The Bad Seed

“One bad seed kills the garden”

Angela & Uncle Jerry note that the phrase 'bad seed' echoes the novel The Bad Seed by William March, about a little girl adopted into a family who appears sweet but starts killing people. Uncle Jerry mentions it was also turned into a 1956 film that scared him as a child. The 'one bad seed kills the garden' line plays on this idea of one bad element corrupting everything.