Halloween Episode / Web Animation

• Algicosathlon Camp has Episode 8, where the challenge is a twisted version of trick-or-treating, along with one of the most gruesome eliminations.
• Every year, the main characters from Homestar Runner (plus others, such as Marshie, Stinkoman, or The Goblin) get dressed up in costumes and do stuff. They are often dressed up as some obscure pop culture icon from the '70s, 80's, or 90's, although we will occasionally be relieved of guessing too hard with some costumes such as Tingle, Hello Kitty, Beetlejuice, Zoidberg, or M. Bison. The events are different each year, though there are a few traditions, such as an appearance from The Goblin, Coach Z going as a hip-hop artist, an Easter Egg involving Homsar and activated by clicking on or near the Poopsmith, the "Witch's Brew" catchphrase, or Marzipan cross-dressing (Lampshaded when Homestar said that Marzipan going as a guy every year was starting to freak him out):
  • In the 2000 cartoon "Homestarloween Party", everyone gets together at Homestar's Halloween party to tell a round-robin scary story that quickly goes off the rails.
  • In the 2001 cartoon "The House that Gave Sucky Treats", Homestar and friends go trick-or-treating... at your house! Viewers got to give the characters candy in an interactive game, with a number of amusing responses to treats both fitting and unfitting.
  • In the 2002 cartoon "Pumpkin Carve-nival", Homestar organizes a pumpkin-carving contest, and ranks the other characters' pumpkins in a seemingly random fashion. Then it turns out "Homestar" is really Strong Bad in disguise, and what appeared to be Strong Bad was actually the Goblin from "Homestarloween Party".
  • The 2003 cartoon "3 Times Halloween Funjob" had a series of separate, simultaneous plots that all come together at the end: Marzipan and Strong Sad host a seance to contact the ghost of a dead houseplant, Strong Bad and his posse throw eggs and toilet paper at places and people (with the King of Town desperately trying to invite himself along), while Homestar goes trick-or-treating with Pom Pom, Bubs, and Coach Z.
  • In the 2004 cartoon "Halloween Fairstival", Strong Bad tries to help the Cheat cure a case of the hiccups at the eponymous Halloween event, which features Coach Z's "haunted locker room", Bubs' cliche-ridden comedy act, and Marzipan's "Chorus of Autumnal Vegetables".
  • 2005 saw the release of another interactive cartoon, "Halloween Potion-Ma-Jig", where the audience had to help Homestar find ingredients for a potion recipe, with one of five different endings as a result.
  • In the 2006 cartoon "Happy Hallow-Day", Homestar and friends try to figure out why it's still daylight out on Halloween night.
  • In the 2007 cartoon "Jibblies 2", the Horrible Painting in Strong Mad's closet escapes and terrorizes the citizens of Free Country USA into getting "the jibblies".
  • In the 2008 cartoon "Most in the Graveyard", Homestar and friends explore the old cemetery behind the King of Town's castle and run afoul of a carnivorous undead sheep.
  • In the 2009 cartoon "Doomy Tales of the Macabre" Strong Sad, angry about not getting invited to his friends' Halloween party, writes a story in which the others suffer all sorts of weird karmic punishments.
  • In 2010, the creators of Homestar Runner put off the Halloween special until December. As a result, everyone dressed as either characters from Christma—er, Decemberween specials, or as Decemberween decorations.
  • In the 2014 cartoon "I Killed Pom Pom!", Homestar goes into a panic when he believes he's murdered Pom Pom, and desperately tries to cover up his "crime".
  • In the 2015 cartoon "The House that Gave Sucky Tricks", Strong Bad brainstorms all sorts of bizarre and not-really-that-scary ideas for his own haunted house attraction.
  • The 2016 cartoon "Later That Night..." mainly focuses on the post-cartoon costume round-up, with only a few glimpses of the "hilarious Halloween adventure" Homestar and friends had, which includes trick-or-treating at the "home" of Senor Cardgage, ghost-hunting with Strong Bad thinly-disguised as a new character he made up, a creepy Marshie the Marshmallow mascot offering them free samples of "Pumpkin-Spice-Latte-Flavored-Banana-Bread Malloweens", and "the delightful wedding of the Goblin and the Jibblies painting".
  • The 2017 cartoon "Haunted Photo Booth" featured a ghostly grinning face appearing in the pictures taken in a photo booth at Marzipan's Halloween party, and Strong Bad struggling to make the ghost appear in his pictures.
  • The 2018 cartoon "Mr. Poofers Must Die!" features Homestar trying to tell a scary story where the adorable puppy Mr. Poofers is Killed Off for Real. Despite their best efforts, every attempt by Homestar and his friends to tell a story where Mr. Poofers dies goes off the rails into a non-threatening non sequitur.
