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Speaker: Okay, I'm going to start off with a question for you. What was your favorite Halloween candy when you were growing up? Oh, that's easy. Because I wasn't crazy about candy when I was little. I liked sweet tarts, but didn't really care about candy.
Speaker: So anybody was giving out chips? Oh, yeah. Oh, seriously? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'd be happy if like houses were giving out bagels you know really Toasted with cream cheese. Exactly. Whatever you got.
Speaker: ah So, yeah. So number one would be chips and then number two would be chocolate. And, you know, it's funny because you know how the Reese peanut butter cup is the number one. Yeah. halloween I don't really remember having that when I was little.
Speaker: Like, I love them, but I don't. Did you have when you were a kid? Did we have them? yeah I think they were around in the Okay. It's funny because i I do have a top 10 we're going to talk about and in a little bit later. But yeah, for sure. I think they they were kind of brought in the 80s. And that's what I remember.
Speaker: But I didn't have Halloween as a kid either. So I just remember the right crap. No, no, it's okay. It's totally fine. Because I just remember we still saw and had candy because it was there. It was at people's houses and everybody...
Speaker: everybody had a lunch bag full of candy for like three weeks after Halloween. And then everybody had dentist appointments promptly before Christmas. Yeah. I don't know what happened to my candy because I never, I never really wanted it you know? And I had one of those, you know, those plastic pumpkin buckets.
Speaker: Yes. Really smelled of plastic. And so emmo yeah in it smelled like plastic and the food tasted like plastic. Like, cause it smelled like it. And it was always like that year after year. Like that smell never went away. i know. I know. All right. Let's kick this off.
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Speaker: Awesome. So we're back and we're going to talk about Halloween because Halloween is probably the coolest of all the made up holidays for sure.
Speaker: and And I say that because it's even cooler than Christmas because if Christmas came with costumes, then then Christmas would be number one for sure. ah Hello, Santa Claus. I that costume hanging right over there in my closet.
Speaker: All right, go put it on right now. This is going to be a video episode. oh oh oh Hold on Hold on.
Speaker: Hold your horses. Except the beard is in the basement. It's still in the plastic bag. The beard is in this plastic bag that it came with, and I keep that bag with my Christmas cards that I give out. Anyway, that's why I always know where it is.
Speaker: so But I have to ask... Where do you wear this costume? I wore it once to work. Okay. I bought it at Sears and I think it was after the holidays. Like I think it was like on sale or something. Yeah. Or after.
Speaker: And then I wore it to work like maybe somewhere between 2000
Speaker: 2005, just as ah a fun little thing for a friend at work, just to surprise them. And it did. And we took lots of pictures. All those pictures are gone. like I never even got to see them. Yeah. Yeah. It's too bad because, know, we weren't using the phones, right? They would be horrible.
Speaker: You know, so. It would have been the pterodactyl and the slate kind of pictures. Yeah. There was lots of cute pictures that I know were taken. Yeah. um but i never i never really got and that's my memory and it's just hanging up right over there beside what my leather pants
Speaker: santa doesn't wear leather pants what are you doing say more costumes right yeah you totally so so there you go so christmas is more fun in costume christmas is beautiful halloween is cool Halloween is freaking awesome. So once again, reminder, yes, I didn't get to celebrate it, although that's not necessarily true.
Speaker: My parents have Super 8 footage. So for those kids out there who might be listening, Super 8 was an old film camera that all the young people had back in the 70s.
Speaker: So it was actual real film, but it was like eight millimeters wide, really small, no sound, full color. My parents got a camera and a screen and a projector for their wedding anniversary.
Speaker: So there's footage of me and I'm probably about two and a half. I'm already walking and I'm wearing a yellow fluffy sort of suit.
Speaker: And all i all I can think about is i it looks just like... Oh my God. And I can't remember name from the Simpsons. The littlest Simpsons. Maggie Simpson. I look like Maggie Simpson. It's got a pointy yellow hat with a little white pom-pom on the top.
