I remember in Year 7 we got a piece of English homework where we had to write something, but we had a list of words that we couldn't use. One of them was the word "mean" so I found the word "cantankerous" in a thesaurus and I loved it so I used it every single time I got the chance for a few years.
I would also recommend the "Summerween" episode of Gravity Falls. It's 100% a Halloween episode despite taking place in the summer because the town likes Halloween so much they celebrate it twice a year, the antagonist is creepy, and the characterization is great of course. 10/10 do recommend.
Ik its not Halloween but the gravity falls episode(I don't know the name)where dipper goes to Pacificas house and the animals heads in her house start chanting and blood come out of there mouths
Contextually it was just a really funny meta way for the show to have a Halloween special despite the entire series being set during the kids' summer break. It was the showrunners being like "yeah yeah we know"
@@aliyahfuentes210 that scene--where the animal heads chant "ancient sins"--pops into my head whenever im dwelling on something cringe i did in the past. it actually puts things in perspective. gives me a laugh.
You got a terrible taste, Jenny. Here's my much more superior Halloween watchlist: 15. Under Wraps 14. Alvin and the Chipmunks meet the Wolfman 13. ParaNorman 12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 11. Don't Look Under the Bed 10. "And Then There was Shawn" episode of Boy Meets World 9. Every episode of Are You Afriad of the Dark? 8. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 7. Over the Garden Wall 6. "The Ghost Train" episode of Hey Arnold 5. Escape from Horrorland, which is a computer game. I know, cheating a bit. 4. Halloweentown 3. As long as I'm cheating a bit, number 3 is slice and bake Halloween cookies. 2. Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School 1. "Return of the Pumpkinheads" episode of the Haunting Hour
I would put coraline number 1 that scared me as a child thinking about a needle going threw your eyes ( yeah that’s right I think coraline is a Halloween film)
So I got a theory about Ghoul School: there’s actually a split in the timeline in what I call “The Green Shirt” and “The Red Shirt” timelines. If you remember in the live action Scooby Doo movie they kick out Scrappy. I believe this is where the split happens. If they ditch scrappy the team stays strong and all the good shows with Shaggy in the green shirt land here. If they don’t kick Scrappy out, slowly Scrappy splits the gang and Shaggy dons a red shirt and hangs out with Scooby and Scrappy.
There actually has been an update to Ghoul School canon recently. The cast was featured in the Cartoon Network Show OK KO!, and it was revealed one of the main characters of that show went to the Ghoul School as witch.
I genuinely hadn't noticed scarecrows being at all prominent this year and I thought it was kinda weird that you said that but then I went on Facebook and like 90% of the costumes I saw were scarecrows. Wild. I will never doubt you again
Good list Jenny! I'm so excited for halloween. Here's my list, a few differences but mostly the same 1. Beastly 2. Beastly 3. Beastly 4. Beastly 5. Beastly 6. Beastly 7. Beastly 8. Beastly 9. Beastly 10. The Beastly Videogame 11. Beastly 12.Beastly 13. Beastly 14. Beastly 15. Beastly
My Halloween watchlist: 15 Underwraps 14 Alvin and the Chipmunks meet the Wolfman 13 Paranorman 12 The Ghost and Mr Chicken 11 Don't look under the bed 10 Boy Meets World Halloween special 9 Are you afraid of the Dark 8 It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown 7 Over the Garden Wall 6 Hey Arnold episode The Ghost Train 5 The Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland 4 Halloweentown 3 Halloween Cookies 2 Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School 1 The Hounting Hour episode Return of the Pumpkinheads
My Halloween Watchlist: 15. The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure 14. The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists 13. The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire 12. The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration 11. The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving 10. The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island 9. The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water 8. The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers 7. The Land Before Time 6. The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses 5. The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock 4. The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze 3. The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave 2. The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends 1. Robocop
Update: I went and it was literally the best birthday that I have EVER had! I MET THE PIN CUSHION LADY!! She was so sweet, complimented the cloak I made, and took a selfie with me
I think my parents maybe accidentally ended up in that town, they're canadian but were driving through and stopped in a town and they said everyone was super into halloween, like the whole town dressed up during the day, I'll try to find out if they remember where it was
I love your Halloween videos. They remind me of like a Halloween party in a classroom where everyone is dressed as royalty-free monsters and is drinking caprisuns and eating dots and tootsie rolls while watching some VHS school-friendly 80s 90s afterschool special Halloween movie.
Oh to be back in my catholic elementary school on halloween when we weren't allowed to wear anything too demonic, in the gym doing halloween themed games with 4 other grades to get little bags of candy and rings with plastic spiders on them while Monster Mash blasts in the background
That movie gave 4yo me nightmares for like, no discernible reason. The only thing I really remember is like... a tornado of rabbits? Which I'm fairly sure didn't even happen, so...
@@mellow_mallow I know what your talking about! They suck all the rabbits up in their rabbit catching machine. If I'd watched it when I was 4 it would have given me nightmares too
@@mellow_mallow When I was 5 we went to see it in the cinema but for some reason the title really scared me and I started crying as the film started and I'm sort of mad because I watched it a couple of years later and it slaps so hard
My top 10 list: 15. Underwraps 14. Alvin & the Chipmunks meet the wolfman 13. Paranorman 12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 11. Don't look under the bed 10. Boy meets world: Halloween Special 9. Are you afraid of the dark? 8. It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown 7. Over the garden wall 6. Hey Arnold: The Ghost Train 5. The Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland 4. Halloweentown 3. Those Halloween shapes that have shapes stamped on them 2. Scooby Doo & the Ghoul School 1. The Haunting Hour: Return of the pumpkinheads
For Scooby Doo, the general trend is that the movies have supernatural entities but the show has guys in masks. They might be their own separate canons
I’ve seen so many people try to explain the scooby doo canon but by this point there’s just SO MUCH STUFF that you’re probably 100% right and all the different shows and movies all just take place in their own universes
There is a scooby series that confirms multiverse. Additionally supernatural crossed over and potentially introduced actual supernatural creatures to one of the universes.
If there is not a christmas version of this video with only home alone knock offs and sequels i am going to be very disappointed and it might ruin christmas.
Over the Garden wall is the best show ever in my opinion. I've studied animation and I got goosebumps in multiple episodes and scenes and the storyline is great. They even had some old school animation tactics which weirdly enough got me a bit emotional. Animation has gotten less about art and more about production, which is understandable as it's cheaper and quicker but it doesn't make it better, so I was amazed that there were still animation studios out there that actually cared about their work enough to use old tactics. Just watch the highwayman scene, it's amazing.
Okay. I’ll concede your list has its merits. But check out MY Halloween list: 15 - Under Wraps 14 - Alvin & the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman 13 - ParaNorman 12 - The Ghost & Mr. Chicken 11 - Don’t Look Under the Bed 10 - Boy Meets World: ‘And Then There Was Shawn’ (S05E17) 9 - Are You Afraid of the Dark? Specifically one of the following episodes as a good jumping in point: ‘The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle’ (S02E10) ‘The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark’ (S01E02) ‘The Tale of the Silent Servant’ (S04E07) 8 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! 7 - Over the Garden Wall 6 - Hey Arnold! ‘The Haunted Train (S01E08b) 5 - Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland 4 - Halloweentown 3 - Those sugar cookies that have pictures of pumpkins stamped onto them 2 - Scooby Doo & the Ghoul School 1 - The Haunting Hour: ‘Return of the Pumpkinheads’ (S04E05) Lemme know what you think!
