Halloween Episode / Western Animation

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• The series premiere of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, "The Switching Hour". When Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina sneak out of the school to go scaring on Halloween (against the Gromble's orders), there's a mix-up with a kid Ickis scared at the beginning of the episode wearing a Halloween costume based off of him. Krumm and Oblina go to the kid's Halloween party, believed by everyone to be just kids in costumes, and the kid goes to the monster world. The day after Halloween, Krumm and Oblina have to clear things up without the Gromble finding out.
• The Addams Family (1992) had a Halloween episode called "Puttergeist", which had Wednesday and Pugsley investigate the legend of a golfer ghost known as the Puttergeist.
• Adventure Time:
  • "The Creeps" is a parody of murder mysteries lke Clue and And Then There Were None. Members of the cast are assembled at a mountain-top castle, and given a silly alias as part of the invitation. The costume party goes awry when characters are seemingly killed off by a ghost that's possessed one of them.
  • A second Halloween special, "From Bad to Worse", aired a week later. The episode doubles as a sequel to "Slumber Party Panic", and features Finn, Jake, Lady Rainicorn and LSP having to reproduce Princess Bubblegum's cure for zombification when the Princess gets bitten by a horde of zombie candy people.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius takes great pleasure in stereotypically pushing this trope to its limit in "Nightmare in Retroville". In the episode, Jimmy creates a monster wheel designed to turn his friends into authentic monsters (a closer examination of the wheel shows Michael Jackson as an option) - the only problem is, the invention works a little too well, and Carl ends up as a real vampire, Sheen as a real werewolf, and Hugh as Frankenstein's monster. Carl and Sheen, respectively, bite Cindy and Libby, who then join the ranks of bloodsuckers/flesheaters, and before you know it the whole town is out for a good ol' fashioned monster-mob.
• The Amazing World of Gumball:
  • The episode simply titled "Halloween". Carrie the ghost helps get Gumball and Darwin into a ghosts-only Halloween party using ghost potion. However, an overdose of the potion turns Gumball and Darwin completely into ghosts, triggering a Celestial Deadline to get them back into their bodies or else they'll be dragged into the underworld. To make matters worse, Anais also drinks the potion and Gumball must save her as well.
  • "The Scam" is another episode set on Halloween (despite the characters being the same age as in the previous one). Gumball and Carrie pull a Monster Protection Racket to get everyone's candy, and Gumball exploits Darwin's crush on Carrie to rope him into it. They end up bringing a real monster into town. During the beginning of the episode, the students dress up as various characters in popular culture, including Gumball as Beetlejuice, Leslie as Audrey II, and Sarah as the moon from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.
  • A third episode titled "The Ghouls" focuses on the different ghouls who are based on various horror movies. Like the previous special, various characters dress up in costumes as well in a show of a lot of Shout-Out(s)
• American Dad! did one of these where Stan tried to outdo his neighbor's haunted house. His solution? Bring in caged serial killers. Then Roger frees them...
• American Dragon: Jake Long had Jake throwing a party for both monsters and humans. Of course, he almost brings danger down on their heads in the form of the Huntsclan.
• Amphibia: In the episode "The Shut-In", Anne and the Plantars get stuck indoors on the night of the Blue Moon, so they spend the time telling scary stories. The Blue Moon night has a lot of the same trappings as Halloween: instead of candy, frogs go door-to-door picking up supplies for the shut-in, carve "scare gourds" and decorate their houses. Despite Anne pointing out the similarities, the Plantars deny that it's a holiday.
• The Angry Beavers: "The Day The World Got Really Screwed Up" has the beavers trick-or-treating at what turns out to be the home of Oxnard Montalvo, their favorite B-movie actor. Chaos ensues when an alien monster invades the house and brings to life statues of the monsters from Montalvo's movies.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Shaving" takes place on Halloween. Shake tries to teach a monster named Willie Nelson the way of scaring someone, by the end it seems Willie can't scare anyone. Then the trio looks in the attic.
• Arthur has the episode "Hic or Treat" which is set on Halloween and involves a plot of DW having a case of hiccups she can't get rid of until Arthur scares her. While it isn't strictly set on Halloween, "The Fright Stuff" involves a costume party and a ghost character. The show would also have the hour-long special "Arthur & The Haunted Treehouse" where Arthur & Ladonna deal with a haunted sleepover, Muffy and Bailey cut through a cemetery, Binky visits a haunted house set up by Mr. Ratburn, and Francine meets an old woman with a mysterious past, all on Halloween night!
• As Told by Ginger has "I Spy A Witch", where Ginger lands the lead role in the Halloween play based off the Salem Witch Trials. Miranda is cast as an understudy, and, wanting the lead role so badly, frames Ginger for a Halloween prank where she and Mipsy deface the school statue, dressing it up to look like a Wicked Witch. Ginger gets suspended from school and Miranda gains the leading role. However, the Foutleys soon discover the truth, thanks to Carl's late best friend, Maude, taking a picture of the action after he brought her Back from the Dead to try to scare Lois, but instead, tell her the truth as to what really happened, and Ginger sneaks onstage, where she and the cast force Miranda to confess while they're performing the scene where her character is accused of witchcraft. It is implied at the end of the episode that Ginger's suspension was reversed and Miranda and Mipsy rightfully received the punishment.
• Atomic Betty, both of the Two Shorts variety:
  • Season 1 had "When Worlds Collide" and "The Ghost Ship of Aberdeffia". The first sees The Chameleon come to Earth on Halloween with the stolen brain of a galactic leader, allowing him, Betty, Sparky, and X-5 to blend in with the trick-or-treaters. The second has Betty recounting one of her adventures as a campfire story in which she and her crew explore a haunted abandoned spaceship.
  • The Retool season Mission Earth has "Night of the Living Mummies" and "Trick Or Creep". The first is about Betty attending a party to celebrate the museum's new Egypt exhibit, only for all the mummies displayed to come to life when Penelope takes a cursed necklace for herself. The second features Maximus I.Q. attacking Earth with an army of mutant pumpkins in order to get rid of the holiday while Betty and her friends are making their own horror movie.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender's "The Puppetmaster" was aired (and possibly meant) as a Halloween episode, since the holiday doesn't exist in their universe.
• The Backyardigans episode "Scared of You" is all but directly mentioned to be this, with Tasha playing a mad scientist and Austin, basically dressed as Igor serves as her assistant.
• The Ben 10 episode "Last Laugh" is considered a Halloween episode, despite the fact that the series is supposed to take place during the summer.
• The Batman episode "Grundy's Night", the Grundy curse is purported to have been cast on All Hallows' Eve during a lunar eclipse. As such, while kids are out trick or treating, Clayface poses as Solomon Grundy and trashes mansions in order to steal fortunes. Clayface also exploits passersby being in costume in order to make discreet exits.
• Beetlejuice :
  • "Laugh of the Party" had B.J. livening up Lydia's Halloween party with Party People In A Can. They're all Neitherworld denizens, so the party was rather unorthodox, even for Halloween.
  • The episode "Bewitched, Bothered and Beetlejuiced" had Lydia dressed as a witch for Halloween, only for her cat Percy to get catnapped by a soiree of witches.
• The Betty Boop cartoon, "Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party" is Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
• The Berenstain Bears has an episode called "Trick or Treat", based on the 1989 book.
• Big City Greens has two:
  • The first of which is "Blood Moon", where Cricket and Tilly's plans to go trick-or-treating on their first Halloween night goes awry when a total lunar eclipse (or "blood moon") causes all the Greens' farm animals to turn into feral, ravening zombies that trap Cricket, Tilly, Bill, Gramma, Remy, Gloria, and Vasquez in the house.
  • The second is the Season 3 premiere, "Squashed!", where Tilly uses Gwendolyn Zapp’s alien chemical compound to make Bill’s pumpkins grow bigger, only to turn into body-snatching alien monsters.
• Big Hero 6: The Series has "Obake Yashiki", where they go to a haunted house, then later on witness their worst fears.
• Big Mouth has one that has the kids going to a haunted house and live through their worst fears.
