Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

The show takes us through the struggles of life as a child monster. Three monster friends are studying how to scare humans in school. Often, their attempts don't work out as planned.

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Cast:Charlie Adler , Christine Cavanaugh , David Eccles , Gregg Berger , Tim Curry , Xander Berkeley , Dorian Harewood , Cynthia Mann , Jim Belushi , Kevin McBride , Lisa Raggio , Beverly Archer , Rodney Saulsberry , Scott Weil , Billy Vera , Marcia Strassman , Liz Georges , David Graf

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ The Switching Hour

Wed, Mar 19, 1997

Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina hit the human world on Halloween night with disastrous results.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Monsters, Get Real/Snorched If You Do, Snorched If You Don't

Sun, Oct 30, 1994

Ickis, Oblina and Krumm pull of a good scare in Bradley's room, only to discover that Ickis has left his all-important monster manual on the surface.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Curse of the Krumm/Krumm Goes Hollywood

Sun, Nov 6, 1994

Odiferous Krumm, who put the stink in distinct, loses his stench and fears his monstering days are over.A Hollywood director mistakes Krumm for an extra on his movie set, and turns him into a star.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Monster Make-Over/Airplane, a Wing and a Scare

Sat, Nov 19, 1994

Wanting a face only a monster could love, Ickis contemplates plastic surgery.Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina get folded and spindled when they get themselves trapped in a suitcase and are loaded onto a plane bound for Wisconsin.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Krumm's Pimple/Monster Hunter

Sun, Nov 27, 1994

Krumm sprouts a gigantic pimple. The pimple has its own personality and is a hit with the other monsters, putting the squeeze on Krumm's popularity.Monster Hunter Simon says there are real monsters in the world. But no one believes him.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Monsters Don't Dance/Gone Shopping

Sat, Dec 3, 1994

TV's loveable Murray the Monster is undermining good ghouls everywhere, because kids aren't afraid of him.Tis the season to be scary, and Oblina, Ickis, and Krumm are happy to oblige.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Old Monster/Mother May I?

Sat, Dec 10, 1994

Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm are bored when Gromble's old teacher lectures at the academy.Every boy and monster's worst fear is realized for the Gromble--his mom shows up at he academy unannounced.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Don't Just Do It/Joined at the Hip

Sat, Dec 17, 1994

Ickis gets a bad case of hero worship when he is befriended by an impulsive monster drop-out Puhg.When the Gromble gets fed up with Ickis and Krumm, he merges then into a new monster called Krickis. They're two, two, two monsters in one.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Smile and Say Oblina/The Great Wave

Sat, Dec 24, 1994

Even monsters get the blues, which Oblina proves when she develops her first crush.Life is no day at the beach for Ickis as his self-esteem hits a rip tide when he is chosen to be a contestant in the Annual Riding of the Great Wave Competition.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Cold Hard Toenails/Attack of the Blobs

Sat, Dec 31, 1994

Ickis becomes rich when he discovers an unending supply of toenails, but soon discovers money doesn't make the monster.Oblina becomes a baby-sitter and gets a job minding a blob only a mother could love.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Chip Off the Old Beast/The War's Over

Sat, Jan 7, 1995

Ickis fears nobody will ever say "like father, like son" when his famous father visits the academy and dazzles the monster multitudes.The Gromble sends his three monster students on a routine scare of an old house.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Where Have All the Monsters Gone?

Sat, Jan 14, 1995

The scare meter and hall of records informs the Gromble that monster scares are not as effective as they used to be in the human world. This poses a problem to the monster race as it exists.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Simon Strikes Back/The Ickis Box

Sat, Jan 21, 1995

He's Baaaaaaack! The relentless Simon the Monster Hunter is up to his old trick with new traps.Gromble's students think he's all wet when he tells them about their legacy--the Pool of Elders.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Spontaneously Combustible/Curse of Katana

Sat, Oct 28, 1995

Ickis is diagnosed as spontaneously combustible which means he could explode at any moment. His friends feel sorry for him, but at the same time are reluctant to be near him for fear that he could "go at any moment."

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Monsters Are Real/This Is Your Brain on Ickis

Sun, Nov 5, 1995

An overzealous news photographer accidentally takes a picture of Ickis while trying to capture one of a rock star.Ickis, while trying to give Simon the Monster Hunter a nightmare, gets sucked into his brain.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Into the Woods/Krumm Gets the Dreaded Nolox

Sun, Nov 12, 1995

Ickis has to perform a group scare so he turns to a human he knows for help. Krumm gets a bad case of hiccoughs known to monsters as The Dreaded Nolox. It's up to Oblina and Ickis to find a cure.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Mayberry UFO/I Dream of Snorch with the Long Golden Hair

Sun, Nov 19, 1995

Heavy rains wash Ickis, Krumm and Oblina through the sewer and into a backwards rural town. They are mistaken for aliens and must escape from the rural mob. On a dare inspired by Oblina, Ickis and Krumm steal the Snorch's prized golden nosehair.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Garbage Ahoy/Goin' (Way) South

