You see, children get so easily scared that even triangles scare them. That's why Lumpkins eyes are so wonky, to round out the shape so as not to intimidate kids
Maybe Lumpkin reflective stickers were like a local thing. A REALLY local thing. Like, SO local, that it was ONLY known and sold in Bobby Goldsboro's home town, and ONLY in that specific year.
I guess after the Sanderson sisters got killed and the Grand High Witch got turned into a gross mouse, the witch council decided that murdering children was causing more problems than it solved and went with the whole spooky gourd games instead.
They had to try really hard to make a short halloween cartoon with such a condescending message. Tara and Lumpkin are going around telling everyone "Hey, Halloween shouldn't be scary, it should be fun!" why can't it be both you little joykillers? The Real Ghostbusters Prime Time Halloween Special ends with the message that children shouldn't be fearful of scary things and to be shielded from them.
Little kid me probably would've agreed with this message but that's because I was scared of everything at that age. Like I used to do ballet and one of the buildings on the way to the ballet studio would get turned into a Spirit Halloween every year (it doesn't anymore tho) and I would have to close my eyes as we walked past it because the decorations were too scary.
Isn't that just the initial premise of those guys from that Real Ghostbusters Halloween special? Lumpkin isn't secretly in league with The Boogaloo too, is he?
Holy. Crumbs. This movie was directed by a family friend (Dan Peeler). One day we went to visit (I think I was 7 or 8 years old) and Mr. Peeler gave my brother and I the Lumpkin VHS as a gift for visiting him. I had NO idea this movie was ‘real’, I legit thought it was a personal project! Well at any rate my brother and I loved it, and it did teach us many good Halloween safety tips to make certain we feral beasties didn’t get run over by a car in our pursuit for confections!
I was going to ask if (based on the feral beasties line) if you were a furry, but then I saw the hetailia animatics on your account Yup, definitely a furry /jk
That's super interesting! I suppose since you didn't even think the movie was "real" there was no mention of the reflector merch ever being real or not.
I remember being shown this in elementary school. I would've said we were given Lumpkin reflective stickers after, but that's probably either a false memory or I'm from the same dimension as Lumpkin.
Same here. We saw it in school once. I don't recall any stickers. And with this my mind wants to trick itself into believing that maybe there was. If there was, it was probably stickers with a generic pumpkin rather than Lumkins face, so hence it would explain why no stickers survived. And even if there were any merch, it was most likely a local thing rather than a National push like D.A.R.E
@@JinxSanity Yeah, I don't remember them looking like the cartoon, so they were probably generic pumpkin reflective stickers from a dollar store or something.
This feels like something they'd show kids in early elementary school to promote trick or treating safety. My best guess is that's probably where all the nonexistent merchandise went.
@@tristanjordan2709 There's a drive-in movie theater that shows these 2 weeks in advance. It's located on the dark side of the flat Earth and you have to show them your Illuminati member card to enter.
What sucks about these specials is the music is legitimately good. If these were released as standalone Halloween albums, they'd probably be more popular with kids than they are as movies.
All life long, I've been haunted by good music that was written for the background of movie scenes. They exist nowhere else but there, audio all covered by talking and clacking like it's a rude cafe. Rock: It's Your Decision has a banger for Jeff to almost relapse to. Danger music tracks from some PSAs get orchestral, I'd so listen to it by itself. Stoned (Scott Baio) has a few excellent tracks for the boys to smoke weed to that badly deserved to be released. Everyone should get to experience getting high to every song in that after school special.
checks out, this was made by an actual musician (from what I've heard the Christmas special also has some good music) and honestly I think that's a fairly common thing too when it comes to video media made by musicians, it may be one of the worst things you've ever seen but it is far from the worst things you've ever heard
Lumpkin didn’t even do anything this entire special besides be somewhat visible in the dark. I love how the special acts like he saved Halloween simply by existing. Side note, that opening song by the dog-eared ghost is genuinely pretty catchy.
The Grand High Witch: “Let’s turn every child in the world into rats and mice causing their parents to kill them.” Winifred Sanderson: “Come sisters let’s suck the life force from children, so that we can stay young and alive forever.” The Second Witch: “I’ll turn a pumpkin into a football.”