• The Biskitts episode "A Biskitt Halloween". An evil witch, who appears every one hundred years on Halloween, abducted Waggs and Sweets, planning to feed them to her magic mirror to complete her spell. Fortunately, the other Biskitts arrived and destroyed the magic mirror, defeating the witch.
• Blue's Clues has the episodes "What is Blue Afraid Of?" (season 1) and "Blue's Big Costume Party" (season 3). The former is more of a semi-scary episode without any mentions of Halloween, while the latter is a flat-out Halloween special.
• Bob's Burgers:
  • "Full Bars" has the Belcher kids go trick-or-treating without the parents for the first time. They take the ferry to the greener pastures of Kingshead Island, where the rich families live and the houses give out full-sized candy bars, but have to save some kids from a pack of teenage pranksters. Meanwhile, Bob and Linda attend Teddy's costume party, which turns into a mystery when Teddy's beloved guinea pig Frances ends up dead.
  • In "Fort Night", the kids miss Halloween altogether when they get stuck in their back-alley cardboard box fort at the mercy of Louise's creepy classmate Millie.
  • "Tina and the Real Ghost" has Tina falling for a teenage ghost discovered in the Belchers' basement, while Bob has to deal with a pair of amateur ghost hunters squatting in his restaurant.
  • "The Hauntening" has the Belchers take a family trip to a haunted house in an attempt to scare Louise, only for things to go awry.
  • "Teen-A-Witch" sees Tina dabble in witchcraft in order to beat Tammy in the school's costume contest, while Bob tries to find out who's been stealing his jack-o-lanterns.
  • "The Wolf of Wharf Street" sees Linda and the kids going on a hunt for a stray wolf that's been spotted in town on Halloween night. Meanwhile, Bob stays home with Teddy thanks to a knee injury, but Bob gets high on painkillers and starts thinking Teddy is a werewolf.
  • "Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street" has the kids and their friends trying to track down a candy thief, while Teddy asks Bob and Linda to let him decorate the restaurant so he can one-up a rival handyman.
  • In "Pig Trouble in Little Tina", Tina tries to seem cool by making fun of a dead pig she has to dissect in science class, but her guilty conscience causes her to dream of being tormented by the pig's ghost.
  • In "Heartbreak Hotel-oween", Louise is sidetracked from her plan to get revenge on a stingy candy-giving household when she and her siblings meet an old woman trying to contact her late ex-boyfriend's ghost.
  • In "The Pumpkening", a mysterious note sends Linda and Gayle back to their hometown on Halloween to investigate the truth behind a pumpkin-smashing rampage in their childhood.
• In spite of the whole show taking place during the summer, Camp Lazlo has a Halloween Episode in "Hallobeanies", where Lumpus tries to gorge on candy at Camp Kidney only to be bothered by Lazlo, Clam, and Raj trick-or-treating.
• Bunsen Is a Beast: "Beast Halloween Ever" concerns Bunsen's first Halloween, where he and his friend Mikey try to get as much Halloween candy as possible and Amanda schemes to steal everyone else's candy by disguising herself and her lackey Beverly as a candy-obsessed beast called Sweet Teeth.
• Season 3 of Carmen Sandiego could easily be considered a Halloween season. "The Day of the Dead Caper" takes place on Dias de los Muertos and features the V.I.L.E. faculty celebrating Halloween, "The Haunted Bayou Caper" sees Carmen and her gang infiltrate a costume ball at a supposedly haunted mansion, and the other three episodes are all themed around masks in one way or another.
• The Casagrandes has both Halloween and Dia de los Muertos episodes. The former, "New Haunts", has Ronnie Anne ditch her family's usual Halloween celebration so she and her friend Sid can go to another kid's Halloween party, only to discover that said party isn't a fun costume party like they expected. The latter, "Croaked", has Ronnie Anne teach Sid's younger sister Adelaide about the Mexican holiday to help her cope with the death of her pet frog.
• The CatDog episode "CatDogula" had Dog get bitten by Peruvian vampire ticks and turned into a vampire along with the rest of their friends, and Cat tries desperately to find a cure before the clock strikes the twelfth chime at midnight, or those afflicted will be vampires forever. At the end, Cat drowns everyone in garlic juice, which cures everyone (even the Peruvian ticks). At the end, Winslow shows up, and reveals that he was bitten by a werewolf.
• The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! has "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Halloween", a nearly hour-long special featuring the group journeying so that Sally and Nick can find the perfect Halloween costumes. They ended up dressing as things they learned more about and stopped fearing.
• In Catscratch Halloween episode "Scaredy-cat", Blik tries to win the contest for having the best decorated house on Halloween, while Gordon refuses to accept the holiday thinking it brings out the worst in people. Hilarity Ensues when two aliens arrive mistaking the house for their lost mothership.
• Celebrity Deathmatch had two Halloween episodes with matches such as Frankenstein's Monster vs. the Wolf Man, The Undertaker vs. Captain Doody (a demon possessing Nicky Jr.), and Sarah Michelle Gellar vs. a vampire.
• Class of the Titans had a Halloween episode in which Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, tried to escape from her prison in the moon. It also introduced Theresa's mystical powers.
• The Cleveland Show:
  • "It's the Great Pancake, Cleveland Brown", where Cleveland upsets Cleveland Jr. by telling him he is too old to trick or treat and Rallo eats too much candy.
  • Another episode, "Nightmare on Grace Street", had a look-a-like friend that was annoying everyone with bad jokes the whole episode, then went Ax Crazy and tried to kill both Cleveland and his entire family. Cleveland and Rallo spent the episode trying to prove they weren't scared.
• Clifford the Big Red Dog has the episode "Boo!" all about Jetta bragging about how brave she is. After the whole town is spooked by a ghost movie, Jetta learns that everyone has fears but it's OK.
• The Codename: Kids Next Door episode "Operation: T.R.I.C.K.Y." had Numbuh Four make a bet with the other operatives of Sector V that he can't get more Halloween candy than the rest of them put together. On his quest, he ends up running afoul of Stickybeard and his crew of candy-stealing pirates.
• The Halloween Episode of Cow and Chicken was "Halloween with Dead Ghost, Coast to Coast", where Cow and Chicken tried to go trick-or-treating by dressing as adults and ended up running afoul of the Red Guy masquerading as a Space Ghost pastiche.
• On Creative Galaxy, "Arty's Boo-tastic Halloween" is a double story-length special in which Arty goes out trick-or-treating in the Creative Galaxy with his friends, visits a number of planets, and helps out along the way.
• Curious George has the one-hour special A Halloween Boo Fest involving George trying to create the perfect Halloween costume and learning the story of the haunted scarecrow named No-Noggin.
• Danger Mouse
  • The original series had "The Good, the Bad and the Motionless", which took place on Halloween, as DM tells Colonel K that Penfold is carving up a swede.
  Colonel K: Good heavens, DM. I didn't know he could play tennis!
  D.M.: Tennis? Oh, no. Not Bjørn Borg, sir. Not that sort of swede. It's the vegetable kind.
  • The Revival has had two: "The Scare Mouse Project", in which DM faces a Headless Horseman (sort of), and "A Fear to Remember", in which the Queen of the Weevils makes everyone face their nightmares and get Taken for Granite as a result.
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: has everyone getting ready for an event called "Dress-Up Day," ensuring that the show's production team could acknowledge Halloween without having to address the concept of it being scary at all.
• Danny Phantom had "Fright Night" where Danny temporarily steals a sword from Fright Knight, the ghostly Anthropomorphic Personification of Halloween. Hell ensues (literally).
• DC Super Hero Girls (2019): The season two finale "#NightmareInGotham" is a two-part episode where the Super Hero Girls have to stop the Joker, Harley Quinn, She-Bat, Gentleman Ghost and Solomon Grundy from destroying Gotham City on Halloween night.
• Denis and Me: The episode "SMALloween" is about Sir Meows-A-Lot reluctantly going trick-or-treating with Denis to get more candy.
• Dino Squad had one episode, "Never Judge a Dinosaur by its Cover", where Fiona and Terri deal with their neighbor.
• Donald Duck starred in a bunch of shorts with a semi-scary atmosphere, such as "Donald Duck and the Gorilla", "Donald's Lucky Day", and "Duck Pimples", but the true Halloween episode is fans' favorite "Trick or Treat", where Donald's assholish treatment of his nephews leads to a witch helping the boys to get the best of their uncle.
