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{{Episode
|title = That Thing You Deuce
|image = THYD TC.jpeg
|season = 1
|episode = 5
|overall = 8
|series = ''[[Monster High (TV series)|Monster High]]''
|paired = "[[Werewolf Weekend]]"
|writer =Phillip Walker
|director =Ashlyn Antsee
|artist =Ariel Song
|airdate = November 29, 2022
|narrator = [[Deuce Gorgon (G3)|Deuce]]
|previous = "[[Part of the Pack]]"
|next = "[[Werewolf Weekend]]"
}}
"'''That Thing You Deuce'''" is the fifth episode of the [[Season 1 (TV series)|first season]] of [[Nickelodeon]]'s ''[[Monster High (TV series)|Monster High]]''. It is the eighth episode of the series overall. It premiered on November 29, 2022. It was written by [[Phillip Walker]].

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==Premise==
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==Plot==
[[Deuce Gorgon (G3)|Deuce]], a member of the [[Monster High (G3)/Location|Monster High]]'s casketball team, is recording on his IBall what happened earlier. The tryouts for the casketball team are coming, [[Clawdeen Wolf (G3)|Clawdeen]] is interested in joining the team and wants to know everything about it. While the two are practicing some casketball moves, Deuce tells her there was a time [[gorgons]] weren't allowed play casketball, but his mother, [[Medusa Gorgon (G3)|Medusa]], won a game without turning anyone into stone and now gorgons can play. Deuce is continuing his mother's legacy of winning, the casketball team is currently consisted of him, [[Heath Burns (G3)|Heath Burns]], [[Lagoona Blue (G3)|Lagoona Blue]], [[Howleen Wolf (G3)|Howleen Wolf]] and the [[Zombies|zombie]] [[Ghoulia Yelps (G3)|Ghoulia Yelps]]. The gorgons have a motto: ''"Winning is what gorgons do"''. Excited, Clawdeen asks what they will do now and, to her confunsion, he responds they will make candy. The casketball team have an annual bake sale fundraiser and the one who sells the most wins and receives a trophy. To Clawdeen's shock, the fundraiser will start in 10 minutes, but Deuce calms her down because he already has what he needs. He takes a sugar bag, takes some of the sugar and uses his stone glare to transform the sugar into rock candy, Clawdeen tastes the candy and thinks is delicious and Deuce is determined on winning the fundraiser.

Clawdeen takes her roomates [[Draculaura (G3)|Draculaura]] and [[Frankie Stein (G3)|Frankie]] to the casketball team fundraiser. First, they go to Heath, who is selling crème brûlees. They aren't cooked, so Heath reads an article about habitat destruction to get angry and fire up the brûlees, cooking them in the process. The trio takes free samples and approves it, then pay for it. Next, they go to Ghoulia, who is selling whole brain breed. Since it's made of brains, they decline it and go to Deuce. This leaves Ghoulia sad, because she's the only member of the team who didn't sell anything. On Deuce's table, Deuce and his snakes don't let them take free samples, in order to sell out to win. They pay for his rock candy and approve it as well. After they leave, Deuce gets a call from his mother, Medusa asks if he's selling well, which he responds positivity. His mother is obsessed with him winning, then she asks to talk to his snakes in private. Deuce puts on headphones so he won't hear their conversation. She demands his snakes to make sure Deuce wins, refusing to let him lose. Ending the call, the snakes convince him that winning is the most important thing.

Since Draculaura is a famous influencer on the EekTok (monsters' version of TikTok), he asks her to publish his rock candy for extra help. She makes a livestream about how delicious his candy is, this makes more students buy it, he and Clawdeen high five in celebration for his good selling. Later on, Deuce goes to Clawdeen, Draculaura and Frankie in their dorm room, he has a lot of orders for his candy to the next day and asks his friends to help him produce more candy. They work together and are able to make large amounts of rock candy. But after a few hours of working, the teenagres are exhausted. Deuce is falling asleep constantly as well, accidentaly knocking off his glasses and turning things into stone uncontrollably. To everyone's shock, they see that when Deuce's stone stare reflects on the rock candy, it turns other objects into rock candy. Clawdeen tells Deuce to stop and rest, but his snakes shout that Clawdeen might be jealous of his winning, leaving her in shock and her roomantes angered, defending her. Deuce says he doesn't think that, but winning is important to him and he will keep working. The trio goes to their room to sleep and Clawdeen, worried for him, tells him to rest before leaving.

