The Best Episodes of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters

A Hollywood director mistakes Krumm for an extra on his movie set, and turns him into a star

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: David Litt

Wanting a face only a monster could love, Ickis contemplates plastic surgery. John Astin guest-stars.

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: David Litt

Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm are bored when Gromble's old teacher lectures at the academy. But when they escort him back to the dump, they learn that old monsters are the best monsters.

Director: Andrei Svislotski

Writer: David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin

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 - Snav and Blib. These two monsters spoil Krumm with attention, which he needs - at first. But soon Krumm realises that being the centre of attention is not all it's cracked up to be.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Mark Palmer

Every boy and monster's worst fear is realised for the Gromble -- his mom shows up at the academy unannounced. The Gromble leaves her in the care of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm for the afternoon with alarming results.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Michael Price

Ickis gets "flashed" (gets his picture taken) by a celebrity reporter. If this picture runs on the front page, monsters' existence will be revealed to humans. Our heroes must band together and go above ground to retrieve every newspaper copy before dawn.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Mark Palmer

Krumm gets a bad case of the hiccups or in monster terms, ""the Nolox."" Every time he Noloxes, something terrible happens. It's up to Oblina and Ickis to find a cure for the dreaded Nolox.

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: Spencer Green, Mary Williams-Villano

Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped inside a nuclear power plant when they accidentally set off a warning device closing down the entire facility. Seeing the three monsters on a monitor, one of the plant workers mistakes them for three plant employees. A team of highly trained doctors don protective clothing and go inside the facility to bring the "employees" out to safety.

Director: Rick Bugental

Writer: Ron Nelson

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

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: Cydne Clark, Peter Gaffney, Lawrence H. Levy, Steve Granat

Oblina, always the star pupil, finds herself challenged to the limit by a gifted transfer student from another dump.

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: Roger Eschbacher

While getting ready to do a scare at a hypnotist's show, Ickis stares at the hypnotist's watch and inadvertently gets hypnotised along with the hypnotist's intended subject - a loud-mouthed Car Salesman. Oblina and Krumm are mystified that whenever the word "human" is uttered, Ickis begins to act like the Car Salesman.

Director: Jeff McGrath

Writer: Michael Price

Alone in the dump, Ickis dons a cape and pretends to be his favourite comic book hero, "Ultra-Monster". Suddenly, he is accidentally thrown through the air by a bulldozer and inadvertently saves a group of students. It's a bird, it's a plane...it's Ultra Monster! Word gets around the academy that "Ultra-Monster" is real and very cool. When Krumm volunteers to play sidekick, "Stink Boy", a new dynamic duo is born.

Director: Jeff McGrath

Writer: Michael Price

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

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin

When a cocky Ickis takes a break from scaring to eat the grime of a dirty car, he inadvertently ends up in a car wash. Now covered with three coats of wax, the frictionless Ickis must slip and slide his way through an important scare. Luckily for him it's at an Ice skating rink! Ickis out "slips and slides" everyone.

Director: Andrei Svislotski, Bob Hathcock

Writer: David Regal

Odiferous Krumm, who put the stink in distinct, loses his stench and fears his monstering days are over.

Director: Andrei Svislotski

Writer: Bruce Kalish

TV's loveable Murray the Monster is undermining good ghouls everywhere, because kids aren't afraid of him.

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: Eric Mintz

The Monsters are foraging in the dump. Suddenly, bulldozers move in and begin pushing the garbage onto a huge barge where it heads off to sea with Oblina, Krumm and Ickis on board. At first it's party time, but soon, everyone wants to go home.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Steve Skrovan

Simon the Monster Hunter builds the ultimate monster hunting machine; The Simon-Mobile, in an attempt to capture a real monster. When the monsters get wind of this, they build a machine entirely out of garbage and go head to head battle with Simon. With The Gromble at the helm, the monsters emerge victorious.

Director: Norton Virgien

Writer: Mark Steen

Through a series of misinterpretations, Krumm is convinced that Oblina has a crush on him. Krumm gets paranoid about what this will do to their friendship and tries desperately to avoid her.

Director: Rick Bugental

Writer: Victor Wilson

Ickis and Krumm are debating over who's the ""most fearless"" monster. Oblina is sick of listening to Krumm and Ickis and dares them to sneak into Snorch's room while he's sleeping and pluck a golden hair out of his nose. When the Snorch awakes and notices his prized possession missing, he gets into a horrible mood. He takes it out on everyone in the Academy including his best friend, Zimbo. Zimbo takes it upon himself to find out ""who done it.""

Director: Igor Kovalyov

Writer: Spencer Green, Mary Williams-Villano

While above the ground, a puppy saves Ickis from being run over. He sneaks the puppy back to the academy and enlists his friends' help to hide it from the Gromble.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Steve Skrovan

The monsters are overjoyed when the famous Loch Ness Monster pays a visit to The Academy to give a guest lecture. Unfortunately, the rowdy, boisterous Scotsmonster gets on everyone's nerves by relentlessly singing Scottish songs, dancing and re-enacting his famous scares.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Bill Braunstein

Ickis, having carelessly left his monster manual in the human world, faces the dreaded consequences of being Snorched.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Lawrence H. Levy

Tis the season to be scary, and Oblina, Ickis, and Krumm are happy to oblige. They terrorise shoppers in a mall, but the tables are turned when the trio find themselves locked inside after hours.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: David Litt

In the course of giving Simon, the Monster hunter, a routine nightmare, Ickis gets sucked into Simon's brain. Ickis can see through Simon's eyes and discovers that he can control Simon's actions. Ickis takes Simon on a rampage through the city streets. Word spreads of this crazy man and he is finally detained by doctors. Oblina and Krumm must get Ickis out of Simon's brain before the cat scan reveals his existence.

Director: Jim Duffy

Writer: Spencer Green, Mary Williams-Villano