7.4/10119 votes#1 - Battle of the Century
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1997
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
7.9/10143 votes#2 - A Perfect World
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1997
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
6.5/10126 votes#3 - The Lips Have It
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1997
A case of mistaken identity leaves Ickis thinking six lobsters are actually six monsters. He saves them from being served as dinners and promises to see them safely home.
Director: Andrei Svislotski, Bob Hathcock
Writer: Michael Price
7.2/10120 votes#4 - Escape Claws
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/20/1997
Oblina loses her lips when they get caught on a construction barricade and ripped off. The lips are found by would-be model Lucy Schmeeler, who glues them on and is proclaimed a sensation by Modelling Agency Owner Dietrich DuChamp.
Director: Igor Kovalyov
Writer: Kat Likkel
7.2/10121 votes#5 - Walk Like a Man
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/27/1997
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. The trip home turns into a disaster as the monsters get tossed out of a taxi, cause a massive pileup and are chased back to the dump by TV Reporter, Exposia Vertov, and a horde of screaming teeny boppers, who think the disguised Ickis is Suede.
Director: Rick Bugental
Writer: Michael Price
6.9/10122 votes#6 - A Friend in Need
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/27/1997
When Ickis meets a monster with a human face, he not only gains a private tutor, he makes a friend. As a youngster this human-faced monster was the object of such ridicule that he ran away from the dump and has hidden in the human world ever since. Now it is up to Ickis to convince him that the monster world has matured enough to accept this handsome monster as he is.
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Mark Palmer
7.6/10192 votes#7 - Watch the Watch
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/4/1997
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
7.4/10148 votes#8 - She Likes Me?
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/4/1997
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
7.1/10134 votes#9 - Oblina Without a Cause
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/11/1997
When a group of "cool" girl-monsters shuns the obsessively rule-bound Oblina, she transforms herself into Oblina The Rebel--breaking every rule she can.
Director: Anthony Bell
Writer: Kat Likkel
7.6/10173 votes#10 - Slick Ick
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/11/1997
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
7.9/10148 votes#11 - Nuclear and Present Danger
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 10/18/1997
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
7.4/10136 votes#12 - Loch Ness Mess
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 10/18/1997
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
7.7/10123 votes#13 - Super Ickis
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 10/25/1997
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
NaN/100 votes#14 - The Substitute
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 10/25/1997
A substitute teacher arrives, announcing that The Gromble has "gone away" and that he will be taking over. The substitute lets the students do whatever they want - even garbage fights are allowed!
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Mark Palmer
NaN/100 votes#15 - The Great Escape
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 11/1/1997
Shortly McGinty, arch-criminal and master of disguise, 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.
Director: Zhenia Delioussine, Bob Hathcock
Writer: Bill Braunstein
NaN/100 votes#16 - Beast With Four Eyes
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 11/1/1997
When Krumm is forced to wear glasses to correct his inexplicably blurry vision, he finds himself the object of mocking on the part of the other students. Krumm tries to go without his glasses, but he and all the students learn their value when a bespectacled Krumm saves a group of monsters after a scare goes wrong.
Director: Anthony Bell
Writer: David Regal
NaN/100 votes#17 - Side by Side
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 11/8/1997
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 fighting.
Director: Jeff McGrath
Writer: Kat Likkel
NaN/100 votes#18 - Hooked on Phobics
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 11/8/1997
Ickis discovers as easy way out of getting his homework done. By tapping into humans' phobias, he is able to bring scare after scare to class with little or no effort. That is, until The Gromble sends him to a phobic-free human to scare.
Director: Rick Bugental
Writer: Steve Skrovan
NaN/100 votes#19 - Spy vs. Monster
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 11/15/1997
The Academy shuts down when a human spy is discovered inside. From Ickis' hiding place, he realises he has dropped a drawing of The Gromble in the hallway. The spy picks it up and accidentally drops his own secret document. Ickis, Krumm and Oblina use the paper to track down spy headquarters and arrange for a transfer of the documents.
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Michael Price
NaN/100 votes#20 - Misery Date
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 11/15/1997
The Gromble is in love with the Library Monster, and he's not as strict as he used to be. Ickis is thrilled and wants to make sure that The Gromble stays in love, but The Gromble is unsure how to behave with a lady -it's been so long- so he asks Oblina for helpful hints.
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Mark Palmer
NaN/100 votes#21 - Clockwise
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 11/22/1997
Ickis is perpetually late for class, so The Gromble hangs a big clock around his neck to remind him to be on time. When Ickis rewinds the hands on the clock, he discovers that he can turn back time.
Director: Rick Bugental
Writer: Michael Price
NaN/100 votes#22 - Gromble Soup
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 11/22/1997
The Gromble is sick and Simpah, the horrible Cafeteria Monster, has been put in charge of the students. When she threatens to make them eat human food, Ickis, Krumm and Oblina beg The Gromble to come back. The Gromble says the only thing that will cure him is Gromble Soup, but you need special ingredients....the crown of a king, the head of a dragon and the tail of an ogre. Ickis, Krumm and Oblina each set out to obtain one of the ingredients.
Director: Anthony Bell
Writer: Denise Downer
NaN/100 votes#23 - Showdown
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 11/29/1997
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. When Ickis proves to be more difficult to catch than the hunters had anticipated, the hunters' pride gets the best of them. They turn away Simon's money and set their sights on doing more than just "capturing" Ickis.
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Mark Palmer
NaN/100 votes#24 - Internal Affairs
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 11/29/1997
A hungry parasite named Sal invades Oblina's stomach, causing her to eat everything in sight. Ickis and Krumm shrink down to Sal's size, enter Oblina's body and battle it out with him inside Oblina's expanding stomach.
Director: Jeff McGrath
Writer: Kat Likkel
NaN/100 votes#25 - Laugh, Krumm, Laugh
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 12/6/1997
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. Unfortunately, Krumm has swallowed an Indian feather that is tickling him on the inside.
Director: Jim Duffy
Writer: Michael Price
The Best Episodes of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Season 4
Every episode of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters Season 4!
Three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — attends an institute for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans.
Genres:AnimationComedyFamilySci-Fi & FantasyKids
Network:Nickelodeon
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Battle of the Century" is the best rated episode of "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" season 4. It scored 7.4/10 based on 119 votes. Directed by Norton Virgien and written by Mark Steen, it aired on 9/13/1997. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Perfect World".