History WesternAnimation / MonsterBeach

* GreasySpoon: Run by Mad Madge and Headache. The food's pretty revolting, but the monsters usually don't mind - which is a good thing, because the owners don't take lightly to criticism.

* LosingYourHead: Two of the monsters, Widget and Headache, are shown to be able to remove their heads without any problem.

* TinyHeadedBehemoth: Headache is a huge purple monster with a shrunken head, resulting in his body being disproportionately massive compared to his head.

** Headache entirely speaks in deep roars. They pretty much sum up his usual mood and attitude though.

** The monster who runs the trailer park where the inhabitants of Monster Beach (except Uncle Woody) live when not at the aforementioned beach makes no appearances in the TV series.

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[[caption-width-right:350:A paradise that's full of freaks!]]

''Monster Beach'' is a 2014 Australian MadeForTVMovie produced by BES Animation for Creator/CartoonNetwork's Asia-Pacific feed. The brainchild of Patrick Crawley, as well as Bruce Kane and Maurice Argiro (also known for ''WesternAnimation/KittyIsNotACat''), it is the ''second'' Australian-produced animated original made for Cartoon Network, following 2012's ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero'' (which was created by the same people and also produced at BES Animation).

The movie made its debut on Halloween of 2014 to warm reception. In 2017 however, it was announced that CN Asia-Pacific had greenlit a full-blown animated TV series based on the film. Said production made its debut in 2020, featuring much of the same cast as the TV movie and still under the production of BES Animation. However, the show did make some changes to its visuals, updating the artstyle and redesigning Jan and Dean (although everybody else is more or less the same). It's also important to note the series is an AlternateContinuity to the movie, with several of the movie's events and plot points being directly contradicted by the TV show. Said series proceeded to run for 48 eleven-minute episodes.

The movie made its debut on Halloween on 2014 to a warm reception. In 2017 however, it was announced that CN Asia-Pacific had greenlit a full-blown animated TV series based on the film. Said production made its debut in 2020, featuring much of the same cast as the TV movie and still under the production of BES Animation. However, the show did make some changes to its visuals, updating the artstyle and redesigning Jan and Dean (although everybody else is more or less the same). It's also important to note the series is an AlternateContinuity to the movie, with several of the movie's events and plot points being directly contradicted by the TV show. Said series proceeded to run for 48 eleven-minute episodes.

''Monster Beach'' is a 2014 Australian MadeForTVMovie produced by BES Animation and created for Creator/CartoonNetwork Asia-Pacific. The brainchild of Patrick Crawley, as well as Bruce Kane and Maurice Argiro (also known for ''WesternAnimation/KittyIsNotACat''), it is the ''second'' Australian-produced animated original made for CN Asia Pacific, following 2012's ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero'' (incidentally also created by Kane and Argiro and produced at BES Animation).

The movie made its debut on Halloween on 2014 to a warm reception. In 2017 however, it was announced that CN Asia-Pacific had greenlit a full-blown animated TV series based on the film. Said production made its debut in 2020, featuring much of the same cast as the TV movie and still under the production of BES Animation. However, the show did make some changes to its visuals, updating the artstyle and redesigning Jan and Dean. Said series proceeded to run for 48 eleven-minute episodes.

* WasOnceAMan: The inhabitants of Monster Beach used to be humans until Dr. Knutt transformed them into monsters with his magic. It's implied Knutt was also transformed by this spell. Uncle Woody escaped, thanks to the protection of the magic amulet Knutt's father gave him. [[spoiler:Hodad gets transformed into a monster as well at the end of the movie, being rechristened Stress Leave by the others.]]

* TheUnintelligible: Dr. Knutt's Tikis speak entirely in gibberish. Doesn't stop them from getting a musical number though.

* GadgeteerGenius: In contrast to his movie counterpart, Dean is characterized as this. He often carries inventions and tech with him and occasionally develops gadgets to help the cast with their problems.

* ScoobyDooDoors: "Swampy Thing" sees the kids, Widget, Amphibia, and Dr. Knutt go through this when running from a monster from the movie they were watching. The five of them manage to run through so many doors with such frequency that they end up making the monster dizzy enough to sneak off into the basement safely.

%%* ScaryShadowFakeout: In an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the end turns out to be [[spoiler:simply Uncle Woody]].

* DecompositeCharacter: In the movie, Stress Leave was the name the monsters gave Hodad after he was transformed into a monster by Dr. Knutt's magic staff. In the series, Hodad is still human, and the name of his monster alter ego is instead given to the unnamed vampire who appeared in the movie as a minor character.

