Remember that one day when you could wake up without an alarm? When you would get your favorite bowl of cereal and sit between the hours of 8 and 12? This is a blog dedicated to the greatest time of our childhood: Saturday mornings. The television programs you watched, the memories attached to them, and maybe introducing you to something you didn't realize existed. Updated every weekend.
Dallas McKennon –
Batso, Ratso (both second half), Goo, Salem, various
Television airings of
the classic Universal
Monsters movies had found the franchises with a new popularity in the
1960s. Filmation producer
Lou Scheimer grew up with
those films and decided to create a humorous homage to them.
Welcome to Horrible Hall.
Scheimer hired Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-Inwriters Jack
Mendelsohn and Jim Mulligan
to develop the series. They ultimately settled on the scenario of a group of
monsters living together in a castle and also performing together in a band.
Initially, the castle, named Horrible Hall, was meant to be an inn that would
be frequented by various guest monsters and ghouls resulting in the title Monster
Inn; emphasizing both the setting and serving as a parody of the Laugh-In
title, of which the show would take heavy influence from. There would also
be a villain named Syndey Sneaking-Slyly trying to get to a treasure buried
beneath the castle. Once that aspect was dropped, the name “The Kookie Spookies”
was adopted for much of the show’s early production until they were forced to
change it as it sounded too close to Hasbro’s
short-lived “Kooky
Spooky” toyline. Ultimately, the group and the show became “The Groovie Goolies”
(the unique spelling designed to avoid any claims of copyright infringement
from other companies; although the traditional “ghoul” did appear from time to
time).
Frankie, Drac and Wolfie play for Bella, Orville, Hagatha, Hauntleory, Icky, Goo, Ratso and Batso.
The Goolies were
comprised of Drac (Larry Storch), a pastiche of Dracula, the short-tempered leader
who played the pipe organ; Frankie (Howard Morris, doing a loose impersonation Boris Karloff), based on Frankenstein’s monster, who was the
easygoing head of the Muscleleum Gymnasium and played either bone xylophones or
drums (later misinformation would call Frankie the son of Drac and Hagatha); and
Wolfie (also Morris), based on the wolfman, who spoke in a
mix of beatnik, surfer and hippie slang and played a lyre-like instrument. Other
residents of Horrible Hall included Hagatha (Storch & Morris), a plump
witch that served as the chef and had a sentient broom named Broomhilda; Bella
La Ghostly (a play on Bela Lugosi,
voiced by Jane Webb), the vampiric switchboard operator; Dr. Jekyll and Hyde
(Morris), the resident doctor with a human and a monstrous head (a play on the
dual nature of the original
monster); Mummy (Morris, impersonating W.C.
Fields), the resident newscaster with a penchant for first aid and often
became unraveled; Boneapart (Larry D. Mann), a skittish skeleton in a Napoleon
hat (a nod to his namesake) that often fell apart; Ghoulihand (Storch), a giant
talking glove; Batso and Ratso (initially Storch, but later Dallas McKennon),
two imps who often stole treats and played mean practical jokes (that often backfired
on them); Hauntleroy (Morris), Hagatha’s nephew who was selfish and two-faced;
and Icky (Storch) and Goo (McKennon), two gargoyle-like creatures that were the
resident pets along with Rover (Mann), Frankie’s pet dinosaur, and Fido, Wolfie’s
pet piranha. Of course, other familiar trappings from the genre made appearances
such as ghosts, man-eating plants and sentient furniture.
Sabrina being bored by Drac.
Groovie Goolies debuted
on CBS on September 12, 1970. The show was
picked up by Head of Children’s Programming Fred Silverman who was looking for
a compliment to their successful Scooby-Doo,
Where Are You!Since both shows featured witches, it was decided to
package Goolies together with Filmation’s other offering, Sabrina the
Teenage Witch; a spin-off of their popular The Archie Show. The
hour-long Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies featured two 15-minute Sabrina
segments and a 30-minute block of Goolies, with both sets of
characters crossing over into each other’s shows.
Ratso and Batso trading barbs during Weird Window Time.
The series was
written by Mendelsohn and Mulligan with Bob Ogle, Chuck Menville, Len Janson, Jim Ryan and Bill Danch. As said, the show
took strong inspiration from Laugh-In and featured a similar structure
of quick skits and jokes. “Weird Windows Time” was a direct spoof of Laugh-In’s
Joke Wall, where the
Goolies would pop out of various places and trade jokes. Each Goolie had a
special segment, such as Dracula’s Schoolhouse, where Drac taught mad science;
Hagatha’s Bedtime Stories, where she read a popular fairy tale to Frankie and
the other residents all acted out the roles; Home Movies, which had the
character’s watching videos from their pasts; The Mummy’s Wrap-Up, where Mummy
would deliver news stories about other monsters; and Wolfie’s Theater, which
was similar to Hagatha’s stories but with a stage performance set-up. Often,
the characters would deliver educational tips about various subjects to the
audience. A recurring gag saw Frankie being struck by lightning and then
remarking “I needed that!”, as well as possessing the dual identity as inept
superhero Super Ghoul.
