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Brainerd Dispatch Oct ober 26 - November 1, 2014 •1 1 By Andrew Warren TV Media C onfession time: I love Hallow- een. It's the one time of the year when we adults can really let loose and get in touch with our inner chil- dren. We get to gorge ourselves on candy and sweets — although maybe not quite as much as we once did. We can get all messy and creative as we tug out the slimy in- nards of pumpkins and then carve them up into scary faces or spooky scenes. Heck, we even get to play dress-up if we want to! I think the best part of Halloween is that it only comes once a year. If we got to do all those fun things year-round, they just wouldn't be special — plus all that candy is most definitely not what the doctor or- dered for lunch. It's that once-a-year business that keeps the Food Network's "Hal- loween Wars" feeling so fresh. This may be its fourth season, but with only four episodes each year, the show doesn't get stale. Sunday nights throughout Octo- ber, we've been watching as five teams of Halloween pros got whit- tled down one by one, and now we've finally reached the big night. With only the top two teams re- maining for the Sunday, Oct. 26, fi- nale and a $50,000 "treat" up for grabs, you can bet that the remain- ing competitors will be pulling out any last tricks they may have up their sleeves on "Halloween Wars" airing on Food Network. Even if you've missed the past three episodes, it's really not too tricky to catch on if you're only tun- ing in for the finale. Each team — the competition started with five — consists of three members: an ex- pert pumpkin carver, a sugar artist and a cake decorator. At the begin- ning of each episode, the teams are given a theme, and then they have to craft the most elaborate, most decadent and most sweetly deli- cious Halloween-themed display they can pull off. And what's the theme for this fi- nal episode, the one that will earn one team a bucket of sweet, sweet cash and send the other home shiv- ering in terror? "Haunted Carnival" will be their final challenge, and with themes like "Mummies vs. Werewolves" and "Don't Go Into the Forest" behind them, they'll have to come up with something original to craft out of sweets and jack-o-lanterns. Much like the day it's named af- ter, "Halloween Wars" comes but once a year — although with four episodes it does last a little bit lon- ger. Even if you haven't been follow- ing along, the finale promises to be a sweet finish to another year's fun. Don't miss it, Sunday, Oct. 26, on Food Network. 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