Speaker: And the costume part is I've got little black whiskers drawn on my face. So what are you? A cat. Oh. It was a little fluffy cat.
Speaker: That's funny. Yeah. And then in this footage, somebody hands me a sparkler and I'm like, I'm not going near that thing. Exactly.
Speaker: Yes. ah Oh, my God. So funny. But yeah, so that was my problem. My my one and only Halloween. Well, sorry, can I in interrupt with a trivia question? You sure can. I don't have the answer for it.
Speaker: So in this American world, why was it called 8mm back then?
Speaker: 8mm is an actual film format. Yeah, but like why was cool? Super 8 was kind of the the cheap version of like the film for home use.
Speaker: Yeah. 8mm I think was used for, you know, real film shooting and I think that Super 8 was used for home stuff. Which is funny that it's it's a metric measurement way back Oh yeah, yeah. and no I get what you're saying. Yeah. That's weird.
Speaker: you know Especially in a market where there's no metric. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like, that's just really odd. Like, did it come from Europe? Like, you know, it's a little strange. It's a half-incher.
Speaker: Sorry. Yeah, right? Yeah, it's a little strange. anyway sorry and You you don't want to use the new one-inch format? Yeah, exactly. No, I'm good old half-incher. Yeah.
Speaker: No, I totally get that. That's so funny. But it's probably because it was European originally. Maybe. The name just stuck. Yeah. Well, certainly sounds better, but anyway. Yeah, totally.
Speaker: So, yeah. So for me, um i i loved Halloween when I was an adult. As soon as I was kind of living out on my own, i would go to parties. I would dress up every opportunity I had.
Speaker: I told you my famous ah dressed up as dead Pee Wee Herman. we all dont know but now he's dead. oh I know. anyway sorry No, that's... like Oh, you know, I just got to watch two episodes on on my TV the other day, and it was Peabody Goes to Space, and I'm like, I didn't know there was a space episode.
Speaker: I can't say that. you remember that one? The only one I remember is when he got sick. That's the I remember. Oh, it was so creepy. I'm like... Just weird. And then he had to meet this alien guy and they spent so much time just kind of staring out the window.
Speaker: was it an earlier one or a later one? No, I think, I know it was just a great sort of smack dab in the middle. oh And then right after that was the ah the pajama party. I love the pajama party.
Speaker: so I remember Pajama got its own VHS release, but I don't remember the episode. I just love the one where he gets sick because everybody in the playoffs gets on nerves.
Speaker: Like, that's so funny. So funny. So true. Paul, you were a genius. We miss you. Yes. ah So anyway, so sidetracked already, because, of course, that's what I do.
Speaker: um But yeah, i I loved dressing up and doing crazy stuff. Also, you know, being like the theater kid and then theater ah theater adult, I loved dressing up and doing that stuff. So it was always cool.
Speaker: So what what was the last time you dressed up as a kid? No, not no no no not your Christmas Santa suit. ah Vampire Santa.
Speaker: It might've been like grade five or six. And I can't remember which, and I can't remember. I think I went as a dead, uh, pilot.
Speaker: I think awesome that was, well, you see, cause I never wanted to go out for Halloween. I liked Halloween. i just never wanted to go out cause couldn't be bothered. And,
Speaker: I just cared about the decor, but anyway. But then at the last minute, it was always like, oh, I want to go out. And then my dad would be like, oh well, what ah what's around here? You know what I mean?
Speaker: So he gave me all this pilot stuff to wear. And then this crazy black wig, I don't know, have been like a party wig. like It wasn't like a fashion wig. And then the the pilot hat on top.
Speaker: I think that was the last one. Plus, you know, it was always cold back then. So I could actually wear that and not have to wear a coat over top of anything because of the bomber. But that's the last time i think I went trick-or-treating.
Speaker: And the funny thing is, is like I remember when we were kids, you know you didn't go with your parents. You just went out. yeah you You went as far away as possible. You're out you know And then he finally came home again. you know And I remember it wasn't so much like my parents wanted to see what I brought home, but if there was anything homemade, they wanted to know where I got it but there wasn't absolutely everything.