Scooby-Doo on zombie island is my favorite for halloween time. Not sure it’s technically a Halloween movie, but the amount of hot chili peppers, harvest moons, Murderous lady cats doesn’t leave me unsatisfied. 🎃
That period in the early 2000’s when the Scooby-Doo-industrial complex cranked out a bunch of legitimately great TV movies was pretty wild Like I respect Ghoul School for inadvertently striking a chord with its character designs but Witch’s Ghost/Zombie Island/Alien Invaders were aiming higher than maybe any Scooby-Doo content prior and I continue to be in awe of their actually getting there
My friend I have never in my life eaten a crawdad but based on the sell they get in Zombie Island I’m subconsciously convinced they’re like divine shellfish manna
Champiness if you can imagine what a freshwater swamp lobster would taste like you have your answer lol. Crawfish etouffee is the best way to eat them IMO
Interesting fact about "And Then There Was Shawn": it was NOT the Halloween episode of that season. Earlier in season 5, they aired the episode "The Witches of Penbrook," where Jack dates a witch and it's up to Eric to save him (it also has a subplot with Corey and Topanga on an airplane that literally has no resolution). That episode is explicitly set during Halloween, and aired in late October. "And Then There Was Shawn" aired during February sweeps. So it came way the fuck out of nowhere. It's so strange that possibly the best Halloween episode of any kid's show isn't even a Halloween episode.
"It actually took me a hot minute to convince myself I hadn't completely hallucinate this episode." Time to write a bad creepy pasta about Return of the Pumpkinheads.
@@ThreadBomb I thought I knew it meant "one moment" but then self-doubt set it and I actually googled the term. Some sources say it means "a long time" and others say "a brief period of time". And now I am confused.
When I was in like the third grade our class had a movie day for Halloween and and the teacher brought in a DVD double feature of the chipmunk movies mentioned here. I was completely traumatized by the wolfman one and I spent weeks crying myself to sleep while staring at my hands because I thought every little spot of dirt and marker was a sign I was going to become a werewolf. Everyone else in the class didn't like the Frankenstein one and said it was boring but I was so scared of the other one that by comparison I loved it, then I spent years quietly despising anyone who mentioned liking the movie. This video helped me get over that strangely enough so thanks I guess
My Halloween watch list (only the spoopiest media): 15. “Dumping in Fifty Shades Freed for 25 Minutes,” by Jenny Nicholson. 14. “The Worst Ghost Hunting Show of All Time,” by Jenny Nicholson. 13. “One Direction during The Purge” by Jenny Nicholson. 12. “Suicide Squad Sales Pitch,” by Jenny Nicholson. 11. “Porg.mp4” by Jenny Nicholson. 10. “Nobody on the planet remembers Beastly” by Jenny Nicholson. 9. “Dark Internet Rituals,” by Jenny Nicholson. 8. “I did it. I found the Worst Book,” by Jenny Nicholson. 7. “The Halloween Costumes Nobody Wanted,” by Jenny Nicholson. 6. “Let’s do real magic,” by Jenny Nicholson. 5. “The Worst Reality Show of All Time,” by Jenny Nicholson. 4. “Insanity: A Jeff the Killer Fanfic,” by Jenny Nicholson. 3.“Escape from Tomorrow is a dumb exercise in misery,” by Jenny Nicholson. 2.“Escape from Tomorrow,” by Randy Moore (very scary horror film). 1.“Trapped In A Island With Josh Hutcherson,” by Jenny Nicholson.
Idk man "I hate The Greatest Showman more every moment" by Jenny Nicholson sent lots of shivers down my spine, should've at least been in the top 5 but go off sis
Jenny discussing the Halloween Town festival is the same energy as when I found out I grew up one state over from the Mothman festival and NOBODY TOLD ME.
MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST: 15. Hocus Pocus 14. Hokus Pokus 13. Hocus Pocus 2: Electric Boo-galoo 13. 2 Hocus, 2 Pocus 12. Hocus Pocus: Tokyo Drift 11. Hocus 5 10. Hocus Pocus 3: Return of Jafar 9. Pocus 7 8. Hocus Pocus: Dead Man's Chest 7. Hocus Pocus Reloaded 6. Hocus Pocus: The Pocus Awakens 5. Hocus Pocus 4: Infinity War 4. The Fate of the Pocus 3. Rise of the Hocus Pocus 2. Dawn of the Hocus Pocus 1. Johnny Tsunami
"I thought I had hallucinated the episode..." I've been catching up to these videos out of order, but it's funny that Jenny jokes about imagining this episode before talking about the "Candle Cove" creepy pasta in another video. ...Oh god, what if it *is* a Candle Cove scenario?
Thank you for blessing us with this video, Jenny! You've also inspired me to create my own watchlist, so please check these out sometime if you can. As someone who loves Halloween, I'm sure you'll love them! MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST: 15) Under Wraps 14) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman 13) ParaNorman 12) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 11) Don't Look Under the Bed 10) And Then There Was Shawn - Boy Meets World - Season 5 Episode 17 9) Are You Afraid of the Dark? 8) It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown 7) Over the Garden Wall 6) The Haunted Train - Hey Arnold! - Season 1 Episode 8 (part b) 5) Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland - video game 4) Halloweentown 3) Pillsbury™ Shape™ Pumpkin Sugar Cookies (simple cookie media, not a film or tv show -- iT COUNTS) 2) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School 1) Return of the Pumpkinheads - R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour - Season 4 Episode 5
I don't usually comment but that goosebumps escape from horror land game terrified me as a child and it's still to this day one of my favorites games! The graphics blew me away as a kid and I never ever went in those God damn sewers!
I love how this is actually a top 15, it isn't even all movies and some of them aren't even nostalgic. This is exactly the confuddled content I come here for.
hey, great list jenny! i made one of my own too, let me know what you think! MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST: 15. Under Wraps 14. Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman 13. ParaNorman 12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken 11. Don't Look Under the Bed 10. "And Then There Was Shawn" (Boy Meets World S5E17) 9. Are You Afraid of the Dark? 8. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! 7. Over the Garden Wall 6. "The Haunted Train" (Hey Arnold! S1E8b) 5. Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland 4. Halloweentown 3. Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Sugar Cookies 2. Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School 1. "Return of the Pumpkinheads" (R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour S4E5)
To justify their existence in my head and to reconcile the confusing canon, I've decided that the red shirt shaggy movies must be during a confusing fever dream that Shaggy is experiencing during a coma. Which explains why the rest of the gang isn't present, why Scrappy is present in some of them, and why he randomly has a girlfriend named Googy (or whatever her name was) who mysteriously disappears and never returns in any other red shirt shaggy movie.
@@dancincoolkid don't forget the series where shaggy, daphne, scrappy and scooby go on adventures without fred or velma. And the one episode where fred does show up but he's like framed for murder and they have to prove his innocence.
Everything is canon, and Shaggy is still scared of other monsters because he knows they’re fake and, therefore, dangerous. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
"Don't Look Under the Bed" literally traumatized me when I was a kid. That scene where he shows his Boogieman face to her for the first time when she's questioning him.. I catapulted myself off of my bed and ran to my mother in hysterics. Those eyes and sharp teeth, and just the general uneasy feel of the whole movie coupled with the HORRIFIC concept of a girl's imaginary friend who just won't go away actually being the boogieman left me unable to sleep for years and even now as an adult I have issues with some of the imagery and themes from that movie, and I barely remember it now.
