nearby alley and run over. They’re greeted to the sight of the hunter using Ava as a hostage and stalking forward with a wooden steak, upon the others arriving Ava kicks the hunter casing him to drop her which sets off a flurry of action from everyone as; Rivet tackles the stunned hunter, Charlie runs up to his sister whilst Kayla takes the slushy and Mangus grabs onto Delano so she can give him the drink. After everyone calms down and some threats for the hunter to leave town have been made they all head back to the diner, and make sure to always have a replacement machine in the back room.

Mirror Mirror-

Loreta buys an antique mirror from a shady yard sale for the diner to spruce up the place. When Charlie starts his shift with Drew there he hears sounds/ whispers coming from somewhere in the diner and goes to investigate. He follows the sounds finally to the mirror and gazes into it intently and suddenly sees some movement behind him. He quickly turns around and the mirror falls on him (and smashes?). He jumps at the noise and looks down to find himself standing in the empty mirror frame (with no mirror shards anywhere). He goes to rub his head but pulls it back confused as there’s no pain there from where the mirror clearly must have collided with his head. At this he then takes his first real look around and notes that nothing seems strange so places the frame back and gets back to work. When the others start to come in they are all off, like reversed versions of themselves. Then he starts to panic. Meanwhile back in the original world Drew rushed over as the mirror fell but it smashed and Charlie was gone by the time he got there. As the others come in he’s desperately trying to collect all the mirror pieces and put them back together and explain what happened with no-one understanding his outbursts of panicked “BUUR” and “GERR”. As things start to get bad in the other world they eventually complete the mirror and Charlie is brought back through to the normal world.

Tour Group from Hell - 

 A group of avid cryptid hunters come to the diner as it’s rumoured to be a supernatural hot-spot. Charlie and Kayla act like they have no idea what the group are talking about whilst the others are hiding in the back out of sight. Those in the back room begin to get restless and leave via the backdoor to do some people-watching of the tour group though the diners windows. Charlie and Kayla notice the others outside and try to signal them to get away from here without appearing suspicious to the tour group, and it seems to be going pretty well until Drew bumps into one of their cars and sets off the alarm causing the whole group to jump up and see a group of figures running into the woods from the parking lot. The two teens try to convince them that they were probably just a group of drunks but the cryptid hunters are already running out the doors and in the direction that the figures went. What follows are the two groups wandering through the woods looking out for each other but always just off getting solid proof of the other group. The monsters eventually get sick of creeping around the woods from a group of obsessive humans and just want to be able to go back to the diner so they instead come up with a plan to scare the other group away from this place so they split up and put their plan into action. Each member takes a different position around the group and takes turns making noises and running between bushes out the corner of everyone’s eyes until at last Mangus drops down from a branch with a rope around his neck in front of the crowd for the final scare. As this time Charlie and Kayla had locked up the diner and were finally running out to the woods to try and disperse whatever situation they had on their hands, that was until the tour group all came bounding out the treeline past them and straight towards their vehicles and instantly sped away. The two dumbfounded teens look back towards the treeline to see the four others walking towards them looking triumphant. Charlie doesn’t question it and just goes back to open up the diner.

   

The LIA incident- 

A 6-foot-tall man with red hair and a long beard to match comes in wearing an oversized trench coat who looks too normal and out of place here, but his ease amongst the other oddities tells otherwise. A few minutes pass before Charlie goes over to his table to take his order but upon reaching his table the man suddenly jumps up holding out a badge shouting that is part of the LIA (Leprechaun intelligence agency) and for everyone to stay where they are and at this a bunch of other agents burst in the diner all wearing suits and only 3ft tall. They announce that they are here to investigate the main suspects for their current case, said suspects being everyone in the diner. The main operative on the stilts explains that the crime they’re investigating is a series of raids on their sacred 4 leaf clover fields. Everybody instantly suspects Mangus because he’s Mangus but after a series of individual interrogations without anybody seeming to know anything, everyone is at a loss. The agents start to get annoyed and still convinced it’s Mangus they tell him to just confess already but the skeleton remains adamant he had nothing to do with “stealing any stupid leaves”, which sets off a violent reaction from the leprechauns and a big comical fight breaks out (“Stupid Leaves? The only stupid thing I see here is that dress you’re wearing!” “This is a kilt, you overgrown lawn gnome!”). The fist fighting and name calling all suddenly comes to a halt at the sight of Pickle (Drew’s chipmunk) coming in from outside with a bunch of 4 leaf clovers in his mouth and scurrying over to Drew’s shoulder and placing them in his hair. At a loss for words and saddened over the fact that they cannot arrest a chipmunk they all leave the diner, defeated, to go and chipmunk proof their precious clover fields.