But not really.
Here are some more of my favorites...
Doug's Halloween Adventure...
Doug remains one of my all-time favorite cartoons. It’s a shame you can’t catch the reruns anymore, and an even bigger shame that the series hasn’t been released on DVD. There’s something very wrong with that.I have several episodes of Doug that I absolutely love, and Doug’s Halloween Adventure is one of them. The Halloween specials are always memorable, for it is a break from their normal formula and hits a subject that you can only do once a year. There’s just something about them.
In Doug’s Halloween Adventure, a spooky new amusement ride, Blood Stone Manor, opens up at Funkytown on Halloween night. Skeeter wants to check it out instead of trick or treating since it seems too childish. Story has it that the ride was closed because the ride testers rode it and the only things that came back were their shoes. OOOOOHH…SCARY! Moreover, the house that hosted the ride, has a haunting past.
Doug, after being tormented by Roger and being made fun of for Trick or Treating, reluctantly agrees to go, but when the park closes before their turn comes up, Roger convinces them to go on the ride anyway. While on the ride, Doug and Skeeter are having a blast, while it is Roger that scared silly. The ride shuts down halfway and Skeeter and Doug go to walk around to find help. Roger, who realizes how big of a chicken he was being on the ride, decides to scare Doug and Skeeter by exiting the ride, but only leaving his shoes. With help from an unexpected friend, Doug and Skeeter find a way out, and in the meantime come up with a trick to get back at Roger.
It’s silly, it’s fun, and it’s Doug at his finest. A Halloween treat, this one it.
Mad Monster Party?...
The Rankin-Bass Christmas specials are a huge part of my yearly Christmastime traditions. Likewise, their Halloween-themed Mad Monster Party? Has quickly became a holiday favorite of mine.Classic monster movies were enjoying a resurgence in popularity in the late 1960's, and humorous monsters like The Addams Family and The Munsters were enormously popular.
Dr Frankenstein decides to retire, leaving the monster business to his nephew, Felix. Frankenstein plans to announce his decision at a convention of monsters that includes his monster, Dracula, the Werewolf, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde and many more. However when Felix proves to be an incompetent (and unsuitably kind-hearted) human, the monsters plot to eliminate him and gain control of Frankenstein's latest discovery: the secret of total destruction!
The songs are terrible, and the story is a little lame, but I just can’t help but to enjoy it. Despite being a special targeted toward children, there is some dark humor that only the older audiences would get. And to my knowledge, this is the only “children’s program,” that ends in a mushroom cloud. How cool is that?
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Trick or Treason...
I originally saw this special many many years ago on the USA Network. I stumbled on USA airing the animated version of “The Canterville Ghost,” and hit record on my VCR. After Ghost ended, Alvin came on with a true Halloween Treat!It’s days before Halloween, and the chipmunks are at home partaking in events of the season. Simon is displaying a flying ghost decoration he invited, while Theodore puts icing on his Halloween cookies. Alvin wants to join a gang that is well known for playing pranks on Halloween, and practices on his brothers.
The group that Alvin wants to be accepted into is the Monster Club, whose members seem to think its cool to be cruel. Thing is, there's a hefty initiation required to join…he’ll have to display a trick to the Monster’s with the hope that they’ll use his trick for their “Monster Mash,” on Halloween night! One target they wish to pull a prank on is a boy with a deformed face who they call PumpkinHead (I kid you not)!
Why would Alvin want to join this group of thugs? Easy. According to Alvin, their jackets are really cool. In fact, their jackets are so cool, that women and nice cars flock to them.
Hell…after watching this, I wanted to join!
It takes Theodore's friendship to Michael (PumpkinHead), to show Alvin that being a true friend is really a lot more cool than trying to be a popular Monster. Awww…
Home Improvement...
I'm a huge fan of the show, and it gets even funnier the more I watch it. I have the first 7 season on DVD, and like Roseanne, it's Home Improvement's holiday specials that seperate them from other great sitcoms.There are about 10 Halloween episodes, but every one of them are very entertaining in their own right. Seeing the writers work a holiday into a show about home improvement, shows off the talents of the writers, as they delivered with some classic, and just plain funny episodes. One of my favorites was titled Crazy For You. In terms of Halloween specials, it doesn't get much better than this one.
It's Hallowe'en and Jill plans to get even with Tim "The King of Halloween" Taylor, who always plays a trick on her and everybody else on Halloween. Marie, their neighbor, pretends to be "Rose," a fan of Tim on Tool Time. She sends him cookies but Wilson thinks they might be poisoned. When "Rose" calls Tim at home, she says that she loves him and wants him. In no time, Tim is a total wreck, picking up a bat before opening the door, and so on. Just before shooting a Tool Time show, he realizes that the audience is full of women from the "Sharpshooters Club" and he gets a letter from "Rose" telling him that she's sitting in the front row and will be at Tim's Halloween Party that night.
It's a great Halloween-themed episode and you can tell the cast is having a good time filming it. Watch Home Improvement re-runs during this week and next...I'm sure TBS or WGN will be airing it.
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