The Mummies and the Puppies.
Each show also featured two musical numbers; one
performed by the Goolies, and another by a guest band. Those bands included The
Bare Bones Band, comprised of three skeletons; The Mummies and the Puppies (a
play on The Mamas and
the Papas), comprised of a family of mummies and dogs; The Rolling Headstones (a
play on The Rolling Stones), made
up of three living tombstones; and The Spirits of ’76, which had three ghosts
wearing the tricorne hats
common during the 18th Century. Other groups conceived of during
pre-production but not used were The Japanese Beatles, The Rolling Rocks, The
Door Jammers and The Snapping Turtles. The songs were written by and arranged
by Richard Delvy (as Linda
Martin), Ed Fournier (as
Sherry Gayden) and Dick Monda.
Fournier and Monda also provided vocals with Bob Markland, Chris Sciarrotta
and Dave Mani. The
series’ background music was composed by Ray Ellis (as Jeff Michael),
with additional music and sound effects provided by Horita-Mahana Corp. and Jan
Moore. The titles of the songs would go on to provide episode titles for home
media releases, as the original episodes went untitled and were only classified
by their production numbers.
Some random tomfoolery.
Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies was the
highest-rated children’s program in 1970. In 1971, CBS split up the two shows.
Sabrina was removed from the Goolies into and replaced with clips from “The
Monster Trio”, and was omitted by changes to the theme song’s lyrics. They also
moved the show to Sunday mornings and paired it with Tom and Jerry. After
a single season there, CBS cancelled Goolies. However, the characters
continued to appear in Sabrina and became series regulars in 1972. That same
year, they also appeared on rival network ABC
in Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies, which aired as part
of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. ABC would later broadcast reruns of
Goolies in 1975. The characters would make two final new appearances in
episodes of The New Archie and Sabrina Hour, and Frankie was featured in
the show’s closing credits. Despite its short run, Goolies was broadcast
globally and translated into many languages. The show was so popular in France
that the characters were included on a float in France’s 1986 Carnaval de Cholet.
The Groovie Goolies rocking out.
As with The Archie Show and The
Hardy Boys, Filmation heavily pushed the musical aspect of the series.
An album
of 10 songs was released by RCA Victor
Records in 1970; 8 of them had been featured on the show with “Save Your
Good Lovin’ For Me” going on to be the only single, while “We Go So Good
Together” and “Spend Some Time Together” were exclusive to the album. Featured
on the cover was Monda, Fournier and songwriter Jeffrey Thomas
in costume as Drac, Wolfie and Frankie, respectively; roles they would later
reprise for the live-action segment of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the
Groovie Goolies, although Thomas and Fournier switched roles (home releases
of the special would omit the live segments). Neither release sold particularly
well, although a revised version of “Chick-a-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’
Love It)” by Monda under the alias Daddy Dewdrop reached at #9 on the Billboard singles chart. A live version of
the Goolies briefly toured in 1971 lip-synching to the series’ songs. Their
make-up was provided by Wes
and Robert Dawn.
A spider provides a tennis net for the Goolies and Mummy.
The French version received its own album in 1983 by Magical Ring
Records under the translated title “Les
Croque Monstres”. Only the theme song was carried over and translated; the
rest of the songs were new monster-themed ones and covers of other hit songs. To
promote the album, a band dressed up as the Goolies (including Mummy) performed
the theme song. The album would be reissued
in 2013 by Balthazar
Music with a slightly different track order. In 1992, Bonton released a pair
of albums titled Bubusouin Czechoslovakia featuring all 33 of the show’s songs translated by Jiří
Josek.
Character models.
