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''Toonsylvania'' was an animated show that lasted for two seasons on FOX's Saturday morning cartoon block. It was created by Bill Kopp (the creator and voice of [[Eek the Cat]]) and Jeff DeGrandis and produced by [[Steven Spielberg]], each episode was split into four parts:

 

* The second part, called "Night of the Living Fred", was about the adventures of a family of zombies, created by Mike Peters, Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and creator of ''[[Mother Goose and Grimm]]''. On most episodes (particularly in season one), this segment would be replaced with an animated parody of a B horror movie.

* The third segment was the shortest, called "Igor's Science Minute", where Igor gives a science lesson. Hilarity ''and'' disaster ensue, especially in the ones where Igor doesn't sing the lesson.

* [[Animated Anthology]]: In the same vein as ''Animaniacs'' and ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''.

* [[Big Eater]]: The baby human on the episode of the same name

** On "Baby Human," when the baby chomps down on Igor's head, one would expect Igor's head to be tucked into his body when Phil pulled the baby off him, right? {{spoiler|WRONG! Igor's body was shown blindly crawling on the floor for his head, with Phil telling the baby to "...spit Uncle Igor's head out." When Baby Human does spit it out, Igor casually screws it back on}}.

* [[Couch Gag]]: The part in between the first cartoon and the second cartoon had a small animated piece where Igor flicks on the remote and each episode, something weird happens (the remote produces a fly that turns on the TV, a mallet hits Phil on the head and Phil dazedly staggers from the couch to turn on the TV, Igor uses the remote to turn Phil into Dr. Vic, who turns Igor into a ghost woman named Natalie Nightshade, who turns Dr. Vic into Phil, who turns Natalie into a clone of Phil, and the two watch TV together, etc)

** Lampshaded in the episode with Doc's {{spoiler|natural}} werewolf grandmother. Phil suggests that they simply deal with her via the trademark silver bullet, and [[No Fourth Wall|Igor sharply reminds him]] [[Think of the Censors|this is a kids show]].

* [[Gross Out Show]]

** On the episode, "Darla Doiley: Demon Doll," the voice of the toy store clerk is the always-cast and always-versatile [[Billy West]] -- whose character sounds EXACTLY like Professor Farnsworth ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|even though "Futurama" didn't premiere until 1999 and Toonsylvania came out in 1998]]).

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Unlike Steven Spielberg's other cartoons (''Animaniacs'', ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', etc) this (and ''[[Histeria (Animation)|Histeria]]'') haven't been put on DVD nor have they appeared in reruns on cable TV or online on any video sites.

* [[Space Whale Aesop]] - The entire point of the Melissa Screech segments. Stay out past curfew? You get abducted and eaten by a monster! Make funny faces all the time? Your face will fuse permanetly into the funny face and you're forced to star in B horror flicks to get by! Disobey an instruction? ''You spark a cataclysmic war between Earth and an alien race!'' Spoil your appetite with sweets? You'll waste away to an atom or get blown like paper in the wind.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - Phil Likes chili.

* [[Yandere]] and [[Love Makes You Crazy]]: Natalie Nightshade (a dead actress who now haunts the castle as a ghost) under the influence of Igor's love potion on "Love Potion Number Nein" was so crazy in love with Igor that she tries to kill him so the two can be together forever.