"Along for the Ride" is an episode of Nightmare Ned.
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Ned is stuck on a family road trip, while his parents (who sing a ditty about "being nuts") and baby sister (wielding a rubber ducky that Ned takes away as Mom tells him to, only for Dad to yell at him to give the ducky back to Baby) are quickly wearing on his nerves. He falls asleep and dreams that he and his family check into a run-down motel, run by an innkeeper who gives him the creeps. Dad Needlemeyer misinterprets the creepy innkeeper as a kindly man, then leads his family to the hotel where the manager is the same creepy innkeeper who sells a family room for forty years and their souls before leading the family to the elevator. Ned refuses to take the elevator, opting to go downstairs, where he is sucked into a vacuum by the same innkeeper pretending to be a woman, then loses his head, then sees his family imprisoned by the same innkeeper. Mom pleads the innkeeper to leave Ned alone while Dad only cares about the free mint. As the innkeeper tortures Ned with the rubber duck....Ned throws the rubber ducky out of the van, ending the episode.