  • The 2019 cartoon "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods" has Strong Bad telling a story that mimics the style of the original Homestar Runner book, in which the Homestar Runner dies of fright and has to face his three greatest fears inside the Spooky Woods in order to get his body back.
  • The 2020 cartoon, "Halloween Hijinks" has the main cast just hang out in their costumes while they watch their teenage-selves from the Strong Bad Email episode "highschool" try to solve a Scooby-Doo-esque mystery involving Large Bean.
  • For 2021, the site released "Halloween Hide & Seek", a short LucasArts-style Adventure Game instead of a typical cartoon. The game has the player take control of Homestar as he searches for his friends on Halloween night, who are all dressed up as classic (and obscure) adventure game characters.
  • The 2022 cartoon "2022 Costume Pack Now Available" is just repeat of "Homestarloween Party", but with the central gimmick of DLC being downloaded to add new costumes, scenes, and upgraded effects to the short.
  • The 2023 cartoon "The Show: Ween Edition" features the cast as contestants on Homestar's game show, where they have to guess how he'll hilariously misinterpret their costumes this year.
• Camp Camp has had two so far (though since the series takes place at a summer camp, neither of them actually take place on Halloween):
  • "Night of the Living Ill": A Zombie Apocalypse-esque flu breaks out and the healthy campers have to find medicine in the laboratory on Spooky Island before they're all infected. Also features an appearance by the island's resident ghost Jasper.
  • "Arrival Of The Torso Takers": After watching an episode of a horror anthology series, Max becomes paranoid that David has been replaced by one of the aliens from the show. He hasn't; instead, he was replaced by his Identical Stranger and resident Knight of Cerebus Daniel instead.
• Episode 7 of Damaged has part of the episode set at a Halloween party.
• Dorkly Originals features "Video Game Trick-or-Treating", with Mario and the gang having a party, Ghosts throwing toilet paper at Pac-Man's house, Link and Zelda trick-or-treating, and Mega Man fighting Choco-Man.
• Overly Sarcastic Productions, an Edutainment Show that recaps history, folklore, and classic literature, takes a closer look at something spooky every October. Examples include some works by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, Frankenstein, Dracula, Tam Lin, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
• Happy Tree Friends has quite a few of these; nine, to be specific. Some examples of themes explored during these episodes are zombies, being buried alive, Demonic Possession, and Mime trying to get candy from the blind Mole.
• The Damn Few has had one. Most of it's Gunny ragging on Rhino for not wearing a costume, and Rhino expressing his Grinch-like attitude towards every holiday that isn't Fourth of July.
• RWBY Chibi has the season two episode "Happy BirthdayWeen", which consists of three Halloween-related shorts: the first involving Floyd the Geist possessing a pumpkin with the intention of scaring people, only to be turned into a pie and eaten; the second involving Nora making a love potion for Ren, only to reveal that she is drowning him in the cauldron; and the final revealing that Ruby's birthday is on Halloween (a fact carried over to the canon series), and her trying to use her birthday as an excuse to get things from other trick-or-treaters.
• Brawl of the Objects: The seventh episode, "Unprepared to Be Scared". Also, Popsicley thinks of the challenge as pumpkin carving, Party Hat thinks of it as costume making and Chocolatey thinks of it as candy eating. They are all wrong, though.
• DEATH BATTLE!:
  • "Sabrewulf vs. Jon Talbain" was released for Rooster Teeth FIRST Members on Halloween, being pushed forward one day just to coincide with Halloween. Naturally, the theme was horror monsters, in this case werewolves, and it was also one of the most brutal and bloody fights in the entirety of the series.
  • The release date of "Jason Voorhees vs. Michael Myers" for Rooster Teeth FIRST Members is October 31, 2022. The theme is of course, Stock Slasher villains.
• The AstroLOLogy chapters "Happy Ah-LOL-ween" and "Paranormal AstroLOLogy" are composed of shorts that are either supernatural-themed or explicitly take place on Halloween, making for 24 shorts in total.
• SuperThings has had a few episodes specifically Halloween-themed for their plots:
  • The episode simply titled "Halloween" features Pumpking gathering a team of villains to steal all the candy the night before Halloween, accidentally putting his rival Candy Strike into the fray.
  • The episode "Zombies Night" features Kid Kazoom against a zombified horde of citizens, while also focusing on his growing anxiety over his lack of control over his new powers.
  • The episode "Halloween Under the Terror of Zombies" features a variety of villains terrorizing the city under the scheme of zombies attacking.
  • The episode "Trick or Treat Battle!" pits Sugarfun and Smash Crash and their respective teams against each other in an attempt to collect the most candy.

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