FINALLY somebody gets it! Every time I would mention The Haunting Hour to my friends they would look at me dumbfounded! I am so glad other people appreciate this masterpiece like I do. The first two episodes made me put my American Girl doll in my closet for a very long time I love you Jenny
@@JACCO20082012 A fine question my friend. I blog about movies and have researched the subject quite a bit. So "Suzie Q" was produced by Super RTL television in 1996 and thus "Suzie Q" was aired on Disney Channel because of RTL's partnership with Disney. When Disney decided to go to basic cable in the mid 90's they wanted to draw in their now larger audiences (beforehand you wanted Disney, you had to pay, now it was free). This change came about with the creation of DCOMs as a way to provide premium content to the new and old viewers, thus with a release schedule around Halloween, "Under Wraps" was made and aired in 1997. Due to the finalization of the switch from paid to free Disney Channel content, it is controversial as to what the first DCOM was EXACTLY. But those behind the scenes at Disney (At least at the time) claim "Under Wraps" was the first film they greenlit with the "DCOM" brand in mind.
This is not related to "Well You Know My Name is Simon", is it? From the 1970s?? I think it was part of Captain Kangaroo. Yes, I'm much older than all of you here. :-/
Jenny Nicholson Actually "Don't Look Under The Bed" would get played at random times of the year only but only in time slots after 12 am, but I haven't had cable for a few years so I don't know if that's still the case.
I love that movie... Definitely one of the best Scooby films. I think it wasn't included because it wasn't set around halloween and it's not obscure enough to make the list lol
I feel sad. I’m a millennial too, yet even considering this list, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is THE only Halloween special I remember with any fondness, even factoring in nostalgia glasses to TRY to bias myself to other specials. And yet even that movie I would have a hard time recommending with much enthusiasm. I honestly feel like we millennials DID get screwed over regarding Halloween specials.
15:18 I love that you explained those cookies by calling them sugar cookies, cause where I'm from we also don't have those, and the idea of calling something a "sugar cookie" is hilarious to me because surely all cookies have sugar in?
True, but other cookies have flavors in WITH the sugar, like... vanilla, and chocolate chips, and whatever else. Sugar cookies are just... sugar. And some other ingredients like flour and stuff, but the sugar is the main focus.
Also, just to let you know since you don’t have them, they’re not just like chocolate chip cookies minus the chocolate and any vanilla extract. They’re really crumbly and kinda doughy and they all have a very uniform shape, it’s weird
@@tiacat11 Yep! It's kind of like how, when my dad first moved to Arizona, he was confused about why people kept talking about "rain storms" because surely all storms have rain. He was from the Midwest, so he didn't have experience living in a place where you have to specify that it's a storm with rain as opposed to a dust storm that might be followed by rain, but maybe not. Rain storms just have rain.
I initially felt silly for wanting to comment on such an old video, but other people have also commented just recently, so... Why not! Anyway, I wanted to say the child actor playing "Skeleton Boy" in that Haunting Hour episode is actually named Sean Michael Kyer, and has been in a pretty good amount of stuff, one of his most notable roles was a young scientist boy named Oscar in the live action kids show "Odd Squad". He's definitely talented, and I'm shocked I didn't notice him in previous watches of this video through the years.
I Spy: Haunted Mansion totally fits the vibe of this list! It was one of my favorite games as a kid. Its a point and click puzzle game where you have to solve I Spy puzzles to escape a haunted mansion owned by a skeleton and yes it takes place on halloween night!
I loved those cookies! I also thought the other kids' moms made them themselves and got the shape inside each cookie, so I was really in awe and kind of disappointed that my mom couldn't do that. (I didn't know they were slice-and-bake because my mom made all cookies from scratch, meaning in retrospect my disappointment was very very unfair)
ah man i remember watching Dont Look Under the Bed as a kid and getting way 2sp00ked, but after that they rarely ever played it again so i thought it was all some crazy halloween fueled fever dream for the longest time, glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves as as a truly sp00ky DCOM also, im surprised no mention of The Scream Team i cant remember if it took place around halloween or not but definitely worth some sp00k points in my book (also its just genuinely one of the best DCOMs imho)
"The thing about glitter is: if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on forever. Cause glitter doesn't go away. Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies." Demetri Martin.
“Chill our Lady, we’re lookin’ for Skeleton Boy.” 😂 I slammed my head against my trucks headrest in laughter when I heard that. It still hurts. But it’s no less funny!
The Ghoul School resurgence is already started, they got into OK KO. Also, the number of artists I follow on Tumblr who post Ghoul School is very high, despite me not seeking that out at all. Clearly it made a big impression.
It's been nine long months since I discovered this channel, and now, this October 1st, the time has finally come to watch this video. Let the spooks begin my friends.
@@trequor I...disagree. The whole idea behind halloween in popular culture is depicting and confronting that which scares us. Anything that scares you or even just spooks you out is a valid way to celebrate.
To me this is like a discussion I had on whether Lord of the Rings is a Christmas movie or not. It fits the mood for me, probably because I watched the movies around Christmas time when they first came out and later my brother and I had the tradition of watching the extended cuts on the 25th. Thematically it‘s not connected at all but it‘s still a Christmas movie to me. I do understand that it wouldn‘t be the case for most people though. Die Hard for example is technically more tied to Christmas but even though it‘s one of my favorite movies I never watched it on Christmas. I don‘t know, maybe there are official definitions of what constitutes a Halloween or Christmas movie. To me it‘s any movie that I connect with watching it on that holiday. What does Apocalypse Now have to do with Easter other than me trying to watch it through without falling asleep and failing every time on Easter weekend?
@@btarczy5067 The channel "Folding Ideas" did a really interesting video on the very topic. I advocate for really loose methods of categorization. While I don't buy the idea that the quality of a thing is determined solely by whether you like it, I think the categorization pretty much should be determined through that method. For me, Babette's Feast is a christmas movie. It's not a christmas movie by very many aesthetic aspects, except that it's about people coming together to celebrate with good food. I think that's a perfectly valid qualifier, but I know that a lot of people, like the person I was previously discussing this with, might not see that as enough.
YES thank you for including Escape from Horrorland on this list!!! That game's scariness, my obsession with it, and the fact that I sucked at even a point and click adventure game combined so that certain later parts of the game would develop a kind of personal mythos in my childhood brain. For example, I believed that if you clicked the jack-o-lanterns in a specific pattern it would unlock a secret cutscene, beyond just the one that advances the game. Every time I reached the end of the game it felt like I was completing an actual adventure that had taken years and changed me along the way. Watching the ending cutscene was like finding a legendary ruin.
The moment Jenny mentioned over the garden wall, my jaw dropped. It's such a fantastic, wholesome piece of entertainment and the soundtrack is not only complimentary to the show, but it is also one of its standout stars standing alongside of the voice acting (Elijah Wood is the main lead), artistic design of the animation and landscapes, the story that is inspired by Dante's inferno, the characters, dialouge, and atmosphere. It's sooooo lovely and warm, ever since discovering it a few years back, probably a year after it premiered on cartoon network, I have bought a physical copy of the mini series and show it off to friends and family every year around thanksgiving. I recommend the hell out of it and am very happy Jenny mentioned it!
over the garden wall came out when i was in high school i was immediately OBSESSED with it. the vintage halloween greeting card aesthetics are so good, the story is super cool, and the writing is genuinely really charming and funny. i'm honestly surprised it didn't give rise to a wave of other cartoon miniseries considering how popular it was and what a great, largely untapped format it is for kids cartoons. i would love a second season but if it were to happen i think they should make it about all new main characters stumbling into other parts of the unknown because i feel like greg and wirt's story was already wrapped up so well. plus it'd be a good way to explore what exactly the unknown actually is and how people end up there
I'm late to this, but I would like to nominate The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy for excellence in the field of spookiness. If that's not specific enough they have a great Halloween special staring Wayne Night (Newman from Seinfeld) as Jack O'Lantern. I'm partial to it not just 'cause it's a great episode but because I own some of the production art from it.
