↑ Upside

• Orange-and-black-themed horror show second only to Oregon State’s football team
• Bacterial soup used in “Dunking for Apples” strengthens community immune systems
• Last calendar hurdle before we finally get Christmas commercials back
• Begging door to door prepares children for future economy
• Hell, witchcraft now viable climate change solution
• We all wear masks, metaphorically speaking
• All the little Wonder Women

↓ Downside 

• Candy corn. WTF.
• “Trick or treat!” now official US foreign policy
• 2008-era Obama novelty masks just depressing
• Even now, some Portlander making a batch of fruit leather to hand out
• Overripe pumpkins put a Trump on every porch
• Losing touch with its not-for-profit satanic roots
• All the little Minions