Movies are fun, but movies are LONG. In the midst of midterms, essay deadlines and endless distractions, gone are the days where I could dedicate myself to marathons of classic holiday films. Halloweentown has a run time of an hour and a half– that’s the equivalent of 840 Vines. Nightmare on Elm Street is even worse: 1,410 Vines.
These five bite-sized, spook-filled TV episodes are festive enough to get you excited for Oct. 31 and short enough to keep the millennial mind interested.
1. Glee: The Rocky Horror Glee Show
There’s only one thing horrifying about this episode: how horrifyingly incredible it is. Glee’s rendition of “Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me” is so good that you will feel completely justified in blasting it through your car speakers and sing-asking the creature of the night to make you feel dirty.
2. Community: Epidemiology
A zombie apocalypse set to the soundtrack of Mamma Mia and a must-see for Kevins everywhere.
3. SpongeBob SquarePants: Graveyard Shift
Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Shmexas Shmain Shmaw Shmassacre. The threat of the Hash-Slinging Slasher and his mysterious motivations for slinging hash are enough to make you sleep with the lights on.
4. Family Guy: Halloween on Spooner Street
Your typical Family Guy episode, but it’s set on Halloween, so it’s festive. Also, Sexy Kitten Meg.
5. Rick and Morty: Lawnmower Dog
Dreams within dreams! Fast-paced life-or-death action! And if the idea of a self-aware maltese taking over the world isn’t enough to make you sweat, Freddy Krueger’s cousin Scary Terry teaches us a valuable lesson about the scariest poltergeist of all: our own inner demons.
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