“ | Our ghoul gang is reunited once more. How fang-tastic! | ” | |
—Sibella |
"Monster Party" is the 27th episode of Season 2 of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes and the 79th episode overall. It is a Halloween episode that features characters from Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School.
Official Synopsis[]
Enid is faced with a choice when her old friends from Ghoul School show up.[1]
Plot[]
Rad plays with a finger skateboard in a video call with Enid. Suddenly, Bernard and Wilhanema shows up to surprise Enid that her childhood friends from Ghoul School came for a visit. Rad asks "The heck is Ghoul School?", then Enid explains that it is the place where she used to be a witch. K.O., Icky, and Boris plans for the ghouls' picnic outside of Enid's house.
Enid is in between surprise and nervous when she reunites with Phantasma, Elsa Frankenteen, Sibella, Tanis, and Winnie, all together again. K.O. wants Enid to be honest with her friends of who she really is: a ninja, but Enid was convinced that her friends really liked her as a witch, so Enid continues to be a witch like old times. In the flashback with a young Enid and the Ghoul School gang are looking at comic books, but Enid was looking at her own comic books about ninjas, making her to a little glum. Back to the present, Enid is determined and is going in to join the Ghoul crew. K.O. is upset about Rad hecking things up again while talking on K.O.'s phone. Enid joins in on the ghouls' picnic, asking about Ms. Grimwood, even about volleyball games and other crazy games back then. Winnie asks the other ghouls about what happened to "That Weird Guy With The Great Dane". Enid is in progress, not revealing herself as a ninja, but remains as a witch. Spanky is about to gossip about Enid being a ninja, but Enid cuts Spanky off by throwing him to the air, not letting him reveal her true secret. Crudde comes in to say something, but Enid whacks him and threw him in the air at the same time. Enid wonders about the talents the ghouls, including Enid, are doing one by one.
Winnie goes first by using her sharp claws to make a werewolf sculpture, Elsa uses a bucket of water on the ground then standing on the puddle for a lighting strike while using a kite, Tanis uses her ponytail for weightlifting a car, Phantasma controls K.O. to dance, and they wanted to see what Sibella can do, but the girls' can't see her. Turns out that Sibella was actually dancing in the sky, in front of the moon with the bats for a "batty" preformance. The ghouls are impressed of Sibella's preformance. The ghouls wants to see how Enid is doing with her witch magic, but Enid messes up her performance, casting a spell on a tree snatching both Tanis and Winnie by surprise. Enid was trying to stop the tree to save Tanis and Winnie, but the tree moves and dances very fast, trapping Tanis and Winnie inside. Sibella, Phantasma, and Elsa are confused about Enid, which Enid confesses that she grew up to give up her days as a witch and she reveals to become a ninja. Enid apologizes for lying to them, but Sibella, Phantasma, and Elsa think that Enid being a ninja is amazing. Enid is a little confused, but Phantasma explains in the flashback, as Enid leaves, the other ghouls are impressed about what Enid is hiding and they love ninjas. As the flashback is over, the three ghouls hugs Enid for being honest about being a ninja, then K.O. joined the hug as well. Enid and the ghouls worked together to save Tanis and Winnie, who are still inside of the tree. As Tanis and Winnie are free from the tree, the tree apologizes for trapping Winnie and Tanis. The ghouls forgive Enid for lying to them about being a ninja because their spooky friendship depends on Enid. The girls, K.O., Icky, and Boris begin partying for a spooky dance party and Rad raps in the background.
Features[]
Characters[]
- K.O.
- Enid
- Radicles
- Bernard
- Wilhamena
- Boris
- Icky
- Phantasma
- Elsa Frankenteen
- Sibella
- Winnie
- Tanis
- Miss Grimwood (mentioned)
- Crudde (non-speaking)
- Spanky
- Mr. Logic (cameo)
- Elodie (flashback)
- Cool Moon
Music[]
Songs[]
Soundtrack[]
Trivia[]
- The end credits show the original Ghoul School girls' model sheets displayed one by one.