• DuckTales (2017) episode "The Trickening" focuses on Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Webby going trick-or-treating, while Launchpad is convinced that the Trick-Or-Treaters are actually demons he unleashed onto Duckberg when he was a child.
• There's Dorathe Explorer which has two episodes. The first is called "Boo!", where Dora and Boots escort a little monster so he can be home by 12:00 midnight. "By twelve o'clock, all monsters must be home. It's a rule!" The three arrive to a Halloween party where they are joined by all the friends they met along the way, including Diego, who's dressed as a bat for the occasion. The second Halloween special is "Halloween Parade", where Dora and Boots help the little monster find a costume so he can participate in the Halloween Parade with them and all their friends.
  • The spinoff Go, Diego, Go! has one, "Freddie the Fruit Bat Saves Halloween!".
• Doug had two that come to mind in both the Nickelodeon and Disney runs.
  • The Nickelodeon run had the half hour special "Doug's Halloween Adventure", where Doug, Skeeter and Roger went to the amusement park Funkytown for the grand opening of a scary new ride known as Bloodstone Manor, and end up getting locked in it after the park shuts down for the night.
  • The Disney run had "Doug's Bloody Buddy", where it had him (and eventually the other kids) thinking Skeeter was a vampire.
• The last episode of Downtown was a Halloween Episode titled "Trip or Treat", which had Alex trying to meet with Serena at the Halloween parade and Chaka undergoing a trip after consuming drugged candy.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo-Haw-Haw had the Eds attempt to follow a map to "Spookyville", the ultimate trick-or-treating neighborhood. Unfortunately, an overdose of B-movies on Ed's part causes him to hallucinate that the other kids of the cul-de-sac are movie monsters out to get him and his friends, and Hilarity Ensues.
• On Ella the Elephant, "Frankie's Perfect Pumpkin" has the kids in costumes and trick-or-treating, though most of the story is actually spent on hunting for Frankie's lost pumpkin.
• Elinor Wonders Why: In the upcoming episode "More Than One Right Way", the class celebrates Halloween and Elinor learns about spiders.
• The Fairly Oddparents has "Scary GodParents". Remember the Buffy Halloween episode where everyone became the costumes they were wearing? Same plot, only with the Yugopotamians and four Omnicidal Maniac robots capable of creating a Doomsday Device thrown in for variety.
• Family Guy only has one ("Halloween On Spooner Street"), oddly. It was from season 9, where Chris and Meg went to a party, Stewie and Brian dealt with a bully that stole Stewie's candy and Quagmire getting revenge for a prank by Peter and Joe. Lois becomes the bully for the bullies and actually scares Stewie a bit, Quagmire pretends to be possessed by a Japanese World War II pilot, and Meg and Chris accidentally make out with each other.
• The Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "There Will Be Shrieks" has Fanboy and Chum Chum trick-or-treat at the house of a Pumpkin Person named Mr. Trick, who gives them enchanted sweets that rob them of their sense of taste and then forces them to go and collect 1,000 screams, which it later turns out he needs for a ritual he intends to use to get rid of all the candy in town.
• The Filmation's Ghostbusters episode "Back to the Past" took place during Halloween.
• Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends has two Halloween episodes. The first one from Season 1 "Bloooo" involves Mac and Bloo getting sick from playing in the rain. Bloo turns pale from his cold, causing Wilt, Eduardo and Coco to accidentally mistake him for a ghost. The second one from Season 5 "Nightmare on Wilson Way" involves Bloo playing a prank on Mr. Herriman, which backfires when the latter turns into a zombie, only to be revealed that it was payback against the former.
• Futurama's Season 2 episode "The Honking", a parody of werewolf movies where after spending a night at his late uncle's haunted castle, Bender is transformed into a werecar that runs over people every night. Season 6's "Ghost in the Machines" and Season 7's "Murder on the Planet Express" could also be considered examples. The former sees Bender become a robot ghost and begin to haunt Fry by possessing machinery while the latter is a parody of The Thing (1982) and Alien.
• Garfield's Halloween Adventure has the titular cat and Odie trick-or-treating. But when attempting to cross a river on a boat for extra candy, the two end up in a haunted mansion. Also features really catchy songs.
  • The Garfield Show had a Halloween Episode in "Orange and Black", where Garfield went trick-or-treating and got himself in trouble because he chose to go as Catzilla, a ferocious jungle cat who recently escaped from the city zoo. There is also a semi-scary episode known as "Curse of the Were-Dog" which, as the title suggests, involves Odie turning into a giant, werewolf-esque monster dog, due to a rare astronomic constellation. (But it only occurs when the moon is showing, as Odie turns back into his normal self when the moon is covered by clouds. Because of this, Garfield gets blamed for Odie's actions until Jon manages to find out what's really going on.)
• Gargoyles had "Eye of the Beholder", in which Goliath and Elisa are forced to team up with Xanatos to save the life of Xanatos' fiancee Fox after a cursed artifact turns her into a monster. We also get to see Goliath, Elisa, and the other Manhattan Clan gargoyles attend a Halloween party where Elisa goes dressed as Belle.
• Gravity Falls:
  • The fact that the show takes place over a single summer doesn't stop it from having a Halloween Episode. "Summerween" explores Summerween, a second Halloween in the summer because Gravity Falls loves the holiday that much. Soos tells the legend of the Summerween Trickster, a phantom who kills those who do not accept the holiday. Dipper, wanting to attend a party instead of trick-or-treat, attracts the Trickster who holds the lives of him and his friends in the balance in exchange for five hundred pieces of candy.
  • "Little Gift Shop of Horrors" wasn't specifically Halloween-themed, but it aired around Halloween and was a Vignette Episode not unlike "Treehouse of Horror". It features Grunkle Stan inviting a lost tourist into the Mystery Shack and regaling him with a trio of "Tales Designed to Sell My Merchandise": one in which Stan loses his hands to a vindictive witch, one where Mabel's pet pig becomes super-intelligent, and one where the Pines deal with a stop-motion animator's creations run amok.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
  • "Grim or Gregory?" takes place on Halloween, and involves Grim accidentally swapping places with a kid in a Grim Reaper costume while escorting Billy and Mandy during trick-or-treating.
  • In "Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween", Grim relates the story of Jack O'Lantern, who in this version was a mischievous medieval peasant who incurred the wrath of the queen (or rather, he was framed by the villagers he pranked) and was executed. When Grim came for Jack's soul, Jack stole Grim's scythe and bargained with him for immortality, which Grim granted... but not before taking Jack's human head in retaliation. It just so happens that Jack O'Lantern is living in an abandoned house in Endsville, and he plots to steal Grim's scythe from Billy (who's borrowing it for his Halloween costume) and get revenge on Grim.
  • Underfist: Halloween Bash was going to be a Spin-Off (until Cartoon Network decided not to make the series). It involves Halloween candy taking over the world and Irwin's vampire-mummy powers finally forming. General fan consensus is that it was amazing.
• Despite being predated by 4 months in the US and one month in Canada, the Grojband episode "Dance of the Dead" takes place during Halloween night.
• Hanna-Barbera's version of The Little Rascals had one: "Fright Night", in which three of the Rascals went trick-or-treating.
  • Four other episodes were similarly themed, though not specifically set on Halloween: "Rascals' Revenge", in which Butch and Woim dare the Rascals to enter an abandoned house; "Grin and Bear It", in which the Rascals' camping trip is disrupted when the Phantom Lumberjack abducts Porky; "Falling Heir", in which Spanky inherits a supposedly haunted castle, and "Wash and Werewolf", in which the boys watch a 3D horror movie and Alfalfa later thinks he's become a werewolf.
• Harvey Beaks: The first season had a Two Shorts-styled one, in which the first segment sees Harvey and his friends visit a corn maze that proves much scarier than it seems, while the second was about the cast telling pass-around scary story. In the second season, it was a half-hour episode parodying A Christmas Carol. Both episodes also feature a goblin-like creature named the Blargus, who is Littlebark Grove's spirit of Halloween.