Groovie Goolies saw numerous releases onto
home media. On VHS in the United States, Embassy
Home Entertainment released Haunted
Hijinksin 1985 and United
American Video released Double
Featurein 1989 and Live from Horrible Hall in 1990. In the United
Kingdom, Select Video released Groovie Ghouls in 1985 that would be re-released
by Kids Kollection in 1990, and Intervision Video
included three episodes in both volumes of Filmation’s Children’s Cartoon
Festival: Groovie Goolies in 1988. In Germany, Select Video released Geisterstunde
in Horrible Hall in 1986, Die Lustige Monster Show: Im Horrorschlob &
Das Gruselkabinett in 1990. Argentina and France had one release each
with Mis Adorables Monstuitos from Buena Onda Home Video in 1986 and Les
Croque Monstres by Sunbird Junior in 1989. On DVD, in the United States BCI/Eclipse
released The
Saturday “Mourning” Collectionin 2006 which contained the whole
series, then split it up between the two The
Frightfully Funny Collectionreleases in 2008. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment would
release a best-of collection in 2012 called simply Groovie
Goolies. In 2009, Savor Ediciones
Emon released the complete series in Spain as Mis
Queridos Monstruos, and Australia would get their
own release in 2016 from Universal Pictures.
In 1977, Filmation produced the package program The Groovie Goolies and
Friendscomprised of their properties that had too few episodes to syndicate
individually. Goolies reruns were rotated with The New Adventures of
Waldo Kitty, Lassie’s
Rescue Rangers, The
New Adventures of Gilligan, My Favorite Martians, M-U-S-H., Fraidy Cat and
Wacky and Packy. While each show retained their original end credits, Filmation
created a new intro for the package and animated new bumper segments where the
Goolies would interact with the characters from the other shows.
Drac and Bella moonlighting with Prime Evil on GhostBusters.
Over the years, Filmation planned several revivals of
the show in various forms that never saw fruition. The idea of a feature film
was floated in 1978. In 1984, Filmation came up with the concept of Fright
Camp, which would star the children of the original Goolies attending a
summer camp. They also toyed around with The Goolies, which would have
featured the characters as toddlers as part of the growing babyfication craze started
by Jim
Henson’s Muppet Babies. Ultimately, Goolies would live on in
Filmation’s GhostBusterscartoon via recycled elements, including the Skelevator (an elevator made
of bone), a skeleton character who fell apart, and the appearance of Drac and
Bella’s character models and animations as new characters.
EPISODE GUIDE:
“When I Grow Up” (9/12/70) – Drac shows Frankie and Wolfie his torture
chamber and gets trapped in a device; Wolfie performs his version of Little
Red Riding Hood; Hagatha fights with tumbleweeds; Hauntleroy’s exercise
bike ends up more intense than he planned.
Songs: “Monster Cookbook” – The Groovie Goolies, “When I Grow
Up” – The Mummies and the Puppies
“Population Party” (9/19/70) – Wolfie drives his Wolf Wagon around the
castle; Frankie tries to train Rover; Bella tries to help Boneapart with his
dog problem; Ratso and Batso want to steal Hagatha’s pie.
Songs: “One, Two, Three” – The Groovie Goolies, “The First
Annual Semi-Formal Combination Celebration Meet-The-Monster Population Party” –
The Bare Bones Band
“Lights Out” (9/26/70) – The monsters try to capture Drac’s
great-uncle; Drac gets a physical; Tiny tries to get people to stop throwing
shoes at him; Hagatha puts a spell on her cookie jar; Frankie helps Drac work
out.
Songs: “Cling Clang” – The Groovie Goolies, “Lights Out” – The Rolling
Headstones
“Goolie Garden” (10/3/70) – The monsters play golf; Wolfie
accidentally disfigures Mummy and Boneapart; Hagatha fights the Big Green
Meanie; Wolfie gives surfing lessons.
Songs: “Goolie Garden” – The Groovie Goolies, “Monsters on
Parade” – The Spirits of ‘76
“Monster Trio” (10/10/70) – The monsters clean the castle; Boneapart
teaches Ratso and Batso about skeletons; Tiny asks Bella’s advice on Missy’s
leering eye; Dr. Jekyll and Hyde treat Ghoulihand after an accident; Hagatha
gets into a fight with the mailbox.
Songs: “Monster Trio” – The Groovie Goolies, “Super Ghoul” –
The Bare Bones Band
“Feed the Ghosts Some Garlic” (10/17/70) – The monsters play baseball;
Hagatha tells her version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears; Drac talks
about his ancestors; Ratso and Batso try to take Wolfie’s surfboard; Frankie
pesters Hagatha for food.
Songs: “Feed the Ghosts Some Garlic” – The Groovie Goolies, “Midnight”
– The Rolling Headstones
“Frankie” (10/24/70) – Frankie and Wolfie try to cheer up Orville; the
Lovesick Loveseat stalks Drac; Ratso and Batso are up to no good; Bella and
Drac try to teach Frankie manners; Frankie shows off Rover’s training.
