Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
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| Also known as | ''Real Monsters Monsters'' |
| Genre | Comedy horror |
| Created by |
Gábor Csupó Peter Gaffney |
| Voices of |
Charlie Adler Christine Cavanaugh David Eccles Gregg Berger Tim Curry |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 52 (102 segments) (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Arlene Klasky Klasky Csupo Mary Harrington |
| Producer(s) |
Sherry Gunther (Season 1) Geraldine Clarke (Season 3) Cella Nichols Duffy (Season 4) Mark Steen (Season 4) Co-Producers: Cella Nichols Duffy (Seasons 2-3) Mark Steen (Seasons 2-3) Associate Producers: Barbara White Creative Producers: Charles Swenson Paul Demeyer (Season 4) |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Klasky Csupo Nickelodeon Animation Studio |
| Distributor | Paramount Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Nickelodeon |
| Audio format |
Stereo (Season 1) Dolby Surround (Season 2–4) |
| Original release | October 29, 1994 – December 6, 1997 |
| Website | |
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters is an American animated television series developed by Klasky Csupo for Nickelodeon. The show focuses on three young monsters — Ickis, Oblina and Krumm — who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around them making it to the surface in order to perform "scares" as class assignments.
The series premiered Monday, October 31, 1994 at 11am on Nickelodeon. It ran at total of 52 episodes over 4 seasons and the last episode aired December 6, 1997.
The episodes follow the adventures of Ickis, Oblina and Krumm, three young monsters attending a monster school whose headmaster is The Gromble.
The show is set in New York City, demonstrated throughout the series by the presences of the Empire State Building and an Independent Subway System. The dump the monsters inhabit is implied to be Fresh Kills Landfill, but never explicitly named in the series. The monster community includes a working economic system using toe nails as currency.
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters was created by Gábor Csupó and Peter Gaffney, and was produced by Csupó's company Klasky Csupo, which also created the animated shows Rugrats and Duckman. Before the final title was chosen, which took over 5 years, the series had the working titles Monsters and Real Monsters. The show was conceived after Csupó and his wife and creative partner Arlene Klasky were approached by the network Nickelodeon to create a follow-up series to Rugrats. Csupó was inspired to write a show about monsters because his own young children loved them. He also said he knew Nickelodeon would not want a series about human characters because everybody else was pitching shows about animals. Csupó drew some sketches of possible monsters on a piece of paper and successfully pitched the idea to the network: "I wanted them silly and not too skillful – and the idea worked."
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