• Harvey Girls Forever has one called "Harveyween". It was the only Halloween episode until the fourth season had another one called "All Harvey's Eve".
• Hey Arnold!'s Halloween episode was a homage to Orson Welles' 1938 "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast. Arnold and Gerald play a prank on the boarding house by hijacking the radio with a fake news report about aliens invading. Unfortunately, their broadcast gets picked up by the news and , coupled with the duo's use of the water tower as the UFO causing a power outage and their whole class dressed as aliens scaring everyone, sends the whole city into a panic.
  • The series regularly has other, more supernatural or horror-themed episodes which generally premiered in October, featuring ghostly phenomena or urban legends, such as a haunted train or a ghostly woman looking for her lost dog at a nearby park.
• On Home Movies, the gang was on their way to a Halloween party but they all ended up at the hospital when Brendon's stepmom went into labor and Coach McGuirk had a heart attack. Not the best place for Melissa to dress like the Grim Reaper.
  Coach: Omigod, it's Death.
  Melissa: Coach, it's me, Melissa!
  Coach: Omigod, it's Melissa.
• Hoppity Hooper: In the aptly named episode "Halloween", Waldo, Fillmore and Hoppity get stuck in a haunted town called Ware and spend the night in a Haunted House full of supernatural creatures.
• Hotel Transylvania: The Series:
  • "The Legend of Pumpkin Guts" has Mavis and her friends choose to sneak out on Halloween night and Dracula has to keep his daughter safe before Pumpkin Guts finds her and turns her into a pumpkin.
  • "Must Scream TV" concerns Mavis and her friends attempting to watch the in-universe Halloween Episode of Hotel Pennsylvania, only for a mishap with the remote control resulting in Mavis teleporting into the show while her male human counterpart Davis takes her place in the real world.
• House of Mouse had two Halloween episodes. Both featured repackaged Halloween-appropriate shorts from Mickey MouseWorks and were also made into a Compilation Movie called Mickey's House of Villains, where the villains of the Disney Animated Canon teamed up to take over the House of Mouse on Halloween.
  • "Halloween with Hades" had Hades trying to court Maleficent. The featured MouseWorks short was "Donald's Halloween Scare", where Donald scared his nephews so he could take their Halloween candy and the triplets got back at their uncle by scaring him into thinking they've died and become zombies.
  • "House Ghosts" had Pete attempt to get the club shut down by having the ghosts from the Haunted Mansion scare everyone out. This episode's repurposed MouseWorks short was a semi-scary short titled "How to Haunt a House", where Goofy was killed and turned into a ghost so that the narrator could teach him how to scare the living.
• There's one in Invader Zim called the Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, in which inside Dib's head is a parallel universe with real monsters. Also provides the subpage image.
• The sixth episode of Jackie Chan Adventures' fourth season, "Fright Fight Night" is set on Halloween, dealing with Paco being possessed by one of the Oni masks and the heroes having to get it off before Tarakudo is able to corrupt him.
• Jem had a Halloween episode, "Trick or Techrat", having the Holograms fixing a haunted opera house—and Terri, one of the Starlight Girls, learning not to scare at every thing.
• Johnny Test:
  • The episode titled "Johnny Trick or Treat". Johnny accepts a dare by a mysterious card impaled on his door. In order to see a real haunted house and cash in on a large amount of candy, he must spend a night in a house and wear a tutu. He is joined by Dukey and Jillian, only to find the house is rigged with traps. They successfully complete all of the tasks, only to be eaten by a giant maggot. With Jillian in danger, the master of the house, Darth Vegan, tries to save them, only to have his plans ruined. When it is revealed that there was no candy, Johnny and the rest of the crew teleport to a party attended by Susan, Mary and Agents Black and White, where he wins a candy making machine for first place in a costume contest.
  • While not an Halloween Episode, "Fangs a Lot Johnny" aired the same year as "Johnny Trick or Treat". In this episode, after finding out that Gil likes vampire-teen star Xeandra, Susan and Mary turn into vampires to attract him. Only problem is that they decided to kidnap Gil, turn him, and have him forever, so Johnny and Dukey have to become vampire slayers to rescue him and change the vampire sisters back.
  • The second episode called "The Johnny Who Saved Halloween". Johnny and several other kids are in a contest to collect the most candy in order to win a literal mountain of candy.
• Julius Jr. has the season 1 episode "Dressed for Spook-cess", where Worry Bear and Ping muct co-operate to match their costumes before they go trick-or-treating.
• Justice League Action: The episode "Trick or Threat" takes place on Halloween, with the protagonists being four trick-or-treating children dressed as Batman, Zatanna, Dr. Fate and John Constantine, who later find out they're actually the real heroes magically transformed into costumed children by Klarion. Cain, appropriately enough for the Horror Host of the House of Mystery comic, serves as the episode's narrator.
• Kaeloo: The episode "Let's Play Scaredy Cat", where Stumpy raises the dead and causes a zombie apocalypse, forcing Mr. Cat to fight off all the zombies by himself after Kaeloo and Quack Quack also get turned into zombies.
• Kick Buttowski had the predictably named "Kick Or Treat", where Kick accepts a challenge from Kendall to go trick-treating at the scary Old, Dark House across the street. Turns out the house is owned by a nice old lady who loves Halloween so much that she went completely overboard with the special effects.
• The Kim Possible episode "October 31st".
• There have been a couple in King of the Hill. The first one concerns a religious fanatic trying to ban Halloween from Arlen. In the second (definitely one of the series' darker episodes), Luann moves in with a schizophrenic millionaire who owns a pork processing company.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee one had the title character trying to fix a spell that turned monsters into humans, human children being their idea of a Halloween costume. While the monsters are causing mischief, June has to go through a complicated barter system which includes entering an WWE-style wrestling match.
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series has the episode "Spooky", featuring an experiment that can transform into their worst fears.
• Interestingly, Little Bear has an episode that appears to take place on Halloween, but nobody refers to it as such. Instead, the holiday is known as "Goblin Night", when goblins are said to play tricks on people. In the episode, Little Bear and his friends dress up (Mitzi is even wearing a goblin costume), try to scare each other and eat corn and pumpkin seeds in front of a campfire.
• The short-lived Lloyd in Space had an episode in which the gang goes into a Haunted House-type thing, only to come out to a version of the space station in the far future where it's completely deserted and a monster has apparently killed everyone. It turns out to be some variation of All Just a Dream, but man, that whole episode was basically Mood Whiplash.
• Looney Tunes:
  • Looney Tunes:
    • "Broom-Stick Bunny" has Witch Hazel concerned about her appearance, wanting to stay the ugliest witch of all ("I'm so afraid of growing pretty as I get older!") then getting jealous when she encounters Bugs Bunny, who's trick-or-treating in an ugly witch costume.
    • "A-Haunting We Will Go" has Daffy Duck's nephew encountering Witch Hazel while trick-or-treating in the exact same costume Bugs used. (The rest of the cartoon has Daffy dealing with Speedy Gonzales, who Witch Hazel has turned into her exact double so he can fill in for her while she takes a vacation.)
    • "Corn On The Cop" is also set on Halloween, and has Daffy and Porky as police officers trying to apprehend a robber who happens to be disguised to look like Granny. Granny, meanwhile, thinks both the cops and the crook are mischievous kids in costumes.
    • Two Looney Tunes Halloween specials were later produced for television: Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977) and Bugs Bunny's Creature Features (1992). The former used new footage to link clips from nine supernatural-themed shorts of the classic era (including "Broomstick Bunny" & "A-Haunting We Will Go"), while the latter united two segments from Daffy Duck's Quackbusters with the new short "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers".
    • In "Hasty Hare," Bugs mistakes Marvin the Martian and K-9 as it being Halloween and them as kids trick-or-treating. He gives them each a bag of candy.
      Marvin: K-9, do you suppose all Earth creatures behave thataway?
  • Baby Looney Tunes: In "A Mid-Autumn Night's Scream", the baby Loonies go trick-or-treating and Lola, Melissa, and Petunia enter a costume contest and win it because they're costumes were so "original" (Lola was a tornado, Melissa was a picnic, and Petunia was a laundry basket). Also, three baby Martian Birds join the kids trick-or-treating. Floyd assumes they're kids in Martian costumes... until at the end of the episode, he looks out the window and spots them leaving in their UFO.
