Sonia invokes an Indian curse that brings the city’s cakes to life. The Average Family is quickly entrenched in its house and surrounded by cakes that are led by a sinister Black Forest cake…

Black Forest Monster

Céline Melloul

Karine Pinoteau

Emmanuel Gradi

Marie Diot

Cathy Cerda

Patrick Noérie

Sylvain Solustri

Bernard Jung

Federico Bebi

Ludovica Bebi

Roberto Certomà

Monica Ward

Alessandro Budroni

Massimo Corizza

Ivan Andreani

Thierry Gaudin

Monster-Skelter

Mad Monster Disease

A frozen monster is laying siege to the frozen foods aisle at the Joliville supermarket. Can the Monster Agency stop him before he turns all the customers into frozen treats and eats his way through the Averages’ favorite flavors of ice cream?

Ice Scream, You Scream

When they arrive at their vacation spot, Matt and his family discover that a mysterious monster has been terrorizing the lake and making it impossible to go swimming. They decide to have a closer look. The Agency van turns into a submarine and our heroes plunge into the watery depths…

The Monster of the Lake

Matt’s grades are getting worse and worse. Ellen and Bruce take drastic measures: no more monster hunting until further notice! Matt has to stay home and study hard to improve his test scores. But a mysterious companion disturbs his efforts…

Appetite for Learning

A mysterious monster comes out of the faucet and attacks Matt while he’s in the tub. Ellen thinks Matt is just trying to find a way to get out of taking a bath! When Ellen hears reports of other attacks in Joliville, the Agency gets involved, but the monster escapes. To protect the people of Joliville, the water is cut off throughout the city…

The Freak of the Leak

Madame Bovary has found a foolproof way to capture monsters: hypnotize them. The Monster Agency can’t compete with a skill like that, so they get ready to shut down… but are Bovary’s powers as real as she claims?

Bovary Strikes Back

Madame Bovary decides to deal a fatal blow to the Monster Agency. While Matt’s parents are away, she kidnaps Dink. This is more than Matt and Manson can bear. They soon find Dink but discover that he’s on Bovary’s side now…

Secret Weapon

Mika doesn’t like being on a diet very much. When Bruce and Matt go shopping for a new  telephone to replace the one that Mika gulped down, Mika follows them in the hope that he  can eat a little more on the sly! But that’s nothing in comparison to what is awaiting the  Agency: a mold monster is attacking the store Joliville’s garbage is up in arms!

Mold War

An enormous trash monster is spreading terror among the citizenry and the garbage men. Will  the Averages, skilled sorters that they are, manage to stop the creature and restore tidiness to the city?

Talkin' Trash

Manson, Matt, and their friend Sonia are going to visit a huge aquarium. When they get there, the find the guards paralyzed as if in a hypnotic trance! When even the sheriff is hypnotized, there’s no more room for doubt: a monster is hiding among the fish in the aquarium… so the Monster Agency decides to do a little deep-sea fishing!

Let Sleeping Mantas Lie

The cars of Joliville are breaking down one after the other. It turns out the motor oil is the favorite  food of the latest monster to attack the city. The Monster Agency must protect the last garage in town (that still has oil) from the ravenous creature.

Oil Rush

During a perfectly normal monster hunt, Matt, Bruce, Dink, and Manson awaken a sleeping Gagab. The monster, who normally hibernates underground twelve months a year, is blinded by rage and begins to plunder the town. He has to be stopped, but how? He has to go back to sleep, which is no easy task for a Gagab once he’s awake…

Ready... Get Set... Sleep!

A pink monster is making the people of Joliville see the world through rose-colored glasses. It transmits its virus to grumpy people by blowing huge bubble gum balls. And they’re immediately all smiles and deliriously happy! Can the Monster Agency stop the virus from spreading before the entire town is wallowing in happiness?

Tickled Pink

During a garage sale, Grandma Average sells her old jukebox to the Schwarzes. When they get home and plug it in however, the juke box turns into a “Juke Monster”, a creature capable of destroying the city with sound waves. The Monster Agency has to stop the monster before it starts an earthquake.

Jukebox Jitters

During a school field trip, the students in Matt’s class disturb a mysterious forest creature in its lair. The monster seeks its vengeance by covering Joliville with fog!

Fog Gets in Your Eyes

A new monster is spreading terror throughout the city. The Monster Agency wastes no time, and it puts up a sketch of the terrible creature. And surprise: the eyewitnesses are all in agreement: it’s…Dink! Matt gets ready to do anything to prove the innocence of his faithful companion.

Double Dink

The Bovary Company does such a good job of sabotaging the Monster Agency’s ad campaign that they’re no longer receiving any calls. Ellen decides to do something about it, so she comes up with a promotional offer: a free household chore for every monster captured. It works, and customers start to come back! But the members of the Agency are exhausted from doing everyone’s chores…

Ad Nausea

Matt has to track down a monster that is destroying all the sources of light in the city. Nothing should be easier for a monster expert like Matt unless he’s surrounded by a group of blissfully unaware senior citizens, who have come to the Monster Agency open house!

