00:00 Listen, kids, you're 8 and 10 years old now.
00:02 I can't be fighting all your battles for you.
00:04 Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:06 And today, we're counting down our picks
00:08 for the creepiest, scariest, and darkest throwback episodes
00:12 and specials that featured spooky themes fit for Halloween,
00:16 whether or not they actually aired for the occasion.
00:19 I don't think--
00:19 [SCREAMING]
00:20 [LAUGHING]
00:21 You're funny.
00:23 Number 10, Filet of Soul, Dexter's Laboratory.
00:27 After Dexter and Deedee demand too much of their creatively
00:31 named goldfish, Fishy, the poor thing expires.
00:34 What can we say about our beloved Fishy?
00:38 Not much.
00:39 We only had him for one day.
00:41 Their mom tells them, very creepily, we might add,
00:44 to flush the dead pet down the toilet.
00:46 But the siblings leave it for the next day.
00:48 This proves to be a big mistake, because Fishy's ghost
00:51 visits them that night.
00:53 Good night, ghost of dead Fishy.
00:54 [SCREAMING]
01:01 In addition to the slimy, spooky specter,
01:04 Deedee's pulled into the sewer beyond
01:07 and gets attacked by a giant tentacle.
01:09 We're not sure if it's the crossed out eyes or just
01:12 the possibility of the toilet being
01:14 a portal to another dimension, but we definitely
01:16 steered clear of nightly bathroom visits
01:18 for a while after this episode.
01:21 How many times have I told you?
01:25 Early morning is daddy's special bathroom privacy time.
01:29 [LAUGHTER]
01:33 Number nine, sugar frosted frights, Rocko's modern life.
01:38 Rocko and Heifer are hyped for Halloween
01:40 and ready to spend the night out trick or treating,
01:43 but Filbert, not so much.
01:45 Filbert?
01:47 Please go away.
01:49 Filbert, what's the matter?
01:50 Leave me alone.
01:52 Given his neurotic nature, it's no surprise
01:55 that he's afraid of the holiday.
01:57 It only takes one piece of delicious candy still
02:00 in the wrapper to send the usually sane turtle running
02:03 around feral in O-Town looking for more.
02:06 It's your first piece of Halloween candy.
02:08 You eat it.
02:09 Go on.
02:10 Mm.
02:13 Tasty, eh?
02:15 The psychedelic Fantasia-like trip
02:17 conjures up some eerie images, and the idea
02:20 of the hopping Hessian coming to steal legs is just chilling.
02:24 But the source of Filbert's fear might be the most disturbing.
02:27 Candy, candy, candy, candy.
02:29 Come drop, come drop, come drop, come drop.
02:32 Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
02:35 Years of Aunt Gretchen's lies about poisonous candy
02:38 left Filbert traumatized.
02:40 And to be honest, the few minutes
02:42 she appears on screen left us that way, too.
02:45 Number eight, what scared Sue Ellen?
02:47 Arthur.
02:48 Season four's The Fright Stuff is one of the few Arthur
02:52 Halloween episodes.
02:53 It follows an ongoing prank war between the boys
02:56 and the girls, which comes to a head at Muffy's haunted mansion
02:59 costume party.
03:01 Vinky, if you just got here, then who is--
03:06 [MUSIC PLAYING]
03:09 [SCREAMING]
03:11 While season three's What Scared Sue Ellen
03:14 came out in December, it packed enough spooky moments
03:17 to earn a spot on this list.
03:19 Sue Ellen is uncharacteristically
03:21 afraid of a strange sound in the woods.
03:23 Vinky, Buster, Arthur, if you guys are trying to scare me,
03:27 it's not going to--
03:28 [HAUNTING MUSIC]
03:30 --work.
03:32 In a dream, the Baba Yaga tries to devour her,
03:35 then pops up at her bedroom window.
03:38 Later, she wonders if the sound is from a banshee,
03:41 giving us another haunting visual.
03:43 [HAUNTING MUSIC]
03:47 [SCREAMING]
03:49 With both of these urban legends being their own kinds of scary,
03:53 how is this not a Halloween episode?
03:56 Number seven, Scaredy Pants, SpongeBob SquarePants.
04:00 Halloween in Bikini Bottom is a tough night for SpongeBob,
04:04 because he's incredibly easy to scare.
04:06 So he intends to do the scaring for a change
04:09 and becomes the soul-stealing Flying Dutchman.
04:12 What do you think?
04:14 Great.
04:14 You're going as my trick-or-treat bag.
04:17 No, no.
04:18 I'm the ghost of the Flying Dutchman.
04:21 He enlists Patrick's help.
04:22 And as always, the nautically nonsensical pair
04:25 do the most, with Patrick going all out
04:28 to really shave SpongeBob.
04:30 It worked, Patrick.
04:31 I scared everybody.
04:33 It's a cursed image forever burned into our minds.
04:36 Though the appearance of the real Flying Dutchman
04:38 spooked us, too, a bigger fright comes in the graveyard shift.