''Monster Beach'' is a 2014 Australian MadeForTVMovie produced by BES Animation and created for Creator/CartoonNetwork Asia-Pacific. The brainchild of Bruce Kane and Maurice Agiro (also known for ''WesternAnimation/KittyIsNotACat''), it is the ''second'' Australian-produced animated original made for CN Asia Pacific, following 2012's ''WesternAnimation/ExchangeStudentZero'' (incidentally also created by Kane and Argiro and produced at BES Animation).

* AdaptationalModesty: In the movie, Jan's swimsuit consisted of a tank top and bikini bottom, but in the series, she instead wears a surfing wetsuit.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The series versions of Jan and Dean are very different from their movie counterparts not just in appearance. In the movie, Jan was depicted as a CoolBigSis to Dean and the OnlySaneWoman of Monster Beach, whereas Dean was the clumsy but good-natured AnnoyingYoungerSibling. In the series, Jan is instead depicted as a chirpy GenkiGirl while Dean is TheSmartGuy. And to top it off, the two kids' love of surfing that played a major role in the movie is extremely downplayed in the TV series.

%%* ConeOfShame: In Episode 6, the werewolf Mutt is put in one for not resisting the urge to bite his wounded leg, much to his chagrin. The cone intensifies his canine hearing, making him able to read the radio signals of alien invaders... which is actually just an advertisement for a sci-fi convention.

* DemotedToExtra: Uncle Woody. In the movie, he's the parental figure for Jan and Dean, playing a major role in helping them get used to the setting and thwarting Butterfield and Dr. Knutt. In the TV series, he rarely gets more than quick non-speaking cameos.

* MeaningfulName: Butterfield's BeleagueredAssistant Hodad gets his name from a real-life surfer culture slang term for disruptive and obnoxious non-surfers who frequent surfing beaches and pretend to be actual surfers. Pretty appropriate for a guy working for a surfing resort company that seeks to exploit Monster Beach [[despite:its owners not actually knowing how to surf.]]

* WonderfulWerewolf: The Mutt is a slightly crazy but lovable werewolf surfer.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: The series versions of Jan and Dean are pretty much nothing like their movie counterparts personality-wise. In the movie, Jan was depicted as a CoolBigSis to Dean and the OnlySaneWoman of Monster Beach, whereas Dean was the clumsy but good-natured AnnoyingYoungerSibling. In the series, Jan is instead depicted as a chirpy GenkiGirl while Dean is TheSmartGuy. And to top it off, the two kids' love of surfing that played a major role in the movie is extremely downplayed in the TV series.

* ConeOfShame: In Episode 6, the werewolf Mutt is put in one for not resisting the urge to bite his wounded leg, much to his chagrin. The cone intensifies his canine hearing, making him able to read the radio signals of alien invaders... which is actually just an advertisement for a sci-fi convention.

* HelpingHands: In one episode, Widget's hand leaves her arm and starts to make trouble to her friends.

* ScaryShadowFakeout: In an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the end turns out to be [[spoiler:simply Uncle Woody]].

* CraniumChase: Inverted. Widget, one of the monsters, is a zombie and her body parts can be disassembled flawlessly. In one episode, her head wakes up without the rest of the body and she starts to look for it.

* RaceLift: Jan and Dean were Caucasian in the original movie, but in the TV series, they are brown-skinned.
* ScaryShadowFakeout: In an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the end turns out to be [[spoiler:simply the kids' uncle]].

* SurferDude: Being a series about surfing, many of the characters qualify, although Uncle Woody and Brainfreeze definitely fit the closest with the classic surfer stereotype.

The movie follows two siblings named Jan (the older sister) and Dean (the younger brother), who are spending their summer vacation on isolated Iki-Iki Island in the South Pacific, where their weird Uncle Woody lives. As they discover however, Woody is the only human inhabitant of Iki-Iki Island for a reason - the place is populated by ''monsters''. Fortunately, it turns out these gruesome ghouls are actually very pleasant folks, friends of Uncle Woody, in fact. You see, Uncle Woody inherited island's splendid beach from its former king, who gave him a magical necklace that doubles as the deed to the beach. However, the king's jealous, rotten son Dr. Knutt cursed the beach to get it back, transforming Woody's beachgoing pals into monsters who now spend their days surfing and sunning. While Jan and Dean try to make the most of their strange, new situation, trouble is afoot. Not only is Knutt (who has been transformed into a monster as well) still plotting to get the deed to Monster Beach, but surf resort tycoon Frances G. Butterfield III (and his beleaguered accountant Hodad) are on the lookout for new beach resort turf and believe they could make millions off Iki-Iki Island's monster gimmick. Can Jan and Dean make themselves at home among the lovably creepy inhabitants of Monster Beach ''and'' stop both Knutt and Butterfield from taking away this twisted little tropical paradise?