- Phantasma's, Elsa's, and Sibella's voice actresses reprise their original roles from the Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School movie. Winnie's original voice actress passed away on January 7, 1988, from liver cancer and Tanis' original voice actress retired.
- Oddly enough, Natalie Palamides and Kristen Li both voice Buttercup and Bubbles respectively in the 2016 TV series of The Powerpuff Girls.
- This was the last time Russi Taylor reprised the role of Phantasma before she passed away the following year on July 26, 2019.
- This episode was released in the same month as "Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School" which came out 30 years ago on October 16th, 1988.
Production Notes[]
- From the What A Cartoon! podcast, the writers wanted to do a story where a character comes out to their friends and that the friends became cool with who the character is.[2]
- The story aspect was able to give a double meaning behind the message in which Enid came out as a ninja to her friends and the other meaning is the concept of people coming out of their sexual orientation or their gender identity.
- Ian Jones-Quartey shared an image of this episode on Twitter, and said that it would be released by October, however, he did not state the episode's name.[3] The name was later to be revealed as "Monster Party".
- Ian Jones-Quartey loved this episode because he and the crew got to see the original model sheets for the Ghoul School girls.[4]
Continuity[]
- Rad is seen as a were-cat briefly, using his design from "We've Got Fleas".
- When Enid was at Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Ghouls, she has her witch outfit from "Face Your Fears".
- Her flashback of being a witch shows that it was before she's a ninja from the flashbacks of "You Have to Care" and "Second First Date".
- Cool Moon has bandages since Cosma blown him up in "Villains' Night Out".
Cultural References[]
- During the scene where K.O., Boris, and Icky pop out of the jar of ashes, the picture in the background is a silhouetted version of the cover of the original Castlevania.
- The characters in the flashback scenes are drawn in the style of Hanna Barbera's Scooby Doo and Ghoul School.
- During the flashback sequence, Grim from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is seen on "Teen SCARE!", a magazine which Phantasma is holding as she comments "Oh man, the Grim Reaper is so hot! Wouldn't it be the absolute best to grow up as spooky as this Enid? I can't think of anything cooler!" (Enid instead looks down at issue 8 of "Hot NINJAS"). The cover is subtitled "THIS YEARS 20 HOT GHOSTS".
- During the scene where Winnie asks if anyone wonders what happened to "that weird guy and his Great Dane" is a direct reference to Shaggy Rogers and Scooby-Doo, the two main characters of the Scooby-Doo series and the main characters in the original film Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School where they act as gym teachers for the girl's volleyball team.
- Elsa even pokes fun at Shaggy's speech pattern, stating how he "talked, like so weird, man".
- Enid even says "ruh-roh" similar to Scooby-Doo.
- The scene where Enid places a spell on the tree, The phrase "lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" refers to a commonly used Lorem Ipsum placeholder text used to demonstrate the visual form of a document.
- The scene where Elsa, Phantasma, and Sibella want Enid to stop the tree had the three resemble the Eds from Ed, Edd n Eddy, complete with the Squigglevision-esque vibration.
- Elsa resembled Ed, Phantasma resembled Edd, and Sibella resembled Eddy.
- Character designer, Julia Srednicki stated that the reference was made by Stevie Barbolla.[5]
- Ian Jones-Quartey then later on explained that in the first pitch, Stevie kept drawing Elsa to appear more like Ed to make everyone in the room laugh. He mentioned that in one of the rules of the show is that, "if it gets a laugh, it stays in". However, they had to make a new design model sheet and inking guide for the animators and Ed's mouth chart since they did not have access to any of the original Ed, Edd n Eddy designs.[6]
- Character designer, Julia Srednicki stated that the reference was made by Stevie Barbolla.[5]
- Elsa resembled Ed, Phantasma resembled Edd, and Sibella resembled Eddy.
- The scene where Bernard turns human parodies the transformation scene from Disney's 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast.
- The rap that Rad sings at the end is a reference to Scrappy's rap at the end of Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School.
- The episode's title may be referring to the 1989 NES game Monster Party.
Video[]
Gallery

Monster Party.
Transcript
- View the episode's transcript here.
References
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