Even- no, *ESPECIALLY* Emperor Belos (aka Philip Wittebane) from The Owl House, who only poses as a witch emperor to eliminate every witch on the Boiling Isles and become Witch Hunter General, would pose as a more evil witch than Football Pumpkin Witch ver there.
It's no surprise the kids were too jaded about a flying pumpkin. You can apparently find moving talking carved pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, and every year the local witches use visibly magicked pumpkins to try to scare kids. Running into a flying pumpkin on Halloween is probably pretty ordinary.
It's wild how much time and effort was spent on basically ruining Halloween back in the days. I remember a safety short that suggested making everything lamer and worse actually made everything better and more fun. "Don't wear that witch mask because the visibility sucks. In fact, don't be a witch at all, be a princess in a white dress covered in reflective tape!"
"Watch this, kid. When they see this face, they'll have to pick me!" *transforms into Coolier-Venkman* *witches flee in terror* Pumpkin Kid: "Too far, bro. Too far."
@rogue7723 I think so. I remember a book called Spookly, The Square Pumpkin. It was about a square shaped pumpkin that was bullied but ended up saving them during a storm. It had its own cheesey CGI animated special.
This whole special feels like it was written by a child down to the forced “theme” or “message” they had to put in at the end because the teacher told them it needed one.
Easter Egg Mornin was such a bizarre cartoon that stuck with me for years because of one scene that was incredibly creepy for no reason. You should totally review it in the spring.
Snuffy the Elf Who Saved Christmas sounds like a Christmas special who inadvertently causes a flu pandemic at Santa's workshop and has to find a cure before Santa snuffs it
Stuffy sounds like the title of one of those Horror Indie Games that disguises themselves as a cutesy children's game, and then we find out too late why the elf is called "Snuffy"
This is why I hate kiddy Halloween specials that don't involve sitting around the pumpkin patch waiting for a gift giving specter that doesn't exist or a cat and dog being terrorized by pirate ghosts that somehow also host late night movies.
Scooby-Doo and The Real Ghostbusters had scares at least during their Halloween specials despite being cartoons. Same with Looney Tunes and Tiny Tunes.
@@melissalayson7275 The joke was listing two nondescriptly, but whatever. I absolutely hate when they go over the top Kindergarten cutesy with Halloween specials. You don't want to scare little kids, but you don't want to sicken them either. I love me some wacky monsters like Groovie Goolies and Toonsylvania, but they have to commit to the bit. But saccharine "Littlest Pumpkin" type stuff just makes me cringe.
17:00 That's probably just supposed to be a Lumpkin Necklace, but the lineart seems to be going directly into the girls chin, making it look like those miniature pumpkins are growing from her jaw. So that's quiet unintentionally terrifying.
I was starting to get some Bevenfield vibes from this at first till they actually started talking. As dumb as they are, thank you for persevering this obscure media online Phelous! Did anyone get what Phelous' shirt said it was driving me crazy the whole time lol.
Here is the weird thing i remember having this vhs as a kid, and my copy came with a lumpkin the pumpkin plushie, of course this was over 20 years ago so i don't own the thing, but i clearly remember having it and even the tag that said "lumpkin the pumpkin" so i do think so merch for this movie did exist but was probably in limited quanties
@@phelous had to be either that or my mind was playing tricks on me and it just came with some kind of pumpkin plush again I'm almost 30 so I might just be misrembering
About halfway through the video, I realized that the art style is oddly reminiscent of the non-stop motion Rankin-Bass specials. In fact, this whole thing feels like an amateurish attempt to make a Rankin-Bass-style special.
Not enough people talk about Swamp Critters. It'd be on weekdays after school, one of those shows that wasn't good but I'd watch just because it was odd and nothing else was on. The Gumbo end theme still lives rent free in my head. I had no idea this guy did cartoons too. Given how cheap the costumed puppet show was, this bad animation checks out. Weird how it turned into a safety ad at the end. We really lost out on Lumpkin merch.