15:10 They are not JUST sugar cookies. They are THE sugar cookies, and the epitome of Halloween in cookie form. 💚 I can't have a Halloween without them.
I’m commenting to boost engagement because you threw glitter in your room
I immediately liked the video out of guilt when she did that lol
Booooooost
Get it? BOOoooost?
Agreed
Now her bedroom is gonna give her second hand glitter and people is gonna think that she's a stripper.
Shaggy only pretends to be scared of ghosts and monsters to hide his one true fear: cantankerous old men wearing disguises.
It's so obvious!
Fear... Or fetish? Maybe what Shaggy really fears is his own dark desires
Just realized my grammar was wrong, should have been "are". Forgive my sins
I remember in Year 7 we got a piece of English homework where we had to write something, but we had a list of words that we couldn't use. One of them was the word "mean" so I found the word "cantankerous" in a thesaurus and I loved it so I used it every single time I got the chance for a few years.
And he would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for that meddlesome Space4Monkeys!
I would also recommend the "Summerween" episode of Gravity Falls. It's 100% a Halloween episode despite taking place in the summer because the town likes Halloween so much they celebrate it twice a year, the antagonist is creepy, and the characterization is great of course. 10/10 do recommend.
Also a character is eaten alive, and it isn't the one you tink!
Ik its not Halloween but the gravity falls episode(I don't know the name)where dipper goes to Pacificas house and the animals heads in her house start chanting and blood come out of there mouths
Contextually it was just a really funny meta way for the show to have a Halloween special despite the entire series being set during the kids' summer break. It was the showrunners being like "yeah yeah we know"
just introduced my little nephew to Dipper and Mabel and he loves Gravity Falls.
@@aliyahfuentes210 that scene--where the animal heads chant "ancient sins"--pops into my head whenever im dwelling on something cringe i did in the past. it actually puts things in perspective. gives me a laugh.
"cookies are media" I support u in this so much
The Supreme Court indeed confirmed that Cookies are protected by the First Amendment, in Nicholson v Internet in 2019
i think this vid is lower tier jenny. i may just prefer my little pony videos though
Omg I love your drawings on Instagram
You got a terrible taste, Jenny. Here's my much more superior Halloween watchlist:
15. Under Wraps
14. Alvin and the Chipmunks meet the Wolfman
13. ParaNorman
12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11. Don't Look Under the Bed
10. "And Then There was Shawn" episode of Boy Meets World
9. Every episode of Are You Afriad of the Dark?
8. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
7. Over the Garden Wall
6. "The Ghost Train" episode of Hey Arnold
5. Escape from Horrorland, which is a computer game. I know, cheating a bit.
4. Halloweentown
3. As long as I'm cheating a bit, number 3 is slice and bake Halloween cookies.
2. Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
1. "Return of the Pumpkinheads" episode of the Haunting Hour
Your taste is definitely superior. Well done.
Dennis Weiss I love you for #10
Where's season 2 of Goosebumps?
I would put coraline number 1 that scared me as a child thinking about a needle going threw your eyes ( yeah that’s right I think coraline is a Halloween film)
Much better!👍
The giant porg in the back is just like, "Draw me like one of your French porgs"
Oh gosh, I can not unsee this now!
So true!
Now I'm picturing the porg on the bow of the ship. Flapping it's wings once and staring forward gormlessly as the music swells.
So I got a theory about Ghoul School: there’s actually a split in the timeline in what I call “The Green Shirt” and “The Red Shirt” timelines. If you remember in the live action Scooby Doo movie they kick out Scrappy. I believe this is where the split happens. If they ditch scrappy the team stays strong and all the good shows with Shaggy in the green shirt land here. If they don’t kick Scrappy out, slowly Scrappy splits the gang and Shaggy dons a red shirt and hangs out with Scooby and Scrappy.
My friend,
I am now looking at the earth through different eyes
This is the best cartoon theory I’ve ever heard. Can we make a full scooby doo timeline?
There actually has been an update to Ghoul School canon recently. The cast was featured in the Cartoon Network Show OK KO!, and it was revealed one of the main characters of that show went to the Ghoul School as witch.
I’ve known there were separate timeline since I was a child.
this is scarily accurate
I genuinely hadn't noticed scarecrows being at all prominent this year and I thought it was kinda weird that you said that but then I went on Facebook and like 90% of the costumes I saw were scarecrows. Wild. I will never doubt you again
I thought it was the year of the skeletons cos of ***memes*** and I didn't know about what's going on on Facebook, so thanks!!
I was Scarecrow from Batman: The Animated Series this year, and in 2016. I did my part.
Good list Jenny! I'm so excited for halloween. Here's my list, a few differences but mostly the same
1. Beastly
2. Beastly
3. Beastly
4. Beastly
5. Beastly
6. Beastly
7. Beastly
8. Beastly
9. Beastly
10. The Beastly Videogame
11. Beastly
12.Beastly
13. Beastly
14. Beastly
15. Beastly
Kenna Maedel there is a beastLY VIDEO GAME??? AND IM JUST LEARNING ABOUT IT????
Whoa Beastly Video Game is right up there witht he Felix the Cat Halloween for best Halloween games of all time omg.
Hey you forgot Beastly cookies
Now are we talking Beastly the Videogame, or Beastly the mobile app game? World of difference.
What Chad-tier tastes you have
*Jenny lists a Goosebumps PC game:* I sleep
*Jeff Goldblum is Dracula in said game:* REAL SHIT
It’s very fun!
My Halloween watchlist:
15 Underwraps
14 Alvin and the Chipmunks meet the Wolfman
13 Paranorman
12 The Ghost and Mr Chicken
11 Don't look under the bed
10 Boy Meets World Halloween special
9 Are you afraid of the Dark
8 It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown
7 Over the Garden Wall
6 Hey Arnold episode The Ghost Train
5 The Goosebumps Escape from Horrorland
4 Halloweentown
3 Halloween Cookies
2 Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
1 The Hounting Hour episode Return of the Pumpkinheads
Hey that's a pretty good list
Gregory Ebbs I know right!
Woah you really know your movies! Maybe you should start a UA-cam channel...
This list is better than the video. I’m on board.
That's exactly the same as mine! Ooooooo spookyyyyy
And to this day glitter still remains in Jenny’s room. Was it worth it? Only she and Josh Hutcherson know.
You are being terribly rude. Shame!
He won’t know. He’s still trapped in a island.