Speaker: You know, it was just, Oh, who gave you that popcorn ball or who gave you that candy apple? And I would remember because I didn't want them. I really don't know what happened to all that candy. So you didn't take a picture with your little digital camera. oh yeah. wait Wait, that one was 20 years before.
Speaker: I didn't take a sketch. I remember one year going out as a ghost Oh, cool. two i i couldn't see a thing because the eyes right down at my knee or something like that i was out with a friend and i remember walking through gardens like it just just walking all over the place so they couldn't see anything you funny memories Very Charlie Brown. Okay, so so I have to go back to the wig.
Speaker: So I'm picturing you in a wagon this adult-sized pilot suit, and then you've got your Jan Brady wig on. it's hilarious. We're talking the one from the movie, so it's just huge. The Midnight Temptress.
Speaker: yeah Totally. And you're just, your parents are dragging you around and you're just like pointing at like decor. So yeah, exactly. la I like that pumpkin. Yeah. I like that. Oh, I like the orange lights. yeah Very cool. Yeah. Hang up, hang up.
Speaker: Yeah. totally i was older than that, but like I just remember we would go so far away, you know, and maybe parents would freak out if they knew how far away you were, but there was no danger, you know, like you can't call me, know.
Speaker: Well, yeah, so like I think about the neighborhood that I grew up in, and houses were wide and had big yards. Right. So to get to three houses, you were three blocks away already. Especially that size. like that Right?
Speaker: Yeah. It a long time. Yeah. Right? And then only every you know every fifth house even had their lights on to give candy. The drag is here. it seems like winter always arrives, Halloween night.
Speaker: Yeah. Time between dinner and when kids go out, all of a sudden it's freezing cold, it's raining, you know, it just, it's never, it's never the best evening, unfortunately, whereas a week prior it's always cooking outside, you know. That was it.
Speaker: Yeah. What I never understood when I was a kid and you would watch things on, it ah that would take place on Halloween on TV. And of course its filmed in California. It was always bright outside. Right. to be out and i'm like that doesn't look like halloween here you know anyway that was before they started filming everything in vancouver yeah that's right where it rains at easter yes it rains christmas halloween but every birthday yeah tos why holiday in the other day
Speaker: Already? Oh, I've already started. yeah And let's it's so funny because they get Washington's birthday off and they get Lincoln's birthday off. I'm like, what? Anyway. Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah, totally. That's crazy. um So i I decorate the front of my house. Yes, he does. And I'm little big. And i every year I've tried to go bigger. And this year I was so lucky.
Speaker: i got a 12-foot skeleton from Home Depot. Yep. And I put it up beside Tyler's 10 foot tall scary tree.
Speaker: And I had lights everywhere and I do a candy shoot still. So during COVID, I was doing candy shoots. So I still do the candy shoot, but ah it's all at the bottom of my staircase. It's lit up and there's this cool bucket with scary eyeballs in it.
Speaker: And the kids freak out. It's probably cool because it's going to be random.
Speaker: shoot it down the the the driveway you know You know, it's really funny. One year, I actually had to put up an umbrella. It was so rainy. Wow. That sucks. Yeah, because the candy bucket to the bottom was just filling with water. so All the candy's floating down the street. Totally. Grab that candy, kid. That's yours. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker: See those Skittles? Yeah. Hurry. Before the store. And if they go down the drain, just go. Yeah, exactly. I don't care if there's a clown in the drain. Just go. Yeah. you have my permission totally follow the red balloon and don't forget your giant new cool retro pumpkin yes oh yes yes that was a handmade for me a paper mache pumpkin about three feet across this thing is massive it looks like something from the nineteen forty s yeah absolutely beautiful and it was made and then it was like oh wait it doesn't fit through the doorways oh
Speaker: Oh, are you serious? Yeah. We had to tilt it at a certain angle to kind of squeeze it through all of our door frames. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah. Did it survive the night?
