The Children's Movie From Your Nightmares

I’m red haired and it’s true, every time I go outside the whole neighborhood just insults me, and just perform a musical number to enhance they’re insults.

moral of the story: if you're different everyone will hate you, BUT you'll be the last to die

You know, when I was born in a hospital, I had two differently coloured eyes, still do. And the doctor proceeded to insult the hell out of me, then sing a catchy song about how ugly I looked with two differently coloured eyes. All the pregnant mums joined in, the nurse joined in, my mum joined in and even some newborn children started blabbering to the tune of the song. Hell, you could even hear unborn fetuses humming to the tune.

Fun fact: the narrator is Bobby "Boris" Pickett, the singer of the Monster Mash. The transylvania twist was his attempt at a first single that flopped which is why in the monster mash Dracula asks "Whatever happened to my transylvania twist?"

the pumpkins when they met spookly: omg hes so cute awh ! literally one pumpkin: nah he ugly lmao all the other pumpkins: oh damn u right he is ugly

“Imagine if like a baby is born and all the nurses and the parents just starting singing about how ugly it is” isn’t that just Wicked?

I had this book as a kid and it was SO much better than the movie. There were 0 animals, no Jack Olympics, no weird-looking pumpkins. It was just about this square pumpkin, every other pumpkin made fun of him, but then a storm hit and he was the only one who didn’t roll off, so being a square had its advantages for him

The way Danny described the scarecrow knowing that the pumpkins were taken home and m*rderd, was literally the plot of the “promised never land”🤣

Everyone: Aww, isn't he cute? One guy: No he's ugly Everyone: Yeah he's ugly

“UgLy BaBy, UgLy BaBy.” -Dinny Globzoblez, 2019

I can distinctly remember watching this movie in kindergarten at Halloween and I remember when it was over the teacher asking us “now what did we learn from this movie” and everyone was silent

99% sure the faceless pumpkins are regular pumpkins, the others are jack-o-lanterns. don’t ask why they’d be in the field 💀

therapist: little tom isn't real, he can't hurt you little tom: L O S E R

obviously the “faceless” pumpkins are just pretending to be asleep bc they don’t wanna deal with the awkward crying square kid. those pumpkins are cowards

This was a children’s book. From what I remember, it was genuinely pretty good. It had a lovely message about how although people may have disabilities that can do great things. As others have pointed out, there is a darker message about how people who are different will only be excepted by society if they are of service to others. The book does a better job of everything. The book is obviously for little kids, so it’s short and sweet, but still gets the point across. I honestly don’t know why they made a movie based off of the book. All of the random filler stuff and side plots are really unnecessary. It would have made more sense to just do a short film if anything, than to try to add stupid stuff like the Olympic thing and what not. It would have been so much better if they did something like what they did with How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Anyways.. the book is good. The movie sucks.

One element of the film I like is how the scarecrow and bats aren’t necessarily opposed to Spookley. They’re surprised by his square shape but don’t really join in the song. They don’t stop the song or try to defend Spookley, but they don’t just join in. Even at the games they offer him some encouragement that he can try his best.

“Do these pumkins not know what happens when a human buys them?” Lets not pull a sausage party here

when danny started yelling at the camera "no one will ever love you, ugly baby" i felt that in my soul

The book of this story is a core memory in my life, the moral is so sweet and it basically helped define who I am today. In the end, the farmer of the pumpkin patch makes the entire farm full of all different types of shapes and colors to show that there’s nothing wrong with being different. It’s adorable

As a first-grade teacher, I can attest to the fact that this movie, if nothing else, entertains kids for 20 minutes, so... THANK YOU, SPOOKLY!!!