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The [[Halloween Cosplay|characters are costumed]], their houses are decked out haunted mansion style, they tell spooky stories, and weird (or weirder than usual) things abound! It's the yearly '''[[All Hallow's Eve|Halloween]] Episode'''!
Probably the
If it's ''too'' scary (or rather, too ''successful''), this may result in [[Nightmare Fuel]]. Often [[A Day
If the cast ends up in Halloween costumes, expect at least some of them to be a [[Shout-Out]] or even the occasional [[Actor Allusion]].
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See also [[Halloween Special]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has a Halloween episode with a [[Kimodameshi]] competition. It also gives the cast the opportunity to remark on how Renge dresses up in costumes even when it's ''not'' Halloween.
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* ''[[Suite Pretty Cure]]'' has a Halloween episode. Unlike a lot of examples, it actually plays into the plot somewhat: It's the first episode after a major [[Wham! Episode]] involving {{spoiler|a change in villain management.}}
* ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' OAV episode 2 took place on Halloween. The plot involved a search for an escaped stolen combat robot, made more difficult by the camouflage provided by the many costumed people in town that day, and a fireworks display at midnight {{spoiler|during which the robot begins shooting missiles (which some bystanders assume are [[All Part of the Show]]), and Yuri and Kei destroy the robot with the fireworks after their usual weapons aren't enough.}}
* ''[[Black Butler (manga)|Black Butler]]'' has a chapter in which Ciel holds a multicultural English/American/Chinese/Japanese Halloween party for the tenants on his estate. Ciel, who had delegated everything about the party, is surprised to find himself in a cute devil costume.
▲== Fan Fic ==
* [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'' has had several: "Home Un-Alone", "Full Moon: Full Baloney!", "The Great Halloween Heist", "Pranking the Ghosts"...
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* For the first four ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books, an important plot development happens on Halloween and is usually the focus of the chapter in which it occurs, so those chapters could be said to be "Halloween episodes" in a sense. The first of these chapters is actually titled "Halloween".
** And also, Harry's parents were killed on Halloween of 1981.
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** ''Dead Beat'', wherein a whole bunch of necromancer descend on Chicago in a desperate attempt to claim godlike power.
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'':
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'': Each season except the seventh has one.
** Season 1: Sabrina's cousin Amanda is introduced
** Season 2: Sabrina throws a Halloween party
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* ''[[Night Court]]'' had several Halloween episodes, including one where resident [[Jerkass]] Dan cheerfully "sells his soul" to a man in a devil costume, who then reveals a worrying amount of detailed knowledge about Dan's life and crimes. It turns out {{spoiler|it's an elaborate practical joke.}}
** There's also one where Harry has a defendant locked up for contempt after he claims to be Death... and people mysteriously [[Death Takes a Holiday|stop dying]].
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'' did tons, maybe one every single year, often involving the Taylors throwing a Halloween party, Tim inventing new extra-spooky Halloween decorations, impromptu scary prank competions, etc. Highlights of the series.
* ''[[Newhart]]'' had a Halloween episode in which all the residents of Stratford (except Dick Loudon, [[Only Sane Man|natch]]) become convinced that an [[The War of the Worlds (novel)|alien invasion]] is imminent.
* Even ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* The ''[[Benson]]'' episode "The Stranger" has the governor's mansion visited by a "Mr. G. Reaper" on a stormy Halloween night.
* ''[[Freaks and Geeks]]'' managed to squeeze one of these into its short run.
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* Halloween episodes tend to be rare in British series as the occasion is less of a big deal in the United Kingdom, but ''[[My Family]]'' (often cited as an "American-''style''" sitcom) did have one - which, for no apparent reason, was released in March.
** [[British Brevity]]? Just a guess, but it probably finished it's season in April and didn't return again until January, therefore there wouldn't have been much choice.
* Halloween being a holiday for the supernatural doesn't necessarily make things any easier for [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|the Scoobies]]. Ironically, Giles claims Halloween is usually a slow night for a Slayer, as vampires and other supernatural beings find it "crass".
** Season 2 had "Halloween", where the trick-or-treaters in Sunnydale are subjected to a literal case of [[Becoming the Costume]] thanks to Giles's former friend, Ethan Rayne. This unfortunately includes Buffy, who chose to dress up as an 18th century lady in an effort to impress Angel, and becomes a [[Damsel in Distress]] for the duration of the spell. And just when you think things couldn't get any worse, Spike finds out about Ethan's antics through Drusilla, and comes pretty close to offing her.
