4:00 So glad you put that one in. Angry Beavers is still one of my favorite Nicktoons and I feel gets criminally overlooked sometimes. 17:33 Aw dude! You missed the obvious Patrick related joke right there! "Who wants to watch a Disney Halloween Special at 3 in the morning?!" "Patrick: Oh boy! 3 AM!"
Speaking of Summerween, my one gripe with Gravity Falls was Dipper forcing himself to grow up. Being "grown up" isn't about casting aside playful things like dressing up, playing games or Trick R Treating forever. Being grown up is about being responsible, when necessary. While still being mature enough to enjoy "kiddie stuff"
Eh, a lot of people make that mistake, especially when they're preteens/teens. The way I see it, they get mixed up about the difference between grown-ups and adults. Here's how I tell the difference: Grown-ups - grown-up kids. That is: people who are still kids on the inside but have matured and become responsible otherwise. Adults - grown-ups who are dull. That is...a-dull-ts. (rimshot)
On the other hand, regarding the camp lazlo special if I remember right, the series finale reveals the summer camp was commandeered by an insane, delusional man who only THOUGHT he was scoutmaster, thus explaining why the kids would be trapped there longer than usual. Unless I'm getting some details mixed up/outright wrong
The angry beavers special was great! It was hilarious, cheesy, and the change in art style actually made it a bit creepy, I remember being worried about norm and dag
there was a second camp lazlo halloween cartoon that ran afterwards and it was about a sentient mound of meat that was implied to have killed and impersonated lazlo and friends. I remember finding that cartoon actually a little scary as a kid.
Witch cat, I remember this being an CBS Saturday cartoon. Also love your Disney themed title card. I so wanted to see a Duck tales/Dark wing duck cross over.
Rashuanu he has a show called Adam ruins everything which uses comedy to clear up misconceptions to educate people. It's pretty good. His recent Halloween special just talked about how the newspapers exaggerated the accounts of the 2% of people who did listen to discredit radio.
The joke around the Paul Lynn (sp!) Halloween Special is that he is as openly gay as he could in the 70's, and that gay people tend to love Halloween because it is the one day they can be open. But in the special he hates Halloween. Anyways...
I enjoyed this Top 13 very much. Not only because I was in the mood for Halloween but also because I enjoy your cartoon reviews and top lists in general. Also here, I enjoyed it because I felt that I shouldn't be that ashamed if some (or better: all) of these specials aren't familiar to me at all (I haven't grown up with Halloween and only got in touch with it during my later youth years but even then, my local TV programs aren't really keen on showing Halloween specials). Great jokes btw and also GREAT artwork with the duck girls :) It's so awesome.
Something Mabel-related, I'm sure. Chad apparently got rocked off the Gravity Falls bandwagon around the third (later half of the second technically, but we all call it third) season by her.
I think it was Weirdmageddon part 2. He explained it all during a Hearthstone play stream but I can't recall which. I guess that episode really divides the fanbase regarding Mabel.
I liked "The Night That Panicked America"! I thought you did a good job with this video. You have an expressive, articulate voice. The humor in this video was well timed. I am giving you a like!
Chad Thank you so much for this gift you've given us! Please reconsider making familiar faces bi-weekly. I promise the majority of us will thank you in kind through patreon.
I knew from the second I saw the video title that The Angry Beavers would be on this list. Their Halloween special was probably the funniest one Nickelodeon ever had.
I've noticed the best Nickelodeon Halloween specials have an alien motif, like Hey Arnold or Fairly Oddparents. In fact, the Oddparents one even had a Monsters vs Aliens kinda vibe to it.
I spent a few minutes looking around. The specific terminology is "Theobromine poisoning" and extends to cola, acai berries, chocolate. The earliest documentation I can find about it on wikipedia goes back to 2009 and I know it goes further back than that. One interesting thing I learned in my research is that scientists are looking into its applications as a coyote repellent.
15:55 Believe it or not but they had one before that. In 1986 Disney aired Mr. Boogedy a story of a gag salesman and his family who moved into a small New England town. They of course find out their new new house is haunted with spirits from colonial times. Mr. Boogedy was an old Pilgrim that loved a young widow but his feelings weren't shared. So he (of course) made a deal with the devil for a magic cloak. The sequel called Bride of Boogedy came out the following year and then they just kinda disappeared after Under Wraps started to air every year. Which is sad because they had some charm to them in that they were so bad they were funny to watch.
The idea of someone taking advantage of a scare via a powerful media was done in a Pinky and the Brain segment in Animaniacs. Brain pretends to be a TV reporter while Pinky is dressed up as an alien, with Brain planning on using the scare to take over the world. Since Brain is supposed to fail every time, I don't think I need to reveal the final results of his attempt. XD
I get a real "Candle Cove" vibe from Follow that Goblin. Looks like the kind of thing someone would watch, and then afterwords someone else asked them why the spent half an hour staring at the tv when it wasn't on.
I saw Spooky Bats and Scaredy Cats one time on CN a few years back and I agree its quit good especially the stop-motion animation, its very well made for a Halloween special
4:00 - This finally explains why my childhood best friend and I would say "Candy" like that! I don't remember seeing the Halloween episode of Angry Beavers, but I remember it was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, so I must have watched it when it first aired (or maybe Daggit or Norbert said it in a different episode) and picked it up from the show!
Great job on this Halloween video! Thanks for putting out such awesome content and never failing to make me smile and- Wait. Camp Master Lumpus did WHAT?
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters was Loony Tunes answer to the clip show halloween special, but I still love it. Especially because of the Ghostbusters references.
Y'know, I'm really surprised how few of these I've seen. It's a really impressive and interesting list. I think the only ones I can remember watching were under Wraps and the Angry Beavers special, which were both bizarre and charming. Thanks for pointing the others out.
Fun fact: the infamous 1938 broadcast of War of the World did not quite go like how pop culture wants us to believe. "There’s only one problem: The supposed panic was so tiny as to be practically immeasurable on the night of the broadcast. Despite repeated assertions to the contrary in the PBS and NPR programs, almost nobody was fooled by Welles’ broadcast." - Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow of Slate Actually, Paul Lynde never said he was gay. For all any of us truly know, he was bi or even just camp straight. Mocap acting isn't done with green screens. It's done with studio sets.
24:42 ... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! *ROFL* HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I can't... I can't stop laughing at this madness. When did this thing first come out, because as far as I know, aside from easy pot-shots, everyone has gotten over Twilight, including Stephanie Meyer!
19:55 "We might have a job for you on some new kids show about 'teenagers with attitude' beating up monsters in rainbow-colored spandex and giant robots."
For the comment on the snow in the Sleepy Hollow special, I will mention that up here in Minnesota it has been known to snow before Halloween in the past.
Witch Cat > Sailor Moon. The dog wants chocolate with raisins? Just how badly does he want to die? Might as well throw some caramelized onions in there for extra measures.
4 years later and I only just realize the punchline to that joke is it's a Hollow Weenie. Good Lord, I'm dense. I just thought scooped out like a jack o lantern. Because Halloween is spelled with an A I guess, so it took longer to get it.
Snow isn't necessarily a winter thing. I know places in California that get snow in the summertime. It's not surprising that For Better or for Worse had a halloween special, seeing as it had a TV series.
I use to love the house of mouse as a kid just because I loved seeing all the charcters from my favorite disney movies together in the same room like Aladdin and Tigger I really didn't much care about the shorts as much as that
Fun Fact,Paul Lynn was gonna played the phantom from a Universal Studios Hollywood stage show, how ever he was fired for sounding too much like Paul Lynn
