🍂🎃🦇Tina's Hallo-Week🪦👻🍁

2025

A table display with a pillar candle, miniature jack-o-lantern, leaves, and acorns.

See this page as it appeared during Hallo-week, and before Hallo-week.

So, here's a rundown of what all I watched this Hallo-week...

Star Trek
Screenshot: Jim, Bones, and Mr. Bones in Sylvia's dungeon.
Star Trek 203-"Catspaw"
Watched: 25th October		 Screenshot: Scotty's gone a bit nutters on Argelius.
Star Trek 214-"Wolf in the Fold"
Watched: 26th October		 Screenshot: Data and Geordi prepare to enter the Holodeck as Holmes and Watson.
Star Trek TNG 203-"Elementary, Dear Data"
Watched: 27th October
Screenshot: Ardra makes herself comfortable in Captain Picard's chair.
Star Trek TNG 413-"Devil's Due"
Watched: 28th October		 Screenshot: The bridge crew are rendered unconcious before Data's very visual processors.
Star Trek TNG 414-"Clues"
Watched: 29th October		 Screenshot: Dr. Crusher drinks from Commander Riker's head in Data's dreams.
Star Trek TNG 706-"Phantasms"
Watched: 31st October
Screenshot: O'Brien plots while Sisko assembles a clock.
Star Trek DS9 117-"Dramatis Personae"
Watched: 30th October		 Screenshot: O'Brien takes the runabout back into the Gamma quadrant.
Star Trek DS9 214-"Whispers"
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Tuvok tries to kill Crewman Suder with a mind meld.
Star Trek Voyager 216-"Meld"
Watched: 24th October

Star Trek is not typically a series that you associate with Halloween. However, there are a few, shall we say, Halloween-appropriate shows. We begin with the franchise's only explicit Halloween special, which originally aired on Hallo-week 1967; then proceeding onwardly to "Wolf in the Fold". I won't spoil all of that episode, but nothing says "Halloween" quite like the distorted voice of Piglet Trespassers Will spewing death threats out of every companel on the Enterprise. I always joked with my mum that Sterling Holloway should have played the Prefect of Argelius, but then it would have stopped being suspenceful, I guess.

Quite honestly, this gave me an opportunity to whet my appetite for The Next Generation again; sort of as a teaser for 1st January when I start watching it again. This time, I'm not going to watch TNG, DS9, and VOY concurrently with each other. I'm going to wait until Memorial Day weekend to start DS9 and until after I'm completely done with DS9 before I start Voyager. You know, it occurs to me: I'm going to be able to watch Star Trek on repeat with Riza this year :)

When it comes to Halloween-adjacent episodes of TNG, there are actually quite a few more than what I watched. Actually, I hadn't planned to watch "Phantasms" at all, there didn't seem to be enough time in the day. But when I was looking for stuff to distract me from the rampant de-evolution taking place in the highest eschelons of the American government on Halloween, I decided to make some popcorn and watch it 3 hours before my regular TV time. Thanks to my Neocities mutual, Caminus for the recommendation!

Bob's Burgers
Screenshot: The Belcher kids go trick-or-treating on King's Head Island.
302-"Full Bars"
Watched: 25th October		 Screenshot: Where else do you find a ghost but the cemetery?
502-"Tina and the Real Ghost"
Watched: 26th October		 Screenshot: The Belchers hide in some dead person's bathroom.
603-"The Hauntening"
Watched: 27th October
Screenshot: Tina casts a spell.
703-"Teen-a-Witch"
Watched: 28th October		 Screenshot: Please follow the Cher-iff into the potentially haunted city park.
804-"The Wolf of Wharf Street"
Watched: 29th October		 Screenshot: The ghost of Tina's science class dissection pig traps her in a coffin.
1004-"Pig Trouble in Little Tina"
Watched: 30th October
Screenshot: Darryl briefs the kids on the Treasure Trail in Ft. Belcher.
402-"Fort Night"
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: The Belcher kids sit in on a conjuring spell.
1104-"Heartbreak Hotel-oween
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Everybody marvels at Glenn's flying mechanical bat.904-"Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street"
Watched: 24th October

Bob's Burgers has consistently had a Halloween show every year since series 3. In a show where the characters never age, I suppose that means they've celebrated the same exact Halloween many different times. That would explain why Louise gets scared in the Haunted House at Wonder Wharf in "Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street" after complaining that haunted houses aren't scary in "The Hauntening". In any case, you can always count on this show for a decent holiday episode, making it a mainstay of my Hallo-week since I started watching the show in 2017. Unlike some other shows, which take the opportunity to dispense with their mainline canon and remake old monster movies or something, Bob's Burgers fits its Halloween specials in with its mainline canon. However, unlike during the normal shows, things that happen on Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Valentine's never recur, since technically the Belchers keep doing the same year over and over again, therefore "Full Bars" occurs in the same space at the same time as "Pig Trouble in Little Tina", which occurs simultaneously with "Fort Night", which occurs simultaneously with "Heartbreak Hotel-oween". You get it.

