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JennyPop's Halloween Recs
Happy Autumn, fair reader! Finally! Some of us have been waiting for the season since, well, last Autumn. So, what's better than a Hallowe'en party? Not much, says Moi. Yet, 2020 seems to be satisfied only when crushing, hither-and-thither, all our annual events and holidays - like St. Patrick's Day, Comic-Con, Oktoberfest and Euro travels - with its diseased, Godzilla-sized, Doc Martens. So, in lieu of holiday parties this year, we have media. What's better than media in-general? Holiday media!
Halloween launches a glorious season of cozy, caramel-ly, candy apple-y, craft-boozy, cinnamon-y, TV goodness! Akin to my Summer, Thanksgiving and Chirtsmas rec-lists, allow JennyPop, a.k.a. Moi, to humbly proffer my fave Halloween recs.
Certainly, this is not a complete list of Halloween media options, simply my supadupa faves. (I mean, I do have other things to do during the day, rather than make lengthy, TV lists ... like, um, yoga, Irish step dancing ... planning cocktail party ensembles ... not that there's any of that going on ... taking pix of my dog for Instagram and, um, like ... IDK? One other thing?)
The Eek!-factor, as it were, of my list is more family-friendly/spooky-old-Irish-manor, and less slash-and-gash/abandoned-asylum-murders. True, I do list The Shining and Scream Queens; but, who doesn't love a haunted mountain-lodge with an insidious, time-travel speakeasy, and tales about evil, pretty, snarky, sorority girls ... and Jamie Lee Curtis?
So, since we're all, likely, staying in this Halloween, brew some spider-cider (spiked or no), pull on your stripey socks of courage, curl up under your Vermont Country Store Great Pumpkin fleece blanket and partake in the silly, only slightly-scary, spooky side of Halloween with your Mistress of the Dork, JennyPop.
Please note, because I think this stuff's important - in the way I also think knowing which Revlon lipstick most approximates that which Audrey Hepburn wore in Breakfast at Tiffany's ("Pink in the Afternoon"/#415, btw), I have painstakingly noted season and episode numbers for TV series' Halloween episodes: i.e., (S0e0). However, if a series is listed with no (S0e0) notation, that simply means the whole series is Halloween apropos; pick any episode you like. Enjoy, kittens!
Halloween TV
- South Park
- The Big Bang Theory
The Holographic Excitation (S6e5)
The Imitation Perturbation (S12e6)
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Halloween II (S2e4)
Halloween, Part III (S3e5)
Halloween IV (S4e5)
HalloVeen (S5e4)
Valloweaster (S7e11)
- Bob's Burgers
Fort Night (S4e2)
The Hauntening (S6e3)
Teen-a Witch (S7e3)
The Wolf of Wharf Street (S8e3)
Nightmare on Ocean Avenue Street (S9e4)
The Pumpkinening (S12e3)
- King of the Hill
- 30 Rock
- Decorating Disney: Halloween Magic
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Family Guy
Three Kings (S7e15)
And Then there Were Fewer (S9e1 & 2)
Halloween on Spooner Street (S9e4)
V is for Mystery (S16e13)
- Modern Family
Open House of Horrors (S4e5)
Halloween 3: AwesomeLand (S6e6)
- The Goldbergs
Couples Costume (S3e6)
Stefan King (S4e5)
Jackie Likes Star Trek (S5e5)
Mister Knifey-Hands (S6e5)
A 100 Per Cent True Ghost Story (S7e6)
- American Dad
- The Office
Costume Contest (S7e6)
Spooked (S8e5)
- 666 Park Avenue
A Crowd of Demons (S1e5)
- The Simpsons
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Scrubs
My Big Brother (S2e6)
- Freaks and Geeks
- NCIS
- 90210
- Roseanne
Trick or Treat (S3e7)
Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down (S4e6)
Halloween IV (S5e7)
Halloween V (S6e6)
- Midsomer Murders
- Poirot
- Jamestown (S2e6)
- Grimm
- Ghosts (UK and US versions)
- Ghost Adventures
- What We Do in the Shadows
- The Secret of Crickley Hall
- The Addams Family
- Bewitched
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch (w Melissa Joan Hart)
- The Munsters
- Scooby Doo, Where are You?
- Be Cool, Scooby Doo!
- Scooby Doo!: Mystery Incorporated
- Scooby Doo and Guess Who?!
- Hotel Paranormal
- Sleepy Hollow (FOX series)
- Scream Queens
- The X-Files
- Stranger Things
Halloween Films
Muppets Haunted Mansion
Happy Halloween Scooby-Doo!
The Haunted Hotel
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown ... duh!
Hocus Pocus
What We Do in the Shadows
The Scariest Story Ever Told: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular
Scooby Doo! And the Curse of the 13th Ghost
Bewitched
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Blair Witch Project
Paranormal Activity: 1 and 2
The Addams Family (1991)
Addams Family Values (1993)
The Addams Family (2019)
Beetlejuice
The Skeleton Key
Tyler Perry's Boo: A Madea Halloween: 1 and 2
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
Halloweentown
Return to Halloweentown
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The Haunted Mansion
The Craft
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (original 1919)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure
Francis Coppola's Dracula
Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow
Wishbone: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas
Eloise's Rawther Unusual Halloween
The Shining
The Others
Frankenweenie
Scooby Doo on Zombie Island
Scooby Doo and the Goblin King
Interview with the Vampire
Pirates of the Caribbean: I - V
Ed Wood
The Innkeepers
SyFy's The Nanny
The Lodgers
The Salem Witch Trials (w Kirstie Alley)
Paranorman
Boo-ooook! Halloween Reading
Murders on the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe
The Witching Hour by Anne Rice
The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe
The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo
Cinderella Skeleton by Robert D. San Souci
Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
Ghostgirl series by Tonya Hurley
Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton
Wraith by Phaedra Weldon
Halloween by Jerry Seinfeld
Fangland by John Marks
Savannah of Williamsburg: The Trials of Blackbeard and His Pirates by Jennifer Susannah Devore
Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
Frankenweenie by Tim Burton
The X-Files: Earth Children Are Weird by Jason Rekulak
*Did I omit any of your fave films, TV or books? SVP, get thee to @JennyPopCom on Insta or Twitter and tell me what holiday, media-fare you crave. LMK your Thanksgiving, Christmas and Hanukkah choices, even Summer, too. Always happy to add investiagte new shows and books and update my lists!