Songs: “Frankie” – The Groovie Goolies, “Be Kind to Monsters
Week” – The Spirits of ‘76
“What’s in the Bag?” (10/31/70) – Drac’s lessons on anatomy to Batso
and Ratso are a bust; Frankie plays some home movies; Ghoulihand helps Wolfie
build a garage; Frankie tries to get a troublesome bush out of Hagatha’s
garden.
Songs: “What’s in the Bag?” – The Groovie Goolies, “When the
Moon is Full” – The Mummies and the Puppies
“Goolie Picnic” (11/7/70) – Drac shows Sabrina the castle museum;
Wolfie performs The Shoemaker and the Elves; the monsters play tennis; Jekyll
and Hyde attempt to reassemble Boneapart; Frankie leads a Gool Scout troop.
Songs: “Goolie Picnic” – The Groovie Goolies, “Little Texas
Goolie” – The Spirits of ‘76
“Where You Going, Little Ghoul?” (11/14/70) – Hagatha reads Frankie Handel
and Gretel; Drac is having an unlucky day; Hauntleroy gets blamed for Batso
and Ratso stealing Hagatha’s soup; Mummy reports on King Kong’s engagement;
Wolfie and Boneapart dive for treasure.
Songs: “Noises” – The Groovie Goolies, “Where You Going, Little
Ghoul?” – The Mummies and the Puppies
“Gool School” (11/21/70) – Drac and Frankie watch over Wolfie when he starts
sleepwalking from an illness; Frankie shows home movies of his birthday party;
a ghost comes to Bella for advice; Ghoulihand is tasked with guarding Hagatha’s
pie; Hagatha replaces Broomhilda with a vacuum.
Songs: “Gool School” – The Groovie Goolies, “Bumble Goolie” –
The Bare Bones Band
“Save Your Good Lovin’ For Me” (11/28/70) – The monsters play football;
Ratso and Batso play with a strange gas; Wolfie receives an ad for a tropical
vacation; Ghoulihand tries to cheer up a homesick Mummy; Frankie visits Jekyll
and Hyde.
Songs: “Save Your Good Lovin’ For Me” – The Groovie Goolies, “Chick-A-Boom
(Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It)” – The Rolling Headstones
“Darlin’ Darlin’” (12/5/70) – When Frankie makes Drac unable to fly,
Wolfie takes them both out cruising; Frankie shows Wolfie how to exercise;
Ratso and Batso invent a mist to help them sneak into the kitchen; Frankie and
Mummy encounter a dragon.
Songs: “Darlin’ Darlin’” – The Groovie Goolies, “Kings and
Queens” – The Bare Bones Band
“Shadows” (12/12/70) – Frankie ties to keep things quiet for Drac’s
nap; Hagatha tells Frankie the story of The Gingerbread Boy; Bella is
tasked with finding the Headless Horseman’s head; Broomhilda gets drunk on
fermented spider cider.
Songs: “Shadows” – The Groovie Goolies, “Isn’t It a Lovely
Night for Scaring?” – The Mummies and the Puppies
“Witches Brew” (12/19/70) – Bella redecorates the castle; Wolfie shows
Sabrina his improvements to the Wolf Wagon; Drac plays a home movie of a
concert; Mummy and Boneapart rescue the Lovesick Loveseat when Drac throws it out;
Ratso and Batso enchant Broomhilda; Super Ghoul saves Hagatha’s mushrooms from
the Monstrous Mole.
Songs: “Witches Brew” – The Groovie Goolies, “Creeper Crawler” –
The Rolling Headstones
“Goolie Swing” (12/26/70) – The monsters compete in track and field;
Drac shows Boneapart his art collection; Frankie goes bird watching; Bella
helps a ghost overcome his fear of scaring; Hagatha prepares broomstick stew;
Super Ghoul attempts to tame the Wolf Wagon.
Songs: “Goolie Swing” – The Groovie Goolies, “Listen for the
Bells (Goolie Get-Together)” – The Spirits of ‘76
Bunniculais a children’s
book series created by Deborah
and James Howe. The titular character
was a rabbit found by the Monroe family—father Robert, mother Ann, and brothers
Peter and Toby--in a theater during a screening of Dracula; leading to
Ann coming up with his cute name. Bunnicula was an odd rabbit: possessing fangs
instead of the normal buck teeth, able to get out of his cage without using the
door and could also open the refrigerator on his own, and instead of eating
vegetables he would use his fangs to suck their juices out of them leaving a
white husk behind.
The first Bunnicula showing Bunnicula and Harold.
