So the story behind the authorship of the Bunnicula series is legit sad. Deborah Howe was dying of cancer and James and her wrote a book together to pass the time. She died before the first book was published, but in memorium, James has included her in the Author's credit of every sequel as well.

My favorite part of the Bunnicula book is when Chester tries to kill Bunnicula with a steak through the heart, but he thinks it's like a meat kind, so he keeps weakly whacking him with a cold steak till his owners spot him and stop it.

I love the inserts of you and Hershel as the peanut gallery. And I'm glad to hear this is something that still brings a lot of joy to you.

Alway love these. Watching them has become a Halloween tradition for me

Just when I finished rewatching the rest of your Halloween videos, you posted this.

I love how CR has so much contempt for David S Pumpkin by the time he has no choice but to mention it he's gotta bump all the other ones up just to put him at the bottom of the list

"Why is the Micro Monsters ally a girl?" My guess is they're trying to recreate the Ninja Turtles/April O'Neil dynamic.

Been a miserable year but this genuinely makes me smile thanks so much FF love your work

Awesome to see a new top 10.

Always count on CR to bring the Halloween goods! Love being exposed to a fresh crop of (more-than-likely-obscure) specials each season!

You can see How doug walker was inspried for the Nostalgiaween costume

Phelous has got to review that Night of the Headless Horseman special in the near future cause it is so up his ally.

A real treat to see a new entry of Halloween Specials when I was rewatching the past ones

You truly do find some amazing obscurities alongside your excellent commentary: 1313 Mockingbird Lane does kind-of-suck and not in a fun vampire way at that. Plus, I love your new Halloween sidekick! Bring him / her back for anytime you review horror or monster material.

Here’s a list of awesome Halloween specials that should totally happen! - Lucy Loud’s Scary Tales of Terror Halloween Spooktacular (a stand-alone hour-long anthology Halloween special of The Loud House where Lucy and her friends along with other characters tell multiple scary Halloween stories at a Halloween party and some of them involve an evil ghost chicken, a witch who turns Halloween costumed people into what their costumes represent, Lisa Loud as a mad scientist with her monster played by Lincoln Loud, a retelling of Hansel and Gretel set during Halloween with Luan Loud playing the witch, a parody of It with Luan Loud as a killer clown, etc.) - Adventure Time: Marceline’s HallOooween SpOooktacular of Scary Tales (a stand-alone hour-long anthology Halloween special of Adventure Time where Marceline tells scary Halloween stories at her Halloween party and the stories could involve monsters) - The Addams Family Halloween (a Halloween special of the 2019 animated movie “The Addams Family” and its 2021 sequel “The Addams Family 2”) - Halloween in Gravity Falls (an hour-long Halloween special of Gravity Falls set during Halloween where Dipper and Mabel return to Gravity Falls for a Halloween festival and monsters take over the town for Halloween) - The Owl House: Halloween in the Boiling Isles (a Halloween special of The Owl House where Luz brings the human holiday of Halloween to the Boiling Isles and it suddenly spreads like wildfire with costumes, candy, Jack-o-lanterns, and other stuff) - Elvira’s 13 Scary Tales of Halloween (Elvira, the queen of darkness herself hosts a Halloween party in a variety anthology Halloween special with 13 Halloween-themed renditions of classic fairy tales such as Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and other tales) - Screame Park (an animated Halloween special set a Halloween theme park) - A Jurassic World Spooky-saurus Dinosaur Halloween Special (an animated Jurassic World Halloween special where some friends end up at the Jurassic World theme park for the Halloween season and some scary dinosaurs attack) - Terrifying Tales from Vader’s Castle: A STAR WARS Halloween Special (an animated STAR WARS Halloween special which sees some friends attend a spooky Halloween party inside a spooky haunted castle which is actually Darth Vader’s fortress) - Other Cool Halloween Specials I have ideas for

I loved the monster in my pocket pilot Lovable characters, great story telling and creative.

31:20. I never thought to see a legendary meme return in the year of 2021 but you’ve proven me wrong once again!

I love that Mark Hamill does so many random voice roles

Yes!!!! New list 🤘🏾 the great pumkin has rewarded my loyalty 🤘🏾🤣

Love the transition. Especially with the Calamity Girls as the Totally Spies.

Been looking forward to this year's episode!

I like the 8 year pay off of you finally getting to talk about the FOX version of Sleepy Hallow. Yeah boyeeeee!

Bruh, Thicc Misty...C.R. is so good at his job.

Clue Penguin has some dip lore no joke. There's also a fan project call Penguinronpa that pretty good.

“Hallowaiian” looks like what the never made “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian” would’ve looked like.

Always a pleasure to see a...Familiar Face. Loved this series way back in the day. I still enjoy this show.

While I absolutely LOVE these lists, I think you should do another forgotten Christmas special list. I mean its been like what 6 years? I'm sure the bargain bins have a few holiday oddities to take the piss out of.