*Halloweenie:* "I would actually rather hang out with Pumpkinweenie." * Pumpkinweenie teleports in * *Pumpkinweenie:* "REALLY?!" *Halloweenie:* ... *Pumpkinweenie:* ... *Halloweenie:* ... *Pumpkinweenie:* ... *Halloweenie:* ... *Pumpkinweenie:* ... *Halloweenie:* ... no. * slaps Pumpkinweenie off the table. *
This somehow reminded me of something I watched as a kid called "The Great Bear Scare." This "animated" feature was about a city of bears who were preparing for monsters to invade from Monster Mountain. The character designs and even some of the acting was far better than the animation, which was basically a glorified slide show as there was no in-between animation at all. Anyway, "The Great Bear Scare" can be found here on TH-cam and on Prime Video...
This movie feels like something Halloweenie would be forced to review positively only to eventually break down because this movie is antagonistic to everything Halloween. A brightly lit halloween with gaudy pumpkin stickers over everything with the moniker of "Halloween doesn't have to be scary".
This Halloween cartoon isn’t scary at all but it does make me feel creepy as a grown man watching something meant for children between the ages of 3 and Fetus.
I remember this video from my childhood. It is so weird how, as a small kid (maybe 5?) I loved this stupid pumpkin. I even used the box art to trace Lumpkin for a Halloween project in school. It is so weird seeing how janky this video was, but my kid-ass just absorbed it like fine cinema.
Oh wow, I haven't thought about this movie in like 18 years. And all I really remember is the opening theme song, probably because my class couldn't make it through the whole movie without talking .... Thanks, Phelous, for dragging this out of my subconscious.
Yooo I remember watching this when I was itty bitty, I THINK my mom rented it? Instead of us owning it, or being lent by a cousin or whatever. Whether it was standalone or part of some complication thing idk. I also remember the reveal of the reflector thing pissed me off even at my little age because of the mere idea that I should be wearing a doofy pumpkin thing over my cool scary costume.
NO WAY, I REMEMBER THIS! The gost at 1:58 seemed kinda familiar because I remember the way he just kinda slid across the screen, but the dancing pumpkin immediately gave me a flashback to watching this on an air mattress when I was a little kid. It just feels so surrreal, doubly so hearing you talk about it!
I saw this movie in children's church when I was like 4 or 5, what a fever dream after all these years. Also, Phelan, start making analog horror, that'd be awesome.
I think the movie would've crossed the threshold between "weird badly animated film", to "it's so bad it's good" if Bobby voiced all the characters, specifically Tara
Wow, this review triggered a memory of me watching this special when I was in the 4th grade at school. My school was doing an autumn celebration thing and I remember the teacher wheeling the TV and VHS player into the classroom and we watched this.
OMG this is the one we watched in elementary school! All I remembered was her turning the football into a pumpkin, and the kid kicking it anyway, and I didn't remember the title
This really feels like someone wanted to make something, but they didn’t know what it is they wanted to make or even what to do with it. It’s a special kind of aimless.
Okay, I don't think I've ever heard of this one, and probably for good reason. This cartoon plays more like a Halloween safety PSA than an actual Holloween special. In other words, "Witch's Night Out" this is not. 😍
Being vision impaired myself, we actually hate that shit. Some narration here and there for context is nice, but most with the feature tend to drown out the music and atmosphere and bog it down with needless explanation.
This brings back memories. Back when I was in kindergarten, then they would look for just about anything to show us that was age appropriate. Now, nearly 25 years later. It's all coming back to me
4:05 “If we can scare the most people with our pumpkin, I will become the head witch.” Uh, excuse me, Miss Witch, I think Drell, head of the Witches’ Council, wants to talk to you.
The songs wouldn't feel out of place in a cheap Halloween cassette, even the narration feels like something that's meant more for such a thing. Wonder if the kids accepted Lumpkin as their lord and savior at the end?
I would have commented something like: "That movie would have been better if it was a simply radioplay.", but whatever I wanted to write was overshadowed by THIS: 8:39
This tape gives off real " modern cartoons are too violent " energy.
You see, children get so easily scared that even triangles scare them. That's why Lumpkins eyes are so wonky, to round out the shape so as not to intimidate kids
@@NukkuiskoHyvinVaiPois -Some child psychologist who got their degree online
May not be scary, but the art style is depressing.
Lumpkin and the Real Ghostbusters
This makes Spookley the Square Pumpkin somewhat decent.
Maybe Lumpkin reflective stickers were like a local thing.
A REALLY local thing.
Like, SO local, that it was ONLY known and sold in Bobby Goldsboro's home town, and ONLY in that specific year.
Entirely possible, haha.
