Warning: This post contains spoilers for Chucky season 1, episode 2.
Chucky season 1, episode 2, "Give Me Something Good to Eat" saw the killer doll go trick or treating and referenced Halloween II's harrowing razor blade moment in the process. Since his debut in 1988, Chucky (voiced by Brad Dourif) has unleashed no shortage of chaos and bloodshed. For SYFY's Chucky show, the titular doll decided to target Hackensack, New Jersey, a town tied to Chucky's origin, around October 31. There, as well as forming a potentially murderous bond with Jake Wheeler (Zackary Arthur), Chucky has firmly embraced the Halloween spirit — both the holiday and John Carpenter's initial horror installments.
Bored from a week of killer abstinence after murdering Jake's father, Lucas (Devon Sawa), Chucky turned his attention to some new targets in Chucky season 1, episode 2, "Give Me Something Good to Eat." Though he principally wanted to go after Lexy Cross (Alyvia Alyn Lind), he settled on impaling a housekeeper on a dishwasher full of knives. After that, as first seen in the trailer and countless meme-worthy images, Chucky donned a Hello Kitty mask to pose as a trick or treater. After a brief exchange with a fresh member of Chucky's cast of new and returning characters, Chucky gifted her an apple with a razor blade hidden inside it.
The vicious prank connected to the early childhood days of Charles Lee Ray, long before he transferred his soul into a doll. After discovering that one of his own "treats" had a razor blade inside it, he still willingly chomped on it — clearly relishing the sensation of pain and blood that followed. As seen later in the episode, Chucky's own victim wasn't quite so fond of the experience as she put Detective Evans (Rachelle Casseus) on his and Jake's heels. The moment wasn't simply a fresh example of Chucky's dark and twisted humor, however. It also served as a reference to the equally ongoing Halloween movie franchise, specifically 1981's Halloween II, written by John Carpenter and directed by Rick Rosenthal. Though the bulk of the action centered on Michael Myers' rampage, a handful of scenes featured a mother checking her son (who'd been similarly pranked with a razor blade) in and out of Haddonfield Memorial.
In both Halloween and Chucky, the disturbing apple and razor blade prank brought to life a harrowing urban legend that has hung over October 31 for decades. In the case of Halloween II, however, it was never addressed who had been responsible. It was, after all, far from Michael Myers' M.O. Instead, it seemed designed as more of a non sequitur to emphasize more than one horror was lurking and tie into John Carpenter and Debra Hill's original idea for the Halloween franchise to be anthological in nature following Halloween II.
Funnily enough, Bride of Chucky jokily teased a shared universe with Halloween. As such, Chucky could arguably have tongue-in-cheek answered the mystery. After all, the flashback established that Charles Lee Ray had known of and consistently loved the prank from 7 years old to the present day. Equally, though he was born and raised in New Jersey, his human serial killer tenure was centered in and around Chicago and Illinois, where Halloween was set. As such, it's conceivable that Chucky surreptitiously and coincidentally happened to unleash terror on Haddonfield at the same as Michael Myers. Whether or not Chucky's apple and razor blade reference was meant to spark such imaginings, however, only Don Mancini would know.
More definitively, though, Chucky's prank established that he has been blatantly lying to Jake. While Chucky claimed he only targets those who deserve it, the apple and razor blade incident counts as proof that that was never the case. While 33 years of established Child's Play and Chucky movie history made that clear for fans, Jake himself continued to remain oblivious. Whether or not he will eventually catch on (or even care) shall remain to be seen. Either way, Chucky's reference to Halloween II likely won't be the last horror nod the series will make.