The Cuckoo Clock of Doom

"The Cuckoo Clock of Doom" is the third episode of the Disney+ and Hulu series Goosebumps.
==Synopsis==
At the Halloween party, James finds himself reliving the same night until his crush helps him break the time loop, but his fairytale soon becomes a nightmare.
==Plot==
On the night of the party, James hits his head on a cuckoo clock after Isaiah frightens him, Allison, and Margot. Despite having a slight contusion, James is ready to party. He proceeds to mingle with everyone as well as Sam, a boy he likes. He is unable to share in his interest of soccer due to lack of knowledge and Isaiah tells James that he has trouble not being himself with people. As James leaves the house feeling dejected, he is suddenly thrust back in time to when he hit his head on the cuckoo clock. He quickly realizes that when he tries to leave the house, he ends up in a time loop and is unable to escape.
He decides to take advantage of the situation by getting to know Sam more and the two decide to leave the house together. James turns off the cuckoo clock and is finally able to leave the house. The next day, he is happily embracing Sam being his boyfriend, only to be confronted by multiple duplicates of himself. It turns out that every loop where he left the house, resulted in duplicate versions of himself existing and all of them capture James and toss him into a pit in his family's old abandoned mines.
The James Duplicates proceed to ruin his and his friends' lives, making Allison suspect that Isaiah and Margot are into each other and breaking things off with Sam. The Dupes continue to take over James' life until Isabella visits his house and accidentally causes one of the Dupes to explode into green (watermelon jolly rancher smelling) goo. The Dupes quickly cover, but Isabella is horrified by what happened and the adults refuse to believe her.
Colin goes to check in on Bratt about the house party he had to make sure he is doing okay. When he mentions that he is separated from his wife Sarah, Bratt suddenly sounds intrigued, though the conversation ends awkwardly. Isaiah and Margot conclude that something is wrong due in part to the camera and the monster they saw and decide to go looking for answers. They confront "James" who once again blows them off, but is blown up by Isabella who tells the two that she was the monster and that they need to find the real James soon.
The teens follow a James Dupe to the mines, but are caught and sent running. Isaiah is captured and is imprisoned with the real James and the two argue briefly over the latter's various attempts to fit in. They are rescued by Margot and Isabella, but soon face off against the rest of the Dupes, destroying them all. Isaiah and James' friendship is renewed as the gang get pancakes. Margot reluctantly calls her mother about what happened, only to be warned to not trust the other adults. Sarah is revealed to own a box containing her high school memorabilia.
Bratt reacquires the mask and camera and is given a box by one of the surviving Dupes. He excitedly opens it to see his "old friend", only to find it empty. He angrily kills the last Dupe.
==Cast==
* Zack Morris as Isaiah Howard
* Isa Briones as Margot Stokes
* Miles McKenna as James Etten
* Ana Yi Puig as Isabella Chen Lopez
* Will Price as Lucas Parker
* Rachael Harris as Nora Parker
* Justin Long as Nathan Bratt
===Guest===
* Rob Huebel as Colin Stokes
* Leonard Roberts as Ben Howard
* Ben Cockell as Harold Biddle
* Rhinnan Payne as Allison
* Francoise Yip as Victoria Chen Lopez
* Laura Mennell as Eliza Etten
* Lexa Doig as Sarah Stokes
===Co-starring===
* Aiden Howard as Sam
* Isaac Caverzan as Isaac
* Tyson Dorann as Tyson
* Gavin Langelo as Running Back
==Trivia==
*The title is taken from the twenty-eighth Goosebumps book of the same name.
**In the original tale, Michael Webster cannot stand his younger sister Tara who always gets him into trouble while she gets away scott free, even going so far as to ruin his birthday plans. His family buys a new cuckoo clock and after interacting with it, suddenly reexperiences the same terrible birthday again. Michael finds himself going back further in time until he is a baby. His parents take him to an antique shop where he finds the cuckoo clock and manages to reset it. Michael is back in the present, reliving the birthday, but finds that his sister is nowhere to be seen and does not even exist. He accidentally knocked off her birthyear on the clock. Michael's day ends up going better, but concludes that he will have to bring his sister back... eventually.
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Category:Goosebumps episodes