Although Bunnicula is
the title character, the series is actually told from the perspective of the
Monroe’s dog, Harold, and follows his adventures as he unravels the mystery of
the family’s strange new pet and eventually befriends him. In fact, the story
attributed the writing of the actual books to him. He also had to put up with
the paranoid antics of Chester, the family’s cat, who held onto the unwavering
belief that Bunnicula was truly a vampire and would turn carnivorous one day
and must be destroyed. However, Chester eventually decided to befriend
Bunnicula and protect him from his own nature. Although often implied and
hinted at, it was never explicitly stated if Bunnicula was actually a vampire
or supernatural in nature.
The 40th anniversary edition.
The first book in the
series, Bunnicula:
A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery, was published by Atheneum Books in
1979; several months after the passing of Deborah. James continued writing the series
for six more entries,
during which time he introduced two spin-off titles: Tales from the House of
Bunnicula, which were told from the perspective of the Monroe’s second
dog, Howie, introduced in the main series, and Bunnicula and Friends: Ready
to Read, a series of picture books targeted for younger readers. The
last Bunnicula book was published in 2007.
The VHS cover to the Ruby-Spears version.
There have been two animated adaptations of the
franchise. The first came in 1982, courtesy of Ruby-Spears Productions, as an
installment of the ABC Weekend Special. The second was a full-fledged
television series by Warner
Bros. Animation. Although both were different in their presentations, the
one thing they had in common was that they decided to fully embrace Bunnicula’s
vampiric nature and make it front and center. However, the show strayed even
farther from the original books than the special.
Promo image featuring Mina, Bunnicula, Harold and Chester.
Bunnicula followed all-new characters Mina
Monroe (named for Mina
Harker, voiced by Kari Wahlgren) and her father, Arthur (named for Arthur Holmwood,
voiced by Chris Kattan), as they moved into a New Orleans apartment complex left
to them by Mina’s Aunt Marie,
called the Orlock
Apartments. With them were their two pets (whose physical appearances
differed from their descriptions in the books): the dim-witted but loyal dog
Harold (Brian Kimmet), and the intelligent and easily frightened cat Chester
(Sean Astin). A third pet entered the mix when Mina used the key Marie left her
to open a door in the cellar, freeing Bunnicula (mostly unintelligibly voiced
by Kattan).
Bunnicula feasting on some carrots.
Unlike in the books, Bunnicula was once the pet of Count Dracula. Like a
typical vampire, he tended to avoid sunlight, slept in a coffin, and his ears
could turn into bat wings that allowed him to fly. He also used his fangs to
gain sustenance; however instead of blood, he drank the juice from vegetables.
Not only that, but different vegetables interacted with his supernatural
physiology and granted him different abilities; such as carrots giving him
enhanced vision, garlic turning him into a skeleton, eggplants turning him into
a huge and hideous monster, rotten yams making him invisible, rutabagas giving
him telekinesis, and more.
Mina with best friends Marsha and Becky.
Other characters included Marsha (Monie Mon), Mina’s shy and
unlucky best friend who contrasted Mina’s outgoing nature and often witnessed
the supernatural happenings around Mina’s home; Becky (Kate Higgins), Mina’s other best friend
who had a sarcastic personality; Scott
Dingleman (Scott Menville),
Mina’s crush who shared many of her interests; Madame
Polidori (Grey Griffin),
the owner of a shop that contained many supernatural objects and who doesn’t
like children or pets; Lugosi (named for Dracula
actor Bela Lugosi,
voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz),
a deformed and insane guinea pig obsessed with serving Bunnicula to the point
he becomes an antagonist; Patches
the Weredude (Eric Bauza),
a stray cat cursed by another weredude that allowed him to assume human form in
the moonlight; and Fluffy
(Sumalee Montano), a Doberman Pinscher
that hunted vampires (a parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
Bunnicula ran for three seasons on an erratic
schedule. After the first eight episodes, the series went on a hiatus that
lasted a year. Five new episodes aired on Boomerang in a graveyard timeslot
before moving to the Boomerang streaming service. It would close out 2017 back
on the Boomerang network. The second season would air between the two networks,
but mostly on the streaming service, while the third would air just on
Boomerang before becoming available on the streaming service the following
year. There was some question as to whether or not the show would get a 4th
season, but an Instagram
post from Borutski commemorating the final voice-recording session
confirmed that it would end after the third season.
Ghostly encounters.
Warner Home
Video released the first 20 episodes of season 1 onto DVD in the 2-disc set
Night
of the Vegetablein 2017. A second set containing the remaining
episodes was planned, but ended up being cancelled for unknown reasons.
