FF: Return of the Top 13 Weirdest Halloween Specials

[@weathermangohanssj4]

I want that Thumnail to exist in the Ducktales Reboot.

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

Yes!

[@illorell]

I watched this video because I thought their was a ducktales reboot Halloween featured in it

[@sadlobster1]

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"

[@MWolfL]

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)

[@sadlobster1]

@@MWolfL I've seen plenty of "A-Dul-ts," in my lifetime and they've made this world far too boring for my taste

[@crystalgemgirl731]

I'm 31 and I still love to dress up on Halloween.

[@Tailzy26]

@@crystalgemgirl731 same! i'm 34 and at work on Halloween I try to be the Candy Ghoul, I have fun with the holiday!

[@crystalgemgirl731]

@@Tailzy26 That's what it's for.^^

[@Falcovsleon21]

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!"

[@Werewolf_Korra]

House of Villains is fun just to see all the villains interacting. Chernabog even hits on Maleficent.

[@shaneattwell2222]

A match made in heav- oh, wait.

[@Werewolf_Korra]

Shane Attwell Maleficent: And now you face me... And all the powers of HELL! Chernabog: Oh, yeah, baby, you know just how to turn on my bald mountain!

[@arielfangirlmendez]

noobmaster117 I seen this movie like a 13 times.

[@ivygirl9119]

noobmaster117 6:25 notice how Jafar and Captain Hook both have the same face

[@ivygirl9119]

I kinda remember seeing this

[@XC11301991]

I love these. So sad we have to wait a year for an episode from you. :(

[@sarafontanini7051]

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

[@rachelsmith3550]

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.

[@auger0073]

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

[@Daviticus042]

*Norbert😉

[@MWolfL]

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

[@samuelmeasa9283]

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.

[@ProjectSNT]

Referring to the Camp Lazlo special, if I remember correctly all of the Bean Scouts were actually going home for the summer.

[@lucaschannel726]

Holy sh$t!!! Courtney!!!! I never thought I see you here!!! Love your work and hope you next work is just as great as the last one! :)

[@iexist6392]

She arrived

[@plucas1]

Farley! That brings back memories. The saddest moment ever in Newspaper Comic Strips involved Farley...

[@fifinostalgia]

He died as he lived, a Good Boy.

[@devanhinskey9001]

12:12 Jeff Goldblum as Ichabod Crane just made my day!

[@gorefan4523]

now to wait another 600 years

[@renababe1]

Fun Fact: Vincent Tong who voiced Frankie in Mighty Mighty Monsters also voiced Flash Sentry from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.

[@kirara2516]

Gosalyn Mallard in the thimbnail brought me here.

[@danwilliams1989]

19:07 - Are you implying that Sumerween was a bad episode of Gravity Falls, Chad? I personally enjoyed it.

[@DwarfDaddy]

Dan Williams Yeah that confused me too. From what I've heard it's well liked by most fans

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

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!

[@bittipasuta]

Herny reference. I'm onto you, Chad.

[@capam15]

oh my god i have literally checked your channel every day all month just for this. thank you man your videos are the greatest

[@Tabascofanatikerin]

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.

[@BugsyFoga]

I say this evey time but I don't care ,it's great to see a familiar faces video again.

[@fredflintstone1316]

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!

[@demonangelkid]

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

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

Witch cat was probably the first witch cartoon I ever seen. Glad you added it :)

[@LizardClone2]

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.

[@greengaleproductions]

That ducking herny reference at the end!

[@greengaleproductions]

That may be the most relevant autocorrect fuck up I've ever experienced.

[@Reapermaskhybrid]

Yamask the Lopunny 28:17 I would have used RebelTaxi and Raven in that situation, but Chad's idea was pretty funny too.

[@RaccoonFoot]

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.

[@edwardg1969]

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.

[@santarosa393]

Great list love it One I might added is a episode of Randy Cunningham 9th grade ninja about Candy Zombies no joke

[@santarosa393]

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[@brittanyyates6527]

@@santarosa393 Yes

[@dragonlordthekingofdragons6373]

I remember that

[@kienesel7]

Halloween wouldnt be the same without you mate, always glad to a see a new video.

[@LikaLaruku]

That Paul Lynde one looks pretty funny. I'll give that a try. That Might Monsters Frankenstein looks like a Korean pop idol.

[@theruoc147]

House of villains is one of my favs

[@robertmckinnon7003]

No, Disney found a bag shorts that needed to be used to protect copyrights.

