Dot Starlight and the Ghost of the Living Room

Dot Starlight and the Ghost of the Living Room is the second episode of the third season and the forty-first episode overall in the reboot series Dot Starlight's Clues & You!. It's a new version of both "Dot Starlight's Big Mystery" and "What Is Dot Starlight Afraid Of?"

Summary
Butch and Dot Starlight are throwing a Halloween party and all our friends are in costume! Dot Starlight’s a unicorn, Jewle’s a mouse, but wait, who’s that mysterious, silly ghost gliding about the Living Room? We’ll look for clues as we go through a haunted house skidoo!

Plot
Butch and Dot Starlight play Dot Starlight's Clues to figure out who's under the ghost costume. The 3 clues are paw prints, a tail, and triangles. Who's under the ghost costume? The answer is Pitch.

Elements

 * Question: Who’s under the ghost costume?
 * Clues:
 * Paw prints
 * A Tail (from Toadete's dragon costume)
 * Two Triangles
 * Answer to Dot Starlight's Clues: A Hemka (later revealed to be Pitch)
 * Living room picture: Haunted House
 * Skidoo location: Haunted House

Trivia

 * This is the first season 3 episode to be a remake of two different episodes: What Is Dot Starlight Afraid Of? and Dot Starlight's Big Mystery. Dot Starlight's Show and Tell Surprise and Dot Starlight's Beach Bonanza have previously been remakes of two different episodes.
 * This is the first episode where Pitch celebrated Halloween, but he has not celebrated Halloween with either of the three hosts because he was not introduced until Dot Starlight's Big Mystery and Our New Neighbor.
 * Even though Pitch is introduced before Boomer became the host of Dot Starlight's Clues, no Halloween-themed episodes were produced during Boomer's tenure as host.
 * Butch is dressed up as a werewolf in this episode, he is seen wearing a furrier version of wolf ears from "Story Time with Dot Starlight", wolf paw gloves and a wolf's tail. he also howls like a real wolf.
 * Dora wore her Clock Girl costume from Superfriends and The Thinking Squad (specifically the one from the remake).
 * Toodles wore the same costume, an octopus, like in both Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight.
 * Toad and Toadete wore the same costumes, a firefighter and a dragon respectively, as in "Dot Starlight Makes a Movie with You!".
 * Yakka Dee's pirate hat is the same one she wore in Dot Starlight's Treasure Hunt.
 * This is the sixth episode in the franchise where someone was a firefighter. The others being The Anything Box, Playdates, Dot Starlight's Big Imagination, Dot Starlight's Big Neighborhood Adventure, and Dot Starlight Makes a Movie with You!.
 * This is the third episode in the franchise where Halloween was celebrated. The first two being Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight. This is also the first Halloween reboot episode that was based on a non-Halloween original episode.
 * This is the second episode where eyes were seen. The first being Spring is Here!.
 * This is the second episode in the franchise where paw prints were drawn. The first being Inventions.
 * This is also the first time in which paw prints were the first clue because in Inventions, it was the third clue.
 * This is the third episode in the franchise where a tail was drawn. The first two being Dot Starlight's Big Mystery and Animals in Our House?.
 * This is also the second time in which a tail was the second clue with Dot Starlight's Big Mystery being the first. However, in Animals in Our House?, it was the first clue.
 * This is the second episode in the franchise where the 2 triangles are a clue. The first being Imagine Nation.
 * Coincidentally, this is also the second time in which 2 triangles were the third clue with Imagine Nation being the first.
 * This marks the third episode in the franchise where Dora was dressed as a superhero. The first two being Superfriends and The Thinking Squad.
 * This marks the third episode where someone said, "spooky". The first two being Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight when Brick and Butch both said, "spooky" when every time they opened their notebooks, there was a door creaking sound effect and an evil laughter sound effect in the background.
 * The door opened up to show the next scroll. Like in Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party and Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight when Brick and Butch both opened the tallest door, went up the stairs with more steps and through the room with the small number of black tiles, which was omitted from the remake, (the black tile part), and got the next scroll to help Boo find Oogla Boogla.
 * This is the first Season 3 episode in the reboot to not feature an incorrect answer to the Dot Starlight's Clues game.
 * Butch showing us his Halloween notebook after he got it from Yakka Dee is similar to Happy Birthday Dot Starlight and It's Your Birthday! when Butch showed us his two Birthday notebooks.
 * This marks the fourth episode in the franchise where someone said, "Boo" and made them jump in surprise. The others being What Is Dot Starlight Afraid Of?, Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party, and Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight when Brick and Butch mentioned Boo the Ghost’s name, and Boo got scared.
 * In this episode, the viewers say "boo" instead of Butch saying "clue" in the "Play Dot Starlight's Clues" song.
 * Butch said, "interesting" like he and Brick did in What Experiment Does Dot Starlight Want to Try? and Science with Dot Starlight when Brick and Butch found the third clue on two plastic bottles.
 * This marks the twelfth episode in the franchise when something was drawn in groups of four. The others being What Is Dot Starlight Afraid Of?, when Brick drew four circles when he drew the owl's sound, Dot Starlight's ABCs and ABC's with Dot Starlight when Brick and Butch drew the word, "jump,", Dot Starlight's Big Holiday when Brick drew four little prints, Words when Brick drew the words, "make," and, "poem", which have four letters, Patience when Boomer drew four pieces of wood, Contraptions! when Boomer drew four seeds, Dot Starlight's Big Band when Boomer drew four beans, Playdates when Boomer drew water, and Dot Starlightstock (Original/Remake) when Boomer and Butch had the first clue with four music notes.
