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{{trope}}
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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
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
There's a subversion/reversal on supernatural-oriented series where Halloween is ''literally'' a holiday for supernatural beings, and they all stay home. (Some [[Fridge Logic]] here because this assumes that terrorizing the populace is a ''job'' for supernatural creatures, rather than leisure activity.)
See also [[Halloween Special]].
{{examples|Examples}}▼
== [[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.
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' had a Halloween episode where a mysterious girl who had apparently been adopted by a demon-like alien kidnapped Fuyuki.
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' has two Halloween strips. One of which involves America and England trying to outscare each other (a long running competition between the two). Hetalia also recently featured a Halloween Special Episode which also included France harassing a young woman and resulting in a trip to jail. ( {{spoiler|Surprisingly he didn't seem to mind that he had been detained and questioned by the police}})
* ''[[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.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[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 Works]] ==
* [[Script Fic]] ''[[
==
* For the first four ''[[Harry Potter (
▲* [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series (Fanfic)|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 (Literature)|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.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' has had two of these:
** ''Grave Peril'', where the dead are restless and Bianca holds a costume party to celebrate her promotion ( {{spoiler|both of which are related, as she uses the party as both a play for power and an excuse to kill several of her enemies}}). Harry, of course, decides to show up to the party as [[Classical Movie Vampire|the cheesiest vampire possible]].
** ''Dead Beat'', wherein a whole bunch of necromancer descend on Chicago in a desperate attempt to claim godlike power.
== [[Live
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'':
** Season 1: Sabrina's cousin Amanda is introduced
** Season 2: Sabrina throws a Halloween party
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** Season 5: She throws another party only this time without her aunts' permission and it involves Roxie falling for Frankenstein
** Season 6: Sabrina and her friends end up living a who dunnit murder game
* ''[[Goosebumps]]'': ''The Haunted Mask'', a book that takes place in Halloween, was adapted as an episode of the TV series.
** At least ''The Haunted Mask II'', ''Attack of the Jack-O-Lanterns'', and ''Werewolf Skin'' all revolved around or included a sequence during Halloween.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[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 ''[[
* 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 [[
** Season 4 had "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
** 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
* ''[[
* ''[[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
* ''[[
* 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.
* ''[[
* ''[[That
** They had another where the gang visits their old and run-down elementary school, with Fez dressed as none other then 1960's Batman.
* ''[[
* ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'''s Halloween episode has Melinda investigating a headless horseman.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' has "It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester." A man dies from eating [[Razor Apples|candy filled with razor blades]], a girl drowns in boiling water while bobbing for apples, and the brothers attempt to stop two witches from raising the demon Samhain before [[Our Angels Are Different|Castiel and Uriel]] destroy the town.
* ''[[Ultraman Tiga]]'' episode 8, ''Halloween Night''. This is a typical Halloween episode, with cast in costumes, kids trick-or-treating, and a Halloween-themed enemy, except that the series is from Japan, where Halloween
* ''[[
* On ''[[
* ''[[Tales
* ''[[
** The episode "About Face" is set around Halloween, and featured a villain who killed his victims by cutting their faces off, after terrorizing them a bit with missing persons flyers with their image on them that he'd cover the inside and outside of their houses with.
** "Devil's Night" has [[Pyromaniac|a serial arsonist]] who always strikes during Halloween festivities.
* ''[[
* There are two Halloween episodes in ''[[
* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' has "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" which featured two boys trick-or-treating at the house of a witch who gives them a magical claw that grants wishes.
* The ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' fought the Halloween [[Monsters of the Week]] [http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Frankenstein_monster Frankenstein monster] in "Life's A Masquerade" and the [http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_1_Monsters#Pumpkin_Rapper Pumpkin Rapper] in "Trick or Treat" in season one. In the next season, [[Big Bad|Lord Zedd]] traps Tommy in a dimension with several monsters in ''Zedd's Monster Mash''.
** In ''[[Power Rangers
** The ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' two-parter "Ronny on the Run" was set around Halloween, concluding with a costume party held at the mansion.
** ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' has "Party Monsters", an episode where all the previously slain monsters have a Halloween party in the afterlife, discussing their encounters with the Samurai Rangers and how they almost beat them. In short, it was just a [[Clip Show]].
* In a season three episode of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'', Logan and Veronica go to a Halloween party dressed as Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes. Their costumes, however, are pretty lame.