Jenny just giving us 50% more content than the title says
Zoe Bailey jenny is a benevolent god
@@skimblebanks boonevolent*
Reverse Clickbait
My Halloween Watchlist:
15. The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure
14. The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists
13. The Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire
12. The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration
11. The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving
10. The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island
9. The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water
8. The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers
7. The Land Before Time
6. The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses
5. The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock
4. The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze
3. The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave
2. The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends
1. Robocop
I think you and my husband need to be friends.
i have seen all of these and know all the songs, step up
@@JennaGetsCreative I get the feeling we would get along very well
I too, know all the songs in RoboCop
Chris Rokich robocop is the greatest musical of our time, try and change my mind
I just learned that the "town in Oregon" is literally 45 mins away from me and I am 100% going this year bless
Update: I went and it was literally the best birthday that I have EVER had! I MET THE PIN CUSHION LADY!! She was so sweet, complimented the cloak I made, and took a selfie with me
That's so awesome!!!
Nice.
I think my parents maybe accidentally ended up in that town, they're canadian but were driving through and stopped in a town and they said everyone was super into halloween, like the whole town dressed up during the day, I'll try to find out if they remember where it was
@@harpercurry9280 Tell me everything. How orange was the pumpkin?
“The episode starts to melt” was a perfect description of that tonal shift
yeah like it immediately evokes a surreal kind of dread in u. it’s just so good
@@charliem.1368 May i recommend a real good education-channel;
just cause i have the silly hobby of spreading Education?
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Good call on 'Over the Garden Wall'. It's just one of the most wonderfully autumn things ever made.
DeadLetter literally pumpkin flavored dry leaves stuffed down your throat
@@deadletter4317 Ha! Overwhelmingly seasonal!
I love your Halloween videos. They remind me of like a Halloween party in a classroom where everyone is dressed as royalty-free monsters and is drinking caprisuns and eating dots and tootsie rolls while watching some VHS school-friendly 80s 90s afterschool special Halloween movie.
I love this
YAAAASSSSS 🎃👻🎃🍫🎃👻🍬👻🎃🍭🎃
Oh to be back in my catholic elementary school on halloween when we weren't allowed to wear anything too demonic, in the gym doing halloween themed games with 4 other grades to get little bags of candy and rings with plastic spiders on them while Monster Mash blasts in the background
The good times.
My ideal Halloween vibe
Ahh! Over the Garden Wall is so good! and that's a rock fact!
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Have you seen infinity train? It's like the OTGW equivalent but for science fiction
"... but I, as a discerning movie critic, am too good for a Frankenstein movie"
said she, all the while wearing a Frankenstein outfit
Bible Illustrated she’s wearing Frankenstein’s monster
She said "the Frankenstein movie" so its just the Alvin and the Chipmunks one 😅
@The Dark Overlord See, I happen to love both Nerd City *and* Jenny! (Funny enough, Jenny also commented on the Lies of Jake Paul).
@@hannagreen1271 I am very well aware, but she said 'Frankenstein' so I went along to keep up the joke :-)
@@hannagreen1271 Actually Frankenstein is the doctor's last name so both the doctor AND the monster are Frankenstein
'I'm not gonna be punked by a skeleton boy' is an excellent line
my goal this halloween is to not get punked by a skeleton boy like last year
Little known fact: Skeleton Boy's real name is Jimmy Scrambles.
Getting punked by a skeleton boy is par for the course for Car Seat Headrest fans 😪😪😪
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@@UNFUNBEATS will toledo is, in fact, my favorite skeleton boy
I would toss in Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the wererabbit.
Yes!! Definitely my favorite! Idk if it's strictly Holloween, but it does take place during harvest.
That movie gave 4yo me nightmares for like, no discernible reason. The only thing I really remember is like... a tornado of rabbits? Which I'm fairly sure didn't even happen, so...
@@mellow_mallow I know what your talking about! They suck all the rabbits up in their rabbit catching machine. If I'd watched it when I was 4 it would have given me nightmares too
Emily Durkee I’m like 5 months late but I ALSO had the same experience lol but I still loved it
@@mellow_mallow When I was 5 we went to see it in the cinema but for some reason the title really scared me and I started crying as the film started and I'm sort of mad because I watched it a couple of years later and it slaps so hard
“Cookies are media, too”
I’m a media major (advertising), and I’ve never been so proud to be studying something in the same realm as ghost snacks.
😂😂😂👍
So.... ghost realm?
If I can make high dramas out of my pillsbury holiday canned cookie dough, then cookies are in the pantheon.
My top 10 list:
15. Underwraps
14. Alvin & the Chipmunks meet the wolfman
13. Paranorman
12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11. Don't look under the bed
10. Boy meets world: Halloween Special
9. Are you afraid of the dark?
8. It's the great pumpkin Charlie Brown
7. Over the garden wall
6. Hey Arnold: The Ghost Train
5. The Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
4. Halloweentown
3. Those Halloween shapes that have shapes stamped on them
2. Scooby Doo & the Ghoul School
1. The Haunting Hour: Return of the pumpkinheads
Elin Lindquist I hope Jenny Nicholson sees this, she seems like she would like these kind of films!
I wish more youtubers talked about are you afraid of the dark? and the goosebumps tv show.
they were so corny and good!
idk, I think Over The Garden Wall should be switched to 7.
For Scooby Doo, the general trend is that the movies have supernatural entities but the show has guys in masks. They might be their own separate canons
I’ve seen so many people try to explain the scooby doo canon but by this point there’s just SO MUCH STUFF that you’re probably 100% right and all the different shows and movies all just take place in their own universes
There is a scooby series that confirms multiverse. Additionally supernatural crossed over and potentially introduced actual supernatural creatures to one of the universes.
@@FosukeLordOfError Maybe Destiel is canon in Scooby-Doo
@@FosukeLordOfError WHEN WAS THIS?!?!?!?!
@@farkasmactavish well mystery inc series ends with multiverse stuff. And for Supernatural: Season 13, Episode 16
I was so unironically hyped for Twitches, I had DREAMS about that movie leading up to the premiere.
That movie made me who I am today tbh
HONESTLY SAMEEEEE
If there is not a christmas version of this video with only home alone knock offs and sequels i am going to be very disappointed and it might ruin christmas.
Home Alone 6, the parents are Dead!
Home Alone 7, the parents are undead! It's a walking dead tie-in.
Sem R.
We've not got that much more time left. Jenny hates Christmas.
We didn't get it
Over the Garden wall is the best show ever in my opinion. I've studied animation and I got goosebumps in multiple episodes and scenes and the storyline is great. They even had some old school animation tactics which weirdly enough got me a bit emotional. Animation has gotten less about art and more about production, which is understandable as it's cheaper and quicker but it doesn't make it better, so I was amazed that there were still animation studios out there that actually cared about their work enough to use old tactics. Just watch the highwayman scene, it's amazing.
I agree, let's get married
Yessssss!!
Okay. I’ll concede your list has its merits. But check out MY Halloween list:
15 - Under Wraps
14 - Alvin & the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman
13 - ParaNorman
12 - The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
11 - Don’t Look Under the Bed
10 - Boy Meets World: ‘And Then There Was Shawn’ (S05E17)
9 - Are You Afraid of the Dark? Specifically one of the following episodes as a good jumping in point:
‘The Tale of the Shiny Red Bicycle’ (S02E10)
‘The Tale of the Laughing in the Dark’ (S01E02)
‘The Tale of the Silent Servant’ (S04E07)
8 - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
7 - Over the Garden Wall
6 - Hey Arnold! ‘The Haunted Train (S01E08b)
5 - Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
4 - Halloweentown
3 - Those sugar cookies that have pictures of pumpkins stamped onto them
2 - Scooby Doo & the Ghoul School
1 - The Haunting Hour: ‘Return of the Pumpkinheads’ (S04E05)
Lemme know what you think!
