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* 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.
* ''[[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.
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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.
* ''[[Bewitched]]'', unsurprisingly, had several of these.
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* 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.
* ''[[Friends]]'' had a Halloween party featuring Chandler & Ross in the lamest arm wrestling match ever.
* ''[[That '70s Show]]'''s Halloween episode was an [[Alfred Hitchcock]] homage.
** They had another where the gang visits their old and run-down elementary school, with Fez dressed as none other then 1960's Batman.
* ''[[The Office]]'' (NBC series) has had three episodes set on Halloween. The first episode had Michael having to fire an employee (he had waited until Halloween because firing employee is a scary thought for him). The second had Dwight, Kevin and Creed [[It's Been Done|all dressed as Heath Ledger's version of The Joker]]. The third had everybody competing in a costume contest to win a coupon book.
* ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'''s Halloween episode has Melinda investigating a headless horseman.
* In the ''[[Bones]]'' episode "Mummy in the Maze," Brennan, Booth, and [[The Lab Rat|"Squints"]] work to solve the murder of a girl left in a Halloween maze while getting ready for a Halloween party. Costumes include the captain of the Titanic, a cow (well, the back end of one), [[Catwoman (comics)|Catwoman]], and Cher. Brennan and Booth end up catching the bad guy while dressed as [[Wonder Woman]] and a Squint, respectively.
* ''[[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 was rarely celebrated. The episode specifically mentions that the town in question celebrates it and that it may someday be celebrated all over Japan. They turned out to be correct; the popularity of Halloween in Japan has drastically increased since this episode was made.
* ''[[NCIS]]'' had three: "Witch Hunt", "Murder 2.0", and "Code of Conduct" in that order.
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* The second season of ''[[Glee]]'' had one of these, with a ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' theme.
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[Community]]''
** 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.
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** "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.
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' had one in season two where Cory thinks he's been bitten by a werewolf and one in season five where Jack dates a girl who claims to be a witch. Another episode, "Boys II Mensa" from season one, had a Halloween-themed B plot.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[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 Raw had The Muppets as the guest stars and yes the Divas were in costume again.
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== [[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 most of these have premiered ''after'' Halloween, due to [[
* 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.
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* ''[[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 Odd Parents]]'': Remember the ''Buffy'' Halloween episode where [[Becoming the Costume|everyone became the costumes they were wearing]]? Same plot, only with the Yugopotamians and four [[Omnicidal Maniac]] robots thrown in for variety.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Cat Dog]]'': 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.
* ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'': Skillit uses his powers to summon a zombie cowboy, a ghost knight, and a demonically-possesed warlock to crash the Coco Bongo's annual Halloween party. In the end, the Mask vanishes them to Skillit's home dimension by making them say the word "mask" backwards.
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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]].
* ''[[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 Doo]]'' used the Halloween episode straight.
** 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 1st as an April Fools joke.
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* [[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 ''[[Ben 10]]'' episode ''Last Laugh'' considered a Halloween episode, despite the fact that the series is supposed to take place during the summer.
* 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 [[Korn]] solving a mystery involving pirate ghosts in an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Scooby Doo]]''; and the most recent one is Hell on Earth 2006, involving Satan throwing a Halloween party.
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* 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 (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]]" 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 At the Bizarro|stuff happens]].
* 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.
** "When Halloween Was Forever": a pair of ghosts free Samhain, the Spirit of Halloween, whose goal is to create a permanent Halloween night.
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* ''[[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 and Mandy]]'' had "Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween" although many episodes could qualify.
* "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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* ''[[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.}}
* ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' had two Halloween episodes with matches such as Frankenstein's Monster vs. the Wolfman, [[The Undertaker]] vs. Captain Doody (a demon possessing Nicky Jr.), and [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]] vs. a vampire.
* ''[[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.
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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|Agatha Chrstie]] for inspiration. The first time was "Mystery Train", a somewhat homage to [[Murder on the Orient Express]]. In addition, the episode makes references to "Mystery Train" and could even be considered a continuation.
** A second ''[[Adventure Time]]'' halloween special, "From Bad To Worse", aired a week later. The episode deals with a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and is a continuation of the premiere "Slumber Party Panic". Finn, Jake, Rainicorn and LSP are seen running through the Candy Kingdom avoiding the now zombified denizens. After making it to the castle, Princess Bubblegum explains the infection is her fault. While experimenting with the flesh of a candy zombie, she turns her back, giving Cinnamon Bun enough time to ingest the sample, turning him into a zombie. Princess Bubblegum says she will make the antidote again but before she can, she is bitten by a zombie. Before being changed, she tells Finn to [[You Will Know What to Do|let science do the work]] to create the formula again. It is up to the four to create the formula. They each create a different version and begin to test them out. With less than PB intelligence, however, the formulas {{spoiler|[[It Got Worse|give the zombies upgrades]]. Finn's give the zombies wings, LSP's make the zombies have larger lips (which she attempts to use after the fact), and Jake and Rainicorn's formula make the zombies stronger}}. The four characters realize their folly and attempt to escape the horde only to be {{spoiler|transformed by their own faults (LSP by trying to use the lip potion, Jake by protecting Ranicorn, Raincorn by letting Jake out of quarantine)}}. Finn locks himself in a shower in PB's lab with her pet candycorn rat in tow. In a moment of realization, Finn realizes PB's last words meant for them to use {{spoiler|Science, the lab rat. [[Amplified Animal Aptitude|The lab rat creates the formula]] and Finn tests in on Jake who returns to normal. Unfortunately, the effects are reversed after Jake is bitten again. Out of ideas, Finn covers himself in the antidote and [[Heroic Sacrifice|flings himself into the fray]] and is chewed by the zombies}}. The last scene shows the Candy Kingdom {{spoiler|fully cured, [[Unexplained Recovery|Finn in a state of well-being]] and Princess Bubblegum awarding Science with a medal for heroic bravery}}. Fun Fact: Lady Rainicorn calls Jake by name four times with no Korean inflection, marking the first time she has spoken English. Also, Finn calls Lady Rainicorn LR, the first time she has been called by that nickname.
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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: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' has "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E4 Luna Eclipsed|Luna Eclipsed]]" where the ponies celebrate the day as [[You Mean "Xmas"|"Nightmare Night"]] and a certain literal [[Ensemble Darkhorse/My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic|Ensemble]] [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Darkhorse]] shows up, being determined to change her frightening public image she made [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E1 Mare in The Moon|back in]] [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 E2 Elements of Harmony|the past]]. At first, it wasn't really working out all that well for her, {{spoiler|and it goes to the point where she ends up decreeing the cancellation of Nightmare Night forever}}! However, {{spoiler|Luna eventually learns that the young ponies actually ''like'' being scared by her, and she declares that Nightmare Night's back on}}.
* [[The Backyardigans]] episode Scared Of You is this in all but name.
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