AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! is an 1994 animated series about teenage monsters in training, developed by Klasky-Csupo for the Nickelodeon TV channel. The show ran for three seasons on Nick's main US cable channel, and is in reruns on Nicktoons TV.

The show focuses on three monsters in particular (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 the monsters making it to the surface in order to perform "scares" as class assignments.

Main characters

• Ickis (voiced by Charles Adler)

Ickis is the son of the legendary monster Slickis. He is short and purple, with long ears. Because of this, his scares often fail when he is mistaken for a rabbit. However, Ickis has the ability to grow to an enormous size when he is angered.

• Oblina (Christine Cavanaugh)

Oblina comes from a wealthy monster family, and is considered to be The Gromble's best student. She is shaped like a black and white candy cane, with a pair of big, red lips. One of her favorite methods of scaring humans is reaching within herself and pulling out her internal organs.

• Krumm (David Eccles )

Like the rest of his family, Krumm's eyeballs are not attached to his body. Thus, he is usually seen carrying them in his hands. His most valuable tool in scaring is his overwhelming armpit stench.

• The Gromble (Gregg Berger)

The Gromble is the intimidating teacher at the monster school, who demonstrates his tough love by belittling his students for poor scares. He is a tall, green monster with two tufts of head hair, a beard and a tail, who wears a belt and a red pump on each of his four feet.

• The Snorch (David Eccles)

The Snorch is a large and unintelligible monster who performs punishments on students who break the rules. Some of the punishments that The Snorch has handed out are square dancing and listening to human music.

• Zimbo (Tim Curry)

Zimbo is a monster who resembles a bee with one mammalian leg and a humanoid face with green hair. Because of his small size and flying ability, he works as a spy for The Gromble, reporting any unruly behavior by the other monsters.

• Simon (James Belushi)

Simon is an egotistical monster hunter who has dedicated his life to capturing monsters, particularily Ickis, and proving their existence to the world.

Video game

A video game based on the TV series was released for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis by Majesco in 1995.

External links

• AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! area on cooltoons.com
• AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! area on nick.com
• AAAHH!!! Real Monsters! at the Big Cartoon DataBase