Scooby-Doo on zombie island is my favorite for halloween time. Not sure it’s technically a Halloween movie, but the amount of hot chili peppers, harvest moons, Murderous lady cats doesn’t leave me unsatisfied. 🎃
That period in the early 2000’s when the Scooby-Doo-industrial complex cranked out a bunch of legitimately great TV movies was pretty wild
Like I respect Ghoul School for inadvertently striking a chord with its character designs but Witch’s Ghost/Zombie Island/Alien Invaders were aiming higher than maybe any Scooby-Doo content prior and I continue to be in awe of their actually getting there
HeyyBrey I subconsciously start craving crawdads around Halloween time bc I watched that movie so many times as a kid
My friend I have never in my life eaten a crawdad but based on the sell they get in Zombie Island I’m subconsciously convinced they’re like divine shellfish manna
Champiness if you can imagine what a freshwater swamp lobster would taste like you have your answer lol. Crawfish etouffee is the best way to eat them IMO
The "Scooby-Doo Project" ad bumpers aired in that time frame as well, and were also brilliant.
Interesting fact about "And Then There Was Shawn": it was NOT the Halloween episode of that season. Earlier in season 5, they aired the episode "The Witches of Penbrook," where Jack dates a witch and it's up to Eric to save him (it also has a subplot with Corey and Topanga on an airplane that literally has no resolution). That episode is explicitly set during Halloween, and aired in late October. "And Then There Was Shawn" aired during February sweeps. So it came way the fuck out of nowhere. It's so strange that possibly the best Halloween episode of any kid's show isn't even a Halloween episode.
Fascinating!
I can't wait for them to get to these eps in the podcast!
"It actually took me a hot
minute to convince myself I hadn't completely hallucinate this episode." Time to write a bad creepy pasta about Return of the Pumpkinheads.
Hyperrealistic
WTF is a "hot minute"?
@@ThreadBomb I thought I knew it meant "one moment" but then self-doubt set it and I actually googled the term. Some sources say it means "a long time" and others say "a brief period of time".
And now I am confused.
English is wack and I hate it.
"You all thought I was going to say Hocus Pocus." I did. I really, really did.
Classic, that one, if a bit overrated
When I was in like the third grade our class had a movie day for Halloween and and the teacher brought in a DVD double feature of the chipmunk movies mentioned here. I was completely traumatized by the wolfman one and I spent weeks crying myself to sleep while staring at my hands because I thought every little spot of dirt and marker was a sign I was going to become a werewolf. Everyone else in the class didn't like the Frankenstein one and said it was boring but I was so scared of the other one that by comparison I loved it, then I spent years quietly despising anyone who mentioned liking the movie.
This video helped me get over that strangely enough so thanks I guess
My Halloween watch list (only the spoopiest media):
15. “Dumping in Fifty Shades Freed for 25 Minutes,” by Jenny Nicholson.
14. “The Worst Ghost Hunting Show of All Time,” by Jenny Nicholson.
13. “One Direction during The Purge” by Jenny Nicholson.
12. “Suicide Squad Sales Pitch,” by Jenny Nicholson.
11. “Porg.mp4” by Jenny Nicholson.
10. “Nobody on the planet remembers Beastly” by Jenny Nicholson.
9. “Dark Internet Rituals,” by Jenny Nicholson.
8. “I did it. I found the Worst Book,” by Jenny Nicholson.
7. “The Halloween Costumes Nobody Wanted,” by Jenny Nicholson.
6. “Let’s do real magic,” by Jenny Nicholson.
5. “The Worst Reality Show of All Time,” by Jenny Nicholson.
4. “Insanity: A Jeff the Killer Fanfic,” by Jenny Nicholson.
3.“Escape from Tomorrow is a dumb exercise in misery,” by Jenny Nicholson.
2.“Escape from Tomorrow,” by Randy Moore (very scary horror film).
1.“Trapped In A Island With Josh Hutcherson,” by Jenny Nicholson.
Queen Katara this is literally the most relatable UA-cam comment I’ve ever seen.
Creepy.......
Insanity should have been higher lmao
trapped in a island with josh hutcherson cannot be beat
Idk man "I hate The Greatest Showman more every moment" by Jenny Nicholson sent lots of shivers down my spine, should've at least been in the top 5 but go off sis
let's fund a kickstarter to get jenny a pizza party with kalabar
Jenny discussing the Halloween Town festival is the same energy as when I found out I grew up one state over from the Mothman festival and NOBODY TOLD ME.
MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST:
15. Hocus Pocus
14. Hokus Pokus
13. Hocus Pocus 2: Electric Boo-galoo
13. 2 Hocus, 2 Pocus
12. Hocus Pocus: Tokyo Drift
11. Hocus 5
10. Hocus Pocus 3: Return of Jafar
9. Pocus 7
8. Hocus Pocus: Dead Man's Chest
7. Hocus Pocus Reloaded
6. Hocus Pocus: The Pocus Awakens
5. Hocus Pocus 4: Infinity War
4. The Fate of the Pocus
3. Rise of the Hocus Pocus
2. Dawn of the Hocus Pocus
1. Johnny Tsunami
You forgot Hocus Pocus Focus...
@@TheDudsPlay Live Free or Pocus
really good list
James Hardee such classics
You forgot Disney's Pocuhauntus.
Everyone knows that the only thing better than a ghost train is a country song about a ghost train
You're a bad car
@@thork6974 please, no! I'm not a bad car! I'm not!
"I thought I had hallucinated the episode..."
I've been catching up to these videos out of order, but it's funny that Jenny jokes about imagining this episode before talking about the "Candle Cove" creepy pasta in another video.
...Oh god, what if it *is* a Candle Cove scenario?
Thank you for blessing us with this video, Jenny! You've also inspired me to create my own watchlist, so please check these out sometime if you can. As someone who loves Halloween, I'm sure you'll love them!
MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST:
15) Under Wraps
14) Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman
13) ParaNorman
12) The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11) Don't Look Under the Bed
10) And Then There Was Shawn - Boy Meets World - Season 5 Episode 17
9) Are You Afraid of the Dark?
8) It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
7) Over the Garden Wall
6) The Haunted Train - Hey Arnold! - Season 1 Episode 8 (part b)
5) Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
- video game
4) Halloweentown
3) Pillsbury™ Shape™ Pumpkin Sugar Cookies (simple cookie media, not a film or tv show -- iT COUNTS)
2) Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
1) Return of the Pumpkinheads - R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour - Season 4 Episode 5
I was going to call the title clickbait but technically it's not because 5 of the things Jenny used aren't movies so... Well played.
"There's an organ that plays itself, and a painting that bleeds blood".
Unlike regular paintings, the ones that bleed ketchup.
I don't usually comment but that goosebumps escape from horror land game terrified me as a child and it's still to this day one of my favorites games! The graphics blew me away as a kid and I never ever went in those God damn sewers!
BB-8 has merged with a porg and somehow it feels right.
Autumn That's BB-9E
I stand corrected, but the point still stands. XD
bb8 and a porg fell in love and this is their accursed spawn
BB-HATE's disguise for sneaking around Ahch-To.
before we got to #2 I was dangerously afraid of the lack of scooby-doo on this list
im sorry i’ve ever doubted you jenny
She missed the opportunity to call this a “WITCHlist”
Jenny, pin this!
Little Man if she pinned this I would freak out!