Speaker: Oh, totally. It's totally fine because it's it's mostly made with ah like paper and then acrylic paint. Yeah. So it's very sturdy. It's very sturdy. We couldn't even take the...
Speaker: The beach ball that it was built on couldn't you even take that out. It's just one great big gigantic thing. Really super cool. And that also sat on my porch. Like the beach ball must have been huge.
Speaker: It was a three foot beach ball. Yeah, it would have to be. Yeah, it was a three foot beach ball. And then it has like a good. They have at concerts. Yeah, totally. Except this would have just cracked some skulls, which would have been cool. Yeah, man.
Speaker: That's like better than Christmas. ah Totally. ah So, yeah. And then I have a smoke machine. But, of course, this year we were so lucky. it was pouring rain right up until about four o'clock. That's true. Yeah.
Speaker: And then I'm like, okay, it's not supposed to rain anymore. got to hold off. And then I think that I got out to finish the rest of my lights around 4, 4.30. I already had kids pounding at my stairs at 6 o'clock.
Speaker: Because, of course, it was the Blue Jays game, the playoff game that night. So all the dads were like, hurry up! yeah Hurry up! Yeah. And by like, even though everyone was saying like eight o'clock, we're done Halloween. Everyone's at home watching the game. It was true.
Speaker: Yeah. I have never seen such an organized march of kids through our street. That was the thing. Cause I thought, well, at least we all know it'll be done. you know, before eight.
Speaker: And even though I don't really get many kids in my area, like I'm talking like less than 10, this was the biggest year ever, which was great, but it stopped early too. Like I think by couple of minutes after seven, like it was done.
Speaker: yeah You know, so neighbors had made a ah bit of a party at the end of the street in a, like on the, in our, our court. And so we went down there, they had a fire going and they had donuts and,
Speaker: Nice. Yeah. yeah So it was just like, oh, this is nice until, you know, eight o'clock and then take Although, at least it wasn't raining. It was chilly, but there was no rain. ah The kids were just, this was probably our biggest Halloween in my neighborhood.
Speaker: I usually get average between 80 and 100 kids on my street. None of the kids live on my street. There's a couple on their street, but most of them live in the street over in the apartment building. So they come over to our street because it's way cooler.
Speaker: yeah yeah And there's a bunch of houses on my street that actually do really good ah Halloween sets. Yeah. But I won again this year with my 12-foot skeleton, ah made some kids cry, made some kids scream and run away.
Speaker: That's what it is for me. so And then all the dads come up, you know, want to give fist bumps because they're so impressed. Well, it's amazing how kids are either super brave or super scared. You know, there's no sort of in-between.
Speaker: you know I love the kids to come up and talk. So this kid was like talking. Hello, Mr. Skeleton. You're so big, Mr. Skeleton. and he's probably, this kid's like, you know, a foot tall and he's just looking straight up.
Speaker: that's And he was just fascinated, but he was just talking. I'm like, yeah, he's probably just talking because he's so scared that he's like, if I keep talking, they won't get me. Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: He keeps talking and two of his friends are breaking it into your back door. Yeah, totally. Totally. Also a foot tall. ah Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, we we probably had about 150 kids go through this year.
Speaker: And it stopped right at eight. Yeah, yeah. moving was it. Nice. ah One thing I remember from that last year i was talking about when I went out, we went to this one house where somebody had like a stuffed...
Speaker: wasn I don't think it was a scarecrow. I think it was like a stuffed like man, quote-unquote, at the door holding a pumpkin. and That's the first memory I have of something scary, quote-unquote, being outside.
Speaker: Because when I was a kid, it was just pumpkins. no There was nothing scary. There was no like outdoor decor. There was no horror or scary stuff. I just remember walking up, and I was old enough at that point, like I say, like grade five or six, but just thinking, why do you have this, and why would you want to maybe scare somebody? You know what I mean? It's kind of funny. I never forgot. I can picture like yesterday, but that was sort of the first time I saw anybody put and the I don't say effort. That's not the right word, but just the first time anybody put something scary outside. Thought. you know Thought behind it. Yeah. Like now, of course, there'd be somebody sitting in it and jumping out. Yes. But back then it was just a simple, you know, like man made of straw, you know, with clothes. It was pretty cool though.
