On October 29 , 1994,SNICK ’s Halloween themed eveningbegan with the serial premiere ofAaahh ! ! ! Real Monsters . watcher ascertain Nickelodeon that night were treated to " The Switching Hour , " the first of 56 half - hour installment of the bildungsroman featuring monstrosity - in - training Ickis , Oblina , and Krumm pick up to terrify unsuspicious humans one scare at a prison term , with the help of the sometimes creepy-crawly headmaster Gromble and his literally underground monster academy .
1. THE SHOW’S EXISTENCE IS THANKS TO THE SUCCESS OFRUGRATS
lifelike designer Arlene Klasky and energiser Gábor Csupó meet in 1979 , got tie , and commence their ownanimation and graphic design companyin 1982 . After working on commercials and music videos , Klasky Csupo Inc. got the gaolbreak of a lifetime in 1988 when they were ask to animateThe Simpsons ' one - minute shorts onThe Tracey Ullman Show . Matt Groening was creditworthy for"tone and style,“but it was Klasky Csupo that was responsible for get the characters yellow , not to mention for the color of Marge ’s distinctive blue hair .
After three season and"two yr of conflict and couch out fires,“the producer of the show and Klasky Csupo ended their business association . Before the interruption - up however , Klasky , Csupo , and Paul Germain createdRugratsfor Nickelodeon . OnceRugratsbecame thenumber one cable minor ' show , Nick ask for another kids ' show from the ability mates , andReal Monsterswas exhort by their goliath - be intimate immature kid .
2. THE SHOW WAS INFLUENCED BYBLADE RUNNERANDBRAZIL
CsupóbelievedthatAaahh ! ! ! Real Monstershad a " very movie noirish search , " and that the city knock down in which the fiend academy was located was standardized to the face of cult classic dystopian filmsBlade RunnerandBrazil . Herb Scannell , Nickelodeon ’s scheduling executive director , run on record say that the fictitious character onReal Monsterslooked like the character reference in The Beatles ' 1968 animated movieYellow Submarine . This is very apparent withThe Gromble , whose articulation and seem echoesThe Blue Meaniesin The Beatles ' acid trip macrocosm .
3. SOME CRITICS BELIEVED IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY SOMETHING ELSE
The Brothers Gruntwas an MTV animated funniness series that premiered two months beforeReal Monsters . Because the show was visually similar and on web owned by the same caller , Csupówas askedif there was a legitimate compare to be made . Csupó said his show was " a lot more story driven , " whereas the MTV show was " more approximation driven . “The Brothers Gruntwasn’t liked by critic and would only last for seven calendar month , lead its Lord Danny Antonucci tospit out that his showwas " MTV ’s lousy secret . " Antonucci would after resile to createEd , Edd n Eddy .
4. GROMBLE’S NAME WAS “GROMBLE” TO AVOID A LAWSUIT
The Brothers Gruntwas never a show thatReal Monstersworried about legally , but they were n’t entirely detached of copyright concerns . In the pilot episode that would never be beam on television , The Gromble had a different , rather meek name — The Womble . alas , there was a stop - motion animation British programme in the seventies calledThe Wombles . To forfend a causa , " goliath , Get Real ! " , the 2nd episode of the series , was nearly identical to the pilot with the exception of slenderly near graphics and the one name change .
5. KRUMM’S NAME WAS INITIALLY SLUMBO
Krumm was always written as a monster with a slothful , " slow , unenrgetic vox , " which was n’t much of a challenge for vox actor David Eccles . Eccles , who also voiced the tongue-tied Snorch , revealed in the Nickelodeon teaser embedded above that Krumm , the character who walked around with his eyes in his hands and struck fear in human race with his axillary cavity malodor , was in the beginning named Slumbo in an early translation of the pilot script . No intellect has ever been yield for the modification .
6. OBLINA WAS PLAYED BY THE VOICE OF CHUCKIE FINSTER, DEXTER FROM ‘DEXTER’S LABORATORY,’ AND BABE THE PIG
You ’ll recognize Christine Cavanaugh ’s articulation , whether it ’s as Chuckie fromRugrats , Dexter fromDexter ’s Laboratory , Marty Sherman onThe Critic , or as Babe the Gallant Pig inBabe . Cavanaugh ’s phonation was clear-cut enough in 1994 for her to try something different with her depicting of Oblina , the upside - down confect cane - shaped worm that turned her organs inside out . Sheultimately decide to voice likea British variant of the actress Agnes Moorehead , who play Endora onBewitched .
7. TIM CURRY AND JIM BELUSHI ALSO PROVIDED VOICES
Tim Curry has had a farsighted , successful career in theatre , TV , and flick . What some mass do n’t get laid is that Curry has vocalize many animated characters , like Nigel Thornberry onThe Wild Thornberriesand presently as Palpatine inStar Wars : The Clone Wars . Curry was the voice of Zimbo onReal Monsters , a bee - like fauna with green fuzz and one fowl ’s leg who served as The Snorch ’s voice , The Gromble ’s helper , and as an all - around nuisance to the students . Mama Gromble was vocalize bySCTVcomedy caption Andrea Martin . Bronson Pinchot , a.k.a . Balki Bartokomous , voiced Deitrich Dunlap . Jim Belushi played Simon , the human who was determined to prove that the monster existed , for eight episodes .
8. PRODUCTION ON AREAL MONSTERSMOVIE WAS PERMANENTLY SHUT DOWN
Fresh off the runaway success ofThe Rugrats Movie , Nickelodeon , Klasky Csupo , and Paramount Pictures were all interested in making a movie forAaahh ! ! ! existent Monsters . Allegedly , production of the movie was permanently shut down because the history for it was"too dark for children . " Instead of developing a different concept , Nick and Klasky Csupo come up withRugrats in Paris : The Movie , The Wild Thornberrys Movie , andRugrats Go groundless — all of which turned a profit . Outside of Ickis , Oblina , and Krumm cameo on a 1999 installment ofRugrats , new stuff from theAaahh ! ! ! Real Monstersuniverse melt after its 1997 cancellation .