Witches were LAST year
I’m proud of you my child
this might brew up some bad juju.
I love how this is actually a top 15, it isn't even all movies and some of them aren't even nostalgic. This is exactly the confuddled content I come here for.
This video has now become part of my ghostalgic watchlist every year.
hey, great list jenny! i made one of my own too, let me know what you think!
MY HALLOWEEN WATCHLIST:
15. Under Wraps
14. Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet The Wolfman
13. ParaNorman
12. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
11. Don't Look Under the Bed
10. "And Then There Was Shawn" (Boy Meets World S5E17)
9. Are You Afraid of the Dark?
8. It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
7. Over the Garden Wall
6. "The Haunted Train" (Hey Arnold! S1E8b)
5. Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
4. Halloweentown
3. Pillsbury Pumpkin Shape Sugar Cookies
2. Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School
1. "Return of the Pumpkinheads" (R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour S4E5)
This is a pretty good list meg!
@@JennyNicholson aw, thanks! i'm glad you like it!
I like it!
meg! The same as hers
Mr Mogford I just found out the ending but idk if I should delete the comment
The red shirt shaggy movies are cursed
Cursed to be awesome
To justify their existence in my head and to reconcile the confusing canon, I've decided that the red shirt shaggy movies must be during a confusing fever dream that Shaggy is experiencing during a coma. Which explains why the rest of the gang isn't present, why Scrappy is present in some of them, and why he randomly has a girlfriend named Googy (or whatever her name was) who mysteriously disappears and never returns in any other red shirt shaggy movie.
@@fulcrumthebrave5715 hell yeah bruh!!
@@dancincoolkid but there is one problem. The 13th ghost movie. Green shirt shaggy in a sequel to a red shirt shaggy show.
@@dancincoolkid don't forget the series where shaggy, daphne, scrappy and scooby go on adventures without fred or velma. And the one episode where fred does show up but he's like framed for murder and they have to prove his innocence.
I nearly died when you chose scooby doo ghoul school, the was one of my most watched movie in my childhood.
THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN IS THE ABSOLUTE BEST
Hey I once again get to be the first one who ignores the body of your message and just points out that you’re a famous youtuber
Really feel #blessed
@@Champiness 10/10 self awareness
that was some good shit
@@oof-rr5nf Here to entertain
ATTABOY, LUTHER!!
Poultry gheist
Everything is canon, and Shaggy is still scared of other monsters because he knows they’re fake and, therefore, dangerous. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
"Don't Look Under the Bed" literally traumatized me when I was a kid. That scene where he shows his Boogieman face to her for the first time when she's questioning him.. I catapulted myself off of my bed and ran to my mother in hysterics. Those eyes and sharp teeth, and just the general uneasy feel of the whole movie coupled with the HORRIFIC concept of a girl's imaginary friend who just won't go away actually being the boogieman left me unable to sleep for years and even now as an adult I have issues with some of the imagery and themes from that movie, and I barely remember it now.
I can’t explain how happy I am that over the garden wall is on here oh my gosh I literally jumped up and down when you said it
FINALLY somebody gets it! Every time I would mention The Haunting Hour to my friends they would look at me dumbfounded! I am so glad other people appreciate this masterpiece like I do. The first two episodes made me put my American Girl doll in my closet for a very long time I love you Jenny
It's a sin that Scary Godmother was not on this list. What a classic.
"Under Wraps" is not only a DCOM, it is the first DCOM ever made.
Mack Debruin what about Susie Q?
@@JACCO20082012 A fine question my friend. I blog about movies and have researched the subject quite a bit.
So "Suzie Q" was produced by Super RTL television in 1996 and thus "Suzie Q" was aired on Disney Channel because of RTL's partnership with Disney.
When Disney decided to go to basic cable in the mid 90's they wanted to draw in their now larger audiences (beforehand you wanted Disney, you had to pay, now it was free). This change came about with the creation of DCOMs as a way to provide premium content to the new and old viewers, thus with a release schedule around Halloween, "Under Wraps" was made and aired in 1997.
Due to the finalization of the switch from paid to free Disney Channel content, it is controversial as to what the first DCOM was EXACTLY. But those behind the scenes at Disney (At least at the time) claim "Under Wraps" was the first film they greenlit with the "DCOM" brand in mind.
The Haunting Hour is A+ spooktacular all the way through and Jenny's a humanitarian to push it.
Return of the Pumpkinheads is right here, on UA-cam! Free
Over the Garden Wall is the absolute best thing ever. Period.
This is not related to "Well You Know My Name is Simon", is it? From the 1970s?? I think it was part of Captain Kangaroo. Yes, I'm much older than all of you here. :-/
Do you ever just think of it randomly and have a minor existential crisis?
@@VideoNOLA I do not believe it is
Jenny Nicholson Actually "Don't Look Under The Bed" would get played at random times of the year only but only in time slots after 12 am, but I haven't had cable for a few years so I don't know if that's still the case.
"Summoning McGriel, ostensibly to play his game but mostly for the company" YES.
i'm extremely offended that Scooby Doo Zombie Island isn't on this list
True, this one scared the crap out of me as a kid.
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember what it was called. I love that movie so much.
I love that movie... Definitely one of the best Scooby films. I think it wasn't included because it wasn't set around halloween and it's not obscure enough to make the list lol
I feel sad. I’m a millennial too, yet even considering this list, Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is THE only Halloween special I remember with any fondness, even factoring in nostalgia glasses to TRY to bias myself to other specials. And yet even that movie I would have a hard time recommending with much enthusiasm. I honestly feel like we millennials DID get screwed over regarding Halloween specials.
UGH I LOVE OVER THE GARDEN WALL (its vastly underrated, i feel)
I felt nostalgic about over the garden wall the FIRST TIME I SAW IT. I don't know how that works but that's how good it is.
@@evanwilson9493 same!
Its a Halloween tradition for me to watch this video and the Hallmark one every year
15:18 I love that you explained those cookies by calling them sugar cookies, cause where I'm from we also don't have those, and the idea of calling something a "sugar cookie" is hilarious to me because surely all cookies have sugar in?
True, but other cookies have flavors in WITH the sugar, like... vanilla, and chocolate chips, and whatever else. Sugar cookies are just... sugar. And some other ingredients like flour and stuff, but the sugar is the main focus.
Also, just to let you know since you don’t have them, they’re not just like chocolate chip cookies minus the chocolate and any vanilla extract. They’re really crumbly and kinda doughy and they all have a very uniform shape, it’s weird
@@tiacat11 Yep! It's kind of like how, when my dad first moved to Arizona, he was confused about why people kept talking about "rain storms" because surely all storms have rain. He was from the Midwest, so he didn't have experience living in a place where you have to specify that it's a storm with rain as opposed to a dust storm that might be followed by rain, but maybe not. Rain storms just have rain.
maybe it's cause i'm english but "not knowing weather types that didn't occur in my hometown" is incredibly alien to me
I'm a simple woman. I see Jenny, I click.
I'm a simple woman. I see the Californication album cover, I like the comment
I’m not a simple man as I have a freeze frame of simon peg in hot fuzz a s my profile
I'm a simpleton. Who is Jenny?
I initially felt silly for wanting to comment on such an old video, but other people have also commented just recently, so... Why not!
Anyway, I wanted to say the child actor playing "Skeleton Boy" in that Haunting Hour episode is actually named Sean Michael Kyer, and has been in a pretty good amount of stuff, one of his most notable roles was a young scientist boy named Oscar in the live action kids show "Odd Squad". He's definitely talented, and I'm shocked I didn't notice him in previous watches of this video through the years.