Instead, Warner opted to release the complete
first season in 2018. The entire series is
available on the streaming service, as well as for purchase on Amazon Prime
Video through a partnership with Boomerang.
“Mumkey Business” (1/18/16 preview, 2/6/16) – Tired of Bunnicula’s
antics, Chester decides to lock him back up in the basement when a beast attacks
the apartment.
“Walking Fish” (1/18/16 preview, 2/6/16) – Playing a harmonica has
Bunnicula and Harold resurrect all dead fish.
“Spider Lamb” (2/13/16) – Bunnicula and Chester take care of Harold
after his surgery, but a monster emerges from the book they read him.
“Alligator Tears” (2/13/16) – A ghostly alligator looking for her
missing earring spreads a crying curse through the apartment building.
“Muddy Harry” (2/20/16) – Harold befriends the mud monster that
emerges from the mirror that Mina and her friends fail to summon Bloody Mary
through.
“Garlicked” (2/27/16) – Chester feeds Bunnicula garlic to cure him of
his vampirism, but instead it turns him into a cute dancing skeleton that the
pets must hide from Mina.
“Whooo is…the Knight Owl” (3/5/16) – Chester thinks Bunnicula isn’t
enough to protect the apartments, so Bunnicula brings in his friend: the Knight
Owl.
“Squeaky Doom” (3/12/16) – The spirit of an evil Viking warrior
possesses Harold’s squeaky toy and wants revenge against the being who trapped
him: Bunnicula.
“Son of Bunnicula” (4/11/17 B) – Chester is convinced an eggplant will
cause Bunnicula to lay an egg, so Bunnicula plays a prank on him by pretending
to be his own kid.
“Evil Cat Videos” (4/11/17 B) – Bunnicula believes Chester’s change of
personality came from his watching a possessed videotape.
“Chester’s Shop of Horrors” (4/11/17 B) – Chester comes to like a
Venus flytrap that scares Bunnicula, unaware of its own sinister plans.
“Curse of the Weredude” (4/11/17 B, 10/1/18 CN) – Chester wants to
become human to impress Mina, so Bunnicula introduces him to Patches the
Weredude.
“Bride of Bunnicula” (4/11/17 B) – Mina’s vegetable monster is brought
to life by static electricity, and Bunnicula becomes smitten.
“Nevermoar” (6/15/17 S, 10/1/18 B) – Bunnicula and Chester venture
into the internet to stop an evil raven that feeds on everyone’s negativity
towards each other.
“Vampire Rabbit Season” (6/15/17 S, 10/1/18 B) – Fluffy the Vampire
Pointer seeks to free Mina and her pets from the control of Bunnicula.
“Hole of the Unworthy” (6/15/17 S, 10/2/18 B) – Lugosi seeks to serve
Bunnicula, but first he must get rid of Chester.
“Adopt a Vampire” (6/15/17 S, 10/2/18 B) – Chester decides to get rid
of Bunnicula by putting him up for adoption, but Harold ends up being taken by
a kooky old lady instead.
“Haunted Dog House” (6/15/17 S, 10/3/18 B) – Mina leaves the pets out
overnight in a dog house that is apparently haunted by the ghost of a playful
puppy.
“Lucky Vampire’s Foot” (6/15/17 S, 10/3/18 B) – Chester steals Bunnicula’s
foot to give himself good luck.
“Ghost Chef” (6/15/17 S, 10/1/18 B) – Bunnicula summons the ghosts of
Mina’s cooking idol to help her.
“Catula” (6/15/17 S, 10/1/18 B) – Bunnicula bites Chester, leaving him
to believe he’ll soon transform into a monster.
“Dreamcatcher” (6/15/17 S, 10/2/18 B) – Bunnicula takes the other pets
into Mina’s dreams in order to cure her of her nightmares.
“Ghost Pepper” (6/15/17 S, 10/2/18 B) – Bunnicula begins burning
everything after feeding on a ghost pepper.
“Dating for Dummies” (6/15/17 S, 10/6/18 B) – Bunnicula and the pets
realize something’s amiss when Mina’s dad goes out with a ventriloquist.
“Sunday Bunnday” (6/15/17 S, 10/1/18 CN) – Bunnicula ends up very far
from home as the sun begins to rise.
“Scaraoke” (6/15/17 S, 10/7/18 B) – Bunnicula tries to stop a ghost
from getting revenge on Mina for ruining his song with her bad singing.
“Bearshee” (9/28/17 B) – Bunnicula discovers the screaming ghost bear
that visits the apartments is scared of living beings.
“Beware Apartment 13!” (9/28/17 B) – The pets trace the disappearance
of various items around the building to Apartment 13.
