Happy Halloween Everyone,
Angela Bowen here, the host of Looking Back On My Wonder Years: A Wonder Years Podcast.
Today in the spirit of the holiday I decided to cover a spooky Alvin and the Chipmunks Episode, this one comes from Season 7 and aired in September 1989, entitled Nightmare On Seville Street.
In this episode on a Saturday afternoon Dave takes the boys to the movies to see the Fuzzie Bunnies: The Homecoming Movie although Alvin really wants to see Hideous Harold PART X1 (11).
As soon as Dave leaves and the boys head to their theater, Alvin makes a detour for the horror film and Simon and Theodore have no choice but to follow him in.
They all get freaked out, since this movie looks like a combination of Nightmare On Elm Street (Alvin reference's Nightmare Land) we see this old man with a gray mustache wearing a slicker and hat (similar to the fisherman in I Know What You Did Last Summer), (he also has a rake garden trowel for a hand)but this guy is burning down small cabins which gave me Friday the 13th vibes (even if I've never seen the movie).
Dave picks the boys up from the movie and they walk out of the theater with their hair standing on end (it's actually kind of cute).
The boys go home and once it gets dark out they're afraid to go to sleep, Dave still has no idea they saw the horror movie.
Then the lights go out and Dave has to change a fuse which is located outside the house. Not surprising he gets locked out and finds a slicker and hat identical to Hideous Harold's hanging on the side of the house. Did I mention it's raining and storming outside like the world is coming to an end.
The boys notice who they think is Hideous Harold but it's just Dave trying to get their attention to let him back in the house (he even climbs on the roof to get to their window on the second floor of the house.
The boys since they can't sleep, rig up a device that will take out this supposed creepy man complete with a bat as a battering ram and a net.
There is even a song about capturing Hideous Harold.
It's kinda catchy.
Luckily for Dave, he finally convinces the boys that it's him and then to teach them a lesson he makes the boys spend a whole Saturday cleaning the house top to bottom.
I hope you enjoy the Podcast Episode and have a safe Halloween and great week!