I think even Casper the Friendly Ghost wouldn't befriend this pumpkin
I think even Spookley the Square Pumpkin would join the other pumpkins on his farm in making fun of Lumpkin.
How is this comment two weeks old if the video was only posted today?
@@tristanjordan2709 The future videos are private that only certain people can watch.
Ya gotta be really a special case for Casper to pass up the friendship
@@tristanjordan2709 Patreon viewers get to watch and comment on them first
I guess after the Sanderson sisters got killed and the Grand High Witch got turned into a gross mouse, the witch council decided that murdering children was causing more problems than it solved and went with the whole spooky gourd games instead.
They had to try really hard to make a short halloween cartoon with such a condescending message. Tara and Lumpkin are going around telling everyone "Hey, Halloween shouldn't be scary, it should be fun!" why can't it be both you little joykillers? The Real Ghostbusters Prime Time Halloween Special ends with the message that children shouldn't be fearful of scary things and to be shielded from them.
most kids would likely hate having those stupid stickers ruining their costume.
Little kid me probably would've agreed with this message but that's because I was scared of everything at that age. Like I used to do ballet and one of the buildings on the way to the ballet studio would get turned into a Spirit Halloween every year (it doesn't anymore tho) and I would have to close my eyes as we walked past it because the decorations were too scary.
" A witch can never be cheerful" are you nuts, lady?! Witches laugh all the time!
Cackle
Only someone who has nothing but contempt for Halloween would think it needs to be stripped of all its spookiness.
Isn't that just the initial premise of those guys from that Real Ghostbusters Halloween special? Lumpkin isn't secretly in league with The Boogaloo too, is he?
Kinda like those uber-religious killjoys who want to ban Halloween for being "satanic"?
This must be the weirdest safety reflector PSA I've ever seen.
Holy. Crumbs. This movie was directed by a family friend (Dan Peeler). One day we went to visit (I think I was 7 or 8 years old) and Mr. Peeler gave my brother and I the Lumpkin VHS as a gift for visiting him. I had NO idea this movie was ‘real’, I legit thought it was a personal project! Well at any rate my brother and I loved it, and it did teach us many good Halloween safety tips to make certain we feral beasties didn’t get run over by a car in our pursuit for confections!
Oh that's really neat!
I was going to ask if (based on the feral beasties line) if you were a furry, but then I saw the hetailia animatics on your account
Yup, definitely a furry /jk
That's super interesting! I suppose since you didn't even think the movie was "real" there was no mention of the reflector merch ever being real or not.
Sadly no merch to be had from the film, and believe you me I wanted those Lumpkin pumpkin jewelry you called a giant mess 😂
Peeler/Rose, the Chuck E. Cheese guys!
"If there were ever names you can trust, it's Snuffy and Lumpkin!" Thankfully, combining the two gives us Snufkin, an actually good character.
Moomin: Halloween's a little spooky dontcha think?
Snufkin: yes, but you know what they say, life's no fun without a good scare
Don't put Snufkin in with these characters, he's too wholesome lol ❤
To be fair, there's this raccoon lady called Snuffy and she looks like a cool lady to me.
@@DarkOverlord96 what's that from?
@@sonicfangal2000 our favorite Illegalist comrade
Halloweenie: "Screw that Pumpkinweenie. I have a new sideskick, Lumpkin."
Old Man: "Oooo, a delicious pumpkin." :::gulp:::
Well, at least pumpkins ARE edible. You can even make a nice, hot bowl of pumpkin soup. Then again, soup is wet, so that would make Old Man useless.
@@ArendAlphaEagle He wasn't already?
@@MegaAnimazing Well, remember, we're talking about GoodTimes' Old Man, not Mr. "Golly Gosh My Word" Van Oxley from the Burbank one.
I remember being shown this in elementary school. I would've said we were given Lumpkin reflective stickers after, but that's probably either a false memory or I'm from the same dimension as Lumpkin.
Same here. We saw it in school once. I don't recall any stickers. And with this my mind wants to trick itself into believing that maybe there was.
If there was, it was probably stickers with a generic pumpkin rather than Lumkins face, so hence it would explain why no stickers survived. And even if there were any merch, it was most likely a local thing rather than a National push like D.A.R.E
@@JinxSanity Yeah, I don't remember them looking like the cartoon, so they were probably generic pumpkin reflective stickers from a dollar store or something.