“Puzzle Madness” (9/28/17 B) – Chester and Harold must solve various
puzzles in order to escape Bunnicula’s puzzle box.
“Return of the Curse of the Weredude” (9/28/17 B) – Patches wants
Chester’s help to woo his girlfriend, but Chester ends up falling for her.
“Collar Me Crazy” (9/28/17 B) – A silver collar turns Bunnicula into a
normal bunny.
“Calendar Boys” (9/28/17 B) – The pets try to stop a photoshoot from
exposing Bunnicula’s secret.
“Brussel Boy” (9/28/17 S, 10/1/18 CN) – Mina’s new friend as a dark
secret: he can turn into Brussel sprouts.
“Vampire Tick” (9/28/17 B) – Bunnicula has to save Harold from a
vampire tick.
“Chestroldcula” (9/28/17 B) – An amulet combines the pets into a
singular being.
“Never Been Scared” (9/28/17 B) – The pets hire a ghost to scare Mina,
who desperately wants to see one.
“Family Portrait” (9/28/17 B) – The pets have to find a way to free
Mina and her dad from an evil painting.
“My Imaginary Fiend” (9/28/17 B) – Mina’s imaginary friend returns
while Bunnicula faces a new threat.
“The Juicy Problem” (9/28/17 S, 10/1/18 CN) – Chester gives Bunnicula
mixed vegetable juice to get him to clean the house.
“Uninvited” (12/21/17 B) – Bunnicula must save Mina and Becky from Red
Cap.
Season 2:
“Three Heads are Better Than One” (3/8/18 B, 11/2/18 S) – Harold wants
to prove his responsibility by taking Cerebus’ place in the underworld.
“The Invisible Yarn” (12/21/17 B) – Bunnicula ends up invisible after
eating a rotten yam.
“Indistinguishable from Magic” (12/21/17 B) – Chester comes to believe
Bunnicula is an alien robot.
“Pranks for the Memories” (12/21/17 S, 10/3/18 CN) – Chester and
Bunnicula enter into a prank war.
“Revenge of the Return of the Curse of the Weredude” (12/21/17 B) – Patches
moves in with the pets and Chester tries to keep his curse secret from Mina’s
dad.
“On Mina’s Secret Service” (12/21/17 B) – Harold trains Chester to be
a “secret service” animal in order to rescue Bunnicula from some chipmunks’
tree.
“Cellarmander” (12/21/17 B) – A flooded basement leads the pets to be
eaten by a Cellarmander.
“The Eyes Have It” (12/21/17 B) – Sewer mermaids keep the pets from
retrieving Bunnicula’s eye.
“Chips and Salsa” (12/21/17 B) – Bunnicula goes off to have a party,
and the pets have to find him before Mina and Marsha do.
“Mark of the Mandrake” (12/21/17 B) – A mystical mandrake makes
Bunnicula human-sized.
“Down the Rabbit Hole” (12/21/17 S, 10/3/18 CN) – Bunnicula helps a
family of rabbits whose food supply keeps being eaten by a horse.
“Cat Burgled” (12/21/17 B) – Bunnicula and Harold have to rescue
Chester and other cats from a mysterious dimension.
“Goat Story” (12/21/17 B) – Chester and Harold have to prove that
Bunnicula didn’t eat all the food in the fridge.
“Bunnicumoji” (11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula tries to stop the delivery of
an embarrassing text message Mina sent to Scott.
“Scott Free” (3/8/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula erases Scott’s memory
when he discovers his secret, and the pets take advantage of that and make
Scott their servant.
“Legend of the Lucky Locket” (9/26/18 S) – When a future-seeing locket
reveals an adult Mina in danger, the pets decide to make sure she’s trained for
anything.
“Area 50 Bunn” (3/10/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – A government agent comes to
the apartments to find supernatural activity and save his job.
“Bunn on a Plane” (3/11/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – A plane ride brings
Bunnicula into contact with an ancient threat.
“Cat-aclysm” (3/11/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Catnip turns Bunnicula into an
evil cat bent on destroying everything.
“Jurassicnicula” (3/12/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – When Bunnicula drains an
ancient plant at the museum his lizard brain takes over.
“Bunzilla” (3/12/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Seaweed turns Bunnicula into a
monster that terrorizes a village of squirrels.
“The Chocolate Vampire Bunny” (3/14/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – A cocoa bean
turns Bunnicula into chocolate, and there are some hungry kids nearby.
“Lord of the Lucky Locket” (9/26/18 S) – Two Grunges use the
self-repaired locket to capture Mina.
“Bunderworld” (11/29/18 S) – Patches explains how he became cursed and
met Bunnicula.
