Wrappers 11-15: End of Halloween blowout

Okay, none of the remaining five is quite terrible enough for me to keep doing just one per post. I got a new bag of classic Laffy Taffy so it'll be back to the twofers, where you're virtually guaranteed one awful one per wrapper. So let's just clean these out.

What do you call it when the Easter Bunny shows up for Halloween?
Debbie L.

This is not the worst example of the form, but another thing that happens a lot with these jokes is quite a bit of straining in the setup just so the punchline makes sense.

A hoppy Halloween!

I also hate it when they repeat key words from the setup to the punchline. Never the hallmark of a good joke.

How do witches keep their hair in place while flying?
Cindy O.

I think a better question would be how they keep those pointy hats from flying off, but sure, whatever.

Scare spray

At least they trust you to get the rhyming joke here. Other than that, feh.

How do you fix a jack o'lantern?
Silvia D.

I'm getting a little suspicious that they're just making these names up. Two kids named "Silvia," really? With that spelling of it and everything?

With a pumpkin patch

One of the better puns we've seen so far, though of course it's still terrible.

What is a witch's favorite subject?
Katherine N.

Katherine N., quit bogarting the wrappers. First she rips off someone else's joke, now this?

Spelling

Not really a subject per se, is it? But I guess the punchline couldn't exactly have been "English."

Who mans a ghost ship?
Maureen H.

Ghosts?

There's a skeleton crew.

This one's not too bad, as these things go. I mean, it's not funny, but it's sort of clever, and actually relatively sophisticated. In fact I dare say it's arguably too sophisticated, in that children reading these things are unlikely to be familiar with the expression "skeleton crew," or at least not enough to get the double meaning. That's right: this joke might just be too good for a Laffy Taffy wrapper. Never thought I'd find myself saying that. Don't worry. This new bag is bound to be full of jokes for which I'd never consider saying it for even a second.

Wrapper 5: Screaming pumpkins

Man, if you thought the last one was a missed opportunity at a pun... just try and figure out what's going on with this garbage.

Why did they carve a big mouth into the pumpkin?
Silvia M.

You really have to wonder where this is going, right? The real reason - because you carve faces into pumpkins and the mouth is part of the face - clearly isn't the answer. It's gotta be a pun, right? "So he would look really gourd" or something terrible like that?

So he could scream and howl!

...what the fuck. Come on, Silvia M.! You cannot be serious with this shit!

Look. Screaming and howling is not something pumpkins do; strike one. "Scream and howl" is not any pumpkin-related play on words that I can see; strike two. And obviously it is not funny; strike three. That exclamation point is [sic], by the way. This joke is way too pleased with itself.

Honestly, just try to find something funny in that punchline, or at least some way it makes sense. Is the idea that they gave him a big mouth so he could let out his screams of anguish from having his flesh carved up with an enormous knife? Because if so, that is some twisted shit, Silvia M. Although I suppose failing to carve any mouth for the pumpkin, forcing him to linger in Harlan Ellison-esque torment, unable to vocalize the horrible pain, would be at least as sadistic in its own way. Still, I'm not pumpkin carving at Silvia M.'s house any time soon. Future serial killer in the making, people.