Speaker: That's cool. my One of my neighbors was giving adults, I think it was mulled wine. Oh yeah. Yeah. She's like, oh, and for the adults, I have mulled wine. Would you like some? They're all like, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: ah hilarious Yeah, we'll have some. couple of years ago, ah one of the people down my street ah turned their garage into sort of a haunted house. yeah So they would have you walk through their yard and there was all these scary arrows and bones and skeletons and then you'd walk into their shed.
Speaker: And, uh, it was just, the whole thing was done up like just like a horror, you know, like a scene out of, uh, um, a Rob zombie film. It was just, just grim. Cool. And then of course the dad would jump up out of the corner and then just and make everybody scream.
Speaker: So, but it was so funny because I just kind of looked over at him and he looked at me and was like, yeah, okay. Yeah. I just kept going, but I was also into Batman suit. I think he was a little bit afraid. oh that's funny.
Speaker: You know what I, you know what I missed the most were, and forgive me for this one, the school parties. Oh, yeah. i love them. I love wearing my costume at school. I love the cheesies and the the cupcakes and everybody would bring records.
Speaker: You know, i remember them. Like, I don't know why I have such great memories of those and the cookies. And then we would do the parade through the other classes. Yeah.
Speaker: cool. Of course, now that's such a no-no you know because you're not including everybody and blah, blah, blah. And I remember the kids who didn't have costumes or wear costumes. They were just part of the parade anyway.
Speaker: no, no, no. We stood in the hallway. We weren't allowed to be in the parade. Sorry, yeah. Those school parties, like Christmas, I love that stuff. I love the records people would bring. I'm like, what did you bring?
Speaker: You know what I mean? I remember the first time somebody brought, sorry, off topic, the Grinch record, which was the recording of the TV special. And I was just like, where did you get that record? You what I mean? Just so cool.
Speaker: know That's magic. Yeah, well, it was, right? Yeah. That's so cool. I remember taking records to school for show and tell. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker: So kids, if you don't know what that is, a record, you call them vinyls now. But back then, we just called them records. And you put them on your record player, not your vinyl player, or whatever you kids call it these days.
Speaker: You put it on a piece of crap turntable that you had at school that was probably destroying your record while the needle scratched it from beginning to end. Yeah, it was digging right in, making a whole new groove. You pick your record up and it's just a bunch of rings.
Speaker: I love those parties. I remember them. i don't really remember what I had to do. i probably just sat at my desk and colored dinosaur pictures or something. Oh, dinosaurs. Oh, I know. i know.
Speaker: and I know. Don't get me started. Yeah. right. Anyway. One of the most popular, i don't know. It's colored your flat earth. Sorry. if Totally. My flat earth. That's awesome.
Speaker: So I went and I found a website and I'm like, they're just trying to sell stuff, but it's kind of funny because they have a list of, here's some of the the ye olde top candies. So in the eighties, they're saying Fun Dip was the top candy.
Speaker: I don't think Fun Dip was ever really a Halloween candy. would. Although, did they make a special one that was just one little pouch of crack with a crack stick?
Speaker: Like, if they did it in the States, I could picture that. But, like, I worshipped Fun Dip when i was little. Oh, yes. And I would remember if somebody was giving that out at Halloween. Right?
Speaker: You'd be, like, back... Trick or treat. Yes. No, I'm not. That was another ghost powder all over my face.
Speaker: I used to, I think you're high on sugar. used hate when i would go to the store and they'd be out of the orange and grape one and only have the apple and cherry one. I'm like, no, where's the grape? and The best.
Speaker: oh So if you don't know what Fun Dip is, it was a hard candy stick and it came with ah usually two or three pouches of just sugar with coloring. yeah So it would be like cherry sugar, grape sugar, orange sugar, and you'd lick the stick and stick it in the sugar and then suck it off. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. You'd be so high so by the time you left the convenience store.
