History YMMV / ScaryGodmother

* CompleteMonster: TheMaster is [[VileVillainSaccharineShow shockingly vile for such a lighthearted series]]. The Master is a vampire who runs a "Summer Ghoul" camp which he advertises as a place to teach young vampires to hunt. But in actuality, it is a place for him to get [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slaves]] where he forces the children to hunt for him while he continues to be lazy. The Master also hypnotizes the carrier animals used to deliver messages from the families of the students, making the carriers lie that everything is going fine. A student caught him doing this, so the Master tossed him outside to [[WeakenedByTheLight slowly burn to death in the sunlight]]. When his sister begged the Taster to save her, he mutilated her by pushing her face into the sunlight. When a new student arrives at the camp named Orson, the Master plans to [[ChildEater eat his human friend Hanna and Orson himself]].

* UncannyValley: The animation has ''not'' aged well, with the character designs varying from a little unsettling to downright frightening. The models just seem so....off. Some of the most notable cases include the BlackBeadEyes on most of the human characters and the humanlike lips on Harry.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Many fans of the cartoons don't realize that it isn't an original HalloweenSpecial. Not only that, but the specials only adapt the first two of ''several'' books.

** A young [[Film/TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] voiced the titular character in ''Revenge Of Jimmy.''

* HilariousInHindsight: With how everyone ships Orson and Hannah. Then ''{{Literature/Twilight}}'', a story about a "romance" between a vampire boy and a human girl, came out. It is universally agreed that Orson and Hannah still [[MemeticMutation make a better love story than Twilight]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young [[Film/TheHungerGames Alexander Ludwig]] voiced the titular character in ''Revenge Of Jimmy.''

* CultClassic: These specials never reached popularity on a mainstream level, but its fondly remembered by those who grew up watching them on Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* CultClassic: For those who grew up watching the specials on Creator/CartoonNetwork.

* PeripheryDemographic: The specials are popular with adults, especially those who watched it as a kid. It helps that the original books were designed with a MultipleDemographicAppeal.

* ToyShip: Orson and Hannah seem to be flirting in a few scenes, confirmed in the book that Orson does have a crush on her. Also, Katie and Daryl.

* RetroactiveRecognition: A young Creator/AlexanderLudwig voiced the titular character in ''Revenge Of Jimmy.''

* HilariousInHindsight: With how everyone ships Orson and Hannah. Then ''Twilight'', a story about a "romance" between a vampire boy and a human girl, came out. It is universally agreed that Orson and Hannah still [[MemeticMutation make a better love story than Twilight]].

* HilariousInHindsight: With how everyone ships Orson and Hannah. Then ''Twilight'', a story about a "romance" between a vampire boy and a human girl, came out. It is universally agreed that Orson and Hannah still make a better love story than Twilight.

* UncannyValley: The animation for the characters can be a little unsettling at times, and even downright frightening. The models just seem so....off.

* TearJerker: Scary Godmother's DisneyDeath in ''Revenge of Jimmy''. The house seemingly crushes her, [[Film/TheWizardOfOz leaving only her long socks]]. As Skully and Bugaboo cry for her, [[NoSympathy Harry]] [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing is happy to be relieved of his duties]]. Thankfully, she survives, having just took her socks off (it presumably feels nice).

* HilariousInHindsight: With how everyone ships Orson and Hannah. Then ''Twilight'' came out. It is universally agreed that Orson and Hannah still make a better love story than Twilight.

* ToyShip: Orson and Hannah seem to be flirting in a few scenes. Also, Katie and Daryl.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar
-->'''Hannah''': Does everyone have a skeleton in their closet?
-->'''Mr. Pettibone''': ''Almost'' everyone, little miss.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In ''Revenge of Jimmy'', the second time he attempts to cancel Halloween the Fright Side blinks out of existence. Scary Godmother is left stranded on her broom in a black void, with Skully, Harry, and Bug-A-Boo hanging on for dear life. Hannah manages to fix things, of course, but FridgeHorror comes into play when you think about what happened to everyone else in the Fright Side, including Count Max, Ruby, and Orson, when it ceased to exist.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: In ''Revenge of Jimmy'', the second time he attempts to cancel Halloween the Fright Side blinks out of existence. Scary Godmother is left stranded on her broom in an black void, with Skully, Harry, and Bug-A-Boo hanging on for dear life. FridgeHorror comes into play when you think about what happened to everyone else in the Fright Side, including Count Max, Ruby, and Orson, when it ceased to exist.