Season 1, Episode 7: “Beware of Young Girls”

Maybe the Mets lost because they couldn’t stand to wait two weeks for the next episode of “Scream Queens.”

The early end to the World Series meant that the show’s hiatus was only a week long, and Tuesday night’s episode had enough red herrings, pop-culture references, plot twists and eerie camera angles to make us glad the break was a short one. Seldom has luncheon meat been so pivotal in an episode of a television comedy-drama.

The episode began with Chanel No. 2 in a coffin and Chanel No. 1 giving a funeral oration that included the line, “This is what happens when you rub uglies with my man: You end up dead.”

Later the various living Chanels tried to contact No. 2 via a séance and a Ouija board, which led to some pretty funny Q.& A. exchanges. Finally the living No. 1 asked the dead No. 2 the obvious question: Who’s been killing all these people?