That broom screaming caught me off guard! That was funny as hell!
Tbh if a football I was holding suddenly turned into a pumpkin, I would be at least slightly befuddled by it.
You mean like Aladdin when the Crevasse of Wonders started flooding in the Bevanfield adaptation?
This feels like something they'd show kids in early elementary school to promote trick or treating safety. My best guess is that's probably where all the nonexistent merchandise went.
Lumpkin is out of his gourd for wanting to start a cult with himself as the messiah
6:35 That honestly sounds like a point and click adventure when you click the wrong thing.
Your comment made me nostalgic for those old point and click games! The voice clip really does sound like it came from one of those games ❤️
oh my god it does...
No! Don't want that!
Oh my, now you mention that it really looks like one.
This is the longest game over cutscene I've ever seen.
Well obviously all the nonexistant Lumpkin merch ended up in the dimension of Dementia 5.
Now I feel sorry for Infinata
"this is the worst Halloween ever!"
Coming soon to Phelous reviews: Snuffy the Christmas elf.
This looks like cutscenes from a 90s edutainment game.
I swear these things are getting closer and closer to the quality of Phelan's cartoons.
Ah, so peak.
How is this comment two weeks old if the video was only posted today?
@@tristanjordan2709 it was available earlier for patreon
@@tristanjordan2709 There's a drive-in movie theater that shows these 2 weeks in advance. It's located on the dark side of the flat Earth and you have to show them your Illuminati member card to enter.
@@tristanjordan2709 Patreon followers get to see things early. :)
What sucks about these specials is the music is legitimately good. If these were released as standalone Halloween albums, they'd probably be more popular with kids than they are as movies.
You mean, a talented musician should concentrate on making music?
All life long, I've been haunted by good music that was written for the background of movie scenes. They exist nowhere else but there, audio all covered by talking and clacking like it's a rude cafe. Rock: It's Your Decision has a banger for Jeff to almost relapse to. Danger music tracks from some PSAs get orchestral, I'd so listen to it by itself. Stoned (Scott Baio) has a few excellent tracks for the boys to smoke weed to that badly deserved to be released. Everyone should get to experience getting high to every song in that after school special.
@@markiangooley 😱
checks out, this was made by an actual musician (from what I've heard the Christmas special also has some good music)
and honestly I think that's a fairly common thing too when it comes to video media made by musicians, it may be one of the worst things you've ever seen but it is far from the worst things you've ever heard
Never knew that Snuffy had a long-lost Halloween twin. That's as crazy as me knowing what Snuffy is
Goodbye
@koichidignitythief7429 don't be like that Snuffy
@Wnick1996 Goodbye
@DarkOverlord96 they need you Snuffy
I was thinking the same thing about snuffy! I grew up with lumpkin but I’ve never heard of snuffy
Lumpkin didn’t even do anything this entire special besides be somewhat visible in the dark. I love how the special acts like he saved Halloween simply by existing.
Side note, that opening song by the dog-eared ghost is genuinely pretty catchy.
"We have Rudolph at home"
Tell me why Phelan's Witch voice actually sounds better than the original voice actor?🤣
That's frequently the case.
Canadians making jokes about American culture delights me, so thank you for that Ribbit E. Lee one-liner
America doesn't really have a culture, though. It's got tons. That's why it's called multicultural. The one shown here is called "sore loser."
Do you reach into another dimension and pull these movies out of them? These movies aren't human
The Grand High Witch: “Let’s turn every child in the world into rats and mice causing their parents to kill them.”
Winifred Sanderson: “Come sisters let’s suck the life force from children, so that we can stay young and alive forever.”
The Second Witch: “I’ll turn a pumpkin into a football.”
I’d settle for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld witches…
This just made me think there should be a footballinator on Phineas and Ferb.
Clearly all on the same level 😆
Even- no, *ESPECIALLY* Emperor Belos (aka Philip Wittebane) from The Owl House, who only poses as a witch emperor to eliminate every witch on the Boiling Isles and become Witch Hunter General, would pose as a more evil witch than Football Pumpkin Witch ver there.
@@FrenkTheJoy What would Doofenshmirtz's backstory be for this one? He already has a history with kickball, so I hope there isn't any overlap.
