Gracie Blogging: Halloween Week Day 2: Hallow-Spookier!

Today; Scary Godmother and Scary Godmother 2: The Revenge of Jimmy.

These are rather new specials that premiered in 2003 in Canada and 2004 in America. They’re based off a kids comic of the same name by Jill Thompson, which must only be available in Canada cause I CAN’T FIND IT ANYWHERE! But the special airs every year and can easily be found on YouTube.

So let me get this out of the way, I love the art style here. The models for the characters are very creative and fun to look at. And the 2-D backgrounds make everything look pop-up booky. It’s like they were inspired by something…

Now here’s the story, little Hannah is scared shitless of monsters. And as a joke her cousin, Jimmy, and his friends bet her to go into a spooky house and throw candy in the basement to keep a monster away. She reluctantly agrees and goes in alone. Inside she meets her “Scary Godmother” and is swept away to “The Fright Side” where all the monsters and spooks live. Think of it as “shock” therapy.

In the Fright Side she meets Skully, who’s a skeleton (and the best character in this thing!)

Harry, a nerdy werewolf who lives with his mom and doesn’t wear pants (the annoying “comedic character”)

Vampire royalty; Count Maxwell, Ruby and their son Orson.

And Bug-a-Boo, the monster under your bed.

Scary Godmother throws a party with the hopes that partying with the monsters can cure Hannah’s fear of monsters. It takes some time (and a lot of annoying screams) but she eventually warms up to them. In fact they even help her trick her cousin and his friends.

In the second we go grinchy and Jimmy wants revenge for being scared the previous year. He’s grown paranoid and twisted because of last year and all his friends kinda favor Hannah over him. So he schemes to try to stop Halloween from happening by destroying pumpkins, candy, and costumes; which causes turmoil in the Fright Side, which relies on Halloween to exist.

Now for some negatives, in some places the voice acting is rather bad. Hannah’s screams in the first and Jimmy’s evil laughter in the second. (Then again, I can’t help but think its on purpose)

And you can tell that this was made for kids, yet it has a nice charm that I think older teens or adults can enjoy too. The world building here is very interesting, from how they “bake” the fall leaves and how they reference television shows and schools. You don’t get more than references due to timing (even though each one has a long dance montage) But for the most part, the world building is interesting.

So give this a look this Halloween, at the very least you’ll get some fun recipes from it.

Oh and apparently there’s a play

And here’s some update