Recap / The Strange Chores

The Recap Page for The Strange Chores, an Australian cartoon from the creators of Bluey that debuted on Halloween of 2019. The show follows two kids named Charlie and Pierce, as well as a blue-haired ghost girl named Que and her pet monster Snorp, as they carry out various supernaturally-involved tasks for aging monster hunter Old Man Helsing.

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Season 1 (October 31, 2019 - November 23, 2019)

1. "Witch Watch": Helsing releases the Wicked Witch Witchy on parole, but Pierce remains unconvinced of her pleas that she has changed her evil, child-eating ways and tries to gather evidence that she's up to something nasty.
2. "Stop The Monster Slime": Pierce's efforts to show off a homemade slime that will make him Internet famous goes awry and results in a gigantic blob monster consuming the whole town and trapping the gang in a convenience store.
3. "Stop The Monster Battles": Pierce and Charlie discover that Que holds rap battles between the monsters Helsing captures, and the two kids soon get involved in a rap battle with the monsters' best rapper, Monster Head.
4. "Survive Fright Swap": Helsing participates on a reality show called Fright Swap, where he switches homes with none other than Count Dracula himself, leaving the gang to wonder if the vampire lord has ulterior motives.
5. "Put The Barbarian Back In The Box": Charlie and Que refuse to play by the rules of a magical tabletop RPG, frustrating both Pierce and the animate miniatures, the latter of whom begin a revolt against the gang in protest.
6. "Catch A Slimer": When a mysterious monster begins encasing people in slime, the gang must track the culprit down. However, Charlie's obsession with his favorite cop show results in him making all the wrong decisions.
7. "Save Lil’ Helsing": When a vampire begins attacking students at Pierce and Charlie's school, Helsing downs a youth potion to go undercover, only to get sidetracked by the chance to relive his long-lost childhood again.
8. "Don’t Trick Or Treat": The gang throws a Halloween party, but a monster sneaks into the festivities and starts eating the guests. Meanwhile, Helsing takes advantage of the Halloween hunter-monster truce to go to the movies.
9. "Undo The Genie’s Wish": Helsing instructs the gang to find a genie so they can wish away a gargantuan space monster heading for Earth, but the trio get distracted by the chance to wish for their own dreams to come true.
10. "Call A Monster": After discovering Helsing's magic phonebook, the gang begin prank calling monsters, only to end up incurring the wrath of a monster named Frank, the only creature in Helsing's long career that he never defeated.
11. "Finish The Mop’s Bucket List": To clean up the mess left behind by an escaped monster, the gang bring a mop to life. However, the mop is so ecstatic to be alive it ropes the gang into helping it fulfill its bucket list.
12. "Escape The Strange Chores": A battle with an electric monster results in Charlie and Pierce getting trapped in a video game Que designed after the gang's adventures - with Pierce as the hero and Charlie as the Damsel in Distress.
13. "Clean The Toilet": After the gang defeats a singing monster, Charlie hastily attempts to flush it down the toilet. Unfortunately, the monster gets stuck in the bowl, and now Charlie must hide this from the others.
14. "Host A Monster Hunter Tournament": The world's greatest monster hunters come over to Helsing's home to participate in a monster hunter tournament, but Charlie is disappointed to learn he and Pierce were not invited to the games.
15. "Swap Back That Body Swap": Helsing's boss comes over for an inspection, so Helsing instructs the gang to hide Snorp by switching his body with a houseplant. However, Snorp revolts by switching his and Helsing's bodies instead.
16. "Tame The Wild, Wild Pest": When Snorp is transformed into a giant by a growth potion, the gang find themselves on his body and encounter a Wild West-styled community of mutant fleas that have been making their home on Snorp.
17. "Clean The Car": Helsing tasks the gang with cleaning his prized car, but Que and Pierce accidentally take it on a joyride into outer space where they are abducted by an alien monster who seems intent on eating them.
18. "Shut The Freezer": In order to beat a heat wave, Charlie decides to leave Helsing's freezer open, which transforms the whole house into an icy wasteland and unleashes a snow monster intent on devouring Helsing and the gang.
19. "Outsmart A Smart House": Helsing gets a hi-tech security robot for his home, but the gang's excitement with it ends up driving the robot crazy until it boots everyone out of the house and takes over the security system.
20. "Train Snorp": When the neighbors start complaining about Snorp's troublemaking, the gang are assigned to find a way to get Snorp to behave. Meanwhile, the neighborhood cats decide to get rid of Snorp once and for all.
21. "Stop The Dummy's Dummy": The gangs welcome a possessed ventriloquist dummy as the newest member of their group and get him his own dummy as a gift. However, suspicions that their new friend is plotting against them soon arise.
22. "Survive The Strange Loop": Pierce is disappointed to find that Charlie and Que have forgotten about his birthday, and so uses Helsing's quantum remote to create a time loop that will not stop until they remember it.
23. "Babysit The Mummy": The gang are assigned to look after a child mummy (as part of a favor its mother owed Helsing), but the mummy steals the gang's senses so that it can go out and have a day entirely to itself.
24. "Get Back The Monster Hand": Fed up with the fact he and Pierce have to keep their jobs with Helsing a secret, Charlie smuggles an animate monster hand to school to show off and become popular, only for the hand to escape.
25. "Clean The Archive Room": After capturing a monster that causes one to experience their greatest fears, the gang have to put it in Helsing's archives, only to be trapped when the place floods and to start turning on each other.
26. "Scare Helsing": The gang want to find out what scares Helsing the most, and to this end, they learn from Helsing's captured monsters that their best choice is to summon a group of interdimensional horrors called the Fear Bears.