04:42 It wasn't the hash-slinging slasher that
04:44 sent chills down our spines.
04:46 No, that credit goes to the Surprise Count Orlock cameo.
04:50 The shockingly hideous Nosferatu might have actually
04:53 been our first jump scare.
04:55 Then who was flickering the lights?
04:57 Nosferatu!
05:06 Number six, the Headless Horseman of Halloween,
05:09 the Scooby-Doo Show.
05:10 No matter how it's told, the legend of Sleepy Hollow
05:13 is one of those stories that will always
05:16 provoke a sense of unease.
05:17 And we think Mystery Inc. would agree.
05:19 [HORSE NEIGHING]
05:22 Zoinks!
05:28 A headless horseman!
05:30 While attending an All Hallows' Eve party at Crane Manor,
05:33 the gang comes face to pumpkin with the headless horseman.
05:36 I want a head!
05:41 Zoinks!
05:42 Zoinks!
05:43 It's true.
05:44 The headless horseman has come back.
05:46 Bunch, get out of here!
05:48 It doesn't help that the mansion grounds are thick with fog,
05:51 creating the ultimate horror atmosphere.
05:54 True to Scooby-Doo form, the ghoul was just some guy
05:57 dressed as the horseman to commit a crime.
05:59 Slap the ghoul in my face.
06:01 Cousin Elwood!
06:03 Cousin Elwood?
06:06 Nope.
06:07 He was after Aunt Gertrude's diamond all along.
06:10 And it would have been the perfect crime
06:12 if you kids hadn't crossed me up.
06:14 But that doesn't make watching the previous events any less
06:17 hair-raisingly zoinks worthy.
06:19 Number five, Angelica's worst nightmare, Rugrats.
06:24 While the Rugrats Halloween specials were creepy and fun,
06:27 the real horror comes in episodes
06:29 like Angelica's Nightmare.
06:31 Honey, there's really nothing I can do about it.
06:33 Please, Mommy, pretty, pretty, pretty, please!
06:34 Angelica, I told you there's nothing I can do.
06:37 When the baby comes, it comes.
06:38 And that's all there is to it.
06:40 Her anxiety over gaining a sibling
06:42 is so strong that she has a deeply disturbing night terror
06:46 about the baby's arrival.
06:47 It's bad enough that she's ignored
06:49 by her parents in the dream.
06:50 But then her baby brother grows to a monstrous size
06:54 and eventually eats her.
06:56 I wonder what a toy car would taste like.
06:58 No, please!
06:59 I'm your big sister!
07:00 Well, now you're num-num!
07:03 We may or may not have been a bit weary of babies after that.
07:06 Chucky had his fair share of dreadful dreams
07:08 and hallucinations, too, like the scary green monster
07:11 under his bed.
07:12 There's nothing living under my bed.
07:15 Nothing at all.
07:22 Hiya, Chucky.
07:24 For a show about the adventures of babies,
07:26 Rugrats gave us plenty of source material
07:29 for nightmares of our own.
07:31 Number four, The Haunted Mask Goosebumps.
07:34 The iconic anthology series Goosebumps,
07:37 based on the equally popular books,
07:39 was a staple in most people's childhood,
07:41 acting as a gateway into the horror genre.
07:44 You know, I think you're right.
07:47 Somebody's out there.
07:49 Somebody or something.
07:51 [SCREAMING]
07:53 [LAUGHING]
07:54 That was totally not funny.
07:56 I'm sorry.
07:57 In The Haunted Mask, we meet Carly Beth,
08:00 who, like SpongeBob, is tired of being the resident
08:02 scaredy pants, always the victim of cruel pranks.
08:06 Seeking revenge, she steals a grotesque mask
08:08 and sets out to instill terror in her tormentors.
08:12 Who are you?
08:13 Yes.
08:14 Do we know you?
08:15 Oh, yes.
08:17 You're Carly Beth, right?
08:20 You really scared us.
08:21 We've been looking for you.
08:22 But after a little too much torturous fun,
08:25 Carly Beth realizes it won't come off.
08:28 Putting ourselves in her shoes or mask,
08:31 we can't help but feel the claustrophobia and sheer panic
08:34 of the idea of this monster face fusing with our skin.
08:37 There's no line.
08:38 There's no line here.
08:40 I'm going to tell my mom.
08:41 Those eyes.
08:42 Those eyes in the mirror.
08:44 What about them?
08:46 They're not my eyes, Sabrina.
08:48 My eyes don't look like that.
08:49 This is some serious body horror,
08:51 and it freaked us out more than we'd like to admit.
08:54 Number three, King Ramsay's Curse.
08:57 Courage the Cowardly Dog.
08:59 The entirety of Courage the Cowardly Dog
09:02 was the definition of nightmare fuel.
09:04 So really, every episode felt like Halloween.
09:07 From the first episode, A Night at the Cat's Motel,
09:10 we realized this wasn't just any cartoon.
09:12 And by the time we reached the mask,
09:20 we were well and truly traumatized.