Courage the Cowardly Dog
Screenshot: Courage is quite literally frightened by his own shadow.
102-"The Shadow of Courage/Dr. LeQuack, Amnesia Specialist"
Watched: 25th October		 Screenshot: Courage meets the Space Ducks.
106-"The Duck Brothers/Shirley the Medium"
Watched: 26th October		 Screenshot: The Big Toe gives Courage instructions.
107-"King Ramses Curse/The Clutching Foot"
Watched: 27th October
Screenshot: Schwick has sweepin' to do.
202-"The Curse of Shirley/Courage in the Big Stinkin' City"
Watched: 28th October		 Screenshot: Muriel, Eustace, and Courage as the Mayan royal court.
204-"Courage Meets the Mummy/Invisible Muriel"
Watched: 29th October		 Screenshot: Buy Flantasy Flan...
313-"King of Flan/Courage Under the Volcano"
Watched: 30th October
Screenshot: LeQuack returns to use Muriel in another of his schemes.
403-"Le Quack Balloon/Windmill Vandals
Watched: 31st October

This is one of those shows where every episode is Halloween-appropriate. However, there are a few that I would prefer to reserve for Hallo-week, such as "The Curse of Shirley". Incidentally, "Courage in the Big Stinkin' City" one of the best lines in the history of television, which I would prefer not to spoil for you. It was a bit challenging to avoid repetition because another thing that happened was that I started out the year watching this show in my regular programming schedule. Every night, it was Star Trek, Bob's Burgers, SpongeBob, and Courage. As a result, I kinda needed to keep Hallo-week in mind as I was watching it. What episodes did I want to save? What did I want to watch again? That kind of thing.

Scooby Doo, Where Are You!
Screenshot: What lurks behind this fake door? Shaggy's about to find out.
109-"The Backstage Rage"
Watched: 27th October		 Screenshot: Shaggy encounters an uncanny, if non-spectral, form in the hall of mirrors.
108-"Foul Play in Funland"
Watched: 26th October		 Screenshot: A vampire isn't going to scare Velma away.
111-"A Gaggle of Gallopping Ghosts"
Watched: 28th October
Screenshot: The headless spectre drops in on Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma.
205-"Haunted House Hangup
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Mr. Hyde lurks behind a bookshelf.
201-"Nowhere to Hyde"
Watched: 30th October		 Screenshot: Hank shows the gang to their rooms.
104-"Mine Your Own Business"
Watched: 25th October
Screenshot: Redbeard and his henchmen aboard the ghost ship.
114-"Go Away, Ghost Ship"
Watched: 29th October

Like Courage the Cowardly Dog, Scooby Doo is another show that is basically 100% Halloween appropriate. Not just this 1 show, but the whole franchise. Even though I like the "all the monsters are humans and that's deep" angle just fine, I think the "all the monsters are monsters" thing they picked up in later shows would probably work better, except I don't have many of those in my datahoard. Basically it's just The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (you know, the one with Vincent Price in it) and nothing else. I had hoped to get the entire franchise when I was acquiring stuff back in '22, but I only got as far as A Pup Named Scooby Doo before my VPN subscription gave out.

Rocko's Modern Life
Screenshot: Rocko goes mad with power.
111-"Power Trip / To Heck and Back"
Watched: 26th October		 Screenshot: Lloyd, the bartender at the gates of Hell.
209-"Born to Spawn / Uniform Behaviour"
Watched: 27th October		 Screenshot: Rocko and Heffer attend a passed out Filburt next to Jub's grave.
303-"Sugar Frosted Frights / Ed is Dead! A Thriller"
Watched: 30th October

This is another show you don't immediately associate with Halloween. However, it did have some appropriate episodes, and they're all represented here. Well, with the possible exception of "High Five of Doom / Day of the Flecko", which are monster movie-adjacent. I didn't watch that one because I'd already watched it earlier in the year. Like I said before, I don't know what streaming service, if any, Rocko's Modern Life is available on. It came to my datahoard by way of a pirate streaming site.

Specials
Screenshot: Phineas tries to scare the hiccups out of Isabella.
Phineas & Ferb 109-"One Good Scare Ought to Do It"
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Little Dog wearing a monkey skull.
2 Stupid Dogs 108a-"Spooks a Poppin'"
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Invisible Charlie Brown is made temporarily visible again.
It's Magic, Charlie Brown
Watched: 31st October
Screenshot: Odie scares Garfield with his impromptu costume.
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
Watched: 31st October		 Screenshot: Has the Great Pumpkin finally made an appearance?
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Watched: 31st October

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