[@inquisitorchristopher8527]

Robert McKinnon ---- just like Nintendo re-releasing old games.

[@AlexReynard]

Well put together and edited. A lot of these look worth tracking down. Love that title card too!

[@TheLucanorian]

Please grace us with your presence more often

[@quinnnewman9538]

That night that panicked America thing is fascinating

[@BokanProductions]

I think in the Camp Lazlo one Slinkman took all the kids home for the summer and Lazlo and the Jelly Beans stayed behind.

[@adamse23]

Paul Lynde special is one of my favorites. So campy and perfect.

[@Lonsoleil]

LOL @ Minnie Mouse at 6:30! Perfect "bitch, please" moment. 😆

[@Applepoisoneer]

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.

[@crosswire40]

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?

[@TeryJones]

1:57 - Welp, guess I'll be hitting that like button prematurely XD 28:08 - Oh you cheeky cheeky card you XD

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

...what’s wrong with Summerween? That was a great episode.

[@TheHeroOfTomorrow]

I know, but I’m just wondering what that ‘and we all know how that turned out...’ was for.

[@mechasaurus]

What kind of summer camp continues through September and October?

[@shaneattwell2222]

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.

[@JIreland1992]

Shane Attwell really why?

[@shaneattwell2222]

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.

[@GibbyCat]

Fun fact about War of the Worlds; People didn't panic as much as we were led to believe. The news paper just exaggerated.

[@OreoBrawl]

Rashuanu Looks like someone has seen Adam Conover

[@GibbyCat]

Who?

[@sewthernbelle]

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.

[@jsmith5212]

she could of read Snoopes or any other website that talk about it that Adam show sucks ass I find the guy to be annoying

[@beatrixthegreat1138]

*sighs* sometimes the truth is boring.

[@Dimensioneer88]

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.

[@Rostam-vk9hx]

Underwraps was (partly) filmed in my town Chico CA. Still can't walk downtown without thinking of this movie. Lol!

[@pancudowny]

12:14 - Sudden flashback to that "Good Morning, Vietnam" scene: "And if you dooo--and if you DOOO...!" XD

[@DW4Ever91]

Destroy Them Until Their Dead. Best Redundant Line Ever!

[@SketchBud]

Glad to see a new Familiar Faces video! Happy Halloween!

[@joypopoola6115]

Witches Night Out. The theme music will be in your head for weeks :"Halloween The Witches night out"

[@briancorvello3620]

Oh, come on, who didn't get a kick of Mickey roasting Chernabog with standup comedy?

[@WakoDoodle]

I've been waiting years for this! :D In fact I've rewatched all the previous halloween videos to get in the mood :)

[@Werewolf_Korra]

Yeah... When did we discover chocolate was bad for dogs? Because the lead dog in Bunnicula also loved chocolate cupcakes.

[@LadyLunarSatine]

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.

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

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...

[@AnvilPro100]

Really good video, I actually don't think I've heard of any of these but the Camp Lazlo one

[@daisydaze2886]

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

[@LikaLaruku]

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.

[@mechasaurus]

June Foray made Witch Hazel great for Disney and Looney Tunes both.

[@BokanProductions]

Two Witch Hazels made by two different companies but played by the same actress. Trippy when you think about it.

[@mechasaurus]

She was that good.

[@Hinatachan360]

RIP, June Forey, one of my favorite female voice actors.

[@glowworm2]

I thought the strangest part of that opening to Under Wraps was going to be the fact that that really big knife just easily went down the drain. XD!

[@erinbrown7412]

The fond memories I have of the child is of watching those holiday specials that came on each year. 😂💖🌟✨🌌🌠

[@javis88h]

That witch cat special looks ridiculous, just how the cat stares with those shiny eyes

[@blacksheep9458]

YES! YES!! I'VE MISSED THIS SO MUCH! thank you so much, i needed this. 😏

[@dag1984]

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.

[@luckyowl1681]

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!

[@asalways1504]

I remember watching that Jeff Goldblum Sleepy Hollow movie when my brother had a Halloween party when I was really little.

[@southy98]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the Lynde special.

[@funkyweapon1981]

My grandparents remember the War of the Worlds radio panic.

[@graciegj63]

Sean Ashmead Did they hear the beginning of it? Or did they get caught up in the panic?

[@KH12foreve]

Have you ever been to the north during the fall. We can get up to 6ft of snow by Thanksgiving.

[@utoobisgarbage5210]

Great video as always CR. Hope to see another this year.