** Season 4 had "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4/E04 Fear Itself|Fear, Itself]]", where someone getting blood on a supposedly fake mystical symbol makes the college [[Haunted House]] significantly more lethal, subjecting Xander, Willow, Oz, and Buffy to their current fears. Xander gets rendered invisible to the others (being left behind while the others are at college), a simple tracking spell of Willow's gets ''way'' out of hand (getting too far out of her league with the magicks), Oz transforms and accidentally hurts Willow (losing control and hurting those he loves), and Buffy gets stuck fighting a bunch of zombies by herself (being abandoned by those she loves and being alone because she is the Slayer). Also memorable for introducing Anya's fear of bunnies, [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Awesome|Giles making a door with a chainsaw]], and {{spoiler|the five inches tall Gachnar}}.
** Season 6 had "All the Way", where Dawn sneaks out to raise hell with her friend Janice and a couple boys, only to discover they're part of a group of vampires trying to rebel against the "Halloween holiday" spirit. Also provides setup for some of the events in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6/E07 Once More, With Feeling|Once More, With Feeling]]". (Willow using a spell on Tara, Xander and Anya's engagement, Giles's fear that Buffy isn't taking responsibility because of him)
* ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' had a surprisingly spooky [[Mind Screw]] of a Halloween Episode. Sam jumps into a horror novelist living in Maine (who is totally not [[Stephen King|anyone in particular]]) to whom really strange and creepy things are happening. Sam is seeing things nobody else does, people are dropping like flies, Al is behaving weirdly and Ziggy can't tell anyone anything. Then things get downright scary and Al goes from just acting strange to flat out evil. {{spoiler|After he finally jumps again, Al appears and tells Sam that Ziggy hasn't been able to find or reach Sam since before his last jump and Al hasn't seen him since then either.}} <ref>The episode has another layer of infamy add to it. From the very first time it aired back in 1990, weird events have been associated with this episode. This episode has the highest incidence of VCR / cable / local station failure than any other episode aired. There have been numerous reports of VCR?s cutting out during the taping of this episode, local station and cable companies dropping their signal. Even mentioning it by name is hazardous, as one net. Leaper can attest. He lost his job AND his net - hence QL fans usually refer to it as "The Halloween Episode" or "The B**giem*n".</ref>
* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' did a Halloween episode in their first season. The plot centered around the cast trying to track down a "ghost", and actually aired on October
* ''[[Angel]]'' had a company Halloween party for the evil supernatural law firm, analogous to a company Christmas party.
* On ''[[Reaper]]'', the office that takes back captured souls is closed for the holiday. Also, the Devil ''hates'' Halloween because it's too commercialized and has become the one day when people ''don't'' believe in him.
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::They're so successful getting candy they decide to do it every year.
* ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did two Halloween-themed episodes: with [[Vincent Price]] in season one, and [[Alice Cooper]] in season three.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] will usually have something Halloween related in the week Raw or Smackdown falls on Halloween. The most famous one was in 2002 that featured a backstage Halloween party where [[Stephanie McMahon]] (then Smackdown GM) and Eric Bischoff (then Raw GM) kissed in Stephanie's office. That was also the night that started [[John Cena]]'s rapper gimmick as he dressed up as Vanilla Ice and performed a rap.
* These days{{when}} you can usually expect the divas to have a costume contest which have been taking place since 2006.
** In fact in 2007 and 2008 the costume contests were part of the Cyber Sunday PPV. Mickie James won both of them, first for dressing up as Pocahontas and then as Lara Croft.
** The NXT rookie divas had a contest as well with Aksana as a devil, Maxine as an ice queen, Naomi as the Hamburger Helper hand, AJ as [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Raphael]], and Kaitlyn as [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Vickie Guerrero]].
* [[WCW]] used to have "Halloween Havok" a Halloween themed pay-per-view event. Highlights from the event included Rick Rude debuting as a masked "Halloween Phantom," a "Chamber of Horrors" Match, and a mummy called "The Yeti" attacking Hulk Hogan.
* Most recently{{when}} Raw had The Muppets as the guest stars and yes the Divas were in costume again.
