| "Pumpkin Patch" | |
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| Scream Queens episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Brad Falchuk |
| Written by | Brad Falchuk |
| Production code | 1AYD05 |
| Original air date | October 13, 2015 |
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"Pumpkin Patch" is the fifth episode of the horror black comedy series Scream Queens. It first aired on October 13, 2015 on Fox. The episode was both directed and written by Brad Falchuk. In this episode, Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) makes an announcement that affects the campus, and mostly, Chanel (Emma Roberts)'s plan to throw a pumpkin patch party in support of her Kappa presidential campaign. Grace (Skyler Samuels) and Pete (Diego Boneta) lead a search for Zayday (Keke Palmer), who was kidnapped by the Red Devil.
The episode was watched by 2.97 million viewers and received mixed to positive reviews from critics.
The Chanels are organizing the pumpkin patch with Chanel (Emma Roberts) demanding the party organizer, Cliff Woo (Roy Huang), an exact maze replica from The Shining. She is angry when he proposes a corn maze instead of Hedge maze like in the movie, and tell him to get the hedge maze. Later, in the closet, Chanel assigns costumes of dead first ladies for her and her minions to wear. Chanel #5 (Abigail Breslin) gets annoyed when Chanel force her to dress up as Mary Todd Lincoln and starts a little fight with Chanel, which ends with Chanel #5 walking out of the room. In the night, Dean Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) announces she's closing the university campus and institutes a curfew on Halloween night, automatically cancelling Chanel's pumpkin patch party. Chanel decides to break the rules and changes her party to November 1st. Hester / Chanel #6 (Lea Michele), who previously called Chanel #5 a bitch during the previous argument between #5 and Chanel, convinces her to destroy Chanel. Both of them go to Jennifer "The Candle Vlogger" (Breezy Eslin)'s room to recruit her in their plan by showing her a closet with unused candles that Chanel threw away.