Bright Lights, Big Monster

One morning, the city wakes up covered in holes. Buildings, cars, notebooks, dirt, cups: everything has holes in it as if a colony of termites had infested the city! Matt and the Agency are called to help, and they soon discover that this destruction is in fact the work of a monster who likes to punch holes in everything!

Holey Terror

An unusually speedy monster called the Ludofractor is attacking children’s toys, and each time the Agency arrives on the scene, it’s too late. To trap the monster, Matt forms an alliance with Socrates, who has the biggest toy collection in Joliville. But with such a selfish ally, surprises are bound to be in store…

Toy Trouble

The Monster Agency is celebrating the capture of its 5000th monster. The press is gathered for the occasion, and Matt, Bruce, Ellen, and Dink tell the story of how they got started in monster hunting, when Matt was just a baby and Dink was still a wild monster…

Average Family Tales

A monster is hiding in the hotel where the famous rock group The Scalps are staying. Anyone who comes into contact with the monster starts to sprout hair and a beard that grow at an astonishing rate. Which is bad luck for Matt and Manson, who have gone to interview the group!

Hair Guitar

It’s Christmas in Joliville. Bruce’s mother has joined the Averages and the family is getting ready to enjoy Christmas dinner. But a monster alert spoils the  evening’s festivities. A creature is attacking the city’s decorations. Grandma Average thinks that this is the work of the infamous Masskriss, a monster who wants to destroy Christmas…

Fright Christmas

Manson is rehearsing a rock song in the Averages’ garage in the hope that she can play with her favorite group, Metal Finish. But her voice attracts a wavosaurus, and the monster shows up at the Averages and kidnaps Manson!! Matt has to save his friend, even if it means having to listen to her sing!

Waves of Love

Matt is invited by his friend Sonia to the brand new  multiplex in town to see Mr. Bunnylumps and His Cuddly Friends, and Dink and Manson, who are going to sea monster movie, have no end of fun at his expense! But when one of the monsters literally jumps out of the screen, Matt has to find a way to save the day without disturbing Sonia and keep the multiplex from descending into panic!

Panic at the Multiplex

It is very hot out, and a very thirsty, bubble-shaped monster makes his way into Matt's school to wet his whistle. He finds a water fountain, and when he sticks his head into the water, it turns bubbly. Any students that drinks from that fountain soon gets a bad case of the hiccups and starts to bounce around and cannot stop...

Bubble Trouble

A mysterious monster is turning children’s dreams into nightmares! This means all the kids show up for Mr. Rasmussen’s class completely sleep-deprived. For Socrates, the reason is clear: it’s all Matt’s fault for always telling monster stories during recess! Will Matt be able to flush out the nightmare monster and regain his rightful place among his friends?

Public Relations Nightmare

After his car is crushed during a monster hunt, Sheriff Wayne discovers that the Agency’s monster hunting license has expired. They have to take the test all over again! As if things weren’t bad enough thanks to a fussy test monitor who’s all theory and no experience, the plot really thickens when the Bovary Company decides to prevent our heroes from regaining their license by any means necessary!

The Hunting License

Bovary can’t stand the Spring Festival that the town’s inhabitants put on every year, This time, however, she’s decided to destroy it once and for all. When a monster that sucks the color out of everything arrives in town, she gets other ideas for spoiling the festival.

Spring Festival Blues

A group of monsters is meeting in secret because they’ve had all they can take from the Monster Agency! The Averages have been nothing but trouble since day one. A monster can’t even destroy a block of houses anymore without hearing from them! The monsters decide to kidnap the mayor of Joliville and replace him to gain control of the city and get rid of the Agency.

Monstroville

Ellen wants Matt and Bruce to stop filling up on candy. From now on, they’re allowed to eat only fruits and vegetables. Unfortunately, a monster has laid waste to all the farms in the area except for one! The Agency goes there to catch the creature or else Ellen can say good-bye to healthy meals!

Rural Furor

Adrian is the smartest kid in the class, and he’s also really good at video games. So when a jealous Socrates tries to steal his game console from him, he has no idea that he’s about to unleash a monster capable of turning the entire city into a virtual world. And the Monster Agency has to come up with a way to put a stop to it!

Wild Game

Ever since Ellen launched her new advertising campaign for the Agency, she hasn’t been home as much. And Bruce has trouble keeping up with the daily housework. When Madame Bovary shows up and asks to be their housekeeper, Ellen sees a chance to help Bruce out while offering Mme Bovary a chance at redemption.

Bovary Gets a Job

When he misses a perfect chance to capture a monster, Bruce decides to stop monster hunting and sell pizzas. Matt is stunned, and although he still hunts monsters, he finds that it's good to have a grown-up around if you want to be taken seriously....

Doubting Bruce

It's a disaster! On the night before Halloween, a scary, insatiable monster breaks into the houses of the people of Joliville and steals all their candy. It looks like the holiday is ruined... Will the Monster Agency capture the thief in time to save Halloween?

