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10	[[caption-width-right:350:He blows his stack when he flips his lid. Although he's a monster, he's just a big kid.]]
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12	Hal Seeger created this AnimatedAnthology in the [[TheSixties 1960s]] for Creator/{{ABC}}. The show was to have debuted in September 1964, but it was delayed until October 1965. Its run ended in September 1968.
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14	Milton was a lovable, friendly monster who only superficially resembled FrankensteinsMonster. His voice was based on Jim Nabors' Gomer Pyle from ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''. Milton was created by Professor Montgomery Weirdo and his assistant, Count Kook, in their laboratory atop Horror Hill. His loveable personality had been the result of a lab accident during his creation. Professor Weirdo, in his haste, accidentally added too much tenderness and Milton was the result.
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16	Because Milton was so good and lovable, Professor Weirdo and Count Kook spent many sleepless nights plotting ways to evict him from the castle. Also living in Weirdo's castle atop Horror Hill were two other creatures, Heebie the ghoul and Jeebie the hairy cyclops, who joined in the adventures. Voice talent included Bob [=McFadden=], Dayton Allen, Larry Best and Beverly Arnold.
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18	''The Milton the Monster Show'' had the following supporting segments:
19	* ''Fearless Fly'' told the story of Hiram, a meek insect who became a superhero when he put on special glasses.
20	* ''Flukey Luke'' was about a cowboy hero whose Indian sidekick, Two Feathers, spoke with an Irish accent.
21	* ''Muggy-Doo, Boy Fox'' was about a foxy con artist who was originally portrayed as a cat in a 1963 Paramount theatrical cartoon, "Boy Pest With Osh" (which in turn was based on a comic book Hal Seeger drew in the early 1950s).
22	* ''Penny Penguin'' was about a bratty little penguin girl and her parents.
23	* ''Stuffy Durma'' was about a millionaire hobo.
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26	!!This series provides examples of:
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28	* AmbiguouslyHuman: Count Kook has the dress sense and accent of a typical vampire, but it's never made clear if he is one. Or if he's actually a count, for that matter.
29	* AnimatedAnthology
30	* BenevolentMonsters: As noted, Milton is very kind and sweet. He is also a monster created in a laboratory.
31	* BourgeoisBohemian: Mad scientist Professor Weirdo is a beret-topped parody of middle-aged {{Beatnik}} artists, treating the monsters he creates as his living art pieces. His rival Professor Fruitcake is more of an AbsentMindedProfessor always dressed in black graduation gown and be-tassled graduation cap, treating his monsters as wild dorm students.
32	* BrattyHalfPint: Penny Penguin.
33	* BroughtDownToNormal: Fearless Fly always lost his glasses somehow to create an element of doubt.
34	* ComicallySmallDemand: One episode has Professor Weirdo's arch-nemesis Professor Fruitcake take control of him with a voodoo doll, and threaten to kill him unless he is paid...$100! Weirdo is too stubborn and cheap to pay up, and by the end of the episode Fruitcake settles for $5.
35	* ComicBookAdaptation
36	* DumbIsGood: Too much Tincture of Tenderness made Milton good natured. It is not known if it resulted in him being a dimwit as well.
37	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One early Fearless Fly segment had Professor Weirdo as the villain, who wanted to TakeOverTheWorld.
38	* ExpositoryThemeTune: Both the series overall and Milton's segments had these.
39	* {{Expy}}: Fatty Karate is basically a fly version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Batfink}} Karate]].
40	* LimitedAnimation
41	* LosingYourHead: One of the seldom-seen inhabitants of Professor Weirdo's manor is a disembodied head under glass whose shoulder-length (if he had shoulders) hair stands on end during one of the intro segments.
42	** In one episode, the disembodied head refers to himself explicitly as Milton's uncle, though it is unclear whether that makes him Professor Weirdo's brother or his uncle (and therefore Milton's great-uncle).
43	* MadScientist: Professor Weirdo as well his rival Professor Fruitcake.
44	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Humorously inverted with Professor Weirdo after Milton rises. He is shocked and horrified because he created something good. Which for [[CardCarryingVillain him]] means that he did something very wrong.
45	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Milton talks like Jim Nabors. Heebie's voice resembles that of Peter Lorre. Fangenstein is a parody of Marlon Brando from Film/TheWildOne.
46	* OurMonstersAreWeird: Professor Weirdo creates monsters by pouring bizarre liquids into a sort of "monster gelatin mold" and then waiting for the mixture to congeal and rapidly harden into a fully-formed monster. This may be a case of OurHomunculiAreDifferent since the liquids-congealing-in-a-mold method is pretty much the method by which alchemists would create homunculi according to folklore.
47	* PlayingWithFire: Milton's head emits smoke, and he can shoot fire from it when needed.
48	* PokeThePoodle: Despite being more "evil" than Milton, this is about as bad as Heebie and Jeebie got. Apart from that one time that they tried to feed Professor Weirdo, on Kook's prompting to their alligator and then to a carnivorous plant.
49	%%* RagsToRiches: Stuffy Durma's backstory.
50	* SimpletonVoice: Milton has that kind of voice along with it being very soft which is the fist indication of him being a good-natured lug.
51	* TheStarscream:
52	** Count Kook makes several less than subtle attempts to dispose of Professor Weirdo and replace him as the head of the household. Examples include abandoning him to be buried alive when he was supposed to dig him out and talking Heebie and Jeebie into revolting.
53	** Gung Ho attempts to dispose of Doctor Goo Fee on several occasions.
54	* ThreeShorts: Each episode featured three different cartoons often times using the ABC format.
55	** Oddly enough the titular segment was often shown last in any given show, with A being Fearless Fly, B being one of the remaining cartoon shorts rotating each week(Stuffy Derma, Muggy Doo, Penny Penguin, Flukey Luke), and finally C being Milton.
56	** Other times it would utilize the ABA format with an episode of Fearless Fly sandwiched in-between two cartoons of Milton.
57	%%* YellowPeril: Doctor Goo Fee and his sidekick Gung Ho.

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