Speaker: oh good. good. You can get them at boat barn. Oh, yeah, they're still available, right? Yeah. They probably have no flavor left and they're made with aspartame. And no expiration date.
Speaker: Yeah, totally. So apparently Reese's Pieces were big as well. And that that makes sense. That's the 80s though, right? Or this was an 80s thing. Yeah, this was as well. Okay, yeah. I don't care for those.
Speaker: No, I wasn't a big fan. Too much sugar coating on them. They like Smarties. I don't like Smarties. Yeah, yeah. I not big fan. What we Smarties in Canada. Yeah. Smarties. Yeah. Not great. They just didn't have a lot of flavor. Yeah.
Speaker: Too much work. In the nineties, it was nerds. Oh, okay. Yeah. And that makes sense. I mean, I remember seeing nerds everywhere. And when I worked in the toy business, I sold a crap load of nerds. Yeah. Two nerds. I was just going to say that.
Speaker: There's nerds everywhere. Apparently ninety s also really loved Coffee Crisp. And that makes sense. but That's Canada, obviously. Yeah, i it could be.
Speaker: i love Coffee Crisp, too. Yeah. um In the 2000s, it was O'Henry Bars. I wonder why. like is it as ah Because that's maybe when I picture the tiny ones, I do picture O'Henry always being available.
Speaker: Yeah. And that's always the one that everybody would pick out and leave for dad. That's funny. Right. ah Also Starburst. And that makes sense because Starburst was kind of big. They were doing a lot of promo around that. Yeah.
Speaker: And then came ah Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. Oh. The best. So good. The best. That's a product that hasn't really changed its flavor over the years. No.
Speaker: It's not quite as peanut buttery as it used to be. No, but I'm not complaining. You know what wasn't out this year was the Franken-cups. Did you ever have those? no That's the Reese Peanut Butter Cup where the bottom is green.
Speaker: No. And the green is is it's not a candy coating, but it's something a little different that makes a little more solid. And I really like them. And no I didn't see them anywhere this year. Maybe they were in the States, but like here in Canada, I didn't see them anywhere.
Speaker: Very strange. I have never seen those. Yeah. yeah they're cool I will have to do some research. Skittles. Sour Skittles were also big. Yeah, that makes sense. I gave out Skittles this year.
Speaker: just bought a great big box of the the sour kind of candies from Costco. But yeah. yeah so and Yeah, so your favorite candy again was...
Speaker: but potato chips yeah that's right you know it's so funny because i i loved those little bags of potato chips yeah because it was like anything it was miniature yeah to get a miniature food was like my size food yeah and it was also like i can eat this whole bag by myself yeah because it's my size yeah so cool i don't remember so cool like when we were little was there a little chocolate bars or were they just normal chocolate bars ah There was little chocolate bars, yes. I remember there was little Smarties boxes.
Speaker: Yep. like this And little raisins. Oh, my God. Oh, that was a big deal. Yeah, yeah. Or the Kraft Caramels. Oh, I loved those. Oh, the chocolate fudge ones. so they Yeah, yeah, the good ones. Yeah.
Speaker: yeah I'd be happy if I got those. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. That's true. Okay, one more thing to talk about. We're going to talk about animated shows. Uh-oh.
Speaker: I know, right? Why would we do that? Okay. Animated shows. So this is kind of funny. I found a list ah on IMDb.
Speaker: And it's I guess somebody just pulled it together. It's kind of like, ah here's here's a list that I made of things that I remember, my favorite things. Okay. So it's ah a bit of an odd one. And it's just episodes. And they're not necessarily Halloween episodes. Well, maybe they are, actually. Okay.
Speaker: But what my, my trivia question for you is, wait, what?
Speaker: How many out of 10 episodes were Scooby-Doo episodes? I think wild guess. You need to ask me that again. didn't understand. So i and out of 10 of this person's list of favorite Halloween animated shows. thanks to watch Halloween.
Speaker: Yeah, just Halloween episodes. How many of them on their list were Scooby-Doo? Okay, so speaking of nerds, ah there's only actually two episodes that take place at Halloween. So if they're just watching...
