I always loved Halloween themed episodes, hell holiday themed episodes in all shows really. The Simpsons always comes to mind with really knocking it out of the park cause the Treehouse of horror shit was always excellent
Yeah, I think it's a shame that the Garfield holiday specials are always over-shadowed by the Peanuts specials because they're still enjoyable to watch to this day.
Loved watching the Charlie Brown specials as a kid (still do now). There was just this laid back, and relaxing mixed with subtle humor and relatable struggles sprinkled in. It was simple, yet sincere and had more layers in how it can reach so many people. We laugh at Charlie Brown's bad luck, but we also pity him since some of us can relate to his mundane struggles and frustrations. And obviously we know the great pumpkin is real, but many of us admire Linus's genuine passion and commitment to believe in it and celebrate it. And the easygoing jazz music can always put me in the right mood.
+The Viper Of Death yeah me to I'm trying to buy back all the classic universal movies. I like the moment section here only place where people are actually kind.
I am 31 now. Halloween today is nothing like it was back in the early nineties and late 80s I remember the streets being full of kids in costume now of days your lucky to get 10 kids at to your door in my neighborhood and I live in a nice area. It's sad.:(
+David Murauski That's because your area there isn't as many kids of that generation at one time. That's all it is - there's just a lot less children of that age to trick-or-treat. Generational change and all that. It's not as if people aren't still doing it.
+Joe Plays I dunno what depressing- ass neighborhood you lived in, but middle school is the ideal trick-or-treating age. You finally have the freedom to wander around and get in trouble with your buddies without having a parent holding your hand, but you still have that carefree innocence. You missed out on a nice piece of childhood
Thanks for the content you create, be it the Nerd, Board James or these kind of things, thanks. I've had a rough couple of years and watching your content just keeps my mind off things. It's nice to see someone create content with so much passion.
"Perfect Strangers" Halloween episode (S04E03) aired Oct 28, 1988. The first (normal) episode of "Rosanne" aired on Oct 18th, 1988. Larry and Balki beat Rosanne to the punch.
I'm 13, and I love Peanuts. The stories are so amazing, and whenever Charles could actually add some storyline to it - it just is fantastic and timeless. If anyone has seen the Nostalgia Critic, you'd know that kids television shows can get away with more things, and they can be as good - or even better - as anything for an adult, such as Gravity Falls. It appeals to all generations, while having an actual interesting storyline that really makes you think, and with actual original humour and ideas, rather that just having stupid "child" humour with random stories. If Charles could still continue the daily comic strip, I wonder how much great things he could've done in today's time - add more character to characters, extend more stories - I've even started creating my own Peanuts comic strips and fanfiction that'll probably never seen by anyone, just to try it out - it's just that good. In my opinion. Anyway, Peanuts is simply spectacular. That's basically what I'm saying. And, hey - there's a new Peanuts movie coming out this year. Which Australia gets two months after the rest of the world. And we get it on New Year's Day, which is the worse day to release a movie. But at least they're making a new Peanuts movie that somehow looks good!
+JamerTheGamer "kids television shows can be good or better". Yeah i call total bullshit on this because most programs aimed towards children are total garbage. Peanuts is not an 'exceptional display' of this, it's just a cartoon. But it's an old cartoon, and is a 'classic' BECAUSE. it has those things, NOT because children stories normally have them or are better or some combination of nonsense that doesn't exist. This is what we call "exceptions proving the rule" because that's what it is, an exception. What you describe is not typical. Also, Nostalgia critic? Why not try having an opinion of your own rather than regurgitating someone else's.
I hear you man! I love Peanuts! It inspired me to make my own comics as well as animations on my channel. Charles M Shultz is responsible for 70% of my childhood! :D
Charles is dead buddy and for now on don't say your age you'll be treated different by people who don't have respect. I get you though peanuts was originally aimed for adults which means its not technically just for kids(the comments I mean.) Other then that I wouldn't worry so much and I would appreciate if you don't comment stuff like that on cinemassacre share your opinions somewhere else. One last thing when its a show people of all ages watch like the peanuts how could it be really just for kids how could anything? thank you I just really don't want comment chains on here.
James and Mike, I'm 22 years old and I have been watching your videos for 6 years now. It's funny to talk about Halloween specials when in my eyes your monster madness and Halloween AVGN episodes have been the number one highlight of my Halloween. For my generation, you ARE a Halloween special all of your own. Never quit doing what your doing. Thanks
I looked forward to the Treehouse of Horror marathons every year in the early/mid 90s. On those nights I'd come in early from thick or treats if need be.