His snakes convince him to make more candy. After making a few more candy, Deuce falls asleep completly, his snakes argue on what to do and one of them has a idea. While Deuce is sleeping, the snakes tie some ropes on him and use him as a puppet and manage to make even more candy, but Deuce ends up losing his glasses in the process. The next day, the students arrive to get the candy they ordered, Deuce is still asleep so his snakes are in charge of it. But they can't control him anymore, this makes Deuce tranform the students and the casketball team members into rock candy statues. Clawdeen, Draculaura and Frankie arrive in time to see the chaos, they manage to dodge the stone glare and hide. Seeing Deuce doesn't have his glasses, Clawdeen tells Draculaura to take one of hers for him, she uses a levitation [[Magic|spell]] to land the glasses on Deuce's face, which works successively. Draculaura and Frankie don't want to go to there, so Clawdeen goes alone and manages to wake up Deuce, who gets in shock for what happened. His snakes try to convince him things are better this way for winning, but Deuce shuts them up, seeing what their manipulation have done, he defends Clawdeen and declares that his friends and teammates are more important to him than winning a trophy, so he puts on his cap to silence his snakes.

The four teenagers gather together and wonder what to do to fix everything. Frankie analyses with their scientist brain bit and deduces that whenever the stone stare refractes through a substance, it makes whatever it hits to take on the substance's characteristics. So they might turn everyone back to normal by blasting the store stare into something fleshy. Clawdeen has the idea of using Ghoulia' whole brain breed, but they must pay for it and it's expensive, so Frankie suggests using Deuce's money to pay for it. Deuce doesn't want to because it means he won't win, but when remembering what his family's greed for winning had done to his friends, he decides to make things right. He gives all his money to Ghoulia, then the four teenagers work together and are able to turn everyone back to normal, then the four hug together in celebration.

Deuce had sold the most, but since he gave all his money to Ghoulia, she won the trophy, and everyone celebrates. Clawdeen looks for Deuce and finds him sleeping, she and the others decide not to disturb him and Ghoulia gets him a pillow. Deuce is finishing recording his monster minute on his IBall, this whole situation made him realize winning is not the most important thing in the world and he is learning to become a better monster.

==Characters==
{{characterlist
|[[Clawdeen Wolf (G3)|Clawdeen Wolf]]
|[[Draculaura (G3)|Draculaura]]
|[[Frankie Stein (G3)|Frankie Stein]]
|[[Deuce Gorgon (G3)|Deuce Gorgon]]
|[[Cleo de Nile (G3)|Cleo de Nile]]
|[[Lagoona Blue (G3)|Lagoona Blue]]
|[[Gorgons]] <small>(debut; pictured)</small>
|[[Howleen Wolf (G3)|Howleen Wolf]]
|[[Heath Burns (G3)|Heath Burns]]
|[[Ghoulia Yelps (G3)|Ghoulia Yelps]] <small>(speaking debut)</small>
|[[Backgrounders (G3)#Monster High Students|Students]]
|[[Manny Taur (G3)|Manny Taur]]
|[[Spectra Vondergeist (G3)|Spectra Vondergeist]]
|[[Kuma (G3)|Kuma]]
|[[Medusa Gorgon (G3)|Medusa Gorgon]] <small>(debut; cameo)</small>
|[[Romulus (G3)|Romulus]]
|[[Barkimedes (G3)|Barkimedes]]
|[[Watzie (G3)|Watzie]]
|[[Headmistress Bloodgood (G3)|Headmistress Bloodgood]]
}}

==Notes==
===Milestones===
*Ghoulia Yelps makes her animated debut.

===Errors===
* When Deuce is in the main trio's room, Draculaura's eyes are glowing.
* Clawdeen's glasses appear more green throughout the episode.
* Clawdeen's hair is extended to one side when Draculaura points out how she has been howling to try Deuce's candy.
* Sometimes in the episodes, Deuce's glasses are grey. During this one, most of the time only one lens of them is tinted.

==Gallery==
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==Videos==
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Draculaura Helps Deuce Sell Rock Candy! - New Monster High Animated Series
Deuce Needs A Break from Candy Making! 🍬 - Monster High™
Deuce Turns Monster High Students Into Candy! - Monster High
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