 * This marks the thirty-fourth episode in the franchise where a clue representing two of the same object was drawn. The others being What Does Dot Starlight Want to Make?, What Experiment Does Dot Starlight Want to Try?, Science with Dot Starlight, Math!, 123's with Dot Starlight, What Does Dot Starlight Want to Do on a Rainy Day?, Dot Starlight's Rainy Day Rainbow, The Lost Episode!, Animal Behavior!, Dot Starlight's Big Mystery, Pitch Misses His Friend, Imagine Nation, Dot Starlight's Big Imagination, The Anything Box, Adventure, Superfriends, The Thinking Squad, Dot Starlight's New Place, Bugs!, Something To Do Dot Starlight, Boomer's First Day, The Scavenger Hunt, Story Wall, Dot Starlight Takes You to School, Dot Starlight's Show and Tell Surprise, Look Carefully..., Soccer Practice, Dot Starlight's Night Before Christmas, Dot Starlight's Big Dance Party, What I Like About Dot Starlight, Spring is Here!, Dot Starlight's Beach Bonanza, It's Your Birthday!, and Our New Neighbor.
 * This is the second episode of the series in which the answer to Dot Starlight's Clues is known before the episode has aired, the first being Dot Starlight's Big Dance Party.
 * This is the eighteenth time where there were riddles and rhymes that were used and rhymed. The others being in Dora's Favorite Nursery Rhyme, Dot Starlight's News, What Does Dot Starlight Want to Build?, Dot Starlight's Big Treasure Hunt, Dot Starlight's Big Costume Party, Dot Starlight's Big Pajama Party, Adventure, Rhyme Time, Bedtime Business, Big News with Dot Starlight, Pajama Party with Dot Starlight, Spooky Costume Party with Dot Starlight, Boomer's Clues, The Legend of the Dot Starlight Puppy, Dot Starlight's Night Before Christmas, What I Like About Dot Starlight, and It’s Your Birthday.
 * This is the second time that Pitch was the answer to Dot Starlight's Clues, the first was Dot Starlight's Big Mystery when Dot Starlight left three clues on footprints, a curvy, skinny tail and a picture.
 * Butch howls like a wolf at the end of the "Mailtime" song instead of shouting "Mail!". Similarly, Otis, as a cow, replaces "Mail" with "Moo" and Butch calls him "Cow Otis", similar to how Brick called Otis as a monkey "Monkey Otis" in "Animal Behavior!".
 * This is the third time when someone called Otis a different name. The first two being Animal Behavior when Brick called Otis Monkey Otis and Blocks when Brick called Otis Otis Blocks.
 * This is the fourth time in the reboot to not feature The So Long Song, the first three were "Dot Starlight's Night Before Christmas", "Dot Starlight's Show and Tell Surprise" and "It's Your Birthday!".
 * This episode ends with the song "It's Time for Halloween" instead.
 * Coincidentally, all of these episodes have a different song at the end, pertaining to the episode.
 * This is the third time where a unicorn was seen. The first two being Dot Starlight's Show and Tell Surprise when Dot Starlight made Luna the Unicorn and Dot Starlight's Big Costume Parade when the Pawprint was dressed as a unicorn despite that episode being part of season two but not airing until October 29, 2021.
 * This is the fourth episode where opposites were used. The first three being Jewle Comes Over and Playdate with Jewle when Brick, Butch and Dot Starlight helped Mario and Peach make race cars that were opposite and The Wrong Shirt when Brick and Dot Starlight learned about different opposites besides Dot Starlight’s favorite opposite being On and Off when Dot Starlight left three clues on an Up Light Switch, a Lamp, and a Down Light Switch.
 * Toad and Toadete wanting the opposite of Biggest and Smallest is similar to what happened in Jewle Comes Over and Playdate with Jewle when Mario and Peach wanted the same thing.
 * In those episodes, Mario wanted the biggest circles and Peach wanted the smallest circles.
 * Happy and sad were seen again like in Dora's Favorite Nursery Rhyme when Brick helped Jack, Boomer, John, and Julia with riddles, in which the second riddle was "When you’re happy, you smile. When you’re sad you frown."
 * This is the second episode where Butch said “I don’t got it!” when trying to help someone. The first was Dot Starlight's Big Beat Band when Butch said “I don’t got this!” when he was playing a clapping game with Dashi and when he and Dot Starlight helped Bunny Jo get to a concert with his band.
 * This marks the seventeenth episode in the franchise where any type of shape was drawn. The others being Mechanics!, Imagine Nation, Dot Starlight's Big Imagination, Mario and Peach Day, Let's Plant, Dot Starlight's School, Dot Starlight Takes You to School, Dot Starlight's Show and Tell Surprise, Dot Starlight's First Holiday, Soccer Practice, Meet Dot Starlight's Baby Brother, Dot Starlight's Big Beat Band, Dot Starlight's Treasure Hunt, Welcome to Dot Starlight's Bistro, Dot Starlight's Big Baking Show, and Dot Starlight's Anywhere Box Surprise.
 * This is the fourth episode to be written by the original host of Dot Starlight's Clues. The first three were Welcome to Dot Starlight's Bistro, Dot Starlight's Night Before Christmas, and Dot Starlight's Beach Bonanza.
 * This is also the first episode in which the original host wrote an episode of Dot Starlight's Clues & You! without directing it because he directed Welcome to Dot Starlight's Bistro, Dot Starlight's Night Before Christmas, and Dot Starlight's Beach Bonanza besides writing them.
 * Pitch as the ghost skidooed to Haunted House. This is the third time Pitch skidooed. The first two times were Pitch Misses His Friend and The Big Book About Us.
 * At the end of the Mailtime song, Butch howls like a werewolf instead of saying "Mail!", which is similar to Boomer saying "Goal!" instead of "Mail!" at the end of the mailtime song in Soccer Practice.
 * However, unlike Butch, Boomer corrects himself by saying "I mean... Mail!".