Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Deep beneath a smelly garbage dump, a generation of promising young monsters is growing up. Ickis, Oblina and Krumm are students in one of the world's most elite monster academies, where they're studying the fine art of scaring the daylights out of people. Learning to be a top monster from their strict headmaster, the Gromble, is hard work, so the trio relies on each other's help in dealing with the day-to-day trials of monsterdom. Despite their shortcomings--Ickis' insecurities, Oblina's bad temper and Krumm's tendency to be a slacker--their friendship gets them through their hideous homework and horrendous adolescence.
- 1994-1997
- 4 seasons
- Nickelodeon Network
- Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
- TV-Y7
Deep beneath a smelly garbage dump, a generation of promising young monsters is growing up. Ickis, Oblina and Krumm are students in one of the world's most elite monster academies, where they're studying the fine art of scaring the daylights out of people. Learning to be a top monster from their strict headmaster, the Gromble, is hard work, so the trio relies on each other's help in dealing with the day-to-day trials of monsterdom. Despite their shortcomings--Ickis' insecurities, Oblina's bad temper and Krumm's tendency to be a slacker--their friendship gets them through their hideous homework and horrendous adolescence.
Season 4 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1997
Episode 1
Oblina Without a Cause/Slick Ick
24 mins
When a group of "cool" girl-monsters shuns the obsessively rule-bound Oblina, she transforms breaking every rule she can./When Ickis takes a break from scaring to eat the grime of a dirty car, he inadvertently ends up in a car wash.
Episode 2
Battle of the Century/A Perfect World
Sun, Sep 7, 1997 24 mins
Simon the Monster Hunter builds the ultimate monster hunting machine in an attempt to capture a real monster./Feeling like Ickis and Oblina are not paying him enough attention, Krumm moves out of their dorm room and into the room of two other monsters.
Episode 3
The Lips Have It/Escape Claws
23 mins
Oblina loses her lips when they get caught on a construction barricade and ripped off./A case of mistaken identity leaves Ickis thinking six lobsters are actually monsters.
Episode 4
Walk Like a Man/A Friend in Need
Sun, Sep 21, 1997 24 mins
When Ickis gets stuck in a toilet in Rock Star Suede's house, the monsters' only hope is to disguise Ickis in Suede's coat and hat and try to walk home./When Ickis meets a monster with a human face, he not only gains a private tutor, he makes a friend.
Episode 5
Watch the Watch/She Likes Me?
Sun, Sep 28, 1997 24 mins
While getting ready to do a scare at a hypnotist's show, Ickis stares at the hynotist's watch and inadvertently gets hypnotized./Through a series of misinterpretations, Krumm is convinced that Oblina has a crush on him.
Episode 6
Nuclear and Present Danger/Loch Ness Mess
24 mins
Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped inside a nuclear power plant when they set off a warning device closing down the entire facility. The monsters are overjoyed when the famous Loch Ness Monster pays a visit to The Academy to give a guest lecture.
Episode 7
Super Ickis/The Substitute
24 mins
Ickis is accidentally thrown through the air by a bulldozer and inadvertently saves a group of students./A substitute teacher arrives, announcing that The Gromble has "gone away" and that he will be taking over.
Episode 8
The Great Escape/Beast with Four Eyes
Sat, Nov 1, 1997 24 mins
Shortly McGinty escapes from prison and leads the police on a chase that takes him to the dump, where the cops mistake Ickis for McGinty and haul him off to prison.
Episode 9
Side by Side/Hooked on Phobics
24 mins
The Gromble assigns Ickis to be "pair-scare" partners with the dreaded, unpopular Zimbo. Ickis and Zimbo are miserable with the match and instantly start bickering./Ickis discovers as easy way out of getting his homework done.
Episode 10
Spy vs. Monster/Misery Date
Sat, Nov 15, 1997 24 mins
The Academy instantly shuts down, transforming itself into a camouflaged cave, when a human spy is discovered inside. /The Gromble is in love with the Library Monster, and he's not as strict as he used to be.
Episode 11
Clockwise/Gromble Soup
Sun, Nov 9, 1997 24 mins
Ickis is perpetually late for class, so The Gromble hangs a big clock around his neck to remind him to be on time./The Gromble is sick and Simpah, the horrible Cafeteria Monster, has been put in charge of the students.
Episode 12
Showdown/Internal Affairs
Sat, Nov 29, 1997 24 mins
Simon the Monster Hunter hires three of the greatest hunters in the world to help him capture Ickis and prove to the world that monsters do exist./A hungry parasite named Sal invades Oblina's stomach, causing her to eat everything in sight.
Episode 13
Laugh, Krumm, Laugh/Rookie Monsters
Sat, Dec 6, 1997 24 mins
The Academy is gearing up for the Scaring Olympics. The Gromble wants desperately to win the competition and is pushing his students to do their best./Ickis, Krumm and Oblina get trapped in a garbage compactor and the only thing they can do is bicker.