▲== Radio Drama ==
* No discussion of Halloween episodes can overlook [[Orson Welles]]' (in)famous radio dramatization of ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' in a 1938 Halloween Eve broadcast of the ''Mercury Theatre on the Air''. The first half of the program, presented as a [[Phony Newscast]] of the Martians' invasion of New Jersey, led to panic in some parts of the country when listeners took the "reports" as real.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'' has a Halloween ''mission'' (two, if you're playing the [[Updated Rerelease]]) where Jimmy, Gary, and Petey run around and raise all sorts of hell on Halloween night, in costumes. [[Player Character|Jimmy]]'s a [[Dem Bones|skeleton]], [[Butt Monkey|Petey]]'s a pink bunny rabbit, and [[Big Bad|Gary]]'s a [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazi officer]] ([[No Swastikas]], though).
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' runs special events for the week of Halloween, involving map variants starring ghosts and giant undead killers.
* Halloween is one of the major event Holidays in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' both in the Gamecube version and in the City Folk version, where you buy candy throughout the month of October in Nook's store and give them to villagers to prevent them from playing tricks on you by transforming your clothes and pocketed items into Halloween themed items, while trying to find the real Jack (one of the special holiday NPCs) who all your villagers are dressed as and give him candy in order to get the Spooky furniture series from him, though this is the point of the holiday in both versions of the game, there are some subtle different features added to the holiday in the City Folk version, such as being able to get villagers who are inside their homes to give you candy with a complete costume outfit which was not possible in the Gamecube Animal Crossing's version of the holiday.
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare]]'' could be considered as an example.
* ''[[Infamous
* Some people like to consider ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' as one for the [[The Legend of Zelda|Legend of Zelda series]], what with the emphasis on masks, the [[Darker and Edgier|darker atmosphere]] and lots of genuinely scary moments. Not to mention the game was released in America on October 26, 2000, just 5 days before Halloween.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Knight]]'' takes place on Halloween night, with Scarecrow as the [[Big Bad]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* The ''[[Keiki]]'' comic "Beefer Madness" became a Halloween special about halfway through, because the cartoonist didn't have time to write a whole new story.
* ''[[Mulberry]]'' had the title character hunt a zombie in "Franken-Berry", and later, pull some frightening pranks on her rival in "Let's Scare Mary Roach To Death".
* ''[[The Whiteboard]]'' almost always has a Halloween-related story around October. Mostly it's just parties where [[Cameo
* In ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]'' ([[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic|fan]][[Web Comic|comic]]) the Halloween arc is traditionally the highlight of the year. Be it a Costume Party that gets derailed into a [[Murder Mystery]] (2008) or a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] (2011).
* An ''[[Ears for Elves]]'' filler page for Halloween [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512050701/http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/321 here] has drawings of the artist and site maintainer dressing up. Well, more like one getting into the festive spirit and the other wondering what the point is...
* ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]'' had a [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=196 particularly weird] [[crossover]] game, ''[[Saw]]''-inspired [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=249 nasty puzzle] trick-or-treating and [http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=303 ultra-nerd] trick-or-treating.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] does an annual Halloween double feature in which he rips apart horror-themed video games:
** 2006: The Nerd takes on the [[The Problem with Licensed Games|sucky licensed games]] of ''[[Friday the 13th (video game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' and fights both Jason and Freddy.
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*** ''Exorcist 2:The Heretic''
* [[Rhett and Link]], who are Christians, have no trouble celebrating Halloween, seeing as most of the demonic observations have faded. They wrote [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x77x1y_trick-or-treat-song_fun Trick-or-Treat song] and even made a podcast that compares Halloween to the "Harvest Season."
* [[Trinton Chronicles]] had a whole arc dedicated to the Halloween season in late 2007; it featured a vampire who sucked on powers (as opposed to blood) who went around turning people into ghouls after sufficiently draining them of their powers and [[Cast
* The [[Whateley Universe]] had a big Halloween spectacular for the fall of 2006 (Whateley time), when everyone dressed in fun costumes (Phase ''hated'' his)... and the campus was attacked by cyborgs, robots, and dropships full of Syndicate badguys. It ended up taking three full stories to wrap it up. [[Fanon]] has speculated on what might happen at Halloween 2007.
* ''[[Code
* [[Stuff You Like]] had "5 Ridiculously Entertaining Things About ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]''" for their first Halloween episode, complete with [[Black Cloak]] and [[Evil Laughter]].
* [[Equestria Chronicles|In the middle of a civil war, ponies throw a Nightmare Night party.]]
