#12: Punkin Nightshade |
Well, hey there, y’all,
and Happy Halloween to you! This here is
Punkin Nightshade, what am a witch and Adept, and welcome to The MonsterGrrls’ Thir13een For Halloween! Today I am speakin to you about somethin
what just come out on that DVD gadget, called Witch’s Night Out, and as I am a witch and can be considered an
expert on witchly didoes, I am goin to tell you about it.
This here is the DVD cover |
This here is kind of
interestin. Witch’s Night Out is an old Halloween special that was only showed
on the television once, back round Halloween 1978. It was made up in Canada, and it had a very
famous actress named Gilda Radner what was doin the voice of the witch. Once they showed it, they didn’t never show it
again until round 1983, when the Fox Network and that Disney Channel started
showin it right regular ever Halloween for a little while. Our old friend the Mad Doctor remembered
seein this show from when he was a little ‘un, and he liked it, so as it is a
Halloween special and what he also calls an interestin piece of animation it is
natural that we are talkin about it here today.
The witch, bein all in a snit |
The story is about a
witch who’s a bit down in the dumps ‘cause ain’t no one round where she lives
doin much to celebrate Halloween. Well,
almost no one, ‘cause a couple of young’uns named Small and Tender are runnin
round trick-or-treatin and tryin to scare folk, and it’s natural all in fun
cause it’s Halloween, but ain’t no one scared of them and everbody knows who
they are. Now the grown up folk round
the neighborhood, what consists of some straight-laced sorts named Goodly and
Nicely and some ugly nasty folks called Rotten and Malicious, are wantin to
make Halloween into somethin that ain’t rightly Halloween, to my mind. (Mad Doc said
that this here was satirizin
the community effort what was prevalent in the 1970’s, and I ain’t rightly sure
what that means, but if you listen to them talk about what they’re doin for
Halloween you just know they doin it
all wrong.)They's scary, but they's nice too |
Some kind of community effort and such |
So anyway, they all run
up to this old mansion and start havin this party, and it ain’t rightly no
Halloween party cause ain’t a single one of them even dressed up in a costume,
and the witch is rightly upset cause they havin it in her house and ain’t even acknowledgin that she’s there, and them
Rotten and Malicious folk done brought some of the nastiest party food there
is, so it ain’t no Halloween party of nohow.
Meanwhile, Small and Tender are at home with their babysitter Bazooey,
who’s a good-natured sort and tryin to cheer them up about Halloween. Small and Tender natural want to be scarin
folk, and they end up summonin the witch, who uses her magic wand to turn them
into a ghost and a werewolf like they was tryin to be for trick-or-treat, and
turns Bazooey into a monster what’s like my friend Frankie, except it’s a boy
monster. The witch takes them back up to
her house and sets em to scarin folk, and they all run out of the house and in
the resultin flapdoodle the witch loses her wand, so she can’t change the young’uns
back to theirselves. (This right here is
how come real witches don’t use no
wands or nothin.) They run off to find
the wand, but them Rotten and Malicious folk have got it, and they don’t know
how to use it, so there’s a lot of highjinks and such afore everythin gets
straightened out. If you ain’t never
seen it I don’t want to tell you what happens, but let’s just say that everbody
learns the true meanin of Halloween, which is that it is a happy time where
folks get to be what they want to be, if just for one night.
So that is Witch’s Night Out, and if you are lookin
for somethin interestin to look at on Halloween that ain’t nobody seen much of,
why then you can watch this right here.
I hope you will be back tomorrow for the next postin of The MonsterGrrls’
Thir13en For Halloween, cause we is just gettin started and there’s a whole lot
for us to do. Blessings be on you!
Sincerely,
Petronella “Punkin” Nightshade