It's no surprise the kids were too jaded about a flying pumpkin. You can apparently find moving talking carved pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, and every year the local witches use visibly magicked pumpkins to try to scare kids. Running into a flying pumpkin on Halloween is probably pretty ordinary.
this halloween special captures the really specific feeling of "thing you were made to watch in elementary school that you barely remember"
The return of the disappointed head shaking moon, nice! Happy October!
This really feels like an overly long reflector ad or PSA.
The use of gradients in this film is really giving old flash cartoon vibes
It's wild how much time and effort was spent on basically ruining Halloween back in the days. I remember a safety short that suggested making everything lamer and worse actually made everything better and more fun. "Don't wear that witch mask because the visibility sucks. In fact, don't be a witch at all, be a princess in a white dress covered in reflective tape!"
"Watch this, kid. When they see this face, they'll have to pick me!" *transforms into Coolier-Venkman*
*witches flee in terror*
Pumpkin Kid: "Too far, bro. Too far."
I'd rather be friends with Spookly, the Square Pumpkin, instead of Lumpkin.
I think even Spookley would bully Lumpkin.
Is that the Jack O' Lantern from that _Raggedy Ann_ halloween special?
@rogue7723 I think so. I remember a book called Spookly, The Square Pumpkin. It was about a square shaped pumpkin that was bullied but ended up saving them during a storm. It had its own cheesey CGI animated special.
Nope. Spookley the Square Pumpkin is its own direct-to-video thing.
@@nathanielvaughn6728 it’s only Blu-Ray,
Pittsburgher here. Now that you mention the reflectors, I DO distinctly remember Lumpkin the Pumpkin Halloween stickers.
I had this movie on vhs growing who else did
This whole special feels like it was written by a child down to the forced “theme” or “message” they had to put in at the end because the teacher told them it needed one.
Nah bro, a child would've written something better... and probably more violent & gorey.
"Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn! Tell us the lesson that we should learn!"
Easter Egg Mornin was such a bizarre cartoon that stuck with me for years because of one scene that was incredibly creepy for no reason. You should totally review it in the spring.
I think you should tackle "Snuffy: The Elf Who Saved Christmas" sometime. (same low production quality and everything)
this cartoon looks like it should have been a really adorable little tidbit of nostalgia, but it's just weird and dumb.
This cartoon looks like somebody brought clip art to life.
Snuffy the Elf Who Saved Christmas sounds like a Christmas special who inadvertently causes a flu pandemic at Santa's workshop and has to find a cure before Santa snuffs it
Stuffy sounds like the title of one of those Horror Indie Games that disguises themselves as a cutesy children's game, and then we find out too late why the elf is called "Snuffy"
This is why I hate kiddy Halloween specials that don't involve sitting around the pumpkin patch waiting for a gift giving specter that doesn't exist or a cat and dog being terrorized by pirate ghosts that somehow also host late night movies.
Scooby-Doo and The Real Ghostbusters had scares at least during their Halloween specials despite being cartoons. Same with Looney Tunes and Tiny Tunes.
@@melissalayson7275 The joke was listing two nondescriptly, but whatever. I absolutely hate when they go over the top Kindergarten cutesy with Halloween specials. You don't want to scare little kids, but you don't want to sicken them either. I love me some wacky monsters like Groovie Goolies and Toonsylvania, but they have to commit to the bit. But saccharine "Littlest Pumpkin" type stuff just makes me cringe.
17:00
That's probably just supposed to be a Lumpkin Necklace, but the lineart seems to be going directly into the girls chin, making it look like those miniature pumpkins are growing from her jaw.
So that's quiet unintentionally terrifying.
*sigh* AI-art strikes again.😉
I was starting to get some Bevenfield vibes from this at first till they actually started talking. As dumb as they are, thank you for persevering this obscure media online Phelous!
Did anyone get what Phelous' shirt said it was driving me crazy the whole time lol.
It says "Just Give Me the Candy!" I actually featured that shirt on Halloweenie back around when I got it.
I saw Gumbo the fiddler crab and I am too paralyzed with wonder and horror to process anything else
Here is the weird thing i remember having this vhs as a kid, and my copy came with a lumpkin the pumpkin plushie, of course this was over 20 years ago so i don't own the thing, but i clearly remember having it and even the tag that said "lumpkin the pumpkin" so i do think so merch for this movie did exist but was probably in limited quanties
Very interesting, guess those were super rare.
