Episode
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Hooked on Phobics
Overview
Ickis discovers as easy way out of getting his homework done. By tapping into humans' phobias, he is able to bring scare after scare to class with little or no effort. That is, until The Gromble sends him to a phobic-free human to scare.
Details
- Series
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 18
- Air date
- 1997-11-08
- Runtime
- 11 min
Episode context
Hooked on Phobics is Episode 18 in Season 4 of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. It aired on 1997-11-08. The runtime is 11 min.
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Episode 17: Side by Side
The Gromble assigns Ickis to be "pair-scare" partners with the dreaded, unpopular Zimbo. Ickis and Zimbo are miserable with the match and instantly start fighting.
Episode 19: Spy vs. Monster
The Academy shuts down when a human spy is discovered inside. From Ickis' hiding place, he realises he has dropped a drawing of The Gromble in the hallway. The spy picks it up and accidentally drops his own secret document. Ickis, Krumm and Oblina use the paper to track down spy headquarters and arrange for a transfer of the documents.
More episodes from this season
Episode 16: Beast With Four Eyes
When Krumm is forced to wear glasses to correct his inexplicably blurry vision, he finds himself the object of mocking on the part of the other students. Krumm tries to go without his glasses, but he and all the students learn their value when a bespectacled Krumm saves a group of monsters after a scare goes wrong.
Episode 20: Misery Date
The Gromble is in love with the Library Monster, and he's not as strict as he used to be. Ickis is thrilled and wants to make sure that The Gromble stays in love, but The Gromble is unsure how to behave with a lady -it's been so long- so he asks Oblina for helpful hints.
Episode 15: The Great Escape
Shortly McGinty, arch-criminal and master of disguise, escapes from prison and leads the police on a chase that takes him to the dump, where the cops mistake Ickis for McGinty and haul him off to prison.
Episode 21: Clockwise
Ickis is perpetually late for class, so The Gromble hangs a big clock around his neck to remind him to be on time. When Ickis rewinds the hands on the clock, he discovers that he can turn back time.
Episode 14: The Substitute
A substitute teacher arrives, announcing that The Gromble has "gone away" and that he will be taking over. The substitute lets the students do whatever they want - even garbage fights are allowed!
Episode 22: Gromble Soup
The Gromble is sick and Simpah, the horrible Cafeteria Monster, has been put in charge of the students. When she threatens to make them eat human food, Ickis, Krumm and Oblina beg The Gromble to come back. The Gromble says the only thing that will cure him is Gromble Soup, but you need special ingredients....the crown of a king, the head of a dragon and the tail of an ogre. Ickis, Krumm and Oblina each set out to obtain one of the ingredients.
Episode 13: Super Ickis
Alone in the dump, Ickis dons a cape and pretends to be his favourite comic book hero, "Ultra-Monster". Suddenly, he is accidentally thrown through the air by a bulldozer and inadvertently saves a group of students. It's a bird, it's a plane...it's Ultra Monster! Word gets around the academy that "Ultra-Monster" is real and very cool. When Krumm volunteers to play sidekick, "Stink Boy", a new dynamic duo is born.
Episode 23: Showdown
Simon the Monster Hunter hires three of the greatest hunters in the world to help him capture Ickis and prove to the world that monsters do exist. When Ickis proves to be more difficult to catch than the hunters had anticipated, the hunters' pride gets the best of them. They turn away Simon's money and set their sights on doing more than just "capturing" Ickis.
Episode 12: Loch Ness Mess
The monsters are overjoyed when the famous Loch Ness Monster pays a visit to The Academy to give a guest lecture. Unfortunately, the rowdy, boisterous Scotsmonster gets on everyone's nerves by relentlessly singing Scottish songs, dancing and re-enacting his famous scares.
Episode 24: Internal Affairs
A hungry parasite named Sal invades Oblina's stomach, causing her to eat everything in sight. Ickis and Krumm shrink down to Sal's size, enter Oblina's body and battle it out with him inside Oblina's expanding stomach.