This is the best Birthday Gift i could have asked for!

it says alot when the Rob Zombie reboot of the Munsters looks more true to the source material than the Mockingbird Lane project did

Fear and Laughter in Burbank is my favourite segment from the reboot. Not only was the animation and comedy top notch, it showed a new side to my favourite Warner sibling!

I’m glad to see this back, a great Halloween tradition

The bit about Club Penguin not airing on the Disney Channel in favor of making it an online exclusive is kind of ironic how it looks like Disney Channel is shutting down around the world in favor of Disney+

Holy crap I completely forgot about Mockingbird Lane. I saw it when it first aired and then proceeded to never think about it again. I remember going into it not realizing it was a Munsters reboot and it just pissed me off the more I watched. And I did want to like it since it started with a werewolf.

A new CR Top 10 Video. I must have done something very very good to deserve this :)

Waiting with baited breath for this years list, I hope it's still coming.

Looking forward to the day when WISHBONE's Sleepy Hollow special shows up on this list

I'm actually reading reading bunnicula to my stepdaughter.

Honestly this is the first time I heard of David S. Pumpkins.

Praying for that opening bit is real when he meant "i have next years list already thought up" cause... that clock is ticking. no rush. i know CR loves he's lists and Halloween weirdo movies/specials.

I’ll explain that club penguin “lore” you were confused about to you. Gary secretly works for this agency called the Elite Penguin Force. They keep the island safe from villains that attack them. The leader of the agency was secret for a while in game until her secret identity was revealed in a special in game event. Also, am unsure if the special is canon to the game, but Gary does have a great uncle named Gariwald who appeared in a Halloween event where you had to help Gary fight an evil ghost who took over the island’s hotel with the help of the ghost of Gariwald, so Gariwald has a lot to do with ghosts in the lore. The ghost you fight in game is not in this special though.

Thank you for making another one! I watch your Thanksgiving, Halloween and Christmas list episodes every year during the holidays. Fills me with such nostalgia and warm feelings! :)

An hour-long FF video, let’s do this!!

For the record, huge agree on David S Pumpkins. He was a mistake. A huge mistake.

The reason the Woody Woodpecker short goes into color is because most people back then had black and white TVs, so there was so reason for any of the new footage to be recorded in color, it wasn't till the 60's that colored TVs became real big. I guess they considered the animated segment important enough to do in color, despite that fact it wouldn't be seen that way. It's like how with Mickey Mouse Club all the newly created animation was done in color, but all the live action footage was always done in black and white, I guess they might've also figured that if they did the scenes that were to be repeated often in color, then they wouldn't need to reanimate them if color became a thing. You can find the theme song for Mickey Mouse Club in color, but you'll never find full colored prints of the early episodes, because they just don't exist. Also, no wonder you've never heard of Homer Pigeon, he only ever appeared in two cartoons. There's also a third cartoon with a character who has the same name, but with how different they are in look and setting, the fact that naming a pigeon Homer is a really obvious pun to make, I'm pretty sure it's a different character. I'm pretty sure (not counting the Walter Lantz segments of the Woody Woodpecker shows in which Lantz and Woody interreact) that was the only made for TV Woody Woodpecker cartoon made by the original studio, if so, then it must've been a real important learning experience for them in working with low budget animation. They created cartoons of increasingly small budgets all the way up to 1972.

Would you consider Doug's Halloween Adventure for next year? That one is not stop non-sensical things.

Glad you're still making these! They're a Halloween tradition for me!

Another weird thing about Hallowaiin... It was advertised on packs of Hawaiian Rolls that was a tie-in for some contest to win a trip to Hawaii. I swear I'm *not* making this up!

More weird Halloween specials!!! Yeah!

The best time of the year is here again!

I adore Hershel. Also that art style in the David S Pumpkins special makes me think of F is for Family more than anything. Really thought it might be the same studio until I looked it up.

21:07 NO GOOD SON OF A BUS DRIVER!!!

Wolfmon, my new favorite Digimon

God I have been waiting for years for you ro get to Bunnicula! Awesome video, doesn't quite feel like the spooky season with out a CR Halloween Specials list.

Another weird one I just remembered: The Kenan and Kel movie, Two Heads Are Better Than None.

Hearing that you’re doing another one of these countdowns next year is the best treat of all.

Pokemon X and Y has a pretty cute Halloween episode where the main cast arrive in a town that is celebrating a holiday called the Gourgeist Festival which is basically just Halloween with a different name

Love watching these each Halloween and learning about more and more obscure Halloween specials. ...though the scariest part was hearing you call Club Penguin "Penguin Club". The name's super not important, but it still threw me off every time you said it, lol.

It's always fun to see your Holiday special lists. I always learn more about specials I've never seen before and it's a good way to get more into the Halloween mood.