• The Loud House has the episode "Tricked!" all about Lincoln, Clyde and his younger sisters going trick-to-treating to get candy while Lucy sets up on a haunted maze.

M-Z

• MAD had the episode "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas/How I Met Your Mummy". Within the episode were The Nightmare Before Christmas and How I Met Your Mother references, as the title implies. Other references included ScreamX20, Scooby Doo: Ruining Halloween Since 1969, and VeggieTales from the Crypt.
• The 2000 series of Madeline called the "New Adventures of Madeline" had a Halloween episode where the girls visit America and learn about Halloween, with a subplot of a mysterious lost earring.
• The Magic School Bus had a Halloween special that was two spookily themed episodes from the series tied together by a live-action sequence where an old caretaker told three kids terrifying stories about kids learning about sound and bats.
• Disney XD's Marvel Universe block has had several, usually involving Doctor Strange, Blade, and/or Dormammu showing up.
  • Ultimate Spider-Man had three: the first was a one-hour special that premiered on the Disney Channel rather than Disney XD and sees Spider-Man team up with Blade and several other Marvel Monsters (named the "Howling Commandos") to stop Dracula after he puts Spidey's team under mind control and has them recover an artifact that would make him invulnerable to sunlight. The second is a crossover with Jessie where Spidey and Jessie Prescott are stuck in a museum on Halloween night while the latter accidentally resurrects Morrigane Le Fey. The third has Spidey, Doctor Strange, and Scott Lang team against Baron Mordo when he casts a spell to make all the trick-or-treaters become what they're dressed up as to feed off the negative energy from the spell and make himself stronger.
  • Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. also had a Halloween team-up with the Howling Commandos, where the two groups must put aside their differences to prevent Dormammu from enslaving all of humanity.
  • Avengers Assemble had its episode featured Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor work with Strange to recover the Eye of Agamotto when it's stolen by Dormammu.
• Marvel's Spider-Man had one episode where Spider-Man teams up with the Hulk to stop the Man-Wolf from infecting others.
• The Mask: Skillit uses his powers to summon a zombie cowboy, a ghost knight, and a demonically-possessed warlock to crash the Coco Bongo's annual Halloween party. In the end, the Mask vanishes them to Skillit's home dimension by making them say the word "mask" backwards.
• Max and Ruby has at least three Halloween Episodes.
• The Mighty B! has Bessie trapped in a cat costume and...stuff happens.
• Milo Murphy's Law: "Milo's Halloween Scream-a-Torium!" has Milo building a haunted house and trying to use it to scare Zack. Meanwhile, Cavendish and Dakota take advantage of the last Halloween ever to learn how it's supposed to work and have fun.
• Molang has "The Pumpkin", in which Piu Piu has to get their Jack-O-Lantern back after giving it away to who they thought was Molang.
• My Little Pony:
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
    • There's "Luna Eclipsed" where the ponies celebrate the day as "Nightmare Night" and Princess Luna shows up, being determined to change her frightening public image she made back in the past. At first, it wasn't really working out all that well for Luna, and it goes to the point where she ends up decreeing the cancellation of Nightmare Night forever! However, Luna eventually learns that the young ponies actually like being scared by her, and she declares that Nightmare Night's back on.
    • The Season 5 episode, "Scare Master", Fluttershy steps out of her cottage on Nightmare Night and tries to celebrate the holiday with the other Mane Five. It's very awkward at first, until she manages to pull off the scare of a lifetime on them, which is where we learn why Fluttershy doesn't traditionally celebrate Nightmare Night: she hates seeing her friends scared and frightened, even if it is just for laughs.
  • My Little Pony: Make Your Mark: "Nightmare on Mane Street" has the main cast organizing Maretime Bay's Nightmare Night celebration, while Opaline tries invading the town to steal ponies' Cutie Marks. Even if she's not hiding her villainy, the ponies mistake her theatrics as part of her costume and acting, to her frustration.
• Nature Cat has "Runaway Pumpkin" where Daisy accidentally loses her entry for the big pumpkin contest on the day of the big Halloween party, causing her and the others to go on a hot pursuit to retrieve it.
• Ninjago has the "Day of the Departed", which is an awesomely bizarre mashup of Halloween (costumes and trick or treating), Dia De Los Muertos (remembering lost loved ones), and a Japanese lantern festival. It originally aired on October 29th, so fans have taken to celebrating the holiday on that date in real life as a Halloween pre-game of sorts.
• Oscar's Orchestra: "Fangs But No Fangs", which features a Monster Mash not as Villains Of The Week but as assistants to the heroes, since even classic movie monsters like their music.
• Over the Garden Wall is an odd example, because depending on how you look at it, either the ninth episode or the whole miniseries takes place on Halloween, due to no time passing in our world while Wirt and Greg are in the Unknown.
• The Owl House episode "Thanks to Them", the majority of the episode takes place on Halloween. Luz and the others attend the town's Halloween party dressed up in Halloween costumes.
• The Pac-Man cartoon also had two Halloween episodes: "Pacula" and "Trick or Chomp".
• The Patrick Star Show: "Terror at 20,000 Leagues" has Patrick and Squidina going trick-or-treating to various odd houses. A sizable portion of the episode is spent on Halloween-themed Cutaway Gags.
• PAW Patrol:
  • In "Pups and the Ghost Pirate", the Patrol and a handful of Adventure Bay goers go to a Halloween party on a boat that seems to be haunted.
  • In "Pups Save the Trick-or-Treaters", the Patrol have to stop Mayor Humdinger's scheme to steal all the candy.
• Pepper Ann had Pepper Ann and Milo get ready for trick-or-treating, only for Pepper Ann to consider the two of them too old after all of their classmates tell her that they don't plan to trick-or-treat. Pepper Ann and Milo go despite this, and an ending montage reveals that their classmates secretly joined in.
• The Pet Alien episode "Attack of the Werescruffy" is a horror movie parody where Scruffy transforms into a werewolf-like creature called a Werescruffy and Tommy and the aliens have to figure out how to stop him before he eats all of DeSpray Bay.
• Phineas and Ferb has a few.
  • While not taking place during Halloween, "One Good Scare Ought to Do It" and "The Monster of Phineas-n-Ferbenstein" aired in October for Season 1.
  • "That's the Spirit" and "The Curse of Candace" aired together, but only the first one is specifically Halloween themed. The second one has Candace thinking she's a vampire.
  • Season 4 has "Drusselsteinoween" and "Face Your Fear", the first one has Vanessa throwing a Halloween party in the castle her father inherited. The second one was about Doofenshmirtz creating a machine that cause animals to grow bigger and he tested it on a bat which he is afraid of. Like before only the first one was on Halloween.
  • Another episode is "Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror", which just like The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror series was in a three shorts format. Although the shorts were not Halloween themed, they did air in October. Being P&F, this is lampshaded:
    Phineas: Wow, this is such a Halloween thing to happen in the middle of summer.
  • "Night of the Living Pharmacists" is another one. Doofenshmirtz creates an -inator that turns people into mindless copies of himself, but the effect is accidentally made contagious and a Zombie Apocalypse breaks out in Danville.
• Pinky and the Brain: Pinky sells his soul to the Devil so that Brain can take over the world. Brain then challenges Satan to a gymnastic competition for Pinky's soul, and loses. However, when Pinky signed the contract giving his soul to the Devil, the Devil forgot to give him some sort of gizmo (with a really weird name and a vague explanation of its function), thus rendering the contract null and void, and saving Pinky's soul.
• PJ Masks: had two so far:
  • First is the season 2 episode "Halloween Tricksters", in which the PJ Masks have to protect children from Luna Girl, Night Ninja and the Wolfy Kids, who have teamed up to steal Halloween goody bags.
  • Second is the season 5 episode "Trick or Treat", in which Romeo tricks Orticia and her pumpkins to cause trouble on Halloween, and then steals her powers for himself.
• The 2010 version of Pound Puppies had "A Nightmare on Pound Street". It was set on Halloween, and the hopeful adoptee was a "creepy-looking" puppy named Freddy.
