Favorite Halloween Cartoons
With my favorite holiday fast approaching, I often think back of the halcyon days when I was a kid and how everything around me seemed to have that extra Halloween touch that made this my favorite holiday. From the decorations in my school classrooms to the sale decorations at the grocery store, the anticipation of the day where, to a kid, anything and everything magical can happen was palpable.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m in my 30s or that my carefree ways have been jaded like most adults, but the spirit of Halloween does not seem that present nowadays.
For example, do any of you remember when TV stations would announce the big “Bugs Bunny” Halloween special? How it was a featured presentation?
The feeling I get in today’s age is that of a streamlined and cold spirit of Halloween. To many, this Holiday means different things. As for me, it means that I get to relieve the halcyon days of my childhood. I sit back and watch those old cartoons thanks to YouTube. I watch zombie movies and horror movies throughout the month of October, hoping to catch that old and lost feeling and for a single day of the year, hope to be foolishly scared.
I hope you guys have a fun & safe Halloween!
Walt Disney’s The Old Mill (1937)
Mickey Mouse-Haunted House (1929)
Donald Duck – Trick Or Treat – 1952
Bugs Bunny – Broom-Stick Bunny
Popeye’s Halloween
Charlie Brown – The Great Pumpkin (for Marie)
Written by Javier Ortega - javier@ghosttheory.com
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Thanks for posting this, Javier. I’m wistful for a more fun and innocent Halloween myself, one where little girls don’t dress up like French maids and 8-year-olds haven’t seen all of the “Saw” movies.
Also loved “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and, more recently, Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree”. My now-grown kids still watch them at this time of year.
Marie,
Updated the post just for you
-Javier
My hero!:)
I love nostalgia blogs, right in tune with myself and loads of other people who miss those days of sitting inside watching the TV with the lights off while it either snowed or rained outside!
Javier,
Thank you for those sweet memories! Fond memories when rocks in a bag WERE rocks in a bag when I was a little gob’lin growing up.
Thanks so much for posting these. I too grew up in the 80s i so much miss the spirit that seemed to truely permeate everything about the holiday season(Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas). The whole season seems to be lost now. kids all but skip halloween and thanksgiving to get to christmas. schools, dont have carivals and haunted houses. And don’t get me started on how churches want to keep halloween at arms length(i work for one so i can say that
thanks again for posting these, i’m going to watch them all. one other i remember was a donald duck halloween one. if you ever find it that would be great! i bought the garfield holiday specials last year. loved those growing up!