Jenny, you were even more dorky in this one compared to your other vids. Keep up the entertaining big dork energy!
jenny totally does have bde (big dork energy)
My friend: What’re you watching?
Me: um... top ten Halloween movies...?
Anyway, now I sound like I watch watchmojo or something, so thanks
"Welcome to John Adams high. This is where you're gonna die. Here's a knife, here's a gun. It'll be fun for everyone."
Man I loved that episode.
“We’ll always remember he was this tall”
@@kjan917 truly iconic
I Spy: Haunted Mansion totally fits the vibe of this list! It was one of my favorite games as a kid. Its a point and click puzzle game where you have to solve I Spy puzzles to escape a haunted mansion owned by a skeleton and yes it takes place on halloween night!
omg i loved this game
This video is now a part of my annual pre-Halloween hype media
I loved those cookies! I also thought the other kids' moms made them themselves and got the shape inside each cookie, so I was really in awe and kind of disappointed that my mom couldn't do that. (I didn't know they were slice-and-bake because my mom made all cookies from scratch, meaning in retrospect my disappointment was very very unfair)
2 jenny videos in a week?? am i dreaming?
ah man i remember watching Dont Look Under the Bed as a kid and getting way 2sp00ked, but after that they rarely ever played it again so i thought it was all some crazy halloween fueled fever dream for the longest time, glad to see it getting the recognition it deserves as as a truly sp00ky DCOM
also, im surprised no mention of The Scream Team i cant remember if it took place around halloween or not but definitely worth some sp00k points in my book (also its just genuinely one of the best DCOMs imho)
After watching them all, this is unquestionably Jenny’s best video ever. None of the others (even the 2+ hour ones) convey her personality so well
"The thing about glitter is: if you get it on you, be prepared to have it on forever. Cause glitter doesn't go away. Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies." Demetri Martin.
“Chill our Lady, we’re lookin’ for Skeleton Boy.” 😂 I slammed my head against my trucks headrest in laughter when I heard that. It still hurts. But it’s no less funny!
This video calls to me every October
see, your instinct prevented you from buying the Halloweentown vacay because you'll need to do it next year, for the year of the Pumpkin.
The Ghoul School resurgence is already started, they got into OK KO.
Also, the number of artists I follow on Tumblr who post Ghoul School is very high, despite me not seeking that out at all. Clearly it made a big impression.
came here to mention the OK KO ghoul school episode
don't call it a comeback...we've been living on a GIANT mountain of rule34 porn all this time
2 Jenny videos in 5 days??? Truly a godsend!
It's a Halloween miracle!
@@MissRedLu Ooh, references!
It's been nine long months since I discovered this channel, and now, this October 1st, the time has finally come to watch this video.
Let the spooks begin my friends.
at starbucks, every year is the year of the pumpkin
"Coraline is not a halloween movie, it's set in the springtime."
IT HAS THE ATMOSPHEEEEEEeEeeerrre...
@@trequor I...disagree. The whole idea behind halloween in popular culture is depicting and confronting that which scares us. Anything that scares you or even just spooks you out is a valid way to celebrate.
@@trequor I think that's an awfully rigid way to dictate categorization, but I do recognize that it is a very common and popular one, so... (shrug)
Coraline is a Walpurgisnacht movie.
To me this is like a discussion I had on whether Lord of the Rings is a Christmas movie or not. It fits the mood for me, probably because I watched the movies around Christmas time when they first came out and later my brother and I had the tradition of watching the extended cuts on the 25th.
Thematically it‘s not connected at all but it‘s still a Christmas movie to me. I do understand that it wouldn‘t be the case for most people though. Die Hard for example is technically more tied to Christmas but even though it‘s one of my favorite movies I never watched it on Christmas.
I don‘t know, maybe there are official definitions of what constitutes a Halloween or Christmas movie. To me it‘s any movie that I connect with watching it on that holiday. What does Apocalypse Now have to do with Easter other than me trying to watch it through without falling asleep and failing every time on Easter weekend?
@@btarczy5067 The channel "Folding Ideas" did a really interesting video on the very topic. I advocate for really loose methods of categorization. While I don't buy the idea that the quality of a thing is determined solely by whether you like it, I think the categorization pretty much should be determined through that method.
For me, Babette's Feast is a christmas movie. It's not a christmas movie by very many aesthetic aspects, except that it's about people coming together to celebrate with good food. I think that's a perfectly valid qualifier, but I know that a lot of people, like the person I was previously discussing this with, might not see that as enough.
i am SO HAPPY with your choice of outro song. We really are just munks on a mission 🐺🖤
YES thank you for including Escape from Horrorland on this list!!! That game's scariness, my obsession with it, and the fact that I sucked at even a point and click adventure game combined so that certain later parts of the game would develop a kind of personal mythos in my childhood brain. For example, I believed that if you clicked the jack-o-lanterns in a specific pattern it would unlock a secret cutscene, beyond just the one that advances the game. Every time I reached the end of the game it felt like I was completing an actual adventure that had taken years and changed me along the way. Watching the ending cutscene was like finding a legendary ruin.
my Halloween watch list:
literally just the entirety of scooby doo
Omg I threw my arms up like the beat dropped when you said The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, I love that movie!!
The moment Jenny mentioned over the garden wall, my jaw dropped. It's such a fantastic, wholesome piece of entertainment and the soundtrack is not only complimentary to the show, but it is also one of its standout stars standing alongside of the voice acting (Elijah Wood is the main lead), artistic design of the animation and landscapes, the story that is inspired by Dante's inferno, the characters, dialouge, and atmosphere. It's sooooo lovely and warm, ever since discovering it a few years back, probably a year after it premiered on cartoon network, I have bought a physical copy of the mini series and show it off to friends and family every year around thanksgiving. I recommend the hell out of it and am very happy Jenny mentioned it!
The Boy Meets World Halloween special is the best Halloween episode of all time. You can't change my mind.
over the garden wall came out when i was in high school i was immediately OBSESSED with it. the vintage halloween greeting card aesthetics are so good, the story is super cool, and the writing is genuinely really charming and funny. i'm honestly surprised it didn't give rise to a wave of other cartoon miniseries considering how popular it was and what a great, largely untapped format it is for kids cartoons. i would love a second season but if it were to happen i think they should make it about all new main characters stumbling into other parts of the unknown because i feel like greg and wirt's story was already wrapped up so well. plus it'd be a good way to explore what exactly the unknown actually is and how people end up there
I'm late to this, but I would like to nominate The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy for excellence in the field of spookiness. If that's not specific enough they have a great Halloween special staring Wayne Night (Newman from Seinfeld) as Jack O'Lantern. I'm partial to it not just 'cause it's a great episode but because I own some of the production art from it.
Dracula don't bite. He SCRAPE, and LICK
Also, AAAAHHHH Real Monsters, Invader Zim, Courage the Cowardly Dog, and the Beetlejuice cartoon
@@ajzeg01 You ever notice the Invader Zim Halloween episode is weirdly similar to the plot of S1 of Stranger Things?
Love that McGriel throwback in the description...
You have by far the best deadpan comedic delivery. Your reviews make me so happy.
15:10 They are not JUST sugar cookies. They are THE sugar cookies, and the epitome of Halloween in cookie form. 💚 I can't have a Halloween without them.