* BlindingBangs: Brainfreeze's eyes are permanently covered up by hair. He even lampshades this, remarking he can barely see past his own hair.

* FishOutOfWater: A major element of the story is Jan and Dean trying to fit in with the rest of Monster Beach, with Jan initially disliking the place and not believing it to be for her, while Dean

* IWantSong: Jan gets "I Hate This Place", where she gets to sing about how much she wants to leave Monster Beach. Dean has "Monster Style", which highlights his desire to become a surfer on par with the denizens of Monster Beach.

* VillainSong: "Daddy" is sung by Dr. Knutt, explaining his character and motivations. There's also "Wouldn't Change a Thing", where Butterfield sings about his plans for Monster Beach.

The movie follows two siblings named Jan (the older sister) and Dean (the younger brother), who are spending their summer vacation on isolated Iki-Iki Island in the South Pacific, where their weird Uncle Woody lives. As they discover however, Woody is the only human inhabitant of Iki-Iki Island for a reason - the place is populated by ''monsters''. Fortunately, it turns out these gruesome ghouls are actually very pleasant folks, friends of Uncle Woody, in fact. You see, Uncle Woody inherited island's splendid beach from its former king, who gave him a magical necklace that doubles as the deed to the beach. However, the king's jealous, rotten son Knutt cursed the beach to get it back, transforming Woody's beachgoing pals into monsters who now spend their days surfing and sunning. While Jan and Dean try to make the most of their strange, new situation, trouble is afoot. Not only is Knutt (now a magical tiki creature) still plotting to get the deed to Monster Beach, but surf resort tycoon Frances G. Butterfield III (and his beleaguered accountant Stress Leave) are on the lookout for new beach resort turf and believe they could make millions off Iki-Iki Island's monster gimmick. Can Jan and Dean make themselves at home among the lovably creepy inhabitants of Monster Beach ''and'' stop both Knutt and Butterfield from taking away this twisted little tropical paradise?

* BlindingBangs: Brainfreeze's eyes are permanently covered up by hair.

* TerrifyingTiki: Dr. Knutt and his Tikis are anthropomorphic tiki masks and recurring antagonists.

* ConeOfShame: In Episode 6, the werewolf Mutt is put in one for not resisting the urge to bite his wounded leg, much to his chagrin. The cone intensifies his canine hearing, making him able to read the radio signals of alien invaders... which is actually just an advertisment for a sci-fi convention.

* EvilIsBurningHot: One of the monsters, Dr. Knutt, is kind of an antagonist, lives in a volcano and its appearance consists in a [[TerrifyingTiki Hawaiian mask surrounded by flames]].

* {{Mooks}}: Dr. Knutt's Tikis creatures.

[[Tropes applying to the series]]

* ConeOfShame: In Episode 6, the werewolf Mutt is put in one for not resisting the urge to bite his wounded leg, much to his chagrin. The cone intensifies his canine hearing, making him able to read the radio signals of alien invaders... which is actually just an advertisment for a sci-fi convention.
* CraniumChase: Inverted. Widget, one of the monsters, is a zombie and her body parts can be disassembled flawlessly. In one episode, her head wakes up without the rest of the body and she starts to look for it.

* EvilIsBurningHot: One of the monsters, Dr. Knutt, is kind of an antagonist, lives in a volcano and its appearance consists in a [[TerrifyingTiki Hawaiian mask surrounded by flames]].

* HelpingHands: In one episode, Widget's hand leaves her arm and starts to make trouble to her friends.
* {{Mooks}}: Dr. Knutt's Tikis creatures.
* ScaryShadowFakeout: In an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the end turns out to be [[spoiler:simply the kids' uncle]].

''Monster Beach'' is an Australian animated television series created for Creator/CartoonNetwork. After a first movie pilot released in 2014, the series started to air regularly in 2020.

The plot follows two kids, Jan and Dean, who spend their summer holiday with their uncle on the island of Iki-Iki.

Little detail: the island is inhabitated by [[MonsterMash a bunch of offbeat, mischievous monsters...]]

Little detail: the island is inhabitated by a bunch of offbeat, mischievous monsters...

* EvilIsBurningHot: One of the monsters, Dr. Knutt, is kind of an antagonist, lives in a volcano and its appearance consists in a Hawaiian mask surrounded by flames.

* ScaryShadowFakeout: In an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the ends turns out to be [[spoiler:simply the kids' uncle]].

!! ''Perfetti Sconosciuti'' contains examples of:
* ScaryShadowFakeout: in an episode, the entire cast gets frightened by a mysterious shadow wandering around their home, which at the ends turns out to be [[spoiler:simply the kids' uncle]].