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Rugrats_-_Werewuff_Nightmares_(S8,_E18)_-_Paramount+

Rugrats - Werewuff Nightmares (S8, E18) - Paramount+

"Curse of the Werewuff" is the second Halloween-themed episode of the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats, produced as the second episode of its eighth season (though it ended up being the season's eighth episode to air). It was originally released as a direct-to-video special on the Rugrats: Halloween VHS on August 27, 2002, before airing on Nickelodeon on October 20th of the same year.

Synopsis[]

The Rugrats are getting to go trick-or-treating for the first time and their families go to a local amusement park for Halloween. With the exception of Chuckie, all the Rugrats are excited for Halloween. To scare the babies, Angelica tells them that you turn into whatever your Halloween costume is (their parents decided to dress the babies up as monsters so they'd feel more scary than anything they actually saw at the amusement park).

After Angelica gets caught eating candy before leaving for the amusement park, her parents punish her by not letting her go trick-or-treating (but after getting to the amusement park, they tell her that if she's good, they'll take her later). Before leaving, Angelica, who's wearing a princess costume, tells the babies that, as a princess, she can turn them back into babies, but she'll only do it on one condition: the babies have to give her all the candy that they get from trick-or-treating, which, with the exception of Chuckie, they don't want to do.

Later, after getting to the amusement park, Lou and Lulu take the Rugrats into a children's haunted house, and Chuckie sees another little girl in a princess costume. He tries asking her to turn him back into a baby, but he ends up scaring her. After seeing that, the other babies decide to give Angelica their Halloween candy so she can turn them back into babies. They go trick-or-treating and get lots of candy, but when they go to look for Angelica, they see her going into a haunted house for adults and follow her, and all of them, including Angelica, get scared in the process.

They all manage to get out of the haunted house safe and sound, and Angelica reveals to the babies that she had lied about them turning into their Halloween costumes, to which her cousin, Tommy, points out that since she lied to them, they don't have to give her their Halloween candy. But, like always with Angelica, she still wants it and takes the candy from them (claiming, "I took the curse off hair and square"). But her parents catch her eating the candy and punish her (again) by not letting her go trick-or-treating. In the end, all the babies, even Chuckie, like Halloween and make suggestions for what to go as next year (like a cat, a rabbit or a frog---which was Phil's idea, since frogs eat bugs).

Availability[]

As mentioned above, the episode debuted on the Rugrats: Halloween VHS, released by Paramount Home Entertainment on August 27, 2002. The tape also included two earlier episodes, "Ghost Story" and "Sleep Trouble". A year later, it made its DVD debut on the NickToons Halloween DVD, released on August 26, 2003. A year after that, Paramount released a two-disc DVD set titled Rugrats: Holiday Celebration; "Curse of the Werewuff" appeared on the first disc, which also included the two episodes from the VHS release and two more episodes, "Aunt Miriam" and "Spike's Nightscare" (oddly, the series' first Halloween episode, "Candy Bar Creep Show", did not make the cut). The disc was later re-released separately as Rugrats: Halloween on September 20, 2011. Just a few weeks later, the episode was included on the Rugrats: Season 8 manufacture-on-demand DVD set, released exclusively on Amazon.com on October 6, 2011. Its latest DVD release was on the Rugrats: The Complete Series box set, released on May 18, 2021.

Cast[]

Voice actor Character
E.G. Daily Tommy Pickles
Christine Cavanaugh Chuckie Finster
Kath Soucie Phil DeVille
Lil DeVille

Betty DeVille
Superhero
Cheryl Chase Angelica Pickles
Dionne Quan Kimi Watanabe-Finster
Debbie Reynolds Lulu Pickles
Joe Alaskey Lou Pickles
Michael Bell Chas Finster
Drew Pickles
Melanie Chartoff Didi Pickles
Julia Kato Kira Watanabe-Finster
Tress MacNeille Charlotte Pickles
Princess
Jack Riley Stu Pickles
Tara Strong Dil Pickles
Cree Summer Susie Carmichael
Jeff Bergman Goblin
Ghost
Monsters

Note: Randy Carmichael, Lucy Carmichael, Alisa Carmichael, Buster Carmichael, and Edwin Carmichael appear briefly, but do not have speaking parts.

External links[]

Nickelodeon
Nicktoons "Candy Bar Creep Show" • "Doug's Halloween Adventure" • "The Switching Hour" • "Sugar Frosted Frights" • "Arnold's Halloween" • "The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up!" • "CatDogula" • "Scaredy Pants" • "The Night Before" • "I Spy a Witch" • "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" • "Scary Godparents" • "Curse of the Werewuff" • "Nightmare in Retroville" • "Pumpkin Love" • "Fright Night" • "Scaredy Cat" • "TP+KF" • "Back at the Booyard" • "Catatonic" • "There Will Be Shrieks" • "Happy Howl-O-Ween" • "Tufflips' Tales of Terror" • "Le Corn Maze... of DOOM!" / "Harvey Isn't Scary" • "Technoscare" • "The Curse of Savanti Romero" • "The Legend of Boo-kini Bottom" • "Tricked!" • "Beast Halloween Ever" • "New Haunts" • "Curse of the Candy Goblin" • "Terror at 20,000 Leagues" • "Scary Stories to Tell Your Cloud" • "The Werewoof Hunter" • "Raiders of the Lost Cinema" • "Great Lakes Freakout!" • "More Scary Stories to Tell Your Cloud" • A Really Haunted Loud House
Live-action shows and movies "Halloween" (YCDToTV) • "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" • "Halloweenie" • "The Secret" • "The Haunted House Mystery" • "All Howls Eve" • "Halloween & Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts and Zombies" • "iScream On Halloween" • "Big Time Halloween" • "iHalfoween" • Fun Size • "How to Rock Halloween" • "Haunted Halloween" • "Jasper Danger" • The Haunted Thundermans • "Have the Best Halloween School Day Ever Thing!" • "Scare Tripless" • "Sha-Boo! Ya" • "Happy Heroween" • Nickelodeon's Ultimate Halloween Haunted House • "Haunted Halls" • "Ha-Lay-Lay-Ween"
Nick Jr. "It Came from Beneath the Bed" • "Gullah Gullah Ghoul-land" • "What Is Blue Afraid Of?" • "Blue's Big Costume Party" • "Boo!" • "The Halloween Costume" • "The Haunted Halloween Party" • "Halloween!" • "Ni Hao, Halloween" • "Halloween Parade" • "Truck or Treat!" • "Haunted House Party!" • "Trick-or-Treat, Mr. Grumpfish!" • "Knick Knack Knock Knock" • "The Halloween Hippogriff" • "A Very Genie Halloweenie" • "Pumpkin Pursuit" • "Halloween Spooktacular" / "Pumpkin" • "Trick or Treat Otis" • "A Bean for Halloween!" • "Ryan's Spooky Playdate" • "Wheeloween" • "The Ghost of the Living Room" • "Spooky Costume Party with Blue" • "Baby Shark's Haunted Halloween" • "The Mysterious Island • "Monster Machine Halloween" • "The Treat Goblin" • "The Legend of the Jack O'Lantern" • "Peek-A-BOO!" / "Night of the Witches"
Miscellaneous "Nicktoons Scare-A-Thon" • "Mega Monster Marathon"
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