I really like trick r treat. That movie would get a lot more mainstream play if it wasn't as twisted as it is, cuz the writing, and characters are great.
James is spot on, "It's the Great Pumpkin CB" is THE gold standard! I can't get into the Halloween spirit without watching it. I prefer to watch it by myself as I did when I was a kid.
Good video, I remember and love all the same things about Halloween. I'm 36 and was lucky enough to be a kid during the 80's and 90s, it was an amazing time to be alive. The movies, sitcoms, toys, clothes, you name it. The 80's and early 90s were special. You had to live it to know.
Listening to James cuss is like music to my ears. Just wanted to remind you guys that this channel is absolutely fantastic. It was going downhill when James was working on his movie but Mike ended up pulling through and through your conversations the show ended up so much better. Love your work.
I like when you guys go back and talk about the nostalgic stuff from you're past. I grew up in the same generation as you guys so its always fun to hear about the same experiences I had growing up.
The most memorable Halloween special for me was the Boy Meets World one where they're stuck in the school with a killer and he's singing over the PA. "Welcome to John Adams high, this is where you're gonna die." Lol.
+PhelanVelvel - That was a great special, inspired by the Scream series right? _Spoiler_ _Alert_ : Shawn is the killer and it was all a dream sequence >: )
+Hidious Vanity Lol, I see. I remembered it as a Halloween episode, my bad! I think maybe I'm remembering it that way because it was shown on Halloween in later years.
I know this is old, but I've been going back through Monster Madness this year since there are no new ones... My favorite Halloween Special on TV was 1985s The Midnight Hour. It fell right in the heyday for me and horror, when smack in the midst of my teenage years.
This was a nice lookback at Halloween episodes. The amazing thing about nostalgia is that when putting back some old episodes of TV shows or old Cartoon shows, either American or Japanese Animated, or even European cartoons too. Looking back on those animated shows from the past, really brings back a sort of nostalgia feeling that you either love it or you hate it depending on how you feel about your own adult life nowdays and your childhood seems so far away. Sometimes those feelings connect, and sometimes it doesn't depending on how others feel.
I usually am on the same page with you guys on nearly everything on this channel. Every Halloween since the mid-'80s I have gleeful watched Halloween marathons and Halloween specials, like Roseanne and Simpson's ToH. Even today, I'm 38 years old, Halloween gets me all giddy. But I have a zero tolerance rule for goddamn Peanuts and Charlie Brown. And the only Great Pumpkin episode I will watch is "It's the Great Pumpkin Sam Winchester"...
It is funny that you posted this today, because I was just thinking about both Tool Time and Roseanne yesterday and their Halloween episodes. Halloween is the best.
The Halloween holiday season has always and will always hold a special place in my heart right next to the Halloween TV specials you guys mentioned in this video. Thanks guys.
There have been lots of Halloween specials. They were on the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's. Rosanne hardly started them. Even Knight Rider had a Halloween special.
Hate to burst your bubble. but Halloween specials were fairly common in the 60s-90s & The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet had a Halloween special in 1952.
I've collected a lot of the Halloween specials. Every October I watch them with my kids. Helps that we have a Plex server setup to keep it all organized: Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Bobby's World, Boy Meets World, The Cosby Show, Dinosaurs, a ton of Disney Halloween specials, Doug, DuckTales, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Eek! the Cat, Family Matters, The Flintstone Kids, Goosebumps, Hey Arnold!, Home Improvement, It's Punky Brewster, Jem, Johnny Bravo, Life with Louie, the Littles, Marc Summer's Mystery Magical Tour, Muppet Babies, The Muppet Show, Pac-Man, Pound Puppies, Powerpuff Girls, A Pup named Scooby-Doo, The Real Ghostbusters, Recess, The Ren and Stimpy Show, Rocko's Modern Life, Rugrats, Camp Anawanna, the Simpsons, Step by Step, Super Mario Brothers Super Show, Tales from the Cryptkeeper, Tiny Toon Adventures, You Can't Do That On Television and Weinerville. That's only some of the ones we have and doesn't include one-shot specials (like Witches Night Out).
wow you pretty much have every single show with Halloween specials but have seen the one special called scary godmother and also how many Halloween movies do you guys watch
Jackson Chambers i am glad your gonna watch scary godmother its good and for the movies yeah pretty much any horror movie will do but im surprised that you mentioned the stuff movie most people don't know that but i do and James reviewed it few years back on monster madness
I love Halloween specials! One of my favorite things about this time of year. And Charlie Brown's is the best! It always brings me back to the way we used to celebrate Halloween as kids. Other specials focused on being over the top and unrealistic, but The Great Pumpkin just lets you soak in the atmosphere and reminds you of what Halloween time is really about.