Sat, Oct 7, 1995

On a beautiful spring day, Ickis, Krumm and Oblina frolic in a fresh pile of garbage only to find that they have inadvertently boarded a garbage barge headed for the wide open seas.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Monster Who Came in from the Cold/Puppy Ciao

Sat, Oct 14, 1995

Oblina infiltrates the human race in a "human suit." When the suit malfunctions, and she thinks she's human, Ickis and Krumm have to rescue her.While above the ground, a puppy saves Ickis from being run over.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Rival/Hats Off

Sat, Oct 21, 1995

Oblina, long used to being the star pupil, finds herself challenged to the limit by a gifted transfer student from another dump.Ickis steals a magicians hat, assuming that its powers will make him the most popular monster at the academy.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Eau de Krumm/O'Lucky Monster

Sat, Oct 28, 1995

When a human designer realeases a new fragrance, the monsters discover it works as a toxic gas against them.Oblina's not superstitious, but when she steps on a slug her luck changes.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Rosh O' Monster/The Tree of Ickis

Sat, Nov 4, 1995

When the viewfinder stops working, Ickism Oblina and Krumm tell very different versions of the same scare.Ickis eats a seed that grew on a tree, and soon finds he's turning into a tree himself.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ History of the Monster World: Part One/Fear, Thy Name Is Ickis

Sat, Nov 11, 1995

The Gromble teaches students about their proud heritage.A famous artist creates a huge statue entitled "Fear," which is actually a clay sculpture of a looming Ickis.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Quest for the Holy Pail/Garbage in, Garbage Out

Sat, Nov 18, 1995

Ickis is chosen by mysterious forces as the monster who quests for the holy pail - the most sacred of monster objects.When the city mayor declares a "Dump the Dump" recycling effort, the lack of garbage causes a crisis at the Academy.

12Season 2

S2.E12 ∙ A Room with No Viewfinder/Krumm Rises to the Top

Sat, Nov 25, 1995

Desperate to avoid being strapped to the viewfinder, Ickis attemps to dismantle it - and the viewfinder escapes.Ickis and Oblina find themselves monster-sitting a swollen, helium-voiced and cranky Krumm when he swallow a helium tank.

13Season 2

S2.E13 ∙ The Five Faces of Ickis/Bigfoot, Don't Fail Me Now

Sat, Dec 2, 1995

The Gromble insists that Ickis come up with five scares in one day. Ickis lets a huckster clone him five times so he can get the job done.Simon the Monster Hunter is hot on the trail of Bigfoot, who turns out to be one of the Gromble's ex-students.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Festival of the Festering Moon/Simon's Big Score

Sat, Sep 7, 1996

The festival celebrates the shedding of skins that each monster must undergo as he or she moves from childhood to adolescence.Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina sneak into Simon's house to scare him.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Who'll Stop the Brain?/Cement Heads

Sat, Sep 14, 1996

Oblina, overstudying to the point of exhaustion for an upcoming exam, sneezes her brain out of her head. Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina go on a scare in an abandoned building. They spot four gargoyle heads sticking out of the wall.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Ickis and the Red Zimbo/Oblina and the Three Humans

Sat, Sep 21, 1996

Ickis discovers a remote control helicopter in the dump and uses it to scare humans from long distance.When the Gromble dumps his obnoxious nephew on Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina, the only way they can find to keep him quiet is to tell him a story.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Baby It's You/Monsters Are Fun

Sat, Sep 28, 1996

Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina are saddled with babysitting the Gromble's infant nephew -- Bomble. A new carnival opens near town and The Gromble is insulted and outraged by one of its attractions -- the "Monsters Are Fun" ride.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Out of the Past/Ship of Fools

Sat, Oct 5, 1996

Ickis is in the middle of a botched scare on the viewfinder when The Gromble sees the dreaded "Jolly Rooter Sewer Service." Oblina is left in charge when the Gromble goes off to the Annual Academy Teachers Convention, and power goes to her head.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Eye Full of Wander/Lifestyles of the Rich and Scary

Sat, Oct 12, 1996

Ickis, Krumm and Oblina go for a romp in the sewer, tossing one of Krumm's eyes around in a game of catch.When Oblina is invited home for the weekend, Ickis and Krumm come along and discover that being rich is no walk in the dump.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Krumm Gets Ahead/It's Only a Movie

Sat, Oct 19, 1996

Krumm misplaces an eyeball for the seventh time in a week, and decides what he really needs is a head. Ickis' boasting gets the better of him after he sits through a cutesy movie, just to prove that he can.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ You Only Scare Twice/Less Talk, More Monsters

Sat, Oct 26, 1996

Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina pick a mild-mannered Englishmen to scare, thinking it will be a piece of cake.A wacky radio DJ announces that $50,000 has been hidden in the dump. Soon humans are swarming there and the monsters can't get rid of them.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Fistful of Toenails/Blind Love, Monster Love