The Legend of Hallowaiian looks like a mix between Rapsittie Street Kids with the cancelled sequel of Beetlejuice.

yesterday i saw your old videos in a row

It's just not Halloween without some Familiar Faces!!! 🎃🎃🎃

Yoooo I had that Monster in my Pocket special on vhs, watched it all the time as a kid

The return of the curse of the Halloween specials (a la Mr. Show)

So when's Herschel getting his own show?

So glad you have a few more of these up your sleeve. 🎃

Hell yes.

No, I get the Michael Jackson trinity, the scarecrow is from the Wiz, the changing pupils is from his Thriller video and his French military uniform is one of Jackson's more common costume motifs. If you combine them, you will summon the Moonwalker and woe will come to your enemies... and the children of your enemies. Because he'll make them orphans. Hu likes orphans.

the adams family is also kinda making fun of "the other" they're weird people from a weird place that moved the suburbs. though though they both have their strengths. The munsters feel more like a normal family, while the adams lean into the subtext more. I feel the connection with the munsters more, but I find the Adams more entertaining usually.

I just found out Spookley had a Christmas sequel called Spookley and the Christmas Kittens.

It's that time again! (plus that Monsters in my Pocket special feels more like a dropped pilot and despite this being an ABC weekend special and was released in the same year I was born in!) btw, Paxton Whitehead voiced the Invisible Man, not Tony Jay!

I definitely think MJ's face in the moon is a nod to the Dangerous album cover. The cat is definitely likely a Thriller nod because MJ turned into a cat-creature in the music video and also the scarecrow is a nod to The Wiz where Michael did indeed play the scarecrow. Jim Hanks does most of the video game and toy voice work for Woody in the Toy Story franchise when Tom isn't available. And also now Rob Zombie has his own Munsters that is about the family but just focuses on Herman married Lilly.

I feel like TNG's Night Terrors is being overlooked but good list.

IT'S BACK

I wait all year for these specials, glad to see them and excited already for next year!

I agree with you about the brilliant set up of the "Monster in my Pocket" special. I recall catching this, "Hawaiian Slammers", and a number of other failed pilots on some kind of marathon some holiday weekend. I was a massive fan of the cards, having a complete set that is in a folder somewhere in my parents house (and that is probably worth a small fortune) and I was the first kid to ever rent the game from a locally owned video store, so the owner of the store gave me the tiny orange monster toy that came with the game.

These videos are a Halloween tradition for me thanks!!

35:35 Oh by god you've created a waifu.

Damn that David S. Pumpkins.

"Penguin Club"

"And do check out that new series... By any means necessary." Chad be going as a pirate this Halloween.

I wonder if adventure time was inspired by bunnicula with Marcy drinking red

Happy Halloween laddy o

Oh fuck I forgot all about that Munsters reboot never seen it but judging by the those clips. We dodged a bullet

Great list love the OST nod Chekov was my favorite growing up.

dame it I'm really disappointed that failed monsters reboot did not get off the ground. Not because I think it would be good but I a big fan of the actor playing Herman for his time on sliders

They brought David for Halloween Horror Nights.... oh god....

So this is far later then I meant it to be, I just want to say that this is another great list of obscure holiday themed specials and I'm so grateful you keep making these despite the fact that the youtube channel doesn't get nearly as many views as you deserve. Weird to think TOS had a Howloween special like that and your insight into why makes a whole lot of sense. Howloween on ice isn't so much a surprise that it exists, more that it's still going. And David S pumpkin is exactly the kind of I wouldn't want to watch it on it's own but it's kind of hilarious in this list, which to a large degree is entirely on your delivery making it entertaining. Wishing you loads of luck with the channel and your own animation projects.

Awww, I enjoy the holiday list so much.

It’s not Halloween till CRs ones a year upload

I like the Idea of a resta werewolf

I heard there a munster reboot being fix. Hopefully it won't be anything like that

Part of the reason the Bunnicula series was good even if a big departure from the book series was because it was handled in part by the same guy that did Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.

i watched this and halloween kills before going to bed. at least this wasn't disappointing or insulting

30:30 the guy behind the girl looks like Human Shrek from Shrek 2 and I know I'm not the only one who noticed it 😂

1,000 points for the Totoro gengar.

That David S. Pumpkins at the end is truly terrifying.

25:04 My Best Guess: The Sequel is a James Bond Spoof Involving Herbert P. Bear, Tusk, Skip, Shellbeard, and Proto Bot Teaming up to Destroy Penguin Island.

8:02- 8:05 Oh, so that's why Seras Victoria's coffin was filled with soil from England...

Now I'm wondering were the Amphibia Girls as the Totally Spies and that Rick and Morty girl as Misty came from.

From what I can tell Hallowaiein or however you spell it was made or at least commissioned by a Hawaiin food company to advertise the strange pastries the Jaguar-man hands out and the kids gush over like their Turkish delights from a queen in the closet or something.