Slumber Scare

Slumber Scare

November 30, 1996 TV Episode AAAHH!!! Real Monsters

Studio
Klasky Csupo
Animation studio
Anivision Corporation
Distributor
Nickelodeon Network

Synopsis

When the boy monsters don't invite Oblina to play with them because they are doing "Guy Stuff," she decides to have a slumber party with the girls and do "Girl Stuff."

Characters

Ickis, Jagg, Oblina, Anne, Nurse, Krumm, Delivery Monster, The Gromble, Dentist, Urbab, Manager, Lincoln, Girl, Little Red Riding Hood, Cervenia, Server, Kriggle, Santa Claus, Blook the Granfaloon, Dizzle, Patty, Race Announcer, Commanding Voice, Hairyette, Betsy, Classmates

Credits

Directing

Director
Jim Duffy
Assistant Directors
Peter Hixson, Jeffrey Perlmutter

Producing

Producer
Geraldine Clarke
Executive Producers
Gabor Csupo, Arlene Klasky
Co-Producer
Cella Nichols Duffy, Mark Steen
Associate Producer
Barbara Wright
Creative Producer
Charles Swenson

Writing

Writer
Roger Eschbacher
Story Editors
Mark Palmer, Spencer Green, Steve Skrovan, Mary Elizabeth Williams
Created by
Gabor Csupo, Peter Gaffney
Script Coordinator
Denise Downer
Nickelodeon Story Editor
Vince Calandra

Voices

Voice
Charles Adler (Ickis, Jagg, Classmate), Christine Cavanaugh (Oblina, Anne, Nurse), David Eccles (Krumm, Delivery Monster, Classmate), Gregg Berger (The Gromble, Dentist), Xander Berkeley (Urbab, Manager, Lincoln), Christina Milian (Girl, Little Red Riding Hood), Lauri Fraser (Cervenia, Server), Dorian Harewood (Kriggle, Santa Claus), John Pankow (Blook the Granfaloon), Cynthia Mann (Dizzle, Patty), Bill Martin (Race Announcer, Commanding Voice), Marcia Strassman (Hairyette, Betsy), Dominic Armato, Lacey Chabert

Music

Music
Drew Neumann

Animation

Animatic Digitizer
Jud Kilgore
Timing Director
Rick Bugental
Sheet Timers
Leonardo Pinero, Pete Michels, Alan Smart, Debbie Baber, Herb Moore, Juli Murphy-Hashiguchi
Checking Supervisor
Zsuzsa Lamy
Checker
Marisa Konwicks
Assistant Checkers
Lisa Womble, Sharon Altman
Lip Sync
Kent Holaday

Art Department

Art Director
Sergey Shramkovsky
Storyboard Artists
Jeff Scott, Evgueni Delioussine, Toni Vian, Vadim Medzhibovskiy
Character Design
Chris Battle, Sergey Shramkovsky, Vadim Medzhibovskiy
Title Sequence Design
Craig Simmons
Title Design
Laslo Nosek
Designs & Background
Dan Krall, Vladi Rubishevsky, Geoffrey Anderson
Character Design Assistants
Denise Saffren, Dave Smith
Color Design
Renan Tolon, Gordon Swan
Background Editor
Robert R. Hache

Editing

Editor
Michael Hutchinson
Picture Editor
Peter Tomaszewicz
Picture Editing Assistant
Vincent Gonzales

Sound

Re-Recording Mixer
Kurt Vanzo
Recording Engineer
Daniel Cubert
Dialogue Editor
Mike Myles
Effects Editor
Daniel Ben-Shimon
Foley Editor
Derek Pippert
Sound Assistant
Enrique Morales
Foley Artist
Nancy Parker
Foley Sheets
Michelle Rochester
Track Reading
Glenwood Editorial

Casting

Casting
Barbara Wright
Casting Associate
Donna Grillo
Casting Assistants
Stephan A. McKenzie, Amanda McNellis

Production Management

Post Coordinator
Wendi McNeese
Accounting Assistant
Donna Munoz
Production Accountant
Carole Ann McCoy
Production Assistants
Jesse Gutierrez, Vera Duffy, Shannon Bergman
Digital Video Post-Production
Hollywood Digital

Crew

A.D. Supervisor
Samuel Williams
Design Supervisor
Alex Dilts
Color Supervisor
Robert King
Post Assistant
Eric Harp
Assistant to Producers
Diana F. Bukowski
Production Support
Susan Durante
Computer Support
Laszlo Lakits
Production Support Staff
Tony Lopez, Justin Baker, Jose Mojardin, James Peters
Overseas Supervising Director
Ferenc Varsanyi
Nickelodeon Supervising Producer
Kathrin Seitz
Nickelodeon Executive Producer
Mary Harrington
Executive in Charge of Producion
Laverne McKinnon
Crew
Klasky-Csupo, NICKELODEON

Companies and other credits

  • Negative Cutter: Magic Film & Video Works
  • Overseas Animation Facility: Anivision Corporation
  • 1996 Viacom

Production notes

Weirder than weird, grosser than gross, the Real Monsters were a perfect fit with Nickelodeon's gooey, goopy reputation. Created by the same studio that produced that network's Rugrats (Klasky Csupo), AAAHH!!! Real Monsters pushed the bounds of the bizarre to new extremes.

The stars of the show were a trio of students at the Monster Academy, located beneath a city landfill. Ickis was the neurotic one, a long-eared pipsqueak with a mischievous streak. Big, dumb Krumm was the hairy, gaseous slacker who held his eyes in his hands. The third member of this ghastly gang was Oblina, who looked like a black-and-white candy cane with eyes and lips. The brain of the group, Oblina also had a famously bad temper.

Training under the direction of the Gromble, Monster Academy's blue, four-legged (all in red pumps) Headmaster, the threesome took lessons on how to scare correctly. When the lessons went poorly, punishment was meted out by "punishment masters" the Snorch and Zimbo.

Human boy Bradley was a partner-in-fright with Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina, but not all humans were so friendly. Hot on the trio's trail was Simon the Monster Hunter, committed to ridding the world of monsterkind.

Both the animation and the storylines edged toward the outrageous. In one episode, Krumm broke out with an enormous, living zit that ended up becoming more popular than he was. If parents were grossed out, they didn't stop their kids from watching it, as AAAHH!!! Real Monsters became a multi-season hit for Nick.