Speaker: episodes for the sake of it. How many out 10? Well, for me, it would be 10. um so I'll say eight, No, only three of theirs were Halloween. Only three of theirs were Scooby-Doo. Sorry. Okay.
Speaker: Can I name the episodes that they should be? No. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, do it. it. Okay. Is one of them Hassle in the castle? It sure is. Halloween Hassle at Dracula's castle. Oh, no, that's a different one.
Speaker: Oh, is it? You say no to that one. That one. can Okay. That's the 84 one. Gross. Yeah. ah See, maybe that's, maybe they are watching. Like, are they, is Halloween in the title of the other?
Speaker: is like Is one of them the headless horseman of? ah Headless horseman of Halloween, yes. Okay, so that makes sense. That is a Halloween episode. I don't mind that one, even though it's a later, like, 76 episode. I do yeah so and he said like that one, even though it's got Scooby-Doo. It's not bad. um So what's the third one that they're watching?
Speaker: It's just called ah Be Cool Scooby-Doo Halloween. Oh, that's interesting. So Be Cool is one of the former... It's relatively new, right? yeah Yeah. Well, it's funny. I say that, it's probably 15 years old now. it's Yeah, it's 10 years old. Yeah. yeah I don't know if I saw... I might have seen that one.
Speaker: Because the thing of it is that they didn't all come out on DVD, but some episodes came out on DVD, so I may or may not have seen that one. ah Yeah, the gang goes trick-or-treating on Halloween, but Velma seems to think that it's a disrespect to history.
Speaker: And everybody else is going out there and Fred's like, well, you can't solve a mystery on Halloween. But of course they run into a witch. And it's the same witch that Fred ran into 11 years ago.
Speaker: Yes. Okay. That's... that I made you watch that episode. Did you really? That's the one based on... I didn't realize that was Be Cool. i thought that was... um
Speaker: Mystery Inc. Anyway. um Isn't that... That's the one... Well, anyway, it doesn't matter. Sorry, everybody. I'm not going to take us on a Scooby tangent. Sorry. Do it.
Speaker: Isn't that the one where the... No, no. I do know that episode. I do own that episode. I'm confusing it with the one where there's ah that that tale where the house is on chicken legs.
Speaker: you know that tale? No. I can't think of the name. It's like Baba Yaba or something like that. I can't think of what that folklore is. And I'm confusing that with this one because both of them are houses. Both of them have witches, but only one gets up on the chicken legs and runs away.
Speaker: okay. And they're both kind of centered around Fred. But, yeah, I think the one where Fred and the witch, that house is stationary. Anyway, sorry, everybody. No, that's cool. See, this guy knows his Scooby-Doo.
Speaker: i maybe i don't but anyway All right. So i'm going to tell you what what else is on this list, and then you're going to tell me. You're going to replace two of those with your favorite shows. Oh, crap. i'm not ready. Okay. Yeah, you're ready. You're ready.
Speaker: You know these things. Okay, so they've got number one on their list is Real Ghostbusters. and It's an episode called When Halloween Was Forever. I and i i did not like watching the Real Ghostbusters. and so i wasster I was already out of them by that time. Yeah.
Speaker: Except I like Filmation's Ghostbusters. Yes, the original. lu And that's why that other company called it the real Ghostbusters. Yes. so Anyway. Yeah.
Speaker: So then they've got the new Scooby-Doo Mysteries Halloween Hassle, and then the Scooby-Doo show Headless Horseman. Yeah. Then they've included Batman, The Brave and the Bold, Trials of the Demon.
Speaker: that's interesting. Okay. Yeah. I like the series, but don't remember the episode. Yeah, and then they added Ultimate Spider-Man episode called Blade. Okay. And it's ah the vampire hunter Blade.
Speaker: Yeah, like that's interesting. but i would Yeah, and then they did Ultimate Spider-Man Howling Commandos. Okay. don't know that. Then The Batman, Grundy's Night.