@@phelous had to be either that or my mind was playing tricks on me and it just came with some kind of pumpkin plush again I'm almost 30 so I might just be misrembering
This whole thing feels like an early animation project you'd make for school.
About halfway through the video, I realized that the art style is oddly reminiscent of the non-stop motion Rankin-Bass specials.
In fact, this whole thing feels like an amateurish attempt to make a Rankin-Bass-style special.
Not enough people talk about Swamp Critters. It'd be on weekdays after school, one of those shows that wasn't good but I'd watch just because it was odd and nothing else was on. The Gumbo end theme still lives rent free in my head. I had no idea this guy did cartoons too. Given how cheap the costumed puppet show was, this bad animation checks out. Weird how it turned into a safety ad at the end. We really lost out on Lumpkin merch.
Halloweenie - I give this 0/10 pumpkins
*Halloweenie:* "I would actually rather hang out with Pumpkinweenie."
* Pumpkinweenie teleports in *
*Pumpkinweenie:* "REALLY?!"
*Halloweenie:* ...
*Pumpkinweenie:* ...
*Halloweenie:* ...
*Pumpkinweenie:* ...
*Halloweenie:* ...
*Pumpkinweenie:* ...
*Halloweenie:* ... no.
* slaps Pumpkinweenie off the table. *
God I miss Halloweenie 😢
@@yorkieratproductions same I also miss old man reads creepy pasta
This broom the witches sit on has a face... but does it have a tongue? Asking for no particular reason.
"That witch is all wet now. That makes her totally useless!"
i thought the 'wah waahn' was a sarcastic edit until wabuu's commentary
This somehow reminded me of something I watched as a kid called "The Great Bear Scare." This "animated" feature was about a city of bears who were preparing for monsters to invade from Monster Mountain. The character designs and even some of the acting was far better than the animation, which was basically a glorified slide show as there was no in-between animation at all. Anyway, "The Great Bear Scare" can be found here on TH-cam and on Prime Video...
I gotta admit, I laughed at the, "This is no football, it's a pumpkin! ..... Let's kick it!" part 😄
This movie feels like something Halloweenie would be forced to review positively only to eventually break down because this movie is antagonistic to everything Halloween. A brightly lit halloween with gaudy pumpkin stickers over everything with the moniker of "Halloween doesn't have to be scary".
I REMEMBER EASTER EGG MORNIN’! Holy crap! Again, Phelous, you hit me right in the nostalgia with these cartoon movies!!
Just great how Man in car didn't care about the kids on the street, but hit the break, when he saw there was a pumpkin also.
The only Lumpkin of worth is Tom Bombadil's faithful steed.
What about Fuzzy Lumpkin!
What about Marvel mailman Willie Lumpkin?
@@Cycl0id He knows what he did.
What about Lurleen from The Simpsons' "Colonel Homer"?
The Tom Bombadil of Halloween specials
This Halloween cartoon isn’t scary at all but it does make me feel creepy as a grown man watching something meant for children between the ages of 3 and Fetus.
This is absolutely fascinating. The cartoon's boring as hell, but the stuff surrounding it is ridiculous. lol
I remember this video from my childhood. It is so weird how, as a small kid (maybe 5?) I loved this stupid pumpkin. I even used the box art to trace Lumpkin for a Halloween project in school. It is so weird seeing how janky this video was, but my kid-ass just absorbed it like fine cinema.
This 'Agatha All Along' show is not living up to the hype.
15:44 That tendril wrapping around the little kid’s arm reminds me of the Pokémon Drifloon, thanks for that, Lumpkin.
A Lumpkin Pumpkin sounds like an unfortunate disease.
Oh wow, I haven't thought about this movie in like 18 years. And all I really remember is the opening theme song, probably because my class couldn't make it through the whole movie without talking .... Thanks, Phelous, for dragging this out of my subconscious.
Yooo I remember watching this when I was itty bitty, I THINK my mom rented it? Instead of us owning it, or being lent by a cousin or whatever. Whether it was standalone or part of some complication thing idk. I also remember the reveal of the reflector thing pissed me off even at my little age because of the mere idea that I should be wearing a doofy pumpkin thing over my cool scary costume.
