AAAHH!!! Real Monsters

AAAHH!!! Real Monsters is a 1994 animated series about teenage monsters in training, developed by Klasky-Csupo for the Nickelodeon TV channel. The show ran for four seasons on Nickelodeon's main United States cable channel, and is in reruns on Nicktoons TV.

The show focuses on three monsters in particular (Ickis, Oblina and Krumm) who attend a school for monsters under a city dump and learn to frighten humans. Many of the episodes revolve around the monsters making it to the surface in order to perform "scares" as class assignments.

The show was fairly popular in its time, though it never reached the level of popularity attained by Rugrats, Invader Zim, or Doug for example, nor did it have a particularly strong cult following, as did The Angry Beavers, Danny Phantom and Rocko's Modern Life. It is, however, still widely regarded as one of the better Klasky-Csupo Nicktoons.




Main characters

• Ickis (voiced by Charles Adler)

Ickis is the son of the legendary monster Slickis. He is short and magenta, with long ears. Because of this, his scares often fail when he is mistaken for a rabbit. However, Ickis has the ability to grow to an enormous size when he is angered.

• Oblina (voiced by Christine Cavanaugh)

Oblina comes from a wealthy monster family, and is considered to be The Gromble's best student. She is shaped like a black and white candy cane, with a pair of big, red lips. One of her favorite methods of scaring humans is reaching within herself and pulling out her internal organs.

• Krumm (voiced by David Eccles)

Like the rest of his family, Krumm's eyeballs are not attached to his body. Thus, he is usually seen carrying them in his hands, though if he requires the use of both hands, he can carry his eyes delicately in his mouth. His most valuable tool in scaring is his overwhelming armpit stench.

• The Gromble (voiced by Gregg Berger)

The Gromble is the intimidating teacher at the monster school, who demonstrates his tough love by belittling his students for poor scares. He is a tall, gray monster with two tufts of head hair, a beard and a tail, who wears a belt and a red pump on each of his four feet. In a controversial move in the first episode, The Gromble can be seen eating one of his students in one bite. Oblina later comments that, while monsters don't eat humans, she never said anything about them eating other monsters.

• The Snorch (voiced by David Eccles)

The Snorch is a large and unintelligible monster who performs punishments on students who break the rules. Some of the punishments that The Snorch has handed out are square dancing and listening to human music.

• Zimbo (voiced by Tim Curry)

Zimbo is a monster who resembles a bee with one mammalian leg and a humanoid face with green hair. Because of his small size and flying ability, he works as a spy for The Gromble, reporting any unruly behavior by the other monsters.

• Simon (voiced by James Belushi)

Simon is an egotistical monster hunter who has dedicated his life to capturing monsters, particularly Ickis, and proving their existence to the world.