* [[Loading Ready Run]]'s ''[[Commodore HUSTLE]]'' had a Halloween episode in the form of "Roll For Treats", where Kathleen bemoans being too old to trick or treat and the crew play ''[[Dungeons
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* As mentioned above, ''[[The Simpsons]]''' annual "[[Treehouse of Horror]]" episodes, which are anthologies containing [[Three Shorts|three short stories]] with a horror theme ([[Played for Laughs]], of course). Oddly enough, for the last decade or so{{when}} most of these have premiered ''after'' Halloween, due to [[FOX]]'s World Series coverage pre-empting its Sunday prime time lineup at the end of October each yaer.
* The original ''[[Woody Woodpecker]] Show'' got a Halloween Special called ''Spook-A-Nanny''. It's included as an extra on the first Woody Woodpecker And Friends DVD collection, [[So Bad It's Good|and worth watching for it's cheese factor.]] Oh, and ghosts wearing Beatle wigs. No, really.
* [[Donald Duck]] starred in a bunch of shorts with a semi-scary atmosphere, such as ''Donald Duck and the Gorilla'', ''Donald's Lucky Day'', and ''Duck Pimples'', but the true Halloween episode is fans' favorite ''Trick or Treat'', where Donald's [[Jerkass|assholish]] treatment of his nephews leads to a witch helping the boys to get the best of their uncle.
* ''Mickey's House of Villains'' could be considered a Halloween episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]''. There, the Disney animated villains kick all of the good guys out of the House and rename it the House of Villains. Jafar gets Mickey's job as the master of ceremonies, while Captain Hook and Hades get Donald and Goofy's jobs as chief assistants. The rest is your usual HOM stuff, with showing scary shorts instead of the usual upbeat ones.
* ''[[Space Goofs]]'': A Dracula-like vampire is the new guest at the house. He bites the aliens on their sleep, thus turning them all into vampires. In the end, Gorgeous makes the vampire a pie with garlic in it, with turns him into a human (as opposed to killing him). He opens a window to see the sun for the first time...and all of the aliens turn into ash.
* ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'' takes great pleasure in pushing this trope to its stereotypical limit. In the episode, Jimmy creates a monster wheel designed to turn his friends into authentic monsters (a closer examination of the wheel shows Michael Jackson as an option) - the only problem is, the invention works a little too well, and Carl and Sheen end up as a real vampire and a real werewolf. They bite Cindy and Libby, who then join the ranks of bloodsuckers/flesheaters, and before you know it the whole town is out for a good ol' fashioned monster-mob.
* ''[[CatDog]]'': Dog gets bitten by Peruvian vampire ticks, so Cat tries desperately to find a cure. In the process, their friends are also bitten by the vampire ticks and turned into vampires. At the end, Cat drowns everyone in garlic juice, which apparently works just like in ''Space Goofs'' since it cures everyone (even the Peruvian ticks). At the end, Winslow shows up, and reveals that he was bitten by a werewolf.
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* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'': Felix is persuaded to join the Black Cat Society, a secret society for people dressing and acting as black cats. He runs away when they try to take off Felix's mask (i.e., his face). When they discover that he is an actual black cat, they name him their king.
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'': Pinky sells his soul to the Devil so that Brain can take over the world. [[Chess with Death|Brain then challenges Satan to a gymnastic competition for Pinky's soul]], and loses. However, when Pinky signed the contract giving his soul to the Devil, the Devil forgot to give him some sort of gizmo (with a really weird name and a vague explanation of its function), thus rendering the contract null and void, and saving Pinky's soul.
* [[Gravity Falls]] had one with an odd [[Christmas in July]] version of Halloween called "Summerween"; the in-universe explanation was that the town of Gravity Falls loves Halloween so much, they have it twice. [[Word of God]], however, states that the show's general theme was pretty much begging for a Halloween episode, even though the whole series took place over one summer. Whatever the case, the plot involved Dipper torn between going trick-or-treating with his sister and wanting to do "more mature" activities with Wendy (who he has a crush on) all the while threatened by the Sumerween Trickster, who threatens to ''eat'' children who reject holiday spirit.
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures|Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery]]'': A parody of ''[[Rod Serling|Rod Serling's]] [[Night Gallery]]'' with Babs Bunny in the Rod Serling role. One story is a parody of ''Frankenstein'' with Elmyra as Doctor Frankenstein, Dizzy as Igor, and the Gossamer as Frankenstein's Monster. Another is a parody of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Pet Sematary]]'' with Elmyra's dead pets coming back from the grave as zombies. Another is a parody of ''[[Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein]]'', with Plucky Duck as Costello and Buster Bunny as Abbott. The final story is a parody of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", with Plucky Duck as the William Shatner character and the gremlin from the Looney Tunes short ''Falling Hare'' as the monster (it also, to some extent, spoofs the final segment of ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]'').