With that 2 second clip of Easter Egg Mornin, you just pulled a memory from deep within my mind palace
NO WAY, I REMEMBER THIS! The gost at 1:58 seemed kinda familiar because I remember the way he just kinda slid across the screen, but the dancing pumpkin immediately gave me a flashback to watching this on an air mattress when I was a little kid. It just feels so surrreal, doubly so hearing you talk about it!
I love finding things like this that people only have vague memories like this of it.
"-I wanna make a superhero out of a pumpkin.
-OK, what's its super power?
-It glows in the dark.... You know... like any pumpkin does...whatever."
I saw this movie in children's church when I was like 4 or 5, what a fever dream after all these years.
Also, Phelan, start making analog horror, that'd be awesome.
The animation here looks like if Filmation and Bevanfield collaborate, but their budget manage to fell even lower by creating this thing.
5:45 “Life’s a piece of shit… when you look at it”
I think the movie would've crossed the threshold between "weird badly animated film", to "it's so bad it's good" if Bobby voiced all the characters, specifically Tara
I grew up with this vhs and was always upset there wasn’t any pumpkin stickers or anything that ca with it
What the world needs is a Lumpkin the Pumpkin and Pumpkinhead crossover.
They 100% came up with the name first, because it rhymes with pumpkin, and then didn’t know what to do for a story.
I think the name is the extent of the creativity
Wow, this review triggered a memory of me watching this special when I was in the 4th grade at school. My school was doing an autumn celebration thing and I remember the teacher wheeling the TV and VHS player into the classroom and we watched this.
My friend who's a wiccan now has "a witch can never be cheerful" as a new part of their vocabulary.
Witches are BANNED FROM BEING HAPPY!!!
Lumpkin became a Jack O Lantern for our sins.
Wow, a jack-o-lantern that you don’t have to carve?! Somebody tell Halloweenie! 💀🎃
The narrator is giving extreme “accidentally read the stage directions”
9:10 I don't know why, but that edit made me laugh more than it should.
OMG this is the one we watched in elementary school!
All I remembered was her turning the football into a pumpkin, and the kid kicking it anyway, and I didn't remember the title
His name rhymes with pumpkin. How could you forget? 😆
This really feels like someone wanted to make something, but they didn’t know what it is they wanted to make or even what to do with it. It’s a special kind of aimless.
Okay, I don't think I've ever heard of this one, and probably for good reason. This cartoon plays more like a Halloween safety PSA than an actual Holloween special. In other words, "Witch's Night Out" this is not. 😍
I think the narrator was describing the scenes for the visually impaired children.
Being vision impaired myself, we actually hate that shit. Some narration here and there for context is nice, but most with the feature tend to drown out the music and atmosphere and bog it down with needless explanation.
We actually watched this in my kindergarten class I still have foggy memories of it every now and then
Waited till Halloween to watch this. Always love your obscure media vids!
This brings back memories. Back when I was in kindergarten, then they would look for just about anything to show us that was age appropriate. Now, nearly 25 years later. It's all coming back to me
Lol, I know Joe Loesch, the "man in car." He's a really nice guy who still does voice acting and audio production. His last name is pronounced "lesh."
I always love when Phelous tackles a new target. He'll find some obscure animated film that he'll make even funnier.
This movie looks like a Newgrounds animation from the very early 2000s
Nah, early Newgrounds animations looked and sounded better than this
4:05 “If we can scare the most people with our pumpkin, I will become the head witch.”
Uh, excuse me, Miss Witch, I think Drell, head of the Witches’ Council, wants to talk to you.
The songs wouldn't feel out of place in a cheap Halloween cassette, even the narration feels like something that's meant more for such a thing.
Wonder if the kids accepted Lumpkin as their lord and savior at the end?
Analog Horror: Lumpkin the Pumpkin LOST MEDIA Safety Reflector PSA??? Lumpkin situation is insane . . .
I would have commented something like: "That movie would have been better if it was a simply radioplay.", but whatever I wanted to write was overshadowed by THIS: 8:39
"Do you enjoy Lumpkin the Pumpkin?" " I don't know, I've never lumpked "
Glad to see a cartoon with twice the budget of a Dingo cartoon