Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is an American animated television series developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. The show focuses on three young monsters—Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm—who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around them making it to the surface in order to perform "scares" as class assignments.
The series premiered on October 29, 1994, on Nickelodeon. Running a total of 52 episodes over 4 seasons, the final episode aired December 6, 1997.
Storyline[]
The episodes follow the adventures of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm, three young monster friends attending a monster school whose headmaster is The Gromble.
The show is set in New York City, demonstrated throughout the series by the presences of the Empire State Building and the IND Subway System, and in the episode "Monster Make-Over" when Ickis refers to himself as "the ugliest, slimiest, razor fanged, sharp clawed, monster menace this side of Newark!" The dump the monsters inhabit is implied to be Fresh Kills Landfill, but never explicitly named in the series. The monster community includes a working economic system using toenails as currency.
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Sound Effects Used[]
- Cartoon Muted Trombone Sound
- Hollywoodedge, Baby Crying Slowly PE144001
- Hollywoodedge, Bird Peacock Calls Cl PE021401 (Heard once in "Mother, May I?".)
- Hollywoodedge, Cats Fighting Loud Sc PE917007/Hollywoodedge, Cats Two Angry YowlsD PE022601 (Heard once in "The Switching Hour" and "Hooked on Phobics".)
- Hollywoodedge, Crowd Med Shock PE961301/Hollywoodedge, Crowd Reaction Shock PE142501
- Hollywoodedge, Elephant Honks Blows PE024901 (Heard once in "Mother, May I?".)
- Hollywoodedge, Elephant Single Clas AT043701 (Heard once in "Spy vs. Monster".)
- Hollywoodedge, Elephant Trumpeting PE024801 (4th and 8th trumpets; heard once in a high pitch in "Hooked on Phobics".)
- Hollywoodedge, Horses 1 High Pitched TE016301/Hollywoodedge, Horses Several Whinn PE025201/Hollywoodedge, Horse Whinnies Group AT045501 (5th whinny; heard once in a high pitch in "The Switching Hour" and in a normal pitch in "Mayberry UFO".)
- Hollywoodedge, Large Ceramic Pot Bre TE023001/Hollywoodedge, Pottery Drop Break PE112401
- Hollywoodedge, Lightning 08 CloseG SIG012601 (Heard once in "Showdown".)
- Hollywoodedge, Long Stretch Pop CRT049308
- Hollywoodedge, Man Yells Long Paine CRT028302 (Heard once in "The Great Escape".)
- Hollywoodedge, Medium Exterior Crow PE140401
- Hollywoodedge, Medium Exterior Crow PE140501
- Hollywoodedge, Medium Exterior Crow PE141401
- Hollywoodedge, Punch Body Hit 1 Thud PE100801
- Hollywoodedge, Quick Double Bell Di CRT015001 (1st ding; heard once in a low pitch in "Smile and Say Oblina!".)
- Hollywoodedge, Quick Whistle Zip By CRT057505
- Hollywoodedge, Radio Beeps Static CRT051402 (Heard once in a higher pitch in "The Great Escape".)
- Hollywoodedge, School Bell Long Ring PE193201 (Heard once in "The Switching Hour" and "Monster Who Came in from the Cold".)
- Hollywoodedge, Screams 1 Woman Singl PE133501 (Heard once in "Krumm Goes to Hollywood"; twice in "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?".)
- Hollywoodedge, Screams 2 Woman Singl PE133601 (Heard once in "Monsters Don't Dance"; Ickis also makes a scream similar to this in "Hats Off" when he woke up from a nightmare.)
- Hollywoodedge, Screams 3 Man Gutwren PE134401 (Heard once in the intro.)
- Hollywoodedge, Screams 7 Woman Three PE134101
- Hollywoodedge, Several Rapid Swish CRT054101 (Heard once in a high pitch in "Krumm Gets the Dreaded Nolox".)
- Hollywoodedge, Single Classic Wolf CRT012501/Sound Ideas, COYOTE - LONG HOWL, ANIMAL
- Hollywoodedge, Single Frog Croak Cl CRT013001 (Heard once in "A Wing and a Scare".)