“The Gingerdread Man” (2/3/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Harold becomes the king
of a candy world, but the former king wants his crown back.
“Beach Blanket Bunn” (11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula’s day at the beach turns
into an adventure.
“The Curiosity Shop Killed the Cat” (11/29/18 S) – Madame Plodouri
thinks Chester is a vampire and kidnaps him to exploit with other strange
animals.
“Bunn Vs.” (11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula engages in a bunch of challenges
set by Harold.
“Bunn in Space” (11/29/18 S) – Cabbage sends Bunnicula into space, and
he must find his way back home.
“Orlockdown” (11/29/18 S) – Count Orlock returns to the apartments to reclaim
Bunnicula and take over the world.
“Prism Prison” (11/29/18 S) – The pets’ vampire dance party is crashed
by a group that takes them to a vampire prison.
“Lafitte’s Lucky Locket” (9/26/18 S) – Bunnicula helps Jean Lafitte
defeat the British with the help of the locket.
“A Dark and Stormy Night” (11/19/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Patches uses a
magic pen to bring his stories to life, which then proceed to threaten the town.
“How the West Was Bunn” (11/19/18 B, 11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula helps the
rabbit family win a game of mini-golf against a ghost rat.
“Yellow Bellied Sound Sucker” (11/29/18 S) – Playing in the basement
causes the pets to accidentally release a bird that can steal sound.
“The Fruit Fly” (11/29/18 S) – Bunnicula attempts to try fruit, but
accidentally eating a fly turns him into a fly hybrid.
“Queen Wicked, the Wicked Queen” (11/29/18 S) – The pets escape from
an old book, accidentally bringing the villainess of the story with them.
“Harold the Vampire Pointer” (10/28/17 B, 11/29/18 S) – Harold and
Bunnicula have to fill in for a sick Fluffy when a Vampire Dog challenges her.
“Blueberry Blues” (11/29/18 S) – A blueberry makes Bunnicula
depressed.
“Iron Bunn” (11/29/18 S) – A vegetable burned by an iron pot causes
Bunnicula to become metallic when he eats it.
Season 3:
“Mastering the Genie” (12/1/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – A genie twists the
wishes he grants into nightmares.
“Hare Club” (12/1/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – The pets come to learn their new
hairstyles come with a lofty price.
“The Maltese Bunny” (12/4/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – The pets head to the
underworld to find Mina’s lost pony.
“Termites!” (12/4/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Chester’s perfect day is anything
but.
“Clone-icula” (12/7/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Chester and Harold have to find
a way to get rid of the clones Bunnicula created of himself.
“Hiccup in Smoke” (12/7/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Chester and Harold try to
help Bunnicula get rid of his hiccups.
“Purr-gatory” (12/10/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Bunnicula tries to fight his
desire to scare Chester.
“Take the Bunny and Run” (12/10/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Harold accidentally
wins a dog race and the loser keeps pestering him for a rematch.
“Any Witch Way” (12/13/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – A witch keeps Bunnicula from
hugging Mina.
“Up to Our Ears” (12/13/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Street gangs steal Bunnicula’s
ears.
“Flunicula” (12/16/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – The pets team-up with Lugosi to
find a cure for Bunnicula’s flu.
“So Campy” (12/16/18 B, 3/28/19 S) – Harold tries to sell Chester on
the fun of camping.
“Wag the Dog” (12/18/18 B) – Harold’s tail lands him in trouble.
“Back in Thyme” (12/18/18 B) – Bunnicula goes back in time to save
Mina’s project.
“Hat-Cat” (12/22/18 B) – Bunnicula gives Chester a magical hat that
will make him brave.
“Poppet Master” (12/22/18 B) – Harold’s puppets of the pets lead to
trouble.
“The Party Animal” (12/24/18 B) – Bunnicula plans a party to help get
Chester to loosen up.
“Good Luck Cricket” (12/24/18 B) – A cricket provides the pets with
good luck, but for a price.
“Monster-Con” (12/26/18 B) – The pets go to a monster convention and discover
Bunnicula is a celebrity.
“Skin Deep” (12/26/18 B) – A monster scares the pets out of their
skins.
“The Thingy” (12/28/18 B) – A doppelganger is on the loose in the
apartments.
“A Vampire at the Vet” (12/28/18 B) – The pets try to get Bunnicula
out of his vet appointment.
“Road Tripped” (12/30/18 B) – The pets head into the underworld for a
music festival.
“Oh Brother!” (12/30/18 B) – A mysterious visitor has all of the
supernatural entities in the apartments on edge.