[@alexharwell9956]

That is one Heckle, Jekyll, and Hyde of an awesome title card! (I have also been saying those words for years. Not a Halloween thing, I just make up words instead of cursing!)

[@adamnelson4428]

5:12 oh god I’d forgotten about that “oh my ankle, oh my other ankle”

[@Dimensioneer88]

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."

[@glowworm2]

I just watched "Spooky Bats and Scaredy Cats." It's a really lovely special with great stop-motion animation--and a wonderful old fashioned feeling to it which makes it really fun to watch.

[@inquisitorchristopher8527]

Holy shit, so this Paul Lynde really did inspire Roger from American Dad.

[@pencilforge]

Frankensteins monster wants to be human? but he is human, just a bunch of them stitched together...

[@Werewolf_Korra]

I'll probably bring this up in your next stream, but you mentioned wanting more suggestions for bizarre specials in your last stream, and I was thinking of Scare Master from My Little Pony Season 5. First off, it's post season 3, so you have to deal with the winged elephant in the room... Also Derpy dressed as Princess Twilight... Which is like wearing an Obama mask to meet Obama. Second, it aired AFTER the Christmas episode. Yeah, not sure who fell asleep on that one... Third, it re-uses a pun from season 1... And some general themes of Fluttershy's timidity. Four, it really doesn't alter the status quo at all. Fluttershy still can't stand Nightmare Night afterwards. Five, Rarity just happens to have a Flutterbat costume on hand, which had to be awkward for both Fluttershy and Applejack. Six, Astronauts apparently exist, at least in concept, in equestria which raises some interesting questions about Luna's imprisonment. Seven, speaking of, it's a nightmare night episode without Luna. You'd think of all ponies to talk to about fear, it would be her. And finally, there are references to Ranma 1/2, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Dragon Ball, Evangelion, and Sailor Moon in the episode, and not only that, but Fluttershy is apparently a fan of these shows and has drawn fanart of all of them for her haunted tea party.

[@legionaireb]

Honestly, I just kept watching this for that pic of Gosylyn and Webby as Freddy and Jason.

[@171QA]

A very interesting list this year. It's a shame I just found it tonight. I would have loved to have watched this on Halloween.

[@Demolitiondude]

The ghost in Ichabod's school house reminds me of the doctor from are you afraid of the dark.

[@pixiebubbles2628]

I remember listening to The War Of The Worlds in theater class. I never knew there was a movie to it.

[@joeymartinez9854]

My favorite Disney original Halloween movie was the phantom of the megapixel

[@c.w.r.794]

This is what I’ve been waiting for!

[@renaecassidy7510]

I always thought those shorts for pretty good does Halloween shorts really kind of spooky when I have a kid

[@KINGBADASS100]

Love the Herny reference at the end!

[@jsmith5212]

I could of swore that the Angry Bever episode was on the last list you did of this

[@tymime]

Spookley is one of those "so bad it's good" kind of things, in my opinion. It's really stupid and cheesy, and yet I keep watching it every year.

[@sabrinaking1873]

Oh gosh, Spooky Bats and Scardey cats is one of my favorite halloween specials. It's crazy hard to find.

[@something5270]

I remember watching that version of Sleepy Hollow in class one time. I actually really liked it and forgot Jeff Goldblum was in it.

[@Sandlot1992]

Alright! btw Happy Halloween!

[@AllTheWeirdestProject]

Does anyone else think that House of Villains should have featured a bit with the villains arguing over who gets to be the emcee?

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

Finaly a classic FF for halloween

[@okCarmy]

Finally a new video

[@johnny2x47]

Roger The alien yeah I've been waiting for him to do October video for quite awhile now

[@PepsiMan666]

If anyone wants to see Under Wraps, set your DVRs to 3 am on the 29th on Disney Channel.

[@jsmith5212]

or put it in the search bar on youtube

[@XxLoveMeNotToshxX]

That little vampire in Mighty Mighty Monsters looks like Elliot Roger

[@livingdeaddollsjunky9543]

I like how the vampire kid dress up as a goth / Emo kid

[@gaaratanvr]

I thought the same about Candita, and Herny.... Maybe he can add her to his blog... After Phanty appear again into OKKO and take her away from Herny No? No más digo :3

[@seanpatrickcain2]

12:14 Admit it, you are not gonna unhear this!

[@samjudge1240]

Very well made video. Keep on being an animation historian.

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

12:14 jeff gold blum was in a sleepy hallow horror classic . Now this i need to chack it out