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
  • "The Squashening" is a Halloween episode about living squashes.
  • "Midnight at the Mayor's Mansion" is about a monster in the Mayor's house on Halloween night. It turns out that the "monster" is the Mayor, who transforms after eating pickles.
  • "Witch's Crew" is about Princess Morbucks trying to create a potion that'll make her more beautiful and powerful than the girls. When the girls and a trick-or-treating Mojo Jojo dressed as a cat show up, respectively, to stop her and steal candy, the potion backfires and spills, turning Morbucks into a fire-breathing ogre, Mojo Jojo into a real cat and the Powerpuffs into evil witches. Morbucks and Mojo then must work together to get themselves (and the girls) back to normal.
• The Proud Family has "A Hero For Halloween" - as the title suggests, it doubles as a Superhero Episode. Eating her father's Proud Scary Snax imbues Penny with superpowers and she uses them to save her friends' Halloween candy from the Gross Sisters and her family from a vengeful ghost. Puff gets hold of the snacks and gains the same powers at the end of the episode.
• Punky Brewster had "Halloween Howlers." Glomer turns everyone who doesn't give him a treat into a jack o'lantern.
• The Raggedy Ann short "The Enchanted Square" takes place on Halloween, but it's not the focus of the story.
• Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: “Phantom Of The Jam” is clearly one, although the holiday is never mentioned by name. In it, the Jazzberries are preparing for a costume par- ahem, “masquerade ball”, and have to contend with a ghost haunting the House Of Jam (who turns out to actually be a nice guy, and even participates in their performance at the masquerade ball.)
• Ready Jet Go! had the half-hour special "Jet's First Halloween", which focuses on Jet celebrating his first Halloween on Earth. The kids also learn all about lunar eclipses, and Jet dresses up as a witch and flies across the moon.
• The Real Ghostbusters had four such episodes.
  • "When Halloween Was Forever": A pair of ghosts free Samhain, the Spirit of Halloween, whose goal is to create a permanent Halloween night.
  • "Halloween 2½": Samhain is freed from the Containment Unit and tries to again achieve his goal, while also seeking revenge against the Ghostbusters.
  • The Slimer! short "Sweet Revenge": Slimer plans to go trick-or-treating with his friend Fred the Dog, having to watch out for his nemesis Professor Dweeb attempting to capture him as usual as well as Goolem and Zugg seeking revenge against the spud for sending them to the South Pole.
  • "The Halloween Door": Seeking to end Halloween forever, a Moral Guardian steals Ghostbuster tech to use for his machine. Doing so, however, breaks an ancient, ghostly contract - allowing hordes of supernatural terrors to invade New York City.
• Recess had "The Terrifying Tales of Recess", which was similar in structure to "Treehouse of Horror" (but more G-rated), possibly because a good amount of the Recess staff worked on The Simpsons.
  • The TV-movie "Taking The Fifth Grade" had its third segment taking place on Halloween where Spinelli decides she's too old for Halloween traditions and nearly ruins it for her friends.
• Regular Show: The series had an annual "Terror Tales of the Park" series, featuring three or four horror stories centered around a framing device.
  • "Terror Tales of the Park", à la Treehouse of Horror, consisting of a series of smaller episodes. In true Treehouse of Horror fashion, none of the episodes are canon. The first part of the episode is about a Victorian age doll named Percie that Pops had as a child who has a compulsive need to draw on people's faces, which climaxes as the doll comes to life and attempts to kill Mordecai, Rigby and Pops to fulfill his need. The second part features Muscleman and High Five Ghost as they plan to crash an RV into a bottomless pit only to find the late owners, a metal band named Skull Bash, have not left. The third part features Mordecai and Rigby trick-or-treating. Rigby eggs the Halloween Wizard's house and pays for his crime. It is revealed that the entire story was told by the Halloween Wizard, disguised as Rigby the entire time.
  • The following year had "Terror Tales of the Park II" which had the same format of three separate shorts, but had a framing device to link them all together; in this case, the Park staff are on a journey to a Halloween party and tell the stories to pass the time. Mordecai's story, "Payback", involved Mordecai accidentally killing his Uncle Steve, and Uncle Steve's corpse subsequently haunts Mordecai to settle his Unfinished Business. Margaret's story, "Party Bus", has Mordecai, Rigby, Margaret and Eileen take the "Party Bus" to the movies instead of their late taxi; however, as the party on the bus proceeds and the other guests start to collapse from partying too hard, they realize that this party's a killer. The final story, told by Benson, is "Wallpaper Man", an homage to Stephen King's story ''The Lawnmower Man". Mordecai and Rigby are tasked with applying new wallpaper to the house but they are swayed by a television offer from Jan the Wallpaper Man, who will wallpaper an entire house for free. However, Jan's sinister red-and-black wallpaper turns the house's interior into a claustrophobic maze, with the other park employees trapped in the center. Mordecai and Rigby must rescue their co-workers and confront Jan, who has a dark agenda and a monstrous secret.
• Rick and Morty: The show had several shorts titled "Non-Canonical Adventures" released near Halloween depicting the cast in various horror movies. Another special titled "Summer's Sleepover" revolves around Summer's Halloween Sleepover getting interrupted by an alien who plans to consume them.
• The Rocket Power episode "The Night Before" sees Otto, Twister and Sam sneaking out for Mischief Night with Eddie. When Reggie sees a news report stating that anyone caught partaking in any Mischief Night pranks whatsoever will spend the night in the slammer, she tries to get the boys to come home before they get caught breaking curfew, only to take the rap for them, and Lars, Pi and Sputz, when Officer Shirley catches her nearby a tree recently toilet-papered by the latter three boys. Otto, Twister and Sam confess they were the ones who snuck out and they and Reggie are all forced to wear matching pumpkin costumes, plus get only one piece of candy per house, as punishment the next day. Cue a Big "NO!" from the kids as the episode ends.
• Rocko's Modern Life had "Sugar Frosted Frights", in which Filbert went trick or treating for the first time and met the Hopping Hessian (a parody of the Headless Horseman). It was paired with "Ed is Dead", an episode where Rocko does a "Rear Window" Investigation when he suspects Bev Bighead has murdered her husband Ed.
• Rugrats:
  • The 1991 series has "Candy Bar Creep Show", where the babies try to get Reptar Bars, and "Curse of the Were-Wuff", where Angelica scares them into thinking they will become their costumes after Halloween.
  • The Halloween episode of All Grown Up! had Chuckie freaking out over the possibility that Tommy might have a crush on Kimi and so running off on his own on Halloween when there's dangerous teenage gangs about.
  • AGU also had two other horror-themed episodes that would have fit this trope, only they weren't set on Halloween. "Curse of Reptar" was an Affectionate Parody of Poltergeist and "Interview With a Campfire" had the kids get lost in a colonial mine that was said to be haunted.
  • The 2021 series has "The Werewoof Hunter". In this episode, Stu invites his family and friends to Count Mucklehoney's legendary Halloween ball. On their way to Mucklehoney Manor, Angelica tricks the babies out of their candy by telling them that on Halloween, monsters come out to try to bite babies and turn them into monsters, but she's immune because she's older than them. However, she gets a bite mark on her arm, and when the full moon comes out, she becomes a werewolf, and the babies have to cure her. In keeping with the show's slice-of-life theme, the episode's events are all revealed to be just a dream that Tommy was having during Halloween party that his family was throwing.
• Rocky Kwaterner: Episode 47, "Rocky the Pumpkin", is set during Halloween.
• In Sabrina: The Animated Series there was a similar plot to the live action's season 2 episode, with Sabrina and Gem competing to have better Halloween parties and Sabrina ends up summoning real ghouls from the Netherworld to help her out.
• Scaredy Squirrel has Halloweekend, in which Scaredy proves to his boss that he can scare people.
• Scooby-Doo:
  • The Scooby-Doo Show:
    • In "The Headless Horseman of Halloween", Mystery, Inc. had to capture the Headless Horseman during a Halloween costume party, which is pretty much the only thing that makes it stand out as a special from the Mystery Machine's other encounters.
