The ninth episode of the second season of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.
Gromble's Opening Line: "Wipe that smile off your face!"
Rosh O' Monster: Ickis, Oblina and Krumm return from having just scared an entire opera house. They all attempt to share the stories of how they did it on the viewfinder, but they accidentally break it when all three of them try to use it at once. While the viewfinder is being repaired, the trio verbally re-enact their scare to the Gromble.
Tree of Ickis: While scaring humans in the park, Ickis ingests a seed pod. Overnight, this causes him to turn into a tree. He must experience the suffering of a tree until Krumm and Oblina come back with a cure.
Rosh O' Monster contains examples of:
- Art Shift:
- Ickis' story is tinted in black and white.
- In Oblina's story, the colors are vivid and there's much more shading than usual.
- Krumm's story is rendered in a childish scrawl.
- At the Opera Tonight: The events of the story take place in an opera house.
- Brown Note: The opera singing incites this reaction in the monsters, to the point where they lose their balance and fall into the orchestra pit.
- Downer Ending: The trio are punished by the Gromble because of their bumbling on the mission.
- "Rashomon"-Style: Since the viewfinder is broken thanks to the trio, they try to verbally recall the events of the mission.
- In Ickis' version of the story (in the style of a film noir), Oblina is a helpless damsel and he's a calm, cool and collected expert scarer.
- In Oblina's version of the story, she is a superhero who not only scares the entire opera house away, but she single-handedly saves Ickis and Krumm, who were cowering with fear the entire time.
- Krumm's version of the story is less self-serving than the other two, but he only indicates Oblina and Ickis spent the entire mission arguing and only gives the bare minimum of what really happened.
- It turns out that in the end, what really happened was that the trio screwed up on the mission and only managed to save it because the humans were so frightened that they ran away.
- Self-Serving Memory: In Ickis and Oblina's memories, they're super skilled and manage to scare a whole opera house by themselves. Krumm's recollection is much less egotistical by comparison.
- Ship Tease: In Ickis' story, he calls Oblina classy and she calls him amazing with stars in her eyes.
- The Show Must Go On: In the flashbacks, Ickis and Oblina scare the audience into leaving before scaring the performers.
Tree of Ickis contains examples of:
- Body Horror: The seed grows inside of Ickis' body, which causes branches to grow out of his head and mouth with roots growing under his feet.
- Conveyor Belt o' Doom / Lumber Mill Mayhem: Ickis ends up on a conveyor belt leading to a saw about to slice the trees in half. Seconds before he is sliced, he is saved by the termites.
- Keeping the Handicap: Gooloog, the tree monster Ickis meets in the forest, chooses to stay a tree because he thinks it's too much responsibility to be free.
- Tempting Fate: Ickis asks what could happen by eating the seed... later throughout the night, it grows inside him.
- Termite Trouble: Used benevolently, Krumm and Oblina use termites to free Ickis from his wooden prison. Ickis even offers to help Gooloog, another monster who suffered the same fate he did, but he declines.
- Transflormation: Ickis transforms into a tree after he eats a seed pod.
- Trees into Toothpicks: In this case, it's trees into baseball bats. The trees taken to the sawmill were turned into baseball bats, and this could've been Ickis's fate had Oblina and Krumm not saved him in time with the termites.
- Was Once a Man: Ickis encounters Gooloog, another monster who transformed into a tree after eating a seed. After Ickis is saved by the termites before he is sliced by a sawmill conveyor belt, he offers the termites to Gooloog, but he declines.
