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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!
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** 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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'''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 Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' episode "Catspaw". When Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet they encounter witches, a wizard with a black cat familiar and a dungeon with [[Hollywood Torches]] and skeletons. Kirk says that it looks like someone is playing an elaborate trick or treat on them. The episode was first broadcast October
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' did two Halloween-themed episodes: with [[Vincent Price]] in season one, and [[Alice Cooper]] in season three.
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* ''[[Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare]]'' could be considered as an example.
* ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'' has the DLC ''Festival of Blood''. It's about Cole being turned into a vampire.
* 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.
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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 [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...
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** ''[[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
* 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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