    • "To Switch a Witch" involves the gang visiting their friend Arlene Wilcox in Salem, Massachusetts, then have to capture the ghost of her ancestor, Milissa Wilcox, a witch who was burned at the stake who bears a striking resemblance to Arlene, which is all the more reason, because she was unmasked to be Arlene's twin sister she never knew she had.
  • The Halloween Episode of The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries was "A Halloween Hassle at Dracula's Castle", where the gang stumbled upon a party thrown by real monsters and were hired by the monsters to get rid of the Ghost of Van Helsing.
  • The Day of the Dead is used as the reason for Mystery Inc. to visit Mexico in the direct-to-DVD movie Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico.
  • Halloween is the day used for Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King.
  • What's New, Scooby-Doo? used the Halloween episode straight in "A Scooby-Doo Halloween", where the gang dealt with ghostly scarecrows while visiting Velma's family for Halloween.
  • A Pup Named Scooby-Doo has "Ghost Who's Coming To Dinner" In it, the gang meets a real-life ghost on Halloween night and help him clear his name when a fake ghost attempts to scare everyone away.
  • The half-hour special Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Scarecrow had the gang attend a Halloween festival in a town called Cobb Corner and have to deal with a scarecrow named Cornfield Clem.
  • Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! had one simply titled "Halloween", which had Fred try to solve the mystery of Baba Yaga years after failing to do so as a kid.
  • There was another direct to DVD movie called Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! , with the gang teaming up with Elvira and Bill Nye on Halloween to take down the Batman villain Scarecrow.
• Sid the Science Kid has a Halloween episode where Sid and his classmates dress up as things that actually exist in reality, and their teacher, Susie, tells each of them about what their costumes are based on. For example, she tells Gerald, who's dressed as a skeleton, what a skeleton does.
• The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, which are anthologies containing three short stories with a horror theme (Played for Laughs, of course, and non-canonical to the show's universe). Oddly enough, in later seasons most of these have premiered after Halloween, due to FOX's World Series coverage pre-empting its Sunday prime time lineup at the end of October each year. Season 27 had two Halloween Episodes, the usual "Treehouse of Horror" and "Halloween of Horror", an episode set in the regular Simpsons canon (such that it is) that takes place in Springfield on Halloween.
• The Smurfs Halloween Special was really a regular Saturday-morning cartoon episode, and it was mostly about celebrating Jokey's birthday, though one of the subplots is that Hogatha the witch wants to celebrate Halloween by scaring little children, only for her holiday to be ruined by one of Gargamel's spells. There's also "Monster Smurfs", where the Smurfs celebrated a similar holiday called Spook-A-Smurf Eve. A more semi-scary episode "I Was A Brainy Weresmurf" involves Brainy Smurf turning into a werewolf after getting scratched by a stinky flower.
  • The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow is this for The Smurfs film series.
• In Sofia the First, "Princess Butterfly" from Season 1, "Ghostly Gala" from Season 2, and "Too Cute to Spook" from Season 4 all take place on Halloween.
• There have been a few in South Park. The first, called "Pinkeye", is about Kenny becoming infected with a zombie virus and turning most of the townspeople into zombies; the second one is "Spookyfish", involving Stan receiving a killer goldfish from his aunt and meanwhile alternate universe versions of the boys show up; the third is "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery", which involves the rock band Korn solving a mystery involving pirate ghosts in an Affectionate Parody of Scooby-Doo; the fourth is "Hell on Earth 2006", involving Satan throwing a Halloween party; and the most recent one is "A Nightmare on FaceTime", in which Randy purchases an abandoned Blockbuster Video and begins acting like Jack Torrance, while Stan's attempt to use FaceTime results in his friends being endangered by a group of killers.
• Space Goofs: A Dracula-like vampire is the new guest at the house. He bites Gorgious as revenge for taking a red can, turning him into a vampire. vampire!Gorgious then later bites the aliens on their sleep, thus turning them all into vampires. In the end, he makes the vampire a cake for his birthday with garlic in it, which turns him into a human (as opposed to killing him). He opens a window to see the sun for the first time...and all of the aliens turn into ash.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man has one of the most plot important episodes as a Halloween episode. It involves plot advancement on who the Green Goblin is, and it is actually the set up for another episode when Peter arrives in his Spidey suit.
• The Spider-Man (1981) episode "Revenge of the Green Goblin" took place on Halloween and had Peter Parker attending a costume party with Betty Brant before having to deal with the Green Goblin.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • "Scaredy Pants" and "I Was a Teenage Gary" (aired on October 28, 1999). The former is more directly Halloween-y, revolving around SpongeBob trying to scare his friends on Halloween with Patrick's help. The latter half still has horror elements, with SpongeBob, and at the end of the episode, Squidward, being injected with snail plasma and shapeshifting into a snail.
  • "Ghoul Fools" (aired on October 21, 2011). SpongeBob and Patrick find their way into a haunted houseboat full of ghosts.
  • "The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom" (aired on October 13, 2017), a double-length special animated in stop-motion. SpongeBob proves unscarable on Halloween because he believes that everything that's scary is funny, but gets into real trouble when the Flying Dutchman kidnaps his friends.
  • "Squidferatu & Slappy Days" (aired on October 14, 2022). SpongeBob and Squidward must venture to Nosferatu's Castle after Squidward accidentally receives his mail. Then, his assistant Slappy spends a day out in Bikini Bottom after dropping him off at the doctor.
  • Semi-scary episodes include "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost" (season 1), "Graveyard Shift" (season 2), "Ghost Host" (season 4), "The Curse of Bikini Bottom" (season 7) and "Don't Look Now" (season 9).
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "Hungry Larry", Marco's dad is bummed because no one finds his haunted house scary, so Star tries summoning a real monster named Hungry Larry to haunt the Diaz house and scare trick-or-treaters. It works all too well when the kids, Janna, Marco, Mrs. Diaz, and even Star are Swallowed Whole by Hungry Larry and Mr. Diaz has to save them.
• Steven Universe: While none of the traditional holidays (except New Year's) exist in this show's universe, "Horror Club" has all the elements of a typical Halloween episode. Fall, blowing leaves, cooler weather, scarecrows, costumes, Scary Flashlight Face, and a haunted lighthouse. Word of God has also confirmed that it's a Halloween special.
• SuperMansion: The series' Halloween special is "Drag Me to Halloween", which has American Ranger date a woman who turns out to be a ghost, Robobot get possessed by the Slimmerman or rather, pretend to be as a Halloween prank, Black Saturn and the Groaner try to find women to sleep with at a Halloween party and Cooch enacts retribution towards a dentist who refuses to give out candy (and turns out to be holding children prisoner in his basement for not meeting his strict standards on dental hygiene.
• Teacher's Pet:
  • "Costume Pity Party" takes place on Halloween and has a costume party at school where Spot intended to go as Ferdinand Magellan, but after his costume unravels from getting caught on some thorns, he instead settled for pretending that he is his human persona Scott Leadready II in a dog costume.
  • "The Tale of the Tell-Tale Taffy" has Spot and Leonard go trick-or-treating and decide to disobey Leonard's mom's orders on where they're allowed to trick-or-treat to get Beating Heart Taffy. The sub-plot involves the Helperman family taking in a black cat named Spooky and Mr. Jolly fearing that their guest is a vampire.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) had "All Hallows' Thieves", an adaptation of a comic book story of the same name, which featured baddie the King of Thieves and his attempts to use an army of goblins in order to have them steal a bunch of stuff for him.
  • The fifth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) had a four-part episode where the Turtles, April O'Neil, and Casey Jones had to fight Savanti Romero as he traveled back in time to amass an army consisting of Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Mummy, and Frankenstein's Monster.
• El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera episode "The Grave Escape"; Taking place on Dia De Los Muertos, Manny feels he's getting too old for the holiday (Despite his father and Grandpapi being all for it) when Sartana of the Dead attacks with a monster formed from Miracle City's unremembered dead ("Sartana of the Dead!?" cries Rodolpho, "Attacking on the Day of the Dead!? Actually, that makes sense."). Manny and Frida end up getting sent down to the Land of the Dead, where they recruit Riveras from the past to get back to the surface in order to defeat Sartana, including the original El Tigre, which does prove that (For Manny) indecision does run in the family.
