Chucky Season 1 Finale Solves Original Child’s Play’s Tiffany Mystery
The Chucky season 1 finale features a revelation that solves a Child’s Play/Tiffany mystery — and potentially changing their relationship forever.
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Warning: SPOILERS for the Chucky season 1 finale!
A revelation in Chucky season 1, episode 8, “An Affair to Dismember,” changed the titular character’s relationship with Tiffany for good and also solved a mystery going back to the original Child’s Play movie. Charles Lee Ray’s (Brad Dourif) legendary tenure as a killer doll first began in 1988, when he was gunned down by police inside a toy store, and Chucky transferred his soul into a Good Guy doll. After two direct sequels, he received a partner-in-crime via Tiffany Valentine (Jennifer Tilly) in 1998’s aptly named Bride of Chucky. As popular as Tiffany immediately became, some felt that it clashed with the previous Child’s Play installments.
For starters, Chucky had not once mentioned Tiffany throughout the original trilogy. Given his desire for vengeance against such as Detective Mike Norris (Chris Sarandon) and Eddie Caputo (Neil Giuntoli), a capable human accomplice could have been more efficient than young Andy Barclay (Alex Vincent). Equally, given that the police were aware of Charles Lee Ray being the Lakeshore Strangler and were rounding up his associates, it also made no sense that Tiffany wasn’t among them. After all, she was established as living with Chucky right up until the night he first died. Fortunately, Chucky episode 7 established the reasons for their original split. Those flashbacks also paved the way for the revelation in Chucky season 1, episode 8, “An Affair to Dismember,” thus retroactively clarifying the Child’s Play timeline.
Midway through the Chucky season 1 finale, present-day Tiffany was forced to choose between Chucky and Nica Pierce (Fiona Dourif). She ultimately chose the latter, opting to bloodily decapitate the killer doll. Picking up his still-functioning head, Tiffany then taunted him with the confession that she was the reason the police found him that late-80s night. A flashback then showed Young Tiff (Blaise Crocker) making the fateful phone call, adding to the Chucky season 1 finale’s Easter eggs and references with a direct Mike Norris name-drop. Given that Tiffany personally set the various manhunts in motion, she probably used that advanced knowledge to swiftly pack up her things and get out of dodge before anything could blow back in her direction.
Furthermore, Tiffany’s betrayal also deepened some of the action and dialogue from Bride of Chucky, tightening up the overall franchise timeline even more. After all, the seeming engagement ring that Tiffany mentioned finding was likely discovered while she was hastily packing. That would no doubt have led to immense guilt about reporting Chucky to the police — which in turn fueled her decade-spanning efforts to recover his doll body and resurrect him. Equally, it helped to also explain why Chucky and Tiffany fell so quickly from love to animosity in Bride of Chucky. Like the night that they first split, Tiffany realized that her guilt, as well as time and devotion, had been wasted on someone who had never cared. Of course, as longtime Child’s Play and Chucky movie viewers know, the twisted cycle that was Tiffany and Chucky’s relationship continued to be on as much as it was violently off.
Given that Tiffany’s twisted affections were now aimed at Nica, and her original betrayal has been revealed, it’ll be interesting to see where things go next between them. After all, Chucky already swore vengeance, and that was before she trapped another iteration inside the horrifically incapacitated body of Nica. All of that would usually be more than enough to incur Chucky’s brutal wrath in the now-confirmed Chucky season 2. Since it’s coupled with the knowledge that Tiffany was essentially the architect of Chucky’s fate – from becoming trapped as a doll to the painful defeats that followed – Tiffany has arguably become a bigger nemesis than Andy. Whatever the future may hold, however, it will assuredly be a darkly fun ride. And, in the meantime, the reveals of the Chucky season 1 finale further proved why Don Mancini singularly managing the Child’s Play timeline has been the franchise’s greatest strength.
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