* The second season of ''[[
* ''[[The Bill]]'' had a Halloween episode with the cops on stake-out swapping ghost stories from their past careers, each of which [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|could have had a rational explanation]], until [[Agent Scully|DS Stanton]] [[Skepticism Failure|encountered a definite ghost]].
* ''[[
** Season 1 had Annie hosting a Dia Del Muertos party. Notable for Abed's Batman costume/voice.
** Season 2 had the dean getting [[Too Dumb to Live|biohazardous material from an army surplus store and thinking it was taco meat]], which started a zombie outbreak. Strangely for a show with no fantasy elements, they manages to handle the resolution in a way that leaves the episode entirely in continuity.
** Season 3 had Britta discover that one of the group displayed homicidal tendencies, and pressures the group into telling scary stories in an attempt to weed out the killer.
* ''[[
* ''[[Two Guys, a Girl And A Pizza Place]]'' had three that really ran with the concept:
** "Two Guys, a Girl and a Psycho Halloween": A psycho killer that looks like Berg is killing off the main characters one-by-one. {{spoiler|Turns out to be [[The Drew Carey Show|Mimi]] in disguise, trying to get her own show... and all the pizza she can eat.}}
** "Halloween 2: Mind Over Body": A mad scientist switches Pete and Ashley's brains and then Berg and Sharon's. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** "The Satanic Curses": Jealous of their status as [[True Companions]], Irene summons Satanic powers to curse Berg, Pete and Sharon. Berg becomes increasingly deformed, Pete grows Ashley's head on his shoulder and Sharon grows a penis.
* ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' had one in its first season, were Betty's idea of celebrating is to dress up as a butterfly for what is supposed to be a work party. At work, Betty shows up in her outfit... only to discover that there is no costume party (it looks like Marc made a series of prank e-mails).
* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' had a two part Halloween episode, the first part dealt with the annual party at a jock's house. The second was a dream induced by a sugar crash in which Ned was a vampire who was having trouble passing his "turning into a bat" exam, Cookie was a werewolf looking for a transformation trigger to chase off Franken-Loomer, and Moze was a ghost looking to kill someone because she was the only ghost at school.
* ''[[
* In the ''[[Small Wonder]]'' episode "Haunted House" (1987), the Lawsons think a ghost has invaded their house after the electricity goes out, so they call a pair of bungling ghost hunters named Dickens and Fenster. No one seems to be aware that an electrified Vicki is responsible.
* ''[[Hawaii Five
* The last episode of ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' which featured a [[Serial Killer]].
* ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' had an episode which originally aired on October 31 where Robbie, stuck home babysitting Baby, told a scary story about becoming a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|were-caveman]]. This scared Baby so much he was going to tell on Robbie unless he was given candy. Since there was none in the house Robbie took Baby next door to ask for some.
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'''Robbie''': No, it's just a treat for the baby. }}
::They're so successful getting candy they decide to do it every year.
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[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.▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
* These days{{when}} you can usually expect the divas to have a costume contest which have been taking place since 2006.
▲* [[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 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
* 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]] ==▼
* ''[[Bully (
▲== 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 (Video Game)|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.
* ''[[
* Some people like to consider ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Knight]]'' takes place on Halloween night, with Scarecrow as the [[Big Bad]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Fetish comic, [[Craving Control]] had a two part special featuring its gluttonous protagonist Lalia going trick or treating and cleaning out the whole neighbourhood before any of the kids could show up.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', no matter what else may be going on in the storyline, the gigantic ''[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20091031.html Halloween Monster]''always shows up for a cameo in the strip nearest to Halloween. His appearance changes subtly with each reappearance, and he does occasionally show up out of season.
* ''[[
* [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=39 This] issue of ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has the main characters talking about Halloween episodes of webcomics.
* For Halloween 2008, nudist webcomic ''[[The Bare Pit]]'' featured three spooky stories told around a campfire, although the cartoonist admits that Australians don't celebrate Halloween the way Americans do.
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** 2006: Anime (also set in the hand-drawn universe)
* [[Nicktoons Tales]] has the [[Darker and Edgier|dark]] ''Nicktoons Tales of Terror'' episode. It has the main trio (A.D.S., Timmy, and ZIM) tell scary stories ala Simpsons' Treehouse Of Horror format.
* ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' has [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=023.jpg one]. True to [[Stylistic Suck|tradition]], it was written and published on ''[[Delayed Reaction|Christmas Day 2010]]''. {{spoiler|It later received a [[Call Back]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'' when [[Team Mom|Kanaya]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|"died"]]. [[Dude, Not Funny|Not everyone thought this was appropriate.]]}}
* The ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Roommates 2007
* An ''[[
* ''[[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]] ==▼
* [[
▲== Web Original ==
** 2006: The Nerd takes on the [[The Problem
▲* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|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 13 th (Video Game)|Friday the 13 th]]'' and ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' and fights both Jason and Freddy.
** 2007: The Nerd gets menaced by evil hillbillies and a mad slasher as he plays the games of ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' and ''[[Halloween]]''.
** 2008: The Nerd covers the classics by snarking about some bad [[Dracula]] games, then decides to play god and creates a [[Frankenstein|Franken-Nerd]] to play bad games in his place. [[Turned Against Their Masters|It doesn't end well]].
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** 2007: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJF7R2uFKW8 Fred on Halloween 2]''
** 2010: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyzN2AHcKek The Babysitter's a Vampire]''
* Every year, the main characters from ''[[
** Can't forget this one: Always, ''always'' click near the Poopsmith to see the easter egg with Homsar.
** In 2010, the creators of ''Homestar Runner'' put off the Halloween special until ''[[Schedule Slip|December]]''. As a result, everyone dressed as either characters from Christma-er, [[You Mean "Xmas"|Decemberween]] specials, or as Decemberween decorations.
* [[The Irate Gamer]] also has annual Halloween episodes:
** 2007: After a [[Cold Opening]] involving [[The Devil]] and [[Evil Twin|the Evil Gamer]], the Irate Gamer, dressed as a [[Ghostbusters]], reviews ''[[Zombies Ate My Neighbors]]'', while pausing occasionally to talk to a Jewish skeleton after noting that there are no skeleton enemies in the game. At the end, he throws the game into his ghost trap, gets one last call from the skeleton, and leaves. The Evil Gamer then [[Hostile Show Takeover|takes over the show]], but ends up talking to the skeleton as well.
** 2008: Another cold opening shows the Evil Gamer plotting another [[Hostile Show Takeover]] from within his "[[Supervillain Lair|Castle of Evil]]", coming up with a plan to kill the Irate Gamer with ''[[Monster Party]]''. The Irate Gamer himself, meanwhile, is not invited to the biggest Halloween party in town, leaving him stuck at home getting unwanted visitors. He decides to vent his frustration by reviewing bad games, and finds that a ''Monster Party'' cartridge has mysteriously appeared on his occult shelf. While he reviews the game, characters from previous episodes show up, and the Irate Gamer gets more unwanted visitors. Eventually, the Irate Gamer beats the game, unleashing the devil. The devil wants to take over the world, but gets distracted by a [[Voltron]] figure while trying to kill the IG, and both of them go to drink apple juice at a bar, despite protests from the Evil Gamer.
* [[
** 2007: The Top 11 Scariest Nostalgic Moments
** 2008: The Critic vs. [[Teddy Ruxpin]]
** 2009: ''[[Casper (
** 2010: Instead of just one review, The Critic does an entire month's worth of reviews;
*** ''[[Ernest P. Worrell|Ernest Scared Stupid]]''
*** Top 11 Scariest Performances
*** ''[[IT]]''
*** ''[[Leprechaun (
** 2011: Once again, The Critic devotes the entire month of October to scary movie reveiws:
*** [[The Tommyknockers]]
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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 (
* [[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
* [[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.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Mask (
* ''[[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
* [[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 ''[[
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' has had at least two episodes specifically set during Halloween: "The Headless Horseman of Halloween" and "A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle".
** 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]].
* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' had one, "Along Came a Spider", in which Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Sari go trick-or-treating, dressed up as Dracula, a ghost (with a costume made out of a striped fumigation tent, so he looks more like a walking billowing circus), and Optimus Prime, respectively. {{spoiler|Also, Blackarachnia appears to confront Optimus about their past.}}
* ''[[Jem]]'' had a Halloween episode, "Trick or Techrat", having the Holograms fixing a haunted opera house-and Terri, one of the Starlight Girls, learning not to scare at every thing.
* ''[[Class of the Titans]]'' had a Halloween episode in which Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, tried to escape from her prison in the moon. It also introduced Theresa's mystical powers.
* ''[[Winx Club]]'' had an ep where the girls went to a party in their transformed fairy outfits.
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'': When Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina go to do their daily scares, there's a mixup with a kid wearing a Halloween costume of an Ickis-like creature. Krumm and Oblina go to the kid's Halloween party, believed by everyone to be just kids in costumes, and the kid goes to the monster world. The day after Halloween, everything is cleared.
* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'s Boo-Haw-Haw'' had the Eds attempt to follow a map to "Spookyville", the ultimate trick-or-treating neighborhood. Unfortunately, an overdose of B-movies on [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ed's]] part causes him to hallucinate that the other kids of the cul-de-sac are movie monsters out to get him and his friends, and [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* The ''[[
* The short-lived ''[[Lloyd in Space]]'' had an episode in which yhe gang goes into a [[Haunted House]] type thing, only to come out to a version of the space station in the far future where it's completely deserted and a monster has apparently killed everyone. It turns out to be some variation of [[All Just a Dream]], but man, that whole episode was basically [[Mood Whiplash]].
* There have been a few in ''[[South Park]]''. The first, called "Pinkeye", is about Kenny becoming infected with a zombie virus and turning most of the townspeople into zombies; the second one is "Spookyfish", involving Stan receiving a killer goldfish from his aunt and meanwhile alternate universe versions of the boys show up; the third is "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", which involves the rock band [[
* There have been a couple in ''[[King of the Hill]]''. The first one concerns a religious fanatic trying to ban Halloween from Arlen. In the second (definitely one of the series' darker episodes), Luann moves in with a schizophrenic millionaire who owns a pork processing company.
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' had an episode in which Philburt went trick or treating for the first time and met the Hopping Hessain (a parody of the headless horseman.)
* There's one in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' called the Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, in which inside Dib's head is a parallel universe with real monsters.
* The ''[[Teen Titans (
* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had three such episodes.
** "When Halloween Was Forever": a pair of ghosts free Samhain, the Spirit of Halloween, whose goal is to create a permanent Halloween night.
** "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.
* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' version had Jake throwing a party for both monsters and humans and of course almost brings danger down on their head in the form of the Huntsclan.
* ''[[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
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has a whole story dedicated to the season of the witch, Hallow's Eve.
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has one of the most plot important episodes as a Halloween episode. It involves plot advancement on who the Green Goblin is, and it is actually the set up for another episode when [[Secret Identity|Peter]] [[For Halloween I Am Going
* On ''[[Home Movies]]'' the gang was on their way to a Halloween party but they all ended up at the hospital when Brendon's stepmom went into labor and Coach Mc Guirk had a heart attack. Not the best place for Melissa to dress like the Grim Reaper.
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* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' had a Halloween special that was two spookily-themed episodes from the series tied together by a live-action sequence where an old caretaker told two kids terrifying stories about {{spoiler|kids learning about sound and bats.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' had "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown", where Cleveland upsets Cleveland Jr. by telling him he is too old to trick or treat and Rallo eats too much candy.
** You forgot his Drew Carry look-a-like friend that was annoying everyone with bad jokes the whole episode {{spoiler|went Ax Crazy and tried to kill both Cleveland and his entire family.}} Or I could be thinking of another Halloween special from the show. It dealt with Cleveland and Rallo trying to prove they weren't scared.
* [[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]]'', ''[[
** ''[[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 (
*** Finn as Prince Hotbod
*** Jake as Randy Butternubs
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*** BMO as Professor Pence
*** Lumpy Space Princess as Duchess Gummybuns
*** Cinnamon Bun as [[Fail O'Suckyname|Guy Farting]].
** The costume party goes awry as characters are killed off and the party turns into a mystery when it is revealed that a ghost has possessed one of them and intends to murder them. In order of death, {{spoiler|Cinnamon Bun is skinned and his gore is stuffed in a closet, BMO is taken apart, Bubblegum is melted, LSP is sealed within a painting and Jake is spirited away}}. Finn tries to escape the castle, seeing multiple aparitions, but when the true ghost corners him, he accepts his fate. When Finn has had enough, {{spoiler|Jake and Lady Rainicorn reveal that they are the ghost and that none of the character were killed. Finn asks how Jake got the house to come to life. [[Sequel Hook|Jake doesn't know what Finn is talking about and the crew leaves the castle.]] Finn keeps the memory in "his vault" }}. Fun fact: This is not the first time Adventure Time has turned to [[Agatha Christie
** A second ''[[
** MAD had the episode "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas/How I Met Your Mummy". Within the episode were ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' and ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' references, as the title implies. Other references included Scream X20 (''[[Scream (
** While not necessarily Halloween material, some episodes that premiered did contain horror elements.
*** 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
* [[
* ''[[WITCH (
* ''[[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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