Speaker: Oh, okay, so The Batman. I love that series. Anyway, carry on. No, that's good. That's awesome. Phineas and Ferb.
Speaker: Sorry. I was going to say, I'm the Batman. The Batman. Phineas and Ferb. I don't know them at all, but they did a Halloween episode. That's Nickelodeon kind of stuff. ye And Milo Murphy's Law.
Speaker: Don't know that. Milo. Milo. I don't know who that is. It looks like it's a Nickelodeon show as well. be, yeah. Okay, so if you're going to replace two of those, what would you replace them with?
Speaker: Huh. Yeah, see, I'm unprepared. So we're talking like 20-minute specials here? yeah well Yeah, just yeah something that might have shown up in a regular episode series, but as a special Halloween episode.
Speaker: Well, because I've been watching Christmas specials already, the Halloween ones are already gone but from my head. But I will say, ah every Halloween, even though I have like over 100 titles on home video,
Speaker: I have to watch Scooby-Doo 69 and 70 first. I have to watch that, not get it out of the way, but that comes first and everything else comes second. So I would probably replace it with like two of my favorite Scooby-Doo, where are you episodes?
Speaker: And what are those you ask? Yes. Yes, please tell us. Probably. um
Speaker: Probably Kooky Space Kook. And, oh, that's a tough one. Maybe either Hassle in the Castle or...
Speaker: See, when you're a fan, you're thinking about, oh, the music in the background, the design, and you know this and that, and actually what the hex is going on, because that's one where there's a real dead person. you know So it's just like, well, that one's pretty cool.
Speaker: Okay, Tyler. ah We'll go with the Batman. We'll go with and anything from 1969. Scooby-Doo, thank you. Okay.
Speaker: We'll let you cover it. Okay, what about you? Witch's Night Out. Say Witch's Night Out. Okay, I'm going to say Witch's Night Out. Ding, ding, ding. I really don't know. I mean, i I am still very much a watcher of of the special, that the Charlie Brown... oh my goodness, what's it called?
Speaker: ah ah The Great Pumpkin. Yeah, that's what it's called, yeah. The Great Pumpkin. yeah it's Here comes The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Lucy. Sorry. I did get to watch this year. so Good. Me too.
Speaker: Lucy's Halloween mask. It drives me bonkers. I love it. So amazing. And the the voice actor for Sally. Oh, yeah. me those Especially when when they're out in the pumpkin patch. Yeah, yeah. She's so mad at Linus. Yeah.
Speaker: Those are the two things that you know are just amazing. Did I send you that thing about... the great pumpkin where it premiered in canada before america No, i' i well you might have. i I'm little bit blind in my reading. so um Only by 24 hours.
Speaker: But it premiered on the CBC in Canada a whole day before it premiered in the States on CBS. And it's like, ooh, that's really interesting.
Speaker: Yeah. So we can call it a Canadian original? Sure. Yeah, that's ah that's a wonderful series or special. And i always thought it came before Christmas just because Halloween came before Christmas. But no, the Christmas one came first. but Yeah, that's weird. But yeah, the Halloween one is great.
Speaker: Yeah, I love that one. absolutely love it. The little girl who played Sally, she was going to be losing a tooth. And they were really worried because it was going to come out any second. So they recorded all of her stuff first. Okay. That afternoon that tooth came out and she was talking weird. So it's like the magic of television. Right. Because who else could to played that part?
Speaker: Child actors, man. They're just always giving you such a hard time. Yeah. Oh, I had to grow between seasons. Well, yeah, now you look like you're 34.
Speaker: So now we're going to cast you in a show about high school kids. Well, Josh, when it's time to change, you know. It's time to change.
Speaker: Awesome. On that note, I'm going to wrap up today's Halloween episode. Thank you, listeners, for hanging in there. Thanks for coming back listening to our Halloween episode. ah We hope that you had a spooky, safe, haunting time.
Speaker: And we look forward to seeing you again next week ah with some surprises. Who knows what's going to happen? Can I just add one thing? You sure can. Pest.
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