Season 2 (June 24, 2022 - July 17, 2022)

1. "Unmask a Mimic": Helsing assigns the gang to scour the house for an infestation of shapeshifting, man-eating monsters called mimics, but Charlie becomes paranoid that all his friends might in fact be disguised mimics.
2. "Wear a Mech Suit": Pierce has to give a presentation in front of the whole school, so in order to make himself feel invincible, he steals Que's newly designed mech suit to wear around the school at all times.
3. "Stop the Noisy Neighbors": The miniatures from "Put The Barbarian Back In The Box" request Pierce's aid in eliminating a beast that has been terrorizing them, but Pierce doesn't believe he has what it takes to be a leader.
4. "Pop the Pimple": When Pierce's cheek is accidentally stained by a mysterious alien goo, he finds himself developing a sapient pimple bent on global domination. Meanwhile, Que studies the goo to understand its properties.
5. "Clean Helsing's Study": The gang decide to build Monster Head a new body to help him clean up his office, but Monster Head decides he wants to experience life with a body for the first time in centuries.
6. "Destroy the Invisibility Jacket": Helsing rediscovers his previous Chores Boy several years after he ran off with an invisibility jacket and tasks the gang with destroying it, only for Pierce to fall to the temptation of its power.
7. "Get Pierce's Memory Back": Pierce is traumatized by a scary video and takes some of Helsing's memory-erasing gum, only to wipe his entire mind, leaving Charlie and Que to figure out how to restore their friend's memories.
8. "Possess Charlie": Que is hurt to learn that the others consider her "weird", so to prove she can be "normal", she takes over Charlie's body and attends school, where she ends up running for class president.
9. "Don't Be Weird": Que befriends some of the most popular girls at Pierce and Charlie's school, and when she invites them over for a sleepover, she must hide the fact that she is a ghost living with a monster hunter from them.
10. "Clean the Pool": Helsing assigns the gang to clean his backyard pool, which has overgrown into a living swamp, where Que and Charlie encounter its strange wildlife and Pierce meets a fish-girl named Fin living in its depths.
11. "Meet Future You": As a result of learning he will become a Future Badass, Charlie decides to stop putting effort into school, and to prove this to Que and Pierce, he brings Future Charlie to the present to learn from him.
12. "Infiltrate the Talent Show": When dark magic is detected at the school talent show, Helsing assigns the gang to enter the contest, where they discover that somebody's been handing out talent-granting lollipops to the students.
13. "Babysit Snorp": When Snorp begins to undergo a metamorphosis, Helsing assigns Que to watch over him, but Que fears her friend will become something she cannot love. Meanwhile, Charlie and Pierce want to throw a party.
14. "Make Bad Things Good": Helsing's latest project is a magic music player that turns evil beings good and vice versa. While he tests it on a monster, Charlie decides to make class president Malcolm less of a goody-goody.
15. "Haunt the House": Que is caught on film by some of Pierce and Charlie's classmates, transforming her into a viral sensation that the gang decide to try and capitalize on, only to attract the attention of a famous ghost hunter.
16. "Mind the Heckhound": Helsing tasks the gang to take care of a three-headed "heckhound", but Charlie decides to enter it as into the school pet show, where he breaks the cardinal rule to not feed it any human food.
17. "Catch a Ghost Rat": A mysterious phantom is haunting Helsing's home, and it isn't Que! Tasked with capturing this poltergeist, the gang discover it to be the ghost of a rat that Pierce recognizes as his lost pet rat Lucky.
18. "Have Dinner with a Vampire": The gang discover that Helsing used to be friends with a vampire hunter named Michael and invite him for a reunion dinner, only to discover that Michael has become a vampire himself.
19. "Walk Wolfman": Charlie is tasked with taking the Wolfman for his monthly pre-full moon walk, but ends up ditching his responsibilities to attend a Halloween party. Meanwhile, Que attempts a pizza-eating challenge at said party.
20. "Get Embarrassed": In order to catch a monster that specifically preys on embarrassed people, Helsing tasks Charlie with playing the lead role in a cheesy school play, much to the latter's displeasure.
21. "Catch a Wolf": Charlie and Pierce are surprised to discover that Wolfman is now their new teacher at school, and while he seems genuine in his desire to become the best teacher the kids can have, Charlie has his suspicions.
22. "Help Frank": Charlie is fed up with the constant harassment of school bully Bad Tony, and when it turns out Que is helping Frank from "Call A Monster" rehabilitate, he decides to see if he can use Frank to get back at Bad Tony.
23. "Guard the Magic Wand": Helsing tasks the gang with guarding the magic wand of the lazy wizard Grumbleshanks, but Charlie uses it to transform himself into a ghost and get cool ghost powers so he can make things easier for himself.
24. "Coach the Gnomes": Helsing's annual grassketball game between his garden gnomes and the hedge goblins comes around, but when Pierce accidentally breaks the star player, their chances of winning don't look so hot.
25. "Stop the Zombies": Ashamed of his school art project, Pierce decides to turn in one of Helsing's masks as his own instead, but said mask turns out to be a cursed artifact that unleashes a zombie apocalypse on the school!
26. "Complete Helsing's Chore": The gang are about to graduate from chore kids to monster hunters, but when they learn Helsing never finished the final task, they go back in time to help a young Helsing become their future mentor.