| Ghost Story | Gallery | Transcript |
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| Season 6 Episode 12a | |
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| Original Airdate | March 27, 1999 |
| VHS release | Halloween |
| DVD release | Season 6 Holiday Celebration Halloween Complete Series |
| Previous Episode | The Old Country |
| Next Episode | Chuckie's Complaint |
"Ghost Story" is an episode of Rugrats from Season 6. This episode also has characters from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. Thus, it is a crossover with Klasky Csupo's work.
Rugrats Characters[]
Ahh Real Monsters characters[]
Summary[]
On a dark and stormy night, The Rugrats gather in Tommy's room around a battery powered campfire and begin making up a scary story they all take turns telling. Fed up with the babies not making her ghost story scary enough, Angelica tries to take control of the tale, leading them to an attic in a haunted house. There the Rugrats meet up with the cast of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, who end up scaring Angelica more than anyone else! - Description from Klasky Csupo
Plot[]
Tommy, Chuckie, Dil, Phil, Lil, and Angelica are having a sleepover at Tommy's house and are having a "campout" in his room. There's a thunderstorm going on outside, and Angelica decides that they should start telling scary stories, but they should take turns telling the story. Chuckie tells the first part, but at first, it's cheerful and not scary, and Angelica orders him to tell it right, which he does (reluctantly). In his story, Chuckie meets Phil and Lil (dresses as a butler and maid, respectively), who then take their turn telling the story.
Phil and Lil take Chuckie upstairs on a giant worm (which Angelica claims isn't scary, but just plain gross). There, Chuckie sits on a chair with a white sheet underneath, which turns out to be transforming into a ghost which chases him. The ghost turns out to be transforming into Tommy (as a ghost). Angelica appears in the story (as a witch) and hides the key to the attic of the house. While the babies are searching for the key, Chuckie opens a door and sees the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters staring at him on the TV. He closes the door, but Angelica orders the monsters to get the Rugrats. Fortunately, Tommy manages to distract by telling them that there's chocolate pudding in the downstairs kitchen, and after Ickis licks Chuckie, he states that eating the pudding would be a better choice.
The monsters leave, angering Angelica, and the babies go upstairs and fall asleep in a nice bedroom with a giant nightlight made to look like a teddy bear. Angelica bursts in and yells at them, claiming that this is dumb story, but they continue sleeping. Angelica then tells what a real scary is like: being trapped in a creepy house all alone with a bunch of scary monsters. As she's saying this, the monastery trio comes up behind her, and Angelica ends up scaring herself, and she runs out of the bedroom, calling for her parents, as the episode ends.
Trivia[]
- The opening music is an arrangement of the traditional spiritual "Kumbaya".
- Phil, as the "Creepy Man," wears an outfit and looks similar to Gábor Csupó of Klasky Csupo.
- In all the scenes where the door to the attic is shown, the "WELCOME" mat is not there. It appears after the monsters go down to the kitchen.
- Tommy being a cute ghost, slightly resembles Casper the Friendly Ghost.
- This is the only episode of season 6 where the adults did not appear.
- Though both Charlotte and Drew are mentioned by Angelica at the end of the episode.
- Moral: It is okay to be afraid.
- This is a Rugrats/Aaahh!!! Real Monsters crossover, although those characters weren't the real characters, since they were actually just in the kids' imaginations. Both series are works of Klasky Csupo.
- It is also the final appearances of Ickis, Oblina, and Krumm. Note that the last appearance of these characters was not in their own series. However, since it was a crossover, it is unknown if this is considered canon.
- The second crossover was Invasion of the Babysitters! featured in Rugrats Comic Adventures Volume 3: Issue 10, with Rocket Power in 2000.
- The third (and final as of right now) crossover was Rugrats Go Wild, with The Wild Thornberrys in 2003.
- The only Klasky Csupo Nicktoon to not have a crossover with Rugrats was As Told by Ginger.
- Both Chuckie and Oblina are voiced by the late Christine Cavanaugh.
- Dil is the only character to not be apart of the story nor interacts with the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters characters.
- This is the only episode to be a crossover.
- Goof: In the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode The Ickis Box, it's revealed that they can't watch TV at all or else they'll turn into potatoes; therefore, Ickis and Krumm shouldn't have been watching TV. Also, the monsters were in a mood to eat chocolate pudding despite it being human food, which is extremely hazardous to their health.
- Though the errors could be explained as the babies only imagining them and they're possibly not the actual Ickis, Oblina and Krumm from their show.
- The episode itself could be non-canon to both Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
- None of the original episodes of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters feature the famous Klasky Csupo Splat logo, as it was introduced in 1998, one year after the series finished its run, and all of the episodes used the original graffiti logo. That said, this would be the first, and possibly only time, where Aaahh!!! Real Monsters would close with the famous Splaat logo for Klasky Csupo.
- The music heard when Angelica starts the story, when Chuckie first contributes his "nice" part of the story, and when the babies find the bed at the end of the story was used in the video game Rugrats: Search for Reptar. The second piece of music was also heard in the Game Boy The Rugrats Movie game.
- Goof: Angelica opens the attic door despite Tommy locking it.
- Chuckie breaks the 4th wall by look at the camera and saying, "Telling scary stories is fun".