I love Halloween, and I agree fuck baseball. My husband and I love Halloween so much that we got married on Halloween. We were in costume, most of the guests were in costume, and even the minister came in costume. We are a sound effect making, super decorated, horror movie watching, everyone in costume, full sized candy bar giving house. Halloween is the best holiday!
Not so many people these days "get" Peanuts and Charlie Brown. I'm born -77 and my father (1949) introduced me to Peanuts when I was a kid. I borrowed a whole book with strips that were written/drawn as a long history. My father explained that the humor wasn't always "funny" funny, it was an adult kind of humor that some kids maybe could understand. So I read it and watched it with "adult" eyes and the older I got the more I understood. The greatest story I know is when Peanut gets lost and kidnapped and Linus and Charlie hear his howling from the neighbuorhood and rescue him from the girl that have tied him up. Of course Peanuts thoughts of it all is that he is "behind enemy lines" . Well Charlie and Linus rescues him and have fear of how he will survive after the trauma of being kidnapped. It all comes back to normal in the next and final scene when Peanut sits on the roof of his house and curses the red baron (von Richthofen). Brilliant. =D
If they wanna catch up on the Simpsons, and if they have cable or satellite TV, they should check out the channel FXX. They are CONSTANTLY airing long marathons of the Simpsons almost every day.
Holy shit! I have been trying to think of the name of that move The Last Halloween for around 6 years. Randomly stumbled upon a picture of it and remembered it from my childhood but couldn't figure out what the hell it was called! Bless you, Cinemassacre! Bless you!
I should have watched this episode a few years ago I have been trying to find what the special was called for years then I see you bring it up the last Halloween. Think you so much.
Awesome video guys! I really relate to Roseanne for sure. It's one of my favorite sit calms of all time. It kinda reminds me of how I grew up. I'm more of an 80's kid anyway. I was a teenager in the 90's and did watch some of the other shows mentioned, but as an adult Roseanne is the most Nostalgic. I was just like DJ, playing my Gameboy and trying to fit into school. Even the episodes where he was bullied hits home. It was awesome to see it fleshed out on TV. Awesome, I think I'm gonna watch some Roseanne today LOL.
Guys guys, you really need to do better research for your comments on these vid's because Halloween was never more proper than it was in the 40s and 50s it was huge! I mean I'm not trying to suggest that if it's before your time than people tend to think it didn't exist at all, but Orson Welles war of the worlds broadcast was a Halloween episode and that was 1938.
For me, the appeal of Peanuts in general is how down to earth it is. No other comic strips were like it. They weren't zany or wacky, they were as realistic as a cartoon could get. Literally, the story of It's the Great Pumpkin is: Linus waits for the halloween equivalent of santa claus while all the other kids go trick r' treating. That's it! And the story of the christmas special is Charlie Brown being depressed by the commercialism of christmas. You don't see a plot like that in any other christmas specials! That's what I love about Peanuts. Their stories and characters are layed back, down to earth, and relatable.
About catching up with the Simpsons, word of advice: From season 1 to 10 The Simpsons is the show you want to watch, and WILL love... but from season10 to whatever season is on right now... seriously, don't even bother, you will be dissapointed, that's for sure. Not even worth it.
+Charlie H. Murillo some of the more recent episodes are a bit better, I think they may have hired new writers after the film I believe. they are still worse than then classics but are not terrible
silentpillager There is a difference between a really good episode and a "there are some funny moments here and there, so I guess it should be good episode compared to the rest of insipid crap I've been feed up since the last fucking 15 years". NOT. WORTH. IT.
The last 30 seconds was gold James. I laughed out loud. "Knock a pumpkin through your fuckin ass". It was great to see you rage in real time out of character.
Nightmare on FaceTime was cool because that was one of the only times you get to hear Kennys voice, and not to mention that they're the freaking Avengers!!!
I wish you guys had mentioned The Halloween Tree with Leonard Nimoy but you guys were BANG on with everything else! This is so far my fav Monster Madness... brought back so many memories!
We don't celebrate Halloween over here (at least not in the same way). But I still get a sense of nostalgia when they're talking about these episodes. Because I can relate. I freaking love old Christmas movies, and specials. Would be cool if they did a video like this in december.
