" An advertisement also played for Silver Shamrock Novelties -- (to the tune of "London Bridge is Falling Down"):"Eight more days to Halloween/ Halloween/ Halloween/ Eight more days to Halloween/ Silver Shamrock.Other plagues were only mentioned in the dialogue: lice, flies, sickness, boils, and three days of darkness.Her father Virgil Adams (Fred Stone) is recuperating and bed-ridden from a long illness.He is cared for by her mother Mrs.Adams (Ann Shoemaker), who bitterly disdains her drawling husband""s low-paying clerical job with the wholesale drug firm of Lamb and Co.Freddy caught the aberrant hearing aid from the blast and joked: "Nice hearing from you, Carlos."All that was left of Carlos in the bedroom was his hearing aid, found by Tracy.In the downstairs living room, Spencer was smoking pot and falling asleep on the sofa - and would become Freddy""s next prey:Spencer watched an image on the broken-down TV set with a smashed screen (of desperate kids"" faces, scarred or bloodied inside the tube, one of whom was Carlos who screamed a warning: "Don""t fall asleep, man!")." The law sought to "prevent performance in which human life is needlessly imperiled to satisfy either.