• Time Squad: In "Every Poe Has A Silver Lining", the squad visits Edgar Allan Poe the day before Halloween and attempt to fix him of his Sickeningly Sweet attitude. When Poe finally becomes the moody, dark-hearted writer the world knows him to be, he walks outside to a rainy Halloween night and scares some trick-or-treaters.
  • Season 2 episode "Whitehouse Weirdness" is a Scooby Doo parody episode that according to creator Dave Wasson, he considered this episode to be a true "Halloween" themed one, and it's not hard to see why; President Taft and his cabinet are dressed up in colorful Halloween costumes such as a Dracula type vampire and Frankenstein's Monster, and have set up a table with dog food and boiled eggs in bowls that humorously say "Brains" and "eyeballs".
• Tiny Toon Adventures: has multiple:
  • The most notable Halloween episode is "Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery" is a parody of Rod Serling's Night Gallery with Babs Bunny in the Serling role. One story, "Frankenmyra and Dizzygor" is a parody of Frankenstein with Elmyra as Doctor Frankenstein, Dizzy as Igor, and the Gossamer as Frankenstein's Monster. Another is "Hold That Duck" a parody of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, with Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck as the titular duo, respectively. "A Gremlin on a Wing", the final story is a parody of The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", with Plucky as the William Shatner character and the gremlin from the Looney Tunes short Falling Hare as the monster (it also, to some extent, spoofs the final segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie).
  • Another episode, "Toons From the Crypt", is notable for never airing on Fox Kids because of the "Night of the Living Pets" segment, a parody of Night of the Living Dead and Stephen King's Pet Sematary with Elmyra's dead pets coming back from the grave as zombies. The episode would later air in its entierety on Nickelodeon, however.
• Totally Spies! has one appropriately titled "Halloween", and an Episode of the Dead to boot. Instead of dealing with criminals, the spies deals with an awakened demon lord who turned an entire town's population into zombies.
• Transformers:
  • Transformers: Animated had one, "Along Came a Spider", in which Bumblebee, Bulkhead and Sari go trick-or-treating, dressed up as Dracula, a ghost (with a costume made out of a striped fumigation tent, so he looks more like a walking billowing circus), and Optimus Prime, respectively. Also, Blackarachnia appears to confront Optimus about their past.
  • The Transformers: Rescue Bots episode "Ghost in the Machine" had Griffin Rock celebrating a similar holiday called Earlyween, with the plot having twin criminals Evan and Myles scheming to reveal the existence of the Rescue Bots to the entire world via a recorded video of Quickshadow. The denizens of Griffin Rock thwart the brothers' scheme by uploading a video that convinces everyone the alien robots are fake, an idea inspired by Cody Burns listening to a pastiche of The War of the Worlds radio drama narrated by Orson Welles while he was at school.
  • Played straight in the Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy episode "Trick or Treat", which has the younger Rescue Bots team learn about the actual Halloween, with Wedge deciding to dress as Bumblebee and the team saving the day after accidentally causing a fire.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: The episode "Happy Howl-O-Ween" had the villains Snaptrap, the Chameleon and Bird Brain stealing Halloween candy and Keswick creating an army of candy-craving zombies.
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat: Felix is persuaded to join the Black Cat Society, a secret society for people dressing and acting as black cats. He runs away when they try to take off Felix's mask (i.e., his face). When they discover that he is an actual black cat, they name him their king.
• The Venture Brothers has the "A Very Venture Halloween" special. Interesting in that it is a Synchronous Episodes with the Season 5 premiere "What Color is Your Cleansuit?", taking place entirely with the first "commercial break" of that episode. It also contains one of the biggest plot revelations in the series so far despite being a "special" episode, namely that Dean finds out that he and Hank are clones.
• We Bare Bears: "Charlie's Halloween Thing" is a pair of Vignette Episodes hosted by Charlie the Sasquatch. The first installment featured a pair of spooky stories starring the Bears and their friends; one involves the Bears buying haunted dolls online, the other involves Chloe turning into a were-bear. The second installment featured four stories: a zombie attack, the baby bears staying in a haunted mansion, an internet troll virus voiced by Alex Hirsch terrorizing the bears and Chloe after pirating a movie, and Charlie making a wish to be human to a fortune teller machine called Zohar.
• The Weekenders has Tino's friends refuse to go trick-or-treating with him so he comes up with an elaborate prank to scare them on Halloween anyway.
• "Trick or Treat" from Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?: After Zack and Ivy attempt another trick on Carmen Sandiego, she pays them for their second trick attempt at arresting her.
• The Wild Thornberrys had a Day of the Dead episode in 2000.
• The Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa episode "Skull Duggery Rides Again" had ghostly outlaw Skull Duggery return to the land of the living the night before Halloween and attempt to get his revenge against Marshal Moo Montana by razing Cowtown during the town's Halloween party.
• Winx Club had an Season-2 episode where the girls went to a party in their transformed fairy outfits.
• W.I.T.C.H. had "W is for Witch", in which the girls were able to get away using their Guardian identities in public in order to capture Nerissa. However, thanks to the series' serial storyline, when Toon Disney elected to air this during a Halloween-themed marathon, it was shown earlier than it was supposed to be, effectively spoiling viewers to a number of future plot points.
• Wild Kratts:"Masked Bandits" is one, although PBS Kids has just released a video of their "Weird Kratts Week", stating that other shows include The Gecko Effect, Secrets of the Spider's Web and A Bat in the Brownies, among other non-related Halloween episodes (like Seasquatch, Googly-Eye The Night Guru (although this is debatable) and Quillber's Birthday Present).
  • The hour-long special "Creepy Creatures" focuses on the villains stealing animals for a haunted house.
• The Wonder Pets! episodes "Save the Black Kitten!" and "Save the Yak, the Pig, and the Dancing Bear!" aired together as the first one is about the titular trio getting a call and heading into town to help the first said animal who is trapped inside a haunted doghouse. The second one is about when they travel to a county fair where the second said performing animal trio have wound up in a hot air balloon and are floating away.
• The Woody Woodpecker Show got a Halloween Special called "Spook-A-Nanny". It's included as an extra on the first Woody Woodpecker and Friends DVD collection, and worth watching for its cheese factor. Oh, and ghosts wearing Beatle wigs. No, really.
• The WordGirl has one called "Tobey's Tricks and Treats" in which the said character loses the costume contest at school, by being a sore loser. To get revenge, he sends his giant robots out to steal all the Halloween candy. However, Becky (as WordGirl) and Violet have a plan to save Halloween.
• Work It Out Wombats!: "Summerweenie Halloweenie" features the characters celebrating Halloween during summer, much like the Gravity Falls episode.
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!:
  • While not taking place in Halloween, the episode "Monster Madness" is about when the title character fears that monsters are lurking in the dark after he watches a scary TV show. Widget tries to reassure him, and she builds a machine, the Monster Masher, to take care of any monsters. But Wubbzy's fear is contagious, and soon she starts seeing monsters too! They both rush to Walden's house for safety, and Walden takes out his flashlight to show them that all the monsters they saw were just ordinary objects in the dark.
  • Also in the second season, the episodes "The Ghost of Wuzzleburg" and "March of the Pumpkins" aired together as the first one is about when Wubbzy wants to win first prize in the Halloween costume contest but his scary monster costume has everyone afraid he's a real one. The second story is about Wubbzy and Daizy wanting to win the pumpkin contest during the autumn Harvest Festival, so they travel to the Pumpkin King's pumpkin patch to find the largest pumpkin, all while finding out that the Pumpkin King himself, Francis, turns out that he isn't mean or angry at all.
• Young Justice (2010)
  • Season One episode "Secret" takes place on Halloween night, with Kid Flash, Superboy, and Miss Martian going to a Halloween Party at Happy Harbor High School, while Artemis and Zatanna face off against a serial killer named Harm wielding the Sword of Beowulf.
  • Season Three episode "True Heroes" also takes place on Halloween, though the holiday takes less focus in favor of Nightwing's team rescuing Tara Markov from a Meta-human auction and Halo curing Victor from the Father Box's control in his cybernetic body.

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