* ''[[Garfield]]'s Halloween Adventure'' has the titular cat and Odie trick-or-treating. But when attempting to cross a river on a boat for extra candy, the two end up in a haunted mansion. Also features [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiIJw6dIAwQ really] [[Ear Worm|catchy songs]].
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** The Day of Dead is used as the reason for Mystery Inc. to visit Mexico in the direct-to-DVD movie, ''Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico.''
** Halloween is day used for ''Scooby-Doo And The Goblin King''
** ''[[What's New, Scooby
** Not specifically a Halloween episode, but [[Cartoon Network]] used to run an all-day ''Scooby-Doo'' marathon on the last day of daylight-saving time, meaning you'd get 25 hours of the show in one day. One year, during the commercial breaks, they ran bits of a ''Scooby-Doo''-themed version of ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'', which eventually featured the line, "Maybe this time we shouldn't have meddled".
*** Also, the UK Cartoon Network once ran a marathon of Halloween-themed cartoons on the morning of April
* The ''[[Pac-Man]]'' cartoon also had two Halloween episodes: "Pacula" and "Trick or Chomp".
* [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s version of ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' had one: "Fright Night", in which three of the Rascals went trick-or-treating. I don't recall all of the details, but I do remember that Darla [[Wholesome Crossdresser|dressed so as to resemble Alfalfa]].
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* The ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' episode "Fear Itself" could be considered a Halloween episode, even though the gang didn't do anything Halloween-related besides watch a scary movie.
* ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' had a Day of the Dead episode in 2000.
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'''s Halloween episode was a homage to [[Orson Welles]]' 1938 "[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]" radio broadcast.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'''s The Puppetmaster was aired (and possibly meant) as a Halloween episode, since the holiday doesn't exist in their universe.
* ''[[The Mighty B!]]'' has Bessie trapped in a cat costume and...[[A Day
* The second ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' 'toon had "All Hallows' Thieves", an adaptation of a comic book story of the same name, which featured baddie the King of Thieves and his attempts to use an army of goblins in order to have them steal a bunch of stuff for him.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had three such episodes.
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** "Halloween 2 1/2": Samhain is freed from the Containment Unit and tries to again achieve his goal, while also seeking revenge against the Ghostbusters.
** "The Halloween Door": Seeking to end Halloween forever, a [[Moral Guardian]] steals Ghostbuster tech to use for his machine. Doing so, however, breaks an ancient, ghostly contract - allowing hordes of supernatural terrors to invade New York City.
* ''[[Lilo
* ''[[Doug]]'' had two that come to mind. One (during the Nickelodeon run) a half hour special that had Doug going to the amusement park Funky Town to ride a scary ride and end up getting locked in it after the park shuts down for the night. Another (Disney run this time) had him (and eventually the other kids) thinking his best friend Skeeter was a vampire.
* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' one had the title character trying to fix a spell that turned monsters into humans (which their idea of a Halloween costume) and having to go through a complicated barter system which at the end involve her having to wrestle (as in WWE-like wrestle) a monster to help get the last thing she needs.
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' had "Fright Night" where Danny temporarily steals a sword from Fright Knight, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification|ghostly Anthropomorphic Personification of Halloween]]. Hell ensues (literally).
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' had "Candy Bar Creep Show", where the babies tried to get [[Brand X|Reptar Bars]], and "Curse of the Were-Wuff", where Angelica scares them into thinking they will [[Becoming the Costume|become their costumes]] after Halloween.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* "Trick or Treat" from ''[[Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?]]'': After Zack and Ivy attempt another trick on [[Carmen Sandiego]], she pays them for their second trick attempt at arresting her.
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has a whole story dedicated to the season of the witch, Hallow's Eve.
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* [[Phineas and Ferb]] has one, called "That's the Spirit" where the boys encounter a strange boy named Russell who is convinced his house is haunted. Meanwhile, Agent P has to stop Doof after [[It Makes Sense in Context|he becomes a werecow.]]
