Halloween Episode: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.}}

 

* [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'' has had several: "Home Un-Alone", "Full Moon: Full Baloney!", "The Great Halloween Heist", "Pranking the Ghosts"...

 

* 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.

** ''Dead Beat'', wherein a whole bunch of necromancer descend on Chicago in a desperate attempt to claim godlike power.

 

** Season 1: Sabrina's cousin Amanda is introduced

** Season 2: Sabrina throws a Halloween party

** [[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}}.

* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did two Halloween-themed episodes: with [[Vincent Price]] in season one, and [[Alice Cooper]] in season three.

 

* [[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.

* 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.

 

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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.

 

* [[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.

* [[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 & Dragons]]''. Features Kathleen in a dirndl skirt (which Matt persists in calling a "beer girl" costume) and Tally trick-or-treating as a [[Bedsheet Ghost]] to hide her age.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* [[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.