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The best Halloween cartoon episodes, show by show.
Twenty-six Halloween cartoon episodes from Gravity Falls, SpongeBob, Hey Arnold!, Kim Possible and more, with season and episode numbers so you can find them fast.
Halloween cartoon episodes are the perfect unit of October: a half hour or less, a costume, a scare, and bedtime still on schedule. This list collects twenty-six of them from kids’ and family shows, grouped show by show, with the season and episode number on each so you can skip the scrolling.
The mix runs from 1983’s Smurfs to 2018’s We Bare Bears, with three episodes of The Real Ghostbusters and a Spider-Man episode fans rate 9.0. Most sit comfortably in family territory. The superhero and ninja entries skew a little older, and the notes below say who each one suits.
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01
The Halloween Bash
A kid who can turn into a dragon, loose at a Halloween party — the one night a dragon might pass for a costume. Mid-2000s Disney Channel action-comedy, set in New York.
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Pirate Lessons/Halloween with Dead Ghost, Coast to Coast
The Halloween half of this pairing is pure late-’90s Cartoon Network: loud, odd and very pleased with itself. The pirate half comes free.
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Doug's Halloween Adventure
Doug Funnie’s Halloween, and in a show built on his imagination, the holiday gives it plenty to work with. Early-’90s Nickelodeon, gentle and a little wistful.
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04
Summerween
Gravity Falls celebrates Halloween in summer too, and the Summerween Trickster is exactly the kind of monster only this show would invent. Funny, eerie and a little bittersweet.
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Arnold's Halloween
Arnold and Gerald stage an alien-invasion hoax that gets wildly out of hand — the show’s own War of the Worlds. A late-’90s Nickelodeon high point, and rated like one.
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06
October 31st
Kim and Ron on Halloween, which in Middleton is never just trick-or-treating. Disney Channel’s teen-spy cartoon brings its usual mix of gadgets, villains and Ron being Ron.
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07
Halloween
Mr. Bean approaches Halloween the way he approaches everything: with barely a word and total confidence. The jokes are visual, so it works for every age.
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08
A Pinky and the Brain Halloween
Same plan as every night — try to take over the world — only this time on Halloween. One of the better-rated episodes here, from a show that always had jokes for the grown-ups.
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09
Candy Bar Creep Show; Monster in the Garage
Halloween at crawling height, where a candy-bar creep show and a monster in the garage seem equally real. Gentle enough for the smallest viewers, and the first of two Rugrats picks.
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10
Curse of the Werewuff
A later Rugrats Halloween special, with a werewolf filtered through toddler pronunciation. Rated lower than the 1992 episode, but a fine second helping.
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Scaredy Pants/I Was a Teenage Gary
SpongeBob finally gets to be the scary one, until the Flying Dutchman gets involved. The second half turns him into a snail, which is its own kind of horror.
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12
The Legend of Boo-Kini Bottom
SpongeBob and the Flying Dutchman, rendered in stop-motion. The handmade look makes Bikini Bottom lumpier and stranger, which suits Halloween perfectly.
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13
All Hallows Thieves
Four ninja turtles on the one night of the year nobody would look twice at them. Action first, for kids who’d take throwing stars over ghosts.
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14
Halloween
A show that mixes every animation style it can find does Halloween, and Elmore gets even stranger than usual. Rated as highly as Summerween, which is saying something.
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15
Scary Godparents
Timmy Turner, two fairy godparents and a holiday practically designed for wishing badly. Classic early-2000s Nickelodeon, and a good bet for kids who like their Halloween silly.
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16
Haunted Halloween
The Space Age family meets Halloween in a mid-’80s episode from the show’s revival. Retro-futurist spookiness for anyone raised on Hanna-Barbera.
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When Halloween Was Forever
Samhain, the ancient spirit of Halloween, wants the night to last forever and stops the clock to make it happen. The Ghostbusters’ first Halloween, and the best-rated of their three here.
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Halloween II 1/2
The title nods to the slasher sequels and to the show’s own first Halloween, with a half-step thrown in for comedy. Season three, rated 7.4 — solid company for the original.
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The Halloween Door
The third Real Ghostbusters Halloween here, from 1989, and the title alone makes a case for leaving some doors shut. Rated 7.5, neatly between its two predecessors.
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20
All Hallows' Eve/The Littlest Witch
Two small Halloween stories from the Smurfs’ early-’80s heyday, one of them about a very little witch. Sweet, unhurried, and fine for the youngest viewers.
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21
The Uncertainty Principle
Halloween in New York, and the Green Goblin makes his entrance. Rated 9.0, the highest on this list, and proof this short-lived show deserved more seasons. Better for older kids.
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Halloween Night at the Museum
Spider-Man spends Halloween night at a museum, in the show’s loud, jokey, fourth-wall-breaking style. Action comedy for kids who want punches with their pumpkins.
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Strange Little Halloween
A second Halloween episode from the same show a season later, and the better-rated of the pair. Same jokes-per-minute energy, same web-slinging.
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24
Charlie's Halloween Thing
Grizz, Panda and Ice Bear head into Bigfoot country for Charlie’s idea of a Halloween celebration. Warm, funny, and just spooky enough to count.
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25
Charlie's Halloween Thing 2
Charlie’s back with another Halloween thing, and the bears somehow agree to it again. The sequel rates a touch higher than the original.
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26
A Scooby Doo Halloween
Scooby-Doo on Halloween is almost redundant — the gang unmasks costumed villains every week. The 2000s revival leans in anyway, and it works.
A good Halloween cartoon fits a costume, a scare and a lesson into twenty-two minutes.
Most of these run a half hour or less, so you can stack three before bedtime and still make it out for trick-or-treating. The full watchlist has more Halloween episodes and movies for every age, all in one place.