All Mallow's Eve

While the Monster Agency and the Bovary Company begin a fierce competition to capture monsters, a security firm equips the city with an automated capturing system. This puts the monster hunters out of a job.. Will this be the end of the adventures of Matt and his family?

Paranoia City

Sly the mailman is quietly delivering the mail on his bike when the fin of a monster comes surging up from underground and heads right for him! Sly manages to escape, but the effects of the incident are immediately felt. The people of Joliville are terrified and no longer dare to go outside or set foot on the ground! The Agency has to find the monster’s Achille’s heel to save the day…

Groundshark Day

​A monster that loves to eat mail appears in town. Letter carriers panic, mailboxes grow strangely hungry, mail is shredded to bits, and the postal system goes haywire. The mayor asks the Agency to intervene, and they have to use all their skills to rescue the mail in Joliville!

Mailbox Mayhem

Jojo, the monster of Lake Joliville, has disappeared. The Supersop factory has been illegally dumping its waste into the waters of the lake, and it is afraid that the monster's disappearance will draw attention to the company's shady practices. To keep this from happening, the factory's manager builds a mechanical double of Jojo. But he'll have to do more than that if he wants to outwit the Monster Agency...

Dirty Business

Matt is finding monster hunting to be a little repetitive these days, and his mini-monsters are wearing him out. At school, he doesn’t even draw monsters in the margins of his tests anymore! Dink is very worried to see his friend lose his enthusiasm for monsters. He has to discover why Matt is bored with monsters, and fast…

Monster Fatigue

After being exposed to sewer monster, Matt turns into a monster himself! It's a race against the clock to find the antidote for Matt before the vicious Madame Bovary captures him!

A monster is making a mess wherever he goes! Be it Sonia's parents' grocery store, the mail delivered by Sly, or the pages of the mayor's speech... everything is in disarray! The Monster Agency immediately tries to flush out the creature, but catching it is no easy task because it's also gotten its hands on the Agency's gadgets!

Teachers and smart people are falling victim to a strange illness, and their once high IQs seem to be dropping. They are turning into animals! Our heroes investigate and discover that a monster is behind the epidemic. But when Bruce is afflicted, the Agency's brain capacity is seriously compromised...

A Beastly Affliction

A magnetic monster is attracting metal objects to itself and gobbling them up. The mayor, who's been keeping an eye on Dink ever since that incident at the unveiling of the mayor's statue, is convinced that Dink is getting back at him and causing this whole mess. He has Dink thrown into prison! Without him, however, the Agency is having no luck at all identifying the monster! So they help their little friend break out...

Monster Magnetism

When a story on the Agency is shown on TV, the public discovers mini-monsters and finds them adorable. Soon, everyone wants to have a mini-monster in their home! The Bovary Company immediately senses the opportunities that the new market affords, and it starts to sell lots and lots of mini-monsters. But not everyone knows how to take care of mini-monsters like Matt, and so the problems begin...

Monsters are the New Black

It wasn’t the first time Manson talked about her monster/brother in class. But this time, Socrates challenges her to bring him in. If Manson wants to save face, she has no other choice than to go looking for her “brother” for real.  Fortunately, she can count on the Agency’s help!

A Brother for Manson

Matt is hoping to impress the jury at his school's sculpture competition. But with Theodore and Sonia there, the competition is fierce! When the crowd makes fin of Matt's creation, which it judges too "monstrous" for its taste, the sculptures of the other students suddenly shatter to pieces. Matt is accused of getting revenge on his critics...

Matt Suffers for His Art

It's Dink's birthday. A blackout forces Matt's family to continue the party¿ in their van! Meanwhile, Professor Appendix creates a machine that brings shadows to life. His own shadow comes to life and sucks up all the sources of light, at Bovary's manor and throughout the city...

The Shadow Monster

Manson looks ridiculous in her floral print dress. And she's not the only one: all around town, clothes are disappearing and people are making do with what they have. Even the sheriff has to walk around barefoot! Bovary and Appendix take advantage of the situation to launch a new line of clothes. Could there be a monster at the bottom of this?

Clothes Make the Monster

Helen creates a TV ad for the Monster Agency. When the time comes to pick the monsters that best typify their work, the members of the Agency all chime in! But the ad is also giving the Bovary Company ideas¿ what if they appear in the ad instead of the Averages?

Commercial Success

Manson does things her own way, and when she plays the guitar, she does so, in a strange, deafening manner that shatters everything around her to pieces! Finally, she meets her match: a monster that turns everything into glace… and Matt intends to find out why!

Pitch Perfect

The clocks in Joliville seem to be going crazy just as the Monster Agency shows up at the TV studio for their interview! Not only is it impossible for them to arrive on time, people also seems to be growing younger by the second¿ until they turn into babies! A monster is visibly amused by his ability to manipulate time...

The Temp-O-Saurus

When the quiet town of Joliville's threatened by a crazy clothes eating monster, who's on the case? The Monster Agency of course! Meet 9 year-old Matt, his parents Bruce and Ellen, best friend Manson, and Dink the family pet. Monsters, beware!

Black Forest Monster

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