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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Eeny meeny slimy guts, catch a monster by the..." Also the allusion in a reference to "scare-us interruptus."

* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Or rather Monsters Need Scares Badly. In "Where Have All The Monsters Gone?" it's shown that, if humans stop being afraid of monsters, then monsters will start disappearing, one body part at a time.

* [[Halloween Episode]]: "The Switching Hour", which also served as the first episode.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In "Simon Strikes Back", Ickis convinces Bradley to abandon his monster hunter apprenticeship and help them escape.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The Snorch honestly enjoyed classical pursuits like opera and was highly intelligent. However, since he was also [[The Unintelligible]], there was a communication barrier he couldn't breach. It didn't help that [[Jerkass|Zimbo]] served as his 'voice', leeching off of the Snorch's terrifying reputation.

* [[Historical In-Joke]]: Quite a few, especially as monsters are quite long-lived. Monsters were involved in The Shot Heard 'Round the World, the Boston Tea Party, and the writing of FDR's "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" speech, among others.

* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: Monsters generally don't like music that ''isn't'' tone deaf. The Snorch is an exception.

* [[Not So Different]]: It's repeatedly implied the Gromble had a lot of the same problems when ''he'' was a young monster that Ickis has now.

* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Simon was crazy, sure... Unfortunately, he was also frighteningly devoted to getting his revenge and proving to the world he was right all along. A few times it came down to Ickis having to stop him solo because everyone else had been captured or was otherwise unable to help out.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]]

* [[Parental Issues]]: Ickis had a whole slew of emotional issues thanks to his famous father; Oblina's mother was an [[My Beloved Smother|overbearing control freak]]; The Gromble's mother still treated him like a child... Krumm got along okay with his father, though. {{spoiler|Aside from learning that he'd flunked out of the Academy after losing his stench.}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: The Gromble got these now and then to show [[Hidden Heart of Gold|that he really does care about his students]].

* [[Pilot]]: "Monsters, Get Real!", the second episode, is actually a [[R Emake]] of the pilot with updated animation and an extended plot.

* [[Power Trio]]: Ickis (Id), Krumm (Ego), and Oblina (Superego).

* [[Pride]]: All three of the monsters suffer from this. Oblina because she's a know-it-all, Krumm because he smells so awful, and Ickis because it's the only way he can step out of his father's shadow.

* [[Prison Episode]]: When Ickis gets put in jail because he was mistaken for a fugitive.

* [[Rashomon Style]]: In an episode titled, appropriately enough, "Rosh-O-Monster". The viewfinder the Gromble uses to view the students' assignments breaks down so the trio tells the class how their scare went. Ickis tells his story in a [[Film Noir]] style with him as the hero, while Oblina's account portrays her as a superheroine who has to rescue Krumm and Ickis from humans. The less-egotistical Krumm's retelling (which is [[Art Shift|animated in]] [[Stylistic Suck|a childish scrawl]]) only indicates that Oblina and Ickis spent most of the assignment arguing. Of course in the end the viewfinder is repaired and we see what ''really'' happened. {{spoiler|Turned out that they kept screwing up and the scare was a total accident.}} Of course, the Gromble wasn't pleased and punishes them by having them shine his massive collection of shoes.

* [[Real After All]]: One episode had the [[Power Trio]] trapped in a severely haunted house, the rub being that while monsters exist, ghosts do not (this is repeatedly stated by <s>Hermione</s> Oblina). It turned out that the house was the bunker/battle ground for a soldier monster who caused all of the strange happenings - except one. All four monsters quickly leave, and the house resumes all of its disturbing behavior.

* [[Really 700 Years Old]]: The monsters evidently live very, very long lives.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Bradley, Ickis's human friend.

* [[The Short Guy With Glasses]]: In the pilot, Ickis has a pair of glasses. They don't appear in the actual series, however.

* [[Sizeshifter]]: Ickis.

** It's more along the lines of [[One-Winged Angel]], at least for the humans he scares.