Sat, Nov 2, 1996

Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina discover an old sixteen milimeter "B" movie in the dump, which they watch constantly despite the Gromble's protests.Ickis falls head over heels in love when he spots the screeching hook-nosed Judy from a Punch and Judy show.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Amulet of Enfarg/Bad Hair Day

Sat, Nov 9, 1996

Ickis is given the job of polishing The Gromble's sacred "Amulet of Enfarg", a medal given to the most honored of monsters.When Krumm loses his pit hairs as the result of a prank, Ickis vows to do anything to get him his hair back.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Monster Blues/I Heard the Snorch Call My Name

Sat, Nov 16, 1996

When Ickis runs away fom the Academy he falls in with an old bluesman who cannot be scared because he's blind. The Snorch, tired of not being able to communicate, gets a new voicebox installed by Dr. Buzz which gives him a beautiful speaking voice.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Wake Me When It's Over/Things That Go Bump in the Night

Fri, Nov 29, 1996

Ickis accidentally eats a chocolate Easter bunny. The human food gives him a bad case of sleepscaring -- the monster equivalent of sleepwalking and a new transfer student arrives at the dump.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ The Master Monster/Slumber Scare

Sat, Nov 30, 1996

Deep beneath a smelly garbage dump, in a city very much like your own, a generation of promising young monsters is growing up. Ickis, Oblina and Krumm are students in one of the world's most elite monster academies, where they'

1Season 4

S4.E1 ∙ Oblina Without a Cause/Slick Ick

Sun, Aug 24, 1997

When a group of "cool" girl-monsters shuns the obsessively rule-bound Oblina, she transforms breaking every rule she can./When Ickis takes a break from scaring to eat the grime of a dirty car, he inadvertently ends up in a car wash.

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ Battle of the Century/A Perfect World

Sun, Sep 7, 1997

Simon the Monster Hunter builds the ultimate monster hunting machine in an attempt to capture a real monster./Feeling like Ickis and Oblina are not paying him enough attention, Krumm moves out of their dorm room and into the room of two other monsters.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ The Lips Have It/Escape Claws

Sun, Sep 14, 1997

Oblina loses her lips when they get caught on a construction barricade and ripped off./A case of mistaken identity leaves Ickis thinking six lobsters are actually monsters.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ Walk Like a Man/A Friend in Need

Sun, Sep 21, 1997

When Ickis gets stuck in a toilet in Rock Star Suede's house, the monsters' only hope is to disguise Ickis in Suede's coat and hat and try to walk home./When Ickis meets a monster with a human face, he not only gains a private tutor, he makes a friend.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ Watch the Watch/She Likes Me?

Sun, Sep 28, 1997

While getting ready to do a scare at a hypnotist's show, Ickis stares at the hynotist's watch and inadvertently gets hypnotized./Through a series of misinterpretations, Krumm is convinced that Oblina has a crush on him.

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Nuclear and Present Danger/Loch Ness Mess

Sun, Oct 5, 1997

Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped inside a nuclear power plant when they set off a warning device closing down the entire facility. The monsters are overjoyed when the famous Loch Ness Monster pays a visit to The Academy to give a guest lecture.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Super Ickis/The Substitute

Sun, Oct 12, 1997

Ickis is accidentally thrown through the air by a bulldozer and inadvertently saves a group of students./A substitute teacher arrives, announcing that The Gromble has "gone away" and that he will be taking over.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ The Great Escape/Beast with Four Eyes

Sat, Nov 1, 1997

Shortly McGinty escapes from prison and leads the police on a chase that takes him to the dump, where the cops mistake Ickis for McGinty and haul him off to prison.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Side by Side/Hooked on Phobics

Sun, Oct 26, 1997

The Gromble assigns Ickis to be "pair-scare" partners with the dreaded, unpopular Zimbo. Ickis and Zimbo are miserable with the match and instantly start bickering./Ickis discovers as easy way out of getting his homework done.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Spy vs. Monster/Misery Date

Sat, Nov 15, 1997

The Academy instantly shuts down, transforming itself into a camouflaged cave, when a human spy is discovered inside. /The Gromble is in love with the Library Monster, and he's not as strict as he used to be.

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ Clockwise/Gromble Soup

Sun, Nov 9, 1997

Ickis is perpetually late for class, so The Gromble hangs a big clock around his neck to remind him to be on time./The Gromble is sick and Simpah, the horrible Cafeteria Monster, has been put in charge of the students.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Showdown/Internal Affairs

Sat, Nov 29, 1997

Simon the Monster Hunter hires three of the greatest hunters in the world to help him capture Ickis and prove to the world that monsters do exist./A hungry parasite named Sal invades Oblina's stomach, causing her to eat everything in sight.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ Laugh, Krumm, Laugh/Rookie Monsters

Sat, Dec 6, 1997

The Academy is gearing up for the Scaring Olympics. The Gromble wants desperately to win the competition and is pushing his students to do their best./Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped in a garbage compactor and the only thing they can do is bicker.