09:22 But in this show full of supernatural threats,
09:25 one of the standout villains was King Ramsay's.
09:28 Return the slab, or suffer my curse.
09:34 He just wanted his ancient relic back.
09:37 But Eustace became money hungry and held the slab hostage,
09:41 leading the ghostly pharaoh to unleash three plagues.
09:44 Return the slab.
09:47 Let go.
09:53 Maybe it's the entity's oddly calm voice
09:56 or the visual contrast between animation styles,
09:59 but King Ramsay's still gives us the creeps.
10:02 Number two, Haunted Train.
10:04 Hey Arnold.
10:05 From Four-Eyed Jack to the Headless Cabbie,
10:08 Hey Arnold really knows how to tell a killer ghost story.
10:11 It was too late.
10:13 The horse kept pulling the carriage.
10:15 Only now the reins were held by the Headless Cabbie.
10:20 Oddly enough, the actual Halloween episode
10:23 isn't one of them.
10:24 In fan favorite episode Haunted Train,
10:26 Grandpa Phil cures Arnold and Gerald's boredom
10:29 with the terrifying tale of Engine 25,
10:32 a train that went off the tracks and vanished 40 years ago,
10:36 along with the Engineer.
10:37 40 years ago, old Engine 25 was heading for the station
10:44 when the Engineer went mad and drove his train off the tracks.
10:48 The haunted caravan makes an annual return,
10:51 collecting unwitting passengers for a final trip
10:54 to the fiery underworld.
10:56 Even though Arnold, Gerald, and Helga
10:58 believe it's all a hoax, the ghoulish Engineer
11:01 appears at the end, implying the story is true.
11:04 You can hear it in the soul, but as good as great
11:10 as how it ends.
11:11 His ominous song and maniacal cackling
11:14 still gives us goosebumps.
11:16 And why isn't Brainy the least bit terrified?
11:19 Before we unveil our top pick, here
11:21 are a few honorable mentions.
11:23 The Ghost of Suite 613, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
11:28 This episode did not have to be as frightening as it was.
11:30 Either the table is getting higher,
11:33 or the floor is getting lower.
11:36 She's here.
11:40 Terrifying Tales of Recess.
11:42 Recess.
11:43 Did we know what miscreant meant?
11:45 No.
11:46 Did zombie finsters creepy voice burrow
11:48 into our little kid brains?
11:50 Absolutely.
11:51 Everybody, hold the door.
11:52 It's no good.
11:53 There's too many of them.
11:54 We've got to do something.
11:56 The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up, The Angry Beavers.
12:00 This B-movie homage delivered some truly spine-chilling
12:03 visuals, including Man Servante, a face that plagued
12:07 our nightmares for years.
12:08 I am his man servant, Man Servante.
12:11 How may I help you?
12:13 Night of the Day of the Dead, Lizzie McGuire.
12:16 We love to see Kate Sanders get her due,
12:19 but those skeletons were downright terrifying.
12:22 [SCREAMING]
12:28 The Tale of the Twisted Claw.
12:30 Are you afraid of the dark?
12:32 Lessons learned.
12:33 Be careful what you wish for, and don't take
12:35 vulture claws from strangers.
12:37 I wish it could beat Boss again to 600.
12:40 Whoa.
12:41 It moved.
12:43 I told you, that thing's alive.
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13:00 Number one, Treehouse of Horror 5, The Simpsons.
13:05 While we're able to appreciate the humor as adults,
13:08 The Simpsons' yearly Treehouse of Horror episodes
13:11 often kept us up at night when we were kids.
13:13 Our parents didn't want us watching it,
13:15 which made the experience extra thrilling.
13:18 This year's Halloween show is very, very scary.
13:22 And those of you with young children
13:23 may want to send them off to bed.
13:26 Oh, my.
13:28 It seems the show is so scary that Congress
13:30 won't even let us show it.
13:32 The disembodied voice in Bad Dream House
13:34 urging everyone except Marge to kill
13:36 was unnerving, to say the least.
13:38 But the fifth installment was the most memorable.
13:41 Nightmare Cafeteria felt particularly morbid,
13:44 because who wouldn't shudder at the thought
13:46 of cannibalistic teachers?
13:48 You might even say we just ate Uter,
13:50 and he's in our stomachs right now.
13:53 [LAUGHTER]
13:56 Wait, scratch that one.
13:57 But before we even knew about the Stanley Kubrick classic,
14:00 seeing Homer's descent into absolute madness
14:03 in The Spoof of The Shining had us ducking under blankets.
14:07 All I need is a title.
14:10 I was thinking along the lines of no TV
14:13 and no beer make Homer something something.
14:16 Go crazy?
14:18 Don't mind if I do.
14:19 [SCREAMING]
14:24 Marge did warn us at the beginning.
14:26 We should have listened.
14:28 What Halloween episode still haunts you?
14:30 Share the scares in the comments below.
14:32 I'm going to scare those kids so bad they'll never sleep again.
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