- Hollywoodedge, Slide Whistle Up Dw CRT2028301 (2nd slide up heard once in a high pitch in "Krumm Gets the Dreaded Nolox".)
- Hollywoodedge, Sm Heavy Metal Door Sl PE185001 (Heard once in a low pitch in "Monsters, Get Real!".)
- Hollywoodedge, Small Interior Crowd PE140301 (Heard once in "A Wing and a Scare".)
- Hollywoodedge, Werewolf Howls Dist TE031001 (Heard once in a high pitch in "Hats Off" and "O'Lucky Monster".)
- Hollywoodedge, Werewolf Howls Dist TE031002 (Heard once in a high pitch in "Hats Off" and "Eau de Krumm" and in a normal pitch in "Things That Go Bump in the Night".)
- Hollywoodedge, Wood Thrush SingingA PE915510/Sound Ideas, BIRD, THRUSHES - WOOD THRUSHES, ANIMAL (Heard once in "A Wing and a Scare".)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, OWL - SINGLE OWL HOOTING, ANIMAL (Heard once in the intro.)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, ROOSTER - MORNING CALL, ANIMAL 01 (Heard once in "Bad Hair Day".)
- Sound Ideas, CAMERA - 35 MM SLR WITH AUTO WINDER: SINGLE SHOT (Heard in "Monsters Don't Dance")
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, BIRD - HEAD BONK BIRDS CHIRPING
- Sound Ideas, CARTOON, SQUEAK - RESIN SQUEAK, STRETCH 01 (Heard once in "Monsters Are Real" and "The Tree of Ickis")
- Sound Ideas, CLOCK, GRANDFATHER - WESTMINSTER: TWELVE O'CLOCK CHIME (Heard once in the intro.)
- Sound Ideas, COW - SINGLE MOO, ANIMAL 04 (Heard once in "A Wing and a Scare".)
- Sound Ideas, DOOR, WOOD - HEAVY SQUEAK, CLOSE UP, CREAK (Heard once in "Monsters, Get Real!".)
- Sound Ideas, DOOR, WOOD - OPEN 02 (Heard once in "The Switching Hour".)
- Sound Ideas, HORSE - INTERIOR: WHINNY, ANIMAL 01 (Heard once in a high pitch in "Mayberry UFO".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, BABY - CRYING, WHINING (Heard once in a normal pitch in the intro and once in a high pitch in "This is Your Brain on Ickis".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, LAUGH - COMICAL LAUGH: MALE (Heard once in "The Switching Hour".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, LAUGH - GIGGLY LAUGH: FEMALE (Heard once in "The Switching Hour".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, LAUGH - GOOFY LAUGH: FEMALE (Heard once in a high pitch in "Monsters Are Fun".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, SCREAM - SCREAM: FEMALE, HORROR 01 (Heard once in "Chip Off the Old Beast" and "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?"; twice in "The Ickis Box".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, SCREAM - SCREAM: FEMALE, HORROR 02 (Heard once in "The War's Over" and "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?".)
- Sound Ideas, HUMAN, SCREAM - SCREAM: FEMALE, HORROR 03 (Heard once in "Chip Off the Old Beast" and "Where Have All the Monsters Gone?"; twice in "The Ickis Box".)
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - THUNDER CLAP, LOTS OF CRACKLE, WEATHER
- Sound Ideas, TIP TOE, CARTOON - XYLOPHONE TIP TOE, SHORT (Heard once in "Krumm Gets the Dreaded Nolox".)
- Sound Ideas, WATER, LAKE - WATER LAPPING ON ROCK SHORE, LIGHT, WAVES (Heard once in "The Switching Hour".)
- Sound Ideas, WEATHER, LIGHTNING - BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRIKES CLOSE BY, THUNDER 04
- Sound Ideas, WEATHER, LIGHTNING - BOLT OF LIGHTNING STRIKES CLOSE BY, THUNDER 08
- Sound Ideas, WEATHER - THUNDER CRASH 02
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - FACTORY WHISTLE, LARGE FACTORY (Heard once in "Monsters, Get Real!".)