* As part of a special series that ran throughout October 2011, Cartoon Network premiered new Halloween themed episodes as part of their Monday night scheduling block. The five shows participating were ''[[Johnny Test]]'', ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', ''[[Adventure Time]]'', ''[[Regular Show]]'' and ''[[Mad]]''. The other show, ''[[Secret Mountain Fort Awesome]]'', did not participate due to the sheer newness of S.M.F.A. The premieres culminated on Halloween Night (which fell on a Monday) in which each episode was shown during a marathon.
** ''[[Regular Show]]'' had "Terror Tales of the Park", ''à la'' [[The Simpsons (animation)|Treehouse of Horror]], consisting of a series of smaller episodes. In true Treehouse of Horror fashion, {{spoiler|none of the episode is canon}}. The first part of the episode is about a Victorian age doll named Percie that Pops had as a child who has a compulsive need to draw on people's faces, which climaxes as the doll comes to life and attempts to kill Mordecai, Rigby and Pops to fulfill his need. {{spoiler|The three defeat the doll eventually by throwing it into a furnace}}. The second part features Muscleman and High Five Ghost as they plan to crash an RV into a bottomless pit only to find the last owners, a metal band named Skull Bash, have not left. Muscleman and High Five can't take their music and are unable to escape from the RV. {{spoiler|Thus, they crash the RV into the pit which kills Muscleman in the process, turning him into a ghost}}. The third part features Mordecai and Rigby trick-or-treating. Rigby eggs the Halloween Wizard's house and pays for his crime. The wizard exacts his revenge by {{spoiler|turning Rigby into a house. He proceeds to murder the rest of the park employees. The wizard liquifys High Five Ghost, burns Skips alive, flushes Benson down a toilet, traps Pops in a closet and destorys it, decapitates Mordecai, skins Muscleman and eventually, turns Rigby back to normal only to drown him in a giant egg}}. It is at last revealed that the entire story was told by {{spoiler|the Halloween Wizard, disguised as Rigby the entire time}}.
** The Johnny Test episode is titled "Johnny Trick or Treat". Johnny accepts a dare by a mysterious card impaled on his door. In order to see a real haunted house and cash in on a large amount of candy, he must spend a night in a house and wear a tutu. He is joined by Dukey and Jillian, only to find the house is rigged with traps, which include spiders, crocodiles, slime monsters and other various enemies. They successfully complete all of the tasks, only to be eaten by a giant maggot. With Jillian in danger, {{spoiler|the master of the house, Darth Vegan, tries to save them, only to have his plans ruined. When it is revealed that there was no candy}}, Johnny and the rest of the crew teleport to a party attended by Susan, Mary and Agents Black and White, where he {{spoiler|wins a candy making machine for first place in a costume contest}}.
** Adventure Time parodies [[Clue (game)|Clue]] and [[And Then There Were None]] in the episode "The Creeps". Members of the cast are assembled at a [[Haunted Castle|mountain-top castle]]. Each of the characters gain aliases as part of the invitation:
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*** Regular Show "Camping Can Be Fun"
*** The Amazing World of Gumball "The Poltergeist"
* ''[[Kick Buttowski]]'' had the [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|predictably named]] "Kick Or Treat", where Kick accepts a challenge from Kendall to go trick-treating at the scary [[Old Dark House]] across the street. Turns out the house is {{spoiler|owned by a nice old lady who loves Halloween so much that she went completely overboard with the special effects.}}
* ''[[My Little Pony:
* [[The Backyardigans]] episode Scared Of You is this in all but name.
* ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' had "W is for Witch", in which the girls were able to [[For Halloween I Am Going as Myself|get away using their Guardian identities in public]] in order to capture Nerissa. However, thanks to the series' serial storyline, when Toon Disney [[Executive Meddling|elected to air this during a Halloween-themed marathon]], it was shown ''earlier'' than it was supposed to, effectively spoiling viewers to a number of future plot points.
* ''[[American Dad]]'' did one of these where Stan tried to outdo his neighbor's haunted house. His solution? Bring in caged serial killers. {{spoiler|And then Roger frees them...}}
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' only has one, oddly. It was from season 9, where Chris and Meg went to a party, Stewie and Brian dealt with a bully that stole Stewie's candy and Quagmire getting revenge for a prank by Peter and Joe. {{spoiler|Lois becomes the bully for the bullies and actually scares Stewie a bit, Quagmire pretends to be possessed by a Japanese WWII pilot and MEG AND CHRIS ACCIDENTALLY MAKE OUT WITH EACH OTHER.}}
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